Sleazenation was a monthly London based fashion, lifestyle and “'post-drug culture' magazine according to founding editor Steve Beale in 1999". The publication was co-founded by Jon Swinstead and Adam Dewhurst and published by Swinstead Publishing. It was given away for free to clubbers for one and a half years until its launch in 1996 as a high street magazine. It featured bands and artists ranging from underground acts such as Genesis P-Orridge to pop acts such as New Order.
Nicholas David Gordon Knight is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
Jefferson Hack is the co-founder and CEO of Dazed Media, an independent media company that produces stories across its print, digital and video brands. The company's portfolio includes fashion bi-annuals Another Magazine and Another Man; bi-monthly youth fashion and culture magazine Dazed, and websites Anothermag.com, Dazeddigital.com, Dazedbeauty.com and Anothermanmag.com in addition to the creative wing Dazed Studio. Hack, who previously served as Editor of these titles, is also co-founder of global video channel Nowness.
Kim Niklas Jones is an English fashion designer. He is a graduate of Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
John Rankin Waddell, known as Rankin, is a British photographer and director who has photographed, amongst other subjects, Björk, Kate Moss, Madonna, David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II.
Hannelore Knuts is a Belgian supermodel, actress, artist and certified mindfulness & meditation teacher known for her androgynous appearance and versatile shape-shifting abilities. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with numerous top photographers like Steven Meisel, Inez and Vinoodh, Karl Lagerfeld, Steven Klein and Juergen Teller as well as designers and brands including Alexander McQueen, Prada, Hermès, Chanel, Dior, Jean Pa9ul Gaultier, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Ann Demeulemeester and many more. She has appeared on multiple international covers of Vogue as well as V, Dazed, Harper’s Bazaar and L’Officiel - solidifying her position as an icon in the world of fashion.
Dean Chalkley is a British photographer from Southend-on-Sea.
Kelly Knox is a British fashion model. She has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK, and is one of the few fashion models in the world with a physical disability. In 2017, Knox became one of the first models with a disability to star at London Fashion Week.
Hywel Davies is a freelance fashion writer and journalist based in London.
Michelle Olley is a British writer, journalist and magazine and book editor.
Another Man is an international fashion and culture menswear biannual magazine. It was launched in 2005 by Jefferson Hack.
Nowness is a digital video channel that was launched in 2010 by its founder Jefferson Hack as a brand of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. In May 2017, Modern Dazed, a new joint venture between Chinese publisher Modern Media and the UK's Dazed Media, acquired a majority stake in Nowness.
Lulu Kennedy MBE is the Founder & Director of Fashion East & MAN & the Lulu & Co clothing line. She is also Editor-at-large of Condé Nast's biannual LOVE magazine as ujjwal as well as working as a consultant for brands.
Eliza Cummings is an English model. Cummings has appeared on covers of Dazed & Confused, i-D, Sunday Times Style Magazine and Vogue Italia and has appeared in editorials for Dazed & Confused, i-D, Interview, Sunday Times Style Magazine, V magazine, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Japan, Vogue UK and W Magazine. She has appeared in campaigns for many brands including Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Coach, Costume National, Juicy Couture, Paul Smith, River Island, Top Shop, Vivienne Westwood and Uniqlo. Cummings starred in a TV commercial for Yves Saint Laurent's men's fragrance YSL L'Homme de Nuit with Vincent Cassel. She has walked in fashion shows for Anna Sui, Custo Barcelona, DKNY, Lanvin for H & M, Katie Grand Loves Hogan, Jeremy Scott, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Mark Fast, Oscar de la Renta, Rag & bone, Rodarte and Vivienne Westwood.
Alex Wiederin is a New York-based creative director, graphic designer and typefont designer. He is currently the Executive Design Director of Town & Country Magazine and has previously served as creative director of Italian Elle, AnOther Magazine, 10 Magazine, Vogue Hommes International, Glamour Italy and BIG Magazine, among others.
Chantelle Whitney Brown-Young, known professionally as Winnie Harlow, is a Canadian fashion model and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo. She gained prominence in 2014 as a contestant on the 21st cycle of the U.S. television series America's Next Top Model. In 2016, Harlow became the first model with vitiligo to walk in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She also appeared in the Beyoncé-directed HBO visual album Beyoncé: Lemonade (2016). She was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2018. Harlow later served as a judge on the second season of the Amazon Prime Video series Making the Cut.
Arvida Byström is a Swedish artist, who is mainly known as a photographer and model, but who also makes music. She is based in Los Angeles, London and Stockholm. She cooperates with many magazines and brands such as Nasty Gal, Monki, Wonderland Magazine, Lula Magazine, Vice, Rookie, Garage Magazine, Baby Baby Baby magazine and I heart magazine.
Nadya Lev is a Russian-American photographer, editor, publisher, designer, and entrepreneur.
Susannah Frankel is a British fashion journalist and writer who, since the 1980s, has worked with a number of newspapers and publications. She was the leading journalist chosen by the Fashion Museum, Bath, to choose the defining Dress of the Year of 1999. Since 2001, she has also written and co-written a number of books on fashion designers.
Venetia Scott is a British photographer, fashion stylist and author. She is contributing Fashion Director at British Vogue.
