Thames & Hudson · 2010
Isabella Blow — A Life in Fashion
Written from a position of unique proximity — Rink served as Blow’s personal assistant and confidante.
Press & Speaking
A voice at the intersection of identity, culture, and the examined life.
Martina Rink is a Spiegel Bestseller author, former personal assistant to Isabella Blow, and private mentor to female entrepreneurs, founders, and creatives. She is available for press interviews, podcast conversations, and panel discussions.
Spiegel Bestseller authorFormer PA to Isabella BlowPanel guest · Europe-widePrivate mentor · by application
coaching@martinarink.com · +49 (0) 172 174 1499
As featured in
Der SpiegelBrigitteSTERNVogue GermanyELLE GermanyDie ZeitManager Magazin
Media coverage
Featured in the conversation.
Three published books. Two decades of editorial work. A selection of coverage across print, radio, television, and digital.
Thames & Hudson · 2010
Isabella Blow — A Life in Fashion
House MagazineInternational pressElleVogueHarper's BazaarCosmopolitan
Prestel · Random House · 2023
People of Deutschland
Deutsche WelleDeutschlandfunk NovaSWRWDRStrivePerspective Daily
Prestel · Random House · 2014
Fashion Germany
Glamour GermanyWoman MagazineElleVogue
Books
Published work.
Prestel · Random House · 2023
People of Deutschland
A documentary portrait of contemporary Germany — its people, contradictions, and quiet grandeur.
Prestel · Random House · 2014
Fashion Germany
A portrait of German fashion — its designers, its codes, and the culture that shaped one of Europe’s most underestimated style capitals.
Background
“She shaped the careers of Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and a generation of designers who changed fashion’s course.”
— Martina Rink on Isabella Blow
For several years, Martina Rink served as personal assistant to Isabella Blow — the late British fashion editor, stylist, and singular talent spotter whose influence defined the avant-garde of the 1990s and 2000s.
That proximity to radical vision, eccentricity, and the human cost of brilliance shaped the particular lens Rink brings to her work with women.
It is a perspective that cannot be acquired from a course. It is earned.
On set — People of Deutschland
Speaking
For entrepreneurs, founders, and creatives.
Martina speaks at events, conferences, retreats. Her talks are conversational, precisely argued, and deliberately uncomfortable in the way that useful things tend to be.
Panel guestIntimate firesidePodcast guest
Press interview — on camera
Topic 01
The intelligent woman’s guide to re-examining alcohol
Not a recovery story. A cultural, psychological, and deeply personal case for why the most ambitious women often arrive at the same quiet question.
Topic 02
Identity in the second half of a serious career
What happens when you have built everything you said you wanted — and find that it doesn’t quite fit. The gap between the CV and the interior life.
Topic 03
Leadership without the armour
Why the strategies that got high-achieving women to the top are often the same ones keeping them from what comes next. A conversation about presence over performance.
Topic 04
The gap between excellence and inhabiting your own life
On the particular loneliness of women who are doing everything right and privately exhausted by it.
On Screen
Interviews & appearances.
Selected media coverage — conversations on sobriety, ambition, and what it means to build a life that actually fits.
Vimeo · Interview
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Availability
Europe-wide · International on request
Keynote · Panel · Podcast · Fireside
Press materials
Biographies.
Two lengths for editorial use. Please do not edit without prior approval.
25 words bio
Martina Rink is a private mentor, Spiegel Bestseller author, and former personal assistant to Isabella Blow. She works with female entrepreneurs, founders, and creatives on identity and sobriety.
75 words bio
Martina Rink is a private mentor and Spiegel Bestseller author whose work sits at the intersection of identity, leadership, and the examined life. A former personal assistant to the late Isabella Blow — one of the defining figures of twentieth-century fashion — she brings a rare cultural eye to the question of who female entrepreneurs, founders, and creatives become after they have built the life. She works by application, across Europe and internationally.
Press photographs
Studio portrait
Media studio
On set
Literary representation
For rights and literary enquiries.
Elisabeth Ruge Agentur GmbH
Rosenthaler Str. 34/35, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Selected work
Private work. Three accounts.
Three accounts, with permission, from women who agreed to share the nature of the work. Pseudonyms throughout.
sober-museFounder, fashion house — Barcelona
Adriana
Forty-one. The work was beautiful. The wine was constant. She knew she was not the woman she meant to be by seven in the evening, and she did not know how to begin the sentence that would change it.
She ran her spring show without a glass in her hand and described it, afterwards, as the first one she remembered.
empowermentSenior partner, international law firm — Frankfurt
Helena
Fifty-two. Made partner at thirty-six. The kind of woman who is described, in profiles, as formidable. She had built a life she could no longer feel inside.
She redrew her role at the firm and took the first uninterrupted month off in seventeen years.
empowermentC-suite, international media group — London
Nathalie
Thirty-eight. Promoted twice in three years into a role she had asked for and could not, in private, admit she wanted. The competence was real. The fit was not.
She negotiated a structurally different mandate and is now, by her own definition, in the right room.
Press & speaking enquiries
For press interviews, podcast conversations, and speaking engagements.
Write directly to Martina. She responds to press and speaking requests personally.
Martina Rink — UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Karlsruhe