NYLON Magazine - September 2007 - (Page 52) contributors di ck page a n d ja me s g ib b s Dick Page and James Gibbs have been taking photographs together for seven years. “We don’t always know who took which picture,” laughs Page, as he explains that they literally take turns snapping each shot. Gibbs grew up in New York, while Page was raised in England before moving to New York 15 years ago. The pair says they never fight over the orientation of a shoot, nor who took the better picture, and with Gibbs’s formal training and Page’s 20-year background in makeup, they make quite the combination. “We see things in a similar way but James will look at the makeup I’ve done and suddenly see a whole new direction for a story and how to shoot it,” Page says. For this issue they shot the “Head Over Heels” beauty story (page 174) and Page says, “I liked the idea of playing dress-up with a girl. It’s a throwback to when I was growing up in the club scene—we always aspired to look older. That doesn’t happen so much now.” ni kki schne id e r As NYLON’s fashion assistant, Nikki Schneider is used to taking charge. She was president of her sorority house at Florida State University—for which she receives a lot of good-natured ribbing around the office—and swiftly adjusted to managing a closet full of fashion samples, a team of interns, and preparation for this month’s hectic fashion week. Having just moved to the city in February, Schneider is still getting used to New York. “I grew up in Jackson, Tennessee,” she says. “Think Sweet Home Alabama. It’s so different here in Manhattan. I mean, there you see people without shoes and with mullet hairstyles.” Schneider didn’t always aspire to work in the world of magazines. “I really wanted to be a car dealer,” she says. “but then I realized I would need enough money to buy all the cars first.” Apparently, you can take the girl out of Tennessee chl oe m al le tt London-based photographer Chloe Mallett always knew she wanted to take pictures, and has learned that the skills needed to take good ones often go far beyond just technical expertise. “I once put my hair in pigtail plaits in an attempt to make myself look younger—like a student—so that I wouldn’t have to pay for the location for a shoot!” she exclaims. Mallett has shot for global publications including Vogue, Italian Elle, and British Vogue, along with campaigns for Joseph, Alice Temperley, and Orla Kiely. For this issue, she produced the whimsical fashion story “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (page 182) “I really like the juxtaposition of the modern styling with the retro quality of the film, along with shooting in and around the Brighton Pier,” she says. sam antha g ile w ic z “I used to go to sea camp every summer and wanted to be a marine biologist,” admits our assiduous Web Editor Samantha Gilewicz. But after gaining a scholarship to study journalism at Fordham University, she moved from the warm shores of Miami to New York where writing took preference over dolphins and manatees. Gilewicz began her career as an intern at NYLON, before moving to full time at the helm of the ever-expanding Web site, and she has been particularly busy the past few months, helping to usher nylonmag.com through its relaunch. “I write everything—designer profiles, beauty icons, music features—but one of my favorite stories that I’ve done was interviewing Pedro ‘Busy P’ Winter,” she says. “He’s taking over the world one dancefloor at a time, and to me, that’s pretty sweet.” aya t. kana i As evidenced by how she dressed this month’s cover girl, Evan Rachel Wood, and the models for the beauty story “Head Over Heels,” NYLON fashion director Aya T. Kanai sees styling as storytelling more than personal shopping. “I love working with a subject who can get into a mood and a feeling,” she says, “and having all the elements like photography, fashion, hair, and makeup, to support that and bring it to life.” One of Kanai’s favorite cover story images is of Wood in a brocade Burberry trench, because “she looked like a sexy private investigator. She was all Harriet the Spy-ed out!” While Kanai might not think twice about putting an actress in bunny ears or green cat-eyed glasses, she steers clear of the standard gown and strappy heels combo. “That makes me crazy!” she says. “I love clothes as much as anyone, but I think people look to NYLON to showcase these celebrities in a new way, and show them wearing something unexpected.” http://nylonmag.com
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