Issue 005
CRISTIANO DE LORENZO, MILAN
Recorded in Milan, inside Palazzo Clerici, Cristiano speaks about leading the Italian arm of Christie's, founded in 1766, beneath a ceiling painted by Giambattista Tiepolo for Maria Theresa.
From London to Hong Kong and back to Italy, his career traces the internal mechanics of one of the world's oldest auction houses. We discuss discipline, cultural displacement, institutional longevity, and the invisible work behind the theatre of the auction room.
We also speak about collectors, inheritance, and why even in a world measured in hammer prices, ownership is temporary.
Mikey Bennet - NEW YORK
Australian filmmaker Mikey Bennett walked from Munich to Venice - thirty days across the Alps, through storms, solitude, and a few near-avalanches - carrying a medium-format camera and a head full of questions. The journey became a meditation on pain, endurance, and why we walk when life stops making sense.
In this conversation, Mikey shares how that pilgrimage shaped his perspective on filmmaking, empathy, and the quiet lessons found in nature. We talk about the importance of companionship, the discipline of solitude, and the strange clarity that comes from testing your limits.
Mikey also reflects on the making of his documentary Finding Carlos : a five-year odyssey following a friend’s search for his father - and the companion podcast produced along the way. Together we explore identity, vulnerability, and what it means to document someone else’s healing while navigating your own.
Through it all runs a thread of shared humanity: that suffering connects us, storytelling redeems us, and walking - in whatever form - can lead us home.
SABRINA REALES - NEW YORK
Fashion agent and brand strategist Sabrina Reales has spent more than a decade working behind the scenes of the industry — from retail floors to luxury houses, wholesale showrooms, and now emerging brands navigating a rapidly shifting landscape.
In this conversation, we talk about the quiet collapse of old retail models, the pressure designers face when scale arrives too early, and why endurance, patience, and proximity matter more than hype. Sabrina shares what she’s learned working across New York, Paris, and now Miami — and why smaller, owner-run stores and slower growth are quietly proving more resilient than the old playbook.
We explore wholesale as a platform rather than a destination, the danger of building businesses around assumptions, and how technology can support — but never replace — real relationships. Along the way, we touch on sustainability, craftsmanship, brand DNA, and the importance of staying close to the customer without losing the reason you started.
Sabrina is the founder of SelAer Studio, a women’s wear brand development and wholesale agency working closely with emerging designers. SelAer will be showing during New York Market FW26, February 10–26, at WSA, 161 Water Street, 17th Floor, NYC 10038, representing Isshi, Flor Studio, Fang, Aboab, Arth Atelier, Between Acts and Juntos.
CLARA IMBERT, PARIS
This conversation accompanies Clara Imbert’s presentation in Beyond Our Horizons at le19M, Paris (29 January – 26 April 2026).
Born in 1994 and graduating with highest distinctions from Central Saint Martins, Clara Imbert works primarily in metal and stone, creating sculptures that sit at the intersection of science and the sacred. Her objects feel less like static forms and more like instruments — calibrated, intentional, and suspended somewhere between archaeology and speculative futures.
We discuss material memory, sacred geometry, rebellion against perfection, and her collaboration with 16th-generation Nanbu iron founder Morihisa Suzuki — exploring how objects travel through time as vessels of care, transmission, and quiet resistance to speed.
This episode dives deeper into the ideas behind the work presented in Paris — and the evolving world Clara is building beyond it.
TODD STRAUSS-SCHULSON , NEW YORK
Filmmaker Todd Strauss-Schulson, director of Harold and Kumar, The Final Girls and Isn't It Romantic, makes the kind of movies that sneak up on you. Horror comedies that make you cry. Romantic comedies that ask whether the stories we tell ourselves are helping or hurting. He works inside genre to subvert it. You think you know what you're getting. You do not.
We talk about what happens when the system stalls. When films are not getting made, momentum disappears, and you are left waiting.
We get into output as a practice. Making something every day, even when it feels insignificant. The way he built TIZZ from a tangerine tree in his backyard, sharing the process openly until a community formed around it. Why people showed up to help, and why that rarely happens on a film set.
We also talk about silent meditation retreats, the Dick Smith letter, and why the only thing that matters is the work. Because the work does not care if you have financing.
Issue 004
Hillary Teymour - COLLINA STRADA creative director
a New York-based fashion brand celebrated for its bold ethos of sustainability, inclusivity, and individual expression. Since founding the brand, Taymour has redefined modern fashion by blending wearable art with meaningful social commentary. Her designs, often characterized by vibrant patterns, fluid silhouettes, and innovative materials, challenge conventional norms while maintaining an unmistakable sense of joy and authenticity.
MARC ALARY, Biarritz
Marc is a French designer known for his innovative work in the field of jewelry and accessories. He often blends modern design with traditional craftsmanship, resulting in pieces that are both contemporary and timeless. Alary has a reputation for his unique aesthetic, which often features organic shapes and playful motifs inspired by nature.
BEN MAZEY, Sydney
Ben’s journey is a story of self-discovery, professional achievement, and the quest for personal fulfillment. It is a story that unfolds with a series of transformative moments, revealing how he navigated the complex interplay between career aspirations and personal happiness. We spoke with him in his Sydney studio while he was finishing pieces for an upcoming show in New York
Issue 003
DANIEL ASKILL & ANTOINE WAGNER
From the outset NAFF podcast was intended to connect various friends in the community. Until now each interview was conducted by Adrian. This time two artists, each with their own standalone feature in the issue (003) but who haven't crossed paths in many years sit down to talk about their craft, their lives and have a catch up.
Daniel Askill, an Australian filmmaker, living and working New York His latest creation, "Lunacy," stands as a testament to his unyielding ambition. Born from the wild heart of Australia's ancient Daintree Rainforest. For three weeks, a troupe of us ventured deep into the wilderness, echoing the untamed spirits of the ancient rainforest's fauna, some of which we saw like the 15 foot tall fern were 60,000 years old.
Antoine Wagner, born in the heartland of America but a creature of the Old World, navigates the realms of art with a name that echoes through the corridors of classical composition, his bloodline traces back to the maestro Richard Wagner.
Issue 002
ANA LILY AMIRPOUR, Los Angeles
is an American filmmaker, screenwriter of Iranian descent. Her debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night an Iranian Spaghetti Western made its debut in 2014. After meeting in Cannes Film Festival we caught up with Lily to talk Artificial Intelligence and its role in the creative film making process,Never Ending Story, dropping out to find yourself and LSD.
BRIAN THOREEN, Mexico City
Having moved from New York to Mexico City, Thoreen’s journey took him on an artistic odyssey where he fell in love with the city’s collaborative and inclusive nature. In this conversation we delve into the mind of the designer, exploring his creative evolution and the birth of MASA gallery, a platform that challenges the traditional boundaries between art and design.
SPACE POPULAR, Vienna
Space Popular, a pioneering design and research practice exploring the blend of physical and virtual spaces. Their latest project, The Portal Galleries, unveils the allure of portals in popular culture, raising intriguing questions about our innate fascination with these gateways. In the following conversation, we uncover the genesis of their partnership and their profound belief in the inevitable future of virtual reality as a media powerhouse, despite its potential impact on our world.
Issue 001
JARON ALBERTIN ~ Mexico City
The Canadian director recently relocated from New York to Mexico City. I caught up with him in his new home in Roma Norte, Mexico. Surrounded by treasures by Pierre Jeanneret to Carlo Scarpa as well as locally found curiosities while working on his next feature/s with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
JASON WOODSIDE ~ New Zealand
Artist, native Floridien and my former studio mate in New York, Jason Woodside made a bold move to New Zealand to be close to his son Ra. We caught up with him and his fiance Bella Barbour in Byron Bay where he was fullfilling one of his commitements with surf brand Vissla.
KYM ELLERY ~ Paris
Perth-born Kym Ellery started out making her designs in the back of my friend Clare Buckley’s apartment in Surry Hills. Clare was an old friend from my West London years and had become the editor of Russh Magazine.
Kym went on to become one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful designers before moving to Paris where she always seemed to me destined to be. I have always admired her incredible creative spirit, and the ability to inspire an army of keen young hands to help bring her designs to life while being incredibly tenacious in all that it takes to be a business mogul. After nine years in business, Ellery became the second Australian designer to be invited to join the Chambre Syndicale du Prét à Porter, French fashion’s governing body.
The pandemic forced a timeout followed by carrying her first child to term, delivering in 2022. In our conversation we discuss this and other topics whilst I was in Sydney and she’d just returned from five weeks in Thailand with her partner Jeremy and newborn prince Armand de Casis.