In 2010, I sat down with Luis Cerveró, one of the founding partners of CANADA—a creative production company born during turbulent times. Founded in 2008 amid the global financial crisis, CANADA began as a small collective of directors united by a singular mission: to connect with audiences through meaningful, meticulously crafted films.

In her world, food becomes a material that can be modelled — to which a meaning can be given. Julie Rothhahn does not start with a recipe. She starts with an image impulse, an association of ideas, a question about form. Her studio works with brands and companies on experiences, installations, performances, and immersive dinners. She co-coordinates the Master's in Design & Culinary at the Reims School of Art. A dish, in her view, is first a thought.

From Coca-Cola TVC campaigns to curating for Tom Ford and La Mer from Bangkok, Mirelle Phachareeya Grünert moves between cultures with precision and philosophy. She doesn't aspire to be better than other creators — just better today than she was yesterday.

Gobelins-trained photographer Charlotte Favré on Brittany light, memory as creative process, interning with Bettina Rheims, and her series Emotional Movement.

She buried a bed sheet in Los Angeles soil for eight months. She bleaches fabric until it finds its own pattern. She works in a former clothing factory in small-town Germany — and makes work about decay, the universe, and everything in between. Meike Legler in conversation