Interview articles from March 2009

Interview archives from March 2009

View March' 09: interview's editorial directors discuss the issue, Blackberry to Blackberry.(Discussion)
March 1, 2009... FABIEN BARON: Can you hear me? GLENN O'BRIEN: Sort of. Where are you? FB: In a car in the desert. I'm shooting. GO: In Iraq? FB: No, California. GO: What's that noise? It sounds like explosions. FB: The wind. I'll...

Sam Hayes: meet Sam Hayes in video Interview magazine.com.(DISCOVERY)(Interview)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AGE: 21. HOMETOWN: Marin County, California. It's an interesting place. John Walker Lindh [the "American Taliban" I went to my high school, and I could see San Quentin prison from my...

Capture.: we asked some of our friends to shoot the world from their phones and send it to us.(Photograph)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Leonard Cohen playing at l'Olympia in Paris on my birthday last November. Predictably, I cried." --Christopher Bollen, INTERVIEW'S EDITOR IN CHIEF [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "We all know that when we are...

Tom Payne.(View GUY)(Interview)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Tom Payne is done acting like a teenager. As the Essex, England-born actor pointedly puts it, "I'm 26, and I'm finally getting to play characters in their early twenties." After a small but attention-grabbing role in Bharat Nalluri's 2008...

Eleanor Tomlinson.(View Girl)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] British director Gurinder Chadha has a good eye for spotting up-and-coming talent, as when she cast a then virtually unknown Keira Knightley in 2002's Bend It Like Beckham. Now Chadha is touting Eleanor Tomlinson as...

Christopher Bailey nominates George Craig: established artists nominates rising stars of the next generation.(NOMINATIONS)
March 1, 2009... "He's an incredibly talented young British musician," says Burberry designer and creative director Christopher Bailey, who not only proclaims himself a fan of the burgeoning British indie band One Night Only but was so impressed by 18-year-old...

Kalup Linzy: performance artist Kalup Linzy isn't just one of the art world's brightest new gender-bending characters--he's many of them.(ART)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Perhaps the best way to understand Kalup Linzy's brand of performance art is to stay home on a week-day and watch television. Soap operas in particular play a large role in the Linzy oeuvre, with many of his videos...

A fashionista's recession musts.(RUNWAY CHAT)(Brief article)(Photograph)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EVER WONDER WHAT THOSE GIRLS AT THE SHOWS ARE TEXTING SO MADLY ABOUT? PARTIES THAT NIGHT? WHO'S DOING WHOM? NO, IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT...

James Jebbia is supreme: James Jebbia built a fiercely independent internationally obsessed-over, street-fashion cult and skating-goods empire as a purveyor of clothes you can wear, art you can ride, and sneakers you can't find. So what's his prescription for surviving these sallow economic times? To make like the president and keep it cool.(Fashion)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Supreme is a different sort of fashion company. Some people would call Supreme street fashion, some would call it skater fashion, but really it's beyond classification. They make clothes and accessories, but they...

Mary Gaitskill's new stories.(AGENDA)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MARY GAITSKILL'S NEW STORIES National Book Award-nominated author Mary Gaitskill returns this month with Don't Cry (Pantheon), her first collection of stories in more than a decade. Known for her complicated female...

Andree Putnam for Swarovski crystallized.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Swarovski is synonymous with high-end emballishment. These days, their precision-cut crystals adorn everything from sunglasses to cell phones, and, of course, the necks, fingers, wrists, and ears of certain lucky...

Dan Deacon's new album.(AGENDA)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2007, Baltimore musician Dan Deacon released Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark Records), an electro-dance-pop album that was so explosively upbeat it got too-cool kids everywhere spaz-dancing like 6-year-olds off...

A.P.C. Collaborations.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... A.P.C. is all about clean and classic, so don't expect their two Spring/ Summer 2009 sportswear collaborations to mess around much with the formula of its vintage inspirations. The A.P.C. take on the classic K-Way jacket--the iconic French...

Dior Homme Metal accessories.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though we wouldn't call these pieces vanities, this spring, Dior Homme Metal covers its brass accessories with mirror finishes. Comprising a business card holder, money clip, and cigarette case, the line suggests...

The Gap's new swimwear collection.(NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since taking the design reigns at Gap, Patrick Robinson has almost single-handedly reinvigorated the brand. Now he's got backup. Last April, he recruited Mireille Gindrey to oversee GapBody, and her first swimwear...

Mac Hello Kitty.(NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The reigning princess of all things cute, coy, and electric-pink has finally expanded into the makeup market. Hello Kitty, the iconic Japanese cat and former UNICEF ambassador (seriously), is partnering with MAC Cosmetics on a line of beauty...

Andre's Belvedere IX bottle.(NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vodka is not exactly a daytime drink (well, maybe not For you), so Belvedere's new IX (pronounced "One-X") spirit can be found, for now, only in nightclubs. To ensure its visibility in dark rooms with pulsing music,...

Christina Kruse show.(NEWS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christina Kruse is a multitalented German model who's walked for everyone from Miuccia to Marc. She spends her off-runway time creatively, taking meticulously staged photographs of women (she's shot some beautifully...

Grey gardens: there may be nothing more sartorially sacred in cinema than the fashion in the Maysles brothers' 1975 documentary gray gardens. For the upcoming HBO feature film, costume designer Catherine Thomas channeled big and little Edie--without copying them.(BEHIND THE SCENES)(Catherine Thomas)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... In 1973, when filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, along with Ellen Hovde and Muffle Meyer, directed a 94-minute documentary about a reclusive mother and daughter who bore a passing relation to former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...

Hamish Bowles collects couture: haute couture is fashion's fine art, and vouge's hamish bowles, self-made historian, has a sort of private museum in a warehouse in Queens. Here's how youthful obsession built a worldclass collection.(OBSESSIONS)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hamish Bowles is not of the opinion that fashion is best appreciated on a short-term memory. For more than 30 years, the British style maharishi and longtime European editor at large at American Vogue has been...

Spotted.(FASHION)(Photograph)
March 1, 2009... THE LEOPARD IS A NEAR-THREATENED SPECIES. BUT ITS SPOTS ARE EVERYWHERE, FROM THE RUNWAYS TO THE STREETS. SO WHEN YOU SPOT ITS SPOTS, REMEMBER WHERE THAT FIERCE LOOK COMES FROM, AND HONOR THE CAT RESPONSIBLE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Steve McQueen: the director whose first feature film captivated cannes is actually one of the art world's most prolific video artists. Can he balance the cineplex and the gallery?(ART)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Steve McQueen, who won Britain's esteemed contemporary art honor, the Turner Prize, in 1999, recently directed his first feature. Hunger is a searing prison drama that won the Camera d'or at Cannes last year and is...

Marika Thunder Nuss: on the eve of her first solo show, the expressionist artist and fourth-grader talks about what's wrong with the White House, what's right with the Beatles, and what's cool about walking down the street.(ART)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Marika Thunder Nuss started drawing, she only drew animals. Her main subjects were hyenas and (later) cats. She never had any interest in drawing humans before she turned 7 or 8. In fact, she wasn't even...

Sentimental journey.(FASHION)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JUNYA WATANABE'S SPRING COLLECTION HAS ONE MESSAGE FOR MEN: SEE THE WORLD. AND DON'T LET YOUR WARDROBE STOP YOU. IT SHOULD LEAD THE WAY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For several seasons now, Japanese designer Junya...

Richard Phillips: he's been accused of bringing sexy back to painting, drawing on porn as much as politics. He's trying to destabilize our way of seeing--he can't help it if you're turnes on in the process.(ART)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I first met Richard Phillips in the early 1990s, he was living and working in a tiny studio in New York City's East Village that barely accommodated his six-foot-five frame. At the time, he was looking for a way...

Heartbreak.(MUSIC)
March 1, 2009... RIGHT: SEBASTIAN MURAVCHIK (LEFT) AND ALI RENAULT IN LONDON, NOVEMBER 2008. ALL CLOTHING: HUGO BY HUGO BOSS. FRAGRANCE: BOSS PURE. STYLING: ANDREW DAVIS/LISA GORMAN AGENCY. HAIR: LISA EASTWOOD/ PREMIER. MAKEUP: SILVER BRAMHAM/PREMIER. SPECIAL...

Uptown, downtown, all around.
March 1, 2009... IT WOULDN'T BE NEW YORK WITHOUT UPTOWN, WHERE CHIC WAYS AND COOL SOPHISTICATION RESIDE. WITH THE URBANITY AND THOROUGHBRED VANITY. THE COUTURE AND THE DEMURE AND THE DELIGHTFULLY COLORFUL INSANITY THAT RUNS IN THE FAMILY TREES. WE'RE TOO RICH...

Milla: she was discovered by Richard Avedon at the age of 11, scored her first magazine cover by the time she was 12, became a world-famous model, took up acting, fronted a band, played Joan of Arc, launched a clothing line, had a kid, and emerged as a 21st-century action heroine with the world-beating Resident Evil franchise. Now, Milla Jovovich prepares for chapter two.(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Milla Jovovich is the action hero after the last action hero, and she has become a huge star on the ultrawide screen by alternately threatening the world and saving it in films such as The Fifth Element (1997) and...

The new new.(Fashion)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] All fashion is about what's new. Or at least about what we haven't seen in a while. It's about novelty. New clothes are how we show on our bodies what's happening now in the culture. It's how we belong to history and...

Lucas Samaras.(Interview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PERCHED IN HIS FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE HIGH ABOVE THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN, LUCAS SAMARAS HAS CREATED A REMARKABLE NEW BODY OF WORK--AND, IN FACT, AN ENTIRE LIFESTYLE--IN SELF-IMPOSED SECLUSION, DRIVEN IN LARGE PART BY...

B.S. factor; Droogs in Dystopia.(Britney Spears)
March 1, 2009... Miami Beach, Saturday, December 6, 2008 "You really couldn't see who you were shooting, it went so fist," is how Interview's erstwhile paintball star Chris Bollen described his stunning win during the Andrew Cramer and Neville...

July 1987: Uma Thurman.(Brief article)(Photograph)
March 1, 2009... FUNNY, AFTER 22 YEARS, SHE STILL LOOKS THE SAME (AND STILL SMOKES!) SHE WAS 17, QUITTING MODELING FOR THE MOVIES. NOW, ALMOST 40 FILMS AND AN OSCAR NOMINATION LATER, SHE'S MAYBE MORE FAMOUS THAN HER DAD'S PAL THE DALAI LAMA [ILLUSTRATION...