Jefferson Hack
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jefferson Hack
| image = Jefferson Hack at SXSW London June 2025 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Hack in 2025
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age| June 20, 1971}}
| birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay
| occupation = Publisher
| title = Co-founder and CEO of Dazed Media
| spouse = {{marriage|Anna Cleveland|2023}}
| children = 2 including Lila Moss
| alma_mater = University of the Arts London
| website = {{URL|jeffersonhack.com}}
}}
Jefferson Hack (born 20 June 1971 in Montevideo, Uruguay){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/comment/story/0,,542630,00.html|title=The Observer Profile: Jefferson Hack - Comment - The Observer|website=www.theguardian.com}} is the co-founder, Editorial Director and CEO of Dazed Media, an independent{{cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/companies/dazed-media|title=Dazed Media - Discover Dazed Media's Company Page - The Business of Fashion|website=www.businessoffashion.com|date=21 October 2024 }} media company that produces stories across its print, digital and video brands.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/a-life-in-the-day-jefferson-hack-co-founder-of-dazed-amp-confused-80chtspr8|title=A Life in the Day: Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused|first=Clare|last=Conway|publisher=}} The company's portfolio includes fashion bi-annuals Another Magazine and Another Man;{{cite web|url=http://uk.complex.com/style/2012/03/10-mens-high-fashion-magazines-you-should-know/7|title=10 Men's High-Fashion Magazines You Should Knowanothermag|website=Complex UK}} bi-monthly youth fashion and culture magazine Dazed, and websites Anothermag.com, Dazeddigital.com, Dazedbeauty.com{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-bites/dazed-launches-new-beauty-website|title=Dazed Makes a Play for Beauty|date=2018-09-05|website=The Business of Fashion|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-20}} and Anothermanmag.com in addition to the creative wing Dazed Studio. Hack, who previously served as Editor of these titles, is also co-founder of global video channel Nowness.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/09/15/dazed-wants-help-brands-build-wonderful-creative-it-repositions-dazed-media|title=Dazed wants to help brands build 'wonderful creative' as it repositions as Dazed Media|publisher=}}
Early life and career
Hack was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived for much of his childhood and teenage years in Cliffsend, Kent.
In 1991, at the age of 19, Hack founded Dazed with photographer Rankin while a student at London College of Printing. In 2001 Hack launched luxury bi-annual Another Magazine.{{cite web|url=https://www.fashionunited.com/news/leads/dazeddigital.com-to-launch-blog-awards-200923062043|title=DazedDigital.com to launch Blog Awards - Leads - News - Fashion Jobs, News, Business, apparel industry platform, Fashion New York, Los Angeles, Miami|website=www.fashionunited.com}} In 2005 Hack co-founded men's style bi-annual Another Man.{{cite web|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/234018/dazed-launch-new-mens-fashion-biannual-autumn|title=Dazed to launch new men's fashion biannual in autumn|publisher=}}
In 2006 Hack launched dazeddigital.com, in 2009 he launched anothermag.com, and in 2017 he launched anothermanmag.com.{{cite web|url=http://showstudio.com/contributor/jefferson_hack|title=Jefferson Hack|website=showstudio.com}}{{cite web|url=http://wwd.com/business-news/media/another-man-launches-digital-website-dazed-media-10911302/|title=Another Man Launches Web Site|first=Lorelei|last=Marfil|date=12 June 2017|publisher=}}
In 2010 Hack co-founded Nowness, an independent luxury lifestyle video channel in partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/ian-burrell-the-multi-tasking-jefferson-hack-reveals-how-he-keeps-dazed-confused-relevant-in-a-fast-8961120.html|title=Ian Burrell: The multi-tasking Jefferson Hack reveals how he keeps|website=Independent.co.uk |date=25 November 2013|publisher=}} In 2017 Dazed Media and Modern Media formed a joint venture titled Modern Dazed and acquired a majority stake in Nowness.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-bites/news-bites-modern-dazed-acquires-nowness-stake-kerastase-on-demand-elie-top|title=News Bites - Modern Dazed Acquires Nowness Stake, Kérastase On-Demand, Elie Top Online|date=15 May 2017|publisher=}}
In 2013, Hack launched Dazed Studio,{{Cite web|url=https://dazed.studio/|title=Home {{!}} Dazed Studio|website=dazed.studio|access-date=2019-09-20}} the creative agency wing of Dazed Media, which makes digital, video, print, events and social media for brands, Dazed & Confused was rebranded as Dazed in spring 2014.{{cite web |last=Sunyer |first=John |date=2014-08-08 |title=Lunch with the FT: Jefferson Hack |url=https://www.ft.com/content/fc444a8a-1cab-11e4-88c3-00144feabdc0 |url-access=subscription |website=Financial Times}}
Hack has worked with Björk{{Cite web|title=Gucci X Bjork's The Gate|url=https://dazed.studio/projects/gucci-x-bjork-s-the-gate/|website=Dazed Studio|language=en|access-date=2020-05-01|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807010753/https://dazed.studio/projects/gucci-x-bjork-s-the-gate/|url-status=dead}} and as creative consultant to U2.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/fashion/jefferson-hack-the-future-of-fashion-is-full-of-jeopardy-1.2474175|title=Jefferson Hack: 'The future of fashion is full of jeopardy'|newspaper=The Irish Times |publisher=}}{{Cite web|title=U2 > News > Films Of Innocence Premiere|url=https://www.u2.com/news/title/films-of-innocence-premiere|website=www.u2.com|access-date=2020-05-01}} In 2015 he worked with Rihanna on a project with Alexander McQueen and Another Magazine that resulted in the world's first digital cover magazine and in 2015 with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld which resulted in the world's first handcrafted hologram fashion magazine cover.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/05/12/hacking-print-dazeds-jefferson-hack-talks-tech-and-bringing-rihanna-life-cover|title=Hacking Print: Dazed's Jefferson Hack talks tech and bringing Rihanna to life on the cover of AnOther|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.itsnicethat.com/news/another-magazine-15th-anniversary-ss16-karl-lagerfeld-hologram-090316|title=AnOther Mag releases hologram cover featuring Karl Lagerfeld for its 15th anniversary|date=9 March 2016|publisher=}}File:Web Summit 2015 - Dublin, Ireland - 22778863776.jpg
Personal life
Hack was in a relationship with model Kate Moss in the early 2000s. Together they have a daughter, Lila Moss (born Lila Grace Moss Hack){{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/all-about-kate-moss-daughter-lila/|title=All About Kate Moss' Daughter Lila Moss|date=23 March 2023|author=Catherine Santino|work=People}}{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/diary-of-a-model-lila-moss|title=Lila Moss on Her Personal Style, Perfecting Her Runway Walk, and the One Thing She Can't Steal From Her Mother's Closet|date=22 March 2023|author=Irene Kim|work=Vogue}}Tennant, Laura. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040321/ai_n12752940 "Living Review: Life Etc – What's in a name?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103201646/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040321/ai_n12752940 |date= 3 November 2015 }} BNET Retrieved 28 January 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/jefferson-hack-having-a-kid-with-kate-moss-made-me-a-man-6569283.html|title=Jefferson Hack: Having a kid made me a man|date=21 February 2011|work=Evening Standard |location=London|accessdate=28 June 2012}} born in 2002.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1408715/Kate-Moss-gives-birth-to-a-girl.html|title=Kate Moss gives birth to a girl|date=30 September 2002|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=28 June 2012}} He lives in East London. In July 2023 he married Anna Cleveland, daughter of model Pat Cleveland. They have a son, Presley Phoenix Hack, born 20 April 2025.https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-may-9-2025-7k87bvjrz
Books
- Star Culture, The “Dazed and Confused” Collected Interviews. By Mark Sanders and Hack. Phaidon Press, 2000. {{ISBN|0714839558}}.
- RankinWorks. By Kate Moss, Oliviero Toscani, Liz Farrelly, and Hack. Booth-Clibborn, 2002. {{ISBN|1861541619}}.
- Another Fashion Book. By Hack. Steidl, 2009. {{ISBN|386521729X}}.
- Another Art Book. By Hack. Steidl, 2011. {{ISBN|3865218601}}.
- Dazed and Confused: Making It Up As We Go Along. By Ingrid Sischy and Hack, Rankin and Jo-Ann Furniss. Rizzoli, 2012. {{ISBN|0847836924}}.
- Kate: The Kate Moss Book. By Kate Moss, Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Hack. Rizzoli, 2012. {{ISBN|0847837904}}.
- Another Man: Men's Style Stories. By Alister Mackie, Hack, Ben Cobb. Rizzoli, 2014. {{ISBN|9780847843275}}.
- We Can’t Do this Alone: Jefferson Hack the System By Hack. Rizzoli, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0847847433}}.
References
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External links
- [https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/still-dazed-after-all-these-years-6364731.html Evening Standard: Still Dazed After All These Years]
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Category:People from Montevideo
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