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Christiane Joy

When the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s burst onto the scene over 5 years ago, the fashionistas were positively fawning at Karen O’s flamboyant, fish-netted feet. That’s all down to Christiane Joy, the masterful costume designer behind Karen’s colourful, jaw-dropping and often out-of-this-world creations. Ju...

Kitsunè

Kitsunè are a 6-piece, multi-national, creative dream team. They are Gildas Loaec, Masaya Kuroki, Patrick Lacey, Kajsa Sthale, Benjamin Reichen and Maki Susuki. Gildas and Masaya are Paris-based while the others reside in London. Over the past 4 years together they have created a successful rec...

Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker who calls herself a Scottish Calvinist Muslim. She grew up in Glasgow, has worked for many years in India and now lives between Bombay, London and Wales. Her collections of poems include 'Purdah' (Oxford University Press), 'Postcards f...

Michel Gondry

To look at, Michel Gondry could be a 25-year-old greenhorn. In fact, the lanky Frenchman is 43 and one of the most important music video pioneers of all time. Björk admires him, The Rolling Stones love his style, and even heavyweights like Radiohead, Chemical Brothers and White Stripes belong t...

Stelarc

Stelarc’s artform is unique. Genius or insanity? Come to your own decision! The Australian-based artist considers himself as a living Cyborg, as a platform for his own body-artworks. He developed a third hand, which is controlled only by electrical signals from the muscles, created the Exoskele...

Laura Lees

Scottish embroiderer and fashion designer Laura Lees rose to cult celebrity status in 2001 when she infamously embroidered secret messages such as ‘your music is fucking shite’ into pop band HearSay’s clothes. She has since produced the fastest-selling dress in Top Shop and has had her garments...

Stewart Copeland

As one of the founding members of THE POLICE, Stewart Armstrong Copeland climbed to the peaks of the music business. Since the break-up in 1986, the former rock star from Virginia has worked as an acclaimed composer for movies like ‘Nine 1/2 Weeks’, ‘Wall Street’ or ‘Very Bad Things’. We talked...

Pharrell Williams

33-year-old Pharrell Williams is considered as the godfather of the Hip Hop, R&B and Pop business. He has composed best-selling hits for Jay-Z, Janet Jackson and Marylin Manson, set new musical benchmarks with N.E.R.D. and The Neptunes and reinvented himself with his own clothing line (the...

Gareth Pugh

Welcome to the wonderful world of Gareth Pugh – fashion designer, artist and inflatable obsessive. Armed with an esoteric imagination, he produces fiercely conceptual creations. Stepping out of St Martin’s famous fashion school and straight into the media spotlight, Gareth’s carnival-esque degr...

Adam Green

Only Pop puppets and truly creative individuals make four solo albums by the age of 24. Fact. And whatever New York-based singer-songwriter Adam Green may be, he’s far from being a puppet: having cut his creative teeth as half of New York underground act the Moldy Peaches, his solo offerings ar...

Sophie Woolley

When Sophie Woolley gets on stage she shape-shifts from smart looking London girl into – well, whoever it is she’s being. The one-time journalist now performs acid monologues and has just written a one-woman play that she’s touring at The Edinburgh Festival and around the UK. So right now, the...

Terry Gilliam

65-year-old English director Terry Gilliam embodies the absurdity of life. He became famous as a member of the comedy ensemble Monty Python, first got critical acclaim with his visual milestone ‘Brazil’ and hijacked an astonished audience into the deepest abyss of drug intoxication with his hil...

Inspiration nation

In case you hadn't noticed, over the last 5 years 'Cool' has become a very ubiquitous, easy-to-own commodity. Let's face it, everyone is 'cool' these days. It's also the most overused word in the western world, a sure sign of its bastardization. Cool is easy to market, sell and to certain degre...

Louie Austen

59-year-old Louie Austen has broken the mould when it comes to giving electronic music an unusual twist. With hits such as "Grab My Shaft" featuring Peaches and "Hoping", no wonder Tirk Records in the UK are releasing a best of album this May entitled "Hear My Song"...