My personal signpost is respect. As a hair and makeup artist, Peggy Kurka says: “I can only be as good as the people I surround myself with. I don’t work alone, I work in a team. Because of this, we are dependent on each other.” So she always takes as much time as possible to make sure that everyone feels comfortable. This is one of the aspects of her professional work that she hopes to infuse in this, a project very near and dear to her heart. She knows what it's like to not feel completely comfortable within one’s environment being a child of mixed heritage growing up in the GDR. She’s aware of both sides of the gaze as she worked as a model at the Fashion Institute of the GDR, made fashion films and ran Watch in the Berlin Palace of the Republic. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kurka moved to Hamburg and fell in love with the theatre...its atmosphere of theoretical heaviness and the electricity of the stage and became a make-up artist. Even this unique experience, the ability to immerse yourself in a new and exciting world, continues to inform her worldview. Discovering her love for fashion via Jil Sander, Kurka then lived in London, followed by stints in Paris and Berlin. These sojourns, trying to make a go of it in different international destinations, provide Kurka not only with experience, but also with empathy as she understands the struggles and the challenges. Through fashion, Kurka has learned its place in the zeitgeist is an expression of the both the past and the future; history informs us but it doesn’t rule us. A useful metaphor that fits many occasions and circumstances. As both a hair and make-up artist, Kurka’s mind often occupies two conflicting spaces at the same time. While they both have different needs and concerns, in the end they must work in harmony. This is another of the transferable skills that Kurka is delighted to bring to the project. "Someone once said that I make intelligent make-up.” She says, “That was the most beautiful compli