17.01.2009
Art director / Graphic designer / Artist — Paris (France)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Rendez-Vous Magazine covers
Since completing her studies in Paris, Berlin and New York in 2000, Sophie Toporkoff has been active in graphic design and art direction in a wide range of fields in the worlds of fashion, music and contemporary art.
As an editorial designer, she created the fashion magazines Agenda and Rendez-Vous. She has also collaborated with the Colette shop in Paris, Nike, BeamsT, 2kbyGingham and also Versatile and Set record labels, designing their sleeves. Her work in the art world ranges from commissions for museums and galleries such as Palais de Tokyo, Deitch Projects or Galerie Kamel Mennour, to collaborations with artists such as Stephen Shore and Jota Castro.
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15.01.2009
Photographer — Stockholm (Sweden)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Photo by Louise Enhörning
Louise Enhörning produces sensitive and emotional images: her works have appeared on Dazed and Confused, NYLON, Livraison and Another Magazine amongst others. Louise’s photos were also featured in commercial campaigns for MTV, Lee, Björn Borg, Burfitt and many others.
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10.01.2009
Writer — London (UK)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Francesca Gavin is a writer, critic and editor based in London, though she grew up in Woodstock NY as a child . She has written a number of art books and has an interiors book out in May (Creative Space: The Urban Homes of Artists and Innovators), for which she traveled the world from Tokyo to Berlin to New York looking for cluttered, creative, anti-minimalist homes. She’s also the Visual Arts Editor at Dazed & Confused, a contributing editor at Elle and freelance for Guardian online, Ponystep.com, and Another magazine, among others.
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08.01.2009
Photographer — New York (USA)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Photo by Stacey Mark
Stacey Mark has been photo director for Nylon magazine for many years: right now she is a well known photographer with a sweet and romantic touch. She collaborates with magazines such as Purple, Self Service, Elle, Lula and has shoot celebrities like Asia Argento, Juliette Lewis, and Sinead O’Connor just to name a few. She is now based in NYC.
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08.01.2009
Photographer — New York (USA)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Alec and Gracie, Shelter Island, 2008, photo by Skye Parrott
Skye Parrott began her career in Paris, where she worked as managing Editor at Self Service magazine and as studio manager for Nan Goldin before starting as a photographer. She has now shooted for magazines such as Dazed, i-D, Nylon, Tokion, Vogue, POP, Apartamento amon others and had commissions from APC, Nike and Sony above all. She is also a founding editor and Creative Director of Dossier, a bi-annual arts and culture journal.
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02.01.2009
Fashion designer — New York (USA)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Nicole Saldana
A native to San Francisco’s bay area, Nicole Saldana began her journey at LA’s FIDM. During her time at the school’s Fashion Design program Nicole assisted Stevie Wonder’s niece on her line Lula B. After living in LA for two years, Nicole moved to New York to pursue a Bachelors degree in Design + Management at Parsons New School. Living in New York has presented her with a large range of positions from internships with Prada corp. and Rachel Comey to her current position as assistant designer for Opening Ceremony’s in house label. Not being a stranger to international travel she’s been across Europe, Asia, and Oceania noting Japan as being the most beautiful place she’s ever visited.
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02.01.2009
Stylist — Paris (France)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Alice Dellal, photo by Sonia Sieff, styling by Kristina-Cecile Gisors
Kristina-Cecile is a young stylist from Paris: she has just styled Alice Dellal and is working on a magazine named Lurve and a hipster tourist guide named T.V. Let’s find out more!
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02.01.2009
Editor — Sapporo (Japan)
[Originally posted on January 2009]
Kazumi Oiwa
Kazumi is from Sapporo, Japan and she is an editor for online magazine Shift: founded in 1997, Shift is one of the most famous net magazines for arts and graphic related culture. Kazumi is born in Hokkaido and works for the web magazine since 2003.
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