The Business

Starworks Group Welcomes High Gloss to the Digital Design World

Last week, High Gloss magazine joined the ranks of a growing list of online shelter publications, a digital space design world that includes title like Lonny, Rue and Ivy & Piper.  Founded by one of our favorite design bloggers, Paloma Contreras of the popular blog La Dolce Vita, the High Gloss Team also includes editor Erin Gates of Elements of Style, editor and stylist Shannon Wollack of Life.Style., editor and director of advertising Kyle Knight of Knight Moves, editor and stationer Lauren Rauter of Rock Paper Scissors, and art director Ashley Steen of Orchard 11.

The bimonthly publication features colorful, photo-heavy pages crafted by the High Gloss Team, special contributors, and some serious photographers (our friend Grey Crawford shot interiors for their first issue!).  The interactive mag’s clickable pages allow you to easily buy while you read – so no more turning down page corners or placing sticky notes next to products you’ll never go back to. Instead, you can simply click on any of the items featured within the magazines’ collage-like pages, and you’ll be re-directed to the product’s site for an instant buy. How dangerous!

What’s also dangerous is the potential threat that these online magazines pose to the endangered category of shelter pubs like ELLE Décor, Traditional Home, House Beautiful and Architectural Digest.   Thankfully, though, it seems the two worlds are finding a way to unite; design freaks likes us are eagerly awaiting the launch of “Trad Home” this spring, an online design mag created by the mutual efforts of Traditional Home (print) and the trailblazing Lonny (online).  We’re also pumped that Trad Home will name Lauren and Sasha one of their 20 “New Traditionals” in its first issue.

So what’s our verdict? We are huge fans of the beautifully-done new High Gloss and can’t wait for the next issue.  It must be said, however, that while our excitement for this new online design world is obvious, we’re certain that we will be keeping our subscriptions to classics like Architectural Digest, ELLE Décor (and the rest of the gang) for years to come.

 

Steven Pan – Interview Magazine

Steven Pan is an accomplished director of photography, a brilliant photographer and one of Starworks’ most valued motion artists. The September issue of Interview Magazine features Pan’s recent work, in which he photographed BCBG heiress Joyce Azria (wearing BCBGeneration) at the Thompson Hotel Lower East Side in Manhattan.

 

INEZ AND VINOODH OPEN UP “PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING” IN AMSTERDAM

Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin celebrated their 25 years in the industry with a show entitled “Pretty Much Everything” that opened last week in Amsterdam’s Foam Museum. Partners both in life and work, they are the creative eyes behind such contemporary imagery as the Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Yohji Yamamoto and Chloé ad campaigns, and editorial work that regularly appears in French Vogue, V, The New York Times and W.

Michael Pitt for YSL FW09 from Ivan Vovnenko on Vimeo.

Models Anja Rubik and Raquel Zimmermann, Vogue Paris fashion editor Emmanuelle Alt, and designers Viktor & Rolf came out to show their support for the couple.

I was on hand to DJ at the museum launch as well as the afterparty later that turned into a disco inferno!

If you happen to be in Amsterdam by mid-September, be sure to stop by the Foam Museum for this AMAZING retrospective featuring 300 of their photographs from 1985 to 2010.

 

Spring Time for V

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This Spring ’10 Issue of V Magazine has been out a few weeks already, but have you seen all 4 covers? It’s a beautiful issue and sits strong on the coffee table. Our Greg Krelenstein cast the lovely Kirsten for the cover story. Available on newsstands now. Subscribe to V at V Magazine.com.

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V64 COVER BURBERRY (Kirsten Dunst in Burberry)

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Wonderland, Summer Issue

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Check out the new Summer Issue of Wonderland. Starworks’ Greg Krelenstein booked a meaty issue with a diverse group of characters — Janet Jackson, Zoe Saldana, Penn Badgley, and Stephen Dorff (fresh of the heels off Sofia’s Coppola’s new film).

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Issue Available on newsstands now. Visit wonderlandmagazine.com for more info.