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94 ParTY PaTrOL Lagerfeld and Fendi fête Paris couture; Armani’s Roman runway show; glitterati give love to the Louvre; Lacroix stages a Schiaparelli circus 98 ICONS They’re back! Oprah Winfrey returns to the big screen; Cher prepares for her rambunctious new record; Liza Minnelli is ready to work; Celine Dion revives the art of the album; Giorgio Moroder fnds himself in demand; Linda Evangelista looks back on her work with Meisel; Kate Upton is Marilyn. Need we say more?

122 mEET THE CErEmONIES Troy Carter’s new hit-makers are ready to rock 124 WOrK IN PrOGrESS: VENICE BIENNaLE Rem Koolhaas’s double occupancy; Ragnar Kjartansson’s epic Hangover; Jesper Just’s immersive landscapes; Kimsooja’s beautiful refections; Berlinde de Bruyckere’s lovely bones 128 FaNCY FOOTWOrK Give yourself iconic stature in the season’s loftiest and most luminous shoes 132 BIJOUx KISSES Famed photographers Inez & Vinoodh share their love with the world, tapping the Misshapes to wear their new line of charming jewelry for TENTHOUSANDTHINGS

118 V GIrLS Ashleigh Good goes from a bus stop to the big leagues; Gabourey Sidibe continues her movie-star reign; Julia Garner steps into the spotlight

134 ExTra Dolce & Gabbana’s brand-new bag and Inez & Vinoodh’s debut perfume are but two of the offerings in store for Fall. Sneak a peek at the coming jewelry, monographs, music, and not-to-be-missed art openings

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114 POWEr IN NUmBErS When Rihanna’s Navy, Gaga’s Monsters, Beyoncé’s Beyhive, and Justin’s Beliebers battle it out in World War V, superfandom claims victory

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140 LEgENDS OF PuNK BY HEDi SLiMANE Five New York City gods—Lou Reed, David Byrne, Michael Gira, David Johansen, and Joan Jett—sit before Slimane’s lens, as Legs McNeil recalls scenes from punk rock’s glory days

214 SOON TO BE HEROES BY BRucE WEBER Continuing his legacy of fnding diamonds in the rough, Bruce Weber uncovers a few guys you’ve got to see

146 LADY gAgA BY iNEZ & ViNOODH The pop pioneer returns with ARTPOP, a rule-breaking record with a new artistic concept. In four stunning cover stories, Lady Gaga embodies the identities that make up her shape-shifting whole, and speaks with Marina Abramović about giving the performance of a lifetime

222 cATHERiNE McNEiL BY SHARiF HAMZA Portraying the beautiful, brash bombshell Lauren Hutton, Catherine plays show-and-tell with styling tips that are seasonless

160 JOAN SMALLS BY TOM MuNRO With an emphasis on energy and fun, the incomparable Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele takes Joan Smalls on a wild ride inspired by the iconic Tina Turner 176 ANDREEA DiAcONu BY ALASDAiR McLELLAN One of the season’s most in-demand girls takes to the beach like Venus in Furs, giving a rock-and-roll edge to a luxury staple

200 guiNEVERE VAN SEENuS BY WiLLY VANDERPERRE Mixing menswear silhouettes with feminine silks, runway titan Guinevere Van Seenus gives us the best of both worlds 84

240 iNDiE QuEENS BY JAMiE HAWKESWORTH Chloë Sevigny, Parker Posey, Lili Taylor, Natasha Lyonne, Selma Blair, Rose McGowan, Gaby Hoffmann, and Jena Malone come together to celebrate their cinematic successes 248 NEXT WAVE SuPERSTARS BY NATHANiEL gOLDBERg Meet our up-and-coming cast of creative minds currently making strides in art, music, flm, and fashion 256 V PAY TRiBuTE TO OuR uLTiMATE icONS David Bowie and Iman, this one’s for you

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188 MiRANDA KERR BY SEBASTiAN FAENA Embodying the bodacious and audacious adult flm star Cicciolina, Miranda shows skin in cutouts and lace

230 NEW MODELS BY ANTHONY MAuLE Adorned in downtown-inspired ensembles from Fall’s coolest collections, Kremi, Irene, Lisa V, and Bo Don are the breakout girls of the moment

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it all; Cher chats with the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears about her impending album and how she’s managed to stay cool for the past 50 years; Liza Minnelli’s reach runs the gamut, from Cabaret to Arrested Development, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Indie darlings, including Chloë Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, and Parker Posey, go full Working Girl. We also take time to toast the icons of tomorrow—actresses Gabby Sidibe and Julia Garner, models Andreea Diaconu and Senait Gidey, and worthy musicians the Tempers and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells.

Of course this wouldn’t be a proper September issue without a celebration of fashion with a capital “F.” For this we turn to the ingenious Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, who turns supermodel Joan Smalls into a modern-day Tina Turner, decked out in white, gold, and a million dollar smile. Miranda Kerr, meanwhile, embodies the porn star turned politico Cicciolina, in a come-hither shoot by Sebastian Faena, styled by Julia von Boehm.

Catherine McNeil channels a lively Lauren Hutton in a ’70s-inspired shoot by Sharif Hamza, styled by Tom Van Dorpe. A true model icon manifests when Willy Vanderperre and Katy England capture Guinevere Van Sneenus in London. Finally, we would be remiss not to bring it back to the musicians who rule the punk roost: Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Michael Gira, David Byrne, and David Johansen. Their incredible portraits were taken by a legend in his own right, the creative director and photographer Hedi Slimane.

Celebrating our favorite icons never gets old. The same could be said of the best of Fall fashion. So whether you’re adopting a can-do attitude or donning the season’s newest threads, put your best foot forward and wear it well. Ms. v

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An icon, by defnition, is someone who is the object of extreme devotion. A trailblazer who has burned so brightly and fearlessly that he or she then attains a certain godliness in the eyes of acolytes. In today’s celebrity-obsessed universe, who is truly deserving of such adoration? (Certainly not the confused 16-year-old mothers being flmed for ratings while struggling to stay afoat.) What many people don’t realize, although they should, is that those who are truly talented work for it. It’s a merit-based system.

They eat, live, and breathe their vision. They set goals and work hard to achieve them.

It wasn’t a casting call (in most cases).

No one represents what it means to be an icon better than our cover star, Lady Gaga.

This fall, the high priestess of pop is back, with ARTPOP, an inventive new album that digs deep into her appreciation of all things creative. It is for this reason that we asked none other than the goddess of mesmerizing performance art, Marina Abramović, to interview her. Their epic conversation runs through four separate issues—so if you want to read the intriguing dialogue between these two fast friends and beautiful minds in its entirety, then you might have to consider purchasing all four issues of September’s V. The covers, each photographed by Inez & Vinoodh, present diferent characters concocted by Gaga and her team, representing various stages in her life, some more venerable than others. If you’ve decided to spend your hard-earned dollars on a big Fall fashion book, this would be a worthy investment.

The rest of the issue is rife with familiar faces as well. Oprah Winfrey, star of Lee Daniels’ The Butler, sits down with her director to discuss how he wanted her to bare

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To bring The True sTory of Lee DanieLs’ The buTLer To The big screen, The accLaimeD DirecTor has assembLeD a sTar-sTuDDeD casT, heaDLineD by supersTar (anD oscar nominee) oprah Winfrey. excLusiveLy for v, The TWo frienDs Dish on hoW They spun hisTory inTo hoLLyWooD goLD One of the most fascinating fgures in African-American history is a person whose work went unnoticed by most. For more than three decades and through eight presidential administrations, a man named Eugene Allen worked as the White House butler, occupying a front-row seat to the unfolding of history. A witness to the civil rights movement—from Brown v. Board of Education through the 1963 March on Washington and far beyond—Allen watched as America, and his place in it, changed for the better.

He served entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr. and Elvis Presley, shook hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and celebrated a shared birthday with President Gerald Ford.

During Reagan’s administration, Allen became the frst butler to be invited to a state dinner. In 2009, he was given a VIP seat to President Obama’s inauguration, where he tearfully watched the nation’s frst African-American president being sworn into ofce.

From his frst day on the job as a pantryman, in 1952, to his last, as maître d’, in 1986, he apparently never missed a day of work.

This fall, the tale of the noble steward will be immortalized in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (the maniacally brilliant flmmaker’s name was added to the title following a legal scufe with Warner Bros., who produced a silent comedy titled The Butler in 1916). Known for his provocative work with big-name actors, Daniels has again unleashed an arsenal of star power with his ensemble cast, which includes Robin Williams, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Melissa Leo, Vanessa Redgrave, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, and many others. The roster is anchored by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker and none other than Oprah Winfrey, in the central roles of Allen and his wife, Helene, whose names have been changed to Cecil and Gloria Gaines, respectively. So what does it take to get an Oscar-nominated media legend to take on only her fourth live-action flm role in nearly 30 years? Daniels and Winfrey took time from an ADR session for this hysterical chat about relentlessness, nudity, and a lesson in fnding “bone-marrow truth.” Patrik Sandberg 98

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LD Watching it, I think it relaxed everybody and I think everyone was rooting for her. It was like having a family there. It was a grueling shoot, in the swamp that was New Orleans, and when she wrapped it was sort of like the light had gone for a minute.

OW It was a wonderful ensemble, but the love of my life, Forest Whitaker, he, boy…he brings it in this flm. He just brings it.

LD She’s deflecting. They both bring it together, and it’s magical.

OW Oh, Lord.

LD Well it’s a story about the butler, but it’s also about his family.

OW That’s why I liked it. You get to see black people at a time when we weren’t seeing what it was like in the homes of Negroes, as we were called at that time. You get to see that we’re really just like everybody else. We love our family and the things that matter: your kids going to school, making breakfast and dinner, sitting at the table, being together as a family, caring about your country. It’s all really important in ways that are both subtle and profound.

Your character also seems a bit glamorous. She keeps up with the style of the era.

OW Lee wanted her to be that way, that’s Lee’s doing.

When we had a party at the house, Lee wanted her dressed up with her nails and her hair done. I would have just had on my fip-fops and my pedal pushers, but Lee wanted to add a level of glamour to her so you could see how important this time—and her husband being given this position as a butler in the White House— how much it meant to this family. And she felt like, you know, she wasn’t the First Lady, but it was the period of Jackie Kennedy, so she was sort of imitating some of that Jackie stuf.

LD She takes direction very well. That’s the other thing I was shocked about. I’d say do it again, and she’d do it again. And I would say do it again, and she’d do it again.

Oh my God [to Oprah], I’ve got some great stuf on you.

It’s hysterical. At one point the camera is rolling and I’m telling her to do something and she goes, “I just did it!” I have her looking in the camera. She doesn’t know it, but oftentimes she’s mocking me.

OW My character progressively becomes an alcoholic and there was this scene where—good LORD today—Lee is saying, “Drunker! Do the line, she’s drunker!” And at one point I go, “Lee, if she’s any drunker she’s not sitting up anymore.” And he’s like, “DRUNKER!” I’m like, “Oh my God, what is happening here?” But anyway, I suppose it would surprise a lot of people that I can take direction so well, because it’s very hard for me to stay out of it!

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Having done so few films over the years, Oprah, Lee, how do you make things work when you have why did you decide to take on this movie? Why an ensemble of actors of this magnitude?

Lee Daniels?

LD It’s very hard! They’re coming and they’re going. First OPRAH WINFREY Nothing quite prepared me for Lee you have the leads, but then you have these movie stars Daniels, let’s start with that! Lee is relentless, with a capi- coming in and you really have to pay them a lot of attental “R”! I was skeptical, because I hadn’t picked up the tion. They’re there to be a part of the family, and the famacting instrument that is myself for 15 years—since 1998. ily already exists with the Gaines family. And they’re I was also in the midst of trying to get my network [OWN] usually nervous, because they’ve heard all these things on its footing, so taking on the responsibility of a role was about me, they’re terrifed. not something I was really keen on. But because he is OW Lee doesn’t care what your name is! The fact that he capital “R” relentless and said, “No, this is Gloria, Gloria can make me—for a dance scene that now lasts less than is you, you should do this, and it’s not going to take up a 40 seconds—dance for six hours straight, and is going, lot of your time...” Ha! [both of them laugh] And he has “Faster! Faster! More! More!” I think he gets a kick out of it. been kind to me, because there have been other movies LD Shut up! that he was doing that he ofered me roles to do and I OW The very frst day on set I had a small scene with turned him down— Jane Fonda, and she said, “This is just terrifying!” And I LEE DANIELS [interrupts] —like a serial murderer. said, “What’s terrifying?” And she said, “Lee is!” She said, OW Like a serial murderer! So, this was something that I “I thought I was doing a good job and Lee came up and said felt I could at least wrap my brain around, this story and ‘stop acting.’” I said, “Oh, he says that to everybody, and this period, and also to have the chance to work with him. he’s especially gonna say it to you, Jane, because you’re I can honestly tell you that had it not been him, I wouldn’t Jane Fonda. And he likes to put you in a position where have done it. I really do think he’s a genius. A little crazy! he can let you know ‘It’s MY set!’”

But genius. He’s cray-cray with a lowercase “c.”

LD [laughing] It’s not true! I just look for the truth, I look What appealed to you about the story? for the truth all the time, in every scene.

OW I love what you end up seeing in this story. I just sent OW I will say that. The reason why actors love working an e-mail to Forest Whitaker after seeing the flm for the with him is because he forces you, in every breath. He is frst time. You’re able to witness the butler’s evolution, looking for bone-marrow truth. He hates the word “actand witness this man’s soul. Through his soul you get to ing.” Every actor’s horror is to be told that they’re actexperience the spirit of the time, the story of what the ing. There was one night when Forest and I were on the civil rights movement meant to working people, like but- porch, and Lee goes, “I am going to roll this flm until lers and teachers—people who were going to work every you stop…this…acting!” day who were part of the African-American middle class. LD Did I say that?

That’s what was exciting to me about this story. You get OW Yes, you did.

LD Oh, no. to see it through the eyes of real people.

What was it like working with Lee? OW In his pajamas! He rules from the pajama roost, so OW We had to keep trying to tame Lee. You have to har- there he is walking around in his pajamas, which have lost ness him in a little bit. Because if it were up to him, I’d their crispness after the 14th hour. But no, we’re always have had three love scenes and been naked on the couch, in search of the truth and whatever it takes to get to that. smoking marijuana! But I talked him out of it.

Actors love him because he lets you watch the monitor Well, Lee is known for getting his actors to depart afterwards and he says, “You see that? That’s really good. from expectation and do things you wouldn’t neces- You see that? Horrible, horrible, horrible!” And I say, “Did sarily imagine they would do. Does Gloria have any you say ‘horrible?!’” surprises in store?

LD Now let me tell you what it was like working with OW I think some things will surprise you about the char- Oprah Winfrey. acter, but still, I fought with Lee to maintain the charac- OW OPRAAAAAH WINFREY!!!! Oh God, Oprah Winfrey. ter’s character, you know?

LD Here’s the thing. You assume she’s going to come in LD I wanted her naked! with the entourage of the President of the United States, OW He wanted me in a naked scene with Terrence and she comes in solo! With just one person, thank God. Howard! Get out of here! And he would have had the And she disappears. I knew that this was going to work f-word coming out of my mouth every other sentence if when I looked over my shoulder and I saw her standit weren’t for the PG-13 rating. It’s calmed down. ing in line, in back of eight other people, to be served LD It was a compromise of calming down. prison food. Because that’s what the food is like, it was OW I said to Lee, “For goodness’ sake, who is this woman?!” like prison food, what we had to eat.

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A post-workout cher mAkes time for A cAndid conversAtion About high notes And tAttoo lows with the scissor sisters’ jAke sheArs, one of mAny fAntAstic collAborAtors feAtured on her upcoming dAnce Album Cher is a tough woman to get ahold of. Meaning that after almost 50 years in the business, if she doesn’t feel like speaking to you, card-carrying member of the press, well, honey, she’s not gonna. But V had the good fortune to catch up with the mononymous pop deity during her recent spate of television appearances and performances in New York. She was pleased as punch to get on the phone with Jake Shears (whom she afectionately calls by his given name, Jason) of the Scissor Sisters, and we were equally thrilled to listen in. Sarah CriStobal

jake shears Let’s talk about the new record, which I’ve gotten to hear a lot of and absolutely love. You sound amazing. What were the biggest challenges of making it?

Cher Getting into the studio. I haven’t made a record in 11 years. But I think my record company was just about to blow me of, ’cause you know, I would have. They just said do it or don’t. So the frst thing we did was “Woman’s World” and they seemed to like that.

Then I pretty much over-recorded. I’m really enjoying this, but I have to say that it’s a little bit diferent. I’m singing higher notes and I’m singing better, which is kind of freaky, because I should be having to bring down my keys, but these are the highest songs I’ve sung. js It seems like you don’t know what an incredible singer you are. Do you still feel insecurity about your voice?

Cher Of course I do, you know that. js I used to get nervous before I went on stage and I thought to myself, When I stop getting nervous is the day that I need to hang it up.

Cher I have to tell myself that too. The other night before I went on The Voice, I thought, Oh, this is too crazy. Get yourself to a home. This is insane. I was really nervous. The song [“Woman’s World”] is hard because there’s no place to take a breath.

It’s some sort of zealous thing—there are literally fve breaths in the whole song. Plus, I haven’t sung in front of anybody. I haven’t been on television to sing live since, I don’t know, McKinley was president. js What do you notice in an audience when you’re performing?

Cher I see them all. I’m really lucky [with my concerts]. It seems like the party has started before I even get there and everyone is having a really good time. Another thing, when I walk on the stage, I make sure that the music and my foot get there at the same time. I don’t do well with extra time. Once I was doing the MTV Video Music Awards and we got out of the car, walked onto the stage, the guys plugged in, and we were on.

And that’s the way I like to do it. js I saw you opening night when you did Vegas at Caesars Palace. I had so much fun. What did you take away from nearly three years in Vegas?

Cher Vegas was never a place that I liked. It was always hard on my voice, and I always ended up in the hospital. The people were kind of sedated and older, so it took me a long time to decide to let those people enjoy their show the way they wanted to and not the way I wanted them to. When I kind of made peace with that, I was a lot better.

And then I changed the whole frst part of the show, ’cause I just got so bored. I wish we had recorded it, but we didn’t. I just came out as a pimp and created this horrible old 42nd Street pimps-and-hookers scenario. We had this old yellow cab and this long limousine and I did two Bob Seger songs. Then I came out in this amazing pimp outft.

And then I disappeared, I went into the cab as the guy, and I came out of the cab looking like Jessica Rabbit. It got to be more fun. I can’t work unless it’s fun. I’m too immature. js I’m the same way. how would you compare playing a really intense concert to flming a really emotional scene?

Cher That’s a hard one, because you’re really worn out either way. In one you’ve done a great job and everyone’s had a really great time, the other is that you’ve been crying for three days and you just want to stick needles in your eyes. Meryl [Streep] and I once had a scene, in Silkwood, that took a long time to shoot. We started fghting in the kitchen and then in the living room, then on the porch. Then we sat on the swing and we were crying. It takes a while to do that. It’s a diferent thing. One is being really exhausted from fun and the other is being exhausted from being so emotional that you want to rip up your whole house. js I love that answer.

Cher I relate to singing as going to a party that someone else is giving and acting as going to a party that you are giving. It’s just emotionally diferent. js This issue of V is about icons. Which people have really been your idols?

Cher Elvis and, well, there have been diferent people at diferent times, but it’s really weird because mostly they’ve been men. When Joni [Mitchell] was making Court and Spark I was with David [Gefen], so every night when she would come in we would hang out and talk. I think Joni’s a genius. And there are great performers. I love K.D. Lang.

It’s hard, you put me on the spot, and if I walk away from this telephone, hang up, I’m going to think of 50 people.

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js I think k.D. Lang and elvis are pretty amazing.

Cher They’re the same person, right? js When you called me to sing on “Take It Like a Man,” I was so excited. When all your dreams come true, is it hard to create new goals to work toward?

Cher I don’t think that we are born with a fnite number of dreams. One thing about dreams is that they can be whatever you want them to be, you don’t have to put a limit on them, you don’t even have to know them. You might have a dream that you don’t even know yet, you know? When I got a chance to direct If These Walls Could Talk, I didn’t really know that that was a dream. My sister said, “Tell them you want to do it, tell them you want to act in it but you don’t want to do the second one and you want to direct the third one.”

And I was like, Okay, that sounds good. I didn’t even know it was a dream, and then it was. js Let’s talk about technology for just a second.

Cher I hope you grade on a curve. js You’re very outspoken on Twitter. I love how you say what you want. Do you feel like it gives you a diferent kind of voice?

Cher Yeah, and sometimes I think that I shouldn’t do it as much. When you’re by yourself, it seems so familiar, and you can get into so much trouble. God knows I have.

I either sound like Einstein or some sort of Cro-Magnon man. It’s dangerous for me, but I end up saying what I want and I’m not so sure that certain people can do that.

And sometimes even I have to go, Nah, Cher, you can’t. js I fnd myself deleting stuf all the time.

Cher I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and have something that I’ll want to say.

My mother wanted to tweet and I went, “No, the absolute answer to that, Mother, is no.” I’d have to leave the universe if my 87-year-old mother got to tweet. js she’s so beautiful, by the way.

Cher I know, isn’t she amazing? She just fnished two days on RuPaul’s show. My mother is just so with it and swears like a sailor, except she won’t admit it. She always is surprised if I say “fuck.” Like, Oh my god, shut my mouth. She’s crazy smart, and my sister is too. I’m the one with the least pencils in the box. js You seem like you’re close with your family, with your kids. We have mutual friends you’re very close to, it’s almost like you’ve built a whole familial environment.

Cher I love my family, and God knows we’ve had our diferences and we fght big and we love big. I have my extended family—the Starks, the Rodkins. Some of my friends I’ve had my whole life. And I have so many little friends too, because everyone has children and children just love me, so I just get along with everybody. Sometimes I can be a bitch to my family, so it’s hard. I’m kind of the little girl with the curl. I mean, I’m fabulous, but I can be cranky. But mostly I’m good with my family and everybody comes to me with their problems, and I go to my mom when I’m desperate. js Well, I’ve got two more little dumb questions for you now.

Cher Dumber than these? Have you been listening, Jason? [laughs] js I just got a tattoo and it’s a bloody mess. What should I do?

Cher Go to any good tattoo parlor, because you want to catch that. You don’t want to get sick, but you also don’t want your tattoo ruined. Was that one of your questions? js ’Cause I know you’re a tattoo lady. You know what you’re doing.

Cher They started making tattoos so much cooler and every girl and every preschooler has a tattoo and I just wish I didn’t have mine. I’d like to start over. I would like to take of my tattoos, and especially the one on my butt, but how would I sleep? I’d have to sleep on my stomach and I don’t like that. When I got tattooed, nobody was tattooed.

It was me, Janis Joplin, and I don’t even know. js Is there anything else that you want to say about your new record?

Cher I hope it’s good. I think some of the songs are good, and I’m proud of it, I think, on the whole. I’m not embarrassed, and that’s always a good thing. I think if you’re a Cher fan you’ll defnitely be happy and not disappointed. js I love the stuf I’ve heard. “sirens” is great. and I love the one that I sing on, “Take It Like a Man.” I hope you make it a single.

Cher I hope I do too. There are two obvious singles, and that’s one. I think it will be a dance record for sure. “Take It Like a Man” and “Dressed to Kill” are most like “Woman’s World.” “Sirens” is more like U2, wouldn’t you think? The Pink song, “I Walk Alone,” is kind of bittersweet in a way that only Pink can write. The other one that she wrote, “Lie to Me,” is kind of really bizarre and has a banjo in it. One song [“Lovers Forever”] I wrote with my friend, for Interview with the Vampire. We got turned down and I just kept it in the back of my mind for the longest time. There are a few dance songs, like four or fve, and some that are kind of disco-sounding. “Take It Like a Man” is a great balls-to-the-wall dance.

There’s no disguising it, it is what it is, and I can only wait till the boys hear it. I can’t wait. js I can’t wait to hear the finished version. It was just about done when I listened to it.

Cher It’s not mixed yet, but when it is I’ll be happy to play it for you. But it’s a lot harder now. And also we used Auto-Tune on it, which is really fun. js Yeah? Cool.

Cher So, you know every secret now? js Yes! I’ve pretty much gone through all of my questions.

Cher I like your interviewing technique, it didn’t hurt at all. It’s fun to be interviewed by someone who knows you. I’m not sure if it would work with everybody, but it was fun today. js I had a good time too.

Cher, singer, new York, 1971.

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The irrepressible enTerTainer and hollywood royal ruminaTes on her love of acTing, learning, and lady gaga The Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar, the Tony, and the legions of (still) clamoring fans at her concerts, all over the world, are a testament not only to her enduring talent but also to her sense of humor and zest for life. But don’t take our word for it. Liza Minnelli’s recent reprise of Lucille Two, on Arrested Development (for Netfix), shows exactly how the living legend can hit the mark.

After 50-plus years in the business, along with what she’s experienced, Liza knows who she is. And we know— or we should!—that trying to dig into the nitty-gritty of her colorful personal life is pointless.

Like her late, great friend Elizabeth Taylor, Liza tells only so much, keeping truly intimate matters close to the vest. Her parents, the director Vincente Minnelli and MGM’s musical goddess Judy Garland, evidently trained her well. Here she shares a lifetime’s worth of showbiz wisdom. Denis Ferrera LIZA MINNELLI Honey, how are you?!

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were incredible. I kept thinking, She’s indestructible!

LM Yeah, that’s me, Wonder Woman!

Is it tiresome when people comment on your energy and longevity and how you just keep on keeping on?

LM No, it’s not tiresome. It’s just…well, I don’t think about myself. Look, when I go to the theater, I want to come out feeling good. So that’s what I think about— am I going to make my audience feel good? They’re all scrunched in their seats and have paid good money, and I try to do what I can to entertain them. We’re locked in a building for two hours, after all! When it’s over, I’m just tired. I don’t feel very indestructible.

When they said Arrested Development was coming back and would you revisit your character, did you…

LM Say yes immediately? Of course. They are the most talented group of people in the world. And the creator of the show is just brilliant.

And you get to have vertigo again.

LM That was my idea, actually. It was sort of during talks we had about the character. They let me explore.

Well, it was my idea to fall down, and it just went on from there! [laughs] Do you want to act more? Are you or your people looking for things?

LM If my people are looking for things, they’re not doing a very good job! I’d love to act more. But I think people assume I’m not interested. But I am! I do! Listen, I act when I sing, I act when I dance. But it all comes from acting. I don’t have to sing and dance to act.

You tell a real story when you sing.

LM I always think of myself as a storyteller. Songs are

stories, and that’s acting too. And I love to learn. That’s my favorite thing. I’ll see something and I’ll say, “Oh, I want to learn how to do that.” And I’ve had such great teachers over the years. They’ve made me. Marvin Hamlisch and Fred Ebb and John Kander and Bob Fosse and Charles Aznavour. My biggest talent, I think, was knowing who was best, who I could learn the most from. So how can I not give them credit? I guess I have good taste. And that’s a talent too.

You still take singing and dancing lessons. That’s kind of incredible, but I have to say, there are aspects of your voice that are stronger than ever.

LM Oh, honey, thank you. But you know, things have calmed down. At some point my body just said, “Slow down! Sit down!” So now I sit down a bit. But then you have to project more in some ways—like a laser beam.

Is there anybody, in any aspect of entertainment, you haven’t worked with whom you’d like to?

LM Oh, God, so many. But right of the top, Tom Hanks.

He has great taste, and every time I see him on-screen I trust him. I think I’ve done that onstage—giving trust.

My concert audiences trust me. But I’d like to extend that.

Is it incredible to you that over 40 years have passed since Cabaret opened?

LM It seems like yesterday to me too. I remember everything. I kept thinking, Is this really happening to me?

And what a flm! Nobody should ever brush it of as just a musical. You know, it was my father who took the musical of the stage and put it on the street, he really made it believable to simply burst into song outside the confnes of a stage. Cabaret did the opposite. It put musical numbers back on the stage.

What is a day in the life of Liza Minnelli? Do you go out and buy groceries and such?

LM Uh, sure. If I have to. Something for the dog or whatever. My day: I get up and go to dance class, have lunch, I do business, then the day is mine if I want to see friends or go to the theater or whatever. Again—it’s calm.

Do you ever go on vacation? I think you’re like Madonna sometimes—work, work, work.

LM Of course I go on vacation. And isn’t Madonna great?

I’ve always liked her. She’s fun to have dinner with. She’s not wacko. She knows things. She wants to learn too. And Lady Gaga too. She can do anything, and has a great sense of humor too.

Do you ever forget where you are when you’re touring?

LM Honey, how could you ever forget being in, like, Poughkeepsie? I love the new audiences and the new places and sights and sounds. And especially how every audience is diferent, how each reacts to this or that. And when you get into their groove, you lean that way. I’m there to tell them stories. It’s like having a conversation.

A conversation that never bores me.

What is the best advice you’ve ever been given?

LM Oh, jeez! So much. Well, one of the best things anybody ever said to me was “keep moving.” But here’s the best advice I can give: stay curious.

That’s great. And you have stayed curious.

LM I have. But please don’t ask me to do anything more with a computer than turn it on! There’s curiosity and then there’s technology. liza minnelli in new york, january 1985 PhotograPhy terry o’neill

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With a neW album out this fall, the vocalist and visionary talks about her pop inspirations, Working With the likes of ne-yo, and Why she couldn’t care less about industry approval

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This fall Dion will release her frst English language recording in over six years, a prospect that she fnds both exciting and a little bit daunting. Given how radically the landscape of pop music has shifted over the past decade, even the woman routinely touted as the world’s greatest living singer has had trouble fnding her place among the Gagas and Beyoncés. The new album, which features songwriting contributions from the likes of Sia and Ne-Yo, as well as a duet with Stevie Wonder, manages the tricky feat of contemporizing Dion’s sound while staying true to what she does best—afrmational pop epics and stadium-size balladry.

“The hardest thing after being in the business for so long is to keep things fresh,” says Dion. “I can’t kid myself. When people come to see me they want to hear the theme song for Titanic, they want to hear “The Power of Love,” and so I’m gonna Celine Dion is one of the few celebrities who are so famous and whose work is so ubiq- sing them. Still, I can’t record the same songs again. So what am I gonna do, sing uitous that they literally require no introduction. Were you to ask her what she does for “Because You Love Me” backwards? Start singing Rihanna’s rejects? No one wants a living, the 45-year-old megastar would likely say that she is simply a singer, but the to hear that. Working with these great young songwriters makes me feel like a new magnitude of her achievement—with over 200 million records sold, she is ofcially the artist all over again.” best-selling female pop artist of all time—makes it hard not to see her as superhuman.

Despite her unparalleled fame, Dion is unpretentious, even (refreshingly) goofy.

“Even if it were to stop now, I don’t think I’d have anything left to prove,” she says One gets the impression she’d much rather be discussing the perks of living in Las of her career. “That’s actually kind of liberating. I have a wonderful family and a good Vegas (shopping), her fantasy collaborations (Freddie Mercury!), and the pleasure life. I feel like I’m having more fun now than I have ever had.” of eating her mother’s grilled cheese sandwiches, back home in Canada, rather than Calling from Las Vegas—where she has just wrapped a long run of dates performing record sales or the entertainment industry. her acclaimed show, Celine—the remarkably chatty entertainer seems both relaxed “I just hope my kids think I’m as iconic as possible,” she says, laughing. “I don’t and incredibly happy, and with good reason. In the history of Vegas, only Elvis’s shows really care what the industry thinks of me. I just want to respect the music and do a have been more successful. Though her 2003 move to the city was seen by some as good job. If I can be remembered as a good mother and grandmother and sister and weird—“They said the Titanic was going to sink again,” she recalls—it has proven to daughter—as a kind person—then that is fine with me.” T. Cole RaChel be one of the savviest decisions of her career.

PhoTogRaPhy sebasTian faena fashion CaRlyne CeRf de dudzeele “I’m extremely lucky,” she says. “To be able to perform at this level and still go home to my family every night, it’s really rare. I have the best of both worlds. Performing in Vegas CeLINe wears Coat MiChael KoRs (F/w 2012/13) earrINgs alexis biTTaR Hat eRiC JaviTs gave me the opportunity to give the best of myself, both as a performer and a mother.” Loved me baCk to LIFe Is out oN oCtober 22

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It was a very unusual movie. I wrote the song and we immediately knew it had to be David Bowie to sing it, since he himself is such a mysterious guy. We few to Switzerland, where Queen had a studio. We had dinner the night before and he said, “Giorgio, I wrote the lyrics for the song and it’s going to be called ‘Cat People (Putting Out Fire).’” So I asked him what time he wanted to meet the next day to record. I suggested we meet around 5 pm—which is a typical time for artists to actually get to the studio—but he wanted to meet at 9 am the next morning. We were done in about an hour and a half. Bowie was so professional. It was one of the easiest things I’ve ever done.

What was it about Donna Summer that made her such a perfect ft for your music?

GM She was just so beautiful and so charming, always up for a joke and always so easy to work with. And her voice…she’s up there with Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin. When we made “Love to Love You Baby,” the way it came out was kind of a mistake, because I had things in the wrong key. She couldn’t sing it the way she was used to because it was If you happen to love dance music—or music in general, for that matter—then you owe so high, so she had to sing in this very high voice…but the way it turned out was beautiful.

Giorgio Moroder a debt of gratitude. During the ’70s, the Italian-born producer-composer She was just undeniable. pioneered the use of what was then considered a fairly dubious instrument, the synthe- “I Feel Love” is widely considered the greatest dance song of all time. Did you sizer, using it to revolutionize the landscape of pop music. His collaborations with Donna have any idea that you were making something iconic?

Summer—especially the genre-confounding “I Feel Love”—helped defne club culture for GM Not really. When I made the frst demo my publisher took it to a music convention in an entire generation (and introduce the world to a little thing called “disco” in the process). Cannes, which was where songs were kind of bought and sold. Typically nobody would buy His scores for flms, including Midnight Express and American Gigolo, would prove just it if it wasn’t good. I was terribly nervous. But she came back telling me that everybody as popular—and perhaps even more infuential—than the movies themselves. This year loved it. That was the frst moment when I thought, Okay, maybe we’ve got something here.

Moroder collaborated with Daft Punk on what has become one of 2013’s most celebrated Are there any records in your catalog that you consider lost classics? albums. Having already led a generation of young robots to get funky to Italo-disco and GM I made a record in 1975 called Einzelgänger that was very odd and electronic and make music with machines, Moroder—now 73—has no plans to unplug his instrument experimental. It didn’t sell at all. I just listened to it again not so long ago and was surof choice anytime soon. T. Cole RaChel prised by how it sounded. I felt like I really did some nice work on that record. I wish it had sold better.

Your project with Daft Punk created a new groundswell of attention. Were you These days dance music is given the same kind of credence as rock music, whereas aware of how beloved you are? back in the ’70s dance and disco were scofed at. Is it nice for you to see the shift?

GIORGIO MORODER No. I started to notice about a year and a half ago. People started GM I certainly was one of the people—along with Nile Rodgers—who were making to talk about me and how they felt infuenced by my work. David Guetta did some very successful dance music. Disco kind of died in the ’80s, but dance music lived on, parnice interviews where he mentioned me. Then, when the word got out that I was doing ticularly in Europe. Now it’s the DJs who keep it alive. But it never really went away a song with Daft Punk for their record, it became almost a daily thing. My Google alerts entirely. People will always need to dance. started going of almost constantly.

Did working on the Daft Punk record make you want to make new music of your own?

What do you think about the state of dance music?

GM Yes. I just fnished a song for a game that Google is launching. I’m also working with GM The technology is absolutely incredible now. Even if you aren’t a great musician, you Avicii and doing a couple of other things that I’m actually not allowed to talk about yet. can still make music that sounds incredible. I just worked with a young kid who doesn’t I’m also interested in making some new instrumental tracks using various instruments know how to play one note on an actual instrument, but he comes up with great sounds. and maybe a vocoder. It’s funny, when Google put the song up on the Internet I could You’ve worked with a diverse array of artists. What about that appeals to you? read all the comments people were leaving. Someone said, “Giorgio, what are you doing GM Sometimes it’s just about writing a song and having the best person sing it—whether making this kind of music? You are 73!” I just laugh. You know, if the Rolling Stones can you sing it yourself or you fnd someone to do it, that’s what you have to do. I enjoy go out on tour—and they are in their 70s—then why can’t I make new music? I surely sharing that process with another person. must look better than Keith Richards, right?

I’ve always been fond of the music you made with David Bowie for 1982’s Cat People. How did that come about? giorgio moroder in los angeles, 1979 GM Oh, yes! Well, I had to do it. It was the same director as American Gigolo, Paul Schrader. PhoTogRaPhy miChael monTfoRT

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“it was like crystal, like champagne corks popping,” steven meisel told vogue of meeting his muse. here he shares the duo’s greatest hits, and evangelista talks to famed editor carlyne cerf de dudzeele PhotograPhy StEVEN MEISEL INtErVIEw CarLyNE CErF dE dudzEELE CCD So tell me, how did you meet Mr. Meisel?

LE I few in for one of those famous Vogue sittings during the Grace Mirabella days. There were multiple models and I was one of them. You were there too! You guys were talking about my knees and legs and I was freaking out because I was always teased about them. I thought you were making fun, but in fact you liked them!

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Cameron Diaz.” The model-turned-actress became acquainted with Diaz on the set of The Other Woman, a rom-com directed by Nick Cassavetes which is scheduled for a spring release and marks her feature flm debut. Not that the cosmic force from Florida is any stranger to being on camera. Her Dougie dance moves have been admired by millions and that buxom look means parallels have been drawn to another famous vixen. “I think Marilyn Monroe was a beautiful and sexy woman who portrayed herself in an irresistible and charming way,” says Upton. “Who wouldn’t be honored to be compared to her?” alison lee

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LADY GAGA’ S LITTLE MONSTERS strengtH: 58,467,236

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Grammy-winning multiplatinum recording artist Beyoncé Knowles is also an actress, a Pepsi spokeswoman, a producer, and the wife of rapper and entertainment mogul Jay Z. She also happens to be pals with the President and First Lady. NBD. CHOICE WORDS FROM YOUR GENERAL: “I’ve worked harder than probably anyone I know, at least in the music industry. I just have to remind myself that I deserve it.”

MAGNITUDE OF INFLUENCE: Beyoncé has sold 75 million albums, with each of her four solo albums debuting at number one on the Billboard 200. She is also the frst non-Hispanic person to make People en Español’s list of the 50 Most Beautiful People. She’s just that awesome.

MEME-WORTHY ASPECTS: Beyoncé’s seemingly perfect life and unfagging poise make any feeting moments of weirdfacedness newsworthy. Case in point: the “devil faces” Super Bowl half-time show. Those convinced that she’s a member of the Illumnati also believe she faked her pregnancy. What?

GROUPTHINK CASUALTIES: Certain die-hard Beyoncé fans, or “Killer Beys,” can be so passionate that they attack anyone whom they believe to be a Beyoncénemy, like Keri Hilson.

Chucking Beyoncé CDs at the poor singer was once a thing.

MODEL SOLDIER: Last year, Ton Do-Nguyen, a 16-year-old high school junior in Pennsylvania, reenacted the entire “Countdown” video, frame-by-frame, swaddled in a Snuggie.

SPOILS: Infrequent, but substantial. Beyoncé’s celebrity industrial complex is so robust that she hires squadrons of professionals to curate her “archive,” a treasure trove of videos documenting her every waking moment as well as her online presence. She rarely interacts with individual fans, given the abundance of Bey stalkers over the years, but when she posted about Ton Do-Nguyen’s video, the kid shot to Internet stardom.

Strength determined by Facebook Likes on offcial fan pages as of July 25, 2013

Mother Monster’s music career is nothing to sneeze at, but it’s her philanthropy and LGBT advocacy that earn the trust and admiration of her die-hard fans. In 2011 Gaga launched the Born This Way Foundation, an anti-bullying, mentoring, and career advancement organization, partnering with the Berkman Center at Harvard, the California Endowment, and the MacArthur Foundation—you know, the dudes who dole out genius grants.

CHOICE WORDS FROM YOUR GENERAL: “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded.”

MAGNITUDE OF INFLUENCE: Lady Gaga is the only female with a Diamond-certifed single, “Bad Romance.”

MEME-WORTH ASPECTS: Her sartorial choices make her a muse to many and click-bait all along the information superhighway. Who can forget the Franc Fernandez “meat dress” or the towering Alexander McQueen armadillo clompers, not to mention the teetering Noritaka Tatehana heel-free shoes?

GROUPTHINK CASUALTIES: Little Monsters can be so overprotective of their mother fgure that they occasionally throw up their claws for a dubious cause. In March, an open letter to GLAAD was dispatched that accused Madonna of helping to spread AIDS in the 1980s.

But, to be fair, lots of Monsters were yet to be born—either this way or that—in the 1980s.

MODEL SOLDIER: Emma C, the 19-year-old Gaga Daily forum moderator, from Wisconsin.

SPOILS: High. While recovering from a labral tear this past spring, Gaga learned that Emma was sufering from scoliosis. She ofered to fy her loyal monster to NYC to meet with her surgical team, and gave Emma free reign of her 24k-gold-plated Mordekai wheelchair. Motherly love indeed!

BEYONCÉ’ S BEYHIVE strengtH: 49,420,579

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RIHANNA’ S NAVY STRENGTH: 74,293,288

JUSTIN BIEBER’ S BELIEBERS STRENGTH: 55,940,940

At just 25, Robyn Rihanna Fenty has seven studio albums under her belt and has racked up six Grammys. She is cited by Billboard as the top charting Pop Songs artist of the past twenty years, with the most entries, most top tens, and most number ones of any artist. She also holds the Guinness World Record for most digital single sales in history.

In addition to success, she’s achieved notoriety, by exhibiting dubious moral behavior and by temporarily rekindling a relationship with the noxious Chris Brown.

CHOICE WORDS FROM YOUR ADMIRAL: “‘Role model’ is not a position or title that I have ever campaigned for, so chill wit dat! I got my own fucked up shit to work on.”

MAGNITUDE OF INFLUENCE: February 22 is Rihanna Day in Barbados. According to Forbes, Rihanna earned $43 million in the last year and holds the number 13 spot on the list of the world’s 100 most powerful celebrities. She’s also sold over 100 million records.

MEME-WORTHY ASPECTS: An Instagram feed rife with pictures of her posing in various states of fashionableness, dishabille, or else smoking an impressive amount of weed. The entire on-of Breezy relationship was ripe for broadcasting as well.

GROUPTHINK CASUALTIES: After attending a Brooklyn stop of the Diamonds World Tour, a fan is seeking damages against M.A.C Cosmetics claiming that sampling Rihanna’s RiRi Woo lipstick at the venue’s M.A.C pop-up shop gave her herpes. How this could be Rihanna’s fault remains as mysterious as why anyone would take a highly-trafcked lipstick sample and put it directly on their mouth.

MODEL SOLDIER: Natalie and Rodrigo, in Poland and Brazil respectively, run Rihanna Daily, a tireless, robust venture which requires that one of them is always online.

SPOILS: High. Rihanna Daily started as a fan site, but now it’s afliated with Def Jam and Roc Nation, which pays both Natalie and Rodrigo a salary. Rihanna has 30 million Twitter followers, and rolls 70 million strong on Facebook. The performer keeps morale high with constant interaction.

Sales of banner ads adjacent to Justin Bieber’s hair-related news alone are higher than the GDP of some countries. There’s simply not enough space in this edition of V to rattle of the accomplishments of Canadian Pisces. Although—shameless plug alert!—if you’re superkeen, buy a back issue of V75, which features the pop prince, or just watch his feature-length biopic, which fetched almost $100 million at the box ofce. Preferably in 3-D. CHOICE WORDS FROM YOUR GENERAL: “So remember, this is Bieber’s world. You’re just living in it. Bieber or die.”

MAGNITUDE OF INFLUENCE: For JB’s birthday, Beliebers broke the Guinness World Record for “the most widespread social networking message,” posting 251,878 times in 24 hours and concurrently raising money for clean water. As an 18-year-old, the pop-star graced the cover of Forbes’s celebrity 100 issue as a venture capitalist quietly investing millions in about a dozen privately held tech start-ups. JB’s IPO game could be major.

MEME-WORTHY ASPECTS: His hair. His face. How unimpressed he looks. His shirtlessness.

GROUPTHINK CASUALTIES: Beliebers fooded Twitter with “who is Anne Frank?” after Biebs visited the Anne Frank House and scrawled “Hopefully she would have been a Belieber” in the guest book. True Beliebers can also be harsh in scrutinizing OLLGs (the special girls selected, one per concert, to receive a rose or fower crown from JB).

MODEL SOLDIER: Whenever she has time of from school, Vanessa Marciano, 21, an Ontario native, runs My Bieber Experience, where Beliebers can recount their OLLG stories or their meetings with Justin.

SPOILS: High. Justin and his manager Scooter Braun are vocal about their love of fansites, particularly Marciano’s. Justin shouts it out on Facebook and Twitter, and in 2010 Vanessa was invited to join Justin in his ritual prayer circle before a show, an honor never before bestowed on a fan. One less lonely girl for life.

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She will get back to New Zealand six times this year, ended up taking the bus. That’s when a model scout driving by spotted her, circled the block, and signed her up. “which isn’t bad, because it’s so far away,” she says.

“I did some castings at New Zealand Fashion Week and “Though it’s pretty bad for my bank account.” When didn’t get booked for anything,” she remembers. “But Good gets home, work isn’t far from her thoughts. She’s then Ford took me, and within a week I was in Paris on the eldest of four, and says her 20-year-old sister and an exclusive job for Givenchy.”

13-year-old brother are gorgeous enough to get into the Her career has continued to blossom: not only has business too. As is her nine-year-old littlest sister: “We she been championed by the likes of Lagerfeld (who do photo shoots all the time, except I’m the photograbooked Good for five consecutive Chanel shows, includ- pher and she’s the model.” ing closing the Spring 2013 Haute Couture collection, in Though she clearly comes from a blessed gene pool, which she and Kati Nascher appeared as lesbian brides, a Good says she never anticipated being a model. Her Ashleigh Good is at a café near her hotel in Paris. A stun- nod to the gay-marriage controversy in France), but she father owns a call center training business, and the ning gal with pouty lips, almond-shaped eyes, and high has also become a favorite of Carine Roitfeld (who was week before she was booked on the Givenchy exclucheekbones, she’s also tired. “I wish we could have done introduced to her via Riccardo Tisci and loves her tom- sive she got a job answering phones for an insurance this interview last night, when I was packing,” she jokes. boyish appeal), and is currently the face of Max Mara’s company, which she says she thought was the greatest Good was up late for her V shoot, with legendary night Fall campaign. “I remember my first time at Givenchy, gig. “When I got that job I told my boyfriend, ‘My life owl Karl Lagerfeld. She got home at 5 am and met me sitting all alone with no one talking to me,” she says of is going to change.’ I was going to get minimum wage, four hours later, en route to the airport. “I just always her fateful first fashion show. “So from then on, I never weekends off, a steady income. I was stoked! [And] I feel like I’m packing my suitcase,” she says. wanted to see anyone left out, so I go up and talk to every was right. My life did change. But more than I ever That trusty suitcase has been her primary residence new girl. I make new friends all the time. It makes the expected.” derek blasberg for the past year. Born in Kent, just outside London, job a lot easier.” She’s walked miles of designer runGood moved with her family to New Zealand when she ways, and when we finish here, she’s getting on a plane ashleigh good in paris, july 2013 was 10. A decade later, lightning struck when she didn’t to Moscow, at the behest of Raf Simons, for a Dior show PhotograPhy karl lagerfeld have a ride to the coffee shop where she worked and in the Russian capital. rings chanel fine jewelry

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With an Oscar nOd and a handful Of atypical rOles in the bag, V’s pOpular cOVer girl aVOids clichés and carries On as a real-life mOVie star “That was a lot of my face,” deadpans Gabourey Sidibe, referencing her 2010 Spring Preview V cover. The now famous Size Issue, starring Sidibe and Dakota Fanning,

by Inez & Vinoodh, went on to be one of the bestselling editions of this magazine to date. “Every time I start a new project, when I first walk in for a read-through it’s always up on the storyboard. I have it hanging in my apartment!”

At a West Village restaurant on a rainy afternoon, Gabourey—or Gabby, as she likes to be called—sits unassumingly in the front corner window, ignoring the gawkers drifting through the room. “I’ve sort of been on vacation,” she says in disbelief. The Academy Award nominee has recently wrapped The Big C (the critically-acclaimed Showtime series that took its final bow this spring) and Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard (out later this year). Since she and V last sat down to talk, the breakout star has been holding her own with a string of diverse yet memorable roles in indie films and Hollywood tentpoles alike. In addition to White Bird, she’ll next be seen in a picture called Gravy and take to the small screen for the third season of runaway FX hit American Horror Story.

“I was talking to the wardrobe stylist and she was like, She also still gets starstruck like everyone else. When I need this color shirt because there’s going to be BLOOD she arrived on set for Araki’s White Bird, she found herEVERYWHERE,” she says of Gravy, which mixes horror self caught of-guard by her company. “I walked into and comedy. She also mentions an Alan Ball-penned the makeup trailer and I was like, She looks like Angela script called What’s the Matter with Margie? which she Bassett, who’s she? Then I got closer and it was fucking hopes to film soon, a project that’s been circling her for Angela Bassett. Now, I live for Angela Bassett. Are you kida while. “I never really have enough time to get scared ding me?” Sidibe says she connected to the flm’s script, and think, Oh no, I’m never going to work again!” she which centers on a girl (played by Shailene Woodley) says with a laugh. “There’s always something there as who spends years searching for her missing mother. “I soon as I need it to be, so it works out perfectly.” play her best friend,” she explains. “The costumes are This isn’t exactly surprising, given her powerful New Wave, because it takes place in the late ’80s. I got debut in 2009’s Precious: Based on the Novel Push by to be punk in it—we spent a lot of time in goth clubs and Sapphire, which earned her an Oscar nomination for things like that. It was so amazing!”

Best Actress—a monumental achievement for a firstIn the future, Sidibe hopes to work with more icons. timer who had never aspired to perform. “I didn’t get “I want to work with Viola [Davis]. I want to be her,” she to make the choice to be an actor, but I got to make the sighs. She also cites Meryl Streep, and she feels a spechoice to stay an actor,” she explains. “Seeing the process cial reverence for Beyoncé: “She doesn’t walk, she leviof how the story changes three times—once in writing, tates. If I could just touch the hem of her weave, I know I another way in production, and then again in editing— would be changed!” In fact the actress is so smitten with that really fascinates me. I knew immediately I wanted the superstar that for her thirtieth birthday in May, she to stay in the business. I’m going to start writing. I find went on a trip to Milan to see her idol perform. Though that aspect the most interesting.” the two have not yet met, Gabby has a plan to make it Though she admits that due to being recognized she happen soon—top secret, of course. Perhaps her frst now feels nervous riding the subway or making trips to screenplay should have a role for Queen B. “Maybe we’re the drugstore, Sidibe isn’t too phased by her crash course COPS!” she screams, enthralled by the idea. “Oh my God, in fame. “It hasn’t changed me in the way people think it I think I got it…We’re cops, and we’re always saying things will change you, like that you have an entourage with you like, ‘GOT YOU, SUCKA!’” With that, she doubles over in all the time or that you’re always late or nasty to people,” hysterics—a ftting pose for a girl who’s still getting the she says. “I think it’s made me grow up in a certain way. last laugh. patrik sandberg But I still have my goofy sense of humor. My favorite movies are The Hangover and Bridesmaids, I’m pretty Gabourey sidibe in new york city, january 2013 normal in that way.” Another personal indulgence? photography philippe vogelenzang RuPaul’s Drag Race. “You know when you’re alone and Fashion brandon maxwell you talk to yourself ? When I do that, the voice I use is dress issey miyake earrinGs alexis bittar a drag queen’s. Oh no she done didn’t!” american horror story airs in october on fx

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Thomas’s Electrick Children, channeling a pregnant Mormon youth on the run to Vegas. “I auditioned on Monday, by Wednesday I got the job, and by the following Tuesday we were already flming the movie, in Utah,” recalls the blue-eyed, baby-faced ingenue in between sips of hot cocoa. “So I didn’t have a lot of time, and I just focused on the situation that the girl was going through.”

This straightforward, disarmingly candid approach to the craft (no Method acting or grand pretensions here) is fast becoming the actress’s signature. “It started out as a hobby,” she says of her trade. “I did some acting classes when I was 15, because I was shy, and I just really liked it, a lot.”

With her snow-white skin and pure-of-heart intentions, it’s only ftting that Garner has been cast as some Nineteen-year-old New Yorker Julia Garner has only pretty macabre characters. This October audiences will been acting for three years, but given her packed résumé, see her in a meaty role, that of a reluctant teenage cannione would think that she’d been at it for ages. She made bal, in director Jim Mickle’s slow-burning horror fick We her feature debut in 2012 as a vunerable cult member Are What We Are, which caused quite a stir at Sundance. in Sean Durkin’s career-making drama Martha Marcy “It was terrifying,” says Garner. It’s not a typical horror May Marlene, then scored the lead of Rachel in Rebecca flm. That shoot was a lot of fun too.”

Julia Garner may look adorable, but don’t let her porcelain features fool you. her latest roles include a cannibal, a prostitute, and a stripper. eat your heart out america

Next up? A 20th-century prostitute (opposite Michael Pitt, in the period drama You Can’t Win) and a stripper (in the much-anticipated Sin City: A Dame to Kill For). In the latter, “I befriend Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character and we have a night out on the town, and it’s a good one, and then, you know, something bad happens to me…so it ends up being really bad.

“The past year has been crazy, but I love it,” continues Garner, who started working and traveling alone after her art-teacher dad and therapist mom gave her the goahead, when she was 18. “Now it’s just kind of a waiting game. It’s weird. People always say, ‘What’s your dream part?’ I don’t have a dream part. I just try to do roles that stretch me, that really…give me something to learn. You get to imagine. I’m very lucky.” aSHLEY SIMPSON julia garner in new york city, january 2013 PHOtOgraPHY PHILIPPE VOgELENzaNg FaSHION BraNdON MaxwELL Dress caLVIN kLEIN cOLLEctION we are what we are is in theaters on september 27 121

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more of an all-around sensory experience, as opposed to just a collection of songs.”

As for their name, the trio was leafing through their favorite poems and novels for inspiration and repeatedly came across the word “ceremonies.” “We knew it meant a communal gathering, where people come together to embrace a spectrum of emotion—from the sadness of a funeral to the happiness of a wedding.” It’s that same inclusive, tradition-building concept that drives their upcoming album. “The primary influence for this record has been nostalgia,” Michael says. “As long as people can relate somehow, that’s all that matters to me.” bradley stern

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immersed in sound. “Music was always fowing between rooms,” they explain. “We just liked to sing together, so we decided to develop that.”

After recording a few demos, the trio formally came together last year with the help of producer Danny Garibay. The collaboration paid off: the Ceremonies caught the ear of industry titan Troy Carter (the manager behind Lady Gaga), who signed the band to his management company, Atom Factory.

Drawn in part from ’80s new wave and post-punk, the group’s sound is a genre-blurring blend of rock, as evidenced by their debut single, “Land of Gathering.” The bold number is a confagration of pounding drums and live-wire energy all but missing from radio today, armed with anthemic harmonies and a distinctly otherworldly sensibility. “We don’t want to limit our music or be represented by any sort of one-dimensional feeling,” they insist. “We don’t want to be the type of band that only plays happy music.”

Their accompanying visuals—a mélange of sleek, stylized black-and-white moodiness—create a similarly mysterious feel. “We like the concept of engaging the imagination,” they say. “People have to apply the colors themselves.”

The Ceremonies just want to make you feel.

The band is now putting the fnishing touches on a Growing up under the same roof in Los Angeles, “strongly conceptual” EP, as well as its debut LP, which Matthew, Mark, and Michael Cook found themselves they promise will provide more than just music: “It’s

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IN ProGress five exceptional artists from all over the globe stopped to pose for these pages during the venice biennale. in their own words, theY elucidate their themes of radical recontextualization, rainbow spectrums, and big brass bands PhotograPhy Jason schmidt

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This project, at the Prada Foundation, in Venice, is in fact an exercise in double occupancy: in the same way that the spaces of the Bern Kunsthalle were occupied by a generation of young revolutionary artists, in 1969—on the occasion of the legendary show “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form”—the baroque spaces of Ca’ Corner della Regina are in turn being invaded by the Kunsthalle’s 20th-century rooms. The result is a literal and radical superposition of spaces that produces new and unexpected relationships: between the two architectures, between the artworks and Ca’ Corner’s baroque architecture. Through this radical “recontextualization,” the literalness of the reconstruction is transformed into a more challenging experience.

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This is me and the gang of the S.S. Hangover during one of the opening days of the Venice Biennale. It is a kinetic sculpture that is performed every day for four hours during the entire exhibition. The idea for the piece came when I was looking at a recipe book called Hollywood Cocktails. There is a still in it from the movie Remember Last Night (1935) with a boat just like this one crashing into a swanky party. The haphazard hybrid of Greek, Icelandic, and Venetian ship design, with the

name S.S. Hangover and the fat Pegasus on the sail, really got me. I do love the idea of the fat Pegasus, most of us artists are like that…trying to fly. I got a replica of the boat built, painted it, and asked my friend Kjartan Sveinsson to write music for it.

It is spatial music made for the movements of the boat in the historical shipyard Gaggiandre in the Arsenale. A melancholic brass piece. The stuff that Kjartan writes goes straight to my heart. The musicians are fantastic, and it is really hard work for them to blow constantly, therefore I have a bit of a bad conscience every day until November. Then I have to use the opportunity, since this is a fashion magazine, to say my clothes are from JÖR, a Reykjavík store. Now Guðmundur Jörundsson will be happy with me.

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This picture was taken in the morning at the Pavilion just before the opening of the Biennale. I’m standing in front of the largest (13 m x 3.5 m) of the fve projections in the installation. As you walk through the piece the narrative evolves from one room to another so that the physical involvement hopefully points back to the spectator. The idea of representing your country in another country was my starting point for Venice; I became interested in imposturbanism and ended up shooting the flm in a replica of Paris built in China. To do more than an anthropological study of the Chinese people living there, I wanted to shoot this place as if it was actually Paris, using French actors.

The image shows a 1:1 replica of Boulevard Haussmann. It is from the last projection in the installation, just before you pass a hallway of bamboo under grow lights to exit through the toolshed.

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“To Breathe: Bottari” presents the Korean Pavilion as an empty bottari (bundle) and invites the bodies of the audience to be the only active performers within it.

Translucent film on the skin of the building diffracts light into a rainbow spectrum, while mirrors lining the floor and the ceiling infinitely reflect the self and the other. My breathing performance, “The Weaving Factory (2004–2013),” fills the air

and transforms the pavilion into a breathing bottari that folds and unfolds the phenomenon of light.

Together with the space of light, “To Breathe: Blackout (2013)”—an anechoic chamber in complete darkness—creates a soundless dark void of infinite reflection of self: a black hole.

This installation questions visual knowledge as the known and darkness as the unknown, through two visual extremes that are connected as part of a whole.

The Pavilion becomes a physical and psychological sanctuary that raises ontological questions about our body and mind as well as the conditions of civilization in this era.

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If you thought you had seen pretty much everything from Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, think again. This September marks the inseparable duo’s debut jewelry collection for TENTHOUSANDTHINGS. The idea stemmed from a philanthropic endeavor with the brand’s founders, David Rees and Ron Anderson, that took place last year. After shooting a portrait series for V81 entitled Let Love Adorn You, featuring luminaries Susan Sarandon, Liya Kebede, Olivier Theyskens, and other friends 1 32

in one-of-a-kind pieces auctioned for charity, Vinoodh felt inspired to create a necklace on his own for Inez.

“We really loved it, and then we started thinking about all the possibilities,” says Inez of the initial design, a black oxidized silver necklace featuring intertwined replicas of their wedding rings and a star pendant. Next they created a series of 10 variants, and then an eleventh version incorporating diferent stones into the collection. Ultimately, the project evolved into a 200-piece range which will be sold at Barneys New York and Net-a-Porter.com. “For us, it comes from our togetherness and our son, Charles Star, who turns 10 this year. It’s about the special bond between people, either in their love life or their work,” says Inez.

To showcase their gems, the pair photographed groups who embody this connection, including Misshapes’ Greg Krelenstein, Leigh Lezark, and Geordon Nicol. “These pieces have a real sense of the artists who created them that I feel very connected to,” says Krelenstein.

“They have a very intense working relationship and they symbolize a part of New York that I love,” says Inez of the trio, who will release their frst compilation this fall. “It was so exciting to see how they felt in the jewelry and to be on the other side—we have never shot our own product before. Now we understand how the designers feel!” Kristin tice studeman

from left: GreG wears leather and oxidized silver necklace with sapphire oxidized silver necklace with sapphire 18k rose Gold rinG with black tahitian pearl oxidized silver rinG with black tahitian pearl leiGh wears red leather and 18k Yellow Gold necklace with rubY oxidized silver necklace with white tahitian pearl 18k rose Gold necklace with sapphire oxidized silver rinG with sapphire oxidized silver rinG with white tahitian pearl oxidized silver rinG with diamond briolette oxidized silver and diamond pavÉ rinG with diamond briolette Geordon wears white leather and 18k Yellow Gold necklace with white tahitian pearl oxidized silver necklace with diamond pavÉ drop 18k Yellow Gold necklace with all elements misshapes in new York citY, JulY 2013 PhotograPhy inez & Vinoodh

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Ever the proud Italians, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana set their sights on the spectacular mosaics housed within Sicily’s ancient Cathedral of Monreale for Fall. Local artisans were commissioned to replicate the painstaking methods that were used to embellish the church in 1172.

One of the more Byzantine creations to emerge from this creative expedition is the Sicily Morale, a handmade minibag with a metal frame, over which plaster is poured before being adorned with myriad pieces of cut glass fresh from the kiln.

“The best craftsmen had to place those little stones next to one another to create a picture,” says Gabbana of the statement piece, which took two days to create. “This is not just a bag,” Dolce adds. “It’s like buying a little jewel.” mia solkin dolce & gabbana sicily morale bag ($15,000, select dolce & gabbana boutiques)

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which could chill the warmest climates and heat up any night out. (September 10, XO/Republic Records, theweeknd.com) The announcement earlier this year that Trent Reznor had secretly been recording a new Nine Inch Nails album eclipsed just about everything, and the frst single, “Came Back Haunted,” proved a worthy addition to the project’s broiling, blistering discography of singles.

The David Lynch–directed video—an exercise in sensory stimulation efected by sinister psychological trickery— gave fans goosebumps. Hesitation Marks is a no-brainer.

(September 3, Columbia Records, nin.com) Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band are back with a record called Take Me to the Land of Hell, the frst record from the project since 2009. Never one to shed her experimental tendencies, Yoko has tapped a curious and cool list of collaborators to cosign the release, including her regular accompanists, who hail from bands Cibo Matto and

Cornelius. Among her new recruits: tUnEyArDs, ?uestlove, Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt, and Wilco’s Nels Cline.

The album will also include remixes by the Beastie Boys.

“I really think it’s the best record I made yet,” she writes to V exclusively. “I’m totally thrilled. Let me know which song is your number one! Yoko.” (September 17, Chimera Music, yopob.com) Kim Gordon is back with a new project and a new record, under the moniker BODY/HEAD, an exploration of the concept of drone music with avant-garde collaborator Bill Nace. Billing themselves as an electric guitar duo, Gordon and Nace build a back-and-forth fretwork of interwoven guitar feedback that results in what they describe as a sonic rainbow. Highly improvisational and abstract, but also looping and spatial, the music harbors a hypnotic transcendence that rewards private listens.

Meditate on the oscillating soundwaves. (September 10, Matador Records, matadorrecords.com) patrik sandberg

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Nothing compares to the torture of waiting for a new album from one of your favorite musical acts. As 2013 turns to autumn, the time of reckoning is nigh. Here are five new records mixed, mastered, and ready for consumption. Pump up the volume on the season’s musthave music.

MGMT are back with their third album, long planned to be self-titled. Promising boundary-pushing, shiny, surreal pop music, MGMT comes complete with a CG visual experience called “The Optimizer.” Optimum.

(September 17, Columbia Records, whoismgmt.com) The steady wave of hype for Canadian songsmith The Weeknd is cresting with the release of his biglabel debut, Kiss Land. When a collection of his three free mixtapes was commercially released as Trilogy, it went platinum, portending big things from the two-time MTV VMA nominee. On this outing, expect shimmering keys, dark synths, and more of his signature vocals,

WE LOVE THE ’90s

The year 1996, which brought us the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe,” Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet, and the introduction of eBay, was also the dawning of a new decade for Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. To celebrate their love-work-union, they created an intimate custom scent, with Byredo, that is now available to everyone.

“It was 10 years after we met and started working together, and the image that the scent is based on, Kirsten 1996, has always been one of our favorites,” Inez says of the iconic photo.

“We are so used to making fragrance campaign images, like for Gucci and Narciso Rodriguez, and we wanted to start with an image and then create a fragrance.”

The scent—with strong hints of amber and juniper berry (a blend of sweet and spicy, similar to the duality in their work)—was originally given out as a holiday gift to the couple’s loved ones. “As this project developed, I began to understand that this image and the year in which it was taken set their work in a diferent direction,” says Ben Gorham, Byredo’s founder and artistic director. “In the end, the fragrance became as much about Inez and Vinoodh as creators and their exploration.” Kristin tice studeman

byredo 1996 ($145, byredo.com)

Clockwise from top left: Ulysse Frechelin (Byredo); courtesy Marlborough Chelsea; courtesy Ragnar Kjartansson; courtesy Graham Newhall from Whitney Museum of American Art; Craig McDean, courtesy Rizzoli

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From swanky, 10-assistant ad jobs to the ubiquitous street-style snap, the business of fashion photography has morphed into a digital enterprise. Crafty lensman Craig McDean offers a palette-cleansing look at the past, when he hovered over negatives and contact sheets instead of glowing, oversized Apple computers.

His new tome homes in on three particular figures—Amber Valetta, Guinevere Van Seenus, and Kate Moss—from 1993 to 2005, after which McDean couldn’t help but become one of the converted.

Considering it was achieved via the analog process, the starkness of the images— culled from magazine shoots and iconic ad campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, and Yohji Yamamoto—are all the more captivating. alison lee

amber, GuineVere, and Kate photoGraphed by craiG mcdean ($100, rizzoli.com)

HAVE AN ART-FILLED FALL

The art world’s back-to-school season warrants a fresh passport.

One of the most anticipated ports of call on the international slate of exhibitions is September’s Lyon Biennial, often overshadowed by the concurrent, more politically charged Istanbul Biennial. Titled “Meanwhile… Suddenly and Then,” Lyon’s twelfth edition, opening on the twelfth, is predicated on the supremacy of storytelling as an essential vehicle not only for art but for media, politics, and any other means of shaping perspective in today’s world. It gathers master reality-benders like Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Bjarne Melgaard, and Ryan Trecartin into the mix. Slightly southeast, HangarBicocca, a brand new museum in Milan, opens “The Visitors,” a show by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, on September 19. The ninevideo installation plays with relationships between live concerts, poetry, and cinema, continuing the artist’s exploration of crossdisciplinary performance. (For more on Ragnar, turn to page 128.)

That same evening stateside, Mike Bouchet brings his eccentric provocations to a newly renovated Marlborough Chelsea gallery, in New York, including a Jacuzzi full of cola and a loop of 10,000 downloaded porno vids. And uptown, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents one of the final exhibitions to take place at the Madison Avenue Breuer building (before its new Renzo Piano– design home on The Highline is completed, in 2015). “Beyond LOVE,” opening September 26, is an in-depth look at the work of American artist Robert Indiana, forever famous for his iconic red, green, and blue Pop Art rendition of the word “LOVE.” Drawing on the verbal and visual vocabularies of postwar America, Indiana’s poetic inquiries will be revealed here as complex and ambivalent, not only an advertisement for hippie-era good vibes but for classical American discontent at the dawn of globalization. KeVin mcGarry From top:

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Fall jewelry has taken on a life of its own with runways that were full of beastly bling. Ornithologist at heart? Check out Dior’s elegant bird ring. Are cats more your thing? Try the Panthere de Cartier.

Have a hunch your spirit animal might be a hedgehog? Go for Sonia Rykiel’s gilded pin. Whatever your preference, the word for accessory enthusiasts this season is “zoowelry.” william defeBaugH

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ALL iN THE fAMiLy

When tasked with naming a handbag, why not look to your inner circle? Such was the approach taken

by Stella McCartney, who bestowed the moniker “Beckett” (the name of her 5-year-old son) upon her newest line of accessories. In keeping with the designer’s animal-free, eco-friendly practices, the bags feature a faux nappa fabric created from vegetable oils (a substitute for leather). The box clutch incorporates sustainably grown wood at the base, as well. The whole design can be fat-packed like a paper bag which simplifes shipping, even further reducing the product’s carbon footprint. “It’s quite pure and straight to the point, yet with a little twist,” the Earth mother– designer says proudly. MiA solkin From top:

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JOHAN THE LENSMAN

Photography Brendan James; courtesy Matchless; courtesy Johan Lindeberg

A brief look at designer turned photographer Johan Lindeberg’s body of work reveals that he’s a man who values women with presence. He’s already shot powerhouses like Gisele Bündchen (for his BLK DNM “Wild” guerilla posters) and Chloë Sevigny (for his debut ads as creative director for Absolut Elyx). More recently, he captured Karen Elson in Nashville for the newest “Wild” campaign, which is coming out during New York Fashion Week. Not too shabby for someone who picked up a camera for the frst time just two years ago.

“I started because I wanted to create a brand with pictures and I decided to shoot the Spring ’12 lookbook myself,” says Lindeberg. “I have been doing at least a shoot a week for months now. I basically sleep with my camera under my pillow.”

The focus of his shoots for BLK DNM, Absolut Elyx, and the occassional editorial spread, is female beauty in its purest form. “I like women as they are, and I want to portray them being themselves, not somebody else,” he says of his work, which involves no makeup and very little Photoshop. “It’s a great time for women to step out and make a statement. I think they should take over the world completely.” This new work-play synergy is perfect for the multitasking Swede. “Working with a woman inspires me to create both clothes and pictures.” kristin tiCE stUDEMAn

Cara Delevingne at the Glastonbury Festival in the Matchless Soho Lady Blouson jacket

LEATHER GOODS

The tricked-out leather jacket needs to bow down to a true original. Long before designers created versions with $5,000 price tags, Britain’s oldest motorcycle company, Matchless, was creating gear to complement their killer wheels. Fast-forward over a hundred years and the luxurious M-logoed masterpieces can be seen on the likes of badass babes such as Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss. The latter is the star of the label’s Fall campaign, shot by Terry Richardson, in which she is splayed atop Marlon Brando’s hog from The Wild One. If that doesn’t inspire you to ride of into the sunset, we don’t know what will. ElizA FlorEnDo 13 7

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“C’mon John,” I’d say, pulling on his shirt sleeve, trying to break the spell Lou had And then came that shriek, as if Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” had fnally been given cast upon him, “let’s go downtown and pick up chicks, let’s hang out with the Ramones, a voice, “Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better / Run run run run run run run away…” It was everyone’s too old here.” But they would both ignore me and continue their conversa- truly a chilling performance, back when the Talking Heads were still a three-piece band tion, the Velvet Underground cofounder never bothering to acknowledge that I existed. and David Byrne frst turned his neuroses into art. “Wow,” I thought, “great band, but Over the years, people continued to ask me, “What’s Lou Reed really like?” boy I’d hate to be David Byrne’s psychiatrist.”

“An asshole,” I’d tell them, and wait until they were thoroughly bummed out before adding, “But if I’d written just one of the hundreds of great fucking rock-and-roll songs There is wondrous beauty in ugly things. MICHAEL GIRA knows this. Maybe it was that he has written, maybe I’d finally be a happy man. Can you imagine if you’d writ- growing up with his alcoholic mother, who changed the ground rules from day to day, ten ‘Heroin’ or ‘Sweet Jane’ or ‘Rock & Roll’ or ‘New Age’ or any of his songs? Jesus, that frst sent him the message. Or maybe it was being relocated, to Indiana, and then the guy really is good, isn’t he?” to Paris, where he ran away from home and hitchhiked across Europe, that gave him I was there the night the Velvets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, early glimpses of the repulsive. He most certainly witnessed the hideous in jail in Israel, and by accident I bumped into Lou as he was walking to the stage to accept the honor. where he was sentenced to four and a half months for dealing drugs.

“Hey, buddy,” he said, and he stopped to shake my hand. I thought, He must not “There’s a book by [Jerzy] Kosinski called Steps,” Gira told an interviewer in 2011, recognize me…Either that or he was so overwhelmed by the moment that he let his “which is cold and clinical, but describes scenes of incredible violence and cruelty. I guard down. But I prefer to think he didn’t recognize me, since it keeps my world that found that combination of elements attractive early on.” much more organized and orderly to know that Lou Reed still hates me.

Upon returning to the States, Michael played in the band Little Cripples and enrolled in art school, where he almost drowned in academic elitism. But he dropped out, moved There was a year or so there when the Runaways and the Ramones toured together, to New York City, and joined the “No Wave Scene,” frst playing in Circus Mort and comprising one of the best double bills in rock-and-roll history. And it seemed for a then founding Swans. Early Swans shows were notable because of Gira’s contempt of brief moment that punk rock might finally become a commercially viable entity. Such the audience. He pulled people’s hair and attacked anyone who dared headbang durwas not the case. But in that brief moment in time, there were no chicks (and chicks ing the performances. they most certainly were) cooler than the Runaways. They were the precursors to all As Michael once said, “Swans are majestic, beautiful-looking creatures with really the Riot Grrrls, and had the biggest brass balls ever to complement their five vaginas. ugly temperaments.”

“Hello Daddy, hello Mom / I’m your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb / Hello world, I’m your wild girl / I’m your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb!” the Runaways sang when a cherry I’d be drunk and broke, walking up the Bowery, trying to make that long trek back home bomb was the equivalent of a pussy riot today. In this small circle of severe female chill, to our ofces on 10th Avenue and 30th Street. A Checker cab would pull up to the curb, one Runaway was ready to scurry even farther than the rest. JOAN JETT shone with a the door would fy open, and there would be DAVID JOHANSEN in the backseat, sipping brighter luminescence than even her bandmates did—a pretty amazing feat, since the champagne, surrounded by three hot babes. He looked like some long-haired, ultra-hip band was comprised of stunning dirty teenage fantasies. version of Robert Goulet—a dandy with a Bowery Boy mug—and with that gravel pit of I remember seeing Joan backstage at the Santa Monica Civic Center, on my a voice, he’d growl, “Hop in Legs, we’re going to Chinatown, I’m gonna teach you how 21st birthday, when the Runaways were opening for the Ramones, and I said to Joey, to eat Chinese food…” And I’d climb into the cab and not stumble back to the ofce “Wow, she looks like a punk-rock angel!” until late the next afternoon.

“Yeah,” Joey Ramone laughed, “or devil! Ha ha! She’s supercool and a great guitar player.”

David Johansen was one of those guys that was always a ton of fun. His whole body Of course, the Runaways broke up a few years after they began and Joan went of on seemed to radiate “good times start here,” as if some neon arrow was poised over his her own to become the female icon she is today. I remember her coming of stage that head, pointing down at him. David Johansen was the party. He seemed blessed with night in 1977, her black leather jacket slung over her shoulder, sweat dripping down hysterical one-liners and the most charming anecdotes, always ready to laugh, firt, her skinny, sinewy arms, an intense anger burned into that gorgeous face, just dying and carouse, when carousing was an art form and staying out until noon the next day to tell the frst person that got in her way to “FUCK OFF AND DIE!” was not uncommon.

He was a star from another time. Even in the ’70s he seemed like he’d be more comThe night after I saw the Ramones for the frst time, I went back to CBGB to fnd out what else fortable hanging out with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. and Johnny Carson and was going on there. I mean, the Ramones were so incredible, I wondered if there could be other Charo instead of bums like me at CBGB. Then along came the ’80s and the proto-punk bands that played at this club that might be as diferent, unusual, and wonderful as they were. rocker was transformed into the big-haired Buster Poindexter, and the entire world This time I went alone and sat at a table near the front. There were only about twenty got to see him as I had. It was as if Buster’s whole act was about saying, as he did to or thirty people in the place, and this band of three extremely nerdy but sexy kids, two me one night, “And if you’re too drunk to walk home, you can sleep on my pile of dirty guys and a girl, took the stage—and I got the answer to my question. laundry, ’cause the party never stops.”

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clothing and accessories Jett’s own

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Jacket and shirt Saint Laurent by Hedi SLimane

Makeup (Joan Jett) aaron de Mey For SepHora Hair orlando pita For orlo Salon

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Jacket Saint Laurent by Hedi SLimane

On eyes, GiorGio ArmAni smOOth silk eye Pencil #4 On cheeks, GiorGio ArmAni sheer Blush #4 On liPs, GiorGio ArmAni rOuge ecstasy #401

paws up! Mother Monster is back with Multiple personalities and a brand-new sound. in an icon-to-icon exchange, she sits down with perForMance art pioneer Marina abraMovic to explain the ethos behind her iMpending albuM, her evolving state oF being, and what valuable inForMation she is storing inside her brain purse

the art of pop by lady

interview Marina abraMovic photography inez & vinoodh Fashion brandon Maxwell 14 7

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“I was wIllIng to do anythIng for art. It got me Into so much trouble because when you’re wIllIng to do anythIng for art but you don’t even know what your art Is yet or what your musIc Is or what you’re makIng, you’re wIllIng to do anythIng to understand It or to experIence somethIng that wIll charge It or InspIre It.” —lady gaga

“.. as I’m older, I understand the Intenseness of the experIences that I went through. they have affected and changed who I am now.”

—lady gaga

PHASE ONE I see this girl as the frst incarnation of me. Of Gaga. The Bowie superfan, playing with glitter and refective materials, like doing a jigsaw puzzle. How can I paint with this palette in a way they’ve never seen? How can I remain loyal to my glam roots and soar with an artistry that is still forming? I have always felt comforted in my ability to learn as a performer. When I care to no longer learn or research, I am then an occupant of my own ego. Bowie is a scholar, and it is this part of him that I’ve kept with me. If I allow myself to really delve into and analyze the thing I’m making, I feel a sense of control. A sense of belonging. I belong because I must create. I must transform. And I must believe that my ability to evolve is infnite. LADY GAGA MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ I was just looking at the photographs for V Magazine. I know what it takes to create these kinds of shots. You work day and night, it’s crazy. People say, “Oh, how easy it must be to become what you’ve become.” But it’s enormous discipline and sacrifce. Can you describe your normal day?

LADY GAGA Normal working day…they’re always diferent. I wake up—recently, a bit earlier—and I usually smoke and sit in bed and read. I put out all of my notebooks, computers, the music, pictures, art books, and I just sort of lie there and I smoke a bit. I look at everything and I really just look at it, Marina. I always think about the work a lot, but on this album I really spent a lot of time gazing, you know? Really gazing into the work and really thinking about what it means.

How can I make it better? How can it become more original? How can I inspire them to see something that I don’t even want them to see? And so I wake up, I do that, and then I start to make my calls—kind of like a serial killer—to everyone in the HAUS. Each one has a diferent thing that they’re good at. And while I’m sitting there and gazing at the work, I just start to call them and say, “Okay, I need you to do this,” and then “Okay bye.” And then I call the next line and say, “Can you do this? Okay bye.” It’s sort of an editing process, but instead of it being a painting or just music, it’s everything.

My team calls me the atelier, the couturier at the end, when they put the dress together and the couturier comes in and sews the dress at the last minute and makes it all come together perfectly. That’s what I do. I put it all together and I’m there at the inception of it. So I’m really the one that understands every single piece. In a typical day, I would do that for three to four hours in the morning. Then I will run or fgure out a way to sweat, and then I’m usually at the studio...

MA You forgot the breakfast. When do you have the breakfast?

LG [laughs] I don’t eat breakfast.

MA I knew it. No breakfast. You have cofee, tea? What do you do?

LG I drink Pellegrino, I’m a good Italian girl. I have Pellegrino with lime and a smoke. And I just lie there. Sometimes maybe green tea. I just sit there and look at everything. I get mad at the work, I get frustrated, I start getting really sweaty. I have a very emotional experience when I’m creating.

MA What time do you go to sleep in the evening? Late or it depends?

LG It really depends. I can fall asleep at any time, at any place. In a strange way it’s because my mind is always so exhausted.

MA That’s how you know when you’re really an artist. When you’re an artist, it’s a thing like breathing, you don’t question breathing. If you don’t breathe, you just die. So if you have this urge, it’s almost like you’re diseased, you have a fever, you can’t do anything else that way, your mind is occupied, you’re pretty much an artist. But then the question is what makes you a great artist? Because you could just be an artist, but you can be mediocre too. What makes you a great artist is the few steps more. It’s really sacrifcing almost everything around that actually can ft into this image that you have to construct, and that’s a real thing.

LG When I shot with Inez and Vinoodh, it was the same thing. You have to stare at the image, you have to stare at the work. You have to have an intense connection with it all the way to its core, and then push, push, push yourself and then say Okay, and you have that instant adrenaline feeling of Let’s go.

MA That is what is making this thing pop. I want to know a little about this piece for the new album that you played…“Pig ”? I love this work. Do you have a favorite song? Also tell me a little bit about the pig one.

LG Actually it’s interesting that you said that you love “Swine.”

MA “Swine” sounds so much worse in English. Pig is almost sweet, but swine is really dirty.

LG Yes, swine is dirty. And in European culture, it’s not very nice to call somebody swine. It’s like the worst thing you can say. So when we were making the cover that you mention, with the dark hair…Each cover was designed with a custom outft by one designer. That’s the one that Hedi [Slimane] did—the one in the sequined jacket with the high-waisted jeans and the hair. That was the time in my life when I was the new artist. I wasn’t a fully formed artist, I was 19, I was young. I was on my way. I was willing to do anything for art. It got me into so much trouble because when you’re willing to do anything for art but you don’t even know what your art is yet or what your music is or what you’re making, you’re willing to do anything to understand it or to experience something that will charge it or inspire it. And because of that I was really troubled. I was really sick all the time in my head, in my heart. I felt trapped, but I was free. And then it was like a slow death. A slow death of my innocence and my youth. And I had to climb through a lot of swine, and that’s where that song came from. This idea of something so dark and something so awful and perverted that at a young age you don’t really understand. And you don’t want to know and understand it. And then, as I’m older, I understand the intenseness of the experiences that I went through. They have afected and changed who I am now. So this song became a liberation, because I’m now saying that if I am to be truly great at this transformation, I have to understand. It shows on stage before people’s eyes. And that’s really what these covers are about. It’s not just the hair, it’s the whole life.

MA Each one is diferent.

LG It’s a whole life-form.

MA How you would describe these characters?

LG The dark-haired one I wrote as the New Artist. It reads like this: “This is me, the me I was the most afraid to be again.

The me I had left behind. Through the work each time over and over with Inez and Vinoodh, there is a challenge that I was facing with myself. The person they want to see is dead, I think. I have an ability to endure physical and mental pain for long durations, months or years at a time, but I’ve learned eventually that the brunt of that anguish fnds its point and impact, and although I was able to withstand the challenge for that period of time, the results are destructive and I’m left a shell. Why would I ever want to feel that again? And then a bigger question, Does anyone really know what I went through to get here? And somehow with Inez and Vinoodh’s calm sense of confdence, their seductive artistic way, in the process I am inspired to allow the emotions to pass through me as they photograph me and I hear, ‘Beautiful, Gaga! Yes! Yes! Look at that girl!’ I’m reminded that my sense of self within the world I create provides an element of honesty and gravity to the work and it’s okay that I’m broken. I can be broken in the Cubist or Surrealist sense, like a Picasso nose, or Dalí clock—ahead of its time, not pathetic or shameful. And then I am transported back to a time I wanted to forget, I somehow still arrived at what I have become, an artist that celebrates our diferences.” So what I’m saying is I realized that if I wasn’t able to become her again, then I was in essence afraid of something, which felt like a big, padlocked chain.

MA That means that you’re freeing yourself from that.

LG Exactly. I felt it at the shoot, then we shot for the video, and I became the same girl again in the flm. Then there was another level that came out and it was the joy of me as a young Italian-American girl from an immigrant, bluecollar family that just wanted to be a performer with that drive and love of music. It became this really beautiful flm of me lying on a mattress and singing this song as if I was writing it in my bed for the frst time. The hour that we shot was like ten years of a good sneeze or something. A really good sneeze. “applause” is out now, artpop is available on november 11 For the Full story, collect all Four issues oF v85 or go to vmagazine.com

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Lighting director JodokuS drieSSen digitaL technician Brian anderSon Studio Manager Marc kroop VLM print producer Jeff Lepine creatiVe MoVeMent director Stephen gaLLoway (the coLLectiVe Shift) choreography richard JackSon photo aSSiStant Joe huMe StyLiSt aSSiStantS hayLey piSaturo and Sandra aMador Makeup aSSiStantS Mondo Leon and kanako takaSe hair aSSiStantS Sean MikeL and tony keLLey taiLor MaLiSa (in-houSe ateLier) production gaBe hiLL and roger dong (ge proJectS) Brenda Brown (the coLLectiVe Shift) artiSt ManageMent troy carter, BoBBy caMpBeLL, Lane BentLey (atoM factory) retouching StereohorSe Location Steiner StudioS catering SMiLe to go SpeciaL thankS giuLiano argenziano, aLLiSon Brainard, Sidney ruSSeLL (aBraMoVic LLc)

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supermodel joan smalls amps up the fun for carlyne cerf de dudzeele’s personal love explosion. baring skin and losing control in extravagant white-hot looks of the season, smalls proudly brings aspirational opulence back to life

A S T I N A T U R N E R photography tom munro

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“ENERGY! FASHION! QUICK, QUICK, QUICK! THIS IS WHAT I LOVE!” —CARLYNE CERF DE DUDZEELE

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“MY GUT, MY INSTINCT.. MY ‘TRAFFICOTAGE’ À MOI! ” —CARlYNE CERF DE DUDZEElE

JACKET AND SWIMSUIT ALEXANDRE VAUTHIER BOOTS CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN FOR ALEXANDRE VAUTHIER EArrINgS ALEXIS BITTAR

TURTLENECK WOLFORD SKIRT REED KRAKOFF COAT (IN HAND) JASON WU BOOTS, BAG, CUFF GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI DESIGN EARRINGS AND BANGLE ALEXIS BITTAR ON HAIR, ORIBE SOFT LACQUER HEAT STYLING SPRAY

JACKET (WORN BACKWARD) AND PANTS BALMAIN SWIMSUIT AMERICAN APPAREL EARRINGS AND BANGLES ALEXIS BITTAR CHOKER AND BAG GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI dESIGN RING KENNETH JAY LANE

DRESS DIOR NECKLACE AND BANGLES KENNETH JAY LANE EARRINGS AND RING ALEXIS BITTAR oN fACE, ESTÉE LAUDER ADVANCED NIGHT REPAIR SYNCHRoNIZED RECoVERY CoMPLEX II

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TEETH!” —CARLYnE CERF DE DUDZEELE

DRESS THEYSKENS’ THEORY COAT MONCLER GAMME ROUGE BOOTS AND BAG GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI dESIGN CUFFS ALEXIS BITTAR RING ALEXANdRE VAUTHIER MAkEUp JAMES kAlIARDOS HAIR ORIBE USING ORIBE HAIR CARE (ORIBE SAlON, MIAMI BEACH) HAIR COlOR ANTHONy pAlERMO FOR ANTHONy lEONARD SAlON MODElS JOAN SMAllS (IMG) AND VINCENT HARRINGTON (DNA) Manicure Gina edwards for essie (Kate ryan inc.) diGital technician alonzo Maciel (dtouch ny) Photo assistants Xavier Muniz, nicK Krasznai, John BurKe stylist assistant Kate Grella MaKeuP assistant williaM Kahn hair assistants Judy ericKson and GreG BitterMan Production assistant roBert Petrie videoGraPher cycy sanders

JACKET AND BOOTS SALVATORE FERRAGAMO BRIEFS JO DE MER EARRINGS ALEXIS BITTAR BAG GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI DESIGN

“POP.. . .LIFE.. . .ALIVE!” —cArLynE cErF DE DUDZEELE

stroll along with roving beach beauty andreea diaconu as she models sexy body-con attire and luxe furs with all the irreverence of a heavy metal goddess. the in-demand stunner gives off van halen vibes in the most spectacular outerwear of the season

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CAPE PUCCI ON EYES, BURBERRY MIDNIGHT BROWN SHEER EYE SHADOW ON LIPS, BURBERRY ROSEWOOD LIP DEFINER

COAT FENDI BODYSUIT CAPEZIO BOOTS VERSACE

COAT SALVATORE FERRAGAMO JUMPSUIT JULIEN MacDONALD BOOTS SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE ON EYES, BURBERRY BLACK KAJAL CrAYON IN POPPY BLACK

COAT LOUIS VUITTON TURTLENECK UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON JEANS BLK DNM BOOTS SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE

COAT MAX MARA VEST AND JEANS BESS

JACKET TOM FORD BODYSUIT CAPEZIO BOOTS vERsACE ON SKIN, BURBERRY GOLDEN FRESH GLOW FLUID

TOP AND LEGGINGS HERVE LEGER cOAT SANDRO BOOTS SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE

COAT VERSACE TOP AND LEGGINGS AMERICAN APPAREL GLOVES SERMONETA

COAT DRIES VAN NOTEN SHIRT AND DRESS SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE MAkEup WENDy ROWE fOR BuRBERRy (TIM HOWARD MANAGEMENT) HAIR ANTHONy TuRNER (ART pARTNER) MODEl ANDREEA DIACONu (IMG) Manicure casey HerMan for essie (Kate ryan inc.)

PHoto assistants GaretH Powell, lex KeMbery, sHaun Hartas, saM nixon stylist assistant courtney Kryston MaKeuP assistant aliana loPez Hair assistant Mario sisneros Production leone ioannou (Pony Projects) Production assistant oscar correcHer retoucHinG PictureHouse

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bright-eyed beauty miranda kerr embodies the arcadian essence of singer and adult film star cicciolina, the political leader of italy’s party of love. in delicate lace and soft, sheer statement pieces, this nubile nymph sends a message of exposure

photography sebastian faena 1 88

fashion Julia von boehm

DRESS LOUIS VUITTON SWEATER SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE CROWN (THROUGHOUT) STONE FOX BRIDE BANGLE (THROUGHOUT) PARULINA RINGS (THROUGHOUT) GRAZIELA GEMS GLOVES GASPAR GLOVES

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MAKeuP JeANINe LOBeLL (TIM HOwARD MANAGeMeNT) HAIR KeVIN RyAN (ART+COMMeRCe) MODeL MIRANDA KeRR (IMG) Manicure Honey (exposure ny) set design Bryn Bowen (tHe wall group) digital tecHnicians yoo sun and patrick klinc pHoto assistants carlos ruiz and alex austin stylist assistants clare Joan Bryne, allison Bornstein, cHris lee, anny cHoi Makeup assistant cHisa set design assistant kori HelleBust VideograpHers patricio liMa Quintana and agostina galVez production Helena Martel seward production assistants eric reeVes and Ben sHapiro retoucHing Blank digital eQuipMent rental root [eQ_capture] location BrookMill FarM, laMBertVille, new Jersey

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Kimono Carine Gilson maKeup Lisa ButLer (the CoLLeCtive shift) hair James peCis (D+v management) moDeL guinevere van seenus (Women management) Manicure rebecca Jade Wilson usinG cHanel (Jed root inc.) diGital tecHnician Henri coutant (dtoucH Paris) PHoto assistants roMain dubus and dale cutts stylist assistants Kerry PanaGGio and lydia siMPson MaKeuP assistant racHel sinGer clarK Hair assistant saraH PalMer Production 10-4inc london retoucHinG triPPle lutz location biG sKy studios, london

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The legendary phoTographer has an eye for spoTTing Top TalenT. here he highlighTs Three sTudly sTars in The making phoTography BruCe WeBer

brYAN TOrMeY DesIGNer

For 21-year-old Bryan Tormey, founder of L.A.-based label IllSic, becoming a sportswear designer was a no-brainer. Growing up in Milton, Florida, Tormey was always searching for new ways to color outside the lines. For most of his adolescence, he found that freedom by zipping around skate rinks or swimming in the Florida surf.

But when a fellow student who had a business making and selling T-shirts introduced him to design, Tormey’s interest was piqued. “I quickly learned that fashion is about expressing yourself,” he says. “It intrigued me as a form of communication. Certain outfts gave me an opportunity to have a voice without using words; it gave people an opportunity to realize I was diferent. I turned getting ready into how I wanted the world to see me.”

Tormey’s love of all things fashy and splashy motivated him to move to California— with high hopes and a thousand dollars in his pocket—to pursue his dream of starting his own label. It didn’t take him long to adapt to the L.A. lifestyle. “Shortly after moving I began working with photographers and fnally felt my creative engines turning again,” he says.

He started his company and created his frst collection of minimal T-shirts, hoodies, and beanies. Less than two years old, IllSic now has multiple collections a year and a growing client base. “My inspiration comes from many diferent walks of life, and the desire to be better,” says the young designer. “I’ve been fortunate enough to travel and experience many cultures. Like Bruce [Weber] and his story, all the way to the street dwellers in third world countries. People and their stories give me fuel to create and remind me why being unique individuals is so important.” William Defebaugh

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ANDREW ROHRBACH ATHLETE

Model Andrew Rohrbach, 21, had dreams of becoming the next Goose Gossage when a fate threw a curve ball to temporarily derail his nascent pitching career. While playing for College of the Canyons, in Valencia, California, the fastball-hurling native of the state was forced to undergo Tommy John surgery, for a torn ulnar collateral ligament.

Not one to sit idly by, Rohrbach made himself busy by answering a local casting call for Abercrombie & Fitch, seeking to be one of those hunky models that makes your girlfriend do a double take. Then fate struke again, this time, for the better. Rohrbach ended up being selected for the company’s catalog, which entailed the good fortune of working with (the photographer of this series) Bruce Weber. While still recovering from his injury, the dimple-faced athlete became interested in a career as an orthopedic surgeon. Rohrbach ultimately received an athletic scholarship at Gonzaga University, where he is currently enrolled. He plans to be back on the mound for his new team, and studying biology, this spring. “Pitching is a position where you have to outthink the other player,” he says, his mind already on the impending 2014 season. Sacha Breitman

ANTHONY CHACON MUSICIAN

It’s the 21st-century way to start a band. Make your way through the singing competition TV circuit and then lock yourself in the garage–just three boys, sweat, and countless hours of fnger-bleeding practice. Although Destino’s triumvirate met during auditions for Mexican reality show La Academia, a program rife with the type of pop-act fabrication the world is unnervingly complacent about, the band’s true origin is refreshingly organic: they sprouted from the purest of rock-and-roll soil, the impromptu midnight jam.

Infuenced by adult contemporary music like Coldplay and John Mayer, lead singer Anthony Chacon, 23, hopes to take control of his band’s future by means of a few magic tricks. Seriously. At the age of 14, the California native created a stage show called GLO, at Hollywood’s Magic Castle, the ultimate magician’s academy-cum-nightclub, with a history of showcasing a wide variety of performers, from Jason Alexander to Cary Grant.

Chacon’s gigs took him on tour across America, giving him his frst taste of success.

The adjustment from rolling solo to being in a band is new for the young musician.

“Now that I’m part of a group, deciding on a song and who’s going to sing which part and fguring out harmonies are all things we have to agree on, as a band. It helps that we all live together.”

Destino’s melodic songs rely on the ultimate theme, love and heartbreak. “Music back in the day was very genuine,” Chacon asserts. “I feel that a lot of the music these days is made to just sell a record. I feel that we fll a gap not only in the Spanish market, but in the English as well.”

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Quadrilingual Bulgarian stunner Kremi Otashliyska stormed onto the scene when she landed a coveted spot as a Balenciaga Fall 2012 show exclusive. Since then the 18-year-old has quickly become a force to be reckoned with, appearing on major catwalks for the likes of Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, and Saint Laurent—racking up 55 total shows for the Fall 2013 season.

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“Doutzen did it, so why can’t I?” was Hiemstra’s reasoning when she sent her photos to an agency in Amsterdam, hoping to be the next Dutch supermodel. With her icy, fair looks, the newcomer has already captured the attention of Miuccia Prada, appearing in the designer’s Spring 2013 ads, alongside big names like Raquel Zimmermann and Amber Valletta. Could there be a better launchpad for a career than appearing in the label’s Steven Meisel–lensed campaigns? Watch out, Kroes.

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Verberght got her start as a Prada Spring 2013 runway exclusive and hasn’t looked back. For Fall the on-the-rise star from Belgium scored spots in many of the big shows—including Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, and Alexander Wang—that are usually reserved for seasoned vets. Thanks to her ’90s supermodel looks, Verberght’s career is sure to be a standout.

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“I got scouted in the supermarket when I was 17, but I wanted to fnish school frst,” says 21-year-old Bo Don of Holland.

“I didn’t think modeling would be my thing, so I didn’t do much with it.” Luckily, she gave it another go, after completing her education, and traded in her soccer cleats for stilettos. The blue-eyed, brunette pixie has stepped out on the runway for houses like Balenciaga, Anthony Vaccarello, and Céline, but she admits opening for Balmain Spring 2013 has been the highlight of her career thus far. “I love the brand!” she gushes.

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Chloë Sevigny’s big break was in Larry Clark’s 1995 flm Kids, flmed in New York City, where she still lives. The Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe– winning actress has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, including Gummo, American Psycho, Boys Don’t Cry, Party Monster, Zodiac, and HBO’s Big Love. She will next appear in the A&E drama series Those Who Kill, debuting in January.

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Selma Blair’s breakthrough performance as the dim-witted Cecile Caldwell in ’90s teensploitation fick Cruel Intentions was but a teaser ofering of her comedic prowess—a trait that would help her win over audiences in movies like Legally Blonde and The Sweetest Thing. But it’s her one-of-a-kind depiction of suburban, pretty-girl malaise that has made her a favorite of auteurs like John Waters, Guillermo del Toro, and Todd Solondz. coat stella mccartney shoes nicholas kirkwood

“If I take a sleepIng pIll, I sleep-shop onlIne. I bought a car on ebay after takIng an ambIen.” —rose mcgowan

A modern-day B-movie queen, Rose McGowan is well-known for her defnitive role in Gregg Araki’s ’90s teen-angst thriller The Doom Generation. Her irresistible venom has also landed her roles in movies like Encino Man, Bio-Dome, Scream, Nowhere, Jawbreaker, Grindhouse, Machete, and Conan the Barbarian.

She will next appear in the fttingly dark big-screen adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, with Peter Bogdanovich.

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“I always feel lIke I can’t act or that thIs Is my last job and I’m a fraud. that they’ll all fInd out, and I’ll never work agaIn. so the process Is rememberIng that I am made to do thIs. I can really get In my own way.”

—parker posey

Since bursting onto the screen in 1993 as Darla Marks in Dazed and Confused, Parker Posey has enjoyed hallowed status as a muse to many of indie cinema’s greatest minds, Richard Linklater, Hal Hartley, Noah Baumbach, Gregg Araki, and Christopher Guest among them. Also no stranger to the big-budget worlds of Nora Ephron and Bryan Singer, everything Posey attempts turns to cinema gold. As if to prove this theory, she’ll next appear in the Nicole Kidman-led award-season biopic Grace of Monaco.

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“My Most surreal MoMent was at age 16. I was huggIng woody allen on our last nIght of shootIng. Both of us were dressed as groucho Marx, and as I crIed, My shoe polIsh Mustache Bled down My chIn.” —natasha lyonne

From the start Natasha Lyonne has cultivated an eclectic career, working with Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, and even Pee-wee Herman before she turned 17.

In Slums of Beverly Hills, alongside screen vets Marisa Tomei and Alan Arkin, she left an indelible impression as the wisecracking Vivian Ambromowitz.

She’s since spent time everywhere, from the arthouse to the playhouse to the bargain bin to the blockbuster, and now she’s on Netfix. Catch her on your own time in the hysterical female prison comedy Orange Is the New Black. clothing michael kors

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Raised by a Warhol superstar in the famed Chelsea Hotel, Gaby Hofmann’s life has been anything but ordinary. The same can be said of her work: she won America’s hearts as an adorable youngster in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, and Sleepless in Seattle, before coming of age in Now and Then and turning in memorable moments in 200 Cigarettes, You Can Count On Me, and Life During Wartime. Lately, Hofmann has been earning rave reviews for the buzzed-about Sundance hit Crystal Fairy. She’ll also bring her brand of quirk to the third season of Girls in early 2014.

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“My work philosophy is to collaborate like a Mofo.”

—lili taylor Lili Taylor is the quintessence of what is known as an actor’s actor. Since breaking through in the ’80s rom-com classic Mystic Pizza, alongside Julia Roberts, she has made a career inhabiting complex, bizarre, and unforgettable characters in flms such as Say Anything, Dogfght, Arizona Dream, Short Cuts, Rudy, Prêt-à-Porter, Four Rooms, I Shot Andy Warhol, High Fidelity, and Julie Johnson. This year sees the release of her feverishly anticipated Guillaume Canet crime flm Blood Ties, along with a hot new horror fick, The Conjuring.

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“I have an unusual skIll of balancIng thIngs on my head.”

—Jena malone Remember when Jena Malone made America cry in Stepmom? She’s been pulling power moves ever since: the neo-cult classic (Donnie Darko), the civil war epic (Cold Mountain), Japanimation (Howl’s Moving Castle), high-camp horror (The Ruins), and even a Zack Snyder comic book fantasy (Suckerpunch). Yet somehow she’s managing to raise the stakes even further, by next appearing in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice.

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When asked to defne the aesthetic behind their band, Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper of New York City’s Tempers can’t help but get a little bit metaphysical. “Nothing ever has to be explained or talked about between us,” says Golestaneh. “From the very start we had this feeling that Tempers was this entity with its own colors and characteristics. It almost feels like we’re channeling something—like the music was this thing that was always there just foating in the ether. We just managed to hook into it.”

It’s an apt description for a band that makes music so resolutely otherworldly. Songs like “Strange Harvest” and “Hell Hotline” are heavy on atmosphere—dissonant guitars and murky beats bouyed aloft by Golestaneh’s crystalline vocals. The vibe has quickly earned them buzz and a spot on the Brooklyn-based label Pendu Sound. The bulk of 2013 was spent releasing singles while working on a proper full-length album, but those curious to see the band’s essence writ large need only check out the video for debut single “Eyes Wide Wider,” which features Golestaneh pole dancing in what appears to be a smoky enchanted forest. “It was pretty wild,” she says. “I was in front of a waterfall in the Berkshires at 6 am trying to swing around on a makeshift pole. I kept thinking, This is one of the most surreal moments of my life.” T. cole rachel jASMINE WEARS DRESS GUccI VEIL TIa MaZZa EDDIE WEARS SUIT ToM ForD SHIRT AND TIE hUGo BoSS

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When Japanese supermodel Tao Okamoto got the call from her agency to audition for James Mangold’s summer blockbuster The Wolverine, she said no. “And [my agent] said, ‘Are you crazy? You’d be the love interest of Hugh Jackman in the movie!’” Tao quickly changed her mind. “I love him. I’m not a crazy fan of movie stars—only him,” says the fve-foot-ten stunner, in her quiet, broken English. Awe aside, the duo grew very close.

“He is very dad,” she says of the family-man actor, who taught her a few tricks of the trade. “During this dinner scene, he said, ‘Tao, you have to be careful. You cannot eat too much, because after many takes you’re going to be full…and you have to remember which [pieces] you touched frst...’” (Presumably this was not the frst dietary advice Tao ever received: she’s been modeling since the age of 14 and is currently repped by

The Society Management.) Director James Mangold ofered guidance as well, and Tao instantly felt a connection to her character, Mariko. “[Mariko] is from the richest family in Japan, so…she never had a normal life like other kids. I have the same feelings from my childhood, because I was very tall…and I always felt like I didn’t belong.” With her current crossover into mainstream flms, we don’t think self-consciousness will be an issue any longer. Kate Branch TAO weArs TOP AND sKIrT aLeXanDer McQUeen ON eYeBrOws, chaneL CrAYON sOUrCILs sCULPTING eYeBrOw PeNCIL IN NOIr CeNDrÉ ON LIPs, chaneL rOUGe COCO HYDrATING CrÈMe LIP COLOUr IN MYsTIQUe

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“It’s about freedom. That’s the genesis of it all,” says D.C.-raised R&B singer Alice Smith.

She is speaking of her album, She, released this past March. Coming seven years after her debut effort, it’s been a long time in the making. Feeling misrepresented and mismanaged by Epic, Smith left her label two years ago to pursue other avenues of creating and releasing music. What she ended up with was a new producer, Thirty Tigers, and a Kickstarter campaign that in one month raised enough money for her to fund She. “It was a really cool thing for me. I had been going around trying to figure out how I was going to put out the album and then I heard about Kickstarter and finally I was just like, Fuck it, I’m just going to do it! I’m going to try it. I was really surprised that I got what I needed. It was a really good practice in gratitude for me.”

The kindness of her fans gave Smith her confidence back, resulting in a lighter vibe

that encapsulates the singer’s newfound freedom. “Sometimes you just have to get put through the rinse cycle, that’s all,” the singer says of her journey. With a renewed spirit, she is now traveling around the country with her partner, Citizen Cope, and their child, doing what she loves most: touring. “It’s where I feel the most natural and comfortable. It’s what I do.” Despite the sold-out shows and positive responses from fans and critics, there’s only one thing Smith really wants to come from her recent success: “The ability to make more music.” William Defebaugh

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Upon speaking to blue-eyed Briton Natalie Dormer, one instantly understands the constant chatter surrounding her. “It’s all great fun,” says the Game of Thrones actress of the skill that has landed her not only on the fantasy television series but also opposite the likes of Hollywood heartthrobs Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender. “It was a dream couple of days work…just a joy,” she says of her time flming Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, penned by Cormac McCarthy and out in October. Dormer is being coy. The trained stage actress is an intellectual—she sees her preparation of a Jacobean text for a possible performance with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a fun mind game.

“Good for the ol’ brain cells,” she says. “I suppose I’m a bit of a geek that way. It’s lucky that I enjoy reading, because as an actor you have to do a fuck load of it, whether it be scripts or research.” To prepare for her audition for Ron Howard’s upcoming action

biopic, Rush—about the Formula One driver and playboy James Hunt, played by Chris Hemsworth—she researched Hunt’s wife, Suzy Miller, quite heavily. Though the role eventually went to Olivia Wilde, Howard issued a personal plea for Dormer to play a part in the flm. “I approach each job as a challenge, and I’m always happy to be there, and sometimes you have these great experiences with people and you never know what is going to happen further down the line.” She recalls when she frst came to America, to audition for director Alan Taylor. She didn’t get the part, but two months later she found herself in a casting room with Taylor and writer/creator David Beniof, reading for a new HBO show called Game of Thrones. “How fate twists and turns,” she says. kate branch

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ireland baldwin model/actress

“Being as tall as I am, it’s going to be hard for me to play the beauty queen in a flm, or the lead,” says the six-foot-two blonde Baldwin, an IMG model and aspiring actress. “I think I’m best at being the funny tall one.” The only child of Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, Ireland—“Dublin” to her close friends—considered many professions before she fnally came to accept her fate as a performer. “I’d say something funny and have my dad cracking up—and it’s really hard to make my dad laugh,” the 17-year-old deadpans over the phone from L.A., where her mom and eight dogs live. “And he would say, ‘You’re going to act one day.’” With high school graduation on the horizon, Baldwin plans to take summer improv classes before auditioning for iconic comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade, where her dad has performed. Until her big debut, she remains a frequent and infuential character on social media. Her Tumblr page, Goldi3Looooox, serves as an open Q&A between

Baldwin and girls all over the world. She felds questions daily about teen struggles, like love, beauty, and diet. “People have this assumption that I’m going to come of as superior to everyone,” she says, recalling an e-mail that ridiculed her family and her weight, specifcally the circumference of her thighs. “But I really love meeting new people…I’m easily approachable.” Baldwin’s forthright site and Twitter feed, @IrelandBBaldwin (which includes funny fve-second selfe reels, mostly intended for her professional paddleboarder boyfriend, Slater Trout), suggest that success is not too far down the line. Keep an eye out for a quick cameo of Baldwin playing the younger version of her mom in Peter Segal’s Grudge Match, out in December. (We’re talking to you, Funny or Die.) kate branch IRELAND WEARS SHIRT DOnna karan NECKLACE JennIFer FISher

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“Minnie! Ripper!” screams Sleigh Bells front woman Alexis Krauss with bandmate Derek Miller on the new track “Minnie,” of their third studio album, Bitter Rivals, (which comes out in October from Mom + Pop Music). “It pays homage to Minnie Riperton,” the New Jersey native and Brooklyn-based musician says of the tune, which centers on an underdog of a character who turns badass, fast. “There is a lot of aggression, but also a lot of creative production that references Quincy Jones, and then there is this bizarre R&B element...” Put it all together and it’s the Sleigh Bells sound: “rhythmic, loud, booming, but tender,” she says, hesitant to label the band as “noise pop” or “rap rock” like so many do. “I think it takes bands time to really fgure out who they are, and Derek and I found that on this record,” says the fourth-grade teacher cum musician who ofstage is polite and soft-spoken, but onstage rips hellish words over droning

beats like, well, Miss Minnie Riperton. The album serves as a throwback to Sleigh Bells’ debut, Treats, in that it, too, ofers an immediate life, Krauss explains. Lyrically, it is much more upbeat than their sophomore efort, Reign of Terror, which chronicled a dark period of familial loss in Miller’s life. “In writing for this album, I defnitely tried to put myself in the position of a fan,” says Krauss of the time spent in the studio, still high from the excitement and jubilation of being on tour. “I wanted something really fun, enjoyable, interesting, disturbing, and exciting.” Get ready to head bang, because Sleigh Bells is back—and more generous than ever. Kate branch ALEXIS WEARS JACKET VerSace ON EYES, chaneL ÉCRITuRE DE ChANEL AuTOmATIC LIquID LINER IN NOIR

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“It was inspired by Ray of Light, maybe chiefy,” Alexis Penney says of his new LP, Window, a collection of club-pop balladry that evokes the emotional depth of artists like Madonna and Everything But The Girl in their ambient ’90s prime. Since the 2011 release of his debut single and video, “Lonely Sea” (a breakup song, he says, that was at least partially crafted to embody the experience of Jennifer Aniston), Penney has been working with Teengirl Fantasy’s Nick Weiss and artist Jamie Crewe on a collection of songs bent on providing a window into a particular period of his life—hence the title. Known for his frank tweets and blog entries as much as for his wild club nights and drag performances, staged from San Francisco to New York, Penney has put pen to paper to dissect many of his formative experiences. The result is a debut novel also called Window, to be released in tandem with the album. “Window refers to the window in the apartment I lived in on Mission Street [in San Francisco]. I had a view of the city and the Sutro Tower, and I spent every day typing in front of that window, crying and watching the sunset, watching the crazy people go by. That window really framed that time in my life.” The novel’s fnished

version reads like an NC-17 drag-punk memoir—equal parts Dennis Cooper, Christopher Isherwood, and Cookie Mueller—told through hysterical, nonlinear anecdotes.

“I think a lot of people go through entire lifetimes not taking a real look at themselves or seeing a broader picture of the world and where they ft in,” he says. “I call them dog people—not like they’re dogs, but they’re walking around reacting to stimuli without really analyzing what they’re doing. I have this vain hope that in some small way me publicly eviscerating myself will somehow inspire others to do the same, to really look at the way they treat each other and why. The Window is a glimpse into my life and also an invitation into the life of the audience.” pATRIK SANDBERG

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Growing up in Canada, Senait Gidey never dreamt of being a model. Then again, it’s diffcult to dream of something you know nothing about. But thanks to a fellow classmate turned model, Gidey found her way—and eventually landed a contract with Torontobased modeling agency Elmer Olsen. Now, at only 18, she has just one goal in mind: to be “one of the most beautiful faces in the business!”

Gidey has already proven herself worthy of the challenge. She has walked the runway for everyone from Chanel to Burberry to Kenzo to Christopher Kane. “I got to walk for the greatest designers in fashion!” she exclaims about her enviable role in the Fall 2013 season. In addition to her career on the catwalk, Gidey is quickly building an equally impressive editorial portfolio. The IMG model has been busy working on projects with industry heavy hitters like David Sims and Carine Roitfed, whom Gidey claims is one of her all-time favorite people she has met on the job (along with designers Phillip Lim and Jean Paul Gaultier, to name a few).

On the road to achieving her comely ambitions, the upbeat model has described every step of the way as nothing short of “incredible.” As for right now, Gidey dreams

of a beauty contract—and being able to wear Lim, Kenzo, and Alexander Wang all day, every day, of course. william defebaugh Senait WearS dreSS michael kors on eyeS, chaNel Stylo yeuX Waterproof long-laSting eyeliner in kHaki prÈcieuX

Makeup adrien pinault for narS (ManageMent artiStS) Makeup (Senait gidey) roMy SoleiMani (ManageMent artiStS) Hair SHon (Julian WatSon agency) Manicure Bernadette thoMpson digital technician chris luttrell (haute capture) photo assistants John guerrero and ian rutter stylist assistant paul-siMon dJite hair assistants corey tuttle, chris Miller, sasha alekseyeva, gregory alan Manicure assistant arlene hinkson production assistant hugo Martinez retouching JWl videographers patricio liMa Quintana and agostina galvez locations pier 59 studios, neW york and haute capture studio, Brooklyn

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