{"id":68735,"date":"2026-04-13T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/?p=68735"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:28:26","slug":"the-art-of-collaboration-beauty-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/the-art-of-collaboration-beauty-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Collaboration: Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m8TPzdgaDW4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<style>\n#content .row {max-width:100%}\n#cover { \nbackground-color: white; position: relative; margin: 0 auto 30px auto;; text-align: center; \n}\n#covertitle, #covertitle h1, #content #covertitle h3 { font-family: \"SuisseIntl-SemiBold\", sans-serif; }\n#covertitle { position: absolute; font-family: \"SuisseIntl-Bold\", sans-serif; bottom: 12%; width: 100%; font-size: 3.8rem; font-weight: 900; }\n#content h1 { font-size: 4vw; display: inherit; display: inline-block; text-align:center; }\n#content div.post h2 {margin: 20px 0; background: white; font-family: \"SuisseIntl-SemiBold\",sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; color: #333;}\n#content #covertitle h3 { \nfont-size: 8vw; line-height: 20vh;\ntext-transform: uppercase; \nfont-family: \"SuisseIntl-SemiBold\", sans-serif;}\n#introbox { border: 1px solid white; padding: 90px 30px !important; max-width: 850px; margin: auto !important; font-family: \"SuisseIntl-SemiBold\",sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center !important; }\n.introblurb, .introblurb p, .post div.introblurb p:first-child {\nfont-size: .7em; \nline-height: 1.6; \ntext-align:justify;\nfont-family: \"SuisseIntl-Book\", sans-serif;\npadding: .3em 1em;\n}\n#content div.introcredits, #content div.introcredits p {\nfont-family: \"SuisseIntl-Book\", sans-serif;\nfont-size: .8em; \ntext-align: center;\n}\n.pic40 { margin: 0 10%;; text-align: center; }\n.videocontainer {max-width:600px; margin: auto;}\n.txtbox { \nfont-family: \"SuisseIntl-Book\",sans-serif; \nline-height: 2;\nfont-weight: 400; \nwidth: 36%; \nborder: 0; \nmargin: auto; \npadding: 5%;\n}\n.introtxt, .introtxt p {text-align:justify;}\n.pullquote {\nfont-size:4vw;\nline-height: 1;\ntext-align:center;\nfont-style:italic;\nmax-width:900px;\nmargin:auto;\npadding:1em;\nfont-family: \"SuisseIntl-SemiBold\",sans-serif;\n}\n.credits:empty {display:none;}\n.credits {\nfont-size: .75rem; \npadding: 2rem 0;; \nfont-weight: normal; \ntext-align: center; \nclear: both; \ntext-transform: uppercase; \nmax-width: 800px; \nmargin: auto; }\n#thumbsul { margin: 0 8%; }\n.text-left {text-transform: capitalize !important;}\n#thumbsul a, .text-left a {color: black;}\n#thumbsul a:hover, .text-left a:hover {color: #666;}\n.separ { border: 1px solid white; clear: both; padding: 60px; }\nem {color: #999;}\n<\/style>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/css\/sb\/index-sb@9e8baf1be17137f952c9eacc710f6bf0b29b9b08.css\" \/>\n<div class=\"txtdiv\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"introbox\">\n<div class=\"introtxt\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">The Art of Collaboration: Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes<\/h1>\n<p>In an industry that often treats beauty as something to be corrected or refined, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/client\/beauty-papers\">Beauty Papers<\/a> has spent the past decade resisting the instinct of perfection while building a world where image-making is both confrontational and seductive. Founded by <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/maxine-leonard\">Maxine Leonard<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/valerie-wickes\">Valerie Wickes<\/a> out of a shared frustration with the limits of traditional publishing, the biannual title has become a tactile object and cultural document that pushes beyond product into something far more subversive. Models like Alex Consani are transformed through <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/work\/beauty-papers-beauty-papers-the-hollywood-issue-2025-covers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">powder compacts<\/a> by Givenchy, Dua Lipa turns publisher with <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/work\/beauty-papers-beauty-papers-dua-zine-2024-cover\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her own zine<\/a>, and Cate Blanchett reimagines beauty <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/work\/beauty-papers-beauty-papers-the-hollywood-issue-2025-covers\/2602973\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">through a cinematic lens<\/a>. Embracing beauty as art, provocation, and experimentation, Beauty Papers\u2019 covers have become a visual archive of that ethos, lensed by image-makers who understand the power of distortion and reimagination, including Paolo Roversi, Richard Burbridge, Viviane Sassen, Harley Weir, Gabriel Moses, Drew Vickers, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Zo\u00eb Ghertner, and Collier Schorr, among them. In this Models.com video interview shot in their London headquarters, Leonard and Wickes reflect on the tension that sparked the publication, the desire for independence and creative freedom, and the deliberate choice to challenge how beauty is seen, consumed, and understood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"introcredits\">\nEditor in Chief: <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/stephan-moskovic\">Stephan Moskovic<\/a><br \/>\nEditorial Director and Interviewer: <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/irene-ojo-felix\">Irene Ojo-Felix<\/a><br \/>\nSpecial Thanks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bpcreatesconsults\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BPCC<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/christopher-michael\">Christopher Michael<\/a> at Egos &#038; Icons\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Collaboration: Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes In an industry that often treats beauty as something to be corrected or refined, Beauty Papers has spent the past decade resisting the instinct of perfection while building a world where image-making is both confrontational and seductive. Founded by Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wickes out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":68741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3044,1624,155,99,2701,1538],"tags":[5691,1177,2554,5692,197,4276,5693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68735"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68757,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68735\/revisions\/68757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}