The Creative Class | Thierry Dreyfus, Lighting Designer and Show Producer
PARIS, France — “Welcome to my cave,” announces Thierry Dreyfus, at the top of a staircase that leads from the bright main ground floor workspace of his studio to his own dimly lit office one level...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Maria Luisa Poumaillou, Buyer
PARIS, France — “I have only been interested all my life by whatever is different and attracts my eye, by talent that is out of the ordinary and by what is long lasting. I don’t have a good eye for the...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Linda Wells, Editor
NEW YORK, United States — “Some people sit there and wring their hands and go, ‘Oh my gosh, is print going to die?’” says Linda Wells, founding editor-in-chief of American beauty magazine Allure. “It’s...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, Interior Designers
NEW YORK, United States — “A couple of Toronto boys, I didn’t think we’d ever be working in the epicentre of luxury retailing,” says George Yabu, who, together with partner in business and life Glenn...
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Conjuring Couture
PARIS, France — As artistic director of Christian Dior, Raf Simons reigns over a great pyramid of product categories and visual communications that shape, sustain and signal the brand’s ethos and...
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Charlotte Tilbury’s Transformative Touch
LONDON, United Kingdom — Charlotte Tilbury grew up on the Spanish island of Ibiza with no telephones and intermittent electricity. There were, however, other things for her to focus on. “I remember, we...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Pamela Golbin, Curator
PARIS, France — Trains, until very recently, weren’t Pamela Golbin’s cup of tea. She much prefers to fly. In fact, Golbin loves flying, perhaps a remnant of a childhood spent in airborne commute...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Ariel Foxman, Editor
NEW YORK, United States — “If we don’t have a relationship with the reader, we have nothing,” says Ariel Foxman, editor of InStyle. “This is a product. It’s a business. At the end of the day, it has to...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Ben Gorham, Perfumer
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The power of fragrance to trigger memory is what first drew Ben Gorham, founder of fashionable Stockholm-based fragrance house Byredo, to perfume. “Right after graduating from art...
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The Creative Class | Joseph Dirand, Architect
PARIS, France — Joseph Dirand’s architectural practice sits on the top floor of a theatre building not far from Montmartre. It’s an unusual edifice, strangely nondescript amidst the opulence of...
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The Creative Class | Karim Sadli, Photographer
PARIS, France — It’s 7.58 am. The elevator stops at the 5th floor of Daylight Studios in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The studio is buzzing with at least a dozen people; technicians, stylists,...
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The Creative Class | Shona Heath, Set Designer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Enchanted tree houses. Perfectly pastiche flying saucers. Gargantuan marionette skeletons. Life-sized Matryoshka dolls. A tumbled-down Humpty Dumpty. Shona Heath’s perfectly...
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The Creative Class | Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag, Art Directors
PARIS, France — One morning in the summer of 2001, Christy Turlington found herself in a less than enviable position. It was at the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, north-east of Paris, where Turlington, clad...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Marie-Amélie Sauvé, Stylist and Fashion Consultant
PARIS, France — “It’s a new chapter and it’s incredibly exciting,” Marie-Amélie Sauvé told BoF, sipping a Coke Zero at La Société, the plush Christian Liaigre-designed canteen in the Paris...
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The Creative Class | David Vivirido & Francesco Sourigues, Editors and...
BARCELONA, Spain — David Vivirido and Francesco Sourigues like to use the term “power-woman,” along with the descriptor “woman on top.” In fact, that’s how the duo sums up both the subject matter and...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Virginie Mouzat, Fashion Editor
PARIS, France — “Reading. I grew up reading books,” says fashion editor Virginie Mouzat on what drove her to become a writer. “It actually saved my life, it really did,” she adds. “Let’s say, it helped...
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The Creative Class | Penny Martin, Editor
LONDON, United Kingdom — A trace of the academic is palpable in Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman. Her past as chair of fashion imagery at the University of the Arts, London, and years...
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The Creative Class | Marie Chaix, Stylist
NEW YORK, United States — You don’t expect one of fashion’s most sought-after stylists to cite the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, as a key inspiration. Yet Jobs’ now famous advice to Stanford...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Maria Lemos, Showroom Director
LONDON, United Kingdom — Maria Lemos believes it’s crucial that young designers understand that magic moment of retail chemistry, when a consumer’s initial desire for a product aligns with good fit and...
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The Creative Class | Fergus “Fergadelic” Purcell, Graphic Designer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Fergus Purcell is a man who embodies contrast. While his birth name sounds like a cross-pollination of Scottish and English aristocracy (his parents are Irish), his artist tag...
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