NYLON - June 2008 - (Page 34) contributors j oseph erric o Joseph Errico, known simply as J, began styling where many fashion editors hope to end up. “My first shoot was assisting Patti Wilson while I was a freshman at NYU for an Escada campaign with Claudia Schiffer,” says Errico. “But my first ever job was folding sweaters at Benetton on Greenwich Ave. when I was 16,” he remembers with a laugh. Errico’s career has included freelance jobs, a stint as fashion editor for the L.A. magazine Buzz, and style director at Interview, a position he held for six and a half years before joining NYLON as fashion director in January. For his first NYLON fashion spread, Errico worked with Gossip’s Beth Ditto (page 162). “I’m a big fan,” he says. “She has such a huge following in the fashion industry. She’s not afraid to wear tight-fitting clothes, is unapologetic about how she looks, and has this amazing energy both onstage and off.” When not styling, Errico likes to co-host his NYLON TV show with our style director, Dani Stahl. “I love working with the wife,” he enthuses. “People are lining up to be on the J and Dani show. Now we’re thinking of wearing helmet cams so we can record each other all the time!” cel i a el l en b e r g Celia Ellenberg, who had her first taste of magazines while interning at NYLON in 2004, comes full circle as she now, four years later, returns to edit this month’s ’zine music supplement. “It’s a laudatory tribute to the four bands on the music tour,” she explains. “In addition to giving readers background info on the bands and some fun games to occupy them while they’re at the show, we’re also trying to encourage them to make their own ’zines—so it’s sort of like a jumping off point to inspire other people’s creativity.” Born in Philadelphia, Ellenberg studied English Literature at Washington University in Saint Louis and Oxford University before moving to New York. Ellenberg has worked at T, The New York Times Style Magazine, Jane, Style.com and is a frequent contributor to Page Six Magazine. “I love the occasional glitz and glamour that comes with fashion, beauty, and culture writing but I live for sports, drinking whiskey at dive bars and collecting vintage football T-shirts,” she says. “I guess I’m a fancy tomboy.” nate nedor o ste k “Chuck Bass is the best character on television.” Let’s get one thing straight: Nate Nedorostek doesn’t just love Gossip Girl, he’s obsessed with the show. “GG is the best television show since The O.C.,” he says. “And did I mention all the babes on the show? I did? Oh, right.” When not watching Serena and Blair, the Brooklyn-based art director of 10 years shops online (“I’m an excellent eBayer!”) catches up with friends via iChat (his website homepage is even an iChat conversation), and works on his book: Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music (MTV Books) to be published this September. For this issue, Nedorostek took on the task of designing our ’zine. “It’s basically what I would want to read if I was an 18-year-old girl with an outstanding fashion sense, and good taste in music.” al ex hoern e r “She is a superstar human being,” raves photographer Alex Hoerner after shooting Gossip’s Beth Ditto (page 162). New York-based Hoerner has had his fair share of superstar shoots, naming Ozzy Osbourne as one of the most memorable. “I was taking pictures with him underneath his dining room table!” Growing up in Santa Monica, Hoerner’s dad taught him how to develop film in the bathroom of their apartment and his now extensive portfolio of portraits includes Jackie Chan, Michael Cera, Alison Lohman, and Jason Schwartzman. When not shooting actors and musicians or working on advertising campaigns for Visa, AT&T, and Wal-Mart, Hoerner loves to surf. “Along with taking more pictures and being married,” he adds. Hoerner also shoots for Men’s Vogue, Interview, i-D, Dazed and Confused, The New York Times, and Time Out London. faran krentc il Faran Krentcil began working full-time at NYLON as digital director in January of this year. “I have a tattoo on my butt that says ‘everything is my job,’” says Krentcil. “But basically, I’m trying to make nylonmag.com what MTV was in the ’80s—a little rough but an incredibly genuine, constant, and current voice.” Growing up in Andover, Massachusetts (“It was boring and I had to make my own fun”), Krentcil moved to North Carolina to study at Duke before venturing to New York to work as people and parties editor for The Daily. And Krentcil admits she’s been magazine obsessed for as long as she can remember. “I would keep these books growing up with fashion spreads and articles that I would create about my friends or my favorite celebrities and artists. I think, looking back, I was really trying to live in a magazine, but a magazine about my life and not about, like, Nicole Kidman.” And while Krentcil keeps busy with nylonmag.com, she still finds time to interview bands including the Virgins for this issue. “What you probably don’t know about that Virgins interview is that I did it in the dressing room at Bloomingdale’s!” http://Style.com http://nylonmag.com http://nylonmag.com
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