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Fashion Emily Barnes
Photography Junichi Ito
In This Issue
92 PArtY time
Visionaire gets free; Derek Blasberg signs, seals, and delivers
a tea party; fêting Italo Zucchelli’s menswear collection in
Milan; Versace's postcouture party; ASMALLWORLD invades
Switzerland; Giorgio Armani’s swanky Parisian soirée
100 Heroes
The double fantasy of Pierre et Gilles carries on;
Albert Maysles looks back on his big pictures with his
brother, David
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Emma Watson is lovely in Lancôme; Viktor & Rolf put a new
face forward; Visionaire takes Korea; and all the beauty, books,
and exhibitions worth checking out
117 V GirLs
Model turned Bond girl turned bankable Hollywood actress—
behold the Wonder of Olga Kurlyenko; 2013’s big, bold
new voice comes courtesy of British breakout Jessie Ware;
Romanian supermodel Catrinel Marlon continues to
captivate through the lens of David Lipman
On him:
pants and shOes Dior Homme
On her:
dress Y-3 shOes tHeYskens' tHeorY
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In This Issue
144 only girlS in tHe World By mario teStino
What happens when the ultimate bad bitches of the world
unite? They disrobe and the Internet self-destructs in quick
succession. Get the full story on Kate Moss and Rihanna
Talent Danielle Pashko, Deborah Fenker, Richard Glasser (Parts Models) Manicure Gina Edwards (Kate Ryan Inc)
Photo assistant Narita Nobuyuki Stylist assistant Chloe Hartstein Body makeup assistant Colleen Martin
248 Bon V VantS: PerFeCt PairS
Derek Blasberg digs into his personal photo archive to
highlight his favorite stylish twosomes Body makeup Jenai Chin using Make Up For Ever (Artists by NEXT)
On him:
Pants Jil Sander
shOes CeSare PaCiotti
sOcks Hugo BoSS
On her:
Jacket and shirt tHeySkenS’ tHeory
shOes Fendi
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SEPHORA
editOR-in-chief adVeRtiSing diRectORS on left:
V82 Mario Testino Inez & Vinoodh Hedi Slimane Karl Lagerfeld Sebastian Faena Terry Richardson Sarajane Hoare Sharif Hamza Julia Von Boehm Sabina Schreder Pierre et Gilles Jason Schmidt
Philippe Vogelenzang Brandon Maxwell Max Von Gumppenberg Patrick Bienert Daniel Lindh Simon Procter Maurizio Bavutti David Hughes Dan Forbes Michele Raferty David Lipman
Lincoln Pilcher Polina Aronova Junichi Ito Emily Barnes Brendan James Christopher Tennant Stephen Galloway Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni Sarah Fones Ashley Simpson Zac Bayly
Kristin Tice Studeman Nicole Catanese Kate Branch
Special thankS Art Partner Giovanni Testino Amber Olson Candice Marks Charlotte Draycott Lindsey Steinberg Jef Stalnaker Alexis Costa Allison Hunter Jemima Hobson
Michelle Lu Ayesha Arafn The Collective Shift Jae Choi Brenda Brown Christine Lavigne Lisa Weatherby Marc Kroop Brian Anderson Art + Commerce Jimmy Mofat
Phillipe Brutus Lindsay Thompson Amanda Fiala Tahra Collins Ian Bauman Dyonne Venable Bryan Bantry Palma Driscoll Kim Pollock Yann Rzepka Cadence NY Neil Cooper
Ashley Herson Management+Artists Pia Byron Francesco Savi Daniel Weiner Angelo Bankaddour Manja Otten CLM Cale Harrison Nick Bryning Natalie Hazzout
Cassandra Maxwell Tim Howard Management Vanessa Setton Michelle Service-Fraccari Janine Mills Nex9 Tina Preschitz Chelsea Leah CS Global Sebastian Warschow Julia Lange
Jennifer Kunz Streeters Beverley Streeter Sofe Geradin Deanna Archer Mandy Smulders Tal Ben-Oni Total Justinian Kfoury Matthew Mitchell Helena Martel Artist Commissions
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Society Management Kristin Kochanski Box Smooch NYC Tablet DTouch Spring Post Spring Studios, London Bar Bar Fast Ashleys Brooklyn Michael Masse Root [TREC+EQ+Capture+Studios]
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Makeup Charlotte Tilbury (Art Partner) Hair Marc Lopez (ArtList Paris) Model Kate Moss (IMG) Manicure for Kate Moss Lorraine Grifn Manicure for Rihanna Jenny Longworth
(CLM Hair and Makeup) Set Design Jack Flanagan (The Magnet Agency) Digital technician Christian Hogstedt Photo assistants Benjamin Tietge, Tomo Inenaga, Felix Cooper
Stylist assistants Courtney Kryston and Adrian Fekete Makeup assistant Ninni Nummela Hair assistant Meggie Cousland Tailor Rose Chandler Production Jemima Hobson and
Michelle Lu (Art Partner) On-set production Gawain Rainey and Alice Ferrante (10-4 Inc.) Videographer Balthazar Klarwein Video Look Films Set design assistant David White
Retouching R&D Location Spring Studios, London Catering Katethecook
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Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
DYNAMIC DUO
Decades before TMZ, these piping-hot messes found each
other on the set of Cleopatra and changed fame forever. “I’m
so happy you can’t believe it,” Liz said of her ffth and later
sixth husband (they married and divorced twice). “This mar-
riage will last forever.”
HALL OF FAME
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: Checkout counters across the
nation, where judgey hausfraus tracked their every move
PINNACLE OF POWER: 1966, the year Mike Nichols distilled
their pathos in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
DICK MOVE: “The most beautiful woman in the world is
absolute nonsense,” Burton once remarked. “She has wonder-
ful eyes, but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest,
and she’s rather short in the leg.”
FUN FACT: The Vatican condemned their relationship as
In fashion as in life, there’s power in pairs. “erotic vagrancy.”
Photofest (Taylor & Burton, Ab Fab, Richards & Pallenberg); Corbis (Ken & Barbie); Courtesy ANTONIO LOPEZ Fashion, Art, Sex & Disco by Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha
Will fashion’s famous fack and her booze-addled bestie ever FASHION LEGACY: Legs
fnd happiness? Of course not. But they’ll try, one fad at a time. that won’t quit; impeccable
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: London and New York, their tans
species’s native habitat FUN FACT: In 2010, Mattel
PINNACLE OF POWER: The mid-’90s, technically, but since issued a Palm Beach–inspired
they’ve warped the minds of a generation, only time will tell. collection featuring “Sugar’s
THE TAO OF EDINA MONSOON: “Lacroix, sweetie, Lacroix.” Daddy Ken,” complete with
FASHION LEGACY: Without Ab Fab, there would be no silver pompadour, brocade
“totes maje.” Think about that for a sec. Alexis Bittar’s Fall/ blazer, and West Highland
Winter 2012 campaign was a sly nod to their singular infuence. terrier puppy.
Antonio Lopez & Juan Ramos Keith Richards & Anita Pallenberg
A Puerto Rican power couple forged at FIT, Lopez, the gifted illustrator, and Ramos, the OCD That everyone’s favorite Stone and his throaty German sorceress both survived their comi-
art director, sketched the ’70s fashion scene in their own lascivious image. cally dysfunctional union is a tribute to the human spirit. Louche fur looks, champagne, and
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: Mixing art and commerce like nobody’s business, they did windows cigarettes never looked this cool.
for Barneys, billboards for Bloomingdale’s, and illos for every mag that mattered. SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: Europe and New York in the early ’70s, when they partied their
PINNACLE OF POWER: The mid-’80s, when they launched simultaneous campaigns for way through the world’s top hotels
YSL, Valentino, Versace, Kamali, and Missoni PINNACLE OF POWER: The night in 1967 in Morocco when Keith whisked Anita away
FASHION LEGACY: The careers of Grace Jones, China Chow, Jerry Hall, and an aspiring from Brian Jones
model named Jessica Lange, to name a few FUN FACT: Anita did a four-year stint at Central Saint Martins in the mid-’90s.
FUN FACT: Ramos got his start as a WWD intern. FASHION LEGACY: Junky chic
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FLASHBACK
Kansai Yamamoto
& Sayoko Yamaguchi
In 1971, he became the frst Japanese designer to show in
London. In 1972, she became the frst Japanese model to
walk in Paris. Together, they redefned beauty in the West
and brought back the kimono.
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: New York, Paris, and Tokyo, where
they partied with Elton, Bowie, and other glam-rock greats
PINNACLE OF POWER: In 1972, he designed Bowie’s cos-
tumes for the Ziggy Stardust tour. In 1977, she appeared on
the cover of Steely Dan’s sixth album, Aja.
FUN FACT: In 2010, Kansai designed the Skyliner train that Halston & Elsa Peretti PINNACLE OF POWER: The late ’70s and early ’80s
connects Narita Airport to central Tokyo. People were always saying that if you could bottle the magic FUN FACT: Halston’s bosses at Max Factor wanted his frst
FASHION LEGACY: Though Sayoko is no longer with us, her this Italian model-turned-jewelry-designer and Iowa-born fragrance to be “Chanel-like”—in a rectangular bottle with
trademark fringe has never been more alive. dressmaker made when they got together you could make a a visible label that could be easily manufactured. He chose
billion bucks. And so they did. They called it Halston, and it’s the modern design put forth by Peretti and came out on top.
the second-best-selling perfume of all time. FASHION LEGACY: Aside from the scent, the iconic series
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: New York City mostly, both of photos taken by Helmut Newton in 1975 of Peretti modeling
uptown and down her friend’s Playboy Bunny suit
Berliner/WWD; courtesy Inez & Vinoodh; Corbis (Garavani & Giammetti, Beckhams); courtesy Kansai Yamamoto
A-LIST ENDORSEMENT: “Prince Williams ain’t do it right
if they ask me / ’Cause I was him I woulda married Kate and
Ashley”–Kanye West
FASHION LEGACY: Nearly a decade before Rodarte designed
cofee mugs for Starbucks, the Olsens made lugging around a
venti look stylish.
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pierre et gilles
The inseparable artists have been creating opulent portraits of
iconic celebrities since the ’70s, capturing Andy Warhol, Madonna,
Marc Jacobs, and many more. In the latest chapter of an incredible
story that includes their own romantic tale, here they debut a work
that celebrates the new right of gays and lesbians to marry in France
Pierre et Gilles’s hand-painted photographs are both highly revered—the likes of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and PPR
king François Pinault collect them—and instantly recognizable. Exquisitely colorful and perversely naïve, the French artists’
dreamlike portraits capture the intensity of their subjects, who include Andy Warhol, Iggy Pop, Madonna, Marc Jacobs, and
Catherine Deneuve. “Their images are iconic, yet none of their sitters look robotic,” says shoe designer Christian Louboutin,
a friend since the late 1970s. “That’s because everything is done by hand and they don’t use a computer, which can rub out
the character of the face.”
Pierre et Gilles are an inseparable and unusual couple—“both in their professional and personal life,” according to Louboutin.
In the increasingly technical world of photography they are extremely artisanal. “Each portrait takes about three weeks from the
beginning to the end,” explains Gilles, “because we do everything from creating the décor to taking the picture to constructing
the frame.” With regard to choosing ideas, “We are always inspired by the person’s personality,” says Pierre.
The couple—Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, always referred to as Pierre et Gilles—met in 1976 at the inauguration
of the Kenzo boutique in the Place des Victoires, and a few months later started living and working together. “Pierre took
photos and I did painting,” says Gilles. Their famous technique began thanks to a photo session with some of their girlfriends,
who were snapped grimacing. “I used really bright colors and was pretty disappointed by the result,” says Pierre. “It was not
flashy enough,” says Gilles. “And that’s why I decided to paint on the photographs to further express our vision.” It was daring
and “very precise,” according to Farida Khelfa, the French style icon and one of their early subjects. “Really, they invented
Photoshop before anyone,” she says.
Their frst professional portrait was of Andy Warhol for Façade magazine, the now defunct French publication. “We went
to his apartment on Rue du Cherche-Midi,” says Pierre. “And it was really exciting because we were his superfans,” adds Gilles.
Their second cover portrait was of Iggy Pop. “Talk about rock and roll,” enthuses Pierre. They arrived at Pop’s hotel room to fnd
him in bed with a groupie and a battlefeld of empty champagne bottles and glasses smashed into the carpet. “We took a picture
of him in a white shirt wearing Pierre’s leather tie, which Iggy refused to give back,” says Gilles.
Their reputation quickly attracted the attention of designer Thierry Mugler and led to their creating his invitations for
three years. “Thierry would talk about the collection and give us the colors,” says Gilles. “It was a delightful experience.” They
also began to work with Jean Paul Gaultier and to take pop-world portraits, ranging from Sylvie Vartan to Madonna. “Singers
corresponded to our childhood,” says Pierre. It was in 1996, with Taschen’s publication of their complete works—launched
to coincide with a retrospective of their work at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie—that their career exploded. “In
Bangkok, we found people selling our photos printed onto canvases lined up next to fake Picassos and Warhols,” says Gilles.
“And in Spain, they put our Virgin Madonna on the cans of beer,” recalls Pierre.
Though their public persona is defnitively downtown and edgy (count on them wearing jean jackets to black-tie events),
in private, Pierre et Gilles bring to mind courteous, sweet-natured elves consumed by their art. Indeed, their studio (which
doubles as living quarters) is an eccentric shrine to their make-believe world. Upstairs sits Gilles’s atelier—a delightful indoor
greenhouse—where a portrait of a blond Adonis with elaborate wings waits patiently for the fnal brushstrokes. Elsewhere,
makeshift sets refecting Indian and Sri Lankan infuences are scattered around a kitchen table, wooden chairs, and more
practical-looking furniture.
In the basement, the photo studio has been transformed with kitsch décor—a saccharine serenade of silver stars and
pink tulle—commemorating Koh Masaki, a famous Japanese porno star. “He’s beautiful,” says Gilles. Masaki is “100 per-
cent gay,” according to Pierre, as is a large percentage of their work. “We’ve never hidden being gay,” says Pierre. But as his
partner is quick to point out, “We’ve taken photographs of everyone and never placed ourselves in the gay ghetto.” Their
autoportrait salutes gay marriage, which has just become legal in France. “It’s actually our second time doing this,” notes
Pierre. “Because in 1993, we did a fake wedding which showed Gilles as a bride.” As ever, Pierre et Gilles remain ahead of
the game. Natasha Fraser-CavassoNi
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heroes
On the set of Grey Gardens with Big Edie and Little Edie Beale.
Below from left: with the Rolling Stones for Gimme Shelter; on
the set of Salesman; at their New York ofce
Throughout their work, the Maysles have showcased humanity in a wide variety of styles a handful of films in the works, one that assembles years of footage from his traveling on
and forms, from Bible salesmen going door-to-door (Salesman, 1968) to Hell’s Angels attack- trains whereby he would home in on someone, learn their story, and film them getting off
ing and ultimately killing a man at a Rolling Stones concert (Gimme Shelter, 1970) to Jackie at their destination. Another features six-year-olds engaged in adorable tête-à-têtes. And
Kennedy Onassis’s cousins living in a state of decay (Grey Gardens, 1975). Fashion afcionados yet another is inspired by an album featuring ladies’ bums in brightly colored cutoff shorts
and professionals alike have bordered on obsession with the latter of these eforts. “Designers that hangs on the wall next to his desk. “Oh, that,” he says with a laugh. “I’m doing this
still come up to me to tell me it inspires them,” says Albert, who credits the flm’s authentic- crazy film in Central Park where, in the warmer seasons, I sit on a bench and film women’s
ity to a lack of agenda. “Big Edie and Little Edie were on their own. All that we were after was behinds as they go by. It’s amazing, the variety.”
who they really are. And that’s all they really wanted. It was enlightening.” Always inspired, indeed. sarah cristobal
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WORK
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PhotograPhy JaSon Schmidt
Listen Up
No one has a better ear for
the esoteric than sound artist
Sabisha Friedberg, who
addresses levitation with turn-
of-the-century tunes
When Justin Luke of AVA (Audio Visual Arts) approached
me to do a show at his space in the East Village, I was very
enthused because it is one of the only galleries specifcally
dedicated to sound art. The dimensions of the space make it
a welcome challenge in terms of conceiving an appropriate
installation. One’s ideas have to be very concerted and con-
sidered, sublimating the elements to the essential. I think that
the most interesting venues in New York right now are these
kind of contained and focused environments. For this exhibi-
tion I am inspired by and have proposed the idea of levitation
as a conceptual framework. I address it through calculated fre-
quency interplay within the space and by way of a sound sculp-
ture, which I am developing into a series that demonstrates
acoustic hovering. In addition, I present visuals as adjunct to
the sound piece: invented schematics based on arcane sciences,
narrative drawings, and various self-penned texts. Outside are
speakers above, with which Justin makes music available subtly
to passersby on the street. I have a program list of music from
the late turn of the 19th century to early teens—a vibrant time
of sound and recording discoveries. As the inside exhibition
alludes to a lofty esotericism, I chose tunes for the exterior
that were specifcally brazen and profane. SabiSha Friedberg
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WoRk in pRogRess
Cabin Fever
Will Ryman challenges
capitalist notions in America
with a golden log cabin at the
Paul Kasmin Gallery
This photo was taken about three days after the founda-
tion structure of the cabin was completed at my studio in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a production image shot before the
next phase, in which the structure will be chromed. A reimag-
ining of Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood cabin, the piece is my own
exploration of the arc of capitalism in the United States. The
interior, which is not shown here, is made up of the consumer,
industrial, and agricultural products that were instrumental
in growing the American economy. Here you see a structure
within a structure, which is what I think Jason [Schmidt] liked
about this shot. Will Ryman
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art
dual
design
In love and war alike, sparks fy
when two strong wills collide.
Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno
Skin of Light, 2001
Two French artists with well-established solo practices, Pierre
When it comes to making Huyghe and Philippe Parreno joined forces in 1999 to carry
out a prescient, dreamlike project called No Ghost Just a Shell.
collaborative artworks, the Together they purchased the rights to an anime character
called Annlee and brought her to life in several videos. They
results can be just as explosive then signed her copyright over to a corporation founded in
her name, legally emancipating Annlee, while at the same
text kevin mcGarry time sentencing her to perpetual inexistence.
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Clockwise from top: Courtesy Inez & Vinoodh, courtesy Viktor & Rolf;
Inspired by spring forals and Parisian romance, the line is flled with poppy hues for the eyes, Face-Of
cheeks, nails, and lips. Kohl liners come in cool shades of deepwater blue and jade crush, while the For their Spring 2013 collection, Viktor & Rolf took the Old Hollywood trope one step
neon translucent lip balms are among Watson’s favorites. “All four of the colors are really easy to further introducing two T-shirts of patched silk and leather, wrought in the visage of the
wear,” she says. “And since I’m very pale, I’m a big blusher girl. The nice thing is that you can era’s sloe-eyed vamps. The rest of the collection trod familiar fashion territory with its
wear it all over your face, almost like a powder, and it makes you look healthy!” Listen to the pro. silver gelatin 1940s glamour, recalling Hurrell portraits of Bacall and Crawford, but the
She knows of what she speaks. sarah cristobal Dutch design duo had us seeing double with these two looks, maintaining the quirk factor
the pair does so well. christopher barnard
from top lEft: lancÔme vErnis in lovE polish in pEach mÉlodiE, khÔl in lovE EyElinEr in JadE crush,
“in lovE” dEwy mist ($15, $26, $37, lancomE.com) EmbossEd t-shirt in patchEd silk and lEathEr (pricE upon rEquEst, viktor-rolf.com)
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Groovy Reads
Seventies nostalgia is a reoccurring theme in this spring’s
most notable books. ct
suddenly in ’94. We had always been together, and I was very Roland Mouret at Bath in Fashion, April 13–21
lost. It was Rei who was my savior by fnding me and inviting
me to have a space in her Dover Street Market shop in London
and later Tokyo and Beijing. She is always very kind to me. She It’s Showtime
likes my history, my style, and most of all my taste. She pretty Style and museum mavens will have plenty to do this
much encourages me to do whatever I like. It’s good to be part spring as some of the globe’s most venerable institutions
of the Comme des Garçons family. I’m very lucky. kick off eclectic programs. In New York, The Museum
What was so special about Kinky Gerlinky? Were the at the Fashion Institute of Technology presents Shoe
parties really as fun as people say? Obsession (running now through April 13), an exhaustive
MC In all honesty, yes! Gerlinde and I never wanted to be club study of footwear from industry legends (like Manolo
promoters, but a friend persuaded us to have a party night in a Blahnik and Christian Louboutin) and vanguardists
West End club. We had just returned from Carnival in Rio, and (Nicholas Kirkwood and Pierre Hardy) alike—and why
London seemed horribly gray by comparison. The acid house it’s all Carrie Bradshaw’s fault. In the UK, The Victoria
scene was just starting with dress-down raves in warehouses and Albert Museum is partnering with Gucci to present
and we wanted somewhere we could dress up and have a laugh. David Bowie is (March 23–July 28). The museum sifted
Our friends told their friends and it just grew and grew, moving through the artist’s extensive (and heretofore untouched)
to bigger and bigger clubs. This was before e-mail and mobile archives, choosing 300 representative pieces, among
phones, remember. We did everything from our kitchen table! them costumes, photographs, and films that speak to
We had a huge guest list, of course, and quite a strict door his groundbreaking life’s work. And next month, Bath in
policy that was as much about attitude as it was about outfts. Fashion 2013 will show Mouvements de Femmes: Norman
Everyone was up for doing cabarets and catwalk competitions Parkinson by Roland Mouret (April 13–21). To coincide
and we really encouraged an anything-goes ethos. It was a riot. with the city’s annual weeklong fashion event, the British
Why aren’t there more parties like that today? designer curated a collection of the photographer’s most
MC Maybe there are! But in this digital information age, it’s popular images, along with some less well-known work,
difcult to keep things underground for long. I still have lots never publicly exhibited before. All to mark the photora-
of fun nights out, just a diferent kind of fun. pher’s centenary in high style. HBD, Parks! cB
EXTRAA
Cuf Love
The runways for Spring were chock-full of brassy
wristwear, wrought in plexi and precious metals. Our favorites
range from Balenciaga’s romantic spirals and Saint Laurent’s
bohemian grill to Michael Kors’s bold brace in gold tone and
acetate. Vionnet’s rough hewn gem, meanwhile, borders on
supernatural. We’re happy to keep our hands to ourselves with
these trinkets to adorn them.
Think Pink
Looking for a new scent? Spring fra-
grances are coming up roses this sea-
son with a blend of foral notes infused
with citrus. Take the time to stop and
smell. nicoLe catanese
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daVid BoWie The Thin White Duke is
sneaky. At a time when lots of people
were actively wondering where the
iconic singer had disappeared to, he
decided to surprise the planet by drop-
ping a new single—the lovely “Where
OF SPRING
Are We Now?”—and announcing the
release of his first new album in well over a decade. Slated
for March, The Next Day pairs Bowie with longtime collabo-
rator-producer Tony Visconti on 14 tracks that are rumored
to hark back to Bowie’s Young Americans days. Regardless of
the vibe, a new Bowie album should thaw the hearts of any
music lovers feeling like they’ve just suffered through the
world’s longest winter.
Clockwise from top: Jimmy King, courtesy Iso/Columbia Records; Everett Collection; courtesy Murray
selves and their work that is both remarkable and, for lack of a Valentine album would be an event
Chalmers PR; Beomsik Shimbe Shim, courtesy Interscope Records/Universal Music;
better word, strange. Having eschewed most accepted tropes in nearly as momentous as photo-
pop music—a process that has involved performing in a variety graphic evidence of a rare Himalayan
of kabuki-esque costumes, a general refusal to do press or accept Sasquatch or verifiable proof of alien
courtesy Press Here Publicity; Martin Falck, courtesy MUTE Records;
awards, and essentially inventing their own style of heavily voco- life on other planets. Still, all signs
dered, haunted-house electronica—the Knife is, for all intents point to YES in regard to finally seeing the follow-up to My
and purposes, a peerless musical phenomenon. After pioneering Bloody Valentine’s 1991 classic, Loveless, sometime in the not-
a kind of art-infected sound with 2003’s Deep Cuts and 2006’s too-distant future. Last December, the band’s guitarist and
masterful Silent Shout, the duo appeared to have gone on perma- creative mastermind, Kevin Shields, revealed via Facebook
nent hiatus until, much to the glee of spooky-electronica lovers that the new album was finished and mastered. As of press
everywhere, they made a surprise announcement (via tweet) last time, the 22-year waiting game still continues…
December, saying: “Music can be so meaningless. We had to fnd
lust. We asked our friends and lovers to help us.” Phoenix It’s hard to believe that it’s
The result of said newfound lust—a long-awaited full-length been over four years since the release
album called Shaking the Habitual—presents a bold and requisitely freaky direction for the band. Inspired in large part by of Phoenix’s breakthrough album,
Olof’s experiences taking women’s studies classes during the pair’s long downtime, Habitual builds on the wily electro of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, back in
Silent Shout and pushes it in a variety of extreme new directions. Tracks like “Full of Fire” and “Without You My Life Would 2009. Fans of the band’s erudite pop
Be Boring” blend organic sounds with electronic noises that sound as if they are being summoned from demon-possessed stylings won’t have to wait much lon-
machines. By way of explanation, Olof writes, “We made up our own sound sources / used made up, home made instru- ger though, as its new album (the fifth
ments / played traditional instruments in non traditional ways / tried to fnd non traditional ways of creating traditional full-length one) will finally arrive this April. Recorded in Paris
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sounds / we wanted to fnd a room where all sounds are just as odd, just as normal / where the border between normal over the past year, details have been kept tightly under wraps,
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and strange is erased.” While it’s hard to say if the band succeeded in erasing the borders between strange and normal (the but the French quartet’s label promises something “revolu-
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record veers triumphantly into the land the former), few contemporary artists are exploring the fringes as thoroughly as tionary”…presumably with a lovely Sofia Coppola–directed
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Terrence Malick’s latest flm, To the Wonder, has a lush, pon-
derous quality to it not unlike that of a gauzy, albeit arresting,
fashion editorial. Free of dialogue save for a few voice-overs, it
is intense and undeniably radiant. The flm’s players—includ-
ing Ben Afeck, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem—are
handsome and vulnerable. Its backdrops, from the sun-dap-
pled felds of rural Oklahoma to the chilly stone edifces dot-
From Bond girl to sci-fi siren, Olga Kurylenko is an actress for ting Paris, are achingly picturesque. But if Malick is selling
us on anything here, it’s his star, Olga Kurylenko. “He shoots
whom the sky is the limit. Now she’s tackling the role of a lovelorn with a very magic light,” she says.
The Ukrainian-born actress, 33, was scouted in Moscow
soul in Terrence Malick’s Oklahoma-based opus To the Wonder as a teen, subsequently moving to Paris, where she joined
mega modeling agency NEXT. Working successfully into her
late 20s, she fronted campaigns for Clarins, Sisley, and Kenzo
perfumes. Prior to making her flm debut as the lead in Diane
Bertrand’s erotically charged L’annulaire, Kurylenko appeared
on the covers of Vogue Italia and French Elle.
Getting physical has been par for the course for the former
model. She’s featured in action ficks like Centurion along-
side Michael Fassbender, and Luc Besson’s Hitman, her frst
English-speaking role. But her best-known screen persona
to date is that of Camille Montes, the murder-avenging scene
stealer in the 2008 Bond fick Quantum of Solace. In April,
Kurylenko stars with Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman in the
big-budget sci-f thriller Oblivion. “Tom is a fascinating person,”
Kurylenko says of her costar. “He is one of the most generous
actors I have ever worked with, and he has more energy than
anyone I’ve ever met! I could watch him work all day long. I
learned so much from him.”
The same could be said for Malick. Praising the Oscar-
nominated flmmaker’s quirkiness, tenacity, and empathy,
Kurylenko considers him a master of the human psyche. This
quality comes in handy on the set of the romantic drama, where
Malick’s characters, including Kurylenko’s Marina, are troubled
souls. Falling in and out of love, they’re often lonely even in
each other’s company. “Terry portrays human problems,” she
explains. “He’s perceptive. He sees the problem and knows
where it comes from. I think he’s a very good psychologist.”
Kurylenko found herself physically drained on Malick’s
set. The role, which required her to dance, fght, and break
down, was emotionally exhausting. The experience took her
“to the darkest place, ever, out of all of my movies. I’ve never
been to such depths as in this one,” she says. “I scared myself,
you know what I mean?”
Malick, who also wrote To the Wonder, did not give his
actors a script or scenes to prep beforehand. Rehearsing was
impossible, since the writer-director only gave out pages just
prior to shooting. Kurylenko described the “read it and go”
process as both intimate and daunting. Her reactions, she
explained, were more those of a civilian responding suddenly
than of an actor inhabiting a studied role. At times Malick’s
confdence in his protagonist’s abilities foored her. “You know,
I always think about where I come from. And this guy who’s so
amazing and whom I admire, he just trusted me. He believed
in me,” she says, her voice betraying a sense of awe. “It turned
my life into a fairy tale.” Sarah FoneS
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job,” says the model. “But on my frst day of castings—I had six—I booked every job and worked
for those clients for a month straight. I started to discover another world.”
Those frst bookings brought more jobs, a collection of which soon developed into a rather
intimidating career including stints as the face of Armani, the spokesperson for Fiat, and in a
move that attracted more than a few male followers, several appearances in Sports Illustrated’s
famed swimsuit issue.
Now, more than 12 years later, Marlon is modeling for the likes of David Yurman (shot by
Romanian-born beauty Catrinel Marlon is a natural Sebastian Faena) and quietly expanding her performance repertoire with a stealth move toward
cinema. “A year ago I was having a really hard time and was on the verge of quitting the busi-
athlete with the stamina for success. From Italian ness,” she says. “Then a friend convinced me to try out for a part in a short Italian flm.” She
got it and was hooked, going on to play a series of roles that she describes as “always dramatic,
art-house flms to Armani campaigns, she is running and very surreal,” including Italian art-house flms like La città ideale.
When it comes to commanding the stage, it’s clear that Marlon is a natural. This image was taken
away from the competition by brand and advertising guru David Lipman, who is clearly enchanted by her subtle charms. “Cat
and I went away for 12 days this past September,” he says. “We were pushing ourselves as an art
Growing up in rural Romania, 27-year-old model Catrinel Marlon always assumed she would endeavor. This picture, taken in Romania, represents deep meaning for both of us. I asked Cat to
follow in the footsteps of her family. Her parents were both professional athletes (mom was a go deep inside herself and fnd the emotional pain and sufering she was feeling at that moment.”
Nadia Comaneci–trained gymnast, while dad was a national track-and-feld star with a knack With her endless opportunities, Marlon is ready for what lies ahead, whatever it may be. “I’m
for 400-meter hurdles), and she began training in gymnastics and sprinting at a young age. “I going to try to do both—act and model—until the day when I want to give up,” she says. “Then I’ll pick
started when I was four, and for years it was my life,” recalls Marlon. Everything changed when an island, go there, and open a bar on the beach. What more could you want from life?” Ashley simpson
she was spotted on the streets of her hometown, Iasi, in 2001, in a chance encounter that led
to work in Greece, New York, and Milan. “When I was sent to New York, my agent told me not Catrinel marlon in romania, september 2012
to be afraid—that New York is really hard, that girls get stuck for months and don’t get a single photogrAphy dAvid lipmAn
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hyperawareness
“I loved my underground dance collaborations,” she says when asked why this album marked
such a departure from the music genre that helped launch her into the limelight. “They loved
me and accepted me and let me do music when I didn’t think I was going to. But I’m not a pro-
ducer. I wasn’t making beats. I wanted to take those infuences and create a more classic sound.
I wanted to make something that could be played in clubs but could also be played to my mum.”
“My friend and I used to do a DJ thing, actually,” she adds, perhaps hoping to tactfully explain
where her musical interests really lie. “We were called Yentl and the Gentile, and I used to wear
DJ turned chart-topping singer (and self-
Photo assistant Steve Neilson Retouching Tablet Retouching Location Concorde 2 Brighton
a Barbra Streisand T-shirt. I was Yentl and she was the Gentile. It was so camp! We used to play
Wedding Singer–style sets, with lots of party songs. We’d go from Chaka to Prince to Gwen McCrae.”
proclaimed worrier) Jessie Ware is rising through Luckily, the Invisible’s Dave Okumu was as impressed by Ware’s voice as he was apprecia-
tive of her taste in music: the front man turned producer approached her with the beginnings
the ranks—and soon will even learn to enjoy it of the album’s title track, “Devotion,” shortly after meeting her manager at a barbecue. “We
instantly just fell madly in love with one another, as friends,” Ware gushes. “He’s really helped
For “Running,” her frst solo video, singer Jessie Ware took a Method-like approach to prepa- me, nurtured me, and mentored me while I’m trying to become an artist. I think he’s actually
rations. “I wanted to be like, Bang! I’m not a backing singer anymore,” she explains. “This is supernatural. He’s a wonder.”
my song, and I’m going to own it! I watched loads of Whitney Houston clips the night before. Even with Okumu’s reassurance, nerves plague the songstress, she admits. “I think it’s a
I wanted it to be over-the-top. I wanted to behave like a pop star.” Jewish thing. I’m so neurotic—I’m like Larry David. I’ve gotten to a position where all these
Of course what ended up happening was more adorably drunken than diva. “I had a whiskey people are helping me, and I don’t want to let them down. And really, deep down, I know there’s
before we shot, and on the second take I fell down the stairs,” she laughs, reaching under the nothing to worry about. Maybe now I’m in a position to start thinking about how I want to run
table to reveal a sizable scar on her right foot. “There was blood everywhere!” my career, and how I want my music to afect people…”
Whether or not she behaves like a pop star, Ware is fast gaining the following of one. A few Gesturing emphatically toward her heart, she concludes, “I guess I just want to know that
hours after this interview, her frst U.K. tour—which was sold out—will conclude with a per- people feel something, you know?” Zac BayLy
formance at Electric Brixton. She mentions the venue is just down the road from where we’re
seated, in Ritzy Cinema’s bar, and then points down another street, exclaiming, “I live just Jessie Ware in brighton, england, november 2012
down there!” The hometown performance will round out a stellar year for the artist, which saw PhotoGRaPhy daVId huGheS FaShIon mIcheLe RaFFeRty
the release of her frst album, Devotion, and its nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize. left: top VeRSace
While Ware frst gained attention for her sultry vocals on dubstep track “Nervous,” which she right: Jacket J BRand shirt GueSS
recorded with SBTRKT, she confesses that Devotion owes more to the infuence of soulful art-
ists such as Lauryn Hill and Sade than to London’s underground dance scene. devotion is available on april 2 from cherrytree/interscope
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“The best part of working together is our tennis match of creativity that never stops,” says Ruben Toledo. Their match-point
union, honed over a span of 30-plus years, has produced a museum-worthy archive of thought-provoking garments, fantastical
fashion illustrations, and enough books to fll a library. It is a symbiotic relationship that at its core is pure love.
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These immensely talented twosomes have the power to shape the mood
of a season with a single silhouette. Our closets would be lost without them
PHOTOGRAPHY MAX VON GUMPPENBERG AND PATRICK BIENERT FASHION SABINA SCHREDER
Asked to explain the best part of working in tandem with Francisco Costa at such a prestigious brand, Italo Zucchelli, ever
the passionate Italian, answers with his usual enthusiasm. “It’s being able to create something new within the codes that
Calvin created a long time ago,” he says. “To put our stamp on it, and add a more contemporary edge to that vision.” His friend,
the Brazilian-born Costa, is equally excitable when it comes to his trade. “My favorite collection is always the next one I’m
working on…I love designing and try never to look back.”
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Kenzo
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, Creative Directors
Having long-established a reputation as the curators of cool in New York, Tokyo, and London, college buds turned Opening
Ceremony shop owners took over as the creative directors of Kenzo in the Fall of 2011. “That frst collection for Kenzo holds
a special place in our hearts,” says Lim. “It was a moment of realization that we were actually full participants in the world of
Paris fashion.” The well-received debut, a mash of Japanese streetwear blended with Parisian panache, has fared well for the
friends from UC Berkeley and certainly for the LVMH-backed brand. Their pied piper personalities dovetail perfectly with
the label-loving hipster they tend to attract.
Proenza Schouler
Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, Founders and Creative Directors
Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough exude a boyish charm that can’t be beat. Their rise from Parsons students whose thesis
collection landed on the racks at Barneys to the heads of a multimillion dollar company was meteroic, and their youthful style feels
paramount to their continued success. “It’s always nice to have a partner in this process,” says Hernandez. “To have the opinion
of someone you respect—it is never a solitary process.” Financial viability (uptown fagship, requisite It Bag, etc.) and homerun
collections every season give credence to the trope that it takes two, no matter how grounded and amiable they are individually.
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Rodarte
Laura and Kate Mulleavy, Founders and Creative Directors
Launched in the Spring of 2005 to much fanfare, the Rodarte label has always thrived of the synchronicity of this sister act.
Their highly conceptualized collections are mind-blowingly creative, sparked by a wide swath of references ranging from
Japanese manga to the California redwoods (stationed near their hometown of Pasadena) to slasher flms and most recently
medieval times. With wide-eyed enthusiasm for all things pop culture, the pair can never fully satisfy their curiosity. The
secret to their success? “We understand each other without even having to fully communicate,” says Laura. “In many ways
we work as one person.”
Valentino
Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Directors
Describing a collection as pretty these days can come of as pejorative. Enter Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli of
Valentino, who since 2008 have redefned womenswear in their stunningly delicate collections. (Just look at their most recent
haute couture show to see how exquisite exquisite can be.) The conversation between them is one of propriety and subversion,
lightness and dark, all in the glamorous context of their founding father, Valentino Garavani. “Working as a duo allows us to
have a multifaceted vision thanks to the creativity and angle which each of us brings,” says Maria Grazia. “Our frst couture, the
black collection, our frst show with Rockstuds, our frst menswear, and our last couture show were defnitely great collabora-
tive projects,” says Piccioli, listing his favorites. “But for me too, the best is always yet to come.” Pretty, make way for beautiful.
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When Rihanna and Kate Moss are in the same room, their cosmic connection
is of the charts. Mario Testino turns up the heat on these fearless females in a saucy,
hypersexualized photo shoot that has already attracted international buzz
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The truth is that someone unexpected is to thank for this blessed pairing of fash-
ion’s and music’s favorite bad girls: Kate Moss’s young daughter, Lila Grace. “I was
a fan,” recalls the model of the pop star, “but what really started it was my daugh-
ter and her friends running round the house singing all the words to her songs.”
So when Moss cohosted the 2009 Met Gala with Marc Jacobs and found herself
sitting next to Rihanna, she did what any mother would do and whipped out her
phone and sheepishly asked for a picture together. “I was, like, Are you fucking
kidding me?” remembers Rihanna. “I was so starstruck. I’m not going to lie.”
When Moss explained that the photo was for her kid, Rihanna was even more
gobsmacked. “I didn’t know she had a child, and she still looks like this? So there’s
hope for people who want babies and still want to be sexy,” she laughs. Moss
remembers Rihanna that night too—“those amazing eyes”—and got her shot for
Lila. Rihanna took a picture of them on her phone too, which she still proudly
shows of today. Both women have made entirely their own choices, and done a terrifc job at
The two bumped into each other again last February at another fabulous fête: keeping writers for high-fashion glossies and down and dirty tabloids extremely
Stella McCartney’s presentation for a one-of dress collection, held at an old busy. They have been bold, beautiful, and unapologetic. They are, put bluntly, our
London church. Stationed at diferent tables, models and dancers had secretly culture’s favorite badass bitches. Though when I ask Moss if she would call herself
learned a choreographed number, which turned into a surprise fash mob that a bad bitch, she shuts me down: “That’s not very English, darling.” Rihanna, not
included Amber Valletta, Shalom Harlow, and Yasmin Le Bon perched on dinner surprisingly, was a little more into the classifcation. “That is true!” she cheers.
chairs and vogueing to Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” That should have been “I know for sure I’m a control freak. I am defnitely in control. That’s the kind of
enough excitement for the fashion-heavy crowd, but an equally thrilling collusion woman I am.”
was developing nearby. The chemistry between Kate, in a body-hugging cutout Moss is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to the media, and though she
minidress, and Rihanna, sporting a long bias-cut slip dress, was brewing. loosened up a little to grant a few interviews last year, in conjunction with the
Mario Testino had a front-row seat to their girlish antics, and when the photog- publication of her eponymous book, she remains mum today on the topics of
rapher asked Rihanna when they could schedule a shoot, Moss was keen to par- tabloids. Rihanna’s personal life has always been part of the public domain. “But
ticipate. “Kate overheard us talking and she said, ‘I want to do it with you!’ Again, I don’t read it anymore,” she says, adding that all the opinions coming at her via
I was like, Are you fucking kidding me?” says Rihanna with a laugh. “I was dying the Internet and her active social-media streams can sometimes overwhelm
on the inside. All my fantasies were coming true all at once: Mario, V, Kate Moss. her. “I already have too many voices in my head right now! I don’t have room
I was like, This is an amazing threesome!” (On the subject of that night, Moss for that other stuff. If I let that other stuff in, it’ll take the space of productive
is a little more cryptic. “I can’t remember what we talked about,” she says, then shit, and that isn’t good.” Has she ever posted anything on the Internet that she
with those trademark wide-set eyes dancing, adds, “It was a really good night.”) wanted to take down, or tried to correct a rumor? “It wouldn’t make a difference.
Moss—famously discovered at 14 by a modeling agent at New York’s JFK Airport There’s nothing we can do about that. There will always be them, and there will
and then revolutionizing the concept of high fashion and beauty—and Rihanna— always be me.”
the Barbadian babe turned pop sensation and nonstop hit machine—might not at The two love fashion as much as fashion loves them. How does Rihanna describe
frst seem a likely pairing. One is the queen of London cool, the other a hip-hop her personal style? “It’s an expression of my mood. I’m more of a spontaneous
fantasy. But it turns out the two have more in common than fashion-icon status: girl. I fnd myself drawn to the things that come together at the last minute. I hate
meager beginnings, careers that started in the trenches of industries only the when a look looks over-thought. I hate when fashion looks too contrived. I just
toughest can survive, and climbing to the absolute tops of their felds amid both throw myself in the closet and see what happens.” When asked who her favorite
cultish worship and criticism. designers are, Rihanna cites Tom Ford and Michael Kors. “Tom Ford is just pure
sex,” she explains. “Only the baddest bitch can wear that. And he knows how to
tailor things to women to make them look so desirable. Michael Kors is just easy
fashion that works for any age group. A girl can look sexy in the same dress when
she is 20 as when she is 50. He is timeless.”
Asked what designer inspires her now, Moss ofers only one: “Hedi [Slimane]’s
new collection for Saint Laurent. Obviously. Living for…”
On the set of the shoot, these bad girls kept it playful. “That was hilarious,” Moss
says, her nose scrunching up like a feline vixen. Afterward, they’re still gushing
about each other. “She is just an awesome, cool little rock star,” Rihanna says
of Moss. The concept of playing with each other using masculine and feminine
identities evolved organically, she says, and then, naturally, at the end, they got
naked. “And that was the best shot,” Rihanna laughs. “Take her top of and put
that bitch in my lap!”
So the obvious question: would they get topless with each other again? Kate’s
response: “In a heartbeat.” Rihanna: “That depends on the terms,” she laughs.
“But I’m sure Kate knows them.”
It’s impossible to do it all on your own. These fve power couples take each
other to the next level. Through love, hard work, and
sheer determination, they continue to grow. And we grow with them
Photo assistants Pavel Woznicki and Janneke de Jong Stylist assistant Hayley Pisaturo Set design assistant adam Santucci Location MetroDaylight Studio
Makeup for Yoko Ono Michiko Boorberg for YSL Beauty Grooming for Sean Lennon Kristin Gallegos for Laura Mercier (CLM)
Hair Wesley O’Meara for BanGStYLe (the Wall Group) Set design erin Swift (Kate Ryan Inc) Digital technician toto Cullen
Who or what inspires you these days?
YO Funny you should ask…I was just thinking that it’s getting to be inspiring to work with my son,
The unIversAlly Adored moTher And son
because he is so diferent from me in how he organizes things, and yet we talk the same language.
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So tell us, how has it been to grow up with and then work with each other? [silence] Okay, who wants to go frst?
Makeup Violette for Dior (Management Artists) Hair John Nollet (B Agency) Photo assistants Olivier Saillant, Frederic David, Xavier Arias, Ben Sollich Stylist assistant Manuel Estevez
Stephen Galloway. The former principal dancer for the Ballet Frankfurt—and movement director It’s all incredibly organic. I can’t liken working with them to anything else, except a masterful pas
for none other than Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones for 15 years—is one of the few individuals de trois. It’s about the rhythm, this furious kind of breath and excitement, and it’s never boring.
who often gets to insert himself into the duo’s creative process. Here, in his own words, he tells It’s a crazy dance macabre situation, also because they’re both so smart about everything. Every
of the rhythm and rewards of working with two of fashion’s most original artists. patrik sandberg photograph we take is often more than what it seems to be, because they make such incredible
references to everything from dance to fne art to commercial art, and even to flm.
Inez and Vinoodh would often come and see my performances in Frankfurt, with the William One example is when we did their last Gucci campaign. It was 16 images of 16 diferent models,
Forsythe Company, because we used to have a residence in Amsterdam and one in Paris—we and each model was wearing the same thing in each image. We would reposition them in the
were basically traveling all over and our path would cross theirs. I didn’t know them, but they same outft, and it ran over a period of six months. When they told me, I thought, How are we
came to see the company. I went to an exhibition of theirs in Holland. This was at the very begin- ever going to pull this of? Won’t people be tired of looking at all these girls in the same outft in
ning of their careers—they hadn’t even shot that infamous Yohji campaign yet. We would see every ad? But when they completed it, it was genius. That is the greatest feeling. stephen gaLLOWaY
each other as often as we could, and we always talked about doing something together because
I knew they love movement and theater. But for diferent reasons the opportunity would never inez & vinOOdh in neW YOrk citY, june 2009
come about. Then one day Inez called me when they were doing their frst campaign with phOtOgraphY inez & vinOOdh
TC The album is going to be an app. It will also exist in CD and digital form, but the primary
experience will be as an application. It will be built around the tablet, but will have a mobile
megastar and mastermind version as well.
How do you think the business of pop music will evolve?
menswear show, and Coach’s summer party last May. On a less celebratory note, DVF and the
CFDA (in partnership with Vogue) mobilized fashion’s hurricane relief eforts last November
The ongoing joke between Mayor Bloomberg and Diane von Furstenberg is that fashion is not in the aftermath of Sandy, raising $1.7 million to beneft the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New
his forte. (“I am a fashion designer’s nightmare,” he joked at a press conference in 2010. “He is York City and other organizations in the tristate area.
Photo assistant Stephanie Kessell
not a fashionista by any means. He is properly dressed,” she has told The New York Times.) But DVF’s reign as CFDA president doesn’t end until at least 2014, but Bloomberg’s time in
don’t be mistaken, the man values the industry. Since taking ofce in January 2002, he’s been a City Hall is coming to a close. We’re guessing he won’t be taking a runway bow when it comes
groundbreaking force in Manhattan’s fashion scene. And in 2006, when von Furstenberg became to the fashion realm, though—you can bet this power duo will continue to make moves. And
president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), the two of them teamed up to Mayor Bloomberg, for his part, will likely still be doing it in one of the same Paul Stuart suits
bring fashion (and politics) to a wider audience. and Brooks Brothers ties he’s been wearing since day one. Kristin tice studeman
Their friendship is powerful, indeed. It was Bloomberg who stepped in to help keep the
fashion shows at Bryant Park when the designers were being booted out and then advocated Mayor BlooMBerg and diane von furstenBerg in new york city, noveMBer 2012
for Lincoln Center to be the new home of NYFW. Alongside DVF, he’s also been an integral part PhotograPhy LincoLn PiLcher
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Current mood: Checked in Current soundtrack: The The, “This Is the Day” What are your most dueling characteristics?
My indiference to accepting love and my total obsessive love for indiferent people Do you have any idols? Bobby Gillespie and
Alan McGee What do you despise? Self-imposed cages What’s your favorite recent memory? Driving cross country on Route
66 in my little black convertible. Visiting Elvis’s grave. Having Leatherface paranoia in an abandoned Southern Baptist church at
3 am. Getting lost in a labyrinth in West Virginia and making it to New York just in time to bathe in confetti on New Year’s Eve
What would you attempt that you’ve never tried? Making money
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As much a harbor for artists as a hallowed destination for would-be megastars,
Los Angeles today is all about fusion. No wonder the new generation of underground
hybrids are calling it home—and causing quite a stir
Geneva Jacuzzi
Entertainer/Enigma, Leo (Cancer cusp)
Current mood: Forlorn Current soundtrack: Ariel Pink Rosenberg, my on-and-of boyfriend What are your most dueling characteristics?
I’m a horrible lover and I cheat. I make music but I’m late for parties. I don’t believe in duality and I am a pathological liar. Sweet and sour How
do you defne style? A bare ass, stripped of personality. Feminine products What do you despise? Rehab Describe what you’re working on
currently. New plays and new music. “Mark of the Bongo Human Street Trash,” “Into the Demi-Diagonal Incinerating Cunt of the Encephalitic
Troll Child,” “Bethelehem-Diaphram Dream Clown,” hence substituted for “The Platypus of Homosexual Romance,” “One Night Stains” Do you
have any premonitions for the future? More mouse and cat cartoons
Current mood: None Current soundtrack: Darkthrone “Under a Funeral Moon” Do you
have any idols? Allison Wolf, Joan Jett, Lesley Gore, Gangsta Boo What do you despise?
Sexism, misogyny, homophobia, racists, windows that have been sealed shut What is your
favorite thing about L.A.? Jupiter Keys from the band HEALTH What is your favorite
recent memory? Waking up this morning and going back to sleep Describe what you’re
working on currently. I’m on tour for our third record, (III)
Current mood: Drunk Current soundtrack: Anthony Bourdain’s The Layover What are your most dueling characteristics? I’m directing people to take advantage of me.
I’m in charge of everything and yet my image is about being a submissive pop angel. What do you despise? I’d like to be funny here, but truthfully, sexual discrimination. What
is your favorite thing about L.A.? Rosedale Cemetery, founded in 1884. It’s one of my favorite cemeteries because it has pyramid-shaped crypts. I also love Jumbo’s Clown Room
and Cheetahs, which are strip clubs. One day I want to have enough money to shower the strippers with at least 50 bucks at a time, with the fanning dollar method. What makes
you proud? Selfshly I will say the album that I self-released, Actually by Actually, and all my videos. My art is my life and it will always fll me with the greatest pain and pleasure.
Describe what you’re working on currently. VIKING ANGEL, my next album and short flm. The project will push the purity within me in order to get closer to the darkness of evil.
Current mood: Exhausted Current soundtrack: Flamin Groovies’ Rockfeld Sessions What are your most dueling characteristics? Probably chaos and order
Do you have any idols? Bette Davis What do you despise? It’s difcult to think of anything I could despise out of context. Maybe wasted time What is your favorite
thing about L.A.? The freeway as an American symbol, one of connection and isolation equally. I love this city so much it is difcult to pick one thing, that is about as
structurally encompassing as I can get without saying the county land plot itself. What would you attempt that you’ve never tried? Kiss the Pope
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Current mood: Calm Current soundtrack: Stretch 2 by Arca and Desert Strike by Fatima Al Qadiri
What are your most dueling characteristics? Human and machine Do you have any idols?
My friends, people brave enough to be themselves What is your favorite thing about L.A.?
Taco Zone, my official Los Angeles diet Describe what you’re working on currently.
Astral projection Do you have any premonitions for the future? The matrix. The future is
the knowledge of our creation and existence now
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Whether siblings, best friends, collaborators, or couples, these
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Ruby & Lily Aldridge
Model Sisters
The Aldridge sisters were rather predisposed for fabulous- Jacobs, and Louis Vuitton, among others. “I’m definitely
ness. Children of an English artist-illustrator father and a more the free spirit,” she says with a smile. “Lily was brutally
gorgeous Playboy bunny mum (back in the ’70s, when the shy when we were kids, and I would talk to anyone. I live in
mag had cachet), the L.A.-born beauties are totally magnetic, the East Village and she lives in the West Village. That sums
with respect to one another and the world around them. “We it up completely.” But whenever they meet in the middle, it’s
share the same quirky, goofy sense of humor,” says Lily, 27, a beautiful reunion. CHRISTOPHER BARNARD
the elder sibling, by six years. “It’s very natural and silly
when we’re together, no matter how long we’ve been apart.” FROM LEFT: Ruby wEaRs suiT STEllA McCARTNEy
The Victoria’s Secret model, who is also a new mom, splits bRa PRADA shOEs CHRISTIAN lOuBOuTIN
her time between New York and Nashville, where she resides LiLy wEaRs suiT and shOEs lANvIN Ring hER Own
with her husband, Kings of Leon front man Caleb Followill,
and their six-month-old daughter, Dixie. Ever boisterous, This sPREad: MakEuP kRisTin gaLLEgOs FOR LauRa MERciER (cLM)
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Liberty Ross & Amanda Harlech
Glamorous Kindred Spirits
Asked when they first became friends, Liberty Ross and Amanda
Harlech both hesitate to specify a date. Their sisterlike synergy
is not remotely disingenuous, it’s just that for these kindred
spirits, their affinity feels timeless. They found each other in
the rough-and-tumble fashion industry, at the altar of its high
priest, Monsieur Lagerfeld. (And who wouldn’t be drawn together
while basking in the soft glow of Chanel?) “I feel as though I have
known Amanda forever, but perhaps that is just because I have
always felt so at ease around her and oddly connected to her,”
says Ross. “I suppose I got to really know her when I started
working with Karl, when I was 19. I am very lucky to have her
as a friend.” For her part, Harlech is equally effusive: “Liberty
is part of where I came from as much as where I’m going,” she
says. “Subtle, distilled like a perfume, she senses everything a
beat before I do. I love the wisdom in the reach of her laugh,
her canny all-seeing eye, her compassion and verve and dance.
I think the same things move us—we can share without saying
a word.” SARAH CRISTOBAL
Initially it was a shared love of rock and roll that brought Alexa
Chung and Tennessee Thomas together. They met some years ago,
when Chung was frst auditioning to be a presenter at MTV and
Thomas’s then band, The Like, was her inaugural interview. “And
I got the job,” says Chung of their serendipitous encounter. They
spent the subsequent years bonding during high-spirited evenings
out in London, and eventually discovered “how inseparable we
really are” after moving to New York a year and a half ago. “It was
a long distance relationship before then,” jokes Thomas. Chung is
now anchoring a new half-hour music show called Fuse News, but
her days are not complete without checking in with her favorite
Bunny (Thomas’s actual middle name). “We’re neighbors in the
East Village and there are a few cafés that are equidistant from
our apartments,” explains Thomas. “And when a day goes by and
we don’t see each other…” “It’s just weird,” says Chung as if on
cue, before adding, “Tennessee makes me laugh, because I think
we’ve both got the same pun-brain, and quite often we have to try
to beat each other to the same sentence.” SC
The actors Imogen Poots and Penn Badgley met for the frst time says Poots, who also has a role in Terrence Malick’s upcoming
while flming Greetings from Tim Buckley, loosely based on the Knight of Cups. “I think of projects like boyfriends, in a bizarre
life of singer and guitarist Jef Buckley and slated to come out kind of way.” Badgley concurs: “Well, it is a relationship.” KB
later this year. Poots, a veteran of the indie-flm circuit, plays the
girlfriend of Badgley’s Jef. It’s a welcome change for the 26-year- penn wears Jacket 7 For All MAnKind
old Penn, whose contract with Gossip Girl ended earlier this Jeans G-StAr chain dAvid YurMAn
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says Poots, 23, recalling the time they spent running around the
streets of New York with their director, Dan Algrant. “We were this spreaD:
sort of going through similar things, and we really grew to trust makeup anD grooming kristin gallegos for laura mercier (clm)
each other,” adds Badgley. The music-loving duo agrees that the hair wesley o’meara for Bangstyle (the wall group)
biggest takeaway from the flm so far has been each other. “It manicure (thomas anD chung) casey herman for chanel (kate ryan inc)
really highlighted the importance and beauty in your costar,” hair assistant remy lane moore
Devonté Hynes & Solange Knowles
(Rhythm and) Soul Mates
Interviewed separately, friends and collaborators Solange a diverse audience of listeners who’d been desperate for sexy,
Knowles and Devonté “Dev” Hynes still manage to fnish each fun, emotionally authentic R&B. “I trust her,” Dev says, simply.
other’s sentences. “We met a few years ago. I was producing “So, yeah, it works! It’s always really, really smooth.”
Theophilus London and she came in to record,” Dev begins, For her part, Solange is content to continue working with
and Solange rounds out the anecdote, in perfect harmony: “I Hynes, whose vision she values so wholeheartedly that she gave
remember hearing the track, and the music evolved so efort- him an unexpected lead cocredit on the record. “Collaborating
lessly. The chemistry was extremely magical, and I think when- is extremely difcult,” she explains. “It can leave you in such
ever you fll that energy and space, there is something so mag- a vulnerable place to actually open up and share these ideas.
netic about it.” You can feel so extremely terrifed, and embarrassed almost.
Soon after they met, Dev was cowriting songs with a crew Everything is very seamless, and we’ve never encountered any
of diferent musicians for Solange’s new record, a follow-up to negative emotions—so it’s been really awesome.” PATRIK SANDBERG
2008’s doo-wop-infected Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams.
Solange found his impulses so spot-on that she decided to Dev wears shirt AlExANDER WANG Pants MIchAEl KoRS
make him a critical part of her evolving sound. “We were in socks FAlKE shoes chRISTIAN louBouTIN hat anD watch his own
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a chance she took.”
And it was one that paid of. The duo’s True EP, released this MakeuP anD grooMing regina harris (nars cosMetics) hair nikki nelMs
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Zosia Mamet & Jemima Kirke
Girls Will Be Girls
Anyone who has been surfng Tumblr lately will be happy to know
that yes, those endearing photos of the American-born stunner
Jasmine Tookes, 22, and Danish darling Tobias Sorensen, 25, mean
that they are indeed dating. Much like their blossoming careers,
their young love is flled with good fortune. She is a Victoria’s Secret
model who was catapulted into the fashion world after being pho-
tographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch at the age of
14, and he has recently been featured in major campaigns opposite
Dree Hemmingway and Lara Stone. Though Tookes’s thread of
ancestry runs through Europe, Africa, Brazil, and the West Indies,
her hometown is Huntington Beach, California, where Sorensen,
who hails from Copenhagen, is always welcome. “He gets along so
easily with my mom and my grandparents and my little sister. So,
I like that,” she says. Each half of the duo swears the other is the
goofall in the relationship, and they are keen to work together,
both on and of set. “We have a charity we are working on,” says
Sorensen, unwilling to divulge more of the matter. Leave it to these
two gorgeous people to always leave you wanting more. KB
To see Jenna Lyons and Courtney Crangi interact is akin brother Philip Crangi’s hipster-chic jewelry line, returns the
to watching two teenagers in love. During their first public sentiment: “I think the most amazing about Jenna, although
photo shoot together they are giddy with knowing smiles there are many amazing things about her, is really her grace
and stolen kisses. And they’ve certainly earned their right under pressure,” she says. “She’s just incredibly gracious at
to be happy. The New York Times recently anointed Lyons— all times.” SC
who serves as the president of J.Crew, where she has worked
for the past 22 years—as “the woman who dresses America,” from left: jenna wears shirt J. Crew jewelry her own
and that type of press does not come without a fair amount Courtney wears shirt rag & Bone braCelet (top) gileS & Brother
of public fixation. The media was particularly intense last ring (on pinky) eva Fehren all other jewelry PhiliP Crangi
year, when she extracted herself from a marriage in order
to live her life with Crangi. But having survived the storm, to see behind-the-sCenes videos from this series, go to vmagazine.Com
the statuesque superexec is now standing taller than ever.
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