Interview articles from April 2009

Interview archives from April 2009

April view: the future is coming very soon: Interview's editorial director and editor in chief discuss the issue.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... GLENN O'BRIEN: This started out as the Future issue. CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN: Then it became a sort of subliminal Future issue. O'BRIEN: Subliminal? BOLLEN: Well, there are still a lot of young people, like Zac Efron and Alison...

Edita Vilkeviciute gets down and dirty with America's squeaky-clean Disney heartthrob. It's all in a day's work for the rising Lithuanian model.(ViewGirl)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... MUDDYING UP America's sweetheart isn't such a dirty job after all. Twenty-year-old model Edita Vilkeviciute rolled around with Zac Efron for our cover shoot in Los Angeles this past January. On the day of the shoot, the Lithuanian-born beauty...

Alexander Ludwig has theories about the wildlife in the Magic Kingdom.(ViewGuy)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE FIRST TIME Alexander Ludwig was confronted by the forces of darkness he was in Romania filming the adventure flick The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007) against the backdrop of the economically beleaguered...

Juliette Lamboley: charts the course of her renegade acting career by following the fussy choices of those who came before her.(ViewGirl)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... AS AN INTROVERTED child, French actress Juliette Lamboley spent a lot of time watching movies with her film-buff parents--which turned out to be an asset, given her current profession. "When I was young, I took some theater courses as a sort of...

Our farflung friends see the world on their cameras and phones ...(Capture)(List)
April 1, 2009... DANIEL REICH GALLERIST--NOV. 25 | 6:02 P.M. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "This is a badminton birdie which seems to have actual bird feathers and a sporting stripe. I acquired it because it is one of the few sports I sort of know how to...

Telfar models himself after himself.(Discovery)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... AGE: 24. HOMETOWN: I was born in New York City and then grew up in Liberia. There was a civil war brewing there at the time, so I moved back to the States and went to high school in Gaithersburg, Maryland. CURRENTLY RESIDES: Red Hook, Brooklyn....

Jen Chia took a medical leave from MIT and moved into a New York commune, then ...(Discovery)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AGE: 23. HOMETOWN: I was born in Nebraska. Then I moved to San Francisco, New York City, New Jersey, and went to college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now I'm back in New York. REASON FOR RETURNING TO NEW YORK: I...

Black ties are now required.(Dress Code)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TODAY SOME PEOPLE are strapped for cash, others are strapped for kicks. Times are tight, and somehow bondage is back in style, with black straps pulling looks together, especially on the object of everybody's...

Ed Ruscha gets fired up about the paper collages of Francesca Gabbiani.(Nominations: THE GREATS INTRODUCE A NEW GENERATION)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "HERE COMES FRANCESCA and her elaborate entrances into other worlds," pronounces artist Ed Ruscha. Clearly the iconic L.A. painter has spent some time standing in front of Francesca Gabbiani's work. "Up close, the...

Taz Arnold risks a reputation as hoarder to show off a lifelong collection of accessories that fills every inch of his home.(Obsessions)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THERE ARE COLLECTORS, and then there's Taz Arnold. A self-described "creative pack rat," the roving musician ("Imma Vote Obama Way") and designer is one of the great hoarders, like a Collyer brother of high fashion....

Kid Cudi raps about hard love and hot-boxed apartments.(Positivity)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MIXING QUIRKY with clunky and making it all sound sexy is no small feat, but cocky, oddball charm is rapper Kid Cudi's secret weapon. Born Scott Mescudi, the 25-year-old Cleveland native moved to Bushwick, Brooklyn,...

Erin Wasson made her modeling money zipping around the world, but it's her little Venice Beach skater hideaway that keeps her young and sane.(Cribs & Gardens)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I MOVED into this house in Venice Beach six years ago. I'm in New York more, but I try to come back to L.A. pretty often. The house is only about 900 square feet, but the best part is the big backyard. I always had...

Margo Feiden, previously undisclosed witness, finally tells the real story of why Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol.(History Rewrite)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... MARGO FEIDEN IS a real old-fashioned New York bohemian character. As you'll read here, she started out as a child prodigy in Broadway theater, and then, at the age of 23, a bizarre and, until now, unrevealed event changed her life forever. She...

Girls are two Bay Area boys making mellow rock bent on uniting the whole world. Did you think-lo-fi love jams were only for biological girls?(Pop Sincerity)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IF IT WERE POSSIBLE to take all of the psychedelic, polysexual, hippie-dippy, let's-all-just-roll-around-in-the-grass-and-get-high utopian visions that are conjured when thinking about San Francisco and somehow...

Kieran Culkin knows that every family is damaged, not just famous ones. He's managed to become his own man by steering clear of the fame trap and deciding that the family craft is more of a choice than a life sentence.(Black Sheep)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... THE THING THAT'S STRIKING about Kieran Culkin in person is his indistinctiveness: He's smaller, more diffuse, and more everyguy than the sharp and damaged characters on which he's made his name. In blue jeans and jacket he's unrecognizable on...

Giorgio Armani has landed. Manhattan's newest ultradeluxe emporium contains everything Armani (including the soul of the man himself).(Moon Shopping)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... Although Giorgio Armani is the definitive Italian designer, we've always considered him an honorary New Yorker. From his tailored '80s power suits, which basically created Wall Street chic, to his A|X fine, which keeps today's downtown youth...

Dr. Martha Stout is a psychologist and author who delves into the world of the sociopath. Studies show that there are more than 10 million of them in America. Could be your boss, your spouse, even a president. They get their kicks at your expense. Here's how to spot one and what to do next.(Conscience (lack of))(Interview)
April 1, 2009... YOU KNOW THEM. They look just like us. They eat the same foods we eat, wear the same clothes we wear, and sleep under the same stars we sleep under--you could even be sleeping next to one of them and not even know it. You've seen these people...

Chloe Sevigny finally gives New York boys a chance with her debut Fall men's collection.(Lumberjack Mode)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IF MOST GUYS I know magically turned into girls, they'd want to look and dress like Chloe Sevigny. New York ladies got that opportunity in Spring 2008 when the actress partnered with the zeitgeisty downtown fashion...

Semi-conspicuous consumption.(Newsworthy)
April 1, 2009... WE ASSUME, DEAR READER, that you already have taste and personality and that you don't rebuild your identity daily out of fashions worn, bands supported, or art ogled. So accept our tips in the casual spirit in which they are given. ...

Craig Taylor makes a heartbreaking PDF of staggering Internet genius. His literary revolution comes to you by e-mail.(Digital Lit)(Portable Document Format)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... "I'M NOT A FAN of precious literary magazines," swears 32-year-old London-based writer and editor Craig Taylor. Taylor has always preferred high comedy to high seriousness--case in point being his previous gig for the Guardian, where he penned...

Romain-Gavras learned about provocative filmmaking on his rad dad's left knee, but he's perfected a choreography of music, anarchy, and gang violence all by himself.(Heredity)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HIS GOAL IS SIMPLE: "To rule the world" The 27-year-old French director is a cofounder of Kourtrajme, a 136-member art and filmmaking collective in Paris that incorporates hip-hop and graffiti sensibilities into...

Belt it out.(Tighten Up)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... TRICKY TIMES call for literal belt-tightening. Liven up last season's clothes with new waist decor. Tight garter-snake-thin wraparounds, alone or in groups. You may have lost your shirt, but you can still keep your pants up. Belt: MIU MIU....

Dr. Fredric Brandt, the ultimate beauty doctor, is the closest thing we have to a fountain of youth. He uses science, not magic. The only miracle is getting an appointment.(Rejuvenation)(Interview)
April 1, 2009... I STARTED HEARING his name whispered around town more than a decade ago. I heard that he had rejuvenated the faces of a lot of celebrities, that a certain single-named singer was a favorite client, and that he used techniques so advanced no one...

Mankind's sartorial future.(The Fashion Grapevine)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... EVEN WHEN we're at the fashion shows, we see people texting like mad. Are they running the office from the front row? Are they posting on Facebook? Sometimes it's probably just a play-by-play commentary about the clothes, the models, and the...

Dirty Zac: Zac Efron, High School Musical's well-scrubbed big man on campus, is the teen nation's most toned, tanned, Twittered-about obsession. But, lately, he's been thinking about the future and--OMG!--is he ready to graduate.(Cover story)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] UNLESS YOU'VE GOT children of a certain age, you probably haven't seen much of Zac Efron's work. This is it, so far, in a nutshell: Efron is the star of Disney's...

Marianne Faithfull has spent more than four decades channeling her checkered life of addictions, dark troughs, and Rolling Stones into some of the most elegantly damaged music this side of the Great Abyss. And no, it hasn't been easy.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... TALKING TO Marianne Faithfull over the day's first coffee is a bit like waking up for cocktails. She's alert and energetic, but chicly world weary. Her conversation is direct but subtle, wry but sincere. Faithfull has been there, done that, and...

Miuccia, Rem, and Francesco transforming the very soon.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MIUCCIA PRADA and REM KOOLHAAS have already transformed fashion, art, and architecture. But with their latest cultural project, the Prada Transformer, in Seoul, South Korea, this summer, the longtime...

Today's version of Patti Smith performs like she's on fire (and sometimes she is). But Alison Mosshart also loves ice-skating and watching Gossip Girl. The feminine half of the band The Kills might tour forever--unless the bus driver runs away with all their equipment again.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ETCHED in black ink on the heel of Alison Mosshart's left hand is a tattoo: "14-2-02"--Valentine's Day, 2002. It's a very important date for the 30-year-old...

Sophie's choice: Sophie Calle may be a piece of work, but her work is art.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... SOPHIE CALLE uses disturbing personal details of her life--and sometimes she appropriates "inappropriate" details of other people's lives, whether they know it or not--us the raw material of her work. It is sensational, in a way. But her work...

Crawling into bed with a sense of style.(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even the most dapper guys neglect dressing for dreamland. But in a world where nightmares lurk, the best nocturnal look is prepared for anything, whether it's rapid eye movement, total unconsciousness, or that new...

Dance babies dance: amazing baby, the next hot psychedelic-rock band from Brooklyn, has yet to actually put out an album. Maybe it's because they spend an inordinate amount of time trying to prove they aren't drugged-out, nudist hippies.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SITTING DOWN on a weekday afternoon with the five members of Brooklyn's Amazing Baby is a bit like walking in on a party at your best friend's house that you didn't even know was happening....

Chris Blackwell put Jamaica on the musical map, helped shepherd in the golden age of British rock, lit the fuse on Bob Marley's Rasta uprising, and launched U2 into the stratosphere, transforming the music bushiness in the process. As the label he founded, Island Records, celebrates its 50th anniversary, he surveys what he hath wrought.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... "I'M NOT in the record business" says Chris Blackwell, founder of the seminal label Island Records and nurturer of the careers of Steve Winwood, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, U2, and others too numerous to name. "The business is not more important...

If you were searching for the future direction of fashion, your first stop would-probably not be Milan, a one-industry town. Nor would you look to an iconic luxury label that's been around for decades. But Tommaso Aquilano & Roberto Rimondi, who have taken over the reins at Gianfranco Ferre, are proving that the future has arrived in Milan, and it doesn't mean sacrificing la dolce vita.(Interview)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MILAN, ITALY: the Los Angeles of Europe. A smog-filled, culturally parched economic engine in the middle of a famously lovely land, it...

Angels in America; now at the mall.(Society)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "... an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm." --George W. Bush's inaugural...

Drew Barrymore was a star at 7 in E.T., (and a starlet at 5 in her debut, Altered States). She hasn't come down since.(Back Page: AUGUST 1982)(Brief biography)
April 1, 2009... ACTUALLY, DREW BARRYMORE, the youngest member of America's foremost acting family (her grandpa was the great John Barrymore), made her dramatic debut in a Puppy Chow commercial when she was less than a year old--beating out 90 other babies for...