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The creators and curators behind the March issue
1. AMALIE AND CECILIE MOOSGAARD
After walking for Prada’s SS16 show, Danish models and twin sisters Amalie and Cecilie have had a whirlwind year, shooting with Steven Klein and Tim Walker, and walking for Valentino, Miu Miu and J.W.Anderson. The three words that best describe Cecilie are, she says, ‘strong-minded, independent, and a globe trotter’, while Amalie is ‘kind, forgetful and logical’. The sisters can’t escape comparison and claim they don’t feel like they exist as individuals, but say ‘it’s nice to know you always have someone’. Their earliest memory is marching around their home with banners, demanding a puppy: ‘It backfired, as we now have four dogs, which means a lot of morning walks.’ Amalie and Cecilie star in Sublime Pastoral on page 210.
2. SARA PASCOE
London writer and comedian
Sara has no secrets: ‘My job as a stand-up comic involves me telling everybody everything.’ Describing her career as ‘10 years trying to be an actor, followed by 10 years managing some kind of comedy,’ Sara has appeared on Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Live At The Apollo, and has published her first book, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body. On page 188, Sara writes about the moment she saw her mother as a real person.
3. YOMI ADEGOKE
Writer and author Yomi says her
greatest career achievement is securing a publishing contract for
her book, Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible: ‘There was a nine-publisher bidding war over it and we were like, “Wow, all these
white men fighting over our black-girl book.”’ Yomi also works for Channel 4 and edits Birthday
Magazine, which is aimed at young black girls. She is currently re-reading Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought. Yomi
writes about confronting post-truthers in 2017 on page 182.
4. DECCA AITKENHEAD
If journalist Decca could have dinner with anybody, it would be
Simon Cowell: ‘I’m a hopeless, incorrigible and obsessive X Factor
fan.’ Having worked for The Independent and The Guardian, she says that the best part about
her job is ‘asking fascinating people nosy questions’. She is currently mentoring an aspiring writer, believing that ‘what a young writer needs isn’t a journalism diploma, but someone on the inside who knows how to help them break in.’ Decca interviews
Debbie Harry on page 164.
5. VI SAPYYAPY
French hair stylist Vi says her spirit animal is a turtle: ‘To me, they represent luck, wisdom and strength.’ Self-taught, Vi began her career aged 18, and has since worked with Léa Seydoux, Leonardo DiCaprio, and now ELLE March cover star Emma Watson. The last thing she bought was some Japanese tea for her husband from Jugetsudo By Maruyama Nori in Paris. See Vi’s work on page 202.