Interview articles from October 2008

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October 1, 2008... GLENN O'BRIEN: Okay, so September was the fashion issue, and this issue, October. is obviously... the fashion issue. FABIEN BARON: Oh, please! Definitely not. GO: Veruschka? FB: That's a feature. It's really about art. GO:...

Robert Pattinson.(View GUY)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alert the tabloids: Hazy Potter actor linked to drug house! Twenty-two-year-old Robert Pattinson fondly recalls his time living in a "cool little ex-crack den" in London with best friend Tom Sturridge. He's joking...

Mia Wasikowska.(View GIRL)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mia Wasikowska has faced unspeakable tragedies. Fortunately for the 17-year-old Aussie actress, who is being likened to a young Jodie Foster, it's all taking place onscreen. First there was her bike crash on the HBO...

Rafi Gavron.(View GUY)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... When Rafi Gavron's bookish parents told him he could be anything he wanted, he took up skiing, Rollerblading, and gymnastics. It was the last sport that offered what he calls a "physical escape." "I wanted that balance in the air," says...

Carey Mulligan.(View GIRL)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rarely does an actor find work through an aggressive letter-writing campaign. But that's pretty much how it happened for 23-year-old British newcomer Carey Mulligan. "I had no idea how to become an actor," Mulligan...

Andy Kachel.(DISCOVERY)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AGE: 22. HOMETOWN: Birmingham, Michigan. CURRENTLY LIVES IN: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. DAY JOB: Art assistant to Yoko Ono. REASON FOR MOVING TO NEW YORK: Getting away from the place where you've lived your whole life...

Caroline Polachek.(DISCOVERY)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... AGE: 23. HOMETOWN: Riverside, Connecticut. CURRENTLY LIVES IN: I actually don't live anywhere. I live on the road. The last place I lived was in my boss's apartment for the summer--an artist's studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. OCCUPATION:...

We asked some of our favorite folks to shoot the world from their, cell phones and send it to us.(CAPTURE)(Brief article)(Photograph)
October 1, 2008... "A shot I took while having fun with the hairstylist on an advertising job. We decided I'd be a character from Dr. Seuss!"--COCO ROCHA, MODEL [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The Kefalonian sun shot through my fingers. This is me at my...

The Muslims.(MUSIC)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] If most of this decade has seen indie rock captured by the Brits, then 2008 is the year that American bands have seized it back. From Black Kids and Boy Crisis all the way to MGMT, the United States finally boasts...

Malcolm McLaren: the father of punk won't stop until he's conquered the art world, upstaged porn's sex scenes, and put a dead French fashion designer in a broadway musical.(ART)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Malcolm McLaren is a young artist whose video work Shallow was the surprise hit of this year's Art Basel in Switzerland. Well, okay, McLaren is not really young. He's just a new artist. And actually, he's not...

Crazy legs.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
October 1, 2008... SINCE LEGS MAKE UP HALF OF THE HUMAN BODY, WHY NOT PUT THEM TO WORK WITH WILD GRAPHIC TIGHTS AND HOSE ENGINEERED BY THE DESIGN INNOVATORS OF THE SEASON? THIS FALL, PARTY WITH YOUR PANTS OFF RODARTE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] VIVIENNE...

Pharrell Williams nominates Chester French.(NOMINATIONS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Harvard grads. Musical savants. Brian Wilson meets Motown with guitars." That's perennial hitmaker Pharrell Williams's take on Chester French, the unlikely duo of pop whiz kids that he recently signed to his label,...

Christmas on mars: inside the flaming lips' new movie--a festival of aliens, astronauts, other worlds, and prosthetic genitalia. it's too bad that Christmas comes only once a year.(BEHIND THE SCENES)(Movie review)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sadly, the rumors aren't true: The Flaming Lips are not spiking the green popcorn they're serving at screenings of their new film, Christmas on Mars, with LSD. "We'd need an awful lot of acid--like a lab right there,...

Brigid Berlin's costume jewelry.(OBSESSIONS)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brigid Berlin Is one of the great underrated artists of our time. Best known as Andy Warhol's closest collaborator from 1964 until his death in 1987, Berlin has often been branded as the pill-popping star of Chelsea...

Hooman Majd: throw away your policy papers: there's more to the Iranian-American divide than trumped-up political gambits, evangelical crazy talk, death stares, and enriched uranium. a new book gets at the crux of it all.(BOOKS)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... When I met Hooman Majd, he had just finished a 12-year run (1986-1998) at Island Records and was the newly installed head of Palm Pictures, Chris Blackwell's film venture. I was about to start preproduction on my film Black and White (1999),...

Charles Hamilton.(MUSIC)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's been a long time since a rapper came along with skills like Charles Hamilton's. The 20-year-old MC's flow is spellbindingly dense, studded with punchy triplets and trippy associations. The ideas and images come...

"Adel Abdessemed: situation and practice".(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paris-based artist Adel Abdessemed likes his mischief. In the past, he has set a lion loose in the streets, filmed a stray cat snacking on a mouse, and rolled airplane fuselages together as if they were layers of...

Converse X Black Sabbath X the doors.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Converse gets even more rock-steady this fall when the brand debuts a collection that pays tribute to the iconic groups Black Sabbath and the Doors. (Last season, the company recognized the Grateful Dead and Kurt...

Vivian Girls rerelease.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Earlier this year, Brooklyn band Vivian Girls (the name is cribbed from the tide of a novel by outsider artist Henry Darger) released their self-titled debut LP on vinyl in a limited pressing of 500 copies. The tattooed ladies' blend of...

Fabien Baron's liquid light.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We stuck this in here against the protests of editorial director Fabien Baron. He didn't want to appear self-promotional. But I insisted that in today's world of hype, such modesty is practically immodest. So we call...

Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Roadster Versace edition.(AGENDA)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lamborghini and Versace are a match made in style heaven. The two Italian powerhouses have teamed up to produce a limited Versace edition of the LP640 Roadster. For a car like this, it's as much about the inside as...

Brigid Berlin show.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Rebel heiress, Warhol Factory superstar, artist, and creator of Tit Prints, tapes, and Polaroids, collector of costume jewelry (see "Obsessions," page 62)... Is it any wonder that Brigid Berlin has electrified something as seemingly demure as...

Kelley Walker show.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kelley Walker is a defacer and defamer of the American consumption machine. The New York-based multimedia artist's jabs include hip-hop magazine covers superimposed with scans of Crest whitening toothpaste and...

United Bamboo turns 10.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Happy birthday, United Bamboo! The label, which was launched in 1998 by Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham, celebrates its 10th anniversary of downtown New York fashion independence this fall. Over the past decade, the company has become renowned for its...

Consideration magazine.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When two dudes launch a cinema-centric quarterly out of their Chinatown apartment, you don't expect the next incarnation of Cahiers du Cinema. But that's just what Daniel Pappas, 25, and David Moshe, 23, have done....

Gang Gang Dance's new album.(AGENDA)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gang Gang Dance's third Rill-length record, Saint Dymphna, is out this month on Social Registry--and if the album title doesn't give it away (St. Dymphna is the patron saint of nervous disorders and mental...

Aaron Young: motorcycles are the loudest brushes he's used, but the young New York artist has a lot more tricks up his designer sleeves.(ART)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beware: Aaron Young leaves a mark. The artist, in fact, made lots of marks when he unleashed a crew of motorcyclists to pop burnouts on a floor of painted boards last year at New York's Park Avenue Armory. He also...

Heavy metal.(BEAUTY)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Peter Philips, the new creative director of Chanel Makeup, has two favorite scenes in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Brain Stoher's Draoda. The first is when Lucy, played by Sadie Frost, rises from the dead,...

Oliver Stone: the director's surprising new biopic of America's outgoing president provides a searing look into the psyches of not one but two polarizing, complicated men: George W. Bush and Oliver Stone.(FILM)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] For many years, Oliver Stone tried to make a movie of The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand's epic novel about the arrogant ur-capitalist and architect Howard Roark. Stone's version would have reinvented Roark as a visionary...

Judith Eisler.(ART)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Men, motorcycles, and rock 'n' roll--Judith Eisler's latest large-scale oil paintings work the iconography of the mythic male outlaw. The New York artist has always used movies for her sources, pressing the pause...

Rodarte: a lot of people think the newest stars in American fashion came out of nowhere. But, in fact, Kate and Laura Mulleavy came out of horror films, one gigantic record collection, and a lot of West Coast alone time.(FASHION)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What is it about Rodarte, the sister team who, in seven short seasons, have consistently managed to make shockingly original but beautifully feminine clothes that look like nothing else in the land of fashion? Maybe...

Hunt Slonem's Studio.(INTERIORS)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I was looking for a new studio for three and a half years before I moved into this one in Hell's Kitchen last December. The studio is on the fourth floor, in a big loft that used to be offices for Moviola. The space...

Anna Paquin: her biggest TV moment to date was winning an Oscar at age 11. Now she's back in prime time--a lot more grown up and hanging out with the undead.(TELEVISION)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anna Paquin was 11 years old when she won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1993's The Piano. That made her the second-youngest Academy Award winner in a competitive acting category in history....

Dude looks like a Louis.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
October 1, 2008... This fall, Louis Vuitton unleashes its men's-only pattern, damier graphite. The gray-on-gray check goes on everything from bike helmets to billfolds [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Photography Sebastian Kim

James Franco.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... SEVEN YEARS AGO, HE PLAYED JAMES DEAN IN A TELEVISION BIOPIC, TINTING HIS HAIR AND SQUINTING HIS EYES TO REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE-LIKE PERFECTION. EVER SINCE, THE TEMPTATION HAS BEEN TO PEG HIM AS A GOOD-LOOKING YOUNG MAN FELLED BY THE MOODY...

Paris couture.(Photograph)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT THE FLIRTATION BETWEEN ART AND FASHION. BUT IT REALLY IS ONLY FLIRTING. THE ROMANCE HASN'T BEEN CONSUMMATED, AND IT'S UNLIKELY TO EVER GO ALL THE WAY. BUT IF THERE IS ANY REAL MEETING POINT...

MGMT: if any band owns 2008, it's the psychedelic, scruffy-haired duo who dresses like hippies, sings about drugs and models, and opened for radiohead. They already sound like rock stars, but they still feel like kids.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Depending on who you ask, MGMT is either the new messiah of pop music or a couple of extraordinarily handsome charlatans who have managed to dupe the entire listening world into loving them. The duo has been...

Clemence Poesy: the beautiful French actress du jour plans on being around for quite a while. She isn't interested in the school of acting by imitation. She's all about staying strange.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] To most of the world, 25-year-old actress Clemence Poesy is known as either the comely French student in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, or, for less paranormal tastes, as one of the reigning faces of...

Ryan McGinley: this past summer the photographer took his camera--and a few naked young friends--on the road across America. He gives interview his daily travel diary as well as a few practice shots from a digital camera for his next major body of work.
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Every summer since 2005, Ryan McGinley has left New York to hit the open road. He brings along a young cast of guys and girls, all willing to take off their clothes, run, jump, swim, fall, and end up entangled in...

Raf Simons sure, he seems quiet. But the Belgian designer and brain behind Jil Sander will stop at nothing to make fashion smarter and more innovative. The master designer talks with a promising young designer, who happens to be Kanye West.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Raf Simons is the future. Still the future. The 40-year-old Belgian designer has long been the headlight for radical menswear. Throughout the '90s and '00s, his eponymous label showed how innovative design can...

S: skin on skin is savage cool. But B.C. cavemen never had it so fly. now rockers mix up the brutal boyness of L.A. hair bands with the delicate, semifey details of Paris couture. Now chic freaks link up the Roxy and the Ritz with a lace-and-leather look. Jamie Burke, singer of New York's bloody social, and hot model Raquel Zimmermann show how it's done.(Photograph)
October 1, 2008... Photography TERRY RICHARDSON Styling KARL TEMPLER [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OPPOSITE: PANTS: BALMAIN. NECKLACE: GIVENCHY. BELTS: I.V.Y. BRACELETS: GOODART HLYWD, DAVID YURMAN, STEPHEN WEBSTER, CHROME HEARTS, GOOD ART HLYWD. GLOVES...

Elizabeth Peyton: her illuminating portraits of rock stars, French heroes, wayward youths, and close friends are less concerned with who they are than what they do. Peyton captures a single fleeting moment and makes it live forever.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Elizabeth Peyton has painted the rich, the famous, and the incredibly attractive--particularly that cool, unaffected brand of attractive that is thin, fey, angular, and so often swathed in long, scruffy hair. Since...

Veruschka: great models can be all things to all people. Veruschka is a true artist because she can be all things all by herself.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Veruschka needs no introduction: A legendary presence since the '60s as the world's first supermodel--immortalized as a kind of ineluctable, ever-changing essence in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966)--she has...

Arrogant elegance: from a to e and back again.(SOCIETY)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "ELSA MAXWELL AND HER ELDERLY CROWD WERE THERE DRIPPING CHARM AND DRIPPING PHONINESS IN THEIR DRIPPING COOL DRESSES. EVERYONE WAS EATING DINNER, BUT THERE WERE THESE THREE EMPTY TABLES. THEN THE ELEVATOR OPENED AND...

June 1983: Rob Lowe.(BACK PAGE)(Photograph)
October 1, 2008... AT 19 HE WASN'T EVEN "ROB" YET. MR. LOWE HAD JUST GRADUATED FROM ABC AFTERSCHOOL SPECIALS TO A LEAD ROLE IN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S THE OUTSIDERS WHEN INTERVIEW SPOTTED HIM. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]