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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ANA JAREN ILLUSTRATION
Ana Jarén started in fashion PR and ended up somewhere far more beautiful — illustrating the small, warm moments of daily life that most of us forget to notice. Girls with coffee, croissants on yellow plates, daffodils, a love-heart t-shirt. Her illustrations don't just capture a scene; they make you feel reflected in it. This is the conversation we had with her.
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.
Naja Conrad Hansen
Naja Conrad-Hansen draws fashion like someone who also listens to hardcore music — and that tension is exactly the point. The Copenhagen-based illustrator and designer, selected four times for Lürzer's Archive's 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, has worked with everyone from Louis Vuitton to BBC Radio 4. Her dream project isn't a brand campaign. It's a picture as beautiful as Imagine.
Illustrator & Fine Artist Felicia Atanasiu
Felicia Atanasiu grew up in Bucharest and arrived in Toronto not knowing what illustration was. One life drawing class later, she found her path. Her work layers post-communist Eastern European memory against 70s psychedelia and avant-garde fashion — transparencies and ornamental drawing colliding into something that is unmistakably hers. This is the conversation we had with her.
“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.”