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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.
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Interview. Meet Stylist Christopher Insulander
Stylist Christopher Insulander has taken the fashion scene in his native Sweden by storm. Right now he is working on the next print issue of Contributor Magazine. Photography by Linnéa Sjöberg.
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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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Three Women Artists on the Female Gaze
I met up with three alluring ladies on a Thursday morning in Stockholm: fashion designer Anna-Sara Dåvik, and artists Cajsa von Zeipel and Anna Uddenberg – three self-employed women who are breathtaking and whom I truly admire. All three of them were a bit late, and arrived with shades covering their eyes. By Sara Litzén
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Short Story: Needle
Click to read the whole story by Stephen Moles. Photography by Kristie Muller.
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Fashion after Fashion. Essay by Maria Ben Saad
Recently, I was flipping through the pages of A.L.T.: A Memoir, the autobiography by André Leon Talley, one of my favorite larger-than-life figures in the fashion world. In one passage, he describes how he was “a true convert of fashion” by the age of twelve, reading everything he could get his hands on, especially Vogue under the reign of fashion editor Diana Vreeland. “While other boys may have been out practicing their fastballs or trying to break track records, I was on the couch, enrapt in the pages of the world Diana Vreeland had invented, a world of fantasy, style, and exquisite fashion.” By Maria Ben Saad.
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Dreams of a Third Arm. Essay by Tom Greenwood
In my dreams I am a man named Pierre and have three arms. My third arm is not a tentative genetic aberration like a flipper or feeler or wimpy ghost of an ancestral tail. It’s as arm-like as my other two, both of which are quite arm-like. It is a thing to behold, this third arm, an evolutionary leap forward in the human chain, thrusting mankind far beyond his (and her) potential as a two-armed beast. Yes, it’s a decisive third arm, a dominant trait with a subliminal animal musk that has women everywhere overtaken by instinctual urges to unite their ova with my spermatozoa. Click to read the article.
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Interview. Remembering Mapplethorpe
Ken Moody worked with Robert Mapplethorpe during three years in the 1980s. Together they created some of Mapplethorpe’s most iconic pictures. We met Moody when he was in Stockholm for a retrospective of Mapplethorpe s work and talked to him about his experiences working with one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Interview by Antonia Nessen and photography by Niklas Alexandersson.
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Sara Litzen on the Ritual of Dressing
There are many female designers who I look up to. As I see it, it is only an advantage being a woman and designing for other women. Women designers are considerably more practical than male designers. We have dressed ourselves since we were kids. We know what women need. Article by Sara Litzen.
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A Brave New World. Essay by Tom Greenwood
There is a tendency for every generation to believe that it is the brave new world. To believe that what it is doing is braver and newer than anything before. That it is the bee’s knees, the cat’s meow, and even the cat’s pajamas. We are no exception, and justifiably so: It’s a fact that our world is the most chronologically advanced ever. We’ve got the internet, smart phones, and low-fat latte macchiatos. New, today, is renewed at a faster rate than ever before, and in many ways, our world is new each day. But what exactly does it mean to us to be new? Or brave? By Tom Greenwood
