Maisie Skidmore is a writer and editorial director whose work explores fashion, art, design, and their intersection in contemporary culture.
She writes and edits books, articles and essays, and collaborates with brands and cultural institutions to define tone of voice, refine storytelling and commission cohesive, impactful content.
Maisie is the author of Look good, feel good, play good: Nike apparel (Phaidon, 2024), a review of women’s sportswear, and Us & Our Planet: This is How We Live (Phaidon, 2021) an exploration of design for a sustainable life.
She is the editor of SELFIE by Ken Kagami (Hato Press, 2023) and Studio Cookbook volume three (Hato Press, 2023). She works
closely with publishers to produce books, apparel and other objects.
Her writing about fashion, photography, art and design has been published by AnOther Magazine, Apartamento, British Journal of Photography, Dazed, ELLE, Riposte, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Wallpaper*, among others.
Maisie has hosted talks, Q&As and panel discussions for Barbican, Browns, Reference Point, The Photographers’ Gallery, and more. She was previously digital editor at AnOther Magazine, and has also held roles as contributing editor at Apartamento and editor at Noon.
Maisie is based in London, UK. To see her portfolio or discuss a potential project, send her an email at maisieskidmore@gmail.com. Filter by: Author, Editor, All
1. Look good, feel good, play good: Nike apparel, (Phaidon, 2024), Author
This is a book about Nike sportswear and what it means to women. The garments women wear, and why they wear them. It’s about athletes, from the elite to the aspiring amateur, running marathons or running errands. It’s about the spaces we perform in, and the way we use clothing to do it: from the field and the fitness studio to the online world and the street outside.
Featuring interviews with Dina Asher-Smith, Scout Bassett, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Sue Bird, Deyna Castellanos, Chandra Cheeseborough, Anna Cockrell, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kirsty Godso, Xochilt Hoover, Rayssa Leal, Tatyana McFadden, Naomi Osaka, Megan Rapinoe, Sha’Carri Richardson, Caster Semenya, and Dawn Staley.
Featuring essays by Dal Chodha, Samantha N. Sheppard, Heather Radke, Michelle Millar Fisher, Natalie E. Wright.
Author: Maisie Skidmore
Designed: Scheffe Shields
Published: Phaidon
On sale: December 10, 2024
2. Us & Our Planet: This is How We Live, (Phaidon, 2022), Author
Ever since the 1950s, IKEA retailers have visited homes all over the world to find out more about how we live. Inspired by this approach, I worked with IKEA and Phaidon to conceptualise, commission and edit a book that explores the greatest challenge of our generation – living sustainably – through the lives of activists, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs and many more. In the book, we visit homes, workplaces and shared spaces from Mexico to Moscow, Bali to Beirut to find useful, practical ways we can all improve how we live, and lessen our impact on the planet.
Featuring photography by: Sahil Babbar, Matthew Donaldson, Takashi Homma, Ari Marcopoulos, Mo Mfinanga, Awuor Onyango, Georgui Pinkhassov, Barbara Probst, Pia Riverola, Casper Sejersen and Hugo Yu.
Featuring interviews by: Jade George, Brianna Holt, Joanna Kawecki, Gautami Reddy, Liv Siddall, Bendana Tewari, Haydée Touitou and Daisy Woodward.
Author: Maisie Skidmore
Designed: PJADAD
Publisher: Phaidon
Released: April 2022
3. Studio Cookbook volume three, (Hato Press, 2023), Editor
In this new contribution to a long line of artist cookbooks, I invited friends, family and collaborators of Hato Press to share a recipe they eat as part of their working day. The book features 37 dishes spread across four chapters – Snacks, Mains, Sweets and Drinks.
Contributors include: Polly Brown, Haydée Touitou, Lexie Smith, Marie Jacotey, Martino Gamper, Nifemi Marcus Bello, Fumiko Imano, Toogood, Celia Pym, Jacob Lillis, Ryan Gander, and Wilfrid Wood.
Editor: Maisie Skidmore
Designed: HATO
Publisher: Hato Press
Released: November 2023
4. SELFIE by Ken Kagami, Editor
From Homer Simpson to Snoopy, characters play a central role in Ken Kagami’s drawing practice. Every morning when he arrives at his studio, he chooses from his collection of masks, costumes and other props, creates a character and takes a phone selfie in his bathroom mirror – the result by turns surreal, strange, hilarious and unnerving.
A warm-up exercise of sorts, this process has become a key part of his daily routine, foregrounding all of his other artistic experiments. In SELFIE, his first-ever photographic publication, he shares 114 of the resulting self-portraits.
4. Zine Series (2023-24), Editor
The Hato Press Zine Series explores the work of artists through the medium of risograph printing. I commissioned the Hato Press Zine Series from 2022-2024, creating a bi-monthly riso-printed publication in close collaboration with artists, photographers, designers, writers and other makers. The series included zines, signed artist editions, apparel and other objects.
L-R, top to bottom:
No.37 Breakfast Food for Dinner by Haydée Touitou
No.38 McDonald’s by Charlie Kwai
No.39 Tragedy by Polly Brown
No.40 Distant Egghug by Peter McDonald
No.41 Jogging with Shopping by Shahram Saadat
No.42 Visible Vehicle Repairs by Daniel Eatock
No.43 Studies for a Painted Home by Marie Jacotey
No.44 Emoticons Don’t Have Wrinkles by Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters
No.45 A Good Day by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck
No.46 Last Summer by Joe Cruz
Editor: Maisie Skidmore
Designer: HATO
Publisher: Hato Press
Released: 2022-24