📚 Fashion Grunge Library #4: A chat with/ Sofia @curatedbysofia

·1 hr 1 min·4 clips

She bought 850 magazines after a seller in Milan decided she should take over his collection.

1. Fashion Grunge Podcast uses the library edition to frame a conversation with Sofia from Curated by Sophia about magazines and photography. 2. Sofia is the guest and a photographer-collector from Curated by Sophia on TikTok, which is how the host found her. 3. The episode asks how a magazine collector turns fashion magazines into a photography path and an archive practice. 4. Sofia says her interest started in Sweden at about 15, during a two-week internship and a shop that let her choose magazines afterward. 5. She names Vogue and Elle as the fashion titles that made her want to become a photographer and get published. 6. She says she had collected teen magazines before that, including the kind she compares to 17 magazine in the U.S. 7. Sofia explains that she worked as a photographer from 2015, then took a break between 2018 and 2023. 8. She says she studied communications and did internships at PR agencies, but decided to return to the camera in late 2023 instead. 9. The conversation moves to Paris Fashion Week, where she says TikTok clips showed photographers using the shows as an entrance into fashion work. 10. She describes planning a trip around only the brand names and times, then using Google Maps and Paris Metro knowledge to find the addresses. 11. Sofia says she photographed people outside the venues and treated celebrities, models, and influencers as luck-based encounters. 12. She explains that her current work leans toward street-style and editorial images outside rather than only studio shoots. 13. She still wants studio work in her portfolio, but says her dream is doing campaigns for brands outdoors. 14. The host and Sofia talk through the photographers she studies, including Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Neil Kirk, and Bill King. 15. Sofia says she learns by looking at pictures, and that flipping through magazines is her preferred method over digital viewing. 16. She describes visiting a museum archive in Stockholm and now keeping about half of that archive at home. 17. A Milan library visit led her to a seller with old magazines, including 1960s American Vogues and a larger archive. 18. She says that archive turned out to be 850 magazines, and she bought it after negotiation for about 20,000 Swedish kronor, roughly $2,091. 19. The conversation stays casual and practical, with the host comparing notes on collecting, shipping costs, and the difficulty of finding specific issues. 20. Listeners who like fashion archives, magazine collecting, and street-style photography will get the most from it, while people who want a fast celebrity-focused chat may skip it.

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