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Mazdack Rassi on How Milk Studios Fostered a Community of Creatives

“I want to tell you a story about how creativity can build a business and how a business can become a movement,” began Mazdack Rassi, cofounder of Milk Studios.

After a brief background on his family — they left Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution and relocated to Champaign, Ill. — Rassi shared how he rebelled against his parents’ expectations and eventually exceeded them by building a business — or as he’d put it, starting a movement.

Much to the dismay of his parents, Rassi dropped out of college after his freshman year and moved to New York with a $500 loan from his mother. He slept on his friend’s couch in Brooklyn, subsisting on ramen noodles, and at 24, took a job renting apartments. Through this job, he met his future Milk partners. They had just purchased “a dilapidated building in the Meatpacking district,” and Rassi had convinced them to open a photography studio there.

“My vision was to create the first luxury photography stu

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Perfect Stories with Parham featuring Mazdack Rassi

Perfect Stories with Parham highlights individuals with stories of success, defeat and a journey that has made them who they are today.

This episode of Perfect Stories with Parham features Mazdack Rassi. Mazdack is the Co-Founder of Milk Studios, Milk Makeup, Made and and co-working space Camp David.

We discuss his life and what success truly means to him.

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Photographed by Winnie Au

Mazdack Rassi talks fast. A short question gets returned a thousandfold with a mile-a-second stream of expansive, inclusive, wandering, and wise talk punctuated by self-effacing chuckles and salted by a faded Iranian accent. We heard he only had a few minutes to chat — running all the various ventures connected with his multimedia beehive, Milk Studios, doesn't give him a lot of spare time. But Rassi — everyone calls him by his last name, like Morrissey — is dumping whole pages of material in our laps, and we're not about to stop him.

"I never look back, and maybe that’s my problem," he says. "I’m always looking forward. Like, I can’t even remember last year, because we do so much and I’m always looking forward." We believe him — it seems there's always a next-big-thing for Rassi. A college dropout (by his own proud admission) from suburban Illinois, Rassi landed in New York and traded working odd fashion jobs, waiting tables, and a stint at the Gap for real-estate sales. That, in t

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