NYLON - January 2008 - (Page 46) contributors vi ctori a h u n te r For Bumble and bumble color director Victoria Hunter, it all started with a book: “I was young and living in Hong Kong, and had just finished reading The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho, which is all about following your dreams,” she says. “And I saw a Vogue profile on Bumble and bumble and decided then and there I had to be a part of what they were doing. I booked a flight to NYC and 12 years later, here I am!” For this issue, Hunter dyed all of the wigs in the beauty story “The Big Chill” (page 158), a process that is, apparently, much more intricate than dying a head of hair. “It’s a real art form that takes extensive trial and error,” she says, “but I love those kind of challenges.” Hunter says the best request she’s ever gotten from a client was “One time when a stylist came to me with a bizarre request, as it was Fashion Week and he wanted to go incognito. We decided to go with a bleached-out look that was very serial-killer chic. He called after the shows to say the look worked like a charm.” ceci l i a car lste d t “I buy a lot of books and many, many magazines,” says Sweden-born, New York-based illustrator Cecilia Carlstedt of her main sources of inspiration. “But I also love to go thrift shopping for oddities. On a recent shopping trip, I came back with a pine cone, some amazing colored butterfly wings, and a plate by P. Fornasetti.” Carlstedt’s bread and butter is fashion illustrations. “I have always been drawing,” she says, “and started taking the odd freelance commissions while still at college.” Since graduating from the London College of Communication, she’s worked for H&M, Swarovski, Marie Claire, and Bloomingdale’s, among others, and in this issue, illustrated Counter Culture (page 106). “I like to mix traditional pencil and ink with computer graphics,” Carlstedt says. “I think my work has a very organic feel, and I often use shapes and forms from nature.” cl audi a seile r Model Claudia Seiler landed in New York just two months ago from “a little city in Brazil named Pimenta Boeno,” and within weeks had booked shoots for i-D and Dazed and Confused, and flew to Milan, where she walked exclusively for Prada. This month, she makes her debut in NYLON in the Dessous (page 62) and Jen Kao (page 72) profiles and Fashion News (page 86). “My favorite shoots are editorial and I like doing shows as well, because I love the clothing,” Seiler says. But when it comes to what she’s wearing when she’s not in front of the camera, she says “I love comfortable clothes, like tank tops with skinny jeans and sneakers.” So far, her favorite thing to do in New York is just walk. “Where I am from is really small,” she says, “so I love to walk around and observe and see all the exciting things here.” j am es m aho n The best thing about photographer James Mahon answers to our contributor questions was his inclusion of a photo that he said was of someone he might consider his own fashion icon. “I admire whoever has personal style,” Mahon said explaining it, “Like my friend Dave.” Sadly, we can’t print the photo, but we can tell you that Dave is either a pasty shirtless guy in Hawaiian-print boardshorts, or a blonde baby in a rash guard. Either way, we think Mahon is right on. Originally from Los Angeles but now based in Brooklyn, Mahon concentrates on fashion photography, and for this issue, shot new model Claudia Seiler for the Dessous (page 62) and Jen Kao (page 72) profiles and Fashion News (page 86). “The greatest fashion photos,” he says, “are just portraits with beautiful clothes.” sarah ni r Writer Sarah Nir hails from New York, but is now living in Shoreditch, London. It’s “the beating heart of London’s style and art scene,” she says. “Essentially Williamsburg with even tighter jeans and more angular haircuts, if you can believe it.” Nir has written for the London Times, vogue.com, Time Out, i-D, and the London Paper, and for this issue, authored our take on menswear lines for women (page 64). Her favorite piece that she’s seen? “Balenciaga cuts a mean English schoolboy blazer, and I’m loving the ‘I’m wearing my badass boyfriend’s biker jacket’ look that’s hit London streets hard this season,” Nir says. “Thrown over something girly, it’s like you’ve just left your man in bed while you pop out to the shop for some milk; and that man is James Dean.”
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