Curious about
their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.
Interviews from the Archive
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Ink, Movement & Storytelling — Caroline Tomlinson
Caroline Tomlinson spent 15 years as a designer and art director before making the shift she'd been circling for years — full-time fashion illustration. Central Saint Martins graduate, collaborator with Rankin, Dior and Louboutin, and a committed believer in happy accidents. This is a conversation about lines, marks, and what it means to let the ink lead.
DESIRE MOHEB ZANDI
She watched her grandmother weave in Turkey. Then she put rubber tubing and acrylic dowels through the same loom. Desire Moheb-Zandi — Berlin-born, Istanbul-raised, New York-marching — on textile art as feminist statement, the loom as analogue computer, and why we need activists more than ever.
Beyond the Table: Franck Raharinosy on Ping Pong, Purpose, and the Power of People
Photo Cristina Macaya
Model. Scholar. Performance Artist Meet Samira Mahboub
Leila Antakly interviews Wilhelmina international model and scholar Samira Mahboub on culture change and cross-cultural communications.
Inside Nafsika Skourti’s Fashion Vision
A handwritten letter from a loved one. Political graffiti scrawled on a prison wall. A page ripped from an old newspaper. Inscriptions from a 1937 coin. These are the fragments of Palestinian life that Nafsika Skourti has embedded into fabric. Not as metaphor. As documentation. Volume II: Traces of Being is the second chapter in her series حُبِّي فِلَسطِين, My Love, Palestine, and it is among the most important things happening in fashion right now.
“Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.”