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FOLLOW, CONTACTS Instagram: faddymagazine faddymagazine@gmail.com Facebook Page: faddymag For all inquiries please contact Candice Solomon Email: candicevalentinesolomon@gmail.com, FADDY Magazine submissions: candicevalentinesolomon@gmail.com Web Page: http://faddymag.com FADDY MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Candice Valentine Solomon MANAGING EDITOR Biagio De Giovanni SVP SALES AND ADVERTISING Candice Valentine Solomon candicevalentinesolomon@gmail.com JOURNALIST/WRITER Linda Arroz Gabrielle Smith Jamie Valentino Anneysa Gaille Rhett Butler EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSISTANT Helen Wilkey GRAPHIC DESIGN CONSULTING Massimo Storari GRAPHIC Giulio Cesare Silvestri & Biagio De Giovanni FADDY MAGAZINE HEADQUARTERS FERRARA - 44124 - Via Giglioli 28/A FADDY MAGAZINE US HEADQUARTERS New York, New York +1 917-963-9473 5
Editor’s Note Dreams do come true and time is indeed a dance. This issue is
I hope everyone has enjoyed watching me and all of our creatives
so special to me because I have waited 12 years to work with the
globally mold and grow Faddy Magazine into something to be proud
Formentos. They are the reason and my inspiration and why I chose
of.
this trajectory as a Creative Director, producer and stylist. Now The
I could not have done any of this without all the contributors ,artists,
Editor in Chief of Faddy Magazine after many years as a Bridal Gown
creatives and their trust and our beautiful team at Faddy HQ.
designer and company in NYC.
I feel like I have stayed the course and most of all kept my promise
I believe everything happens in it’s own time. I am so delighted that
of building a global creative family who really cares about each
BJ Formento and his Beautiful Wife Richeille created the cover and
other. This is something I’m really proud of.
inside feature of Faddy Magazine’s June Nostalgia issue.
I love each and everyone of you so much for this honor and privi-
I would also like to thank the TWA Hotel for facilitating and hosting
lege.
this beautiful cover and feature story.
I am over the moon to share our June issue with you and celebrate
For those of you who don’t know this will be my 1 year and a few
my one year and a few month anniversary as Editor in Chief of
months anniversary issue since I took my Role as Editor in Chief at
Faddy Magazine.
Faddy Magazine I am super honored and proud of the work that we
Thank you Biagio De Giovanni for this beautiful honor and privilege.
have accomplished this year has been a huge year of growth with
I have loved every single moment of my 80 hour work weeks and
so much love and gratitude since I came on board.
building something beautiful. It’s an honor to work with you my
I hope you have been enjoying the seeds that I have sewn during
friend.
this year of rebirth and a global reboot. I would like to thank everyone from the inception who has helped
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and supported me to grow and rebrand Faddy Magazine as a top
Candice Solomon
luxury publication in the Fashion and Creative community.
Editor in Chief Faddy Magazine
C
andice Solomon a native
segment of the fashion industry. She also operates a highly suc-
New Yorker, resides in Man-
cessful e-commerce showroom servicing blue ribbon customers
hattan with her fiancé and
globally. She is Editor-in-Chief and Artistic Director for FADDY
artist Robert Santore.
Magazine and the Sr. Vice President of Sales & Advertising.
Candice is a world traveler and the
Candice Solomon has an accomplished and impeccable reputa-
quintessential Native New Yorker.
tion in the world of fashion and fashion design as;
She is a highly successful female en-
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Creative director
trepreneur running the operations,
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Design director
“day-to-day” and strategic business
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Editorial strategist & executive produce
offerings in the highly competitive
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Stylist
and ever-changing landscape of the
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Content creator
fashion industry. She is an award winning bridal and evening wear
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Fashion merchandizing strategist
designer noted for her international and celebrity red carpet pa-
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Fashion and style trendsetter and Mentor
trons.
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Branding specialist
She has been featured in People Magazine’s “Best Dressed” for
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Instagram & social media influencer & strategist
dressing her distinguished clientele, most notably, Donna Ha-
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LikeToKnowIt influencer
novers wedding dress in People Magazine and “Town And Coun-
Candice is renown throughout the fashion industry as the “go
try” magazine.
to girl” for “anything and everything” from sourcing incredible
In addition, she was featured in multiple concurrent years in the
location for editorial photo shoots, engaging with and securing
highly prestigious “Best Of” in New York Magazine. Candice was
the worlds best and acclaimed photographers, stylists, award
regularly featured in the New York Times, “Style and Fashion”
winning hair and makeup professionals to securing multi-million
sections, and in many global publications, both print and digital
dollar apparel pulls for promotions and presentation, as well
editions.
as working with an inclusive, multidimensional pool of talent as
She was the executive producer and an on-screen commenta-
models.
tor for the award winning documentary “7 Years Underground”
She is passionate and a life-long supporter of the LGBT Commu-
which focused on the early years of Rock & Roll, Jazz and Blues at
nity, Trans Lives and mentor to many talented young people who
the famous “Café A Go Go” located in Greenwich Village in New
have become incredible successful under her guidance.
York City. “7 Years Underground” winning awards in film festivals around the world.
Photo by to Robert Santore. @robertsantoreart
Candice is the owner of a boutique consultancy/agency in New
@robertsantorephoto
York City focusing on optimizing strategic placement, strategy
Cabana Dress by Bash Paris
and trend management for a broad cross section and inclusive
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LINDA ARROZ - Writer Linda Arroz is a writer based in California. Words are her currency. The first plus sized spokesmodel to get a contract with a major brand, Spiegel Catalog, Arroz’ career spans the evolution of her skill sets. Her portfolio of work has always been a voice of inclusivity. Co-author of “Affordable Couture,” Arroz’ experience includes working as an apparel firm marketing director, magazine editor, fashion stylist, and TV personality, producing hundreds of morning television makeovers. Her consulting firm, Makeover Media, continues to advise clients on a range of issues and opportunities. Acting as a cultural anthropologist, she puts the past into perspective in order to manifest the future. Arroz is currently writing a memoir of her years working on the assembly line at General Motors. GABRIELLE SMITH - Writer Gabrielle Smith is a freelance journalist and creative copywriter. The London College of Fashion alumna has written widely about fashion and culture, with her work published in numerous magazines such as; Harper’s Bazaar UK, House of Solo Magazine, French Fries Magazine, Overdue Magazine etc.
ANNEYSA GAILLE - Writer Anneysa Gaille is a poet, educator, and journalist based in New York City. In 2018 her chapbook, No Such Thing As, was published by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in the English Department of Brooklyn College. Gaille also serves as the poetry and visual arts editor for the Brooklyn Review.
JAMIE VALENTINO - Writer Colombian-born writer, Jamie Valentino is the Editor-at-large of POP Style TV, and his column Sexpert is published biweekly in PROVOKR. You can read his essays and interviews in Google Arts & Culture, W42ST Magazine, LUXE Magazine, The Queer Review, Vulkan Magazine, and more.
RHETT BUTLER - Writer Rhett Butler is a print and broadcast journalist from New York City. His work has appeared in TIME Magazine, Money Magazine, UFC Magazine, JET Magazine, Heavy.com, The Shadow League, and more. He is also a Boxing Writer’s Association of America Member, Play-By-Play Commentator, and Combat Sports Insider.
HELEN WILKEY - Assistant to Senior Fashion Editor Helen Wilkey spent her first two years out of The University of Chicago working in talent, most recently at Paradigm Talent Agency. Ready to explore realms beyond her desk, Helen looked to fashion for hands-on production experience. She is now assisting on shoots in and around New York City.
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Damien Carney Featuring Elena...
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Sebastian Magnani
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Philip Pearlstein
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Hana Solenthaler
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Formento & Formento
Personal Feature
Daily Bat
Exclusive Interview
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Nostalgia
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Mathilde Oscar
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Dystopia
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Bart Ramakers Personal Feature
Jurij Treskow
Personal Feature
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Renée Jacobs
Personal Feature
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Gary Sheridan Personal Feature
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Formento & Formento NOSTALGIA
FORMENTO & FORMENTO EXCLUSIVE I N T E RV I E W B Y L I N D A A R RO Z
Can you tell us when things
United States, (airstream #1)
One of our recent gigs was a
really started to take off for
spending our days telling sto-
commission by the legendary
you?
ries, daydreaming, and living
singer Gloria Estefan (gloria).
in the moment. We ended up
It was very rewarding to have
shooting for two winters.
a client of her magnitude
The day our planets aligned
express how much she loves
was January 2, 2005. I was based in New York City (NYC) and Richeille was living in London. At the time, she was art directing dozens of commercial shoots in Miami, and as luck would have it, I was booked to work with her. We locked eyes and danced till the sun came up in South Beach. It seems we
In 2011, a gallery in Paris discovered our work “Cir-
the 21st century. One week later I moved to London. A month later I proposed on
Bruised Knees,” and pub-
Once, when we were work-
lished a 400 page, 12-pound
ing in Mumbai, India (shweta
book (#book1). This was the
xxviii), Richeille and I want-
catalyst for a commercial
ed to make a statement on
agency in NYC to represent
arranged marriages. We
us, and the birth of our fine
hired a funeral band to play
art career.
on Juhu Beach as the model entered the water pretending
Were you prepared for the global reception of your work?
a set in Cape Town in South Africa, and three months later we were married in New York. After a year in London, we
to drown herself. Within minutes a crowd of 500 people gathered, and mass hysteria ensued. They all thought it was a
Since I was 14 years old, my
Bollywood production. By the
dream was to be the next
time we wrapped the shoot, I
Richard Avedon. It couldn’t
lost Richeille in the crowd. In
have come any faster.
the mayhem, we finally made it back to the car, but the
moved back to NYC and
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freedom.
cumstance: America Down on
had promised each other in a previous life to meet again in
our work and give us creative
people were on top of us. I
started our own company,
In addition to the work you
but then the great recession
create for yourself, do you
of 2008 came over us like a
take on client projects, and
tsunami. With no work, we
if so, can you share one or
decided to hit the open road.
two assignments that were
As for challenges, during our
We bought our dream Air-
fun, exciting, challenging or
first trip to Kyoto in 2013, we
stream and drove across the
rewarding?
had an idea to shoot with two
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felt like I was a member of the Beatles.
boats on the Kamo River in
each other to not give up, this
Thank you for the kind words.
Arashiyama. After shooting
image would not exist today.
The F&F signature evolved
with our model for most of the day, we headed down to the river. We had arranged for the boats to be there at dusk. When I started to unload my gear (we travel with
organically. In the early Do you keep a journal of ideas that come to you, and do you ever act on those ideas?
a lot of lights) the boatman’s
days we tried fashion and then advertising, but quickly became tired of the subsequent images not having any transcendence. From Richeille’s amazing art direction and
price went from $14 hour to
Great question. Yes, many of
her impeccable styling, to the
$400! He thought we were
my ideas stem from dreams,
stark lighting of our cynical
from Hollywood and want-
or should I say nightmares,
and ambiguous heroes,
ed to be paid more for his
while Richeille pulls from her
intertwined in intricate plots
services.
life experiences, her love
and underlying existentialist
We were losing the light, so
for vintage and cinema and
philosophy, we always aim for
we scrapped the idea and
music. My subconscious mind
the work to be timeless. We
quickly regrouped. As luck
is so active when I am uncon-
see everything through the
would have it, I had been
scious. The film noir starts
filter of an atmosphere we
snacking on tako (octopus) all
streaming when I close my
create. The darkness of the
day and there was some left.
eyes.
stories come from our disenchantment of the present
Richeille and I looked at each other and without speaking a word we knew immediately what to do the with remaining tentacles. We found a picnic table riverside and instructed
Your work stands out, not only for the hyper cinematic quality, but for the eerie
times and the past. Or maybe our work is simply a love letter to a culture and place.
sense of time standing still. It’s almost a signature.
Editor in Chief, Candice
Looking at a photo, one
Solomon, met you on a
could say, that’s a “formen-
shoot for Italian Vogue
to and formento,” as one
in Miami. She said that
would do when staring at
meeting you was a turning
It’s important to take what
an image taken by Helmut
point in her career, and you
the world gives you and make
Newton. Is this a quality
became her inspiration to
the best of it. If it hadn’t been
that has developed over
become a creative director,
for the boatman’s greed, our
time, or did you come to it
stylist and producer, which
calm disposition, and pushing
organically?
led her to FADDY. Can you
the model to lay down on top of it. The result was the best photograph from the series, Japan Diaries (mai vi).
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Mathilde OScar Dystopia
MATHILDE OSCAR DYSTOPIA
BART RAMAKERS Bart Ramakers (1963) creates a new mythology for a new world with his picturesque scenes, statues and movies. He grew up in Belgium, at the banks of the river Meuse, in the shadow of the Van Eyck brothers, Rubens and Rembrandt – and choose to study history. From childhood, he drew, etched and painted, inspired by the Flemish Masters, by historical stories, classical myths, legends, baroque and romantic music and opera. His works reflect on the human condition and unfold new myths of beauty and power, passion and betrayal, sensuality and brutality, life and death, often with a slightly ironic, sarcastic or humorous touch. The male/female relationships are often reversed, and Christian morality of suffering and redemption is replaced by enjoying an optimistic and generous love. Not suffering will save the world, but love. Creating a better world is the common thread in everything he does, wether it is by writing his own version of the New Testament or by inventing Automats for a New World. The traditional long-bearded God in Bart Ramakers’ globalised heaven joins forces with his male and female colleagues from all times and from all over the world, and even with the young goddesses of climate protest. Nudity for him is not inasmuch a matter of erotics, it’s the key to a world of truth, where nothing is hidden or conceiled. References to art history, film and literature are abundant. Bart Ramakers has published several books and exposes all over Europe. He regularly collaborates on projects with well-known artists from other disciplines and continues to evolve undaunted in his work.
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Stick a Pin in Me - Model - Gemma K Hadley
Yellow Brick Stairs - Model - Gemma K Hadley
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Waiting for Normal Service to Resume - Model - Gemma K Hadley
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Big Brother is watching you
Sightseeing
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Practice
Stood Up
Carney has also been honored to judge the prestigious NAHA Awards. Passionate about giving back to an industry he loves, Carney designed a mask for auction at City of Hope’s salon industry event, “Spirit of Life Dinner and Masquerade Ball - 2009.” He was pronounced “International Stylist of the Year” at the 2012 Mirror Awards (produced by Canadian Hairdresser Magazine) - a coveted title which honors those select hairdressers who stand as mentors and inspiration for hairstylists worldwide. Carney was also named “International Stylist of the Year” at the 2013 Black Beauty/Sensationnel Hair Awards for the unsurpassed texture and detail work of his “Saturne Noire” collection. Damien was named the 2017 North American Hairstylist of the Year by the Professional Beauty Association. A natural in front of the television camera, Carney has appeared on ABC, NBC, QVC and a Certified Presenter and and as lead stylist on America’s Next Top Model. Bravo Network celebrity, Tabitha Coffey - “Tabitha’s Salon Takeover” - specifically chose Carney’s work for many of her latest book photos and was the stylist of choice to design her hair for extensive fashion shoot. Carney was thrilled to accept the role of Emcee for the International Fashion Theater at PBA’s International Salon & Spa Expo in Long Beach and Midwest introducing industry icons. Throughout his career, Carney has globally collaborated with photographers Gilles Bensimon, Ellen von Unwerth, Norman Watson, Rankin, and David Slijper. His work has graced the pages of international publications ELLE, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, W, and GQ. Carney was honored as on-set stylist for the Movember ad campaign shoot. The funds raised through Movember’s US campaign benefit the Prostate
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