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Spotlight on: Graduate Fashion Week

Spotlight on: Graduate Fashion Week

Graduate Fashion Week is the world’s leading fashion event for up-and-coming design talent, showcasing the work of more than 1000 talented students and graduates from universities around the world. A stronghold of creativity, Graduate Fashion Week features 22 catwalk shows and 30,000 guests each June. We met three stand-out students from Bath Spa University, who told…

Spotlight on Benjamin Von Wong: Part 1 – Inspiration and Evolution

Spotlight on Benjamin Von Wong: Part 1 – Inspiration and Evolution

Benjamin Von Wong is known the world over for his epic, hyper-realistic photography. A passionate collaborator, with a belief in sharing his work with others, he is as well known for his behind-the-scenes videos and blogs as for his uniquely brilliant photographs themselves. Notorious for his desire to overcome seeming impossibilities, Benjamin uses his engineering…

Interview with Make-up and Hair Artist Faye Smith

Interview with Make-up and Hair Artist Faye Smith

Faye Smith is the owner and lead artist at Faye Smith Make-up & Hair, a Vancouver-based team of highly-skilled and experienced make-up and hair stylists. Faye has been a qualified make-up and hair artist since 2007, bringing her skills from England to Canada in 2008 where she found her passion.

Interview with model Carina Tyrrell, Miss England 2014

Interview with model Carina Tyrrell, Miss England 2014

Carina Tyrrell isn’t your typical Miss World contestant – she has a first-class medical degree from Cambridge, years of humanitarian aide experience, and big ambitions to use her beauty and brains to tackle global heath issues.

Interview with Beauty Photographer Alistair Cowin

Interview with Beauty Photographer Alistair Cowin

Alistair Cowin is one of the most accomplished fashion and beauty photographers in the business, with a string of high profile fashion clients, having lived in LA, Miami, the South of France, and now back in his native UK. He has shot someone of the world’s most photographed women, including Caprice, Charlize Theron, and Cameron Diaz.

Video Interview with Model Sohaila Lindheim

Video Interview with Model Sohaila Lindheim

Sohaila Lindheim has been a model for 10 years, working across Europe and the Middle East, and covering catwalk shows to commercial shoots, as well as freelance work. Hear her advice for new models, and her insights into agency work versus freelance work.

Interview with Model Anita De Bauch

Interview with Model Anita De Bauch

Anita De Bauch is a British model and writer. Wearing everything from Vivienne Westwood to latex couture, her modelling spans fashion, commercial, art nude, and vintage modelling. We caught up with Anita about her career, writing and advice for young models.

Interview with designer Charli Cohen at London Fashion Week

Interview with designer Charli Cohen at London Fashion Week

Charli Cohen trained as a fashion designer and as a personal trainer, and with her passion and knowledge of both, has designed a range of fashionable women’s fitness wear that marries cutting-edge technology with luxury and edginess. We spoke with her at London Fashion Week, during her live photoshoot with SleekTechnique ballerinas, at ME London’s…

Interview with Model & Photographer Lizzie Bayliss

Interview with Model & Photographer Lizzie Bayliss

Lizzie Bayliss is a model and photographer based in the UK. She has a background in fashion design, make-up artistry, and now also teaches photography masterclasses. Her book, ‘The Wise Girl’s Guide to Freelance Modelling’, will be released in June 2014.

Interview with Model & Make-Up Artist Kaitlin Chapple

Interview with Model & Make-Up Artist Kaitlin Chapple

Kaitlin Chapple has been modelling professionally since 2009. She’s also a professional dancer, originally from Vancouver, and is now based in Toronto, Canada. Her career highlights include dancing in film and television, and modelling for national print campaigns and international magazine editorials.