Interview magazine — which announced it was filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and folding on May 21 amid financial trouble — may be back by September.
Interview’s chief revenue officer Jason Nikic penned a memo four days later saying he plans to relaunch the Andy Warhol-founded mag, and is in the process of acquiring the intellectual property with a new holding company, Crystal Ball Media, with Interview’s president Kelly Brant.
The new version would retain Nick Haramis as editor-in-chief and use Mel Ottenberg as creative director, Daily Front Row reported. “Over the coming weeks, our editorial and creative teams will take on the responsibility of making this re-birthed Interview as beautiful, as creative, and as visually stunning as ever,” says the memo. “We are equally committed to bringing the same set of creativity, acumen, and devotion to the business of Warhol’s legacy as we have always brought to the editorial side.” Nikic signs off as the publisher. “Interview is dead. Long live Interview,” it ends.
Page Six exclusively reported that Interview’s longtime editorial director Fabien Baron quit the magazine in April with creative director Karl Templer, and Baron then filed a lawsuit alleging he was owed about $600,000 in expenses along with his wife, stylist Ludivine Poiblanc.
The beleaguered magazine was also facing lawsuits by other former execs and had a rent dispute with its Soho landlord, Page Six reported.