Carlotta Manaigo

Photographer

Bio

Born in Italy, Carlotta graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Fine Arts.
She now alternates commissioned works to diarist, quasi-documentary style personal projects.
Her image making is intensely physical, vibrating with delicacy and intuition.
She frames her subjects so as to reveal their intimacies, reflecting a tale of beauty, decadence, joy and angst.
She has been contributing to publications like Dazed & Confused, Man About Town, l’Uomo Vogue, M le Monde.
She lives between New York City and Paris.

Stories

ADAM LIPPES

Last June, Adam Lippes did something that few designers get to do: He got control of his label back from a big-time fashion conglomerate.

St. Louis-based Kellwood (whose holdings include Vince and Rebecca Taylor) acquired Adam, the designer’s popular men’s and women’s contemporary line, in 2010. It aimed to enlarge the scale, and started amping up production to match. The movement, Lippes recalls, was “more, more, more.” But now that he’s bought it back, he’s taking Adam the other way: small, elevated, personal. And with the exception of its celebrated t-shirts, it’s entirely womenswear.