TLM14 IPAD EDITION

David Mushegain spotted rising star Margot Robbie years ago at a friend’s birthday and included her in his Last People series for us.

Long and lean are in for Spring according to our fashion editor Zara Zachrisson, who styled this feature from our current issue shot by Arno Frugier. Delicate Russian Nastya Sten makes herself comfortable in some of the season’s smoothest dresses and knits, accessorized with only a playful pair of Louis Vuitton earrings and a sense of quiet introspection.

It was a typically cold night to close out New York fashion week on Wednesday, but inside Acme, the Last Magazine launch was keeping everyone warm in celebration of or fourteenth issue featuring the calm beauty of cover star Liya Kebede, shot by Maciek Kobielski.

It’s undeniable that a new veneration for denim is among us, and proof sits observable through the glass walls of 3×1’s shop in New York’s SoHo. Although, to founder Scott Morrison, the man formerly behind Paper Denim & Cloth and Earnest Sewn, that respect has been the pulse of his business for years. The bespoke-focused jeans brand is a continuation of those values and his own reverence for indigo twill.

The derelict is not something one generally associates with beauty. That, however, can’t be said for Esko Männikkö. In “Time Flies,” now on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, the self-taught Finnish photographer exhibits twenty-five photographs pulled from his traveling museum retrospective. Meticulously arranged and cropped, the photographs are a part of Männikkö’s constant search for beauty—what he claims as “the point of everything.”

A denim line can be a venal move, a profit-focused ploy at padding the bottom line with little thought for design or details. But for Robert Geller, who launches his new denim collection this Spring, jeans are a core part of his eponymous label’s DNA, and they have been for years. “In 2009, I won the CFDA/GQ Best New Menswear Designer award, and as part of winning it, I was able to do a collaboration with Levi’s,” he explains. “I flew out to San Francisco a few times and really spent time with them going through the archives and learning a lot about denim and washes and all of that, and that really opened my eyes to the possibilities of denim.”

Liya Kebede has been on top of the fashion world ever since the moment Tom Ford cast her in that Gucci show back in 2000. Since then, she has become a mom of two, started her own business, acted in a few movies, and established her maternal health charity organization. While some of these accomplishments are the result of years of hard work and dedication, others seem more about being in the right place at the right time.

We’ve been around awhile now, and we know a lot of our readers might not have had the opportunity to experience our earlier issues. So we wanted to give you the chance to discover some of our favorite stories. This week we present Jauretsi Saizarbitoria’s Fall 2010 profile of Dakota Johnson, who hits the big time this Friday with her starring role in the sure-to-be-blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey. Take a look back at our profile of the then-unknown actress who was fresh off introducing Facebook to Justin Timberlake in The Social Network.

“I decided to redesign a product,” says Columbia-educated social entrepreneur Lucie Cincinatis. “I combined the calabash with leather to make it marketable and appealing to an urban, bohemian, hip female consumer.” The calabash, also known as a water gourd, is an indigenous fruit of Haiti. While the French-born Cincinatis may not be a native, she and her company, Jacmel & Co, have found a home there by helping others and supporting local artisans.