Bambi Magazine #6 Now Out
May 31,2011
Catrinel Menghia by Michel Perez for Bambi Magazine #6.
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"I used to think art movements happened on their own, but actually they don't. Individuals are key to pushing movements forward." —Dasha Zhukova
I agree with her. That's where the role of a major art critic, like Clement Greenberg, comes in. Of course these days we lack the focus of such calibers as Mr Greenberg, but they're important nonetheless.
[...Here is a theory for you: that the caliber of critics at any given time is equal to the caliber of art being produced at that same period of time.]
While we're on the art subject, W wirtes about Paddle 8.
Enter, Paddle 8, the newest online art collecting platform, launching May 18th. It was first conceived by Alexander Gilkes, veteran of LVMH Group and Phillips de Pury Art Auctions, and Aditya Julka, whose dilemma as a Harvard MBA and serial entrepreneur unfamiliar with the art world's practices, highlighted their niche two years ago. While art selling websites have always existed, Paddle 8's roots are planted respectfully in the art world, giving it the potential to thrive within it and expand beyond it.
That's all for now.
Interview
Robert, tell us a little about Playing Fashion. At 18-years-old you are the editor of an internationally renowned and successful fashion magazine. How did you come so far at an age where most youth in fashion are still trying to sneak into shows?
ROBERT MISHCHENKO: Well… Though I started at 15, I have always known that I am interested in fashion and that I want to work in fashion. First it was design and drawing, which were a true passion of mine. Then, at 13, buying my first fashion magazine, I realized that I
won’t be the next Nicolas Ghesquière or John Galliano and I switched to my role as an editor, which at that time was really popular, because of the movie The Devil Wears Prada – a true dream for a guy, who lives in a small city scarce of luxury.
I started a blog called “Playing Fashion - the online fashion magazine”. Every month, I worked with my editorial staff on blog posts of different themes. A year later, we released PF as an online magazine at playingfashion.com. The issue was pretty successful, even though it looked really amateur.
Then, I went to Moscow, just as a tourist and on my first day, my friends, the amazing Russian photographers Maxim Repin and Nikita Manin took me to a fashion show. Nina Donis F/W 2009 show for them was nothing special, but for me – a real happening. I saw all these people from the fashion magazine. I met Aliona Doletskaya, I met Svetlana Tanakina – an amazing Russian stylist and L’Officiel Russia’s fashion director. It was all so mesmerizing that from there I hadn’t got any doubt about what I want to do in my life.
Four months later, we released the pilot issue of Playing Fashion in Kyiv. That was July 2009. Then, the following November, the first official issue is born. That was the first time I finally felt that I am working in fashion and that I am a part of the industry.
One of my fav magazines. This guy is a sharp gentleman. Keep an eye on him.
NOIR FAÇADE: Interview with Robert Mishchenko Editor-in-Chief of Playing Fashion.
Ligature Magazine #3 is out. Check them out for all the online editorials and interviews.
You work as an editor, a writer and a stylist. Do you think that the future for a career in fashion lies in one’s ability to work in many different fileds?
Absolutely. Whenever I return to my alma mater (Bunka Fashion College) to give lectures, I remind the students that "stylist" as job title itself is very new, and there is a chance that what they do 10 years from now is a job that doesn't exist yet. 6 years ago we didn't have youtube, but now there are fashion film professionals, and blogging wasn't a viable career but now we have blogger millionaires and celebrities. I try to keep my fingers in all of these pots, so I can be adaptable to the market. And generally I love fashion so much, that it doesn't matter if I am expressing it through prose or picture-it makes me happy.
What makes a good shoot?
The one that sends tingles down my spine. And of course, gets all of the characteristics of the dress or outfit in without being cliche.
[Misha Janette Interview]
I was nervous when I first started True Blood. If you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don’t know what’s going to happen.
Zoo
Criativa Magazine May 2011
Shot by: Fabio Bartlelt
Styling by:
Model: Aline Zanella
[...]
- UK Vogue July 2011 Vanessa Paradis by Mario Testino.
- L’Officiel Russia July August 2011. Model? By?
- L’Officiel China June 2011. Fei Fei Sun by?
- Vanity Fair July 2011. Prince William and Kate Middleton by Mario Testino.
- Fitness June 2011. Kathy Leutner by Cheyenne Ellis.
Next year the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, the rock festival in the Southern California desert that provides plenty of music fans with their first sunburn of the season, will be held on two consecutive weekends, with the same lineup each weekend. They will take place April 13 to 15 and April 20 to 22, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. “Same lineup, same art, same place, different people,” organizers said in an announcement on Tuesday.
[NY Times]
Meanwhile check out the looks from this year's event.
b Magazine #4 Spring/Summer 2011. Hannah Noble by Aitken Jolly. Stylisting by Jason Hughes. [...]
ASOS Magazine July 2011 Zoe Kravitz by Danielle Levitt.
Part I: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Dec 14, 2012.
Part II: The Hobbit: There and Back Again | Dec 13, 2013.
See the first video here.
The Model Agency is all about the dramas that take place behind the scenes. In the first episode, Premier attempts to launch the career of a 16 year old rising star at New York Fashion Week, who lands State-side then has a complete meltdown and thinks she wants to quit the business. The second episode examines the mounting tensions between the commercial booker who brings in all the money, and the editorial and show bookers who attract prestige – spoiler: it climaxes with the commercial booker storming out of the office, and Carole White screaming a lot of obscene words.
Isaac Likes: The Model Agency.
