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Kim Hastreiter
Hastreiter, 2010
Born
Kim Hastreiter

(1951-11-12) November 12, 1951 (age 72)
West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
EducationCalifornia Institute of the Arts
OccupationJournalist
Known forCo-founder of Paper magazine
Term1984–2017

Kim Hastreiter (born November 12, 1951) is an American journalist, editor, publisher, and curator who co-founded Paper magazine. She served as co-editor-in-chief from its inception until 2017, when she and partner David Hershkovits sold the company. In her column of 32 years, "Note From Kim", Hastreiter observed and articulated cultural movements and trends that she saw forming, deciphering the transforming zeitgeist. She currently resides in Greenwich Village, New York City.[1]

Biography

Early life

Hastreiter was born to Gloria and Walter Hastreiter in West Orange, New Jersey. She has one sibling, Laurie. After high school she attended Washington University in St. Louis for two years and then went to Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, where she received her BFA. She then pursued an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA, where she was mentored by conceptual artist John Baldessari.[2] In 1976, Hastreiter decided to drive cross-country to New York, with performer Joey Arias, to become a conceptual artist.[3] While working as a salesgirl in a Madison Avenue fashion boutique, she befriended photographer Bill Cunningham who helped her get her first editorial job at the SoHo Weekly News.[4]

Career

At the SoHo Weekly News, Hastreiter served as the Style Editor, where she worked on fashion stories collaborating with artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf, among others.[5][6] While working there, she met journalist David Hershkovits, who became her business partner after the SoHo Weekly News closed suddenly.[7] Together they founded Paper magazine in 1984, in the kitchen of her Tribeca loft.[8]

Through her work at Paper, Hastreiter became known for her creative collaborations with artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers.[9] She was also behind several historical collaborations between creatives, connecting artists and designers such as Keith Haring and Vivienne Westwood for a collection[10] together in the early 80s.[11] She notably connected Target to designers through an innovative spread in the May 2002 issue of Paper, wherein she asked the following creatives to envision products that both had artful design and utilitarian functionality: Isaac Mizrahi, Isabel Toledo, Ruben Toledo, Toland Grinell, Stefan Sagmeister, Kate Spade, Andy Spade, Maira Kalman, Vladimir Kagan, Geoffrey Beene, Betsey Johnson,[12] Bridget de Socio, Manolo Blahnik, Ingo Maurer, and Tucker Viemeister.[13]

In 2017, Hastreiter and Hershkovits sold their stake in Paper to Tom Florio[5], former chief executive of Advanstar Fashion Group, and Drew Elliot,[14] the chief creative officer of Paper.[15] In December 2017, she launched her consultation firm, Kim Hastreiter OG, LLC. In addition, she now serves as an editor at the Barcelona-based design magazine, Apartamento.

Curatorial Projects

In the 90s, Hastreiter annually curated three-day 24-hour pop-up art stores in Los Angeles that she called “cultural department stores.” In 2006, Hastreiter and

Lady Tigra, and Black Black.[23]

Published works

Hastreiter has co-authored two books on style and culture with

Rizzoli
.

Awards and distinctions

Hastreiter has received the Marylou Luther Award at the Accessories Council Excellence Awards (2010),[32] the Council of Fashion Designers of America Eugenia Shepard Award (2010),[33] and Pratt Institute's Legend Award (2014).[34]

Hastreiter has been interviewed for three documentaries: Bill Cunningham: New York (2010), Arias with a Twist (2010), and The Universe of Keith Haring (2008). She also appeared in one episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians (season 10, episode 7) in 2015.[35]

References

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  2. ^ "Rookie » Why Can't I Be You: Kim Hastreiter". www.rookiemag.com. 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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  4. ^ "Kim Hastreiteris One of the 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry". The Business of Fashion. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  5. ^ "Kim Hastreiter". ADC • Global Awards & Club. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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  7. ^ Prather, Michelle (2000-07-01). "The Paper Trail". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  8. ^ "Note from Kim". PAPER. 2012-06-11. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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  12. ^ "That Girl: An Oral History of Betsey Johnson". Vogue. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  13. ^ "What it means to be an 'original gangster,' with Paper's Kim Hastreiter". am New York. September 11, 2014. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  14. ISSN 0362-4331
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  15. ^ "Paper Magazine Acquired by Tom Florio's New Media Group". The Business of Fashion. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  16. ^ "Ready to snap open that Paper again". Los Angeles Times. 2008-11-06. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
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  20. ^ Feitelberg, Rosemary (2012-07-12). "Paper Magazine's Super Duper Market Lands in NYC". WWD. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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  27. ^ "Paper Marks 20 Years as Downtown Bible". WWD. 2004-09-03. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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  32. ^ "ACE Awards". Accessories Council. Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  33. ^ "CFDA Fashion Awards". CFDA. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  34. ^ "Design Icons Iris Apfel, Kim Hastreiter, and David Yurman to be Honored at Legends 2014". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  35. ^ "Kim Hastreiter". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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