For the August issue of MMSCENE our Editor-In-Chief ZARKO DAVINIC sits down for an interview with JASON KANNER the founder of SOUL ARTIST MANAGEMENT in New York to talk beginnings, social media and body image issues in the industry.
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When you were young what was that you aspired to do? Was fashion industry always an area you wanted to work in?
When I was in high school in Florida my dream was to be a fashion illustrator. It was a dying art at the time and sadly today it is virtually nonexistent. I received a full scholarship to a fine arts college in Florida which led to a job at a nightclub working for the PR director on invitations and flyers for weekly events. From there I was able to get start working for the legendary Irene Marie. While I was in school I kept on drawing the same sort of girl, it was Christy Turlington. I was infatuated with her beauty, her long neck, her Audrey Hepburn like appearance. There is no one that looked like her and there still will never be another woman like her. The North Beach leather campaigns that Philip Dixon used to shoot always inspired me when I was in high school and I would always cut those ads out and put them on my wall and of course all the things that Bruce Weber did for Calvin Klein shaped and peaked my interest in models and in fashion and photography. It was a 1990 cover of Vogue, it’s silly that Steven Meisel shot of Christy Turlington that made me realize how important a model was and then I was hooked.(...)
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