EAST MEETS WEST SIX FEMALE ARTISTS IN NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVIE AND MADA BILL POWERS AND ANFISA VRUBEL, INTERVIEWS JOHNNY LE, ART DIRECTOR AMANDA PHAM, STYLE TSUKI AT STREETERS, HAIR MICAL KLIP AT M+A GROUP, MAKE-UP WILLIAM RADON AND MACE VANNONI, PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS MIA MANNING, STYLIST’S ASSISTANT YUAN FANG BILL POWERS — Did anything surprise you about New York? YUAN FANG — There are more racists here than I would have guessed. New York is kind of sold to you as a melting pot and a haven of freedom. It doesn’t exactly live up to the credo of the Statue of Liberty. BILL POWERS — When did you move to New York? YUAN FANG — When I was 18, I came here to do my undergraduate studies at the School of Visual Arts. I grew up in Shenzhen, China, near Hong Kong. I had been to America once before…
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