Duran Lantink is a Dutch designer based in Amsterdam. Lantink's aim is to produce collections that are both sustainable, ethical and innovative, having worked with diverse communities such as the homeless community in Amsterdam and sex workers in Cape Town. Lantink is known for his commitment to upcycling in fashion, using discarded luxury garments to produce his collections. Notably, Duran created Janelle Monae’s memorable vagina trousers for her 2018 PYNK video. In 2019, Lantink was a special award winner at the International Fashion Showcase as selected by the British Fashion Council and the British Council, also being shortlisted for the prestigious LVMH Prize.

Léonard Vernhet is a Paris based creative director and publisher of the newly published magazine EPOCH, and former founder and half of Ill Studio until 2022. Over the past 20 years, Léonard worked as photographer, designer, and creative director, created several magazines and books, organized exhibitions and installations over the world, and collaborated with countless institutions and brands like Louis Vuitton, Drake, Nike, Nowness, Farfetch, Salomon, Fendi, Converse, Lacoste, Salomon, or Hermès to name a few. Léonard Vernhet is now launching PERMANENT FILES, a new publishing and creative platform, and USELESS FIGHTERS, a new magazine about outdoors coming early 2024, along with creative director Ramdane Touhami.

Loose Joints is a multi-award-winning independent publishing house based between Marseille and London, founded in 2014. Loose Joints works alongside established and emerging artists, writers and cultural institutions to explore contemporary approaches in photographic publishing. Loose Joints aims to celebrate new perspectives in photography, with a specialism in under-represented voices and subjects within visual discourse. Loose Joints’ artistic directors are Sarah Chaplin Espenon (FR, 1990) and Lewis Chaplin (UK, 1992). As creative directors, editors and graphic designers, they embody the company’s vision bringing a blend of editorial expertise, artistic sensibility and open-mindedness. Loose Joints collaborates with artists at every stage of the book-making process, with all design, editing and production done in-house. Loose Joints moved from London to Marseille in 2019, establishing its roots in the French cultural landscape through Ensemble: a bookshop and gallery dedicated to contemporary photography.

While studying fashion design at Central Saint Martins, Kuryshchuk realised students were not given enough exposure to showcase their creative talents nor sufficient guidance on how to break into the industry after graduation. In 2012, she founded 1 Granary and its first student magazine was published in 2013 with the support of Comme des Garçons. Years later, the magazine has grown into a network of global support for students graduating from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London, Parsons in New York and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Following the launch of its first issue, Kuryshchuk founded 1 Granary Showroom, where over 60 designers were represented during its first year, created a portfolio of partners to promote design talent globally, and developed an events programme in London and New York, aimed at providing emerging designers with industry knowledge and guidance on career development. In 2017, Kuryshchuk launched Void, a new project that partners young talent with industry professionals and aims to boost the emerging designers around the world by challenging how fashion is produced, distributed and consumed. In 2018, Void took part in the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF), collaborated with Red Hook Labs in New York and Tomorrow in Paris. In 2019, the magazine invited six creative directors to join the second edition of Void, which became part of the official London Fashion Week schedule.