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Vogue covergirl Angela Lindvall, 22, the star of
ads for Dior, Chanel, Prada and many others, as well as Roman Coppola
's new film CQ, is about to launch Collage, a cutting-edge
magazine focusing on science, fashion and art as a joint venture
with New York painter Dustin Yellin, 25.
They describe it as "Scientific American-meets-Vogue-meets-National
Geographic-meets-Interview". The pair is funding the mag through
sales of Yellin's paintings combined with Lindvall's modeling fees
(she commands £18,000 to £35,000 a day for advertising
work). They plan to launch a preview issue in September in time
for Fashion Week.
"We're getting a lot of offers from the big boys,"
Yellin told Fashion Buzz, "We have a lot of people offering us money.
But we decided to do it ourselves if we get the right deal."
Articles being penned for the first issue include
"Sex, DNA and humans, the juvenile death penalty, promises President
Bush has broken on the environment, poetry, literature and profiles
of musicians, painters and actors," Yellin says. Celebrity guests
will contribute collages of their own design, playing off the mag's
name.
In addition, they're launching a graphic design
firm that will design the ads going into the magazine. A Web site,
www.collagemagazine.com,
is already up, and a TV version of the magazine is in development.
Lindvall's fellow mannequin Karen Elson is
also involved with the mag.
When contacted by MyVillage via email, editors Yellin
and Lindvall described Collage with these words: "Could it
think, the heart would stop beating. Collage is a catalyst for cultural
change. It's an environmental survey, a scientific treatise, a literary
compendium, a catalogue of art, all wrapped within compelling visual
quilts."
More specific questions rendered the following replies:
"The contributors are a surprise." The launch is "a
gradual infection of our content through different forms of media."
Typical reader? "This one's for the youth." And if you're
curious about what the first issue will be like, perhaps this modest
answer will satisfy you: "Like an orgasm."
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