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STYLE CASTING Our Spring fashion issue was cast like an epic Hollywood movie—starring the most exciting talent on the planet today. There’s cover beauty Lili Reinhart from the hit show Riverdale and the strippers-who-steal saga Hustlers. We shot Lili in LA where she opened up to writer Mark Jacobs about her battle with anxiety and depression and why she just published Swimming Lessons: Poems, her first book of poetry. Another exciting talent, Angus Cloud, was plucked off a New York street to star as Fezco, the loveable drug dealer in HBO’s Euphoria. Of course no film is complete without a major leading man. We went behind the scenes with the dapper Daniel Craig who returns as James Bond 007 in No Time to Die. The L’Officiel credits don’t stop there. Photographer John Balsom put together a portfolio of the leading men of tomorrow—like Cameron Dallas and Christian Combs to name just two, capturing them in that magical California sunshine. And in Rome, David Alexander Flinn shot Jacob Elordi, Zendaya, Indya Moore and a bunch of other VBPs: very beautiful people. Where there are superstars, there is super style. Modeling the most exciting looks of the season are Anya Taylor-Joy, Makenzie Leigh and even Olympic gold medalist Shaun White who ripped around on his skateboard for us in Gucci, of course. So give Netflix a rest and chill with our fashion-packed spring issue—popcorn not included. — PETER DAVIS, EDITOR IN CHIEF
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Name: Chris Leba Instagram: @R13 Place of birth: Dalat, Vietnam Zodiac sign: Sagittarius Inspiration for latest collection: R13’s FW20 collection was inspired by U2 and photographer Anton Corbjin who captured the band in the desert of Joshua Tree while on tour. My muse is... Allison Mosshart, lead singer of The Kills My motto is… Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. My alter ego is… Sid Vicious
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My favorite travel destination is… Hoi An, Vietnam My first piece of designer clothing was… A faux snake skin blazer from Helmut Lang in the 90’s that I couldn’t afford but bought anyways. The future of fashion is The future is all about sustainability; therefore, it is also the future of the fashion industry. What was your first job? I was a waiter and bus boy at a local restaurant in Montauk, NY in the summer of ‘83. What do you do all day? To encourage productivity, my alarm is always set for 6:45 AM no matter what day of the week it is. The majority of my time is spent going in and out of meetings. Once I leave the chaos of the office, I look forward to rushing home to spend quality time with my lovely daughters, Bella and Daisy. Why do you live and work in New York? I’ve been in love with NYC since my early teens because of the song “To Turn You On” by Bryan Ferry. I was a lost soul before I came to New York and I found myself here What was the last thing you ate? A baguette from NYC’s best patisserie, Almondine.
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Name: LaQuan Smith Instagram: @laquan_smith Place of birth: New York Zodiac sign: Virgo Inspiration for the latest collection: Old New York glam post breakup season. Powerful, dark, & badass. My muse is... Grace Jones & Lil Kim My motto is… “Slow and steady wins the race” My alter ego is… Lay My favorite travel destination is… Tulum, Mexico My first piece of designer clothing was… Gucci loafers What was your first job? Working retail at Banana Republic What is your favorite work of art? Randy Cooper What do you do all day? Work Why do you live and work in New York? It’s where I was born & raised. This city has taught almost everything I know about fashion, culture, and inspiration. I thoroughly enjoy being a native New Yorker. What was the last thing you ate? Popcorn
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Instagram: @alejandraalonsorojas Place of birth: Madrid, Spain Zodiac sign: Leo Inspiration for latest collection: This season, the saturated colors of Francisco de Goya’s portrait of Dona Teresa and the calm minimalism of ‘Marguerite Kelsey’ by Meredith Frampton particularly spoke to me. However, my most important inspiration was a portrait of my Great Aunt Pilar, taken in the 1960s on the streets of New York City. Enveloped in a colorful striped scarf to shield her from the rain, this intelligent female surgeon appears powerful, chic, and the embodiment of casual luxury. My muse is My grandmother. My Life motto is Teamwork. My alter ego is My dog Latte. My secret crush is Cillian Murphy. My favorite travel destination is Europe – Spain, Italy & France. My first piece of designer clothing was A Balenciaga dress. The future of fashion is Responsible and slow fashion. What is your favorite work of art? Hope painting by Klimt. What do you do all day? A Few things. I am a mum, I design, I run a company, attend events… see my friends. Sometimes I think the day has more than 24 hours. Why do you live and work in New York? I’ve always loved the energy and diversity in this city.
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MEGA-STYLISH, JET-SET, CHARMING, WITTY AND FUNNY, PRINCESS MARIE-CHANTAL OF GREECE’S BOOK MANNERS BEGIN AT BREAKFAST SCHOOLS KIDS ON THE PROPER WAY TO BEHAVE FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE TO BALI
There is no question that Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece— approval from all parties), proper e-mail formatting and the the ultra-social, well-coiffed uptown doyenne and wife of omnipresent mobile phone and tablet. “This is not a book to ponCrown Prince Pavlos of Greece—is an arbiter of good taste, tificate at all,” she claims. “There are times when, yes, you have especially when it comes to raising kids. As a mother of five, to lean on technology, but I hate nothing more than going to a she’s had practice, and her eponymous collection of luxury restaurant and seeing a mother and her kids who bring in the full children’s clothing strikes a balance of style and practicality iPad. Sure, they’re having quality time together, but the child is that’s not found at your local Baby Gap. Now, with the help of literally glued to a movie in a fancy restaurant.” renowned pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass, illustrator Lydia Starkey With an education that saw Marie-Chantal traipsing from and fellow supermom Tory Burch, Marie-Chantal has penned Hong Kong to Switzerland to Paris to New York, the lessons Manners Begin at Breakfast, a modern guide for parents to inside also offer an element of worldliness, from the proper way pass along the oft-overlooked art of etiquette. to use utensils in Chile, where even the most obvious of finger “Our kids eventually become us, and they pick up everything, foods should be handled with a fork, to the requirement of a for better or for worse,” Marie-Chantal, wearing a cozy sweater swimming cap in China. and a long pleated skirt, explains as we sit in her pastel-inflected Serving oneself coffee or tea from a butler’s tray is up for disoffice on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a space dotted with chil- cussion, too, thanks to a particularly nerve-racking moment expedren’s mannequins. “So, why not do it for the better, and take rienced by Marie-Chantal during a dinner alongside the Queen time to invest in your kids, and start slow at the very beginning of of England and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle. “You put your every day?” sugar and cream in first, before your coffee, and I found out Inside, readers discover a mix of classic table manners like fork much later that it’s a practice from the Second World War so you and knife use and elbow placement—they should never be on top don’t stain your china,” she explains. of the table, but your forearms can rest on the edge if the situaBut even if you won’t be rubbing elbows with royalty, Marietion calls for it—but what sets Marie-Chantal apart from Emily Chantal argues that there is indeed an irrefutable value to good manPost is a uniquely forgiving take on modern conveniences, like ners. “It opens doors from a young age, and it’s not a socioeconomic social media posting (which should be done sparingly and with thing at all,” Marie-Chantal says. “Manners cost nothing.”
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“OUR KIDS EVENTUALLY BECOME US, AND THEY PICK UP EVERYTHING, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, SO, WHY NOT DO IT FOR THE BETTER, AND TAKE TIME TO INVEST IN YOUR KIDS, AND START SLOW AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF EVERY DAY?”
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THE MEDIA MASTERMIND BEHIND THE KARDASHIANS, THE ULTRA-CONNECTED AND PLUGGED-IN SIMON HUCK’S LATEST PROJECT JUDY MAKES SAFETY EASY, HANDS-ON AND STYLISH
With a vase of white peonies here and a sleek brass dining table there, Simon Huck’s tastefully restrained West Village apartment is hardly an environment where one might expect to find a fluorescent, safety orange–colored plastic box. That? That’s JUDY, the ready-kit for natural disasters and home emergencies. And with a stamp of approval from celebrity pals like Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, emergency preparedness has never looked so cool. Huck’s Rolodex runs deep with famous supporters, Jenners and Kardashians among them. After first cutting his teeth as a publicist with Lizzie Grubman, he struck out on his own to become the principal owner of Command Entertainment Group where the likes of Katie Holmes, Carmelo and La La Anthony and Chrissy Teigen frequented his airspace. Today they—along with many, many more—remain close confidantes and steadfast supporters of Huck-led projects including “live storytelling brand” Society of Spectacle and A.Human, an “immersive theatrical experience showcasing body modifications from the future.” Now, enter JUDY, his next act. “We have Marie Kondo–fied the emergency kit,” Huck quips while sitting down to unpack and explore the three variations of JUDY. There’s the “Starter” fanny pack made for the young urban millennial, the “Mover” backpack for couples, and the “Safe” box for families: all waterproof, fire resistant and packed with precision to include items like a hand-cranked radio and matches. And just who is Judy? “We needed a name that you will never forget,” Huck explains of the company’s development, which took over six months. “We surveyed hundreds of people, and everyone felt like they had a Judy in their life: someone who was a dependable, type-A parent figure.” The result is a single-purchase solution that fits seamlessly into any home, a resource that Huck discovered his friends lacked after several of them had found themselves in frightening emergency situations like the California wildfires. “There were signs all over and all of them said the same thing,” Huck recalls. “They were vastly underprepared for the emergency, and when they went to go look for a helpful product or service after the fact, there was nothing.” What’s more, JUDY takes a uniquely modern stance, with each kit connecting digitally to users via the JUDY mobile app. “We tapped all of the best and brightest people in emergency preparedness and learned that the act of buying the kit is not enough,” he tells us before demonstrating a text message exchange aided by artificial intelligence. Even in a world where minimalist branding, a frictionless shopping experience and mobile functionality seems be the norm for even the most-mundane household items, JUDY is indeed disruptive on all fronts given the fact that the latest in preparedness likely consists of antiquated first aid kits under your kitchen sink, making us wonder why JUDY wasn’t welcomed into our homes sooner. “We don’t just want you to buy JUDY,” says Huck. “You need to get into a relationship with JUDY.”
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In her perplexing, attention-grabbing and often gluttonous paintings, American artist Gina Beavers (b. 1978 Athens, Greece) transforms images from social media into works that break away from the surface. Beavers achieves this dimensionality by using foam and acrylic paint that are thickly layered upon each other, producing a three-dimensional work. Following her museum exhibition The Life I Deserve at Moma PS1, Beavers will present her debut solo show, World War Me, at Marianne Boesky Gallery from April 30–June 13. The artist’s subjects have primarily revolved around Instagram, memes, stock images, makeup tutorials and food porn. This series differs from her previous paintings in that she is creating her own reference images. Previously, Beavers appropriated images from the internet that spoke to her in some way autobiographically. In this series, she creates her own reference “memes” using her own body and face with the help of Photoshop splicing. “I like to make my paintings 3D because they take on a life of their own—your body reacts in the space to them, and they look animated when they are photographed,” Beavers explains. “The added dimension embodies the connection, the reaching-out element of social media.” “I’m trying to make the materials represent the photos I am working from, but building them in three dimensions presents a challenge,” Beavers, who received her MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, says. “The materials run interference, making it harder for me to be faithful to the original photo. This leads to an in-
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terrupted photo-real image in that way—the finished painting becomes more abstract.” In making these self-referential “memes” that she uses for creating her new works, she takes the familiar makeup tutorial format and repurposes it to explore self portrait–like compositions. “I use face paint to paint paintings,” Beavers says, “like de Kooning’s Woman, or people, like Picasso in his underwear, or myself, nude on my face or lips. I take selfies while I’m painting my face and cut those images together in Photoshop to create a final Photoshopped file, which I create the painting from.” The exhibition will include familiar themes in her work that riff on her earlier explorations of food, such as her iconic burgers and cakes that have been merged with anxious cropped images of the body. “I love the idea that memes circulate widely as ads for the self, for someone’s humor or savvy or ‘not giving a fuck-ness,’ not for any kind of traditional product,” Beavers says. Examples of memes she has made that have been transformed into paintings for this series are “Emoji Burger crotch” and “Eggplant Emoji nails.” The artist is also working on some works that incorporate skulls, Maurizio Cattelan’s scandalous banana, and a cake in the shape of a butt revealing a patriotic layered sponge. Beavers’s playful and thought-provoking works seduce the viewer to lean in, tempting them to touch or even eat the paintings. She creates an atmosphere of enchantment and humor in her seemingly surrealist work. What is most endearing about Beavers is her radical sense of originality—she may borrow from many sources, but she remains authentically herself.
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“I LIKE TO MAKE MY PAINTINGS 3D BECAUSE THEY TAKE ON A LIFE OF THEIR OWN—YOUR BODY REACTS IN THE SPACE TO THEM, AND THEY LOOK ANIMATED WHEN THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHED. THE ADDED DIMENSION EMBODIES THE CONNECTION, THE REACHING-OUT ELEMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA.”
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In St. Moritz, the luxury alpine resort destination for the jet set and has hosted town in Switzerland’s Engadin Valley, the Winter Olympics twice—it is also it’s normally the snow that gets all the the site of the Cresta Run, a worldattention during the winter. But don’t be championship bobsled run made of surprised this season if you hear a lot natural ice, and a frozen lake that hosts more people talking about clouds—or polo and cricket. But these weren’t the at least paintings of them, anyway. A things that drew Schnabel to the location never-before-seen exhibition of Francesco for his second gallery (he opened his first Clemente’s work is currently on display on Clarkson Street in 2013). In fact, it at the Vito Schnabel Gallery, with the wasn’t even the first place he thought of. sleek top floor containing six new oversize “I was looking for a space outside of New paintings of clouds and the old, cavernous York, and I was looking in San Francisco; ground floor, a relic from the 19th century, there were very few from New York exhibiting a series of frescos Clemente that had opened there, and I felt it was created in Rome, a technique the artist has a space where I knew people, and it was been investigating since the 1980s. an interesting city and an interesting time, Schnabel, a seasoned gallerist despite and it is still today. I felt there was a void the fact that he’s only 33 (he started in I could fill,” Schnabel says. “But Bruno the business at just 16, showing a group Bischofberger, who is a mentor and a exhibition in his hometown of New York friend and someone I try to spend as much City), is particularly bright-eyed about the time with as possible as he’s a well of Clemente exhibition. “It was kind of a big knowledge and information, said, ‘I think deal for us because I think he’s such a great I’m going to close my gallery in St. Moritz. painter and someone I’ve wanted to work Would you want it? But I need to know with for a long time, and this is our first soon.’ And I called him back in three show together,” Schnabel explains. It was, hours and said, ‘I’ll take it.’” perhaps, a long time coming: Schnabel has Schnabel had spent time in St. Moritz known the 67-year-old artist for many years, and Switzerland before. “It seemed like having gone to school with his children at a place that had a rich history of art Saint Ann’s in Brooklyn. Still, like any other and great galleries,” he says, but, most gallerist, he had to convince the painter to importantly to him, opening his own display his work. The result was a show space there “made sense because a lot of with Clemente at Schnabel’s New York the artists I wanted to show who maybe gallery, followed by an additional exhibition I couldn’t show in New York at that time in St. Moritz. “It’s two separate exhibitions could work with me there. I wanted to just so it can give people a wide range of have a platform in Europe to show art.” what he’s been up to in the last two years,” With seven years under his belt in New Schnabel says. York and now five years in St. Moritz, Clemente’s exhibition in Switzerland Schnabel is eyeing a new project, although will be give way to one by Markus for now he’s labeling it “temporary”: Lüpertz, which will include 15 years of the conversion of the oldest post office work by the German painter, from the in Santa Monica to a 15,000-square’90s to current day. Due to the amount foot gallery space, which he’ll oversee of labor and care it takes to put on these for the next 10 months. This year, exhibitions, Schnabel is a familiar face in Schnabel will curate shows with artists St. Moritz. “I’m always in and out, so if such as Clemente, Pat Steir and Ariana I’m in Europe, I go there for basically half Papademetropoulos and take private of the duration of the show.” appointments. Schnabel shrugs humbly St. Moritz is a see-and-be-seen and smiles. “We’ll see if it lasts longer.”
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When you think of the storied Maison Chanel, wine is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind. Indeed, the famed fashion house established by its namesake Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel is, for most, synonymous with a beau monde Parisian style. However, for more than two decades—and with little of the public attention that usually accompanies anything Chanel-related—the family behind the luxury fashion house has quietly been acquiring winemaking estates, both in France and abroad. And, in many ways, for Chanel’s owners, the similarities between viniculture and haute couture make for an apt pairing. “Chanel is invested in history, in what we refer to as patrimoine,” Nicolas Audebert, the director of Chanel’s vineyards, points out. A term that connotes heritage or legacy, patrimoine is a word that embodies the house’s approach to fashion. The same can also be said of its approach to winemaking. “We share the same long-term vision for investment,” Audebert notes, “embracing quality, of leaving things to time, of protecting a French notion of savior-faire.” That commitment to protecting French savoir faire—a way of doing things, a collective know-how that embodies a tradition of craftsmanship—is key to understanding Chanel’s expanding ownership of historical winemaking estates. Around the same time that the company’s owners purchased their first vineyard—Château Rauzan-Ségla, in 1994—Chanel established Paraffection in 1997, a subsidiary formed to hold the company’s ownership of maisons d’art (highly specialized maisons producing hand-crafted pieces— button maker and costume jeweler Desrues, embroiderer Lesage, and the plumassiers Lemarié, among others). The aim of Paraffection was to ensure the survival of artisanal craftsmen who were upholding traditional French techniques of design and fabrication. As Audebert underscores, the acquisition of winemaking estates in Bordeaux and beyond serves a similar purpose—to ensure the longevity of the industry and its traditions. Since 1994, Chanel has gone on to acquire Château Canon and Berliquet, also in Bordeaux, as well as St. Supéry Estate Vineyards in California’s Napa Valley and, just last year, Domaine de l’Ile, an estate on the island of Porquerolles, which is just off the southernmost tip of the Côte d’Azur. “We are trying to develop the business for a new target consumer,” he notes, “we want to explain to a new generation why Bordeaux is not only the wine that your father or grandfather was drinking.” Convincing a new generation of connoisseurs to drink wine produced in Bordeaux is likely the easy part. Explaining the complicated system established in 1855 to classify Bordeaux’s winemakers and their product is an entirely different beast. Sparing the complexities that differentiate “cru” categorization and “left bank” vs. “right bank,” the concept of terroir is perhaps the most important for any budding wine enthusiast to understand. In short, a wine region’s terroir is composed of its geographic and climatic makeup (soil, terrain, weather), in addition to any tradi-
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tional practices, that affect the growth and harvesting of grapes for wine. Soil, for example, can vary from acre to acre as it does in the Bordeaux region, allowing for the subtle variations in the flavor found in the wines produced in vineyards neighboring each other. In the case of Château Rauzan-Ségla, for example, the varied nature of the estate’s underlying soil composition adds to the dynamic quality and range of the wine it produces. Adding a layer of complexity to this is the fact that the estate grows several varieties of grapes—predominantly cabernet sauvignon, followed by merlot, and a smaller number of cabernet franc and petit verdot grapes. At harvest time each year—which can fall anytime between September and early October—Audebert, along with vineyard manager François Baudoux, oversee the hand-picking and processing of the estate’s 70 hectares of grapes. After their initial harvest, the grapes are left to macerate in large stainless steel vats—a fermentation process that begins the moment the skin of a grape is broken and exposed to the heat—and ends only when Audebert and his team decide the desired color, flavor and tannins have been achieved to the standards they need. From there, the nascent wine is transferred to handmade oak barrels—made only from 100-year-old trees—where it is left to further mature for 18 months. It is at this point that the mastery of blending wines truly begins and the complexity of terroir and grape varietal come to the fore. Various wines from one section of the vineyard can be complemented or amplified by those from another, each offering their own distinct flavor profile. In short, the interplay between soil, grape varietal and vinification come together under Audebert’s guidance to create some of the world’s most sought-after wine. For Audebert, however, what makes Bordeaux’s wines exceptional isn’t just the strength of its terroir. “With over 400 years of history here,” he underscores, “Bordeaux is very old, with a unique concentration of high-level châteaus all in the same place.” Like their acquisition of various historic maisons, Chanel’s aim in acquiring legacy winemaking estates is not strictly about profits. “When you compare our efforts with larger companies that want to have a vineyard everywhere in the world,” Audebert points out, “you see that we are approaching this very differently—it’s not about strategy, it’s about couture.” In spite of Audebert’s claims to the contrary, there is a discernable methodology to Chanel’s ongoing expansion into winemaking, one that reflects the company’s familial history. Since 1954, Chanel has been owned by the Wertheimers, a tight-knit family that eschews the spotlight. And, just as the Chanel business has been passed down to successive generations of Wertheimers, so too are the historic vineyards they acquire and the communities they have traditionally supported. An ambition worthy of raising a glass to.
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Every summer, the Greek island of Mykonos becomes an international party playpen for the beautiful people. One of Jackie Kennedy’s favorite destinations, Mykonos is undeniably chic, yet has always lacked a true five-star luxury hotel. Enter Kalesma (which means “invite” or “calling”), a new hotel with 25 private suites and two villas on a hilltop above Ornos Bay, which is a narrow strip of land between two sandy beaches, Ornos and Korfos. Kalesma is situated on five lush acres that are covered with over 20,000 plants, and every room features unobstructed views from a 970-square-foot terrace and a full-size personal heated pool. Kalesma’s Greek restaurant, Pere Ubu, is the perfect spot to catch both the sunrise and the sunset. The hotel was designed by Athens-based K-studio (the architects behind the new Mykonos Airport, which opens in 2021) with interiors by Greek designer Vangelis Bonios, who used local artisans and materials like wood, marble, stone and osier for a modern twist on the traditional Cycladic style. And did we mention that the lobby boasts furniture by Rick Owens? Guests at Kalesma become instant island VIPs and are given insider info about the best beaches, restaurants and picture-perfect hidden churches and are even provided with an on-call personal shopper. Intimate dinner parties are held weekly. “We are genuinely passionate about the hospitality that centers around the dining table and aim to bring people together through food at Pere Ubu, for Kalesma guests only,” says Aby Saltiel, who owns the hotel with partner Makis Kousathanas. “The idea was inspired by the customs surrounding the family homes in Mykonos, which on many occasions are opened to all to gather and feast and drink in good company and to honor a member of the household or a patron saint.”
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It was somewhere after his fifth or sixth Of the apartment’s two bedrooms, the conventionally charming Manhattan stu- master has been converted into a doubledio that Nick Wooster decided it was time height closet space, and while it may strike for a change. Swimming in a trove of cov- most as an unconventional setup, Wooster etable men’s clothing and accessories, he sleeps in the adjacent guest bedroom. “It’s knew that, in addition to a seasonal stor- the ultimate luxury,” he explains of the age unit, he needed a proper home. master bedroom–turned–closet. “You can “Living here is maybe not everyone also see the skyline better when you’re else’s dream of living in New York, but it’s lying in the guest bedroom.” like the New York that didn’t exist,” he All of this is to say that Wooster is explains, sitting in his new living room. indeed the stylish clotheshorse, devoted “Because, listen, I’ve lived in more studios so much to his art of dressing that dozens than I care to remember, and there’s some- of brands,from Thom Browne to Paul & thing about a walk-up and a studio and Shark to Calvin Klein to Ralph Lauren— just that struggle that most New Yorkers the list goes on and on - are eager to colgo through. I did it, but it’s nice to not laborate with him season after season. It’s have to do that now.” not only his pedigree as a seasoned buyer Perched 30 stories above the ever-evolv- for venerable department stores like Berging Hudson Yards development, the space dorf Goodman and the late, great Barneys is drenched in sunlight thanks to its western New York that makes him attractive to exposure and offers a sweeping view of the them but his certain inexplicable panache Hudson River. “It’s just a nice way to be,” that is only complemented by his silver Wooster adds, turning to look at the view. hair and devil-may-care attitude. Upon first inspection of chez Wooster, it But if you can look past the several might be easy to make a quick study of the hundred pairs of shoes, over a hundred lauded menswear fixture, who now boasts pairs of sunglasses, and that blown-up nearly 800,000 loyal Instagram follow- cover of GQ Taiwan, there are many hiders. There are many tightly curated stacks den gems that lead a visitor to quickly of books and magazines, most of which discover much more about this self-proinclude lengthy odes to his sartorial prow- claimed “free agent” of menswear. ess. A guest bathroom is covered papered Small bits of elevated erotica can be in portraits made by fans from around the found dotted throughout the apartment, globe. One is covered in Japanese charac- from a shirtless portrait of a buff, gingerters, and when teased about being “big in haired man from an exhibition by Thomas Japan,” he shoots back with a smile, “I’m Knight called “Red Hot” to a coffee-table actually much bigger in Korea and China book simply titled BUTTS. There’s even a than I am in Japan.” small print of a writhing gladiator type
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of a man affixed to the refrigerator like ing myself,” he says matter-of-factly. “My a proud homework assignment. He wears mom could not buy me clothes or tell me an orange mesh jockstrap. what to wear, ever.” “I’m just a pervy old man—what can I Little did he know this would pay off say?” Wooster confesses with a laugh. “I for hi starting in kindergarten. “I heard think that maybe for most of my life, this story, so it’s third-hand, but I had a being a gay kid in Kansas in the ‘60s and kindergarten teacher named Mrs. Voss, ‘70s, I did everything in my power to not who died recently, who I never had contact broadcast anything sexual. It was like, with after elementary school,” Wooster ‘Oh, just be quiet,’ and that’s one of the recalls. “She told a friend of my dad’s that amazing things about where we are cultur- she always remembered me and said, ‘He ally is that we don’t have to worry about was the best-dressed student I ever had.’ that sort of thing.” She taught at the same elementary school Born in Salina, Kansas, Wooster is the for her entire career and must’ve been antithesis of a town known best for its there for 40 or 50 years, but how is that domestic manufacturing, but there are possible in kindergarten? I don’t even small hints of this culture throughout think she had any idea of this life that peothe home. In the entryway is a schematic ple know me for.” drawing of a Volkswagen, a nod to his Tales like this make his undeniable father, who was a Volkswagen mechanic, success that much more inevitable. It and in a corner sits a handful of framed appears it was fate that led Nick Wooster high school graduation photos. “They to become who he is, a universally sought were taken in the fall of 1977. That is so after bellwether of good taste, evidenced fucking long ago,” he jokes. not only in his wardrobe but his home too. And while he admits that his fam- However, no one seems more surprised ily “has absolutely no comprehension” of by all this than Wooster himself. “Maybe his life, he has always maintained a firm Ms. Voss could have predicted it,” he says. stance in his styling. “I insisted on dress- “But I certainly didn’t.”
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“FOR MOST OF MY LIFE, BEING A GAY KID IN KANSAS IN THE ‘60S AND ‘70S, I DID EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO NOT BROADCAST ANYTHING SEXUAL. IT WAS LIKE, ‘OH, JUST BE QUIET,’ AND THAT’S ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT WHERE WE ARE CULTURALLY IS THAT WE DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT SORT OF THING.”
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CARTIER’S PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER COLLECTION EMBRACES THE POWER OF THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE
There is a distinctly feminine power to the has been streamlined by masters of the jewpanther: slinky and lithe, fine but no less elry craft over the past century, resulting in dangerous. Dressed in robes of inky black a new collection that serves to enhance a velvet or dappled gold, it stalks its domain woman’s innate power. Speckled cats leap in the dying light of the evening. A creature across the wearer’s wrist, completely fluid as of the shadows, it remains unnoticed until if in mid-hunt. Spots of onyx dot the crysthe last minute, when it’s already too late. talline fur, drawing the eyes like black holes. The Maison’s first panther motif The panther’s arresting stare is translated appeared on a wristwatch in 1914 as an into glinting emeralds. abstract design that was inspired by its As timeless as the image of the panther iconic spotted coat. But it wasn’t until the is a woman’s appetite for freedom. The era of Jeanne Toussaint, and the women Cartier panther represents a century of “distinguished by their character, daring proudly embracing power and femininand freedom,” Arnaud Carrez, Cartier ity as mutually inclusive. She can take on International Head of International anything and let the power of the panMarketing and Communication, whom she ther imbue her with the hypnotic fluidity outfitted, that the panther became a truly and strength that define both the feline iconic symbol. and the feminine. Cartier’s Panthere de Jeanne Toussaint, a birdlike beauty with Cartier collection reminisces the original a penchant for the fabulous and exotic, cap- ‘La Panthère,’ and “the image of assertive tured the attention of Paris upon her arrival. femininity” that she embodied, says Pierre Her magnetic aura and the feline fur coats Rainero, Cartier International Director she was fond of draping herself in earned her of Image, Style and Heritage; according the nickname “La Panthère.” Her creativity to Arnaud Carrez, Cartier International and eye for style gained her the regard of Head of International Marketing and Louis Cartier, a muse and collaborator. In Commun-ication, the campaign “pays 1933 Toussaint became Creative Director of homage to strong personalities and confiJewelry at Cartier, ushering in an era of rec- dent styles.” Rainero applauds Toussaint’s ognizability and collectability with a feline memorable ability to notice the “symbolic mascot that continues to inspire new trends. potential and power of attraction” of the The challenge of capturing the graceful panther, creating a symbol that is equally movement that characterizes the panther empowering and iconic.
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“FOR OVER 100 YEARS, THE WOMEN WHO WEAR PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER CREATIONS HAVE BEEN DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR CHARACTER, DARING AND FREEDOM. THEY INCLUDE THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, DAISY FELLOWES, MARÍA FÉLIX AND MONICA BELLUCCI. WE DECIDED TO PAY HOMAGE TO THE STRONG PERSONALITIES AND CONFIDENT STYLES OF THESE WOMEN WITH THE LATEST PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER CAMPAIGN. THE PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO GROW AS ACTORS AND ACTRESSES JOIN THIS NEW ADVENTURE: ANNABELLE WALLIS, MARIACARLA BOSCONO, ELLA BALINSKA, KAREN MOK AND YASMINE SABRI.” – ARNAUD CARREZ, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION, CARTIER INTERNATIONAL”
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Peer behind the curtains on a Chanel photo shoot set now. Forget the perfectly defined pounds of Instaand you might not be able to tell who’s the model gram makeup. With a painterly, unfussy approach, and who’s the makeup artist. That’s because Cyndle Komarovski raves about multipurpose products and Komarovski, a Chanel celebrity makeup artist, with often advocates for fingers over brushes. See: the new her refined bone structure and sylphlike form, is flit- CHANEL Ombre Première Laque in Quartz Rose ting about with a calm grace befitting a modern-day from the Spring collection, which you can swipe on Coco Chanel. But as much as she nearly glows with and smudge with your fingers, she says. She’ll add glamour, she also brushes it off. “Oh, I’m just a big on a flick of the new metallic CHANEL Le Liner de makeup nerd,” she says and laughs. She’s also real CHANEL pens. “I love that it has a texture to when it comes to her approach to makeup. In fact, it and it adds a hint of light to the eye—even the she started her career far from the Champs-Elysees: darker shades,” she says. She might cap that off with working on everyday women. “I wasn’t working on accented “fluffy brows” using the CHANEL La Pala 17-year-old with a perfect face,” she recalls. “When ette Sourcils in Light Brow Wax and Brow Powder a woman sits in your chair, the first thing they do is Duo. “The way the powder is you can build up volthey start saying things like, ‘I’m sorry I look really ume,” she explains. tired today,’ or ‘I’m sorry that I have this pimple.’ As for her tip on achieving the perfectly-doneAnd it became about doing makeup with a different but-minimal skin that’s become her signature? approach, a sensitive approach, which is helping this Komarovski reaches for the CHANEL Les Beiges person find what they love about themselves and high- Water-Fresh Tint in Medium Light, which is possibly lighting that.” the freshest kind of tinted moisturizer around. “It’s That’s not to say Komarovski can’t dial up the this beautiful summer-y kind of look that still allows looks for a photo shoot. After studying photography skin to look like skin,” she says. at the Art Institute of Boston (she dropped out to But if there is one secret weapon to invest in, Kommove to New York to pursue a career as a makeup arovski says it’s the CHANEL Baume Essentiel in artist), she adores playing with light and texture. “I Sculpting, which gives a wet-dewy look (without the love that part of the process of working with a pho- oil slick) to anything it touches. “There are the clastographer on how makeup might react to different sic high points of the face like the cheekbones, bridge light sources,” she says. But there is one theme that of the nose and the cupid’s bow that you can accent, undifiesall her work. “I have always been obsessed or you can even brush it into your eyebrow for a wet with skin and making it really beautiful. Get that right eyebrow look, or use on your shoulders and décolleand then you can do a very dramatic eye or just play tage for a summer glow,” she advises. “We’re all tired with the details,” she says. and running around. This just brings a look of health And “play” is exactly how she views makeup immediately.” Sold. All available on chanel.com
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ACTRESS LILI REINHART OF HUSTLERS AND RIVERDALE PUTS PEN TO PAPER TO PUBLISH SWIMMING LESSONS, HER FIRST BOOK OF POEMS
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“IT GIVES YOU A GLIMPSE OF HOW DEEPLY I HAVE FELT LOVE AND I HAVE FELT LOSS BUT IT DOESN’T TELL YOU ANYTHING ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP THAT I’VE HAD.” It’s eleven in the morning and Lili Reinhart just woke up five minutes ago in her semi-permanent work apartment in Vancouver on a day off from shooting the fourth season of Riverdale, the dark Archie Comics update that made her very famous only a few years ago for her naturally commanding star turn as Betty Cooper. It’s raining, her Ikea blackout curtains are still closed, and she’s speaking freely about things like the laundry basket that’s full of her shoes in her storage unit in Los Angeles (“I literally am going to buy a house within the next two years just so I can have a fucking closet,” she jokes), and her love for true crime documentaries which naturally includes Don’t F*** With Cats. “Horrifying. I was watching it in between takes on set. I couldn’t get enough of it,” she enthuses, describing a kind of incidental method acting that seems appropriate for Riverdale. Reinhart just published her first book, a collection of poems called Swimming Lessons. She was 16 when she began writing poetry, during a difficult personal moment after her family relocated from her longtime home outside of Cleveland, Ohio, to North Carolina, where she chose to finish high school online, partly because of her social anxiety and partly because she was already determined to pursue acting. (She moved to Los Angeles when she was 18.) She began researching and then writing long-distance-relationship poems to share with her long-distance boyfriend and was drawn to social media poets like Tyler Knott Gregson, R. M. Drake and Lang Leav, whom she describes as her favorite to this day. Reinhart was encouraged to publish a book after first sharing her poems on her less-known Tumblr account—a sort of soft launch that allowed her the kind of civilian intimacy that her Instagram account, with its 22 million followers, could not. “I never thought I would publish a book. And I definitely never really wanted to be one of those people who published a book about themselves, like, ‘Oh, this was my journey into blah blah blah,’” she explains. “I don’t even read those types of books that celebrities write about themselves. But I love poetry. It truly was never about, ‘Oh, what can I monetize? Let me monetize a hobby of mine!’” Swimming Lessons delivers deeply felt personal stories. “There’s a lot of me in there and my experiences with love and depression and anxiety,” she says. In her poetry, Reinhart openly negotiates the tension between the public and the private as her life continues to rapidly and radically change, something that became particularly heightened during her semi-permeable offscreen relationship with her Riverdale costar Cole Sprouse. “It seems almost contradictory to be like, ‘Yeah, I like to keep my private life private and then publish a book of poems about love,’” she says and laughs. “But to
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be honest, the poems are a portrayal of feelings. It’s not my story, it’s not an autobiography that someone’s going to read and be like, ‘Oh, this is something that happened to her!’ Yes there’s a lot of that in there, a lot of my personal experiences, but some of it is fictional storytelling that was inspired by a feeling. I think someone who’s reading the book could think, ‘Ooh, I’m going to get juicy details about her love life,’ but that’s just not what happens.” She adds, “It gives you a glimpse of how deeply I have felt love and I have felt loss but it doesn’t tell you anything about a relationship that I’ve had.” It goes without saying that Reinhart receives a wild amount of attention. “It’s a tornado. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m 23 and no one taught me how to do this. I don’t know what I’m doing!” she says and laughs. “Sometimes I have to give myself a fucking break. I don’t know what I want to share with the world yet. I’m figuring it out as I go.” She does know that she’s passionate about Chemical Hearts, the Amazon Studios film she stars in based on the young adult novel, and her first executive producer credit. Reinhart describes it as “radically different from Riverdale” and thinks it will be fun for people to see her as something other than Betty—while noting that her part as Annabelle in director Lorene Scafaria’s strip club capitalism epic Hustlers was obviously helpful to that end. (Reinhart started shooting Chemical Hearts in New Jersey a week after wrapping Hustlers in New York.) “This film really means a lot to me. I really put my heart on the line and my full vulnerability out there,” she says about the teen romance in which she plays Grace, a transfer student who reads Pablo Neruda. “I can’t wait for the world to see it! I know that I’m so happy with it and so proud of it that it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. It’s not a typical teen love story. It’s really not like The Fault in Our Stars or The Kissing Booth or anything like that, nothing against those movies but it just feels different. It feels more melancholy and a little bit more raw and exposed. I hope people can see the beauty in it that I do.” And what does Reinhart want readers to get out of Swimming Lessons? “Comfort,” she says. “I started to read poetry in order to feel comforted and not alone and I hope people can read my book and feel like they aren’t alone, that someone knows exactly how they feel. And that it’s normal to feel sad and melancholy and brokenhearted and to go through the motions of being a human being. I always remind myself that it’s a beautiful thing we’re able to experience all of these things. It hurts and it’s hard but I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s a privilege to feel so much.”
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“SOMETIMES I HAVE TO GIVE MYSELF A FUCKING BREAK. I DON’T KNOW WHAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD YET. I’M FIGURING IT OUT AS I GO.”
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THE HUNKS OF HOLLYWOOD CAMERON DALLAS
If it seems like nearly a decade ago that Cameron Dallas made a name for himself as a social media personality, well, that’s because it is. In 2012, 16-year-old Dallas started posting comedic videos to Vine; by 2014 he had accumulated 8.1 million followers on the video-sharing platform. A couple of movies (Neighbors 2 and The Outfield), a Netflix reality series (Chasing Cameron), and 21+ million Instagram followers later, and Dallas hasn’t just made the transition from Internet celebrity to actor, he has pole-vaulted onto one of the most challenging mediums of all to tackle: the Broadway stage. “I actually laughed at myself when we got the offer, because I have never done anything like that before and it’s so out of my comfort zone,” the 25-year-old, who is starring as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls on Broadway, confesses. Dallas also recently released a new song and video, entitled “Helpless,” after taking an extensive break from music. “It’s where I’m at right now. I talk about addiction and how I needed help, and I didn’t like where I was, and there’s this weird thing where I thought I was doomed to have a bad life, and there’s where addiction led me. I went to rehab for 42 days,” he says candidly. “‘Helpless’ is where I am now.”
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WORDS CARSON GRIFFITH PHOTOGRAPHY JOHN BALSOM
Starring: Cameron Dallas, Adonis Bosso, Lucky Blue Smith, Keith Powers, Matthew Noszka, Josh Upshaw, Christian Combs
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ADONIS BOSSO
It’s been a decade since Adonis Bosso, better known as just Adonis, became a familiar face on catwalks and billboards. Whether it was Dolce & Gabbana, Tom Ford, Yeezy or Vivienne Westwood: each brand spotted the opportunity to cash in on the now-29year-old’s good looks and even better attitude But the cheerful new dad is hoping that he’ll be known as much for his sound as he will be his face very soon, as he begins to make the transition further into a music career. “I haven’t put out music in about four years. I kind of took a break,” says the new father—Bosso and Fenty model Slick Woods welcomed a baby boy into their lives last summer. “I have made over 40 songs, but I’m just getting ready to share them with the world. I’m really excited.” Adonis, who was originally born on the Ivory Coast and raised in Canada, says he plans on releasing music as early as March, with his first music video being “a nice little single, a cartoon, with Slick Woods, a tribute to our son, even though we’re no longer together.” He currently has a record deal with Warner and says he grew up “on Whitney Houston, Shanté, Bob Marley, and a mix of African music. I’ve drawn my inspiration from all of that and French is my first language, so there are some French songs that will be coming out as well. My life experience overall is what inspires me.”
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LUCKY BLUE SMITH
If Lucky Blue Smith has his way this time next year we’ll be seeing him on the big screen. “My main goal right now is to book the one thing that puts me on the map in the film industry. I’ve been working with acting coaches for four years now to get comfortable with it,” explains 21-year-old Smith, who began modeling at the age of 12 and, by the age of 16, had fronted fashion campaigns for Tom Ford, graced a dozen magazine covers and in a music video created by Tom Ford for his spring campaign featuring Lady Gaga and her song “I Want Your Love.” “Now, I’m finally ready to go in and audition. I auditioned for a couple things last year and got a couple callbacks and it didn’t work out and that’s okay. But now I’m ready to get a nice role in a big movie.” Smith’s three million Instagram followers will certainly be excited if the Utah native makes an official switch to acting, offering them more face time with the actor. As of now, Smith says he even occasionally gets criticized for the parts of his own life he censors on social media. “I don’t post my daughter on Instagram. I want to let her have a childhood, before putting her into the public eye. She’s barely learning to talk right now. She’s just two and a half,” he says of his daughter Gravity Blue with former partner Stormi Henley, a model and Miss Teen USA 2009. “I used to post her but then one day I decided it didn’t make sense anymore, I wanted that to be her decision. I’ve definitely seen backlash on that. [People on Instagram have] said: ‘You’re not there for your daughter; you’re not with your daughter ever.’ I have 50/50 custody; they will say that when she’s literally sitting right on my lap. There are certain subjects that won’t affect me, but we’re all human. Certain ones hurts.”
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KEITH POWERS
Anyone who has seen Keith Powers onscreen knows he’s a very good actor, but according to the 27-year-old, that can only get him so far. “There are a lot of people in this world who are very talented. It’s just about being put in the right position. Ninety percent of it is your team, and your team knowing people and your team putting you in the right place to make the right decisions,” he says pragmatically. “The talent is just the cherry on top. There’s a whole bunch of factors. That’s just why you see so many talented people that never get the credit they deserve.” If this sounds like an alarming bit of straight shooting from someone in Hollywood, it’s because that’s exactly what it is. Powers, who started as a model and is best known for his roles as Ronnie DeVoe in BET’s miniseries The New Edition Story and Tyree in the film Straight Outta Compton, is completely open about the work it took to become an actor, and the fact he is still trying to navigate Hollywood’s intricate webs to this day. “My agents at Wilhelmina put me in the right places. They kind of guided me until I learned more. They guided me through and then I had to educate myself to be an actor,” he explains. “I had to sacrifice a bunch of jobs because I realized I wanted to be an actor.” And, according to Powers, it was not an easy task. “I had to switch my management team and my agents, and I fired my public relations and my attorney. I had to learn my own way,” he explains. It”s a learning process, and according to Powers, “I’m still always figuring it out.”
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“I had to sacrifice a bunch of jobs because I realized I wanted to be an actor. I had to switch my management team and my agents, and I fired my public relations and my attorney. I had to learn my own way, I’m still always figuring it out.”
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Maya Angelou once said every storm runs out of rain, and these days, that’s exactly how Matthew Noszka is looking at things. “I had a really rough year last year. I got hit by a car, had a really bad accident and my dad passed away,” he says earnestly. ‘It makes you want to quit. But I had a lot of talks with my dad when he was sick and he thinks I have a really strong purpose in this world, and I know it sounds like a cliché, but I want to make a change for the better. I really do, man.” For the actor, model and businessman who originally hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this starts with being more conscious about what roles he selects. “You get to portray a certain type of character, and I want to be blessed with roles that help people understand or help them get through certain types of situations,” he explains. “That’s what I’m hoping for in 2020.” Noszka, who owns the automotive repair and customization shop 412 Motorsport (located in Baldwin Park, California), is branching out in business as well. He will debut a “clean casual sophisticated unisex” jewelry collaboration with designer Mayer Elliot this year, and has plans for bringing 412 Motorsport onto the small screen. “We’re working with a production company, kind of with the old idea of Pimp My Ride, extending it to a television platform,” he explains. “But with testimonials of people who it would mean the world to because they wouldn’t have the means to otherwise do it for themselves.”
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JOSH UPSHAW
There has never been a better—or at least a better-looking—advocate for biodegradable agriculture than Josh Upshaw. “About two years ago I started this process of finding a deeper life: What is the meaning we’re put here for? That I’m put here for? I just felt lost,” explains the model who is recognizable for his work for J.Crew, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren. “I was just living life and I didn’t feel connected to anyone or anything. And in that process of connecting to my soul and looking for something meaningful, I fell into the process of biodegradable farming, and my friend passed along a flier for Kiss the Ground.” Upshaw began participating in the nonprofit, which inspires participation in soil regeneration (the practice of creating new soil and rejuvenating soil health by minimizing the loss of topsoil and retaining more carbon than is depleted), and while the rest isn’t history, as they say, it is the 34-year-old’s overarching plan for the year ahead. “I have been moving in that direction for the last six months and learning about it and how to help,” he says. “It’s all about educating farmers and us, the people.” Don’t count Upshaw out of the modeling industry just yet, however (as he explains regenerative farming practices to me over the phone, he is simultaneously on his way to a modeling shoot in the Bahamas). Discovered in a Home Depot in Miami 10 years ago while buying paint, Upshaw says the whole thing has “been a pretty incredible ride.” “Things kind of worked out and being able to travel and see the world and work with amazing artists and photographers has been a true blessing,” he says humbly.
“Things kind of worked out and being able to travel and see the world and work with amazing artists and photographers has been a true blessing.”
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CHRISTIAN COMBS
“The world is about to know King Combs,” declared Christian Combs, the 22-year-old son of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, in January. “2020 is about to be all about me.” Indeed, the model-turned-musician didn’t seem to be exaggerating: he can soon also add television star to his resume. Combs will be joining his father, along with his brothers Quincy Brown and Justin Combs, as a judge on MTV’s return of Making the Band. “You know we had to be involved in the return of Making the Band. It’s only right,” Christian, who also goes by King Combs, said in a video he posted to his Instagram the day his new judging role was announced, and prior to the new judges leaving for a multi-city casting tour. “Me, personally, I’m looking for a hungry artist.” Being Diddy’s son has naturally bestowed a certain amount of knowledge about the music industry into Combs, but he has garnered a significant amount of experience himself: at 16, he signed a record deal with Bad Boy Entertainment (the label founded by Diddy), and at 21 he released his first EP, entitled CYNcerely C3 (he also performed at the 2020 Clive Davis pre-grammy performance tribute to his father). Combs said his work is “for rockstars. It’s different than anything out there,” but it’s a consistent collaboration with other artists he enjoys and admires (his first EP included artists City Girls, Kai Ca$h, and Jeremih). While he might not be dropping a track with his dad anytime soon, he still sees himself following in his footsteps beyond just a music career: similar to how Diddy has created an expansive empire, Combs can see himself building up his own portfolio. “We’ve been designing more lately,” he said. “And being in a movie would be cool.” But when it all boils down to it: “My family is my inspiration.”
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TWO YEARS AFTER A MONUMENTAL DEBUT ALBUM THAT PUT THE R&B PLANET AT HER FEET, JORJA SMITH IS PREPARING THE SEQUEL
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“I’VE HAD SUCH A FULL YEAR...I’VE TRAVELED THE WORLD WITH MY MUSIC: A DREAM COME TRUE. I’D NEVER RELEASED AN ALBUM BEFORE, SO I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO EXPECT.”
When a young artist takes her first steps, we tend to situate her in relation to her claimed influences or the stars who believe in her. In her early days, Jorja Smith was sometimes described as the heiress to Alicia Keys and to Lauryn Hill, or as Drake’s protégé. Today, with her debut album having just earned a golden record certification in France, the English singer is no longer a rising star or a disciple of her heroines, nor does she need such prestigious patronage. She is simply Jorja Smith, one of the queens of contemporary R&B. The last time we spoke in 2018, this enchanting singer was about to release Lost & Found. This debut album rocketed to number three on the British charts and Jorja received more than one standing ovation: first at the 2018 BRIT Awards (awarded by music professionals to the most promising artist) and then the following year at the same ceremony, where she won the award for Best British Female Solo Artist. In barely a year, her status has changed radically, from young, up-and-coming star to R&B diva. She competed in the Grammy Awards last year for Best New Artist—this simple nomination was definitely a genuine recognition and honor. When we met again, I wanted to ask her straight away how she experienced the whirlwind of success internally. “I’ve had such a full year...I’ve traveled the world with my music: a dream come true. I’d never released an album before, so I had no idea what to expect.” Being placed in the spotlight so quickly brings with it inevitable ups and downs: “My private life doesn’t really exist anymore” she says. “Now, people recognize me more and sometimes it’s difficult. Having to perform onstage when I don’t feel up to it is complicated, too, but I try to maintain a state of mind that keeps me moving forward. The positive things are, for example, being able to buy my first home, like the farmhouse I just bought, and being able to make my parents’ lives more comfortable.” In 2018 and 2019, Jorja spent a lot of time on tour—last August I ran into her at the Rock-en-Seine Festival in France, where she was one of the headliners, and at the Olympia in Paris at the end of 2018. “Onstage, every song is like a number that’s part of a performance,” she explains. “Most of the time, I immerse myself in the music. Sometimes playing live in concert is like reliving the past, but I don’t mind being nostalgic.”
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Last summer, Jorja unveiled a brand new track that wasn’t on Lost & Found: “Be Honest” (a collaboration with Burna Boy), which features an unbridled and more-sensual style. She prefers keeping the details of her second album, which she is currently working on, a secret. No date, no revelation about possible guests or the atmosphere she will focus on—but while discussing another subject, she did reveal a few clues. “I never make any good resolutions for myself. From a professional point of view and for a long time, I simply try not to be too hard on myself. This year, I just want to write again and again. My way of composing hasn’t changed: I start singing over a rhythm or an instrument and let the lyrics come out. I do a bit of freestyle, then I listen to it again and try to make it fit. I want to get back into piano again, I’m going to buy myself a baby grand. The 22-year-old seems comfortable in her skin able to draw inspiration from the sounds of her idols and to write original songs that are very contemporary. When asked about her opinion on the current state of the world, she hesitates a little: “I don’t like to talk politics very much. I prefer to focus on the positive.” And then she says, “It’s true that the world can seem dark and depressing and that’s what we hear all day long in the media, like all those terrifying fires in Australia. But I’m still full of hope. I feel like my generation is coming together more and more and taking a stand. That’s the positive thing that we can learn from everything that’s going on right now.” On the music side, she maintains the same confidence and dynamic attitude when she’s thinking about the spirit of solidarity that exists between all the female artists around her: “There’s a notion of sisterhood. We support one another, we all remix and show the love we have for one another.” Looking back with pleasure at the photo session she just did with L’Officiel, Jorja gives us her vision of fashion: “My relationship with fashion is constantly changing and I love it. I really like to express my mood and personality through the clothes I wear, which are either comfortable or sexy, often with a distinctive accessory.” We let her go back to work so that she can finish this much-awaited second album as soon as possible, which should once again knock us over.
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SNOWBOARDER EXTRAORDINAIRE AND TWO-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SHAUN WHITE REVEALS THE SECRETS TO WINNING ON THE MOUNTAIN AND OFF
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Peter Davis: You must train every day. at just about every single event. That was Shaun White: I made a decision after the a sign that I was gaining momentum and Sochi Olympics to make training a part of things were clicking. I pushed myself to my life no matter what—going to the gym, take things to the next level. When I was riding a mountain bike, skateboarding, 16, I pretty much won every competition surfing or doing some activity every single I entered. day. Not only is it healthier for me, it improves my mental well-being. PD: You won your first Olympic gold medal at 19. PD: Your career basically started as a SW: I didn’t realize how massive the Olymtoddler. When you were eight, you met pics were. I didn’t realize how much of the Tony Hawk. world was watching, eyes glued to the teleSW: I got introduced to Tony at a young vision. When I won I come sliding down at age. He skated at the local park. I was a the bottom, I have what’s called a “victory huge fan of Tony Hawk—this godlike guy lap” because I won with my first run and to an eight-year-old. He started inviting me nobody bested my score so I’m standing to demos he was doing and quickly invited there—I just won the Olympics, I’m shakme to go on his gigantic skate park tour. ing, I’m flipping out. I come ripping down He definitely brought me into the fold. It the half pipe and get to the bottom and pull was amazing to know him because he was up to the gate and my whole family is there going through everything that I was just in tears, crying uncontrollably with exciteabout to go through. Once all the attention ment and happiness and it hit me at that hit me, where I won the Olympics, I could moment. I’ll never forget my mom through draw from the past experience of knowing her tears just like, “You did it! You’ll forever him and how he handled situations and it be known as Shaun White the Olympic gold really set me up for success later in life. medalist! Your life is going to change forever!” It gives me chills to think about that PD: You became a pro snowboarder at 13. moment because she was right. It was the SW: You couldn’t enter the major pro events start of this incredibly insane career and life. until you were 13. I had been doing amateur It took things to another level. I couldn’t go competitions and I had been winning. It felt anywhere without being recognized. great but I hit a ceiling where I wasn’t getting much better. There was a lot more pressure PD: And then you won the gold four related to what my future was going to be. It years later. was like: this is what I want to do and I have SW: I wanted to show that this wasn’t a to do it. It was a leap of faith. It was challeng- fluke win. If I could win it again that would ing. I was 13 and all of my competitors were really show that I have a real talent and I’ve in their mid-to-upper twenties, so I looked been able to stay on top for this long. I had like a child. The hip hop movement was all these beliefs behind why winning again going crazy in snowboarding. Everybody would be so amazing and I used that to molooked cool with big, baggy clothes and I am tivate myself. I started planning this dream in yellow pants with bumblebees on them. I scenario that involved me winning again am trying to blend in and I stick out like a and the visualization started and I followed sore thumb. I would always fight to be taken that all the way to the finish line and miracseriously. A lot of people were betting against ulously got to relive one of the greatest days me, thinking He’s great, but will he really go of my life all over again. I landed a trick that the distance? I remember overhearing those I invented called the Double McTwist 1260 conversations and it motivated me to prove and that was kind of heard round the world. them wrong and to succeed. A lot of people That trick was kind of light years ahead of show up in the sport and they have a couple what people were doing at the time. The great years and then they disappear. next Olympics are 2022 in China. I got a bit of time for that. PD: When did you realize you were kicking butt and being taken seriously? PD: You injured your face right before the SW: I was probably 14 and I started taking last Olympics. spots in every competition. I got taller and SW: I messed up on a trick. I’m flying bigger. When I was 15, I had this amazing through the air. I caught the lip of the half breakout year where I actually won two pipe. It split my entire lip all the way up major competitions, hitting the podium through the tip my nose and then my
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goggles cut through my forehead and I bit trying to blow it up to the next level?” I through my tongue. So, I was then flown ended up buying the event from him and to the hospital to get stitched back up and then making it into what it is today, that’s then I had a pulmonary lung contusion, so been a whole amazing part of my life where a massive bruising on my lungs from where I play music, I go to festivals. I have been I hit my chest. It was literally maybe a snowboarding and competing my entire month before the Olympic qualifying was life, so combining those two things in one about to start and it really set me back. major event just felt right. I love bringing people together, so it’s just really like fire PD: But you recovered. on all fronts for me. SW: I stayed in the hospital for like a week or two just to get the lungs better before PD: You’re a stylish guy. I could fly home. I remember being frus- SW: It’s the first time in my career I can trated at the situation and I knew exactly branch out and wear other products bewhat I did wrong that lead me to that point sides Burton, which is definitely a bizarre but I was just trying to get through it and change for me. It is exciting to see the fashthen get back up on the mountain and get ion world taking a liking to our particular the fear of doing that trick that put me in sport. I think it’s so cool, I think it’s great, the hospital out of my mind. So, that was I think it’s the beginning of this. You are the biggest hurdle I had to clear that sea- going to see a lot of really amazing things son along with getting ready in time for the coming out in the future. Olympics. There’s no rush to get certain tricks done, especially if you’re confident in PD: You definitely didn’t have a normal or yourself. A big misconception people have average childhood. about action sports and myself is you’re SW: I appreciate the life I’ve been given and just like one of these crazy guys who needs worked for because it’s definitely been off to jump off a plane to feel your own pulse. the beaten trail. It’s just so hard to picture I’m a very calculated, relaxed person in my myself doing something else. I grew up normal life. When I’m on the snow I walk traveling around in a van with my parents away all the time. You look at my list of going from mountain to mountain and injuries throughout the years and they are doing competitions. I didn’t have a huge very few and far between. I look at my ca- group of friends. I definitely have a smaller reer as a marathon, not a sprint. group of friends with more intimate relationships. But I wouldn’t trade any of the PD: You also make music. sacrifices I made for the life I have today. SW: I play for fun. Music is a huge part of my life. It’s like speaking a language when you meet up with other musicians. In my life everything else was based off winning. You either win the competition or you don’t. With music, it’s all people’s perception. It’s kind of like who’s the best guitar player in the world? It’s all opinion. Is it Jimi Hendrix? Is it Van Halen? And you realize that it’s not about winning or anything like that. It’s about creating something that hopefully moves someone else or conveys a feeling or an emotion. That’s what’s so beautiful about music. PD: Air & Style, the massive music and snowboarding event, is now your baby. SW: Air & Style was an amazing contest based out of Austria that I competed at as a kid and it was just so much fun. It’s literally my favorite event to attend every single year. I started speaking with the originator, Andrew Hourmont, and I said, “Hey, what do you think about me taking this on and
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“I APPRECIATE THE LIFE I’VE BEEN GIVEN AND WORKED FOR BECAUSE IT’S DEFINITELY BEEN OFF THE BEATEN TRAIL. IT’S JUST SO HARD TO PICTURE MYSELF DOING SOMETHING ELSE...”
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PLUCKED FROM A NEW YORK STREET WITH ZERO ACTING EXPERIENCE, ANGUS CLOUD RETURNS AS FEZCO, THE TROUBLED, LOVEABLE DRUG DEALER IN HBO’S YOUTH-GONE-MAD HIT SERIES EUPHORIA
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“A LOT OF PEOPLE EXPECT LIKE I KNOW WHAT TO DO, LIKE I’VE BEEN DOING IT FOR A LONG TIME. BUT THAT’S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.”
There is not much online about Angus Cloud. During a ba- who surround her. “Well, some people recognize me on the sic search, a person can find his social media (half a million street or in the store now,” says Cloud. “That happens.” Instagram followers); his IMDB page (which contains little Cloud does admit now that he has reached a certain levelse besides his role on HBO’s Euphoria); and a handful of el of fame—the kind where his face appears on billboards brief interviews that were conducted when his role as lovable alongside Zendaya’s and he walks red carpets—life has shiftdrug-dealer Fezco on the breakout hit was released this past ed, and it’s not just because he has moved coasts. “Everysummer. Cloud, when informed of this, seems unfazed, show- thing seems to be sometimes easier,” he acquiesces, although ing this was not his intention, nor does he care to broaden the 26-year-old quickly adds: “But don’t get me wrong. This his reach. “Is my birthday on there at least?” (For the record, is still regular me.” while it is May 13th, that, too, is rather difficult to find.) That humility is exactly what won over casting directors There was a time, in 2018, when Cloud was just a guy liv- when Cloud flew from New York to Los Angeles, completely ing in Brooklyn, working at a fast-food joint. But after he was unprepared, to audition for the role of Fezco. Despite his approached by a casting executive while walking down the laidback attitude, he admits to being shaken in front of the street in Bushwick , just like that, he was handed the career cameras—a fear he had to eventually come to terms with durthat so many people in Hollywood work years, even decades ing filming. ”You got to just deal with it. Say ’Oh, fuck it.’ for, and still can never achieve. You’re going to do it or you’re not going to do it,” he says. “Stuff has changed, but a lot of stuff has stayed the same,” Although he may still be getting his feet wet in HollyCloud says from Los Angeles, where he has now relocated wood, especially compared to the veteran cast of actors he full-time. He is “all-in” on this acting thing, he claims, now works with on a regular basis, Cloud says he often feels those that Euphoria, the American adaption of the Israeli show of around him forget that - both a blessing and a curse in some the same name, which instantly won over fans, has become a ways. “A lot of people expect like I know what to do, like I’ve smash. The visually arresting series follows the life of 17-year- been doing it for a long time. But that’s not always the case.” old Rue (played by Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab Still, it sounds like the young group of actors, which with no plans to stay clean, and the troubled lives of those along with Cloud and Zendaya, includes Maude Apatow,
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Hunter Schafer, and Jacob Elordi, are tight knit. “The cast is really cool. We’re all friends, and whatnot,” says Cloud. “We be kicking it, we be hanging, we be chilling. There’s none of that weirdo.” Although Cloud says he hopes to parlay his accidental stardom into a long term career in acting (“I’m trying to do all the types of acting. ‘Fantasia’ even!”), it wouldn’t be a surprise if at some point he ended back up in New York. While he speaks pleasantly about Los Angeles, and enthusiastically and lovingly about his job, Cloud speaks most passionately about the city where he was discovered. “I miss New York. I love New York. I’m trying to move back out there sometime,” he admits. “Los Angeles, it’s nice, no crowds, blue sky all the time. But I like the rain too. I love New York.”
“LOS ANGELES, IT’S NICE, NO CROWDS, BLUE SKY ALL THE TIME. BUT I LIKE THE RAIN TOO. I LOVE NEW YORK.”
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“ONE OF THE THINGS IS THAT WHEN I FIRST STARTED PLAYING HIM, ABOUT THREE MONTHS WOULD GET ME INTO SHAPE FOR THE MOVIE. IT’S NOW ABOUT A YEAR. I’VE STILL STARTED THE PROCESS IN MY HEAD BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO GET FIT AND GET READY FOR ANY STUNTS, SO IN A WAY IT’S NOT A SWITCH. IT’S A PROCESS.”
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JEANNE TOUSSAINT Feline and female were made for each other; Jeanne Toussaint sensed its symbolic potential and power of attraction. As the image of assertive femininity, the figure of the panther resonated with the headstrong women of her entourage, whom she understood very well. In 1948, Toussaint—who was also known as “La Panthère” —designed a brooch for the Duchess of Windsor: a three-dimensional panther sitting atop an emerald cabochon, followed by a further panther the next year on a sapphire cabochon. Jeanne—and the Maison with her—transformed the feline into a symbol of radiant femininity freed from convention. — PIERRE RAINERO, DIRECTOR OF IMAGE, STYLE & HERITAGE, CARTIER INTERNATIONAL
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