Contributors
ERWAN FROTIN
Erwan Frotin did not mean to be a photographer, rather an ikebana artist or a plastic surgeon, but that’s the way things go, says the Swiss/French 29-year-old. He shot the Prada Special for Another Man in London. “I was quite at ease when shooting the new Prada collection, which fits perfectly the idea of modernity I had as a child in the 80s: all techno-fabrics and flashy colours.” Erwan currently resides in Paris, where he nurtures his passions for orchids, sacred architecture, the colour yellow and aquariums.
BRYAN MCMAHON
As well as styling the “technoluxury” collection story, Dazed & Confused menswear fashion editor Bryan McMahon worked with stylist Sophie Delaporte for our Miharayasuhiro special. The key idea was movement, and so a very special model was required. “Sophie drafted in her friend Jean-Philippe Dury, one of the principle dancers from the French Opera House. I booked tickets to see the ballet Onegin the minute I returned to London.”
JEREMY REED
TIM GUEST
FREDERIKE HELWIG
Photographer Freddie Helwig’s insatiable vivacity is always present in her work, which is possessed of a certain energy. Her “techno-luxury” shoot for this issue took place in a less than luxurious darkened flat in London’s King’s Cross on a rainy Sunday afternoon. “The heating didn’t work and we all froze gradually, but all the glass and black walls kind of worked with what we had in mind.” AnOther Man wish her all the best in her latest project, baby Helwig, due any day.
Author Tim Guest spoke to the inventor of Second Life, Philip Rosedale for this issue. The virtual world has notched up over three million members worldwide, among them Guest himself, who travels under the name Errol Mysterio in his virtual shoes. It’s not the first time Guest’s name has changed. He grew up in a series of communes throughout the early 80s, where he was re-named Yogesh. His first novel, My Life in Orange was based on his experiences there, while his forthcoming novel, Second Lives, tracks the rise of virtual worlds and is out in May, published by Random House.
NORBERT SCHOERNER
German photographer Norbert Schoerner had a character inside a virtual world in mind for his fashion story, choosing Tokyo as the perfect technophile location: “I actually saw him as quite a romantic character who is trying to navigate his way through this toxic city. His appearance challenges the utilitarian idea we have of travel outfits. It was like urban hiking.” One of the most internationally respected photographers working in fashion, Schoerner has exhibited all over the world and is currently working on his first feature film.
Rather than being interviewed, the author of Crash, JG Ballard, asked his favourite poet Jeremy Reed to write a piece on him for this issue. “When I began as a writer, Ballard had the new language that I was looking for,” Reed recalls. “The way he crystallised the modern world into images. It’s something that he has never lost. Ballard is not part of literature at any level, he’s got no concern about it at all. He’s a rogue gene, which is what attracted me to him from the start. And work is all he is, what he writes is so integral to him. That’s all he does – write all day and live in Shepperton.” A prolific author and poet, Reed has published among others, a 300 page epic on the music of the 60s, Orange Sunshine published by Saf, and a collection of poems on Elvis, Heartbreak Hotel published by Orion Books.
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