For Norwegian women’s fashion label VENDELA – named after fashion icon and founder Vendela Kirsebom – Asa TALLGARD c/o KRISTINA KORB photographed the new campaign. Meanwhile aged 56, she is also known as an actress and TV personality, who has appeared on ‘Celebrity Task Force’ and ‘Norway’s Next Top Model’, to name a few.
“I have always been passionate about femininity, fashion and aesthetics. After traveling to all corners of the globe together with fashion designers, photographers, hairdressers and makeup artists, I developed my signature style. I had felt that it was time to create something of my own…
Clothing that goes as hard as you do – high-performance activewear and lifestyle apparel, inspired by the legendary dynamic duo of the fitness world, Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece. LAIRD embodies their adventurous nature as well as their resilience, innovation, perseverance and determination.
For the latest LAIRD campaign, Anne MENKE c/o KRISTINA KORB, Munich, photographed the power-packed couple in action.
Laird, the ultimate Aquarian, and Gabby, the fitness icon, inspire you to take risks, overcome boundaries, and make movement an integral part of your day – every day. LAIRD: built for movement. Built for performance. Built for functionality.
GoSee : lairdapparel.com & kristinakorb.com
‘His Legacy. Farewell to the best chancellor that Germany never had’ – For its memorial cover, FOCUS relied on a motif by Anatol KOTTE c/o KRISTINA KORB.
FOCUS writes for the interview : “For 50 years, Wolfgang Schäuble was a member of parliament, served as the fraction chairman and head of the CDU party, as well as Minister of the Interior, Minister of Finance and President of the German Bundestag, which he looks upon once more from his office. With indeed more political foresight than anyone else.”
CDU legend Wolfgang Schäuble lived to the age of 81. He is honored in obituaries as a great democratic statesman, as an architect of German re-unification and as an intellectual mastermind. Up until his death, he was a member of Bundestag for the CDU party. Having suffered from cancer for many years, he passed away peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his family on 26 December, 2023.
GoSee : focus.de & kristinakorb.com
Embrace the new, off the beaten track : Dresdner Musikfestspiele, or Dresden Music Festival, ventures into a visionary year of discovery themed upon ‘HORIZONS’. For its 47th festival season taking place from 9 May to 9 June, 2024, Artistic Director Jan Vogler invites visitors to open their minds and explore new horizons with a program chock full of events.
Marco GROB c/o KRISTINA KORB photographed Artistic Director Jan Vogler in the Old Masters Picture Gallery.
With 25 debuts as well as four world premieres in total, the Dresden Music Festival 2024 is once again of enormous innovative appeal – as one of the largest and most renowned classic music festivals in Europe presenting a top-notch program of extraordinary depth and variety.
The internationally acclaimed concert cellist Jan Vogler has extended his contract with the state capital of Dresden until 2026. In 2009, he took the position of Artistic Director of the festival, founded in 1978, and has since endeavored to establish it as one of the most significant of its kind on the continent. From 2009 to 2019, the Festival’s revenue from ticket sales and funds from sponsors have increased fivefold.
“I am looking forward to one of the most colorful years since the festival was founded,” says Jan Vogler, Director of the Dresden Music Festival.
The Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden with around 700 exhibited masterpieces from the 15th to 18th century is among the most renowned collections of paintings in the world. The museum is focused mainly on works of the Italian Renaissance alongside Dutch and Flemish masters of the 17th century. On display are outstanding works by traditional German and traditional Dutch painters. The Picture Gallery is part of the Dresden State Art Collections. It is located in the Semper Gallery of the Zwinger Palace and attracts more than half a million visitors each year.
