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Andrea Wullimann • Antonia Larsson Pihl • Francesca Ravelli James Atkins • Jenna Sherman • Jessica Juliao • King Rosales Lucy Rooney • Migle Golubickaite • Mina Delic • Natasha Killeen Nienke Wind • Pato Mardones • Sara Joni • Victor Low
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” - George Bernard Shaw
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26 URBAN JUNGLE Photographed by Lucy Rooney
32 EYE CANDY Photographed by Andrea Wullimann 38 DEAR ERNEST Photographed by Migle Golubickaite
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44 SAMANTHA Photographed by Natasha Killeen 58 SKEYES Photographed by Sara Joni
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92 IT’S JUST THE WAY I AM Photographed by Nienke Wind 98 MASK Photographed by Mina Delic
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JENNA SHERMAN ARTIST LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
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Multi talented and extremely creative, JENNA SHERMAN is one superstar of an artist. Painter, art teacher, DJ, music producer and a master model, this wonder woman is a force to be reckoned with. Hi Jenna. Please tell us about yourself… parties in my first apartment sophomore year. Hi! I am a multifaceted artist from Los Angeles, I’d DJ every Friday night and we’d pack out my CA, specifically Venice Beach, which is a very apartment, and every morning my floors would be fascinating place to grow up in. I spent the early covered in mud - I was LIVING! Then eventually years of my life as a gymnast. I was quite good at it, I started performing at all the shitty pubs and bars though by the time I became a teenager I decided I in Boston every weekend, and soon enough I had wanted to have a social life. Sports were a huge part my own Trap Night show every Friday at Ascend of my growing up; I tried just about everything. Nightclub. At the same time, I was a painting I stuck with volleyball by the time I got to high teacher at The Paint Bar, which I forced myself to school, and that was the main source of friends that do at first because I wanted to get over my public I had. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my speaking anxiety, and in the end I really loved it! future and as a freshman in high school; I believed I graduated college in 2016 with a focus in Oil I was going to go to UCLA and play volleyball, Painting and Sound, and moved right back to Los which is so weird to think about now. Everything Angeles. By the time the 4 years of study was up, changed when I made my first real painting for art I couldn’t wait to get back home. My life now is class in 9th grade, and it just came natural to me. incredible, challenging, beautiful, and endlessly For the first time creative. Being an I felt like I knew artist is really hard “I put all of my energy into my passions who I was and was and may not be the that ‘what I can do’ is all I see. I don’t on my way to findmost steady life ing myself. High often think of ‘what I can’t do’ because financially, but I do school was hell what I love every day I don’t have the energy to spare.” for me and I was and I’m so happy and constantly bullied. that’s really what it’s On really bad days when I didn’t even want to show all about. my face at lunch, I’d stay in the art room and draw or paint. By the time I was a senior I only had four Alright let’s get this out of the way first. You’re an classes and I quit volleyball and said “FUCK IT” amazing painter, art teacher, DJ, music producer, I am going to do this, I am going to be an artist all round mega babe of a model. What can’t you because there isn’t anything else I could possibly do?! imagine doing. I only applied to four schools - all THANK YOU! It’s so funny when thinking about art schools on the other side of the country because that question because my life is so full and I put all I hated life as it was and I wanted to have an of my energy into my passions that ‘what I can do’ adventure and start completely fresh. I decided is all I see. I don’t often think of ‘what I can’t do’ to go to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, because I don’t have the energy to spare. I probably Boston (the furthest I could get from LA), and they can’t do a lot of things! I definitely do not have a offered me a great scholarship. I dyed my hair blue, science or mathematics brain, but I believe that it’s started getting tattoos, became a DJ, a teacher, a also not what I am meant to be doing. I still love producer, a painter - it was spectacular. I started learning and reading about things that I know DJing freshman year with a mixer my Dad had nothing about because it expands my mind and can gotten me for Christmas; I taught myself how to inspire things that I wouldn’t necessarily be able to use it in my dorm room. This led to my basement access before. STELL Magazine • 7
So what came first for you? Producing paintings or producing music? Definitely producing paintings! When I was a kid all I really had was a stack of paper and pencils to entertain myself and it was also what I gravitated towards. My childhood bedroom was my Grandpa’s old art studio and nothing really changed when we moved in; we just stuck two twin beds up against the cabinets of art supplies and books. I was submerged into someone else’s creative space and I would stare at the incredible paintings of Disney characters that my Grandpa made. They perfectly lined the top of the wall just below the ceiling wrapping all the way around the room. A lot of my first drawings were copying his Disney paintings. My Mom is a very important part of my creativity; she has always inspired me to try new things. We have done so many workshops together since I was a little girl: art camp, jewelry making, sculpting, sewing, stained glass window making, and so much more. My first actual painting I made was in high school, and everything clicked. I was making realism portraits soon after. Producing music I didn’t begin learning until I was in college after I had been DJing for a couple years. I fell in love with it because it reminded me so much of painting - the layering of sounds is just like the layering of paint. Both creative outlets where you start with an idea and you can envision it in your mind and then the result turns out to be something completely different. Music is something that is so important in my life and a lot of my important memories are attached to a soundtrack. I have a very strong memory and my mind attaches to sound and imagery; it’s really interesting because I cannot remember words or names to save my life. No matter if producing paintings came before producing music, I cannot have one without the other, they continuously inspire each other.
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Were you always a creative person? Absolutely, yes. I always have this flashback to when I was in kindergarten, and we had to fill out this booklet of questions. One of the questions was, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I found the booklet not that long ago and I wrote “Artist”, and I drew a little picture of me with a cat and a drawing in my hand. How cool is it to say, “wow I knew all along!” My entire family is creative, and through all of their support I was able to follow my dreams.
Your artwork packs a punch of color. Where do you draw your inspiration from? I’ve always been attracted to luscious and vibrant colors, it’s just what I am drawn towards. Even when I am painting from a photograph reference I just naturally enhance the saturation. Vibrancy is beautiful to me and reveals a sense of life in my work, I love making beautiful things. Something that really influences my painting is my synesthesia which is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences between color and sound. I can’t paint without listening to music. I focused deeply on this idea for my senior thesis project in college. I painted three portraits of my closest girlfriends and they each provided me with a playlist of music. Each one of my girlfriends music taste was very different; Ariane provided me with a lot of Cuban Reggaeton, Nicole provided Reggae and Indie music, and Jen loved old Disco and fun dance music. I only listened to the music they provided me while I painted each portrait. I was able to construct a composition and color pallet based on the synesthetic experience I had. After completing the portraits I then created an electronically produced soundtrack to emulate the portrait subject’s energy. The result revealed how one’s identity can be defined with color and sound through the intertwining of music, energy, and my relationship to my subjects. When set up at the gallery, each painting had a set of headphones that the viewer could put on and listen to the soundtrack I created for each painting, it was really special to watch. I don’t always consciously paint from my synesthesia but I’m sure the music I am listening to at the time has something to do with my color choices. How do you decide what is the right sketch to move on with to begin painting? I actually rarely sketch before I make a painting. I really love to work from photographs, especially if it’s a portrait. But, I can envision my idea in my head so clearly that I don’t really spend any time drawing first. I collect a folder of inspiration images for each piece, and once I am ready I go straight to the canvas and draw with a single oil color to start. So, I guess my sketches are underneath my paintings.
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How much of an influence do you think LA culture has on your work? I’ve never really thought of Los Angeles culture being a huge influence of my work. But since I am from Los Angeles and this beautiful crazy place is my home it is just so normal to me that I’m not conscious of the influence that it has had on me. Experiencing life in Boston and comparing it to Los Angeles, yes, it is drastically different and I can totally see how much of an “LA person” I am. I think it’s more about, this is just who I am, and my work expresses who I am as a human, my mind, my energy, my soul, my emotions. Los Angeles is my culture, it is my home, and has had an impact on who I have grown to be. What does a typical day look like for you? I don’t really have a “typical day”, every day is usually different. I don’t have a normal person “9 to 5” kind of job, but that’s what makes my life so exciting. Recently I just worked on a stop motion animation short film set, and I was the scenic painter, painting the sculpted worlds that the characters were to be animated in. Right now, I’ve been assisting on a huge mural project in Hollywood. Living as an artist is very inconsistent and definitely keeps me on my toes. I may get a really awesome job for a month and then it ends and I have to figure out my next move - it’s crazy. It’s super difficult to balance everything; keeping a roof over my head, a social life, progress in my career, and finding the time to work on my art and 10 • STELL Magazine
music. It’s really awesome to say that I am solely living off a creative career though! I teach private painting lessons, group painting lessons, I do scenic painting, I’m an artist assistant, I play DJ gigs, I sell my art, I make graphic art for music artists, and when I have no work I walk dogs! I’m a hustler, that’s for sure. It definitely does get stressful at times, it isn’t easy, but what is?! As long as you’re doing what you love, you will always find happiness. The universe can really reward you when you put all you’ve got into your passion no matter how hard it is. How do you see your evolution as an artist over time? My first experiences creating a painting in high school I used acrylic paints and watercolor. When I made it to college at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, I took my first oil painting class and it changed my life. I absolutely fell in love with oils, it made my process so much more enjoyable. Being able to endlessly blend is perfect for creating portraits. Oils can also hold a lot of texture which allowed me to create great depth in my work in 2017. My process has typically stayed pretty similar, I usually start with an oil sketch on the canvas working from a photograph, or a few references. Then, I just dive in putting a base of paint down to completely cover the white canvas. Lastly, I add layer upon layer to refine the piece until there is that magical moment, “It’s done!”
“Painting and producing for me is more of a trancelike experience and DJing is an adrenaline rush.” How do you feel when you’re DJing? Is it the same feeling you get when painting as well? My synesthetic capabilities definitely connect my passions in music and painting together. The close relation between sound and color is astounding for me and makes everything intertwine. The experience of painting is so similar to producing music in the sense of layering tracks or colors to create a beautiful piece of music or art. When beginning to make a soundtrack or a painting I may envision it perfectly in my mind but the process to get there will result in something completely different. When I am DJing I feel so connected with the audience and their radiating energy; it’s a way of communicating from me through the music and into the audience. My experience painting is similar, especially when I am painting a portrait because I feel some sort of connection through the person I am painting. The result of the piece is an expression of myself through the image of someone else. Painting and producing for me is more of a trance-like experience, and DJing is an adrenaline rush. Someone once told me I had to choose between the two if I were to ever be successful, I think that is so wrong
to say to somebody. I personally cannot have one without the other, my passions complete me and inspire each other in the most interesting ways. What advice would you give to your past self? I would tell myself to never hesitate! Always keep producing art and music no matter what anyone tells you. Constantly create even if you feel like you don’t know what you are doing or if you feel you aren’t good enough. Create, create, create until the end of time because that’s what you were put on this Earth to do! Where do you see yourself in 5 years’ time? In five years’ time I want to have gone on a music tour and have had at least a few solo art shows. I want to be able to make music and art all day with zero financial stress. More importantly than my success, I want to have a constant balance of happiness in my life. www.jennashermanart.com @jennashermanart soundcloud.com/cruxmyheart @cruxmyheart STELL Magazine • 11
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BLOUSE: Loraine Holmes SKIRT: Pato Moreno ACCESSORIES: Silverchic Opposite page: BLOUSE: Eduardo Galleguillos SKIRT: Pato Moreno ACCESSORIES: Marinoddo
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MIND GAME PHOTOGRAPHY: Jessica Juliao STYLING: Monika Wajda MAKEUP: Phoebe Goulding HAIR: Fady Malki using Bumble & Bumble MODEL: Zwaan Bijl @ The Society Management
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DRESS: FORSYTHIA SHOES: Isa Tapia Opposite page: TOP: Wilde Vertigga
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BLAZER & PANTS: NARCISS RING: Anne Sisteron SHOES: Alumnae Opposite page: DRESS: Tingyue Jiang
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BLAZER & PANTS: Wilde Vertigga SHOES: Alumnae Opposite page: DRESS: Tingyue Jiang
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Urban Jungle
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lucy Rooney ASSISTANT: Cleo Lim MAKEUP: Julia Boyce-Sargent STYLING: Hannah Edgar MODEL: Amelia Rourke @ Wilhelmina
COAT: Zara TROUSERS: Topshop boutique BLAZER: Kenzo EARRINGS: Topshop BAG: Marlow London Opposite page: EARRINGS: Topshop Vintage dressing gown (worn as dress) Model’s own belt
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RED SHIRT: Moschino SKIRT: Jil Sander Vintage jacket & boots
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EARRINGS: Mango SHOES: Dior SHIRT (worn underneath): Issey Miyake Vintage skirt & shirt
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SHIRT: Versace TROUSERS: Topshop EARRINGS: Zara SHOES: Dior
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EARRINGS: New Look SHIRT: D&G TOP (worn underneath): Agnes B TROUSERS: Pageant BAG: Marlow London Vintage shoes
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Dear Ernest PHOTOGRAPHY: Migle Golubickaite HAIR & MAKEUP: Marija Redi STYLING: Andrius Sergejenko MODEL: Mantas Daugvardas @ 3mmodels
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SUIT: Andrius Sergejenko TURTLENECK: Lyst Opposite page: SUIT: Andrius Sergejenko T-SHIRT: Zara
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Samantha PHOTOGRAPHY: Natasha Killeen STYLING: Stacey Marie HAIR & MAKEUP: Kasha Lassien MODEL: Samantha @ LA Models
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DRESS: Zara SHOES: ROC Opposite page: TOP: Blanc DRESS: Raga
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SWEATER & SKIRT: Art Dept. SHOES: Steve Madden
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FRANCESCA RAVELLI PHOTOGRAPHER ROME, ITALY
Half French, half Italian and currently living in the eternal city of Rome, 23 years old photographer FRANCESCA RAVELLI mixes lifestyle with fashion to produce incredible portraits. Currently studying an undergraduate in Communication, Technology and Digital Culture at La Sapienza University, her studies in a round ‘about way led her to consider photography as more than just a hobby. From her photographs being displayed in store fronts to being featured on well known fashion websites, her ever expanding portfolio is proof of what passion can drive you to achieve. 54 • STELL Magazine
Model: Lucrezia Antonelli | Stylists: Giorgia Sanna & Eleonora Carosi
What does photography mean to you? Photography means that I can capture one moment in time and help that one moment speak clearly to anyone, no matter what language they speak. When did you first become interested in photography? My father is my first and greatest influence in photography. As an amateur photographer he always shared his passion with me since I was 10. I always wanted to be like him, like every little girl looks up to their father. But over the years I was encouraged to continue most of all by my mother who is my harshest critic but also my number one supporter. My father showed me the path while my mom guided me along the way. How would you describe your style? I would describe my style, as I see it, less fashion orientated and more leaning towards lifestyle photography. Less tense, rigid and professional, but more a reflective and introspective vision of life. How do you get yourself inspired for a photoshoot?
I am mostly inspired by other photographers’ work (none in particular). I like to look at their pictures and try to imagine how I would shoot the same subject in my own way. It is for me like a translation from their language to mine. What’s your go-to gear for a photoshoot? If I have to list the gear I have with me on every shoot it would be my Nikon D700 and my AF-S NIKKOR 50 mm f/1.8G, spare batteries (you can never have enough), a lens hood and last but not least a bottle of water, all packed in my camera gear back pack. Prime or zoom? Prime lens. Do you think gear matters when trying to make that great picture? Gear helps up to a certain point (where that point is, I don’t know) but I am convinced that - beyond the tools - the skill, creativity, imagination and ability to communicate with the team are the only things that really improve your photos. STELL Magazine • 55
“Photography means that I can capture one moment in time and help that one moment speak clearly to anyone, no matter what language they speak.”
Is there anybody that you would love to photograph? There is no one that comes to mind, it could be a person, a place, or even my dog. As long as I can take photographs and enjoy taking them, I am happy. You could have anyone in the world take your portrait, who would it be? If I could, I wouldn’t choose anyone. I don’t enjoy being in a picture as much as taking it. I think many photographers would understand and feel the same way.
What advice do you have for photography enthusiasts looking to go professional? I would say “just start”. There are so many reasons that could hang you back and hesitate, but really, none of them are good reasons. Just dive in, give it a go, and you’ll be surprised at how quickly you pick things up. In photography you learn as you go. Don’t wait to get started. If it’s something you are passionate about, you’ll find a way to make it work. @ravellipictures 56 • STELL Magazine
Model: Claudia Caldarella
Other than photography, what else are you passionate about? I enjoy reading books; I love travelling and, as it so happens, it goes hand in hand with photography and discovering new places.
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SKEYES PHOTOGRAPHY: Sara Joni HAIR & MAKEUP: Jada Cianne Apriola MODEL: Stephanie Thomas @ Family Management
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ROBE: Forever21 DRESS: Aritzia EARRINGS: Spring
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RAIN CATCHER PHOTOGRAPHY & STYLING: King Rosales ASSISTANT: Fiona Cook-Stewart MAKEUP & HAIR: Emilia Kuczma-Porebska MODEL: Ciara Jane Stewart @ Patti Falconer Agency
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ROBE: Forever21 DRESS: Dynamite SHOES: Zara Opposite page: DRESS: Aritzia SHOES: Aldo
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GULLIXSON PHOTOGRAPHY: Victor Low HAIR: Elyston Hayden MAKEUP: Nisha Van Berkel @ DLM MODEL: Sarah Gullixon@ The.Mgmt
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ANTONIA LARSSON PIHL FASHION DESIGNER STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
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ANTONIA LARSSON PIHL’s latest collection ALP[INE] expresses the lifestyle, mentality and aesthetics of the skiing culture in fashion form. We talk to the electrifying fashion designer about her inspirations, aspirations and sophistications of her design process. What sparked your interest in fashion? All my life I’ve had an interest for art and design. Working with fashion was a dream when I was kid but I have never been that dedicated like so many others, like being able to name drop big designers and models or so. I have never really cared about the whole industry, but one art education led to another and I ended up at Beckmans College of Design, for three years of fashion design studies as a Bachelor Degree. Everything I do now though, is based on all of the other things I have done, and love to do in life. I have spent a lot of time at male dominated sports and activities, like street dancing, skateboarding and skiing and I got tired of the lack of clothing for women with the same obvious attitude as in menswear. As a result I am questioning the uneven expressions when it comes to female vs. male street and sportswear and contributing to drive change in this area. What was the inspiration behind your ALP[INE] collection? In my ALP[INE] collection I studied my relationship to skiing and I have translated its lifestyle, its relaxed mentality and its aesthetics into a fashion context. I have been inspired by everything from graphics on ski boots and race suits to the over-dimensioned fashions of park skiers and also questioning why baggy clothing is considered masculine? Is it because the very fact that if you are perceived as physically bigger it makes you feel more powerful? I have also tried 80 • STELL Magazine
to unify contradictory sides of my personality by giving them expression and letting them meet each other in a collection. I was searching for the harmony between gravitas and humor, reflection and spontaneity. Like could I bring visibility to adrenalin, freedom, power and the dreamy aspect of skiing in the form of fashion garments? Do you have a favourite from your collection? The whole collection is like my babies, but I’d definitely say the graphic, black and white pieces! They are made in an embroidery technique called chenille, you have probably seen it at vintage college/baseball jackets. I have been working with applications earlier but more as logos and this time I wanted to take the idea further and use the technique in a way I haven’t seen anyone else do before. I designed abstract shapes inspired by the aesthetics of the ski world and let them form graphic patterns. I reckon that the 3D effect of the applications makes the expression and the whole collection much more interesting.
Describe to us what your design process is like. I guess it’s very different from project to project, but overall I like to be very free and spontaneous when I create. I do quite a lot of sketching in the beginning and sometimes a bit of draping but mostly I let the designs take shape during the process. I work a lot with waste material because of its sustainable aspect and in view of the limited dimensions of the pieces of fabric I am obliged to pay great attention to patchwork and cuttings. This is something that definitely affects the visual expression, but I also like the sporty vibe that comes with the looks of it! What are your favourite materials to work with? I love working with fabrics that just looks good even though you’re not really paying attention and you just want to create something thats perfectly done in a couple of hours! The kind of material that’s easy to work with and you don’t have to be super focused while cutting or must use heaps of pins/needles, like with silk or velour.
Who are some of your favourite designers? Guess I appreciate most designers working with both a fashion forward thinking and are a bit edgy but also sporty/street. I love Astrid Andersen, Marjan Pejoski at KTZ, Alexander Wang, off course Virgil Abloh and In Australia I really like Pip Edwards. What is your personal fashion style? Do you think this influences the way you create your pieces? Yes, definitely. I wouldn’t probably dare, or feel fully comfortable wearing all of my pieces - lot of them are specially designed as show pieces so I guess that’s why - but pretty much everything is based on what I personally like, and also what i feel are missing in the industry, specially for women. But actually I don’t really care that much anymore of what to wear myself. I know i’d got some fashion sense and that gives med confidence enough to just wear whatever feels comfy, don’t feel the need that I have to prove anything.
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If you could dress anyone in the world, who would it be? I’ve been working with a lot of artists the last couple of years now, but yet only Swedes so it would be cool to take it overseas. Of course it would be amazing if I dressed Rihanna. Other than fashion, what are you also passionate about? As I mentioned before, the kind of fashion I make is definitely based on my love for sport and outdoor activities. I have been dancing hip hop my entire life so a lot of the attitude comes from that and the same with skiing and the love for speed. It’s truly important for me to not lose this side of myself and these activities are just as close to my heart as fashion/design, if not even closer. Nowadays I’m crazy in love with surfing and the whole lifestyle. I also find a lot of happiness in traveling and meet people and taking part in all different kinds of lifestyles. What’s next in store for you? In August I will participate with the ALP[INE]
collection at the biggest design competition of Scandinavia called Designers’ Nest, that will be held during Copenhagen Fashion Week. And one month after that the collection will be showcased at Paris Fashion Week. But after that I have no idea. I like the idea of keeping it open and be free to do whatever and see what happens. All I know for sure is that I won’t stay in Sweden. What is a quote or motto that you live by? Well, everyone that has made a collection from scratch knows how hard it is and how you work 24/7. I definitely turn into a machine that is everything but human, and normal needs like eating or sleeping is not on the priority list for like four months. My way of working and being in the process is super unhealthy and on the days I just feel like crap, the sentence “find what you love and let it kill you” always pops into my head, and gives me a little ironic smile on my lips. www.antoniapihl.com @antoniapihl STELL Magazine • 83
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DRESS: Agnes Choi SHOES: Extraordinary Ordinary Day Stylist’s own coat
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PANTS: Lonely Stylist’s own top & jacket
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JACKET: Trelise Cooper SHOES: Extraordinary Ordinary Day Stylist’s skirt & socks
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PHOTOGRAPHY & ART DIRECTION: Nienke Wind STYLING: Marieke van Wijngaarden MAKEUP & HAIR: Xiu Yun Yu DESIGNER: ‘Statement made by Jade by Jade van der Mark Winter 18, Hema, H&M S/S 18, Stylist own MODEL: Jasmijn van der Berg @ WKD Model Management & Aimee de Haas @ Troop Models
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