Maryam zadeh biography of christopher

This week, Back Row is publishing a special series taking a look back at 2024 and the first half of the decade.

For our Issue 19 cover story, Maryam Nassir Zadeh sat down with two dear friends, filmmaker Clara Cullen and photographer Max Farago.

Best biography of Hardcover/e-book/audio from Dec 20, I profiled Maryam Nassirzadeh and tried to answer the one question everybody asked me.

Originally from Iran, Maryam Nassir Zadeh grew up in Los Angeles, graduating from Rhode Island School of Design before moving back to LA to design her.

Zadeh studied textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Christopher Bevans is an American fashion designer and creative director.

Believe it: we’re just about halfway through the 2020s. And fashion has had us drowning in creative director news and brown sweaters. More to come on all that, but today, we’re talking Vogue.

(Thank you to subscribers who weighed in on the latest cover in the wonderfully entertaining Back Row chat!)

Previously in this series:

Vogue’s December/January digital cover features seven models wearing white tops and jeans with the headline, “Fashion Gets Real: Creativity for Everyone.” It has been giving and giving the week since its release — but for mostly reasons Vogue didn’t intend.

Online commenters maligned it for looking like a Gap ad (only one of the pieces — a $70 Gap shirt on Loli Bahia — was Gap) thanks to the headline “A First Look at Zac Posen’s Gap.” People wondered if Gap bought the cover, but Vogue doesn’t sell the cover to brands, it