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Interview with Humberto Leon and Carol Lim at Kenzo
Contagious energy is what Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are all about. Since their arrival at Kenzo in July 2011, they have turned the somewhat dormant brand into an achingly cool line, delivering great clothes and accessories for boys and girls. When the two California natives chose downtown New York to launch Opening Ceremony in 2002, they managed to capture the essence of fashion within a retail environment, mixing street style cred with fresh proposals. By Philippe Pourhashemi
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Interview with Actress Ruth Vega Fernandez
It’s a sunny spring day in Belleville, Paris. Ruth Vega Fernandez is sitting on her balcony talking to me on Skype. She has just gotten back from a film set in Stockholm. Parallel to that project she’s going to start shooting a French murder mystery for TV next week, with among others Patrick Chesnais and Jane Birkin. She’s going to be commuting back and forward between Sweden and France. By Antonia Nessen.
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Sharing Brain Space. Interview with director Ry Russo-Young
Interview with filmmaker Ry Russo-Young. By Antonia Nessen
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Letter from the Editor-in-chief, Robert Rydberg
For this issue, we decided to take a closer look at designer Ann-Sofie Back without letting her know anything about our plans. We contacted her closest friends, colleagues and collaborators, and had paparazzi photographers follow her every move around Stockholm. Everyone involved was sworn to secrecy and despite the obvious problems a project like this one causes, we’re very happy to have managed to pull this stunt off.
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Interview with Cover Star Courtney Love
I was once taken to an amazing dinner at Billy Wilder s apartment and he told me I reminded him of Carole Lombard. I was rather shocked that such an auteur thought of me as funny. Interview with Courtney Love from the latest issue.
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Trying and Failing. On Ann-Sofie Back by Philip Warkander
Since the launch of her eponymous brand in 2001, followed by the more commercially motivated Back in 2005, Ann-Sofie Back has incorporated materials that aren’t what they first appear, and worked with details deliberately set out to confuse. This tactic of confusion and playful disorientation challenges two of the most fundamental concepts within fashion theory: “distinction” and “imitation.” By Philip Warkander
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Interview with Walter Van Beirendonck
“We were called the Antwerp Six because the English press didn’t know how to pronounce our names. We showed our work together in London in the 1980s and it had an impact on how we were perceived. It would be impossible to reproduce this now.” Interview by Philippe Pourhashemi and photography by Julien Claessens.
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Making a Difference. Ann-Sofie Back and the Fashion System
My first encounter with Ann-Sofie took place at Beckmans College of Design in the mid-nineties. She was a student in fashion design and I was a guest teacher, doing a course in fashion communication. Since the course was quite short, about a week, I didn’t get any real insight into what Ann-Sofie was about, but what struck me was her extremely personal and intellectual approach to fashion, something unusual in Swedish fashion education at the time. By Maria Ben Saad
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Interview with Petr Davydchenko
Last weekend I packed my bags and took off to Brussels to visit Petr Davydtchenko’s first solo exhibition. Excited about going to the opening, I jumped on a plane and the two hours I spent on the flight felt like an entire lifetime. I was eagerly looking forward to seeing his site-specific installation, sculpture, video and photographic works, which deal with the civility of aesthetics, at the Harlan Levey Projects Gallery in Brussels. By Sara Litzén
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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.
