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Creating New Systems. Interview with Curator Stefanie Hessler
Innovatively promoting the interaction between artists and audience, Stefanie Hessler is a dedicated curator involved in several interesting projects and the founder of the progressive art space Andquestionmark in Stockholm. We met with her to talk about the curating process, multisensory experiences, and the negotiation between “real” and virtual worlds. Interview by Antonia Nessen.
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Fashion Story: Take Care Of Yourself
Photography by Marcus Palmqvist and fashion by Sofie Krunegård.
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Lykke Li. Interview and Cover Story
“I feel unreliably free,’’ says Lykke Li, one of the most talked-about and critically admired musicians of her generation. “It’s been a rough couple of years and the album was so hard-core to make as well, so I feel unbelievably thankful that it’s done and that I’m still alive. I’m in love with life again.” Photography by Magnus Magnusson. Fashion by Robert Rydberg
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Fashion story: boys to men
Photography by Thomas Stefan and fashion by Nadja Mara Brvar
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Interview: Dynamic and Melancholic Harmonies from Hell
Miriam Eriksson Berhan and Johanna Eriksson Berhan are Taxi Taxi! The duo from Stockholm started their collaboration in 2005 and have successfully been making beautiful music ever since. The first self-titled EP “Taxi Taxi!” was released in 2007 and found its way into the musical world through the use of Myspace. Miriam and Johanna have come a long way since then and are now playing concerts around their native Sweden for what is an increasing number of followers fascinated by their somewhat magical performances. Photography by Victoria Loeb and interview by Martin Gustafson. Click to read more.
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Heads and Headlessness. Essay by Stefanie Hessler
The head is a particularly popular body part amongst artists, art historians and spectators alike. Antique busts are often the only segments remaining of Greek and Egyptian sculptures, and promise a certain transcendence to past worlds. Just like death masks, they radiate an aura of proximity to their models, who continue to live through the mould. Let me take you on a brief and arbitrary journey around curiosities of the head and headlessness in art history and today. By Stefanie Hessler
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A Fashion Intellectual. Interview with Caroline Evans
Fashion historian and theorist Caroline Evans has described herself as someone who lives very much in her head. But as she explains in this email interview, her interest has always been in applied rather than pure theory, as it relates to contemporary visual culture. She also loves interacting with the students at Central Saint Martins, where she is Professor of Fashion History and Theory. In her now iconic study of fashion in the 1990s, ‘Fashion at the Edge’, she used theory as a set of tools for thinking, drawing equally on images, objects, and ideas. In her new book, ‘The Mechanical Smile’, she traces the earliest history of the fashion show, a topic that is basically unexplored within fashion studies. In the process, she also found herself dealing with the idea of fashion as a situated, embodied and spatial practice. Fleeting moments of lived experience – the walk, the smile, the pose, the gestures, the attitude. Interview by Maria Ben Saad
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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