Photography is a means of recording memories. It has the unique gift of documenting moments that shall no longer exist. A single image can speak a million different words in a thousand different tongues. A concept well executed through a camera can evoke the same feeling in anyone regardless of age, creed, nationality or gender. This ideology bleeds through Richard Stows work. His work has flown worldwide first class with Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and German Playboy under his belt. His images command attention and are fierce pieces of work that could set the spirit of your heart on fire.

There is no doubt that eroticism is a dominant entity hovering over Stow’s photography, but it glows gracefully like a halo. His photography captures women as sexual desirable beings, but in a pure honest way. Stow’s shoot for German Playboy shows a rare eye for visual importance. His images may be simple in their composition with the attention being focused mainly on the model rather then the background, but the end result is impenetrable in worth and value.

His images are often minimal with just the face of a woman, but none the less, they hit your brain hard sending your mind to a highly sensuous climax of creativity. These carnal images of stunning women and men are explicitly pleasurable to look at, stimulating electricity, ready to shock and excite the hairs on the back of your neck, giving you Goosebumps all over your flustered body.

Young Siberian model Ekat is photographed by Richard Stow in issue 7 of Schön! He captures her raw beauty with the use of subtle colours that radiate from the page like a shimmering diamond. She is presented in a sexual daring manner with her skin being exposed seductively. The basal use of clothing emphasizes their importance giving relevant meaning to each garment individually.

His monochrome images are urbane and visual sheer works of art, although black and white, if you look hard enough, you can see the diverse colours of creativity beaming from them. I believe the reason Richard Stow’s photography flourishes with passion is that his seeds of skill are rooted in his initial love for life drawings and painting that blossomed while studying at Central St Martins College in London.

Richard Stow’s editorial in issue7 of Schön! is the perfect excuse to get spiritually naked. His fiery content will have you blushing and wanting to undress your soul.

Text by Kadish Morris

We are surrounded by online imagery in our everyday lives. Sometimes though, we need something to touch and to be inspired! so we say get Schön! Magazine Issue 4-7 in print send to your doorstep! click here

Schön! Magazine is looking for creative and forward-thinking journalists who would like to contribute to the magazine in any future issues. Here at Schön! we aim to provide our readers with the cream of the crop of the creative industry by showcasing the work of both established and new talent; we are constantly on the lookout for innovative creative’s to contribute to the magazine.



As with the photography and illustrations we feature, we are looking to include journalism appropriate to the style of the magazine. The journalism that we feature is not event-orientated, it is not directed by trends or influenced by celebrities; we are looking for inspirational fashion writing. As Schön! is a global magazine in print , we want our journalism to be of relevance to readers from all over the world. We are looking for positive writing that looks at the creative world outside of its main cities, and that matches the beauty of the rest of the magazine in terms of quality and insight.



So get your ideas over to us to mag@nineteen74.com

Stay cool with Schön! wherever you are.
Love, as always,
Raoul X

Wednesday night saw the launch of the highly anticipated collaboration between acclaimed jewellery designer, Dominic Jones, and exclusive, alternative London boutique, Machine-A.

The jewellery designer, who has received appraisal from Anna Wintour and Sophia Neophitou, has unveiled an innovative window display. The jewellery designer, whose designs are inspired by nature, has revealed a window display reflecting this. Jones was inspired by World Land Trust’s Atlantic Rainforest project (an international conservation charity protecting critically endangered habitats).

Jones joined forces with Alice Dellal, his now business partner in 2008 to launch his jewellery brand, Dominic Jones Jewellery. The launch party on Wednesday saw a herd of Alice Dellal inspired London fashionistas all turning up to get a glimpse at the window display. Stylist and DJ Nova Dando took to the decks to provide us with some funky tracks. The event was sponsored by Red Bull, so there were some free fancy drinks being handed out. Jones also designed some t-shirts, which were on sale with a percentage being donated to the World Land’s Trust Atlantic Rainforest Project.

Visit http://www.dominicjonesjewellery.com/
http://www.machine-a.com/ to find out more about Dominic Jones and the collaboration.

Hundreds of people spent their Friday night celebrating the launch of Schön! Issue 7 at The Bathhouse in East London. The venue is a vibrant city treasure tucked away inside a church yard and was the perfect place for Schön! to cut free issue 7 and let it fly out into the world. The party that took place on the 30th of July was the finish to a bustling two months of hard work, and the special people that attended the launch party got the lucky chance to bask in the glory of the amazing magazine.

Creative, beautiful finely dressed people from across the board united to commemorate fashion and to honour the global power of Schön! Guests were given a free cocktail at arrival and were granted with a copy of the magazine along with many other hot goodies in their very own Schön! branded bag which was theirs to keep!

The fiery atmosphere was alive and pulsating with vivacity as the hard beats from DJ Niko ricocheted off the walls and into the bones of everybody. The electro music catered to the electricity of night. Pages from issue 7 hovered on a screen in the foreground glowing bright and beautiful with images from contributors such as Jamie Nelson and Hidden Moves. The dance floor was full with moving bodies, friendly conversation, from journalists to stylists, from fashion students to designers. Many of the hungry nineteen74.com community were there, eager to feed their imaginations and to get the first peek of Schön! 7

Everybody left The Bathhouse looking exhilarated and satisfied with a smile on their face and a Schön! bag on their shoulder. The night was successful, amazing and completely on fire thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed themselves in real style and beauty.

Issue 7 of Schön! Sees photographer Klara G sharing her sweet photography with us like delicious candy. Aside from rainbows, I have never seen colour used like this. Klara uses colour for its main and arguably sole purpose, to be fun. There is no doubt that her images are genuinely joyous to look at. They are like flames and we are the moths.

Her 10 experimental pages in Schön! are a chronicle of bona fide talent and an exceptional ability to capture the beauty of a man. With a patent influence of pop culture and pop art Klara G is no ordinary fashion photographer, she is also a still life photographer. Her powerful still life images tell stories. This is mirrored in many of her fashion and beauty shoots with a high focus being on the arrangement of the scene and the layout.

She has pictured objects such as shoes, cups, books and food. Things that may be of no importance to us at a quick glimpse, but if you read between the lines, you will see that Klara G has ingeniously given them all meaning, and it is our job as viewers to find out what each of them mean to us.

Klara spent 3 years in a photography school in the southern part of Sweden sharpening her passion for photography that had been evolving since she was 10 years old. She shoots Model Brent Chua in Schön! with confidence by exploring the authority of colour and its strong reign over the page. She captures the beauty of him in a feminine way yet it still connotes masculinity. The styling of the shoot is amazing with black garments used to intensify the colourful paint covering his face. The images are unfussy and minimal, but none the less are packed with immense conviction and passion.

“I’m always stylizing my images whether its people or shoes or spoons that I shoot. For me it isn’t a big difference if is a leg or a spoon” Klara G said in an interview with Shift. Currently located in Stockholm. Klara is pioneering the conventions of commercial photography with her alternative approach. She is a diverse artist. Her collection is a melting pot of cultures, objects and people.

Her work goes miles deeper then what you may see at first glance. They have a visual poetic ingredient that leave a pleasant taste in our minds, a residue of inspiring flavours. So with the advancement of modern society, don’t be afraid to try something new and break down the walls of tradition and prepare your self for the new Avant-garde era of beauty, art and photography.