No. 3 The Pop Issue 2011
E-magazine
is hot, but paperback will never die, for the charms of cover, the art of
binding, the choice of newsprint and the weight of actual, artistic and amusing
existence. Despite those ‘big budget bricks’ on the supermarket racks, there
are quite some active contributors working on creative fashion readings for an
alternative pleasure, and Stella from Denmark is among one of them.
Based in Copenhagen, the Editor in
Chief/Art Director/Founder Laura Terp Hansen describes this biannual magazine that “features
women who are interesting because of what they do and think rather than how
they look or how big a wardrobe they have got. Stella was born out of the will to
put personality before glamour.” Owning a MA from The Danish Design School and
London College of Printing, Hansen has five years of experience working for the
Danish fashion magazine SIRENE and NYLON USA in New York. Besides listening to
old records and wearing Danish Stine Goya designs and Vibe Harsløf jewelry, she
declares herself a magazine fan: her shelves are placed with The Gentlewoman,
Lula, LOVE, Mark, and of course, Stella.
Though most of the freelancers and photographers
are females, Stella is romantically girly feminine yet owning strongly
independent voice. The fashion pages of Stella echoes with the each
individually designed major themes, standouts the outstanding difference to
those household-famed female mags. Issue 3 lists 2 major pop icons from 1940’s to 2010’s, and yes, iphone
and Coca Cola can’t be missed; on fashion campaign pages, 'My Little Pony' by photographer Katrine Rohrberg and stylist Sanne Frank collaborate neon pinky by camera filter, horizontally with rye filed and grassland, which reminds me of Karin Kirsten's blog Wunderlust aurora. With zero page of commercial promotion, Stella is
more like a sophisticated photo album than a glossy catalogue.
Stella 65 DKR/￡4.99/€9.00. Price could be various elsewhere.
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