{"id":56347,"date":"2019-09-20T13:24:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/?p=56347"},"modified":"2019-09-20T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T19:32:31","slug":"industry-now-gabriella-karefa-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/industry-now-gabriella-karefa-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Now: Gabriella Karefa-Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\" id=\"cover\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-6 columns medium-offset-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/09\/300419_MOD_11_060_v1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2669\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/09\/300419_MOD_11_060_v1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/09\/300419_MOD_11_060_v1-1280x1708.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/09\/300419_MOD_11_060_v1-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/div>\n<div id =\"covertitle\">\n<h3>Industry, Now<\/h3>\n<h1>GABRIELLA KAREFA-JOHNSON<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n.share-article .boxed-icon {\n    margin: 0;\n    display: inline-block;\n    font-size: 14px;\n    height: 25px;\n    width: 25px;\n    line-height: 22px;\n    color: #888 !important;\n}\n.single-auth {\nopacity: .75;\n}\n#content .row {max-width:100%}\n#cover {\nbackground-color: white;\nposition:relative;\nmargin: 0 auto 30px auto;\ntext-align:center;\n}\n#covertitle, #covertitle h1, #content #covertitle h3 {color: #FC0404;}\n#covertitle {\nposition: absolute;font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01',helvetica,sans-serif;\nbottom: 12%;\nwidth: 100%;\nfont-size: 4rem;\nfont-weight:900;\n}\n#covertitle p {}\n#covertitle h1 {display:inherit;}\n#content #covertitle h3 {\nfont-size:3.4rem; \nborder-bottom: 1px solid;\n}\n#content #introbox h2 {display:none;background-color:white;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:center;}\n#introbox,#introbox p,.txtbox {text-align:justify;}\n#introbox {\n\tmax-width:640px;\n\tpadding: 10% 5% 2% 5% !important;\n\tmargin:auto;\n\tclear:both;font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01',helvetica,sans-serif;\n\tfont-size: 1.2rem;\n\tfont-weight:300;\n\ttext-align:justify;\n}\n#introbox em {\n    border-top: 1px solid #efefef;\n    display: inline-block;\n    padding: 32px 16px;\n    margin: 16px auto;\n    border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef;\n}\n.introcredits {font-size:.75em;text-align:center;}\n#thumbs {text-align:center;margin:10% 0 3% 0;font-size:1.4rem;font-weight:900;}\n#thumbsul {margin:0 8%;}\n#thumbsul li,#thumbsul li a:hover {color:black;}\n.separ {background-color:white;height:40px;}\n.bottom {margin-bottom: 80px;}\n.txtbox {\nfont-size: 1.2em;\nfont-weight:400;\nwidth:36%;\nborder:0;\nmargin:auto;\npadding: 2% 5% 10% 5%;\n}\n.txtbox strong {font-weight: 700;}\n.txtbox p {line-height: 2em;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"txtdiv\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"introbox\">\n<h2>GABRIELLA KAREFA-JOHNSON<\/h2>\n<p>Portrait by <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/ben-hassett\">Ben Hassett<\/a> for Models.com<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/tag\/Industry-Now\/\">#IndustryNow<\/a> The cycles of social media impel us to embrace then move on from trends and discourses faster than ever before. The life span of a single work\u2013\u2013an editorial, a campaign, a show, a stint\u2013\u2013is shorter for it. Fashion&#8217;s only unconditional term is the future: operating a year ahead, after all. So, in an industry where change and relevancy are the full stops at the end of every sentence, Models.com wanted to highlight individuals who add permanence to the community\u2013some at their start and some at their top. Photographer Ben Hassett gets up close and personal for Models.com with the creative forces often behind the scenes. They are the Industry, Now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fashion narration has long been a powerful tool for inciting debate and changing perceptions. Bewitching readers through her sartorial storytelling, stylist <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/gabriella-karefa-johnson\">Gabriella Karefa-Johnson<\/a> has flipped on its head cotillions, intergalactic cowboys, and the perception of black womanhood all through the lens of extremely good luxury fashion. Starting her career under the tutelage of then-Wonderland\u2019s Julia Sarr-Jamois and Vogue\u2019s Hamish Bowles and Tonne Goodman, Karefa-Johnson has risen through the ranks to become fashion director at <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/client\/garage\">Garage Magazine<\/a> working on genre-pushing projects with the photographic new-guard like Ryan McGinley, Nadine Ijewere, Tyler Mitchell and Campbell Addy. With her presence and creative impact, Karefa-Johnson has continued to erect her artistic monuments in the fading world of the WASP woman in fashion.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"txtbox\">\n<p><strong>Is fashion better today?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s funny, I find fashion to be entirely and deliciously contradictory. We are always moving forward but constantly referencing the past. The fashion industry is designed to operate in pursuit of modernism\u2014it\u2019s all about what\u2019s next and what the future holds\u2014but I personally think fashion is sneakily retrospective and incredibly nostalgic. It\u2019s why trends resurrect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is making beautiful things enough?<\/strong><br \/>\nGenerally, I believe that working in service of creating and spreading beauty is a worthwhile endeavor. But I also think our notions of beauty in a conventional sense have been incredibly harmful and false especially in fashion. So, I suppose making beautiful things is enough if you are also constantly questioning, challenging, and redefining what \u201cbeauty\u201d is and means. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favorite part of the process?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am very much in love with the process of creating characters in the pictures I help to make. Ultimately, for me, it\u2019s all about telling a story. Maybe it\u2019s a story that\u2019s never been told, maybe it\u2019s one that\u2019s been overlooked or underrepresented, maybe it\u2019s something entirely frivolous, maybe it\u2019s something worth communicating. Every girl has a fictional history; things she likes, things she dislikes, her own vibe, and mood, and style. For some time I thought it was a creative crutch to rely on narrative frameworks but I\u2019ve actually found that it\u2019s incredibly liberating to start from something I see in the collections and build a whole world. A huge part of building these mini universes is research\u2014 I love looking at images in the visual history of fashion, but I also love watching movies, listening to music, scouring art and design books. I really love submerging myself in work that I admire and using that inspiration to come up with something entirely new.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry, Now GABRIELLA KAREFA-JOHNSON GABRIELLA KAREFA-JOHNSON Portrait by Ben Hassett for Models.com #IndustryNow The cycles of social media impel us to embrace then move on from trends and discourses faster than ever before. The life span of a single work\u2013\u2013an editorial, a campaign, a show, a stint\u2013\u2013is shorter for it. 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