Models
They've walked the runways. They've appeared in Vogue editorials. But that was never the point.
What interested us was always the person behind the image — the inner life that doesn't make it into the frame.
For over two decades, working alongside models all over the world, this platform has remained grounded in a simple belief: the most compelling aspect of a model is not the photograph, but the perspective they carry. Where they come from. What shapes them. What they are building once the shoot is over.
These conversations live in that space, between the image and the individual.
"The most compelling aspect of a model is not the photograph, but the perspective they carry."
Antakly Projects · Est. 2003Italian content creator, model, real estate investor, author and future president of Italy Amedeo Iasci on 20 million monthly views, his Vespa in Washington D.C., getting his wallet violated by the restaurant industry, and why authenticity is the only strategy that works.
She started as a basketball player and ended up on Harper's Bazaar covers and Paris test shoots with David Bellemere. Estonian model Karina Leps — now an agent, sometime adventurer, and aspiring stunt double — shares what it really means to feel everything deeply.
One of the first interviews ever published on this site was with Charlotte Collard — international model, always traveling, always exploring. It became one of the most-read pieces and stayed that way. Years later, she is a mother of three, based in Brussels, and has built something entirely her own at the intersection of food, fashion, and the feed. She calls it a self-portrait. Her heart said: cooking, giving, sharing. Her brain said: twenty years in fashion is not something you leave behind. She found a way to hold both.
Leila Antakly interviews Wilhelmina international model and scholar Samira Mahboub on culture change and cross-cultural communications.
She picked up a friend's camera in her late teens and never put it down. A conversation with Marie Bärsch — editorial photographer for Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar — on location as muse, the perfect shot, and why her dream project involves elephants.
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Sittaka
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Mallarino
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Halleh
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Montroi
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Anndra Neen
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Rebecca Manners
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Muzungu Sisters
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Nessy Khem
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Joey Wolffer
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Kage