Danielle Levitt

Danielle Levitt is a portrait photographer and Emmy-winning director whose work is iconic, important, unpretentious and passionate.

Her career has spanned the fashion, art and commercial worlds, and includes publications like Vanity Fair, Time, i-D and GQ, and an enduring collaboration with Rick Owens where she captured the designer's most groundbreaking collections for a new book. Danielle's personal archive documents marginalized communities, divergent subcultures and the constantly evolving landscape of contemporary American youth culture.

We're big fans of her and even more enamored with the vivacity she can bring to any situation. She's designed an oversized tote bag with heavy twinkle-factor, handwoven in Kenya from discarded candy wrappers. 

Like all EVERYBODY.WORLD contributors, Danielle receives 10% of the sales of her designs.

Danielle Levitt
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EVERYBODY.WORLD by DANIELLE LEVITT

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A photographer and award-winning director whose work is iconic, important, unpretentious and passionate.

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She's a disco queen with enviable style who has made a vibrant career out of telling original and personal stories. We're big fans of her and even more enamored with the vivacity she can bring to any situation.

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For EVERYBODY.WORLD, she's designed an oversized tote that's market-ready.

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Like Danielle herself, its heavy on the twinkle-factor!

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The first time she experienced a bag with handles thread beneath was at a food market in Uganda. 'A shelf formed when the goods went inside and because the weight was so wonderfully balanced, the straps were able to support the bottom of the bag—and all of my shopping desires!'

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Behind the scenes

Danielle radiates joy and is a big believer in keeping the energy on set positive. 'I notice that when I give out good energy I get it back a hundred times over,' she says.
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Danielle's Energy

How would her mom, Marie-France, describe her? If you asked Danielle she thinks it'd be something like this (in a French accent): 'You should meet my daughter. She is a very famous photographer and director and is friends with Rick Owens, she has lots of pages on Google and won an Emmy.'
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Always creating work rooted in storytelling, her career spans the fashion, art and commercial worlds, capturing everyone from teens in rural America to the biggest entertainment and sport stars.

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For more than a decade, she's been documenting Rick Owens' sublime, iconic collections (recently compiled into a 200-page tome, Rick Owens Photographed by Danielle Levitt). 'I feel very proud of our years long collaboration, that we have grown together in a way that allows for such a special visual language.'

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Watch the full COMPTON COWBOYS video, directed by Danielle. Their motto: 'STREETS RAISED US. HORSES SAVED US.'

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Danielle's Candy Wrapper Tote is available in three limited-edition colors.

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Handwoven in Kenya

The women who weave Danielle's Candy Wrapper Tote are heads of their household, working in-between their domestic responsibilities, using wrappers thrown away by local candy factories.
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