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Interview with Fashion Designer Iris van Herpen
Meeting Iris van Herpen for the first time two years ago is a moment in my life I’ll always cherish. It was a beautiful spring evening in Amsterdam and Iris, my partner and I sat down inside this quiet restaurant, which looked almost like an English pub. With candles burning on the table and subdued lighting, it was weirdly romantic. We ordered pasta and red wine, chatting away and enjoying our food. It was definitely not your usual interview set-up, but then again, there is nothing predictable about this Dutch designer. By Philippe Pourhashemi
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Fashion Story: The Right Time
Photography by Weiqi Dou and fashion by Sara van der Wal.
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Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021
Contributor wishes you all a magical happy new year! See you around in 2021.
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10 Years
10 Years of Contributor Introducing our 10th Anniversary Issue For over ten years, we have invited thousands of contributors to explore fashion through art and photography. From the start, Editor-in-Chief, Robert Rydberg wanted Contributor to be an extension of the atelier work that is essential to all fashion image-making. From his experience as an influential […]
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#16
Out now! The New Issue of Contributor is here What’s in the box? Instead of a conventional magazine format, we continue to put Contributor in a box. The content of our Art Boxes is always loose leaf, tactile experiences where the sheets come in different sizes and textures. We also always include one of our greatly […]
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Out Now! The New Issue of Contributor is here
What’s in the box? Instead of a conventional magazine format, we continue to package Contributor in a box. Inside you’ll find a selection of large prints in two different sizes and one poster. We’re thrilled to have the actress Katherine Waterston on the cover. Waterston’s lived-in, full-bodied, and palpable commitment is why she’s become a reliable source for a variety of directors looking to infuse their characters with a visceral complexity, a nuanced humanity, that’s difficult to find elsewhere.
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Fredrik Altinell and Robert Rydberg. Reflections.
From Our Latest Issue. Photography by Fredrik Altinell and styling by Robert Rydberg.
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Fashion Story: Somebody’s birthday
Photography by Matteo Strocchia and fashion by Sarah Venturini.
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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.