Inès Longevial’s paintings look light and casual, but they are like plunging into a subtle, very coloured and sometimes provocative world. On her canvases, in a mix of blurred lines and forms, Inès creates faces with intense looks, where the...
Haydée, Sofia, Sarah, who are you?
We are three friends who met in Paris, and even if we come from different paths, we each have, in our own way, knowledge and experience when it comes to printed matters. Sofia has a degree in journalism and has collaborated with Women’s Wear Daily and Condé Nast Traveller, Sarah has worked for the Edtions Jalou and Haydée writes for publications like apartamento or double magazine. Each of our own activities are diversified, but this passion we share for printed matters still inhabits us and led us to found The Skirt Chronicles.
How did you came up with The Skirt Chronicles ?
The idea of a publication was definitely in each of our minds, however The Skirt Chronicles wouldn’t have been made if it wasn’t for us three coming together. We are a trio and each of our ideas have melted together to lead to this precise project. The initial desire was definitely fed by numerous elements, including a common love of the very idea of text but also a will of offering an alternative wether in the choices of the subjects or of the art direction.
How would you define the project?
We founded The Skirt Chronicles has a collaborative platform that would allow talents from different cultures and generations to confront each other and work together. This platform take the shape of a publication that’s accessible, both by its format and its price and its reach intellectually and artistically. A printed publication where the written word is at the center of it all.
What was your will in creating this magazine?
We hope to offer another possibility, something we felt was missing from what exists in independent publications today. Gather demanding texts and photographies, with the will of offering informations to trigger a reflexion.
How do you choose its content?
Our desire was to promote the work of the talented people around us, and that of those we admire, so we built content based on the people we want to work with. And every time it’s really about exchanging ideas. We never got in touch with someone with a precise idea, it’s more about suggestions, figuring out what we want together.
Celebrating different cultures and generations, was it important to you?
The very idea of celebration is very clearly at the center of our project. And more generally, we do not wish to have to limit ourselves to one domain or the other. Our goal is to focus on ideas and that can be done through domains like literature, fashion, politics, lifestyle, the list goes on and on.
Can you tell us about your inspiration?
At the risk of being corny, being together is what inspires us the most.
Do you know what your next volume will be composed of?
Yes, we already started to build ideas and reflecting upon a global balance for the content. We don’t really have a theme to impose on contributors, but more like a concept we can mention wether they choose to work with it or on the contrary to completely forget. We know what we want and who we want to work with. We will spend a wonderful Spring working on Volume II.
Is staying independent a choice?
What interests us is to find new solutions for a publication like ours to exist. We are part of a generation who is supposed to experience the end of printed matters, the end of books as we know them, of publications as we know them… But these are maybe the things we care more about. It stimulates us to find economical solutions that are new, and invent a way of existing in this domain going through an important shift today.
Photography : Constance Gennari – Text : Caroline Balvay @thesocialitefamily
Inès Longevial’s paintings look light and casual, but they are like plunging into a subtle, very coloured and sometimes provocative world. On her canvases, in a mix of blurred lines and forms, Inès creates faces with intense looks, where the...
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