Long Nguyen
TAGHI NADERZAD
Twenty Years of Anna Sui The Collaging Resourcefulness of Fashion’s Indie Idol
Mixtapes, made prolific when ‘70s hip-hop emerged as a dominant musical genre, have long been recognized as underground ensembles of expression. The idea of a mixtape wouldn’t readily describe a fashion designer. Still, no other single word seems to...
Matthew Bedard
Ali Mahdavi
The Burlesque Queen in the Elusive Designer’s Couture
Sovereigns of the Pleasuredome
Exclusive Conversations with Thierry Mugler and Dita Von Teese
If you’re padding through burlesque superstar dita von teese’s ridiculously cool Hollywood pad with a glass of champagne, and your belly is stirring at the thought of the candied...
DAISY GARNETT
GITTE MELDGAARD
30 Years of Millinery Mastery Stephen Jones and the Charms of a Fashion Diplomat
For 30 years, Stephen Jones has made hats. maybe you’ve seen one of his creations in the pages of Vogue, or at a Christian Dior or Marc Jacobs fashion show. Jones makes hats not only for Jacobs and Galliano, but also for Giles Deacon and Comme des Garçons,...
Joshua Neuman
Kurt Iswarienko
Chameleon in the Sun
The Ebb and Flow of An Acting Paragon
in the distance, the perfect turquoise of the andaman sea drifts calmly towards an impossibly white shore as I approach the resort villa of 39-year old Scottish actor Ewan McGregor on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. The island’s natural splendor makes it easy to lose track...
Afshin Rattansi
The Photographs of Bran Symondson
I haven’t been to Afghanistan. but i was at the fall of the Berlin Wall. And it was, of course, Afghanistan that played such a part in the end of a divided Berlin, as well as in the demise of a very recent empire. The USSR lasted less than one hundred years. In examining these photographs of Afghan men, they show to me...
Maxwell Williams
The California Conceptualist Unfurls Form and Structure
Amanda Ross-Ho knows that when she’s right, she’s right. cosmically, that is. There’s a certain poetry of systemic spatial mojo that she nails to her signature pegboards. That’s what is on the cover of the magazine you hold in your hands: a pegboard. Scaled to the size...
Heather Corcoran
Christophe Kutner
The Methodic nuance of a Gruff Newcomer
Nursing a Glenfiddich, while sharing on his love of classic movies, the 28-year-old actor Jack Huston pauses to brush dark tresses from his eyes, when a guy suddenly shouts across the room: “Hey Jackie, don’t ever change!”
It’s a friend of Huston’s, and he...
Karyn Campbell
Scott Trindle
The Delicate Attitude of an Irish Fox
Saoirse (sear-shuh) ronan has a knack for saying the right thing. But that’s what these eager, fame-hardened beauties do; that’s Hollywood’s mega-machine—not a lot of room, or, in her defense, time, for candidness. So between flights at Charles de Gaulle, over a miserable connection, the...
Judd Condo
Joshua Kogan
A Formally-Trained Thesp Trades in collegiate Mirth
A cross-section of the bibliophiles inspecting the contents of this fine and upstanding periodical would reveal a university-educated preponderance, swaddled in Gucci ascots and puffing skull-and-bones flavored cigars as they ponder Jung on their yachts. Community college rejects they are not. When Dan...
Derrick Taruc
Matt Sharp is far away in the distance. physically, he’s slouched over his modest dining table in his modest dining room inside his modest home on the east side of Los Angeles, drinking a cup of coffee and waxing eloquent about his latest project. Emotionally, he’s in Barcelona, circa 1998. “I fell in love with the city and a...
Tahirah Conliffe
Jessie Craig
The Brit Teen Ripens in the London Acting Scene
Ella Purnell is definitely not your ordinary child actress. already at the tender age of 14 years old, Purnell possesses a mystical quality that draws you in, leaving you wondering if she has a touch of the dark side in her. “I am very deep,” she reveals. Indeed, within seconds she exhibits...
Sophia DeArborne
Stevie and Mada
The Sweet Magnetism of a Multifarious Gent
Dave Franco sits down at hollywood’s 101 coffee shop with a smile so profuse and generous it’s immediately apparent why the 25-year-old has been virtually hounded into acting. He proceeds to a green tea-laced conversation that meanders through the beginnings of his young and...
