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  • 25 February 2017

    Fashion Story: Understanding Space

    Photography by Anton Reva and fashion by Diana Spit.

  • 22 September 2015

    Fashion Story: Progress In The Chaos

    Photography and fashion by Anton Reva.

  • 19 April 2016

    Out Now! Our New Print Issue of Contributor is here

    The theme that runs through our latest print issue is CASTING AND COLLECTIONS. Both are central concepts in fashion. The mechanism behind changes in fashion can be compared to a kaleidoscope. Unreliable pieces of clothing are always in flight, ready to become something else. The key to taking hold of these fleeting moments is usually to look at a designer’s handiwork in detail from collection to collection, since clothing derives its consistency from its role as part of a series. Other paths to finding a narrative in fashion are through styling or photography. Patterns seen through the fashion kaleidoscope can, however, easily be freed of their current meaning. After giving it a few violent shakes, they can go from being interpreted as frivolous to provocative and offensive, by rearranging the compositions and shaping themselves into different meanings. By using the kaleidoscope as a metaphor for fashion in this issue entitled CASTING AND COLLECTIONS, we look back at the modernist writers of the early twentieth century who frequently returned to the image of the optical instrument in their writings. When describing the modern experience in “Arcades Project,” Walter Benjamin for one, writes that: “Every age unavoidably seems to itself a new age. The ‘modern,’ however, is as varied in its meaning as the different aspects of one and the same kaleidoscope.

  • 22 December 2016

    Fashion Story: A Mind Of Their Own

    Photography by Vitalik Melnikov and fashion by Alexandra Trishina.

  • 27 May 2013
    Unmasking the Masquerade. Fetishism, Art and Fashion

    Unmasking the Masquerade. Fetishism, Art and Fashion

    “Every idea is born with a form. I realize the ideas as they come into my head. You never know from where the ideas come from”- Meret Oppenheim. An artist with an intriguing approach to the head, Meret Oppenheim did an x-ray of her skull in 1964, when the art world wasn’t ready for it. The x-ray reflects her conviction that “great art is always male-female”. By Antonia Nessen

  • 31 July 2012
    Interview. Meet writer Philippe Pourhashemi

    Interview. Meet writer Philippe Pourhashemi

    Fashion journalist Philippe Pourhashemi lives in Brussels and writes for several publications, including Contributor Magazine. Q&A by Antonia Nessen.

  • 27 July 2012
    Interview with Fashion Designer Sandra Backlund

    Interview with Fashion Designer Sandra Backlund

    Fashion designer Sandra Backlund: “working on a collection is like being in a state of trying to solve a math problem or a riddle.” Photography by Magnus Magnusson. Interview by Antonia Nessen.

  • 16 April 2012

    Out Now! The Latest Issue of Contributor Magazine is here

    The latest print issue of Contributor Magazine features actress Noomi Rapace on the cover photographed by Magnus Magnusson and fashion by Editor-In-Chief Robert Rydberg.

  • 21 June 2009

    THE MAGAZINE

    Actor and musician Jared Leto on the cover of Head Piece Issue. Photographed by Yu Tsai and fashion by Martina Nilsson. Brain Drain. Photography by Peter Gehrke and fashion by Robert Rydberg. In Through Tradition We Innovate The Un-Known. Photography by Mark Borthwick. Desire, Despair. Photography by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones. Hair […]

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