TED SKATA
PARIS, FRANCE
2025
December 23, 2025 at 7:45:17 PM
- You should already be familiar with Ted Skata, a figure who has established himself in just a few short years as an indispensable fixture of the runway circuit. If not, consider this lapse a stroke of luck: the chance to discover him through the lens of Saints la Nuit. A multihyphenate visual artist, Skata possesses a chameleonic creative capacity—moving seamlessly from video to literary publication, by way of graphic design and motion aesthetics.
- SLN: To what do you attribute your tastes in terms of projects at this stage of your career?
T.S.: To a desire for beauty and sincerity, laced with a certain pressure. After ten years of presenting my work, I feel a duty to honor my beginnings while simultaneously manifesting what comes next.
- You should already be familiar with Ted Skata, a figure who has established himself in just a few short years as an indispensable fixture of the runway circuit. If not, consider this lapse a stroke of luck: the chance to discover him through the lens of Saints la Nuit. A multihyphenate visual artist, Skata possesses a chameleonic creative capacity—moving seamlessly from video to literary publication, by way of graphic design and motion aesthetics.
- SLN: What is your relationship with the mystical?
T. S.: I’ve tried to believe in it since I was a child. It’s a phantasm.
- SLN: What is your relationship with the mystical?
T. S.: I’ve tried to believe in it since I was a child. It’s a phantasm.
Ted Skata © Luca Madar
Ted Skata © Luca Madar
Ted Skata never possessed the patience for the classroom. At eleven, he discovered the sanctuary of graphic design by pirating Photoshop on the family computer. By sixteen, he had secured freelance status; by eighteen, he had moved to Paris, operating with total independence. In the slipstream of his arrival, he launched two musical media platforms that met with immediate, runaway success. One million followers later, he handed the keys over to friends, his curiosity already pulling him toward other horizons. His encounter at nineteen with Matthew Williams acted as a definitive catalyst. By fostering the confidence necessary to navigate the often-hermetic spheres of high fashion, Williams allowed him to aim for the unreachable. Today, as a fashion editor for Views, Skata has become one of the most identifiable voices of his generation, surveying up to five shows a day with a fervor that verges on devotion.
“Focus” by Ted Skata © Ted Skata
A DESIRE FOR BEAUTY
A DESIRE FOR BEAUTY
- SLN: To what do you attribute your tastes in terms of projects at this stage of your career?
T.S.: To a desire for beauty and sincerity, laced with a certain pressure. After ten years of presenting my work, I feel a duty to honor my beginnings while simultaneously manifesting what comes next.
For Skata, the work that might truly define him remains unpublished. It will be, invariably, visual; composed of imagery, music, and scenography meticulously culled from his global wanderings or inspired by a muse elevated to an icon. Since 2016, he has accumulated a body of short films, yet he releases them to the public with a jeweler’s parsimony. While his exacting standards restrict the volume of his output, they underscore the primacy of the gaze in his particular talent. "90% of what I see on a daily basis bores me," he confesses. In response, he seeks continuous visual stimulation—hence the importance of art and fashion as the rhythmic pulse of his daily life. Surrounded by canvases, film clips, and cinema, perpetually hunting for visual resonance, he prioritizes the intrinsic beauty of a project without ignoring the weight of its scale.
SLN: Where would you like to live?
T. S.: Between Paris and Los Angeles. Poetry and sunshine. These two cultures are my personal anchors.
SLN: To what do you attribute your tastes in terms of projects at this stage of your career?
T.S.: To a desire for beauty and sincerity, laced with a certain pressure. After ten years of presenting my work, I feel a duty to honor my beginnings while simultaneously manifesting what comes next.
For Skata, the work that might truly define him remains unpublished. It will be, invariably, visual; composed of imagery, music, and scenography meticulously culled from his global wanderings or inspired by a muse elevated to an icon. Since 2016, he has accumulated a body of short films, yet he releases them to the public with a jeweler’s parsimony. While his exacting standards restrict the volume of his output, they underscore the primacy of the gaze in his particular talent. "90% of what I see on a daily basis bores me," he confesses. In response, he seeks continuous visual stimulation—hence the importance of art and fashion as the rhythmic pulse of his daily life. Surrounded by canvases, film clips, and cinema, perpetually hunting for visual resonance, he prioritizes the intrinsic beauty of a project without ignoring the weight of its scale.
SLN: Where would you like to live?
T. S.: Between Paris and Los Angeles. Poetry and sunshine. These two cultures are my personal anchors.
Visual for Post Party by Ted Skata © Ted Skata
Visual for Post Party by Ted Skata © Ted Skata
A DEVOUT PHANTASM
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A DEVOUT PHANTASM
SLN: What is your relationship with the mystical?
T. S.: I’ve tried to believe in it since I was a child. It’s a phantasm.
Parallel to his image-making, Skata has meticulously crafted a discourse. Through his early musical media, he conducted interviews, organized concerts, and met the very figures he once admired from afar. He devours artist interviews, valuing the personal conviction behind the finished work. Today, he is known for his voice—quite literally—recognizable by its tone in the many videos he publishes online.
Paradoxically, this ability to leap between worlds manifests where one least expects it: inspired by the vegetal world, from which he regrets our modern distance, he pursues a radical technological detachment. In his realizations, he minimizes traces of temporality: no logos, no recent tech, and above all, no smartphones—an object he loathes. "I often think of my friend, the New York photographer France, who snatches every phone away before taking a picture. ‘No phones on my photos.’ I’m the same." Across his varied disciplines, he maintains a confidence anchored in experience, devoid of delusional narcissism. "Sometimes people tell me I’ve inspired certain projects or studies. I find it hard to realize that my actions can influence others on such a scale. I don’t think I have the profile of a star. I simply aspire to be recognized by those who inspire me."
SLN: Your principal character trait?
T. S.: Obsessive—whether for the better or the worse.
Saints la Nuit is delighted to count Ted Skata among its key collaborators.
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