Yuka Honda is a beautiful woman and a music genius. She lives in Manhattan, her work is melancholic and hopeless, yet optimistic and refreshing. She has collaborated with such artists as Sean Lennon, The Beastie boys, Michel Gondry, John Zorn or Dougie Bowne. Even though the list easily gets endless, she found the time in 1994 to form Cibo Matto. Honda is the kind of creature that deeply influences humans and elevates people to the highest state. She whispers wisdom and insinuates strength in the most relevant manner. She has an uncanny way of understanding people's dreams. She is hypnotizing. Her smell is like lavender after a silly rain and her movements are lunar and childish. Her penetrating gaze could seem malicious, was it not so disarming and all the while dressing in purple like a velvet rainbow. Editor Sophie Caby went deep under cover, in order to bring us the details, she lived with Yuka Honda for a year, click to read the dossier.

Robert Rydberg, the acclaimed fashion stylist and editor-in-chief of Contributor Magazine who won the prestigious Elle stylist of the year award in Stockholm last night. The best make up artist award went to the immensely talented Anya de Tobon, our wonderful beauty editor. Cheers and salutations!

Take a closer look at our nouvelle muse Sara Litzen. One of the best dressed young women in Stockholm discusses what's she's wearing and why in a Contributor questionnaire. Click for the article.

Musician Hansom Pyjama aka Antony Langdon is behind Los Angeles record label Dilettante Recordings and the guitar player in the British rock band Spacehog. He has appeared in the Todd Haynes film Velvet Goldmine and is the creator of The Poolhouse Sessions. Dilettante Recordings has just released the new album from HAR MAR SUPERSTAR entitled Dark Touches with the video for the single Tall Boy featuring Eva Mendes. Click to read the interview by Sophie Caby.

Our Paris-based editor and photographer Sophie Caby bares all in a Proust questionnaire. Click to read the article.

Who was the first person she put make up on? What is her technique? Who is her favourite model? Click for the article.

Sophie Caby meets with beautiful French actress Josephine de la Baume for a photo session and some intimate moments in Paris. Text and photography by Sophie Caby.

French Editor Sophie Caby has a pretty unique talent for getting personal in not so many words. She just named singer Titiyo a Contributor favourite after catching her on stage and backstage with her camera and questions at a concert in Paris, the last Friday of September. Text and photography by Sophie Caby.

Make up artist and beauty editor Anya de Tobon bare this season's beauty essentials. Photography by Joel Rhodin.

Heading to Atlantic City with Kendi, a Contributor exclusive from filmmaker Daniel Eskils.