"IS IT JUST ME OR IS THE WORLD FULL OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN?" (Robbie Coltrane)

SOFYA TITOVA @ next paris new faces division
FASHION CASTING
WE SHOT IN THE AFTERNOON SHE KEPT THE HAIR FROM A MORNING
SHOOT FOR HARPER’S
top & skirt Prada

During a fashion casting you have to stand out at first glance. You are just one of many beauties - a true challenge for your ego, no matter how talented or famous you already are. 

But not just for the main role. One travels along a rocky road until they find the perfect face, picture, and mood for the imaginary story which is going to be told. Trough the following photo series our beloved stylist Ann-Kathrin Obermeyer and photoraph Adrian Crispin captured a (not-so-)random casting situation for our EGO ISSUE. Additionally he mentioned just a fraction of what is admirable in the women's nature. 

See the whole story after the jump.

"How deep should the artist penetrate the work with their identity — How important is the artist?"A conversation with Ayse Erkmen

Ayse Erkmen is a conceptual artist who represented Turkey at the 54th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition. The public projects of Ayse Erkmen reflect her concerns with the physical, cultural, and social landscapes in which she works. She lives in Istanbul and Berlin, and has been teaching at Münster Kunstakademie since 2010.

Bilgen Coskun talked with Ayse Erkem about the ego in the artist and the art, sociological influences, creative connections and her personal working processes between Istanbul and Berlin. 

HAVE YOU SEEN MY BABY? (Rolling Stones)

shoes prada, stockings wolford
curtain kva

After showing how to hide, it's now about time to stand out from the crowd.

 But let's take baby steps;
 We provide you with a few advices to strengthen your position in the digital world
 and 
today's ruling society,
 accompanied by some beauty products and accessoires which will do the rest. 

The whole story after the jump. 

"IT'S AN ODD THING, BUT ANYONE WHO DISAPPEARS IS SAID TO BE IN SAN FRANCISCO. IT MUST BE A DELIGHTFUL CITY AND POSESSES ALL THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE NEXT WORLD” (Oscar Wilde)

turtleneck Filippa K.,black dress Etro, silk scarf Hermès

Exept the childhood memories of playing hide and seek - 
Who hasn't at some point wished for hiding out for a while?

Due to some favorite fashion accessories, 
the Berlin-based photographer Sabrina Theissen 
and some useful advices we found online
we pointed out some possibilties in our EGO ISSUE. 

See the whole story after the jump. 

HIDE UNTIL EVERYBODY GOES HOME. HIDE UNTIL EVERYBODY FORGETS ABOUT YOU. HIDE UNTIL EVERYBODY DIES.” (Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings)

Vanity is one of the seven deadly sins. 

No one has embodied vanity to such an extent as the legendary German actress Marlene Dietrich, who secluded herself in her Parisian apartment for the last 11 years of her life. The French photographer Audrey Corregan, acclaimed for her ability to add the right dose of complexity to a simple photograph, resurrected the character of diva Dietrich for the EGO ISSUE through her camera.

Find the complete photo series after the jump. 

WHAT WOULD YOU ATTEMPT TO DO IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD NOT FAIL? A conversation with Katja Dahte

Katja Dathe is a genuine Berliner and started her commitment to creativity while studying pattern construction and tailoring in the GDR. After the fall of the Berlin Wall she was referred to as the genius fashion designer from East Berlin. She distributed her label “Karl Faktor” until 1999 and then ended her career in the fashion scene. Thereafter, Katja played an integral role as a production coordinator in my office (that’s how we became best friends) and in 2006 she became the CEO of Parkhaus, a homeware design company. She decided to join the Berlinbased Pirate Party when she began her studies of economic science.The first Pirate Party was founded on January 1st in 2006 in Sweden. The party’s name was derived from Piratbyrån, an organization opposed to intellectual property. Members of Piratbyrån had previously founded the BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Party supports civil rights, direct democracy and participation, reform of copyright and patent law, free sharing of knowledge (open content), data privacy, transparency, freedom of information, free education, universal healthcare, and a clear separation between church and state. In the election for the House of Representatives of Berlin in 2011 the Pirate Party reached 8.9 percent and moved into the state parliament. Even friends in the United States have recently asked me, “What is going on over there in Berlin?” So it’s about time to spread the word for you my friends. I met with Katja to talk about the party’s values and intentions: about equal rights, supporting individual inhabitants of our city, minimum wage, and of course, about Katja herself. Who can be called a lot of things, but not insane.

A conversation about different kinds of democracy, particular social structures and the meaning of the human ego from the point of view of the pirate party.

"I WON'T BE A ROCKSTAR, I WILL BE A LEGEND."(Freddie Mercury) IN A CONVERSATION WITH THE ECHO VAMPER

Iza Mortag Freund and James Brook came to know and love each other basically because of an essential piece of missing furniture. The Danish dynamite and the classically cool Brit burst onto the punk scene in Aahrus, Denmark by creating the music they wished they were hearing. Their tools are simple — Iza’s remarkable rock ‘n’ roll voice and James’s instinct for instruments. With over-the-top theatrical outfits, including a collection of over 100 hats, their stage presence is electrifying. Their punchy sound is born out of irresistibly raucous vocals, dance inducing guitar riffs, and pulsing drum-machine beats. The Echo Vamper isn’t music for the timid.

A conversation about their churning childhood, the ego on the stage and rockstar attitude.