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Co-founder – Magnificent Me and author of 'Five books that changed my life'
This issue our survey is all about heroines. My personal iconic trinity are actress Lauren Bacall, singer Patti Smith and artist Frida Kahlo; all women with an exceptionally honed individual style and an interesting masculine/feminine play-off, from Bacall's gorgeous deep voice, to Patti's androgynous monochrome styling, to Frida Kahlo's refusal to be any less of a larger-than-life character than the male artists around her. Inspirational! |
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Co-Founder – Magnificent Me
I love being a parent but one of the shocks of this role is the realisation that children copy you. You have to be clear about what values and aspirations you communicate to them through your own behaviour. Role models: we all need them. The reason we launched Magnificent Me was to celebrate all the real, brave,
interesting, clever and creative women we know who live their lives with integrity. We need an antidote to the universal media diet of celebrities and their often shallow, self-absorbed and sensationalist lives. For my kids Oliver and Lottie, I want to show them the best of what women can be. So when you answer our survey, give us ordinary/extroardinary heroines
too – your mum, your grandma or your next door neighbour – because, as far as life lessons go, they’re where it’s at. |
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As editor-in-chief of a small publishing company, I’d be pushed to come up with a reader profile I have not produced a magazine for. One day I might be interviewing a Scottish comedian, the next I could be checking out UK Asian entrepreneurs, which is how I met Sital Punja, the woman who makes it her business to turn old saris into evening dresses to die for. I’ve always loved magazines and much like the founders of Magnificent Me, can’t bear the dross that goes into so many of them, so I’m very pleased to be on board. I live in the new Fulham (not to mention baby-buggy capital) of south London, East Dulwich, and when I’m not reading and writing, I like singing, swimming and yoga, listening to the Archers, getting back to Scotland… but most weeks you’ll find me out and about with friends or family, making the most of this most excellent of capital cities. |
Originally from Vancouver, Jill is now stranded in the busy grey damp metropolis that is London (the Grand Central Station of global sounds in Europe).
Jill writes reviews for Flyglobalmusic.com and provides marketing and PR for various world/roots music related projects. She also DJs as well as producing various club nights in London, including BalkanBeats London. Her strongest musical interests are mainly in — but not exclusively from —the 'Gyspy' family: flamenco, rumba Gitano, tziganes, and Balkan.
Links:
www.myspace.com/jillienes
http://canyella.podomatic.com |
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Danish photographer Louise Melchior lives and works in London. Since graduating from Chelsea College of Art in 1997, where she studied sculpture, Louise has focused on photography as her (fine art) medium. She works as a freelance photographer for the Danish newspaper Børsen, as well as for various London based design practices, which has lead to her work being published in acclaimed international publications such as Frame, Icon, Riba Journal and New London Interiors.
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Rikey Austin was born in Tipton, the blackest bit of the West Midlands Black Country. She is the daughter of a furnace bricklayer and bought her first Bon Jovi style leather jacket with the proceeds of a weekend's copper wire stripping. As a child she drew mermaids and sailing boats. She finally escaped to the seaside in 1995 and hasn't looked back. Well, maybe just to make sure they're not coming to fetch her! |
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Jane Fraser lives in Milan, where she heads up MTV's live events team, travelling the globe to record live music and work on events such as the European Music Awards. A classically-trained musician herself, Jane was taught by the legendary Fanny Waterman and even worked briefly as a pianist, playing on request for the rich wife of an even richer Hollywood film producer! Something of a nomad, Jane is never happier than when travelling, meeting new people and facing new challenges, from how to make the perfect cup of Italian coffee to working with Quincy Jones to produce a five-hour show at Rome's Circus Maximus when his American production company pulled out! |
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Jane Peyton is an author, journalist, public speaker and retail consultant. She has published four books with John Wiley & Sons: Pub Scene; Looking up in London; Looking up in Edinburgh; and Fabulous Food Shops. Jane writes on food and drink, design, architecture, heritage, travel, health and lifestyle for newspapers and magazines. She is also a volunteer school speaker for Oxfam.
Jane hosts wine and beer tasting events, and is an occasional tour guide at Fuller’s Brewery, Chiswick, London. Jane is on a mission to encourage people to drink real ale, and to appreciate beer’s remarkable place in our heritage. |
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Lucy Carter has currently taken a sabbatical from her job as a management consultant in London to spend several months helping in a primary school for deaf children in Tanzania. She is working as a teacher and a project manager. When she returns, she will come back to her home in South London and is looking forward to a London life lived with MUCH more appreciation of everything! |
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Liz is a poet, writer, musician and comedienne. She has been performing on the poetry, cabaret, comedy and literature UK circuit for five years. Liz originally trained as a therapist and has worked part time as a counsellor for many years, privately and in the NHS. She is known as "Therapist by day, Comedienne by night." She is also an experienced group facilitator of writing as therapy groups. |
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