Interview articles from February 2009

Interview archives from February 2009

View February '09.(Discussion)
February 1, 2009... INTERVIEW'S EDITORIAL DIRECTORS DISCUSS... GLENN O'BRIEN: Hey, this is our first official issue of Interview's 40th anniversary year. FABIEN BARON: Forty? That sounds so old. GO: But it's good. Magazines aren't like people. People...

Alden Ehrenreich.(View GUY)(Interview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stars have been discovered in drugstores and on street corners. But by Steven Spielberg at Southern California bat mitzvahs? Not so much. However, that is exactly what happened to Los Angeles native Alden Ehrenreich....

Kimberley Nixon.(View GIRL)(Interview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kimberley Nixon might not have the cunning, duplicitous streak of a bona fide femme fatale, but she certainly has no trouble channeling one onscreen. The 23-year-old Welsh actress is at the center of the forthcoming...

Phoenix Martin.(DISCOVERY)(Interview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AGE: 26. HOMETOWN: Lawrence, Kansas. OCCUPATION: Artist. CURRENTLY RESIDES: Chelsea, New York City. CAREER GOAL: To find a job that consists of drawing and writing anything and everything in my own font. Not using...

Thomas McDonell.(DISCOVERY)(Interview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... AGE: 22. HOMETOWN: New York City. CURRENTLY RESIDES: The East Village. OCCUPATION: Artist. DAY JOB: I was working for a gallery in the West Village, but I just sort of stopped. Now I'm working on my own things, painting mostly. BEST ODD JOB: I...

Capture.(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... WE ASKED SOME OF OUR FRIENDS TO SHOOT THE WORLD FROM THEIR PHONES AND SEND IT TO US [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "November 5, standing on a mountaintop, looking at heaven, and out of the mist came Christ. What happens in Rio stays in...

Paul Sevigny's apartment.(HOME)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I've lived in the same building in the East Village since '95 or '96. This is my third apartment here. At one point I lived on the roof, but it got to be too much carrying four crates of records--50 pounds each--up...

Playlists.(MUSIC)(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... NO LONGER IS DANCE MUSIC ABOUT A BILLBOARD HIT ON HEAVY ROTATION. TODAY WHAT YOU PLAY IS ONLY AS IMPORTANT AS HOW YOU PLAY IT (AND IN WHAT ORDER). IF THE AURA OF THE RECORDING ARTIST IS DIMMING. THEN THE CULT OF THE DJ IS RISING. WE ASKED NINE...

Crystal heeling.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... FINALLY THERE'S A GOOD REASON TO STARE AT YOUR FEET AT A PARTY. DESIGNERS ARE UPPING THE OOMPH LEVEL ON SHOES, DECKING THEM OUT IN KALEIDOSCOPIC CRYSTALS AND GEMS, BRINGING NEW MEANING TO "LIGHT ON YOUR FEET" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Tallulah Harlech: the daughter of fashion royalty decides to strike out on her own in New York. Who can blame her, when an old family friend by the name of Karl Lagerfeld comes calling?(ON THE TOWN)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Tallulah Harlech's first Karl Lagerfeld memory goes something like this: At age 12, she was taken by her mother, Lady Amanda Harlech, backstage at the 2000 Chanel couture show. Lady Harlech was doing walk-throughs with the models, and Tallulah...

Victor Glemaud: he's been in the fashion industry since his teens. So why did it take this prodigy so long to create his own menswear line? It's not easy perfecting a look.(ON THE TOWN)(Interview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the biggest differences between Paris and New York, at least when it comes to street fashions, is that in New York one can be heckled, whereas in most cases the French just squint, drag on their cigarettes,...

Michael Stipe & Douglas Coupland: one defined a generation in music, the other in literature, but the R.E.M. front man and the Vancouver-based novelist both have serious sidelines in visual art. The future of art may be in the download, but hey, a renaissance has to start somewhere.(ART)(Discussion)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Stipe and Douglas Coupland met at the presidential inauguration for Bill Clinton in 1993, and they've been discussing culture and ideas with each other ever since. While the public is already quite familiar...

Nate Lowman: he used to cover gallery walls with bullet holes. But he's traded in the gun for a smiley face. Has the bad boy artist finally gone soft? Or is the smiley face smiling about something weird and terrible?(ART)(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LEATHER TRENCH COAT: BELSTAFF JEWELRY: LOWMAN'S OWN. EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OF NATE LOWMAN AT INTERVIEWMAGAZINE.COM Leo Fitzpatrick attempted to interview Nate Lowman twice before they finally got it right. The...

Sunglasses at night.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER TO BE SEEN THAN TO SEE. THE BEST PART ABOUT WEARING A CHOICE SET OF SHADES TO A CLUB AT NIGHT IS THAT YOU CAN STAY OUT LATE AND NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HOW YOU'LL FEEL WHEN THE SUN COMES UP. WE TOOK TO FOUR NEW YORK...

Gwen Ifill: as the country swears in its first black president, a new book explores the complex conundrums of the race card in 21st-century American politics.(BOOKS)(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gwen Ifill was born in the mid-1950s, before the civil rights movement, when no one could imagine that before the 20th century was out, America would have black television news anchors, senators, and governors, let...

Friday the 13th special effects: exclusively for Interview, Hollywood makeup artist Scott Stoddard demonstrates on Friday star Travis Van Winkle how he created Jason's Handiwork for the 2009 remake of the all-time slasher classic.(MAKEUP)(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a dark warehouse in West Hollywood, 26-year-old actor Travis Van Winkle is slumped shirtless in a chair, his head tossed back and the right side of his face pummeled beyond repair. Van Winkle's blond hair is...

The London dubstep scene: the latest music craze pulsing through London's underground clubs is so loud that it can't stay hidden much longer. Dubstep is less a party and more a sonic insurrection.(MUSIC)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anyone who likes to experience music at mind-alteringly loud volumes should attend a dubstep night immediately. The latest sound to infect the London underground is a combination of skittering beats, ass-quaking bass...

Giorgio Armani store opening.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Accessories can make or break an outfit, but leave it to Giorgio Armani to create pieces so beautiful it really doesn't matter what else you have on. To celebrate this month's opening of the Italian powerhouse's newest--and largest--flagship on...

Jeremy Scott collaborations.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ultimate fashion insider has finally embraced the populace. Ever-experimental designer Jeremy Scott--who has been known to venture into one-legged pants territory--has a number of collaborations on the horizon...

Jakob Kolding show.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Danish-born, Berlin-based artist Jakob Kolding grew up outside of Copenhagen during a period of mass urban planning endemic to so many European cities in the 1970s. In his show opening February 19 at New York's Team...

Mr Oizo's new LP.(AGENDA)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oiseau is French for bird. Mr. Oizo (pronounced the same, wah-zoh), however, is the nom de guerre of Frenchman Quentin Dupieux, the prolific DJ and producer, and a major player for Ed Banger Records. Prior to signing...

Adam Lippes for Mango.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Designer Adam Lippes joins the ranks of fashion's collaboration-happy coterie with the March release of Adam for Mango, the first of two limited-edition womens-and menswear lines that he will design for the Spanish...

Geo-birdhouse.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the late '60s, geodesic domes were a hippie ideal of communal living, often hand-built from salvaged materials. Ironically, the military used the domes as protective housing for expensive radar equipment. Today a...

Sofia Coppola for Louis Vuitton.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hermes rightfully named a bag after Jane Birkin. Now Louis Vuitton has its own ingenue expat in Paris to serve as its muse: Sofia Coppola visited LV's Special Orders workshop in Asnieres last year to buy something...

Love launch.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not everyone can get away with naming a fashion magazine after the soppiest word in the English language. But then, Katie Grand acclaimed style editor and major force behind some of the U.K.'s most formidable...

Motorola AURA.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We've all bee a bit spendthrift during these tough economic times. But before you balk at the $2,000 price tag on Motorola's new AURA phone, consider what you're paying for: The front cover alone takes nearly two...

William Van Meter's true-crime story.(NEWS)(Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky )(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2009... In his first book, Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky (Free Press), writer William Van Meter returns to his native state to break down the murder of Katie Autry (pictured), an 18-year-old college student and foster child who was...

Klara Liden show.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the 2006 video Bodies of Society (pictured), Swedish-born performance artist Klara Liden destroyed a bicycle parked in a bare apartment by smashing it to death with a rod. In 2004, at the downtown New York City...

Diesel store opening.(NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Renzo Rosso won't let you stop shopping, economy be damned. On February 18 on Fifth Avenue in New York City, the Diesel president is opening the world's largest Diesel store the fourth Diesel Planet, in addition to...

Lena Dunham's feature film.(NEWS)(Movie review)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Lena Dunham wrote, directed, shot, and starred in her first feature film, Creative Nonfiction, while she was attending Oberlin College in Ohio. The New York City native graduated only last year, but her film has already been screened by Art...

On the rocks.(JEWELRY)(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHILE THE SLUMPING ECONOMY IS IN DANGER OF MAKING CASH WORTH ABOUT AS MUCH AS KLEENEX, THE BEST PLACE TO INVEST YOUR SAVINGS MAY VERY WELL BE IN DIAMONDS. WHETHER TO WEAR, COLLECT, OR KEEP IN A SAFE-DEPOSIT BOX FOR...

Sofia Coppola nominates Frank Benson.(NOMINATIONS: ESTABLISHED ARTISTS NOMINATE RISING STARS OF THE NEXT GENERATION)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I loved his sculpture of a chocolate fountain," says filmmaker Sofia Coppola, who came upon the New York--based artist Frank Benson's work last October at the Frieze Art Fair in London. "It was so well done. I had...

Pierre Berge: a collector sells all: empire builder Pierre Berge conspired with his longtime companion, designer Yves Saint Laurent, to create the ultimate collection. Now he's auctioning it off. But Monsieur Berge hasn't got time to get sentimental. If paintings make you cry, talk to a shrink, not him.(ART)(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pierre Berge met Yves Saint Laurent in 1958. In 1961, Berge cofounded the couture house that bears his late longtime companion's name. Today, at 78, Berge, whose combination of panache and intellectual conviction...

Fashion goes neo-geo: what inspired what they're wearing this spring? From where we sat, it looked like architecture, op art, and a sort of forgotten art moment called neo-geo. Obviously it's the shape of the future.(RUNWAY CHAT)(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... ALL LOOKS AND ACCESSORIES FROM THE SPRING/SUMMER 2009 COLLECTIONS. Chat with Interview AIM IM with interview 12/10/08 10:36 AM [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Proenza Schouler were dotty like Damien Direct Instant Message session...

Lindsay Lohan: what do you really know about her? Does that lilting name conjure up a stunning face? Or a lot of vaguely nasty notions fed by rumor and sold by Tabloid Sleazemongers? What if she were, in fact, a sort of saint sold as sinner, an inner beauty with a face to match, a true talent tortured by naive misadventure malignly cast? Want the truth about Miss Lohan? Lauren Hutton gets it.(Interview)(Cover story)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] She's got the bones of a flamingo and the spirit of a gladiator. And I agreed to do this interview because I was curious how young celebs in the 21st century (the last gasp of the patriarchies) are replaying the...

Dolce & Gabbana: the most famous duo in fashion may not always dance to the same beat--or even in the same room. But they do know perfectly well how to play off each other to stunning effect, and as they celebrated Domenico's 50th birthday in Milan last September with a star-studded fete, it became spectacularly clear that the party at the Dolce & Gabbana disco is just getting warmed up.(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] A conversation with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana reminds me of rafting--except my wild ride is on torrents of words rather than water. English, Italian, and the verbal shorthand born of a very close...

Lily.(Lily Allen)(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In the last three years, lily Allen has become a myspace poster girl, released a hit record, achieved international fame, punched a paparazzo, gotten drunk at an awards show, slagged off Madonna, and kicked in the...

Before Leigh Bowery and his mid-'80s London club night Taboo came along being a freak was not a fine art form. Pop star and DJ Boy George remembers the legendary scene where glamorous polysexual debauchery and head-to-toe body makeup went along with the music.(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "Dress as though your life depends on it or don't bother," Leigh Bowery notoriously said when describing the code of attire for his night on Thursdays at a club called Maximus off of London's Leicester Square. The...

Roman Polanski may soon be permitted back into the U.S., But he's made some of his most compelling films while in exile from the Hollywood machine. As he collaborates with artist Francesco Vezzoli on a commercial for a fictional perfume starring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams, the director talks about the perils of the movie world and the pleasures of skiing drunk at night.(Interview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] When Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli went looking for a director to help him make his latest artwork, he went straight for the biggest. Vezzoli's productions have always served up larger-than-life spectacles...

Can you digit? Mirrors don't make it anymore. Now you can check your screen look at home before the paparazzi snap. These girls are ready for their own warhol film, taking some style cues from '70s superstar Jane Forth--slick scalp, big eyes, no brows, and stoplight red lips. Roll 'em!(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] DRESS: MOSCHINO, EARRINGS: MARC JACOBS. BANGLES: LOUIS VUITTON. RIBBONS (THROUGHOUT): MOKUBA. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THIS PAGE TOP AND SKIRT: PRADA. BUSTIER: CALVIN KLEIN UNDERWEAR. EARRINGS AND BANGLES:...

Mickey Rourke.(Interview)
February 1, 2009... As a teenage welterweight out of South Florida, Mickey Rourke learned how to fight. His willingness to throw punches--and his ability to take them--served him well as both a boxer and an actor. Until, of course, it didn't, and he found himself...

Growers versus showers.(SOCIETY)(nightclubs)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When it comes to nightclubs, smaller is better. Smaller venues make up for scale and special effects with privacy and intimacy. Some clubs, like some people, are Showers, and put on a big show; others, Growers, just...

October 1981: Diana Ross.(BACK PAGE)(Brief article)(Photograph)
February 1, 2009... OUR COVER GIRL, THE 37-YEAR-OLD SUPREME EX-SUPREME, HAD A NO. 1 HIT, "ENDLESS LOVE (WITH LIONEL RICHIE), AND TALKED WITH ANDY WARHOL ABOUT NIGHTCLUBBING, PRIVACY, DESSERT, AND HOW HER BODY WAS IN ITS BEST SHAPE EVER [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Patrick McMullan.(Interview)
February 1, 2009... There are a lot of celebrity photographers, but there is only one celebrity celebrity photographer. Patrick McMullan didn't achieve this status overnight. He toiled for years in the nightlife trenches, working the clubs, staying up late and...