Bursting with talent and stories, L’Incroyable is celebrating the excitement of adolescence

While the awkward, gawky teenage years are better left forgotten for most, a new French magazine is challenging our relationships with adolescence. Edited by artist and designer, Clotilde Viannay, L’Incroyable (The Incredible) celebrates the excitement of youth in a new way: profiling an older celebrity and asking them to recall their teenage years. For the first issue, actress and singer, Juliette Greco, recounts her imprisonment by the Gestapo at 16, as well as her adolescent relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Boris Vian.

“Adolescence is a pivotal and decisive moment in an artist’s career,” explains Viannay. “A time of trial and error, of investigation and encounters that will shape a person’s life.” For Viannay, L’Incroyable is about exploring the time when “the will to make one’s voice heard often precedes the choice of a mode of expression.”

Along with her own expertise, Viannay has enlisted the support of some of the most exciting and young names in graphic design and photography.  The magazine’s design is directed by Raphaël Garnier, and includes photos by Philippe Jarrigeon (Vogue, Le Monde) and illustrations by Viktor Hachmang (Bloomberg, The New York Times).

We're starting to accept that perhaps age is just a number. For the next Protein Journal we're investigating age: from teen and retiree startups to boomers in ad campaigns, we're adapting to the prospect of a longer, more enjoyable life expectancy.