Who says youth is wasted on the young? Lily Kwong is a 22-year-old sociology and urban studies major at Columbia, who is also a sometime fashion blogger and Elite model. She previously did stints at GQ and as the studio director for her cousin, the emerging designer Joseph Altuzarra, and she also works with her father on Nuvana, a social media and educational gaming company. It makes sense, then, that when she collaborated on a shoot with her photographer friend Elle Muliarchyk, the pair’s point of departure was fittingly baroque. “Maybe it’s because I had recently been to the Met,” Kwong jokes, “but we were inspired by Old Masters paintings — everything from the light to the gestures — and David Lynch movies. We really wanted to marry the two.” What, no digital component? “Actually,” she says, “it was shot in the apartment of Cindy Gallop, the social entrepreneur behind ifwerantheworld.com.” Horacio Silva, T magazine

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