The One-Source Model: When Beauty Production Becomes Authorship
The fashion and beauty industries have, for decades, relied on compartmentalisation: discrete roles, siloed decision-making, and a final image assembled by committee. Christian Schild’s practice sits in a different tradition—closer to authorship than assembly. His one-source production model brings art direction, photography, and hair & make-up into a single, coherent workflow, allowing editorial and campaign…