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Saturday, 27 April 2013
Saturday, 20 April 2013
“TAKEN BY STORM”
A Fashion Photography exhibition curated by Storm Model Management Founder, Sarah Doukas, in exclusive collaboration with Centrefold Magazine and Manhattan Loft Corporation took place Wednesday 17th April, hosted at JOSEPH’S Westbourne Grove Boutique.
Guests were drinking Snow Queen Vodka cocktails at the pop Boujis Bar as well as coconut water by Vita Coco.
The exhibition will run for two weeks
Friday, 12 April 2013
Taken by Storm featured on vogue.co.uk
Vogue have written a lovely feature on our upcoming exhibition, entitled Taken by Storm celebrating our collaboration with Storm Models on Centrefold issue 8 and the official launch of centrefoldmagazine.com. Click the link to read about it and see a preview of the images http://bit.ly/1229qfG.
Rose Cholmondeley, Lucie de La Falaise, Noah Becker, Max Rodgers by Andrew G. Hobbs
Friday, 22 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
centrefoldmagazine.com
Poppy Delevingne
Photographed by Andrew G. Hobbs for the first online only editorial for centrefoldmagazine.com
Guest Fashion Editor Karen Clarkson
Hair Louis Byrne
Make-up Emma Osborne
February 2013.
Friday, 16 November 2012
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Monday, 5 November 2012
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Kate Moss and Cindy Crawford join Storm Model Management and Manhattan Loft Corporation to celebrate their anniversaries by appearing in a special edition of fashion magazine Centrefold
This is the eighth edition of the directional fashion, art and design magazine, uniquely curated in collaboration with Storm and property development company Manhattan Loft Corporation, and designed and art directed by Plus Agency.
The special 104 page edition, entitled 25+20=8, marks two major anniversaries at the companies: Storm is celebrating 25 years in the business and Manhattan
Loft Corporation is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Storm Model Management has been at the forefront of the fashion industry for a quarter of a decade, consistently redefining the traditional boundaries of modelling, by managing the careers of the faces who have sold us everything - from Calvin Klein jeans to the Burberry trench coat, influencing our tastes, desires and the fashion industry itself.
Manhattan Loft Corporation has reshaped London’s urban landscape taking derelict, forgotten, unloved buildings and transforming them into desirable contemporary living and work spaces. Its projects include Sir George Gilbert Scott’s The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, Soho Lofts in Wardour Street W1, Bankside Lofts neighbouring the Tate Modern and Ealing Studios. Manhattan Loft Corporation’s enduring focus on London’s creativity naturally connected with partners Storm Model Management and Centrefold on the vision of the eighth edition of the magazine.
Harry Handelsman, CEO of Manhattan Loft Corporation, says: “For 20 years Manhattan Loft
Corporation has been about harnessing the best in forward thinking new design, creating developments that break the mould and environments that people want to be part of.
“Our buildings are renowned for their incredible style and in this edition of Centrefold where the worlds of fashion, art and design come together our developments are perfectly placed to provide striking urban backdrops for the world’s most famous modelling talent.”
Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management, says: “I am incredibly proud of Storm and what we have achieved as a company, and to still be at the helm after twenty five years.
“I have been very fortunate over the years to represent some of the most beguiling talent in the modelling industry, and to watch my clients grow, and to be a part of their success is wonderful. I work with a brilliant and dynamic team of agents and we still have a lot of fun together at work.
“I am also very proud and pleased that we have paid tribute to our exceptional talent with this issue of Centrefold, with Manhattan Loft Corporation as our partners. We were fortunate to have the support of several brilliant photographers and stylists, and our talent of course, guided by the genius of editor Andrew G. Hobbs and creative director Tom Lardner. “
Andrew G. Hobbs, founder and editor-in-chief of Centrefold, says: “Both Storm and Manhattan Loft Corporation tell stories of success, longevity and endurance, which is something to be admired and honoured.
“The dynamic collision of talent, achievement and creativity represented in this edition is synonymous with Centrefold’s directional platform and vision for the future, collaborating with the greatest and the latest in an experimental fashion with no boundaries.”
The magazine has been designed to pay tribute to the two worlds of Storm Model Management and Manhattan Loft Corporation, and the shoots are the
results of a collision of interests, ideas and stimulus that come from both companies.
Storm showcases the outstanding talent that illustrates 25 years in operation from icons, Kate Moss in Emerald Suite shot by Venetia Scott to Cindy Crawford in CC shot by Mark Abrahams and new stars, Jourdan Dunn in Icon shot by Scott Trindle to Cara Delevingne in
Take Manhattan shot by Guy Aroch.
Manhattan Loft Corporation showcase their own icons in the magazine; the places that are a part of every-day London life and the buildings that can literally stop people in their tracks, from the elegant grandeur of The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel to the rawness of The
Edison, and the staggering new skyscraper Manhattan Loft Gardens - these buildings serve as the backdrops to the narratives that unfold in the magazine.
In Big Bang and the Long ’90s, writer Alex Rayner looks at the effect that both the companies have had on London’s urban and cultural landscape.
Luke Leitch introduces Centrefold 8 in The Telegraph
Sarah Doukas of Storm Modeling Agency: The beauty spotter
Sarah Doukas is Britain's alpha fashion scout and founder of Storm Modelling Agency. She tells Luke Leitch how she spots fashion diamonds in the hoi-polloi rough.
BY LUKE LEITCH | 17 OCTOBER 2012
Spotting Anya is the last time Doukas felt the tingling thrill that comes when she sees a face in the crowd that she knows might make it as a fashion model. And Doukas's facility for scouting models, while not unerring (she recently brought back a handsome road sweeper to her office, only to have him rejected by her men's team) is as good as anyone's in the business.
Her most famous "scout" came in 1988, a year after she had founded the model agency, Storm, from her bedroom. Waiting for a flight back to London from New York, Doukas saw a beautiful 14-year-old in the queue ahead of her. On the plane, hemmed in in a window seat, she dispatched her brother and business partner, Simon Chambers, to approach the girl. Chambers reported back that her name was Kate Moss and, yes, she was rather interested in modelling.
But Doukas is always asked about Moss - so today, sitting in a glass-walled office that insulates us from the hubbub of her ranks of phone-toting model agents outside, we move on. The floor of this ugly Chelsea building that has been Storm Models' HQ for 19 years has only recently been refurbished, and although Doukas is proud of her gleaming new workspace, she is edgy that she can no longer see the front door from her seat - just in case the next big thing walks in and she misses it.
In her 25 years as the matriarch of Storm, which now has 400-ish models on its books, Doukas has personally scouted scores of successful girls, including Liberty Ross (spotted in the Virgin Megastore on Tottenham Court Road) and Behati Prinsloo (spotted when Doukas was on holiday in South Africa). Her reputation is for giving hopefuls that other scouts might overlook a crack at the catwalk: from Moss herself - far shorter than most successful models - to Andrej Pejic, the effeminate Australian male model who has found particular success modelling womenswear.
Sometimes, Doukas's scouts have to pan the streets to strike gold: Jourdan Dunn, who in 2008 became the first black model on the Prada catwalk since Naomi Campbell in 1997, was found by Storm larking around in a Primark store. And sometimes fortune falls right into Doukas's lap. Cara Delevingne, indisputably the star model at the recent round of international fashion shows, has known Doukas since she was four years old: "She's my middle daughter's best friend. And she always had bags of personality."
To mark Storm's 25th anniversary, the latest edition of the high-production, limited-circulation fashion magazine Centrefold has dedicated itself to the lavish editorial shots of the agency's best-known stars, as reproduced on this page. Photographing Cindy Crawford (on Storm's books for a decade) in New Mexico, Cara Delevingne in Manhattan and a tranche of its "Allstars" - including Eva Herzigova, Lily Cole, Lily Donaldson, Alek Wek, Pejic and Ross - was underwritten by Harry Handelsman of the Manhattan Loft Corporation, who says: "Sarah's work has credibility and intelligence: when done well, fashion can change people's perceptions."
Working with a property magnate to produce a fashion magazine is precisely the type of convoluted connection Doukas says is Storm's bread and butter. "Working here is very addictive. There are terrible dramas, and seemingly impossible problems to solve. There are double-bookings and clients changing shoots worth tens of thousands of pounds at the last minute. I'm always on two phones and you have to be manipulative sometimes."
The phones at Storm are in constant use - and not always on conventional fashion business. Sylvester Stallone and Warren Beatty have called Storm in search of models' phone numbers - and Doukas gets letters from Parkhurst prison, too: "There is always crazy stuff going on," she says.
She is scathing about many of fashion's ugly contradictions, including its continued emphasis on Caucasian models in the European fashion powerhouses. "When you've got a girl as beautiful as Jourdan, then she will work anywhere. In America, because of the population, it is much more balanced. Here, though, it is still more of a token thing, and that is infuriating. Although you are now getting a lot of Asian girls coming through."
The international catwalks, says Doukas, remain the aspirant model's ultimate ambition, because they expose them to so many influential photographers and editors in one fell swoop. "But to go off to do the shows at 16 - New York, Milan, Paris - the craziness of it all is so much I don't know how someone aged 21 does it, let alone aged 16.
"London is easier: we are a lot softer here and people are more caring, in my opinion. But when the Russian scouts send out girls aged 14 to do the shows; as a parent I think it's just not on."
Hence, she says, she will never send an under-16 year-old abroad (under-age girls are prohibited on London's catwalks) and even when they are a bit older, they will often be chaperoned.
As for the body-shape demanded by designer catwalk castings, Doukas is equally trenchant: "They have to conform to a ridiculous ideal. They've got to be exactly 5ft 10in, 5ft 11in at the most, they can only have a 34-1/2-inch hip, maximum - how could somebody of that height be that tight? If you've got a big frame, forget it."
She adds: "I do get crazy about it. And I'm not passing the buck, but the girls still really want to be in those shows. Because if they are they will do the best editorial, be the top girls, and get the best campaigns. But I think the shows are a nightmare. They are put under extreme pressure, flown to four countries under an appalling show schedule - some of them do 35 shows in Milan - so by the time they get to Paris they are burnt out and tearful. But they do it because once you've got Anna Wintour and all the editors looking at them, it's their showcase."
Doukas concedes that she doesn't always bag the beauties. She rejected Stella Tennant - "She was one that got away, you have to be phlegmatic" - and recently, while on a narrowboat near Lewes, recalls seeing a glowingly gorgeous young girl coming out of a travellers' caravan alongside. Doukas dived in, made her pitch, and took the girl's number. But this one got away, too. "She just didn't want to leave her world."
Doukas says she can't imagine stopping work any time soon, and will always be on the lookout for that next discovery . "I love watching people; young, old, anyone. And while I don't think about modelling morning noon and night, it doesn't matter where I am - if that face is there, I will spot it."
HOW CENTREFOLD MAGAZINE BAGGED KATE, CINDY, EVA, JOURDAN, LILY (COLE & DONALDSON) AND THE REST OF THE STORM-SET
Kate Moss on the cover of issue 8 of Centrefold PHOTO: Venetia Scott
Move over, Harpers : it's quite some coup for a high-concept fashion magazine likeCentrefold to have secured the sheer strength-in-depth of high-fashion talent that stars in its latest issue.
Kate Moss on the cover of issue 8 of Centrefold PHOTO: Venetia Scott
Move over, Harpers : it's quite some coup for a high-concept fashion magazine likeCentrefold to have secured the sheer strength-in-depth of high-fashion talent that stars in its latest issue.
Founded in 2003 in London by creative directors Andrew Hobbs and Warren Beeby,Centrefold is an unabashedly specialist title that's tilted squarely at print-obsessives. Hobbs says: "We have always loved the relationship between good design, paper quality and high-end printing, all married to great imagery. We work to showcase the work of photographers and graphic designers using our concept of having a fold-out poster at the centre of the magazine. And then we send it out to leading creatives in the UK and internationally, as well as making a limited selection available for sale at specialist stores." This Storm-celebrating issue number 8 - whose pictures we exclusively reproduce here - was supported by the Manhattan Loft Corporation and riffed, says Hobbs, on the concept of "space". Thanks to Andrew, the MLC and Storm for allowing us use of Centrefold 's work. To learn more check centrefoldmagazine.blogspot.com and, on Twitter, @CentrefoldMagUK.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Monday, 7 May 2012
Monday, 5 March 2012
Centrefold VII, The Unpublished Issue
Untitled from Plus Agency on Vimeo.
For the seventh issue of Centrefold Magazine in collaboration with Plus Agency, we asked a select group of influential photographers and artists to delve into their archives, offering us access to rare and unseen works that would become the content for this issue aptly entitled, Unpublished.
Contributors in order
Mary McCartney
David Bailey
Anya Gallaccio
Laurence Ellis
Patrick Hughes
Adam Whitehead
Andrew G. Hobbs
Peter Hill
Mel Bles
Joe Cutler
Jonathan Yeo
Robert Wyatt
Thank you to GF Smith for your continued support
and to
Select Creative Production
FTP Digital
Pollard Boxes
and Sunbeam Studios
Friday, 27 January 2012
Andrej Pejic for Centrefold VII
Andrej Centrefold App from tomlardner on Vimeo.
Andrej Pejic Backstage Video from Plus Agency on Vimeo.
Directed and Edited by Andrew G. Hobbs and Plus Agency
Styling by Ye Young Kim
Camera by Joe Starbuck
Hair by Bianca Tuovi
Make Up by Emma Osborne
Monday, 7 November 2011
Friday, 15 April 2011
New copies of Centrefold 6 on sale at Colette Paris
Colette
213 Rue Saint-Honore 75001 Paris
T. +33 1 4286 5154
F. +33 1 4703 9465
Monday, 11 April 2011
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Press Release
Centrefold Magazine launches Centrefold Issue 6, guest-edited, designed and curated by creative director, Daniel Baer (Studio Baer) and fashion stylist, Joanna Schlenzka (Contributing Fashion Editor of Dazed & Confused and Another Magazine).
This issue of the limited edition bi-annual, due for release in October 2010 focuses on explorations in colour, intricate typography and pushing fashion photography as pieces of art, open to the interpretation of the reader for the purpose of eliciting a response that could be desire, happiness, joy, excitement or hope. In essence, it is a celebration of the timelessness and iconographic nature of fashion imagery, its ability to provoke thought, spark conversation, create fantasy and capture imaginations while remaining etched on our collective memories for all eternity.
A kaleidoscopic spectrum of hues permeates the magazine in which a palette of bright and soft tones, drawn from aspects of shades, prints and patterns found within the imagery act as powerful motifs. Coloured pages serve as connective threads between stories while each photographer imbues his or her story with a unique viewpoint of colour, choosing to select perhaps a stormy canvas, muted shades, eye-popping neon or the subtle reflections of the rainbow. The resulting effect is a tonal synergy, a three-dimensional quality and vivacity to the issue that is painterly in its aesthetics.
In conjunction with the bold design aesthetics, the styling commands a dynamic presence, coaxing the eye inwards, forcing us to view and review the images to uncover details that were previously unseen inside the frame.
The array of world-renowned photographers, artistes and models enlisted to realise Centrefold Issue 6 have collectively worked for many of the leading, high-end publications and brands within the fashion industry including Numéro, Vogue Italia, Vogue, L’Officiel, Harper’s Bazaar, Another, V Magazine, Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Pirelli.
Illustrious photographers, Miguel Reveriego (CLM), Hans Feurer (WIB Paris), Yelena Yemchuk (Art Department), Johan Sandberg (Artlist Paris), KT. Auleta, Andrew G. Hobbs and rising art photographer, Esther Teichmann (Webber Represents), collaborated with the superior hair and make-up talents of top agencies CLM, The Collective Shift, D+V Management and Julian Watson. These creative forces joined to shoot coveted models, Dioni Tabbers, Egle Tvirbutaite, Rasa Zukauskaite and multi-faceted Supermodel, Rie Rasmussen in London, New York, Paris and Switzerland. Rasmussen is this issue’s Centrefold and cover star, her fearless exuberance captured by Miguel Reveriego’s inimitable style. Modelling for over a decade, she has won plaudits as a writer director with films (Thinning the Herd and Human Zoo) and as Luc Besson’s lead in the cult film Angel-A.
Centrefold Issue 6 is a volume of modern iconography, an ode to fashion imagery and a much-desired collector’s item. We encourage you to reserve your copy, to admire, to share and to cherish.
Text: Chantelle Johnson
Friday, 30 April 2010
Centrefold 4 and Design Studio win Grafik's Design Award 2010
Judged by renowed designers including Wim Crouwell, Peter Saville and Phil Baines Centrefold 4, designed by Design Studio and Guest Edited by Georgina Hodson wins award for best design.
To see more from Design Studio go to the link above, by clicking the blog title.
Centrefold Magazine 04 from DesignStudio on Vimeo.
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