cover #15 nadia lee cohen in paris texas

A JOURNEY IN DUALISM 

Annamaria Brivio, founder and creative director of Paris Texas, is truly unafraid of cultural disruption and subversive storytelling. She created in Milan a unique Italian women’s shoe brand that speaks to true personalities — sexy yet audacious, extroverted yet mysterious. With glamour as her special weapon, she empowers women and creates shoes for a multifaceted personality — sexy one moment, strong the next — who lives, works, and moves in her shoes. To capture her brand’s paradoxical dual identity, Brivio turned to artist and photographer Nadia Lee Cohen — UK‑born, European, and based in Los Angeles.

This Purple portfolio showcases Nadia’s images created for her, born from a genuine dialogue and complicity with Annamaria — something you can feel in the originality of each image, and which is increasingly rare in advertising today. Beginning with a Spring/Summer 2021 shoot in Los Angeles, the project continued…