White Paper by - English Issue 7

Rubén Vega Rubén Vega has worked as a photographer for many years and is a reference both in the fashion world and in his personal works of natural landscapes, with a sense of aesthetics, of the minimum, of the details, and of the universe that surrounds him. Everything is useful to him, a flower, a spike, a wall, or even a session onset that, as it is in this issue, fills us with light and shadows. He has collaborated with several publications and fashion brands. He is a wonderful portraitist who tries to bring out what each character tells him or what keeps silent in some cases. The mixture of his landscapes with editorial photos lets us see a part of him that excites him, photographing natural details that can…

It all started with a delightful snowfall at the beginning of the year, 1.20 on my terrace, 2.30 on the furniture. It was all quite amusing, and I went on taking pictures of the snow day by day. The beauty of the snowflakes left me so mesmerized I almost forgot to remove the snow, and as every skier knows, the first thing to do is to make paths and pack the snow away, but at least next time I’ll know better, although hopefully there will be no next time. And I say this first and foremost because Madrid is not a city used to snow, despite all the people skiing through its streets. It brought unbelievably hectic chaos that rang the alarm for the climate emergency. After that, floods, fires,…

Make Up and Hair: Kley Kafe for Dior Make Up and Babyliss Photography assistant: Orlando Gutierrez Stylist assistant: Betty Calvo Production: White Paper Club A Lovely actress Almudena Amor’s life changed forever one night in 2016, while she was lighting a cigarette at the door of the emblematic Caracol nightclub in Madrid. She had gone there to enjoy a cumbia party with friends and in the midst of an existential crisis, when she realized that, despite passing her Advertising degree with flying colors and doing an internship in one of the most prestigious agencies in the country, this was not her thing. When a young man approached her with the strange excuse of asking her for a light, the two engaged in a conversation that ended in a riddle about…

Bruce Weber (Pennsilvania, 1946) has had a wild life. His picture Elizabeth Taylor and Bonkers the Bear, taken at Thousand Oaks, California, in 2005, encapsulates at its best the two great passions –photography and animals– through which he has made his spectacular, unstoppable, frantic way through life. His persistent shootings for GQ and Vogue – from Grace Coddington’s UK edition in the 70’s to that of Anna Wintour’s for the USA since the 90’s –, his work for Versace and Calvin Klein (including the iconic campaigns of the fragrances Obsession and Eternity) and his portraits of Nelson Mandela, David Bowie and Iman in South Africa, to name a few of his achievements, never pushed him away from his care and devotion to all sorts of pets and wild animals, which…

“We all know what to do, we’re just not doing it. We’re about to go off a cliff. We could fix it: we need to plant trillions of new trees, end the use of meat, dairy, gas, and oil tomorrow, and spend five trillion dollars building carbon sequestration units. By the time humanity wakes up to understand the problem, the problem will be on the verge of destroying us.” The world has changed, and so has Moby. Once upon a time one of the big bad club kids of the NYC underground rave scene in the late 80s and 90s, during which he lived first-hand the gentrification of the empty basements and abandoned warehouses where the techno subculture used to gather to dance and smoke crack in the Meatpacking District,…

For years, designers who took the conscious decision of making sustainable fashion had to deal with the prejudice that linked a respectful attitude towards the environment with plain, dull, barely functional clothes. As awareness on climate change grows stronger and more and more fashion houses embrace – or so they say – sustainable practices, clients are slowly realizing that these clothes can be cool, but they still won’t buy that a green approach is compatible with the spectacularism, exclusiveness, creativeness of sacred Haute Couture. Ronald van der Kemp’s bold, crafted, magnificent designs are here to blow up their minds. ‘RVDK is the world’s first sustainable couture label’, proudly announces Ronald van der Kemp’s website. Founded seven years ago, the brand is the natural result of the designer witnessing for over…