Issue 22 of WAM magazine was released in 2006. The issue consisted of 480 pages. The concept and design for the issue were created by the renowned Russian artist, sculptor, designer, fashion designer, and television host, Andrey Bartenev.
The issue, titled «Magnificently!», featured the subtitle «Russian Illustrators of Glamorous Life» and was dedicated to Russian glossy illustration—a «relatively young and rapidly developing genre that came to us with glamorous magazines, ” as Andrei Bartenev wrote in the introduction.
The article, published in both Russian and English, also posited that the precedent set by the joint appearance of «illustrators of a brilliant life» under a single cover delineates the scope of the illustration community, and that the publication «will be useful for the contemporary art market—galleries, museums, and collectors.»
The issue featured illustrations by artists Andrei Bartenev, Konstantin Gaidai, Lyudmila Konstantinovna, and Inna Nebelyuk.
The publication also featured spreads and two-page layouts with illustrations sourced from domestic glossy magazines, including L’Officiel Russia, Jalouse, Fashion Collection, InStyle, NRG, Vogue Russia, Om, Sobaka.Ru, Shtab-kvartira, Monitor, Wallpaper, Afisha, Time Out Moscow, Time Out St. Petersburg, Ne spat! , Night People, Maxim, Moulin Rouge, Playboy, Amadeus, 100% Krasny, Nash, and Ptyuch.
Each section dedicated to a journal was preceded by a brief introductory note from the journal’s editor-in-chief, available in both Russian and English.
«By showcasing the diversity of contemporary illustration and capturing it in the flow of works across the book’s pages, we discovered that the very diversity of the illustrations truly reflects reality, ” wrote Andrey Bartenev in the introductory article.