Anastasia & Naya Co-Founders, VOID: VOID is a space free from limitations, expectations, and predefined rules.

VOID is a striking name for a creative venture — charged with both absence and possibility. What does it represent to you, and how did it come to define the world you're building together?

To us, VOID represents endless possibility. A void is often understood as emptiness or nothingness, but we see it differently. From nothing comes everything, every idea, every story, every creation begins in an empty space waiting to be filled.

VOID became a reflection of the way we approach creativity. It's a space free from limitations, expectations, and predefined rules. We see it as a place where ideas can exist in their purest form before they become something tangible. Through our work, we're constantly tapping into that space and bringing those ideas to life through fashion, imagery, storytelling, and creative direction.

More than a creative house, VOID is a world built around freedom, experimentation, and the belief that anything can be created from seemingly nothing.

Every creative partnership has an origin. How did the two of you find each other, and what made it clear that collaboration was the right direction?

We met in college while studying fashion marketing and quickly realized how much we had in common. Over the past six years, we've grown alongside each other, from teenagers figuring out who we were into young women with a much clearer vision of what we want to create and where we want to go. One of the most special parts of our friendship has been witnessing each other's growth through so many different chapters of life. We've supported one another through challenges, celebrated milestones, and continuously encouraged each other to pursue our creative ambitions.

What makes our partnership work so well is the balance we bring to it. We often describe it as a yin and yang dynamic. While we share many values and creative instincts, we each bring our own perspective and taste to the work. Those differences allow us to push ideas further while staying aligned in our vision.

Creating together felt natural, and VOID became an extension of that partnership, a space where our individual strengths come together to build something bigger than either of us could create alone.

Co-founding a creative studio means merging two distinct artistic voices into one. How do you navigate that process — and where does the tension between your perspectives actually strengthen the work?

While we share many creative interests and references, we've realized that we each bring different strengths to the table, which makes collaborating feel very natural. Stasia gravitates more toward styling, creative direction, and videography, while Naya's strengths lie in photography, makeup, and visual composition. Bringing those individual skills together allows us to approach projects from multiple angles and create something more complete and cohesive.

We also enjoy merging our different perspectives during the creative process. Some projects naturally lean more toward Naya's aesthetic, while others carry more of Stasia's influence, but we've developed a strong understanding of what each concept needs. Rather than creating tension, those differences push the work further and help us build worlds that feel more layered, intentional, and unique than either of us could create alone.

How would you describe the visual and emotional language of VOID to someone encountering it for the first time?

We often describe VOID as a world of contrasts. Visually, it's rooted in dark tones, chrome, stars, and futuristic elements that have become the foundation of our creative universe. When we first developed VOID, chrome was one of the first images that came to mind, it felt limitless, reflective, and transformative, which perfectly aligned with our vision.

Emotionally, however, VOID is about much more than aesthetics. We're interested in storytelling above all else. Every project begins with a concept, a feeling, or a question we want to explore rather than simply creating beautiful imagery. As creatives from different cultural backgrounds, we also bring our global perspectives into the work and strongly believe in the importance of community, inclusivity, and representation.

If you look closely at our projects, you can often see traces of both of us within them. Stasia gravitates toward darker palettes, silver accents, bold statements, and androgynous influences, while Naya is drawn to color, gold tones, femininity, and softness. Depending on the story we're telling, we either merge those worlds together or lean into the perspective that best serves the project. That balance is what gives VOID its unique visual and emotional language.

Walk us through your creative process from concept to final image. Where does an idea typically begin, and how does it evolve before it reaches the set?

Our ideas rarely begin with fashion itself. While fashion is our shared medium, we actively try to look beyond it for inspiration. We feel that many creatives today pull from the same online sources, which can unintentionally lead to work feeling repetitive. Instead, we try to draw inspiration from places that feel more personal and unexpected.

Naya often finds inspiration through film, paying attention to mood, color, and storytelling. Stasia is heavily inspired by music, pop culture, and the emotions certain songs evoke. We both love observing the world around us, whether that's conversations with interesting people in Los Angeles, visits to bookstores, or simply moments that spark a feeling we can't quite explain. Sometimes an idea arrives as an image, a phrase, or an emotion, and we have to write it down immediately before it disappears.

Once we have a concept, we begin building a world around it. We think deeply about the story we want to tell and the message behind it. Creating visually compelling images is important to us, but we also want our work to mean something. Our recent project, Plastic Saints, explored how femininity is often viewed through a sexualized lens rather than as a pure form of self-expression.

As VOID continues to grow, we hope to create more projects that spark conversations, reflect our values, and encourage people to see familiar subjects from a different perspective.

Your recent work — what was the driving force behind it, and what did you want it to say

that your earlier projects hadn't?

With "Plastic Saints", we wanted to create something that carried a stronger message than our previous projects. It began with an interest in hyper-femininity and playful, traditionally feminine styling, but as we developed the concept, we started asking ourselves what we actually wanted to say through those visuals.

Having both grown up in environments that could be quite traditional and restrictive, our relationships with femininity, sensuality, and self-expression have evolved significantly over time. As young women, we've spent a lot of time unpacking the expectations that society places on how women should look, behave, and present themselves.

At its core, Plastic Saints explores the idea that femininity itself is pure. What changes is the lens through which it is viewed. Society often projects assumptions onto feminine expression, sexualizing it or attaching meanings that were never there to begin with. We wanted to challenge that perspective.

That's why we placed a model in an exaggeratedly feminine, revealing look against a rough, almost gritty environment. The contrast became a visual metaphor for the way femininity is often shaped, judged, and reinterpreted by the world around it. Rather than presenting femininity as something provocative, we wanted to explore it as a form of self-expression that exists independently of the narratives imposed upon it.

Fashion, art, and identity often intersect in editorial work. How do you think about the relationship between clothing and concept in what you create?

For both of us, fashion is one of the most powerful forms of self-expression. There are emotions, experiences, and ideas that can be difficult to put into words, and clothing allows us to communicate them visually.

Because of that, fashion is never just decoration in our projects. The clothing has to serve the concept and contribute to the story we're telling. Every silhouette, texture, color, and styling choice is considered for how it supports the narrative rather than simply how it looks on its own.

We also pay close attention to how clothing interacts with the overall image. Different shapes, proportions, and colors can completely change the mood and composition of a photograph. Fashion becomes another storytelling tool alongside photography, makeup, location, and creative direction.

For Stasia, styling is often the most exciting part of the process because it's where a concept begins to take physical form. For Naya, color, posing, and visual composition play a similar role. Together, those elements help us create images that feel cohesive, intentional, and emotionally connected to the ideas behind them.

The creative industry asks collaborators to compromise constantly. Are there things you refuse to compromise on — aesthetically, conceptually, or otherwise?

The biggest thing we refuse to compromise on is our values. Creative opportunities come and go, but integrity is something that's much harder to rebuild once it's lost. Whether we're collaborating with brands, artists, or other creatives, we want the people we work with to align with the principles that matter most to us.

We care deeply about inclusivity, representation, community, and creating spaces where people feel seen and respected. As people who grew up feeling a lack of representation ourselves, we understand how powerful it can be to see your experiences, identity, and perspective reflected in creative work. Because of that, one of our goals is to use VOID as a platform to amplify diverse voices and create space for stories from marginalized communities that are often overlooked.

Those values aren't something we switch on for our work they're part of who we are in our everyday lives. If a project, partnership, or opportunity conflicts with those beliefs, we're comfortable walking away from it.

Where is VOID heading? Is there a project, a world, or a conversation you haven't yet started but feel ready to step into?

We’re incredibly excited about what lies ahead for VOID. We often describe it as an extension of our individual creative worlds, and that's exactly what it is. We're both very multifaceted creatives with a strong drive to build, explore, and create. Between our personal careers and creative pursuits, we're constantly working on exciting projects, and VOID is the space where all of those experiences, inspirations, and perspectives come together.

We also know that VOID will grow alongside our individual ambitions. As our interests in areas like music, film, fashion, and visual storytelling continue to evolve, we're able to bring those talents and experiences back into our VOID projects. In many ways, the growth of VOID and our personal creative journeys go hand in hand, constantly inspiring and strengthening one another.

Los Angeles has been a huge source of inspiration for us. We're grateful for the opportunities and connections it has brought into our lives, and we're especially excited to collaborate with emerging artists, musicians, and creatives, helping tell their stories through visual storytelling.

As we grow, we want to create projects that go beyond aesthetics, work that sparks conversation, reflects our values, and connects with people on a deeper level. We also hope to partner with brands that are willing to take creative risks and build something meaningful together. We're still at the beginning of our journey, but that's what makes it so exciting. There are so many stories we want to tell, and we truly believe the best of VOID is still ahead.

Creative Director: VOID Collective @voiidcollective

Female Model: Angelyce Lynch @angelycelynch

Wardrobe Stylist/Creative Director: Anastasia Surkova @juststasias

Creative Director/Makeup Artist/Photographer: Shanaya Santos @voiidcollective