Innehållsförteckning för Issue 8 från White Paper by - English

Ana Domínguez Historian and veteran journalist specialized in industrial design with countless books and catalogues to her credit. As an art curator, she was the creator of the D-Espacio room for CentroCentro Cibeles (Madrid). place on it place on it, project of Andrea Simón and Federico Crivellaro, both multidisciplinar designers based in Barcelona, was born with the goal of sharing projects and products related to the architecture and spaces that encourage a more sustainable relationship with the environment, drawing attention to companies specialized in prefabricated and modular buildings, and to their possible applications. Alex Del Río Alex Del Río went into photography as an excuse to travel and discover new territories, people, and cultures. His photographs are published in several different national and international publications. He has a diverse style,…

Miren Arzalluz (Bilbao, 1978) has always been a restless woman. Raised in the conflictive socio-political landscape of the Basque Country in the 1980s, the sensitivity towards history and politics that marks her unique approach to research and fashion dissemination is rooted in her own history: her father, the PNV leader Xabier Arzalluz, instilled a deep knowledge of the language and culture of his region in her from her earliest childhood. Her eagerness to delve into the knowledge of different languages and cultures materialized already in her university days, through the Erasmus scholarship that took her to Scotland. Since then, this intrepid and curious woman has not stopped moving: from Bilbao to London, where she discovered her passion for fashion in its most academic sense, and from there to Antwerp and…

Food products, beverage and sweets from: Taste of America - Chueca - Calle San Marcos, 20. Madrid…

How long have you been painting? I’ve been painting forever, I’ve always been interested in it. Even as a child, my mother formed a space here called TEA, an artistic expression workshop, she gave theater and music classes. We made the sets, the music and I think that, well, actually I grew up in that environment… In 2010 I went to live in Paris, 4 or 5 months with my cousin Rubén Alterio, a professional painter, and something changed. Paris is a very inspiring city and when I returned to Madrid, I found myself with a paintbrush in my hand. I started to paint and paint, and I said to myself, what are you doing here? Spain is in full crisis, the world is sinking, it is falling apart and…

Hidden behind the mask, could be Anastasia Pilepchuk or any other person tempted to transform her identity in order to access the alternative dimension that the artist walks through, which is as utopian as it is disturbing. From the designs typical of a distant fantasy, such as the reflective polka-dot headdresses, tribal masks or floral motifs; but also from the bristling, spiky, or even buttoned faces of her first collection—launched in 2018—, one might think that Pilepchuk creates armor for a post-pandemic world. However, for her and her Russian and Burat ancestry, “it’s more about something sacred (…). Rituals and masks are in our DNA,” explains the artist, who, through her own meditative process, explores the other side of the mirror and captures it in threads, capes, spikes, feathers you…

Another new issue and other great discoveries as we approach the different characters that fill our pages. We bring the shyness behind the protagonist of our cover, the great chef Virgilio Martinez, who leaves no shyness in his precise and precious dishes that delight us so. Indeed, in the kitchen there are no limits, only risks to be taken. In the new book he is launching, he travels through Latin America to recover the most typical dishes of different cities. I am fascinated by Maya Beiser’s album that she has recorded with Philip Glass, whom I have admired since I can remember. In this collaboration, the music is a delight for the ears or at least for mine, but I recognize that I love the cello, it is an instrument…

Model: María Peña @ Uno Models - Make Up: Ricardo Calero for Chanel - Hair: Ricardo Calero for Salon44 and Shu Uemura Art of Hair - MUAH assistant: Miriam Hernández - Photo assistant: Orlando Gutiérrez - Fashion assistant: Betty Calvo…

“Probably the only city where reality is much better than on postcards.” This is how film director Miloš Forman liked to describe New York. And for the Czech, the magic of the Big Apple awakened an enchantment that surpassed what any camera could capture through a lens. Grandiose, frenetic, unstoppable, complex, sleepless and, above all, inspiring. From Truman Capote to Fran Lebowitz, passing through Woody Allen (the quintessential New Yorker) to Frank Sinatra (interpreter of what is undoubtedly the anthem that resonates in everyone’s head when we think of the city). There has been no artist who has not fallen at its feet. From paintings to novels, songs and films, poems and photographs have been dedicated to it, a list to which we must now add jewelry collections; a distinction…

The new Royal collection by Church’s is made for customers who are always demanding the best for their feet. It is made with leather from the best leather tanneries in the world. Made of handcrafted material where each piece is cut by hand and only the perfect one is used. The four lines that are part of this collection, The King, The Prince, The Duke and The Viscount, are polished by hand using the technique known as “petillant”. In order to master this technique, you have to be an expert in the field, having worked for many years, due to the high concentration required. Because of all these reasons of such high quality in its production, the brand has become the main English shoemaker in the world. The firm Church’s…

In 2020, the global temperature of 2016, the warmest year ever recorded, will be reached again. At the same time, according to organizations such as the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increase. If this trend continues, the global average temperature could rise by as much as 2.5 °F. This prediction by the World Meteorological Organization would be just one of the catastrophes with which the planet warns us that we are neglecting it. Although perhaps not at the same rate as climate change, concern for the environment and the search for sustainable options is also on the rise. Consumers are demanding products that do not harm the ecosystem and companies are responding. Caring for the environment is not at odds with pleasure…

Last August, the series of self-portraits that Boushra Almutawakel took with her daughter, Mother, Daughter, Doll (2010), spread around the world as a symbol of the repression of Afghan women after the Taliban invasion. The problem is that they did it under a more obvious and perhaps more accurate title: The disappereance of the Woman. As they went viral, Boushra’s name and details were changed or disappeared altogether. However, it is not the gratuitous appropriation of her photographs that has been most devastating for her, but the commercialization of her cause under the Western lens. “They were utilized to support the Western narrative of ‘oh, look at all the oppressed Oriental women, ’” Boushra claims from the place she lives now in the Arab Emirates. From the hookah she puffs…

This 2021, DIY beaded jewelry has regained the prominence lost when almost all of us left them behind with childhood. Now that those homemade kits that gave birth to colorful naive accessories are back—even adapted now to haute couture brands, which reconsider the trends of the nineties—it is worth asking ourselves, are we really capable of doing it ourselves? No one would doubt that Rasa Vilcinskaite has more than proved her skills to. The Lithuanian artist has been bead-spinning since 2011, when she started making small pieces using the soutache technique. She had never been overly driven by trends, so that, three years after starting her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts—when maxi bracelets and bangles were the accessory of choice on the scene—she had already gotten her hands…

From Jeff Bridges to Brad Pitt, from Dennis Hooper to Lenny Kravitz, the list of movie and music stars who have made photography their most polished artistic expression is lustrous and proliferous. They are protagonists of extraordinary lives who decided to share a piece of their privileged gaze, enhancing at the same time a creative facet not burdened either by the ties of a multimillion-dollar industry or by the hypertrophy of their international fame. But there is no other like Bryan Adams, the Canadian who dominated the rock scene between the 80s and 90s thanks to classics like (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, or Summer of ‘69. He has managed to have his portraits rival in terms of impact with his milestones as a singer and producer,…

First model to sign an exclusive contract with Chanel, she became Karl Lagerfeld’s muse over the next decade and was chosen to pose as Marianne, the allegoric woman’s face and symbol of the French republic portrayed by Delacroix in his famous painting Liberty Leading the People, amongst many other artistic and cultural representations. Her admiration for Roger Vivier (they met in the 90s and kept in touch till the end of his days) culminated in 2003, when she joined Gherardo Frissoni, the house’s new designer, to reinvigorate the label after the halt that followed the founder’s death. Almost two decades after, her engagement with the designer’s heritage remains intact. Smart (in both ways), creative, determined and eclectic, she and Roger Vivier’s legacy enlighten each other. You have been ambassador of…

Model: María Peña @ Uno Models - Make Up: Ricardo Calero for Chanel - Hair: Ricardo Calero for Salon44 and Shu Uemura Art of Hair - MUAH assistant: Miriam Hernández - Photo assistant: Orlando Gutiérrez - Fashion assistant: Betty Calvo…

Now that you’ve had the opportunity to channel the creative power of Phillip Glass, where do you think his genius lies? The first thing in which he is unique and brilliant is how the music flows out of him. I’ve seen him compose and he could get on a plane and write a symphony. Some composers have a hard time, but in that sense Glass is more Mozart than Beethoven. His music is pure and connects with our being, which is why so many people love it. His melodies sound different every time you listen to them, they evolve, they change… The power of his music is that you can listen to the same piece in different environments and turn it into something very personal. It’s an open platform. What…

An elegant and organic barbarism According to the Chinese horoscope calendar, 2008 was the first date of the 21st century to be dedicated to the rat. For jewelry designer Emer Roberts, it was also the year she had to say goodbye to her brother, to whom she dedicated her recreation of Michelangelo’s Pieta, a large-scale sculpture of a rat cradling a child. The rat’s journey was taking off for the Irish artist, but it was not the real beginning. Her practice had already veered towards mammals before this self-described creative outburst. The Rattus norvegicus was only the logical evolution of her process of adaptation to pain, contemporaneous to the adoption of a style that has been mutating with large-scale sculpture and photography, but, above all, through the improvement of mold…

After more than 40 years on the market and 400,000 vehicles produced, there is no model that better embodies the soul of an SUV than the iconic Mercedes G-Class. Not only for its characteristic robust and muscular structure, or its versatility of use but also for its resilience in a sector that regularly attracts the attention of each new generation of drivers with new products. The predecessor of the SUVs is considered “stronger than time” and, according to its renowned list of followers-who do not care about age, but about excellence-it seems to be true. In the age of targets and niches, the G-Class has managed to get such opposing figures as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pope Benedict XVI, and Kim Kardashian to make it their car of choice. But reinvention is…