NOVEMBER 2019
CONTRIBUTORS
46 WSJ. MAGAZINE
FRANÇOIS HALARD & SARAH MEDFORD
STUDIO KO P. 122Olivier Marty and Karl Fournier, the duo behind Design Innovator Studio KO, have a way of
making people feel right at home. “I’ve been friends with Karl and Olivier for a few years,” says photogra-
pher François Halard. “The shoot was like a family reunion.” Writer Sarah Medford met up with the
couple at a crowded Paris bistro. “They were the cool guys in Adidas and denim—everyone else was all
businessy. They didn’t care a bit.”CAMPBELL ADDY, GABRIELLA KAREFA-JOHNSON &
JONAH WEINER
T YLER, THE CRE ATOR P. 96The profile and shoot for Music Innovator Tyler, the Creator involved some playful give-and-take. “Tyler
on set was exactly how I thought he’d be: full of energy and pushing our buttons,” says photographer
Campbell Addy. Stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson chose outfits that reflected his free spirit while writer
Jonah Weiner, who had interviewed Tyler years ago, found him mellower but puckish. “He still cursed
at me when we said goodbye, but this time you could hear it coming from a place of warmth.”
Tyler wears a John Lawrence Sullivan coat, Golf Wang sweater vest and hat, Lacoste polo and his own jewelry.
For details see Sources, page 150.JO-ANN FURNISS & YORGOS LANTHIMOS
RICCARDO TISCI P. 128
Photographer and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who directed last year’s period hit The Favourite,
captured Fashion Innovator Riccardo Tisci among colorful floral tableaux, but writer Jo-Ann Furniss
uncovered the designer’s flinty side. “He was really ahead of the curve in many ways,” says Furniss,
who first got to know Burberry’s chief creative officer when he was at Givenchy. “He’s overcome many
things by sheer determination. Yet he’s not lost his humanity.”LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER & DONOVAN X. RAMSEY
BRYAN STEVENSON P. 118
“Bryan Stevenson is standing on the shoulders of folks like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass,”
says writer Donovan X. Ramsey of this issue’s Social Justice Innovator. Given Stevenson’s powerful work
to improve the legal system and fight against racial injustice, Ramsey says, “you’d expect him to be
magisterial, but he’s not.” Stevenson’s openness and strength come through in portraits by photographer
LaToya Ruby Frazier, while Ramsey says that interviewing Stevenson was “like talking to my favorite
uncle—if he was a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant recipient.”