Jennifer Lawrence hasn’t slept in 24 hours. “Hi!” she nevertheless says excitedly through the phone, her smile audible. Though she says she’d rather be doing something else–“anything else”–than telephone interviews, her greeting is playful, delivered in a singsong manner generally unique to young girls, which makes sense,...
Notes from Paris, Fall/Winter 2009-2010 | Written by Long Nguyen
Suddenly, a cloudless, warm, beautiful July afternoon in Paris took on the characteristics of an impending rainstorm, replete with dark skies, sudden, cold winds, and thunderous roaring in the distance. I hurried into the Musée des Art Décoratifs to escape the downpour. It was hard to...
it was no mirage. In the quivering desert heat a hardy band of low-tech puppeteers was rehearsing a performance to take place later that night. The rickety stage and hand-carved marionettes (including, to my delight, a crew-cut stone-butch lesbian named Bea) looked perfectly at home amid the weather-beaten collection of surreal junkyard monuments created by California...
Milan Vukmirovic is adamant about setting the record straight—he is first and foremost a fashion designer. Though he rose to fame more than a decade ago as the “buyer” for the lauded Parisian mega-store Colette, is the current editor of the bi-annual men’s fashion magazine L’Officiel Hommes, and co-owner of The Webster, a premier South...