WELCOME NOTE
TROPICS
Editorial Team
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & PUBLISHER | Venicia Guinot
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR | Valerie Sosso
Moukouelle
DEPUTY EDITOR | Supermodel Dji Dieng
EDITOR | Karine Linord
ART DIRECTOR | Nikola Boskovski
International Editors:
BEAUTY & EVENTS EDITOR | Marcelle Joselya
FASHION & CULTURE EDITOR | Wanda Nicot
FEATURES EDITOR | Leonora Henry
LIFESTYLE EDITOR | Nurdan Duzgun
LIFESTYLE EDITOR | Srimal Fernando
International photographers:
“A Sixth Anniversary!”
This fty ninth issue of “TROPICS” is a milestone for our magazine.
Our publication is now six years old. When we began producing
the magazine in the South African autumn in 2010, we had few
resources, but we were fueled mainly by dreams and inspiration.
The resources followed, thankfully.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who supported
us along the way. Quite a few of those people include the many
gures who compose the editorial board of TROPICS MAGAZINE
as well as our consulting editors. Certainly, we owe a debt of
gratitude to the many contributors who have submitted their ne
work and, doing so, furthered our project. Most of all, we are
thankful for our many readers who sustain us and nurture our
publication. Thank you all.
TROPICS MAGAZINE is a god of transitions and thresholds. A sixth
anniversary is a time of transition. Our publication is beginning to
shift from the position of an up and coming media platform to a
stabilized publication that has begun to solidify a reputation as
the biggest global fashion and lifestyle media platform for the
cosmopolitan reader. Perhaps now more than ever, the world
hungers for a space that reects its needs and for genuine
thinking to cultivate a dwelling place for human beings on this
earth among one another.
We hope we have and will continue to carve out a space for just
this kind of culture. Anniversaries are also thresholds. Where will
this threshold lead us? That will largely depend upon the
contributions from our editorial team. Certainly in this issue, no
less than any other issue of TROPICS MAGAZINE, we are proud to
offer you an international insight of the trending topics in both
fashion and lifestyle at large, which ushers us all into the future of
TROPICS MAGAZINE. We hope you enjoy our team work as much
as we do.
Vénicia GUINOT
Publisher & Award-Winning Editor-in-Chief
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FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER & REPORTER | Andre
Bergeron
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER & CORRESPONDENT
| Des Richards
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER & CORRESPONDENT
| Roy Anthony Morrison
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Publishing Group & Management:
TROPICS Magazine is owned and published by
TROPICS MEDIA GROUP (Pty) ltd.
CHAIRWOMAN & PRESIDENT | Venicia Guinot
VICE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN | Chili Palmers
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | Valerie Sosso
Moukouelle
ATTORNEYS | Vincent Samba Avocats
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER | Rey-Anderson
Moudzoki
DIGITAL MEDIA DIRECTOR | Marcelle Joselya
Guinot
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