April 2010
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Nu Är Sjunde Numret Uppe!
Nu är vårt sjunde nummer ute och uppe på nätet att läsa (klicka på omslaget till höger). Tack till alla som varit med. Nästa kommer i juni.
March 2010
1 post
Dags För Nya Tag
Precis som titeln lyder är det nu dags för nya tag; nu lägger vi i högsta växeln inför slutspurten. Vår sjunde upplaga har tagit sin lilla tid, både på grund av interna och utomstående omständigheter, men nu tar vi oss i kragen en extra gång. Räkna med ett spektakulärt nummer 7 inom en väldigt snar framtid, med andra ord.
February 2010
3 posts
Inspiration Från Polyvore
Av mig.
Byxor: net-a-porter.com Skor: intermixonline.com Ringar: net-a-porter.com, kabiri.co.uk Skjorta: generalpants.com.au Väska: net-a-porter.com
Nathalie
Inför #7: Toby Price
Det är knappast första gången vi har med vackra havsbilder i tidningen. Det är dock första gången vi har med vår senaste bekantskap, Toby Price. Hans hemsida hittar du här.
Nya Magnificent
Hej gott folk. Det har varit tyst om Magmag sen nyår, mycket på grund av att vi stått inför ett ultimatum; antingen lägger vi ner tidningen eller så tänker vi i nya banor. För samtidigt som tidningen har växt har också ansvaret och pressen ökat något enormt. Vad som från början bara var en rolig liten hobby har helt plötsligt blivit ett eget väsen - en självgående varelse som gör lite som den...
January 2010
7 posts
Breaking the Wall of Thirteen Grand
Hi folks. Today, issue 5 passed 13 000 unique readers - a personal record for us. We’d like to thank all of you 13 000 times for this!
Read a Book
Hi! This is the first time I’m writing here. Feels funny! I’m gonna give ya’ll a list. Here’s my five favourite books of all time (in no particular order)
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling (it counts as one) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Let me sing you gentle songs by Linda Olsson You & You & You by Per Nilsson Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
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Our Website Just Got in Shape
Hey citizens! As you can see, our website is good and ready for you to browse through. No more confusion, no more errors, no more tears. Issue 7 will be released within a week together with some surprisingly good news, so stay tuned.
Interview in Rodeo
Today, the Swedish magazine Rodeo is featuring an article about Magnificent Magazine. Thanks to Holly! Read the article here.
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People: Dido Fontana
Born in Italy in the early 70s, Dido Fontana grew up surrounded by his dad’s camera and art works, doing himself art with different media, readying the big giants and looking at every kind of imagery. In this way in his mind increased an extraordinary heterogenic plethora of images you now can find in his photos which represent not only a figure and where there’s no message but a world. His...
Girls and ghosts
This little video shows a photo shoot that took place on the Swedish countryside in early November. The result, titled Girls & Ghosts, will be featured in issue 7.
The artist or the industry?
The fashion industry hold an inherent fight between the designers artistic integrity and the commercial interests of the industry. Who’s bad and who’s good? And is it really a problem?
Ever since the industrial revolution designer’s have been searching for their identity - and some have found it hard to find it. Fashion’s relation to other art forms has ever since the western world’s wellfare...
December 2009
5 posts
Issue 7 report
Feliz navidad! The process of putting together issue 7 is going smooth and nice. As some of you may know, this issue will be available to order from Blurb.com. It will be pricy but oh so beautiful. You want to contribute in the future? Don’t hesitate to contact either Tim or Nathalie.
Oi mate
There’s been a little trouble with our blog recently, which is why we haven’t written anything up until now. Anyway, the January issue is coming along great. Don’t forget us.
Tim & Nathalie
Contribute
We’ve had a bunch of awesome, kind-hearted contributors since we first started the magazine. Here they are:
Knotan, Lina Ekstrand, Bradford Gregory, Mikael Dahl, Deanne Cheuk, Magnus Österhult, Ida Kyllerman, Beata Cervin, Caitlin Shearer, Valentina Vos, Valeria Lazareva, Rikke Dengsø, Robin Jonsson, Johan Miderberg, Martina Olsson, Eric Davidsson, Dino Muftic, Sigurd Grünberger, Ton...
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The new logo
If you have been paying attention, you’ve probably noticed that our logotype (in the header, for example) has changed a bit. This paves way for a bunch of other changes in the layout and graphic design department. When issue 7 is released, it will be a new year with new goals and situations, so why the hell not. Enjoy it!
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Music: Keys For Locks
Catchy and simple yet hard-to-follow melodies, sensitive songwriting and a damn good voice. Sounds good? Listen to Alex Goldfarb’s album Keys For Locks (2008). Available on Spotify.
Listen to: Simple Love, Montaineer, Be Water, April
November 2009
28 posts
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Issue 7 preview
Here are the first photos from issue 7. For you who missed that piece of information, issue 7 will arrive January 10th. To view these previews, you have to join our Facebook fanpage. Click here.
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Item: Burberry Touch for Men
“A woody, musky, aromatic fragrance that is fresh and invigorating yet spicy and warm. Top notes are Artemisia, mandarin tree leaves and violet leaves. Heart notes are nutmeg, Virginia cedarwod and white pepper. Finished with dry down notes of skin musk, tonka beans and vetiver”
Press
“Risken finns att MagMag låter lite som en klubb i London men från och med idag är det slut med vilseledande förklaringar. MagMag är istället ett digitalt modeväsen skapat av två törstande modesjälar, Nathalie Pålsson och Tim Hardenstedt. Förutom deras förmåga att vara läskigt fashion forward (Bon får typ akta sig) har de redan lyckats varva personer som Signe Siemsen, Valeria Lazareva...
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Item: Helmut Newton's Sumo
Are you looking for naked ladies printed on ridiculously large pages? Do you feel fine paying around 9000 € for it? Then we found the perfect item for you - Helmut Newton’s Sumo, a photobook from Taschen called “the biggest and most expensive book production in the 20th century”. With it’s 50x70 cm, 30 kilos and 464 pages of beautiful crazyness, we believe...
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People: Deanne Cheuk
Deanne Cheuk, artist/author/graphic designer featured in issue 3.
Where are you from? Perth, Australia. Now I live in New York
What are you doing at the moment? Designing textile prints, curating Theme Magazine and working on new drawings for a show next year. You seem like a multi-talented person. What practise/media is your favorite? I like the mixture of everything I do so they are all my...
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Nick Cave: A Dark Romance
Falling in love with Nick Cave was much like the relationship between Mr Darcy and Lizzy Bennett in Pride And Prejudice; a teasing introduction followed by a bitter love/hate relationship completed with an all out proclamation of my love and affection. The only difference is that Nick Cave doesn’t have a clue who I am and thus our love affair is unrequited (for now anyway). It all began...
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Item: Tretorn 56 Canvas
“The Tretorn T-56 is based on our heritage shoe from 1956. It maintains the same vintage charm as the original but still looks thoroughly modern in this lightweight canvas material.” Yeah, that’s about it.
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People: Martina Fabretto
Who are you? My name is Martina and I just turned 20. I’m living in Västerås with my boyfriend of now, but hopefully we’ll move to another city soon. Or maybe to another country, which would be more fun. What do you do? At the moment I’m running the fashion blog Rikauteliggare. What inspires you in life? Almost everything; music, places, experiences and people in general. What...
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Harmony Korine
I was introduced to writer, director, photographer, artist, general crazy man extraordinaire Harmony Korine by a strange, corruptive boy back in 2004. He thought it would be a swell idea to see Exorcist: The Beginning at the cinema together. The gorefest left me wondering why we didn’t just see the alternative, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!. That same traumatising night he thought it...
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Item: Dunhill DUH01842
Casual but classic. Sleek but masculine. This rectangular Dunhill classic is an updated version of the 1936 original, which was inspired by the Art Deco movement. It’s got a frame of stainless steel, a strap made of black alligator and a price tag that is waaaaaaaaay above my league. Damn it.
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Nabokov & Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, Nabokov. My love of lepitopterist and literist Nabokov doesn’t quite match the dashing and dirty Humbert Humbert’s perverse love of Lolita; a rotund bald man buried six feet under fails to summon words such as hunk and spunk to my mind. On the other hand, if Nabokov’s words one day transmogrified into a...
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Grunge Reinvented
We’ve seen Nu Rave. We’ve seen goth reinvented and ironcally called Nu Grave. Now it’s time for Nu Grunge to enter the catwalk and your nearest high street store. Like the waves of rave, punk and goth clothing, grunge is something that most people still keep in fresh memory. The name “grunge” was originally applied to the music scene that came out of Seattle in the ninteeneghties, and spread...
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People: Elin Sigvardsson
Tell us about your new album Cookatoo Friends sounds a bit different from my earlier stuff. I’ve produced & played most of the intruments myself. It’s been a lonely process, but very creative and hearty. I like the sound that came out of it. The sound is big, but not slick, and both the music and the lyrics contains more humour and playfulness. I guess the album contains very...
Medverka
Vi har haft en hel bunt sköna bidragsgivare sen vi drog igång tidningen (Knotan, Lina Ekstrand, Bradford Gregory, Mikael Dahl, Deanne Cheuk, Magnus Österhult, Ida Kyllerman, Beata Cervin, Caitlin Shearer, Valentina Vos, Valeria Lazareva, Rikke Dengsø, Robin Jonsson, Johan Miderberg, Martina Olsson, Eric Davidsson, Dino Muftic, Sigurd Grünberger, Ton Aguilar, Sarah Hermans, Jessie Craig, Yulia...
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Item: Converse Jack Purcell
An awesome pair of sneakers designed by and named after Canadian world-champion-badminton-player-turned-stock-broker Jack Purcell. Hot damn, that’s a sweet shoe. Click for larger image
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People: Susanna Lau / Style Bubble
What do you do? I’m the editor of DazedDigital.com for Dazed & Confused. Describe your style Eclectic, ever-evolving and imbalanced. Describe your dream outfit Vintage Schiapparelli hat, huge Sandra Backlund knitted pieces, 18th century clocked silk stockings, Atalanta Weller huge angular wedges…it would look very strange but there you go… Who do you look up to in the...
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People: Signe Siemsen
What do you do? I’m a daydreamer, housewife, blogger, clubmanager and a girl. Who are you? If who you are is defined by what you do, look at the previous answers. If it isn’t I would say that I’m a shy girl that somehow anyways stands in the centrum of attention. I’m all about black and white in life, I’m either the happiest girl on earth or the sadest one alive. I...
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Item: Acqua di Parma
A gentle, fresh and classic unisex perfume that suits everybody. Santa, give me.
Fresh!
After slacking behind for the last month or so, the new website/blog is finally up! No more Blogspot, no more crappy free webhosts and no more crazy url’s to separate from eachother. Everything you’ll ever need to know about Magnificent Magazine is right here on this domain. Mag-mag.se. As simple as that.
We promise you more fun stuff on this blog aswell.
"We're press"
Hello all yall cool peeps This Friday we are going to our first concert as journalists. It’s very exciting, but also a bit scary. Since the concert is with a big favourite of ours, it may be hard to be openminded. But anyway! It will be awesomely cool! By the way, the artist is Lars Winnerbäck, a Swedish singer/songwriter. Have a heavy one!
Big changes coming up
There will be a couple of changes going on with MagMag in the near future. One of them is the publishing of the magazine. Instead of coming out once a month like the previous issues has, Magnificent Magazine will only release one issue every two months. Six issues a year instead of the current twelve, that is. Our next issue is therefore set to be released January 10th 2010. Every issue will also...
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People: Maria Chloé Memisevic and Alice Håkansson
Questions and answers with Maria Chloé Memisevic and Alice Håkansson, two of the models featured in our January issue. What do you do? M: I’m a student in my second year at high school and also, I model. A: Study in my last year in elementary school and I’m starting to model. Living my life in black. Where are you from? M: The city of Malmö (or I’d rather say the...
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People: Igor Termenón
Questions and answers with photographer Igor Termenón, featured in issue 4.
Where are you from? I grew up in Ponferrada, a town in the north west of Spain but 6 years ago I moved to Gijón to start University. What do you do? Well, I study Industrial Engineering, I will hopefully finish my degree next year. When I have some free time and I have the chance I’m obviously taking photos Who or...
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People: Ren Rox
Questions and answers with the amazing Ren Rox, featured in issue 3, 4 and 5.
Who are you? My name is Ren Rox. What do you do? I’m a photographer, musician and writer. Name three sources of inspiration Music, music and music. Music is undoubtedly my main source of inspiration but I don’t really believe in music genres and labels. As Duke Ellington once said: “There are two kinds of music:...
Issue 6
(Click to read)
Issue 6 is here! Big thanks to Andrew Kuykendall, Devin Joplin, Ton Aguilar, Valeria Lazareva, Dawa Lagenberg, Alena Nagomaya, Giulio Rojer Ghirardi, Alessandro Parlatore, Ina Nederdal, Jesse Laitinen, Jessie Craig, Kate Carnegie, Nathalie Bouziotas, Rebecca Hawkes, Linus Morales, Lena Svanold, Christian Reje, Sarah Hermans, Sigurd Grünberger, Rikke Dengsø, Danny Roberts, Pella...
Nummer
Här hittar du samtliga nummer av Magmag. För att läsa ett, klicka på omslaget.
(Uppifrån) #7, april 2010 #6, november 2009 #5, oktober 2009 #4, september 2009 #3, augusti 2009 #2, juli 2009 #1, juni 2009
Redaktion
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