Sara McAlpine

1 month ago | i-d.co | Sara McAlpine

Buy the limited-edition cover featuring Naomi Campbell online now. written by Sara McAlpinephotography Thibaut Grevetimage architecture Law Roach They say you never forget your first. For Naomi Campbell, the first of her countless magazine covers happened here, 39 years ago. “I had only been modelling for four months, so it was all new to me,” the towering supermodel remembers of her August 1986 i-D cover shoot, culminating in a slightly menacing, blue-and-white photograph by Robert Erdmann.

Jun 27, 2024 | system-magazine.com | Sara McAlpine

There are plenty of make-up brands launched off the back of make-up artists’ success in cinema, or offering specialist products for the screen; Max Factor, one of the world’s longest-running and most successful, among them. There are make-up brand collaborations with movie and TV franchises too: NYX and Barbie, Urban Decay and Game of Thrones. But a production company launching its own cosmetics brand, as A24 did in 2022, is atypical.

Jun 27, 2024 | system-magazine.com | Sara McAlpine

Online Ceramics was not the brand we now know it as when it first partnered with A24. The California-based fashion label, founded by Alix Ross and Elijah Funk in 2016, had a modest reputation, known for its trippy tie-dye T-shirts chiefly related to the pair’s shared obsession with the Grateful Dead.

Jun 27, 2024 | system-magazine.com | Sara McAlpine

Jennifer Venditti By Sara McAlpinePortrait by Peter Ash Lee Casting director. Jennifer Venditti doesn’t think of herself as a casting director, despite having over 20 years experience playing a hand in putting people in front of the camera – in fashion, TV, and film – and being responsible for the mix of talent in A24’s Euphoria, Uncut Gems, Good Time, and more.

Jun 27, 2024 | system-magazine.com | Sara McAlpine

When A24 was founded in New York in 2012, it was as a distributor, releasing what became ‘cult’ cinematic hits such as Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, and Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.