Costas Voyatzis
Born in Greece but international at heart, Costas Voyatzis worked for 7 years at Greece’s leading interior design magazines. His role as stylist and trend forecaster, was soon recognised as a unique eye when it came to the new and the innovative. Costas decided that he needed a platform to combine his loves of design and photography! Yatzer.com was created in '07 and his vision of creating a high quality source of design information was realised. In '11, Costas was named 1 of the 100 most influential people in the design industry by Architectural Digest.
Eric Yang
Whether a search sends them globetrotting or roving the streets of their New York base camp, Eric Yang and the Gear Patrol cadre are on a relentless pursuit of discovery. With an adventurous disposition and an utter passion for better gear through design, few stones are left unturned on their quest to bring well-edited finds, insights and a healthy dose of reverential humor to all mankind.
NotCot
While currently based in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA, she is very mobile, hopping around the country and across the globe, entrenching herself in international culture and their respective design hotspots. She often finds the most incredible things in the most unlikely of places and loves bringing them to her readers, often leaving them wondering whether the treasure was in their existence or in their discovery.
Francesca Arcuri
Francesca should have realized that fashion was a serious business for her when she was a child but for many years limited herself to being a careful observer and an eager consumer. She studied law and her time was taken up by other things until '07, when along with Ethel Margutti & Simone Sbarbati she founded frizzifrizzi.it a blog that deals with fashion, design, art, luxury & more. With their curiosity, research and the contributions of many collaborators, they became a benchmark for the thousands of readers who follow them day by day.
Cyril Foiret
Paris born, French trendsetter working in the fashion industry for more than 10 years, from stylist to designer, graphic designer to art director, Cyril decided to concentrate his energy on the internet and Trend Forecasting. Concerned with the constant development and progression of TrendLand, and being ahead of all trends.
Maurice Ajanaku
Growing up on both the African and European continent, Maurice Ajanaku used his love for all things inspirational to start his online Magazine Ajanaku.com. Starting the online magazine as a hobby, it has grown into one of Hollands most influential sites & recognized internationally. Maurice is also Art Director for Africa's four leading textile brands, traveling around the world, sharing his stories.
Matt Armendariz
Matt is a photographer, writer, avid traveler and blogger that specializes in food, drink and tasty spots all over the world. His blog, Mattbites, was voted as one of the Top 10 Food Blogs in the World by London's Times and selected by GOOP's Gwyneth Paltrow as one of her 10 favorites food blogs and has also been featured by The New York Times, LA Times, Saveur, Bon Appetit and Gourmet. Visit www.mattbites.com and www.mattarmendariz.com
Tom Ran
Tom Ran is the editor-in-chief and creative director for The Scout, an arts and culture publication established in 2008. The Scout is devoted to featuring creative individuals and businesses in the line of art, architecture, fashion, design, travel and food culture. As much as Tom admires the analog and tactile world he has a voracious appetite for consuming digital media. This case is no more apparent than his RSS feed which include a prodigious stream of blogs, sites and news outlets ranging from the topical to the trivial.
jana zielinski and jiří macek
Jana Zielinski and Jiří Macek created Designblok—a series of events in Prague showcasing the best international design and fashion—and helped found the Academy of Design of the Czech Republic, which endows various design, fashion and photography projects with annual awards. Always innovative, they have most recently transformed a Prague ham factory into a gallery that creates limited edition products originated by progressive international designers.
Georgia Glynn Smith
Georgia Glynn Smith trained and worked as a designer in New York and London before turning her eye to photography and more recently to directing commercials. Her passion for food, people, plants, gardens (and laughing) has led to numerous commissions and off-beat assignments, making her the nearest thing to a celebrity food photographer. Along with advertising campaigns her work is regularly published in National Magazines and a large number of newspapers. She has a string of book credits to her name.
Jeff Carvalho
Jeff is a partner in Titel Media where he focuses on leveraging new media content in communicating with youth markets. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Titel's Selectism.com; a lifestyle-focused site that caters to the emerging consumer class of men looking for the best in fashion, furniture, books & more. To maintain Titel's status as one of the most important independent media networks, Jeff often travels between Europe, Asia and the US. It is in this manor that he is able to keep up with street-fashion trends worldwide and bring them to consumers online.
Cool Hunting
Cool Hunting is synonymous with seeking inspiration. Our global team of editors and contributors sift through innovations in design, technology, art and culture to create our award-winning publication, consisting of daily updates and weekly mini-documentaries.
Andrew Apostola
Andrew Apostola is co-founder and publisher of Portable. Portable curates beautiful and ground breaking video across fashion, film, music, art and culture on a daily basis. The platform also acts as an expansive archive of video from some of the world's most influential directors, producers, photographers and designers.
Eli Ankutse
Eli Ankutse is one half of the UK-based, ‘grooming is a lifestyle’ duality Niven & Joshua (nivenandjoshua.com). Acknowledging the varied influences of grooming habits, Eli and Chris Beastall co-created Niven & Joshua as a community for people of all existences and interests. Building on this concept, they also developed Ape to Gentleman, a separate web platform concentrating on the latest global developments in grooming, fashion, and lifestyle.
Bonae L'amour
On & off the runway, Bonae L'amour is the go-to-guy for identifying current top & rising fashion models. He can be spotted photographing at the end of the catwalk, backstage & prominently in the streets during fashion weeks. Models from Gisele Bundchen to Lara Stone all stop & smile for Bonae, who shares photos from his encounters daily with thousands of followers around the world.
