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60 DOUBLE VISION BY STEVEN KLEIN Bella and Gigi Hadid are on the fashion fast track and showing no signs of slowing down. Fashion by Patti Wilson

26 BETWEEN ME & MY SISTER In honor of our cover sisters, Karl Lagerfeld shares a few of his favorite chic siblings from the past

40 EMPIRE OF EMPORIO As Giorgio Armani fêtes 40 years in the biz, journey through a time line of Emporio’s major moments

28 IMAN As the iconic model and beauty mogul celebrates her 60th birthday, she catches up with close friend Bethann Hardison

42 V NEWS Colin Farrell makes sense of Dolce & Gabbana’s scent, Andy Warhol’s Polaroids expose his adoration of the upper crust, and top designers scout unexpected locations

84 WHERE THERE’S A WILLIS, THERE’S A WAY BY NICK KNIGHT Matthew Williams unveils his new womenswear line, modeled by Scout and Tallulah Willis. Fashion by Tom Guinness

44 ONE HIT WONDERS Crocodile handbags have a day in the sun while snakeskin boots make the perfect predatory evening accessory

90 THE ACTRESS BY SEBASTIAN FAENA Gigi returns as an ingenue turned superstar, living in the shadow of the limelight. Fashion by Julia von Boehm

46 V GIRLS Sexy, dark, gritty, or ghostly—our latest assortment of musicians and movie stars might be the most beguiling yet

104 BIG LOVE BY LAURENCE ELLIS Tyg and Elizabeth take their sisterly bond on the road in Fall’s strongest statement coats. Fashion by Jay Massacret

54 DIARY OF A DIRTY HIPPIE Miley Cyrus celebrates her Instagram pen pal, designer-onthe-rise Simon Porte Jacquemus

112 V ACCESSORIES BY NICHOLAS ALAN COPE Salvatore Ferragamo leads V to the mirror’s edge with its sharpest Fall accessories

56 THREE BROTHERS James Franco pays tribute to his siblings through poetry and paintings

128 BEYOND CONVERSATION: MARILYN MONROE Hollywood’s ultimate icon comes back from the dead to spill the beans on Lindsay Lohan, Anna Nicole, and more

30 BETTY HALBREICH Bergdorf Goodman’s personal-shopping queen refects on four decades of fashion by focusing on the future 31 DEBI MAZAR The original downtown It Girl gabs with Derek Blasberg on modeling, movie stardom, and her New York miseducation 32 LADIES OF LONDON Check out our new social register, featuring all of the fresh faces to know from the Big Smoke 36 CITY OF ANGELS Los Angeles has a new social scene of its own. Get to know the girls everybody’s googling now

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76 BORN TO RIDE BY BRUCE WEBER Jessica Springsteen may be American rock royalty, but she’s taking her own steps. Fashion by Deborah Watson

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Is it just us, or is fashion moving at a faster speed than ever?

Thanks to social media and Internet live streaming, runway shows are broadcast to untold viewers the instant they happen. More designers are embracing the shoppable runway and magazines are previewing product up to two seasons in advance in an efort not to miss out on the most relevant nouvelles du jour. Perhaps only in this climate could a pair of sisters like Gigi and Bella Hadid achieve the contemporaneous success they’re experiencing as models and media darlings. From their mobile phones, the Hadids reach a collective average of 4 million followers through Instagram alone.

Their rise could not have been born of a more perfect storm: reality TV notoriety, the eye of the business’s top tastemakers, and killer genes—the same recipe that catapulted their good friend, Kendall Jenner, to success mere nanoseconds before them. They’re rising supermodels, but they’re more like social models—a mutation much more polite than the catty catwalkers of yesteryear, a phenomenon legendary model China Machado is quick to point out in conversation with the girls. On page 60, Steven Klein and Patti Wilson convey the velocity of this new sister act in a fast-paced story that puts their high-octane chops on full, front-and-center display. The Hadids had no problem sharing their frst V cover...sharing is something that comes naturally to their entire generation.

It’s in this spirit that we culled together our Fall Preview issue. We asked ourselves, Who are the new socials? Finding them proved easy: many populate the Hadids’ Instagrams on a regular basis, and we brought them together for fun shoots in London and L.A. Jessica Springsteen, daughter of Bruce, meets the other Bruce (Weber) to show him her own horsepower at her farm in south Florida. A top female show jumper well under 30, Springsteen is fnding stardom on the equestrian circuit rather than the stage like her famous parents. But as she tells Horacio Silva, she learned a thing or two from growing up with the Boss.

Elsewhere, we catch up with a few of our favorite society fxtures. Original downtown It Girl Debi Mazar has grown by V MAGAZINE 24

leaps and bounds as she’s traversed movie stardom, motherhood, and the culinary world with an outspoken charm.

This month, upon the release of Entourage: The Movie, she touches base with Derek Blasberg for some gossip and grub.

The legendary personal shopper Betty Halbreich opens up her amazing ofce at Bergdorf Goodman to V senior editor Katharine K. Zarrella and shares her secrets to lasting nearly 40 years at the cathedral of high-end retail. We also check in with the seemingly ageless Iman. As she prepares to turn 60 this month, the iconic model speaks with her close friend Bethann Hardison about knowing when to quit and reminds us that a sense of humor never goes out of style. And when it comes to that new-new, we’re excited to debut the womenswear brand Alyx, designed by Matthew Williams, photographed by Nick Knight on sisters Scout and Tallulah Willis.

As we put this issue to bed, designers are hosting destination shows and Resort 2016 is on everybody’s mind. But no matter how many seasons ahead we’re looking (in the front row, on our cell phones, or in the pages of V), we’re even happier to preview this sensational Fall season of ready-to-wear.

We’ve got everything from statement coats to snakeskin boots, with nary a bad trend in our sights. Let Gigi and Bella be your guides: Strap yourself in. It’s going to be an epic ride. MR. V

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THE TALMADGE SISTERS

Norma and Constance Talmadge were two of the most celebrated stars of the silent silver screen in the early 20th century. Pushed into the spotlight by their overbearing stage mother, Peg, these Brooklyn-bred beauties found success in both the East Coast flm industry and Hollywood. Oldest sister, Norma, always played the sultry love interest, while youngest sister Constance landed roles that showcased her sense of humor and vibrant personality. Then there was middle sister, Natalie, who had neither the looks nor the talent to make it in show biz. Thanks to some meddling from her mother, Natalie was unhappily married to the actor Buster Keaton for 11 years and worked as a secretary in small flm studios. Norma, meanwhile, was married three times, once even to a millionaire. She was one of Hollywood’s frst darlings, but her career ended when sound was introduced into flms—her thick Brooklyn accent made audiences squirm. Her money, after that, came from real estate deals. Constance had four marriages, most of which failed because she put her career before her romances. She died at the age of 75 after becoming a reclusive alcoholic.

Norma developed an addiction to painkillers and passed away in Florida at the age of 63.

Her later life was the inspiration for the deranged Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950). Somewhat disturbingly, Natalie’s ex-husband made a cameo in the flm.

Poor Natalie perished in 1969 due to what Anita Loos, author of The Talmadge Girls, called a “sheer disinterest in living.” KATHARINE K. ZARRELLA

Above: (from left) Natalie, Norma, and Constance Talmadge on their return to the United States after a tour of Europe in 1920 Left: Lillian and Dorothy Gish in a 1920 publicity still for Orphans of the Storm

LILLIAn & DoRoTHy GISH

Lillian Gish, surely one of the most infuential actresses of all time—a pioneer in the art of melodrama, AFI Lifetime Achievement Award winner, inspiration for the title of a Smashing Pumpkins record—was also one of the most self-preserving. She coauthored three books about her own career and agreed to countless lengthy interviews, in which she mostly recited her idealized life story that started on the stage and brought her to the frst true master of silent cinema, D.W. Grifth. The protégé of the puritanical director of The Birth of a Nation (1915) began her acting career as part of a duo, though. Lillian’s younger sister, Dorothy, caught Grifth’s eye as well, but she eventually couldn’t live up to the romantic roles Lillian futtered her eyelashes through. Apparently, even late in their careers, the more serious Lillian would often get smaller parts for her sister once she was cast as the star of a flm by making a role for Dorothy conditional. Dorothy was the goofy sister, cast in comedies, the art of which she defended as underrated, even in the 1920s. She loved to drink and was fast friends with another comedienne familiar with sibling rivalry, Constance Talmadge. The two younger sister silent stars even had a double wedding (it was Dorothy’s only marriage and Constance’s frst of four). Dorothy later divorced, while Lillian never married, and neither had children. Lillian’s 75-year flm career and the countless retellings of her rise look far more grand set against a career consisting of outdated humor and flms now considered “lost,” but as the relentlessly modest Lillian herself insisted, “[Dorothy] was the real talent in the family.” NATASHA STAGG

between me & my sister cuRATED by kARL LAGERfELD, v pRESEnTS THE SEMInAL SISTER SETS of STAGE AnD ScREEn

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DENEUVE & DORLÉAC

Renowned French actress and activist Catherine Deneuve needs no introduction, but the millennial set may not be acquainted with her sisters Sylvie and Françoise Dorléac, or her maternal half sister, Danielle. All four women tried their hands at acting, but Catherine and Françoise were the most sucessful. They were also the closest. The eldest of the bunch, Françoise was the family’s frst big star. Stunning, charismatic, and talented, she studied at Le Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, and even modeled for Christian Dior. In fact, Catherine took her mother’s maiden name over the name Dorléac in order to diferentiate herself from the radiant Françoise. The pair played convincing twin sisters in director Jacques Demy’s smash 1967 musical comedy The Young Girls of Rochefort. Sadly, that was one of Françoise’s fnal projects. She died in a car accident while driving to Nice in 1967 at the age of 25. In an interview, Catherine admitted that losing her sister was one of the most difcult tragedies in her life. “She was a lovely actress, Françoise Dorléac,” Catherine said. “She was my closest friend.” KKZ

Above: Catherine Deneuve (right) and her sister, Françoise Dorléac at the premiere of The Young Girls of Rochefort in 1967 Right: Joan (left) and Constance Bennett in a 1929 publicity still

THE BENNETT SISTERS

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The Bennetts (Constance, Barbara, and Joan) came from long lines of dramatic acting on both parental sides. Constance went from stage, to silent screen, to “talkie,” at one point being billed as the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Joan made the same moves, billed as Constance Bennett’s kid sister. Middle child Barbara’s acting and dancing stints were short-lived, and she later worked as a screenplay scout, mostly with Joan in mind. An alcoholic and a depressive, Barbara committed suicide at 51, with three marriages under her belt. Constance became a prototype for the demanding movie star, lying about her age until, as Brian Kellow noted in The Bennetts: An Acting Family, she “had started out the oldest sister, moved into the middle position, and wound up the youngest.” Her reputation almost outweighed the glamorous characterizations she popularized. “Among the Hollywood detestables,” wrote Louise Brooks in her book, Lulu in Hollywood, “even I was no match for Constance.” She was married fve times, including once to Gloria Swanson’s ex-husband after a scandalous afair. During a legal battle over her frst child, Contance, ever elusive about the details of her personal life, denied having adopted him, but never reported being pregnant before his introduction to her family. Said Barbara in court, “You must take into consideration that this is a very peculiar family.” For her last flm role, Constance played Lana Turner’s mother-in-law in Madame X (released in 1966) and got a face-lift when the costume department asked for added wrinkles. She died in 1965 at 60. Joan, on the other hand, reinvented herself several times and slowly emerged from the shadow of her older sister, going from blonde vixen to brunette comedienne in the ’30s and later becoming a soap star with Dark Shadows in the ’60s. Joan was married and divorced three times and made headlines when her third husband—suspicious of an afair—shot and injured her agent. Just before her death at 80, Joan told a friend her biggest regret: “I should have been more of a bitch. I should have been more like Constance.” NS

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“PeoPle say modeling is so hard. no, it’s not.”—iman photography ben hassett fashion gillian wilkins

You’d never believe it looking at her, but on July 25, Somali supermodel Iman turns 60. Seeing as she’s spent the last four decades slaying catwalks and smashing boundaries, the icon has quite a few stories to tell. And who better to coax them out than groundbreaking model, editor, and diversity activist Bethann Hardison? Here, the pair discuss race in fashion, the modeling industry’s evolution, and Iman’s outstanding (and often outrageous) career.

BETHANN HARDISON Now that you’re turning 60, do you remember anything about modeling when you frst started?

IMAN Well, I never knew anything about modeling when I came [to the U.S.] because I’d never seen fashion magazines. I’d never even heard about modeling. I was pretending. You know when you see a duck in a lake, how they’re so calm, but underneath they’re paddling fast? That’s how I felt. I always felt like a fake, like they were going to say, “Oh, forget it, send her back.”

BH What are some of the moments that are most memorable for you?

IMAN The frst one I would say is Halston, because Halston became a big supporter through [photographer] Peter Beard.

Beard introduced me to him the second or third day I was in New York. I didn’t have a working visa. Usually they say that a foreign model has to have some kind of work she’s done before—you have to prove it. He hired me to do his show. I had no idea what a fashion show was. He was explaining that there would be people around. You know, he always had his hand in his pocket and a cigarette. Always. He said, “Darling, can you walk?” I said, “How the fuck do you think I got here?”

He had three rooms, and the walls were all mirrors. I walked into the frst room, and I walked to the second room, and then the third, and by now I thought, “Okay, I got this.” And then I thought there was a fourth room and I bumped into the wall. That was my frst experience.

BH When you started to travel in Europe and all, did you then begin to really love it and get into it?

IMAN I preferred runway to photography because I never thought of myself as beautiful. Nobody ever told me I was beautiful growing up. That concept was foreign to me. With photography, I felt I had to deliver something I didn’t have in me. With runway, I could just be me. I didn’t want to go to Europe because I was terrifed, so I started doing a few shows here and the one that actually prepared me for Europe was Calvin Klein. He hired me all the time. When I went for a go-see the frst time, he didn’t get it. Barry Schwartz, his partner, said, “What don’t you get? She looks like royalty. I think she’s got something that we need.” He hired me because Barry told him to hire me. After that I did all his shows.

BH It’s funny how that is. A lot of people didn’t get the hype.

Do you think it was great that you modeled? Do you think it gave you lots of opportunities?

IMAN Oh, defnitely. My father was a diplomat, so when we left Somalia as refugees, my brothers and sisters didn’t fnish school. I didn’t fnish school. Everything was interrupted, and we worked to fend for ourselves. I ended up in Kenya working part-time, going to university in Nairobi. I was trying to major in political science. Modeling and the money that it gave me allowed me to make sure all my brothers and sisters could fnish school without paying for it. That, to me, is what modeling really meant.

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BH Do you feel it educated you to become the entrepreneur you’ve become?

IMAN I think entrepreneurship is very Somali. We’re merchants at heart. We live in a desert. There’s not really much in Somalia, so you’re constantly inventing ideas on how to make money, but modeling was an opportunity to travel. Now that I do other things, I see how easy modeling was and how much money we made [laughs]. Crazy. People say modeling is so hard. No, it’s not. You know?

BH As a runway model, didn’t you like to have many changes?

Do you like this idea that they give models one outft? I would have been very annoyed. Normally we’d get four or fve.

IMAN Getting one outft is a sign that you’re not that good.

But more importantly, you open the show, you close the show.

Remember [fashion editor] Carrie Donovan? Whenever she was late for a show, she’d go straight to the designer and go, “Just show me Iman’s work.” Because in that, you could see the best and the worst of the collection. They’d put you in the best and worst because you could pull it of. It’s diferent now. When I see models now, nobody looks to the right or left.

There’s a pit in front where all the photographers are. It’s like there’s no audience, or they don’t matter. Everybody walking the same didn’t exist. There was no right or wrong way to walk. It’s not like you had to take classes. I think it was better for the girls in that way because individuality was important.

BH Let the model model. Nowadays, the model doesn’t get a chance to really model.

IMAN Imagine if they let Karlie Kloss loose.

BH Do you think the model is no longer the muse?

IMAN The word “muse” is used a lot, but it was like you were the inspiration. They would even look and see how you would dress when you came in and they would say to you, “Would you wear this?” If you said no, they’d say, “Take it of.”

BH Certain designers, like Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy, came along during a time that related to black models so much more because they just felt them in their clothes.

IMAN Everybody believes that a Caucasian model has an inherent elegance. No. It’s not true. Black girls have more inherent elegance and understand the garment and how it should move. That is not taught.

BH Now, you’ve done all these diferent things. You were needlepointing, and then I start to think about makeup— IMAN With makeup, the seed was planted in 1975. One of my frst shoots at American Vogue—there was a Caucasian model and I, and the makeup artist said, “Did you bring your own foundation?” I said, “No.” It was interesting because he didn’t ask the same question to the other model. He then proceeded to mix some.

BH I try to explain to people that black models didn’t start wearing extensions to look like white girls, they wanted to get the job, protect the hair, and pray the hairdresser didn’t say to the client, “I can’t do this.”

IMAN To me, when I had my extensions, it literally changed my career. Every picture, I could do something diferent. That gave me the freedom to be able to cut it, dye it brown, red, blonde—it made me feel like a chameleon. I can change. So with makeup, I bought everything I could fnd, any foundation that had tint to it. I started mixing and matching. I put the makeup on and took pictures with a Polaroid camera to see how it looked, and I would adjust it and make a bag for myself and take it with me so I would never be caught emptyhanded again. Black models would come to me in Europe and

say, “Can I use your foundation?” That’s what really planted the seed for creating my cosmetics.

BH Did you know you were going to start a business?

IMAN People ask me how I knew I wanted to stop modeling. There was a hot young crew coming in: The Naomis, the Lindas. I was like, it’s time to go.

BH Some girls don’t know how to leave. What would you tell a girl today about how to leave?

IMAN Have an understanding that this is a business, and it’s a business that has a shelf life. It’s not an open-ended thing.

Even at the height of your career, you have to think about what’s next. Save your money up so you have some sort of cushion. Take a year of. See what you really want to do.

BH And you shouldn’t feel bad when people no longer want you.

IMAN But don’t wait that long. Leave while they want you. I called my agency one night and said, “This was fun and great but as of tomorrow, I’m no longer working.” And they laughed.

That was in 1989, and I’ve never been back to modeling. That was the last time I went to a fashion show.

BH Why not sit in the audience?

IMAN The nature of the business has changed. When I stopped modeling, they were starting to invite anyone from B-listers to D-listers. And then I heard they held a show an hour waiting for Paris Hilton. I thought, this has become a circus. It’s stupid. Plus, the more they see you, they say, “Poor thing, she wants to come back, somebody give her a job.” I wanted to be taken seriously. But the nail on it was the stupidity of waiting for celebrities. They’re not holding the show for [buyer] Linda Fargo. They’re going to wait an hour for Paris Hilton.

What are you doing? Have some respect for Linda Fargo.

BH That’s right. We have to have some sort of thought about who we are and determine our own fate, to not be mixed in with popular culture to a point where we get lost.

IMAN Exactly. I’m still invited to this day. They say, “Just this time, come this time for Calvin Klein, this time for Donna Karan.” I’ve worked with all of them. I can’t say no to one and yes to another.

BH How do you like New York now?

IMAN The city has changed. There’s so much construction, and I’m happy for it because I feel like there’s money to be had, but I don’t go to a lot of the places I’m invited to because I have no desire for it. If I go, I’m usually the frst to leave. But I fnd it fun to go surprise people once in a while. They say, “My God, she still looks good.” But if they saw me every day, they wouldn’t say that.

BH You’ve been my right hand for advocacy about diversity.

Do you think that at the end of the day, we might see a turn?

IMAN I actually do see a change and it’s the most amazing thing, and I have to say it is because of you. I wasn’t watching what the magazines were doing until you called me one day and said, “Do you know what’s going on?” I’ll never forget that you were very precise on how this should be handled.

I do see changes. Even the models say they see changes.

But of course, there’s more to do.

BH Gee, you know, Iman, I think you’ve become smarter.

IMAN If I didn’t, I’d be in trouble—60 is a bitch.

BH Is being 60 something that you revel in, one way or another?

IMAN I don’t. The other day on Instagram, somebody said, “She looks great for 70.” I said, “Bitch, don’t fucking rush me.”

IMAN IN NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 2015

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“YOU CAN’T TEACH GOOD TASTE.” —bETTY HAlbrEICH “There’s a whole sad world out there,” says 87-year-old Betty Halbreich. “And sometimes, people fritter their time away at Bergdorf Goodman. It’s a free institution, you know.” Maybe so, but Halbreich, who founded the 114-year-old Manhattan luxury store’s Solutions personal shopping department nearly four decades ago, does not fritter. On this particular Wednesday, she walked into Bergdorf’s at 8:30 AM, surveyed each foor’s inventory, and dressed a handful of clients, including Candice Bergen, with whom she’s worked since 1979. “She used to only wear beige and couldn’t walk in heels,” Halbreich recalls. “She’s branched out since then.”

Now, Halbreich is sitting for a portrait. But she’d rather be working, tidying her Park Avenue apartment (which boasts 10 closets flled with everything from Libertine to the frst jumpsuit designed by her former boss Geofrey Beene), or sipping vodka, her favorite drink. “Wouldn’t I be good in a vodka ad?” she jokes. In all seriousness, she would.

Halbreich arrived at BG in 1976 after her marriage to a wealthy New York businessman disintegrated. The split, among other things, led to a suicide attempt and a stint in a psychiatric ward. But Halbreich’s tenure at BG has served as its own form of rehabilitation. Often described as a “fashion therapist,” the inimitable octogenarian has outftted the most extraordinary (and extraordinarily wealthy) women of the last 40 years—Babe Paley, the Lauder ladies, and the late Joan Rivers, a close friend, among them. Regardless of fame or fnances, she treats each customer with the same frm but

loving hand. And from within the confnes of her third-foor ofce, which, overlooking Central Park, is adorned with orchids and photos of her clients’ families, Halbreich soothes all sartorial and emotional troubles. KATHARINE K. ZARRELLA

Where did you get your sense of style?

BETTY HALBREICH My grandmother didn’t have it. My mother did. I was in her closet from the time I was a little girl. If she went out the door, I went in. I think you’re born with it. It’s an eye—it’s a feeling. You can’t teach good taste.

What kind of women do you enjoy working with?

BH I’m an intellectual snob. I love the people that come in to see me, whether they buy or not, but I have to be able to intellectualize with them and talk about cooking, what’s happening in the world, what happened in Bangladesh, what’s happening in Baltimore. That’s all part of living, as is dressing.

Is retail therapy a legitimate means of coping?

BH It should be. It’s important. I’m sequestered in a very pretty ofce with a view of Central Park. It’s therapy heaven, and it’s comfortable. Because of that, people talk about a lot of things that they generally wouldn’t. I’m a good listener.

Somewhere in my life, someone said, “Be a good listener and maybe you’ll get along.”

In your book, I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, With a Twist [2014, Penguin Press], you wrote that some of your clients remind you of your younger, unhappily married self.

Is that difcult?

BH No, because I’m much more secure. I was very nervous as a girl and I don’t carry all those insecurities anymore. I don’t care if I don’t look the best, because I do. I’m not buying with my best friend because we’re going to El Morocco with our husbands. I’m a free agent. It took a long time.

Do you want to shake the women you see making the same mistakes you did?

BH Absolutely not. They have to fnd that out for themselves.

They’ve got to go through the same craziness and go down as far as they can to come back up.

What do you think of online shopping?

BH I see so many returns in my building. I walk out in the morning and I’m Zappoed to death! I have to crawl over the boxes to get to my lobby. That’s lazy shopping. It’s like sitting at home drinking all day. I know it’s successful to a point, but I believe it will water itself out.

Have you ever bought anything online?

BH I buy vitamins online when I don’t go to Costco. I love Costco, and they carry my book, so I love them even more.

There’s something fascinating about it—not only the shopping, but the people. Considering I see beautiful people fve days a week, isn’t it kind of nice to see how the world really is?

I heard you have a celebrity crush...

BH Well, it was Johnny Depp, but he’s looking a little feeble.

Then I fell in love with Mr. Cumberbatch, but he went and got someone pregnant and got married. So now there’s a new man, on channel 13, Mark Rylance. He’s the lawyer in Wolf Hall. He’s a fascinating, very silent, middle-aged man.

I’ve decided the young are not for me. They’re disappointing.

How do you feel about today’s increasingly casual approach to dressing?

BH It comes out more in the summer. I have a loathing for white jeans. I’ve never worn a pair of jeans in my life. I still dress up to go to a restaurant.

You’re 87. Have you considered retiring?

BH Retirement? I’m way beyond that. Maybe I thought about it in my 60s or 70s, but now? The alternative would be sitting in a nursing home. I’d rather sit in my ofce and look out my window.

BETTY HALBREICH IN NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 2015 JACKET LIBERTINE JEWELRY HER OWN

Makeup Marla Belt (Streeters) Hair (Debi Mazar) Peter Butler (Tracey Mattingly) Hair (Iman, Betty Halbreich) Neil Grupp (The Wall Group) Manicure Fleury Rose (Bryan Bantry)

heroes

“I was basIcally born a teenager runnIng loose In Queens.”—debI mazar Debi Mazar wants to dine at Bar Pitti, the Italian eatery in New York’s West Village. The atmosphere feels right, even though she’s of Latvian descent. That’s because the Queensborn Mazar is best known for playing badass Italian mobster mamas. Who could forget her scene-stealing part as Sandy in Goodfellas, which had a splashy 25th-anniversary screening at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival? Today, she’s no less badass, and making more splashes than ever, among them Darren Star’s Younger and the frst Entourage movie. DEREK BLASBERG

The show you’re on is called Younger, so my frst question is: Have you ever lied about your age?

DEBI MAZAR Oh, God, yes. But I lied up. My mother had me when she was 15, so I was basically born a teenager running loose in Queens. I left home when I was 15, so I needed to work and I always had to lie to keep a job. I worked at the Mudd Club and Danceteria when I was too young to even know what a bar looked like. I dated Kenny Scharf when I was 16 and I told him I was 18. I was running around with all those kids like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat—he was my roommate for a bit. I’m sure they knew I was lying, but no one really cared. When I started acting, I lied about my age because no one wanted to play older. I said, “I don’t give a fuck. I will play the grandma, just as long as I’m working.”

Do you think the whole world is too obsessed with age?

DM In L.A., the only way to know if someone is old is by their hands. But isn’t it a natural, human thing to want to look good and feel young? I fnd that the subject of my show is so relevant. Look at Madonna, who falls of the stage and gets right back up. She is a perfect example of how you can really be fabulous at any age.

I thought you’d appreciate that quote from Catherine Deneuve, “A 30-year-old woman must choose between her bottom and her face.”

DM I chose at 45. I don’t think women of a certain age should be too skinny. Your skin starts to hang. You need fat in your face. You want a certain softness because we get a bit harder as we age. Anna Magnani said, “Do not erase my lines. I earned them.” I like that too.

Let’s talk about your accent, which is so brassy and divine.

DM My accent is what we call bridge and tunnel. It can be Queens, it can be the Bronx. It’s not Long Island, it’s not Italian. The accent is just New York. Chinese, Jews, Irish, black—go to my neighborhood and we all sound like this.

Before you were an actress, you studied to be a makeup artist. Were you always a glamour girl?

DM I was always a greaser, but I got into makeup because I needed a job. I was doing makeup before I went to beauty school. When I was 17, I had my frst Vogue spread. Then I met Madonna in the elevator at Danceteria and started doing her makeup. The frst video I did with her was “Everybody.” When she did theater, I worked on the makeup concepts. She was in [David Mamet’s] Speed-the-Plow and after the cast and crew would leave I would pack up my kit and go on the stage to do her part. I knew all the lines.

It was very All About Eve. One time, the costume designer busted me up there and it made me wonder if I could try and be an actress.

Hey, it’s not an easy business.

DM I remember telling a friend that I couldn’t aford to study to be an actress. I was making good money doing hair and makeup. But I did it. I found my way. For me having such a crazy upbringing, it was cathartic to be able to tap into that anxiety and pain. And I was good at it! I knocked on some doors, and now I have the same agent I got 27 years ago.

Today, I’m at a point where I just want to do things that inspire me. I like to work and I’ll pretty much do anything, just as long as it’s worth my time.

I like the web series about Italian cooking you do with your husband, Extra Virgin.

DM That all came so organically. I was pregnant, we had fun cooking together, so one day I said, “Let’s put a camera up on sticks and post it.” We had 60 episodes and got all this press. People are crazy about food, aren’t they?

In this case, I think people also like seeing the softer side of a woman we know as a ball-busting broad.

DM That’s acting, darling. I am a tough cookie and I am street savvy, but I am a soft, mushy Leo underneath. I’ve had a very interesting life.

Do I hear the makings of a book?

DM Funny you should say that, because I want to do a picture book. I’ve been carrying around a camera since I was 16. You have no idea, the pics I have.

Haring? Madonna? Basquiat?

DM All of them. Oh, it’s major. The problem, of course, is trying to remember the stories and telling them without throwing anyone under a bus. It’s getting deep. I’m at a really great place in my life right now and I’ve seen it all. Now, I’m trying to give it back to the kids. Maybe I should get some therapy frst.

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ladies of london

whether in the streets of shoreditch or the shops of mayfair, these fresh young faces are shaking up the big smoke PhotograPhy Sarah PIaNtaDoSI faShIoN JaCK BorKEtt

anaÏs gaLLagher, fashion supernoVa Age 15 Hometown London Debut FROW-ing Moschino in 2013: made it to best-dressed list and tweeted

by Miley Cyrus Best friends [Jude’s daughter] Iris Law and people from school Parents Noel Gallagher [of Oasis] and Meg Mathews

Siblings Donovan and Sonny Signifcant other Boys? What are you talking about? My dad would kill me!

Plans this year Finishing [presenter spot for TV’s] Friday Download and loving every minute of it Pet My wonderfully fabulous Boston terrier, Oscar, who has his own Instagram Bag Givenchy small Pandora messenger

in black Ride Mini Land Rover Defender in matte black (in my dreams) School King Alfred Agency Select Social media @gallagher_anais

jackeT mcQ aLEXaNDEr mcQUEEN DReSS LaCoStE

CATE UNDERWOOD, SCENE STEALER

debut

Age 23 Hometown Kiev Debut Winning HarperÕs Bazaar’s Fashion Forward Award for fashion photography Family The hottest mum in the world, my six-year-old daughter, Eva, and my 13-year-old sister, Christine Signifcant other Architect Ludovico Lombardi Plans this year Trip to Tuscany for my birthday in July, jobs all over the world Pet My daughter’s terrier, Coxie Bag BLACK’D NYC leather Ride Uber, of course Agency The Lions Social media @undervoodoo

COATS AND PANTS RAF SIMONS TURTLENECK EMILIO PUCCI SNEAKERS RAF SIMONS x ADIDAS

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DAISY COBURN, ROCK AND ROLLER

Age 21 Hometown Great Dunmow New debut Video for “Settle For Lust” Best friends My band, Pink Lizards Parents Daniel and Keeley Coburn [former backing singer for The The and Duran Duran] Siblings Scarlett and Danny Plans this year Tour the hell out of Pink Lizards and Bad for Lazarus, make our record Interests include Collecting old cowboy boots, the Black Dove, and the Brighton Beer Dispensary (both in Brighton) Bag A Miss Julia original red-carpet style with Bakelite button, handmade by Julia Bratton Ride These boots are made for walkin’ School Helena Romanes Agency Primary Talent International

CLOTHING VINTAGE OSSIE CLARK RINGS COBURN’S OWN

Makeup Lotten Holmqvist (Julian Watson) Hair Kota Suizu using Oribe (Caren) Manicure Adam Slee (Streeters London) Photo assistant Mat Hay Stylist assistant Kate Lorga Production Artistry London

ELIZABETH JANE BISHOP, mOdEL SKATER Age 19 Hometown Stafordshire Debut Instagram Best friends Ellie Brown, Mupela Mumba, and Awaab El-Essawy Parents Amanda and John Bishop Sibling Lucy Signifcant other Independent woman Interests include Skateboarding around London to art galleries Plans this year New platform and Website launch Pet Chickens back at home Bag Little leather Diesel backpack Ride All-black Penny board School Ravensbourne design school Agency Elite Social media @elizabethjanebishop

COAT JUUN.J SWEATSHIRT AND PANTS VETEMENTS JEWELRY GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI

CORA CORRÉ, PUNK ROCK ROYALTY

Age 17 Hometown London Debut Vivienne Westwood [Red Label S/S ’15] Best friends They know who they are Parents [Agent Provocateur cofounders] Serena Rees and Joseph Corré [son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood] Plans this year Finish A-levels, travel, hopefully participate in more fashion shows and shoots Pet Snoop Bag My school bag!

Ride Tube School Almost done Agency Next Social media @coracorre

DRESS VIVIENNE WESTWOOD NECKLACE STEPHEN EINHORN

CITY OF ANGELS

DEVON WINDSOR, RUNWAY RULER Age 21 Hometown St. Louis Debut Prada [S/S ’14] Parents Lisa and Charles Sibling Older sister Alex Signifcant other Fai Khadra [brother of Sama and Haya]

Life goal To do something with cooking, philanthropy, or both Personal secret My roots are German, English, and Cherokee Pets Two Labrador retrievers at home Bag A Chanel wallet on a chain or a zippered Saint Laurent tote

Ride Taxis and Uber are my life Agency IMG Social media @devwindsor

JACKET AND BODYSUIT BALMAIN RING WINDSOR’S OWN

you’ve seen them In front rows, on the runways, and In many a celebrIty Instagram feed. now get to know l.a.’s next generatIon of pretty young thIngs PhotograPhy ChaD PItMaN fashIoN JaMEs VaLErI

sofIa rIchIe, showstopper

Age 16 Hometown L.A. Debut RockinÕ braids at NYFW [F/W Õ15] Best friends Crew of 12, called Fingers Crossed Parents Lionel [Richie] and Diane [Alexander] Siblings Miles and Nicole

Life goal Entrepreneurship Plans this year Hopefully book a cool campaign...the clubs can wait Pet Cairo Richie Bag Balenciaga, Gucci, or LV Ride Car? Range Rover. Amusement park? Magic Mountain.

Agency Select

Social media @sofarichie

DRESS PaCo raBaNNE DICKIE y-3 BOOTS aLEXaNDEr WaNg BRACELET (ON HER LEFT) ChroME hEarts OTHER JEWELRY RICHIE’S OWN

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Haya KHaDRa, TRENDsETTER

Age 22 Hometown L.A./London/Dubai Debut Chanel LBJ [Karl Lagerfeld’s and Carine Roitfeld’s The Little Black Jacket] Best friends Bella and Gigi Hadid are the realest...we always joke that we’re the only Palestinians in L.A.

Age 22 Hometown L.A./London/Dubai Plans this year We’re fnishing university, releasing a jewelry collab, coproducing our brother Fai’s music videos, and going to Glastonbury Twin diferences I’m usually the one talking her into things and she’s the one

to talk me out of things Twin similarities When we played basketball in high school my coach would make set plays using the advantage that we could confuse the other teams Bag A mini bag or no bag—you only really need lipstick and your credit card Ride Black Defender

Role Model My mom [Owner of Saudi Arabia’s Art of Living boutique, Rula Abu Khadra] Agency Next Social media @samahaya

hAYA (LEFt) WEArS CLOthiNg JACQUEMUS

School We both attend USC for flm production and fne art Agency Next Social media @samahaya

SAMA (right) WEArS SKirt CHANEL

Makeup Lottie (The Wall Group) Hair Ramona Eschbach (Jed Root) Manicure Maya Apple (Nailing Hollywood) Set Design Spencer Vrooman Production Helena Seward (HMS Production) Photo assistants Heyward Hart, Kevin Bautista Stylist assistant Giorgia Fuzio Location Milk Studios, L.A.

sama KaHDRa, FIRE sTaRTER

Siblings Twin sister, Sama; older brother, Fai; baby bro and sis, Noor and Baby G Weirdest rumor going around That we’re redheads Bag Vintage Chanel backpack Ride I don’t drive, but I love a golf cart

JESSE JO STARK, VENICE VOCALIST

DEBUT

Age 24 Hometown Malibu Best friends Lanna Lyon, Bella Hadid Parents [Chrome Hearts founders] Richard and Laurie Lynn Stark Siblings Frankie Belle and Kristian Jack Signifcant other Frankenstein Plans this year Writin’ and recordin’ Life goal To open my own animal rescue shelter Weirdest rumor going around That my friends and I perform exploratory surgery on each other in Venice Beach sometimes Pets Pitbull, Peanut; and terrier, Billie Bag Chrome Hearts Iggy backpack Ride ’76 Cadillac El Dorado School Nope Agency Red Light Social media @jessejostark

TOP AND BOOTS VETEMENTS SHORTS AND JEWELRY CHROME HEARTS

STELLA MAXWELL, EARTH ANGEL

Age 24 Hometown From the UK, but grew up in New Zealand Debut Every day is a debut somewhere or with someone Parents Love a lot Siblings Love, love, love a lot, too Signifcant other Love sometimes Plans this year Climb Mount Whitney in California, ride my bicycle from L.A. to San Francisco, and fnish an album I have been working on with some friends in New York Pet I have the cutest little puppy in my mind; I just don’t have it physically yet because I live on an airplane at the moment Bag Givenchy Ride About to get my license, then I’ll let you know School Life Agency The Lions Social media @stellamaxwell

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TIMELINE

1981: LAUNCH

“When I decided to launch Emporio Armani in 1981, many people were surprised and advised me and my partner Sergio Galeotti against starting the business. They feared that the brand would sufer, but fortunately they were wrong. The line immediately struck the public, both for the name Emporio, which is based on a concept of democratic fashion, as well as the choice of its logo: the eagle. It’s a powerful and immediate symbol that is easily recognizable, chosen because it contained the meaning of power and high fight.”

Left: “Westuff” by ALdo fALLAi, emporio ArmAni mAgAzine Cover 0, f/W 1988 right: “styLe AtLAs” by ChristiAn moser, emporio ArmAni mAgAzine Cover 14, f/W 1995

EMPIRE OF EMPORIO

ON THE HEELS OF ARMANI’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY, MR. ARMANI HIMSELF REMINISCES ABOUT THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS YOUNGER, TREND-BASED LINE v mAgAzine 4 0

1996: DANCE

“I met Joaquín Cortés in Rome in 1993, on an interesting occasion—it was during an RAI broadcast that we both participated in, which aired from Piazza Navona. On that evening, Cortés, who was not yet known in Italy, made his frst television appearance. He was very young, but I was struck by the intensity of his performance, his natural charisma, and his strong personality. He seemed immediately suitable to wear my fashion on the stage, precisely for the exceptional nature of his dancing, which mixes famenco with other genres to create an incredibly sensual fusion.”

JoAquin Cortes And his CompAny on their WorLdWide tour, 1997

1989: MAgAzINE

“Emporio Armani magazine, published from 1989 to 1997, was a great success for its international character. It was as fun, enjoyable, and comprehensive as it was full of images, articles, and interviews. It became impossible to fnd at the end, and everyone went hunting for it. The starting point for the magazine was the fashion show. Garments were interpreted by various photographers who managed to keep their identities intact. With its images, the magazine could communicate a feeling: a strong idea of what Emporio Armani was and what it represented.”

1996: MUSIC

“I met the Fugees for the frst time during the event to celebrate the opening of the second new Emporio Armani boutique on Madison Avenue in New York. I found them to be great, both from a human and musical point of view.”

the fUgeeS at the armory eVent in neW york, 1996

Left: “effetti SpeciaLi” by aLdo faLLai, emporio armani magazine S/S 1994 right: “africa” by norman WatSon, emporio armani magazine S/S 1989

2009: TESTIMONIALS

Images courtesy Emporio Armani

“When it comes to testimonials, I don’t look as much for a physical type, but rather an attitude and personality that best represent the image of my fashion and lifestyle. Everything stems from a feeling, a mutual fondness. This is why I do not have a favorite face, as all of the testimonials were chosen because they represented the ideals of diferent aspects of my vision.

David [Beckham] is now truly an icon of modern times—his fame goes far beyond the world of football. He was the captain of the English team, but his image has come to communicate much more than this. He represents the concept of modern masculinity: a sports hero, husband, and father. He is also a man who has a great sense of style. Once upon a time, football players didn’t have a role in the fashion world. Thanks to David, things have changed.

Cristiano [Ronaldo] is an attractive man with the perfect athletic body. For me, he represents the essence of youth, and when I met him I was struck by his spontaneity, energy, and character. Megan Fox is undoubtedly beautiful, young, sensual, and mysterious: She is a model of the contemporary woman, and this is why I chose her as a testimonial.”

from Left: Victoria and daVid beckham in emporio armani UnderWear adS in 2009, criStiano ronaLdo in an emporio armani SWimWear ad in 2010, and megan fox in an armani JeanS ad in 2010, photographed by mert aLaS & marcUS piggott

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TRUE INTENSITY

NOW THE FACE OF DOLCE & GABBANA’S LATEST FRAGRANCE CAMPAIGN, ACTOR COLIN FARRELL EXPLAINS THE POWER OF A SCENT As the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s Intenso, Colin Farrell has considered what it means to come of as intense. The men’s fragrance launched a campaign featuring the brooding True Detective star this year, shot by Mark Seliger, and in the ads, Farrell’s famous glare is hard to ignore—if you’ve seen them on the bus or a billboard (or in the pages of this magazine), you know this. It’s like he’s actually making eye contact. Still, Farrell isn’t quick to admit he’s a particularly heightened individual. “I fnd life to be intense regardless of what a person is,” he counters. “The idea of intensity is about our life, I think.”

Dolce’s pick makes sense. The Golden Globe-winning actor is known for playing the most all-consuming roles in each of his flms. This year, he stars in cult-followed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s highly anticipated frst Englishlanguage flm The Lobster. The dystopian dark comedy, in which humans must either choose a mate or be transformed into an animal, premiered at Cannes to rave (and confused) reviews. Although most of Farrell’s vehicles are widely welcomed by a broad audience, it’s usually his oddly-wired characters, played with evident sincerity, that make the most uncomfortable impact. It seems Farrell takes his job as brand ambassador just as seriously. “Intenso is a representation of the modern day Dolce & Gabbana man,” he says. “When I think of what this man represents, I think sincerity.”

Scent itself is an idea that greatly interests Farrell, interestingly. For someone whose main gig is to evoke emotion while limited to visual and verbal communication on-screen, the rest of the senses are uniquely unadulterated by his day job. “Scent elicits details of memory,” he ofers. “That is the clearest thing that a scent can lead a person to, is a memory of a time and a memory of a place. There are certain things that I could smell that bring me right back to that time, like certain foods I smell that remind me of home. It can drop us into an emotional place within ourselves.” In other ways, applying a synthetic fragrance is just as actorly as anything else Farrell has done on a sound stage. “I do think you can get an essence of how a person wishes to present themselves by the scents that they wear. A fragrance is used as a silent form of introduction, even before words are spoken, or before a hand is shook,” he says. NATASHA STAGG

PHOTOGRAPHY JOHN RuSSO FARRELL WEARS CLOTHING AND BELT DOlce&GAbbANA RING HIS OWN

ThE IN-cRowd

Andy Warhol’s life and career is perhaps the most documented of any visual artist, so another book about his celebrity obsessions may not sound, upon introduction, fresh. These Polaroids, though, arranged as if in a family album, present yet another side of Andy. Not just taken for print inspiration, long shots from vacations (with the Kennedys, the Jaggers, the Picassos) and extreme close-ups of intimate interactions reveal a combined fear of, and longing for, inclusion. It’s his position here—behind the relatively cheap camera lens amongst the world’s upper crust—that makes Warhol’s part in the Pop Art movement that much more fascinating. NS

ANDy WARHOL POLAROIDS 1958-1987 EDITED By REuEL GOLDEN WITH AN ESSAy By RICHARD B. WOODWARD AND TExT By MEREDITH MENDELSOHN IS AVAILABLE FROM TASCHEN IN JuLy, 2015

Andy Warhol and Jade Jagger, 1973

Sandy Brant, 1970

Loulou de la Falaise, 1973

around the world

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have fashion, will travel! megabrands are going global with destination events from Cali to Cannes. here, showgoers share stories from the luxury Crawl

Chanel resort ’16 show: seoul, south Korea

dior resort ’16 show: the frenCh riviera

“As a Korean, I was very proud to see traditional Korean clothing (hankbok) reimagined and reinterpreted to ft Chanel’s style. From the music to the runway, I had so much fun listening to and watching every aspect. The fnale of the show where Karl, Soo Joo [Park], and the little boy [Hudson Kroenig] held hands and walked together was especially beautiful.” —G-DrAGON

“The Bubble Palace was incredible! Very futuristic, yet Western at the same time. I was greeted by a neat little corner no matter which way I turned, and the view of Cannes was spectacular. The collection is very young and fresh, the colors are vibrant yet soothing. To be embraced by Dior is an honor. The brand represents elegance and confdence—traits that the people behind the brand carry as well. The freworks at the end of the night were such a treat. Only Dior.” —ODeyA rush

versus versaCe f/w ’15 event: london, england

“It was pretty surreal seeing Donatella [Versace] singing the words [to our songs] in the front row.

We were proper happy to play for those guys and there was a great atmosphere. We defnitely enjoyed ourselves, and the clothes look really cool! We were lucky enough to get a couple of items, which we wore on the night. Woo!” —ZiBrA

louis vuitton resort ’16 show: Palm sPrings, California

“I thought what Nicolas [Ghesquière] created was really fresh and diferent, and I always appreciate when an artist takes that risk. I would wear all of it, so I obviously think it was a great collection. I can’t believe anyone ever lived in a house like [Bob Hope’s]! They could defnitely hold a Star Wars convention there. It was very unusual. I am terrifed of heights and fying, so fying on a helicopter was very exhilarating. The pilot was also the boss. Respect to all lady pilots.” —Grimes

Clockwise from top left: Olivier Saillant for Chanel; Hiroaki Fukuda for Dior; Courtesy Louis Vuitton; Courtesy Armani; Courtesy Burberry; Courtesy Versus Versace

burberry f/w ’15 event: los angeles, California

armani/silos studios oPening: milan, italy

“The Observatory is a quintessential piece of L.A.’s cultural landscape, Rebel Without a Cause being its penultimate cinematic moment. It was surreal to be in that space at night, re-envisioned by Burberry’s Christopher Bailey. All my favorite Brits were there: Cara Delevingne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, even a Spice Girl and Naomi Campbell closing the show. Hollywood is a laboratory of trends right now, so it’s a booming fashion town. And luckily, Chris’s shows pack more punch than just a trench coat because, well, it never rains in L.A., does it?” —DereK BLAsBerG

“He walks in beauty...in his eye, in his imagination, in his art, and in his humanity. For [Mr. Armani’s] friends, we get to see Klieg lights of appreciation and everlasting loyalty shining back from those husky blue eyes.” —LAureN huttON

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Body makeup Jenai Chin (The Wall Group) Models Gabriella Mendez and Elisaveta Stoilova (Parts Models Inc.) Manicure Geraldine Holford (The Wall Group) Digital technician Todd Barndollar Photo assistant Brett Seamans Prop stylist Lisa Gwilliam (Jed Root Inc.) Prop assistant Jack Richardson Location ROOT Studios Catering Bricktown Bagel & Cafe

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An AvAnt-gArde FrenCH pop singer—And FreUd FAn—Lets Us in on Her WiLdest dreAMs I know better than to ask Petite Meller her age. The master’s degree–seeking lyricist is self-styled to immediately raise this question, yet she never answers it in interviews. Instead, giggling about fans and Facebook, she brings up her philosophy thesis and latest crush in the same breath. Her music, too, suggests unexpected intersections. In each of her four exquisite videos, she’s somehow inappropriately sexy, miming carefree adolescence in exotic settings, and then turning to make unbroken eye contact with the viewer. It’s at once shaming and inviting. Her comic timing is as much a draw as her dreamy, saxophone-laced songs. And, yes, she does her own stunts, including the water-skiing scene in the Pierrot le Fou–inspired video for “Backpack.”

Meller is in London, having fnished this shoot and a few meetings in Los Angeles, and she’s planning a trip to Miami, where she’ll flm her next music video, for the tentatively titled “Barbaric.” She chose Florida because, she says, it reminds her of where she spent a big part of her childhood, in Tel Aviv. At least, she assumes it will. She’s never been to V MAGAZINE 4 6

Florida. The last video Meller made, the And God Created Woman–inspired “Baby Love,” was shot in Kenya. “I wrote it with a British producer...in Stockholm,” she laughs, her French accent thick. “When I wrote it, I didn’t like the drums on the program, so I’d beatbox with my mouth, and we added congos. In the studio we already knew: I’m going to do the video in Africa.” When the video was released, she sent behindthe-scenes photos to V. There was Meller, surrounded by Kenyan schoolchildren, then coaxing a girafe to bend to her, then standing on one leg in a sea of famingos only a shade deeper than her always abundant blush.

“When I searched for material—African culture videos,” Meller explains, “I saw only videos that are very—how can I say? Very tribal. [But] there are girls there who have stories like me. They have broken hearts; they have dreams to be actresses. I knew there was something we didn’t see about Africa and I wanted to show it.” When scouting for “Baby Love,” she immediately found a young girl sitting on a porch who voiced dreams of becoming a movie star. Meller cast

her as the video’s “guide” on the spot.

It was a twist of fate, too, that led Meller to her manager. The singer, living in New York at the time, posted her video for “NYC Time” on YouTube. A Google search for New York City’s clock brought up the video, and the rest is history. “All my songs are discussions about philosophy,” she says. “Like in ‘Backpack,’ I say, ‘I can fnally think of time physically.’ Symptoms that held me back in my childhood, when I grew up they became my advantages.” She’s actually referring to a trait not common in any child or adult: her ability to harness near-chaos and create ringing precision in the form of full, catchy pop and reinterpretations of French New Wave worlds. “It’s a voyage for me, all these videos, through these fantasies of mine, which are becoming real, my real life.” Natasha stagg

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laura welsh

THE BRITISH pop SIngER IS SAYIng gooD-BYE To HER gHoSTS In the track that truly started Laura Welsh’s career, a quietly powerful ballad called “Ghosts,” the 27-year-old British singer-songwriter describes herself resisting unseen forces.

And when talking to Welsh, it becomes immediately clear that the ghosts she sings about are quite real. Behind her bright-red bangs and polite mannerisms is a woman who has had her fair share of heartbreak.

“When I frst moved to London I was in a band by the name of Laura and the Tears,” she says. “It gave me a good experience of the life. But it just came to a point where it all fell apart. Around that time there were a few relationships, people close to me, that fell apart. I needed to step back from everything and have the space and freedom to write.

That was when I wrote some of the key songs for the record.

I just put them up on Tumblr, like with ‘Ghosts,’ and that’s when a lot of interest from labels came in and I signed.”

In the two years since, Welsh managed to turn her tumultuous beginning into a progression of successes. She developed a large following thanks to her hit collaboration with Gorgon City, “Here For You,” which debuted in the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in 2014. In February of this year, a song of hers called “Undiscovered” appeared on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. Shortly after, she released her debut album, Soft Control, featuring a duet with John Legend as well as a roster of heavy-hitting producers, including Dev Hynes and Emile Haynie.

“I see an album as being a moment, showing where you are in your personal life at the time. By nature I’m the kind of person who fnds it more difcult to have conversations about my feelings, even with my closest friends and family, but when I write, it comes out without any barriers.”

More than anything else, the struggles that Welsh details on the album are internal ones.

“Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. It’s about overcoming that. I had to go through those things to have this clarity.”

Welsh has begun recording her second album, which she says will be more experimental. “It’s kind of the fun part now.

I can do whatever I want and that’s what I’m enjoying at the moment.” William Defebaugh

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“I’m not named after the designer,” says Halston Sage as we sit down to cofee at Cafe Midi, a Saint-Tropez–inspired restaurant in the back of the American Rag store of Melrose.

She adores the quirky, bohemian furnishings stacked all around us. “I’m actually named after a little girl that my mom met, and my mom has a weird name, too—Tema—which was the name of a girl my grandma went to school with. So I’m just waiting to run into someone with a cool name that I can steal for my kid.”

For a woman of 22, Sage resembles a computer rendering of a teenager, i.e., she has the perfect look for the cable channel where she got her frst break, Nickelodeon. With white-blonde Regina George tresses, she played mean girl Grace King on the series How to Rock. “I went to an allgirls high school,” she says, noting that this gave her ample familiarity with the queen bee persona. It was the week that college acceptances went out that her pilot was picked up.

In a sense, the decision to plunge into the industry so young was made for her.

Despite her family’s preference for peculiar names, Sage’s parents have nothing to do with Hollywood. Her mom worked at a lifestyle magazine before having kids, and her dad is in the auto industry. “I’m actually from L.A.,” she reveals, but before I can react she grins and gufaws, “I know, crazy, right?” Sage is on to a degree that might exhaust an East Coaster (Angelenos tend to put all their voodoo into making things feel easy, which results in a highwattage chill).

Adults may recognize Sage for her memorable bit parts: the sorority paramour of Zac Efron in Neighbors, or the most frighteningly subdued member of The Bling Ring, whose nihilistic one-liners were sublimely authentic. Her frst big role for the big screen will be in July, opposite Cara Delevingne in the coming-of-age fick Paper Towns. “I play Lacey Pemberton, and she’s the popular girl in school who’s best friends with Margo.” When Margo (Delevingne) goes missing, Sage’s character goes on a road trip with the nerdy neighbor, and everyone fnds new beginnings en route. Also on deck are two projects that sound scary, but, she swears, aren’t: a screen adaptation of the cult paperback series Goosebumps and Scouts vs. Zombies.

As for whether Sage has had any brushes with the Halston brand, the answer is yes. “It’s funny because they were getting Google alerts about me when I frst started working and going out, and a publicist contacted me.” Don’t worry, no cease and desist followed. “They were having this big beneft and they sent me an invitation and gown. I thought, I am so lucky.” kevin McGarry

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ARO

THE MOST ELUSIVE MEMbEr Of THE OSbOUrNE faMILy IS MUSIc’S NEW PrINcESS Of DarKNESS Underneath the surface, Aimee Rachel Osbourne (aka ARO) is an emotionally complicated woman. She doesn’t let on much as she sits in the green room before this photo shoot.

Her all-black look borrows from that of her heavy metal father, and more so than siblings Jack or Kelly, she comes of austere, almost icy. But with a twitch of her emerald-green eyes, she melts into a welcoming demeanor and settles onto the couch. “Come sit,” she says, her slender fngers patting a cushion.

The idea of preconception is threaded throughout Osbourne’s music. Her debut video, for the song “Raining Gold,” shows the aftermath of a ghastly tragedy: bodies lay prostrate on the ground; cars are afame; and a bloodied man crawls through a desert diner, where Osbourne calmly sits, watching a red glowing clock. She then rises and drives of in a vintage black Nova. “The video is all based on assumptions, because you don’t really know what’s happened,” Osbourne

says with a smirk. “It ended up working perfectly, and I think that people got that.”

The song itself is melancholy, equal parts atmospheric Massive Attack–inspired trip hop and melodic doom, above which Osbourne’s voice soars. Earlier this year, a simple Internet search for Ozzy and wife Sharon’s eldest daughter immediately surfaced a 2002 interview conducted by Barbara Walters. It was flmed when The Osbournes—which Aimee refused to take part in—was on the air and wildly popular. On this episode of 20/20 (her frst interview), Aimee mentions wanting to start a music career. Joining her family’s reality show, she says to Walters, would have inhibited the direction of her music. Thirteen years later, she’s ready to put out the EP that fnally aligns with her unique vision. “I think, for me, fnding the right people was a little more challenging than I imagined it would be, but all the more worthwhile when I did,” she says. “So I don’t regret anything; I don’t have any

resentment that it took a long time. It’s that clichéd saying, ‘Everything happens when it’s supposed to,’ but there were defnitely times where I was like, ‘Maybe this is just not what I’m supposed to be doing.’”

After the feedback ARO has received so far, Osbourne is satisfed that she stuck with it. “It feels a little bit surreal that ‘Raining Gold’ got a good response, because it wasn’t a typical, safe, pretty, girly video or anything like that,” she says. “I was a bit worried that it was going to come across as a bit too dark, but I think that it’s been successful in the way that I wrote the song about being judged, and having people assume that you should be one way.” Maxwell williaMs

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chelsea wolfe

FOR THE RECLUSIVE SIngER-SOngwRITER wITH a CULT FOLLOwIng, LIFE IS a gaME OF THROnES Onstage, Chelsea Wolfe stands tall, a grim reaper draped in dark fabrics. The music all but swallows atmosphere—Wolfe and her band can transform any room into a cavernous hollow with her celestial voice and manipulated, diverse guitars.

One minute the drums are pounding while synths fuzz around the beat; the next, it’s just Wolfe’s soft whisper, amplifed and bouncing of the ceiling. It takes most performers years to manifest the right look, but Wolfe accidentally perfected hers immediately. She was so shy when she started that she insisted on singing through a black veil.

“When I fnally got the guts to let go of the veil and just make eye contact with the audience, it was very empowering,” Wolfe tells me over drinks in her current home of Los Angeles. “But my love of fashion and silhouettes did not go away. Dressing up helps me separate and prepare for the stage. I want to feel good about myself so I can just let go and be in the music.”

Following her debut release in 2010 (The Grime and the Glow, from Pendu Sound), Wolfe and her longtime coproducer Ben Chisolm gained critical media acclaim. And after years of touring with everyone from Deafheaven to Queens of the Stone Age and three more standout releases—including the most well-received LP thus far, Pain Is Beauty—Wolfe’s alternative sound has seen much of the mainstream. Her music has even been featured on HBO’s Game of Thrones. And at 31, the Northern California native is releasing her ffth and fullest studio album yet, Abyss (Sargent House). Produced by John Congleton (who has worked with musicians like St. Vincent and R. Kelly), Abyss is a dynamic orchestration of darkness that documents Wolfe’s foggy personal struggle with dreams, anxiety, and a troubling form of sleep paralysis.

“When it frst started happening—heavily in my adulthood—I would scream and thrash because I thought the things in my

dreams were in my room, actually coming toward me,” Wolfe explains. “It was only in the aftermath of [Abyss] that I realized how much this infuenced the record.”

The new album is signature Chelsea Wolfe cathedral rock, but heavier, toying with tensions between industrial walls, and then diminishing into softer sounds. It’s the kind of album you want to play loud and alone. Wolfe grew up listening to her father’s country band. As a child, she says, she aspired to be a poet, and lyrics are still about as important to her as sound is. “I approach music in an instinctual way because I am not as technically trained as most,” she adds. “A song just has to feel right, emotionally and atmospherically. That’s my idea of perfection: when you can put headphones on and it feels like the song is swirling around you.” MISH WAY

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ASHLEY BENSON

A PRETTY LITTLE LIAR PRovES hER RAngE In A SLEw of mAjoR movIE RoLES It’s understandable that Ashley Benson’s mom didn’t like Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine’s debauched 2012 neon-colored crime spree. In it, Benson plays one member of a squad intent on taking out a drug boss (played by Gucci Mane), or creating mayhem trying. On the other hand, Benson’s mom loves Pretty Little Liars, the twisty ABC Family drama on which Benson has played Hanna Marin for the past fve seasons. “My mom always talks about it,” Benson says. “She’s a huge fan. It’s the type of show where people aren’t like, ‘Oh, the episode’s over, I’m gonna go do my thing.’ No, it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what happened?’ People hit me up, because they feel like they missed something.”

The show follows a clique of ladies who are constantly tormented by a mysterious villain named A. “When will this article come out?” Benson asks, ofering a spoiler.

“Tomorrow is our season fnale; you fnd out that this person Charles is A. Don’t tell anyone.”

In the weeks leading up to the big reveal, Benson’s Hanna becomes embroiled in a murder investigation, has it pinned on her, and ends up in A’s dungeon. Filming these episodes, she was able to exercise the femme fatale muscle she’d found through Spring Breakers. “It was fun to be a badass for a minute,” she says. “I think I was a little bit in the other seasons, but then I got to do it again in the second half of this season. It was my favorite time, because I was in that orange jumpsuit for about a month, and I only had to come in a half hour early, because there was no hair and makeup. I was like, ‘Can I please just stay in jail for the next two years?’”

Apart from PLL, Benson has been busy flming Elvis & Nixon, in which she plays a stewardess who recognizes Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) in the opening scene, and Chronically Metropolitan, in which she plays Shiloh Fernandez’s love interest. But it’s in the Adam Sandler action vehicle Pixels, out this summer, that Benson gets to go antiheroine again. The flm stars Sandler as a former video game champ who has to fend of an attack from aliens disguised as classic arcade games. Benson plays Lady Lisa, a sword-wielding warrior goddess from a fctional game called Dojo Quest. The flmmakers had her training almost nonstop so that she could execute the complex fght scenes in the flm. “As tired as I was working 20 hours a day, now I can say I can sword fght. Next I wanna do a boxing movie!”

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telana

CALIFORNIA’S BEST-KEPT SINGING SECRET IS ABOUT TO BE HEARD THE WORLD OVER “It’s already been a crazy year of growth for me,” Telana says as she leads me through the lobby of her condo in the fats of Studio City. She steers us into her apartment and down a carpeted hallway to a room with bunk beds. “I call this the kiddie corner.” She parts a sparkly curtain to reveal a multiculti explosion of fuchsia: pillows, saris, stufed animals, a mood board of class portraits, Singaporean currency, drawings, and handwritten letters from friends. “My room changes every day. I’ve changed it up like twice this week. But I’ve had the same exact bedding since I was nine years old, the same bunk bed. It’s still so me.” Completing the college town incense shop gestalt, music I mistake as Nelly Furtado’s is drifting from her speakers (it’s Cree Summer, she corrects).

“I love Nelly Furtado, though, she’s a genius,” Telana says matter-of-factly. “And she’s Portuguese—I’m Portuguese.”

Though Telana was born and raised, for the most part, in Mesa, Arizona, she has also lived in Portugal, Greece, Japan, and Hawaii (where her mother is from). She’s 18, but she has the sage temperament of someone much older. “When you’re a little girl, you don’t know who you are as an artist.

But me as an artist has been an evolution since way back then.” She means when she and her mom started commuting between Arizona and California so she could act, starting at 12. “I lost confdence in the acting because, honestly, I just hated that world. I didn’t want to be someone else, I wanted to be myself. I thought I was cool enough.”

Telana’s father is from Jamaica. “I’ve always kind of wanted to be a reggae artist,” she says, “but I feel like that will come when it comes.” Her strongest musical infuences instead come out of neo-soul: Erykah Badu and D’Angelo.

The video for her most popular track to date, “Gemini,” begins with a moody piano intro against archival 16mm flm reels, but the similarities to Lana Del Rey end there. Telana has a deep, accomplished voice, and as for life experience, although she has plenty, Telana would rather not show it of in her songs. Asked about her album, Telana replies that she is working on one, but precocious as she is, she’s in no rush.

She’s not looking to compromise, either. She relishes the fact that she’ll tweet something one day, build it out into a song the next, and put it online the day after that.

“The digital age has been so in favor of the artist—not the industry,” she says. Telana doesn’t have a label at the moment, and she doesn’t seem concerned about fnding one. She has strong followings on social music platforms, switching from TelanaMama to Te11ana to any combination of the above. The old system—working with a team to create an image, selling an album starting with a number one, etc., etc.—doesn’t ft into her view of contemporary artist empowerment. “They’re learning now, but for a while, the labels didn’t know how to transition. Anyone can be an artist, and anyone can be poppin’. People like rawness.

They like real more than they like industry. They know that they’re being marketed to when they’re being marketed to now.” KEVIN McGARRY

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bea miller

you may not know this 16-year-old singer, but chances are she’s already stuck in your head Bea Miller staggers into the room, not quite steady on the high heels the stylist has put her in for this shoot. While it’s not the young singer’s frst rodeo—she’s done tour dates with Demi Lovato, after all—she comes across more tomboyish than glamorous. In fact, when Miller’s frst single, “Young Blood,” hit last summer, it revealed the then 15-year-old vocalist as the kind of youth-frst power belter that might make adults nervous. The anthem has that kind of “Wild in the Streets” virility that makes it seem like, yeah, angsty millennials might actually storm the castle and take control.

But Miller, now 16, is not admitting to being the leader of a powerful underground child insurgency…yet. In fact, she says that her debut LP, Not an Apology, is meant to reach her peers on a more empathetic level. “The vibe of the album is me being like, ‘Hey. I’m a teenager just like you. I go through shit, too,’” she says. “I want people listening to it to know that just because I’m a singer, and they hear me on the radio, and they see me onstage [it doesn’t

mean I don’t] have problems, too. My life isn’t perfect just because the only things that they ever see or hear about my life is that it’s good, and you see all these amazing things that are happening to me. I’ve gone through a lot of things that you’ll never know about, but I’m here to be honest and help you as much as other singers and artists have helped me.”

One of those singers stands out in particular for Miller.

“Hayley Williams, for sure, is everything that I want to be in life. She’s not Hayley Williams, she’s Paramore. I almost feel selfsh as an artist, because I’m making my journey about me and my name, with my face everywhere. I think it’s more about the music, and the musicians, because it’s not just a singer who makes the song. I really would love to, at some point, be part of a band, and not just be Bea Miller.”

Miller had always sung around the house, but she had no idea it could be something to pursue until she tried out for The X Factor on a whim and made it onto the show.

(This came after having an unfulflling career as an actor, in which she landed small voice-acting roles in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Toy Story 3.) She made it all the way to ninth place on The X Factor, and the popularity she gained from exposure led to a deal with Simon Cowell’s Syco Music and Disney’s Hollywood Records. But Miller’s biggest gain, she says, has been studio time with writers and producers who have helped her gain confdence in her own writing. “You’re the frst person I’m going to tell this to, but I wrote a song almost entirely by myself,” she says.

“It came directly from me. It’s not going on the album, but we are going to fnd a way to release it at some point. I’ve always written poetry and short stories and in my journal, but I was never able to fully write a complete song that I was proud of by myself.” Maxwell williaMs

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Simon Jacquemus’s Instagram, on which we met, is a clear refection of his collections, which are ultra-modern and abstract while still telling a relatable story. Even this Dirty Hippie fell for the clean simplicity and what seems like sacred geometry that is Jacquemus. While designing his collection for fashion week, Simon worked retail at Paris’ Comme des Garçons boutique.

Over those two years he learned about the relationship between originality and commercial strategy. Simon started his own label at 19 after leaving Salon-de-Provence in southeastern France for Paris, a city that isn’t always open to new creatives.

“Do everything you can today,” Simon told himself one month into fashion school, after the devastating passing of his mother, whom he named his brand after. Now 25, with a heart of gold (which he never goes out without wearing around his neck), Simon is an avant-garde pioneer who is bringing optimism and reality into the fantasies of young designers.

Although we still have not met in person, my connection and relationship with Simon is real. I think we are an example of a new generation that is united through technology. Being ’90s babies, maybe it’s just our inner pen-palling. Like his muchloved circles, Simon is incessant, and I am looking forward to knowing him in his physical form. But for now, I love my dear virtual friend and am thankful for the innovators like him who bring tech to a level where oceans and land can’t divide us.

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OUR POET IN RESIDENCE ON BEING THE FIRST BORN OF THE FamOUS FRaNCOS ART AND TEXT JAMES FRANCO

Brother One This brother, Tom, once, Told me, on a family vacation – After everyone had moved Out, and we reunited only twice Annually: summer in Hilton Head And Christmas in Palo Alto – That he was sad because once We were close. That we had done All together, and he was always Looking up to big brother.

And then, he said, I left, And we were no longer close.

“When?” I said. “When I went To UCLA?” “No,” he said.

“When you went to kindergarten.”

Sometimes two brothers split.

Their looks are so similar They could be twins, But inside, one takes the dark Road, and one takes the light.

Tom followed my father Into Oakland spirituality, I didn’t go. I walked Into the land of Hollywood, Where Tom didn’t want to go.

Now our father is dead, Tom meditates alone.

I am all that my brother has Decided he is not. But I love This brother. I’m all he’s got.

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Brother Two Brother Two is the one who is more like me.

Not in looks so much as Brother One, but we do share a certain smile, a crinkle of the eye, and the sound of our laughs.

There are probably a myriad of little things we both do, handed down through DNA, and proximity to the same love of the same parents.

I try not to look for these things, because I’ll think that they’re mine, and that he has stolen them.

Brother Two is the youngest by far. Seven years after me, and fve after Tom. When he was in high school in Palo Alto, I was long gone to Los Angeles.

By the time he graduated, I was Spider-Man’s best friend.

Later he followed me to L.A. I went to UCLA, he went to USC. He likes sports, I don’t have time.

He’s pretty short, but he has blond hair.

We both love cats, raised on them.

There was a time, he and I went to a Bruins-Trojans football game.

USC was rated number one, but our quarterback ran the ball in three times.

The ride home with Davy, and all his USC-looking friends. Was awkward.

He seems to not have a care in the world.

He is in funny movies, And yes he works very hard, But I’ve never seen him cry.

He has a girlfriend, and they’re very much in love.

It must be hard to have a brother who was in Freaks and Geeks while you were still in real high school.

It must be hard to live in a body full of mannerisms, and with a mind full of thoughts that I have already shown to the world.

For years in Hollywood he was James Franco’s little brother.

He lived with me for a while, near Sunset, in the building Bette Davis died in.

I gave him the bed, and he slept with the cats, my cats, Harry and Arturo.

He fed them and wooed them to his side.

For years he kept his distance.

I ofered him roles in artistic things.

He turned me down.

His own brother.

He was running fast, away from my shadow.

When he moved out of the Bette Davis place, the cats went with him. I let them all go, with my everlasting love.

Now the brothers don’t live together, but the brother cats still do.

Three Brothers We were raised by a mother Who loved us, and a father Who showed us strange strength.

We learned to love animals, So as adults we All keep some as pets.

We learned to love art, And that’s how We spend our lives: Actor, Artist, Actor.

Every Christmas we come Together, there are no Children, so we give love To each other, that’s what We were taught.

Our father is now gone But the tradition lives on.

Merry Christmas to me, Merry Christmas to Mom, Merry Christmas Dave, Merry Christmas Tom.

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from the mansions of malibu to the catwalks of milan, gigi and bella hadid are today’s embodiment of millennial popularity and american glamour—just don’t call them spoiled. if there’s anything they learned from their swimsuit model mom and luxury real estate mogul dad, it’s that if you want to make it in this world, you’d. better. work. photography steven klein fashion patti wilson interview china machado V MAGAZINE 6 1

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A lot has changed since China Machado started modeling in 1954. As the frst non-Caucasian model to appear on the cover of a major American fashion magazine (Harper’s Bazaar, 1959), she’s seen it all and can attest to the diva stereotypes the industry has created and even celebrated. Not so today: in 2015’s catwalk culture, a model’s calling card is equal parts her Instagram account and her agency, making the atmosphere nothing short of a willing surveillance state. Love or hate it, the public eye’s acute focus on where every working model is at any given time—and with whom—has changed the name of the game to something resembling political democracy. It’s not just about who walked the most runways, but who has the most friends—and the lasting support of both friends and strangers. Gone are the days of backstabbing, now that no one’s back is ever fully turned. Gigi and Bella Hadid know this.

Although their model mother, Yolanda Foster (star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, where the Hadid girls were frst introduced to most of America), worked in a more insular industry, all of the Hadids are experts at making friends.

The idea, in fact, that Bella (18) and Gigi (20) are so supportive of one another feels somewhat fresh. Anyone who has met the sisters will likely use words like “the sweetest” or “we clicked” when describing them, and this includes other models. Gigi’s daily mantra, she says, is, “Be kind, work hard, and make a friend,” because “you don’t know who those people are gonna go have dinner with and talk to that night.” Here, in a conversation between the 86-year-old Richard Avedon once called “probably the most beautiful woman in the world” and two of the most followed models working today, we learn about how the roles—and the rules—in fashion have started to favor, of all people, the nice ones. NATASHA STAGG

CHINA MACHADO So, where are you two now?

GIGI HADID I’m in London.

BELLA HADID And I’m in Rome.

CM Terrifc. Now, Gigi, how old are you?

GH I’m 20.

CM And Bella?

BH I’m 18.

CM I started modeling in 1954 when your grandmother was around, I presume. But I was of mixed race and I was taken sort of hesitantly. I began in Paris with Givenchy and Balenciaga.

And then I came in ’58 and met Richard Avedon and I was the frst non-Caucasian in a big magazine in New York. And they didn’t even want to publish me.

GH We know.

BH That’s amazing.

CM And now, you girls are absolutely gorgeous, and also of mixed race. Your father’s Middle Eastern; your mother’s Dutch. And you are celebrated. It’s of the time. There’s not that prejudice: What is she? Who is she? Is she Chinese? It doesn’t exist any longer, because it’s so global, everything. Okay, Bella, my question to you: What is your favorite thing about modeling?

BH Well, obviously traveling. Gigi and I have traveled a lot our whole lives so it’s really amazing to be able to do it on our own. But I also take photos so it’s really nice to be able to work

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with photographers. I think meeting people is a big thing for us too. It’s really great to be able to meet people and interact and show our personalities through photos.

CM Absolutely. You both have diferent personalities when you model. I guess it’s also because your mother was a model, right?

GH Absolutely. She took pictures of us our whole lives. You can defnitely see our personalities through our pictures, especially when we’re next to each other, like in V. I think it’s going to be really fun for people to be able to see us together.

CM You know what I think your mother and father gave you, which I see immediately in your pictures? They gave you confdence. That’s partly because of your education, your nice lifestyle.

GH Our parents obviously gave us a very blessed life, but they also both came from very little.

I think they really raised us with a sense of work ethic because of their own amazing work ethic. I think it gave us confdence that we could go into the world and do this on our own.

CM What are your goals in terms of modeling?

GH What I’ve been doing a lot every day is I have three goals: be kind, work hard, and make a friend. When I do those little things on set every day, those are the things that then lead to creating relationships and building opportunities. Because you don’t know who those people are gonna go have dinner with and talk to that night.

CM Listen, I’ve been in this business a long time and I’ve met many models. I’ve gone through, “Oh my God, here comes the diva!” And I fnd in both of you the kindness that your mother and father gave you. It’s so diferent, so refreshing. Some of these girls come in and it’s, “I don’t want this, I don’t like that, my hair...” I mean, you almost have to stand at attention. And you girls are so diferent. It’s wonderful.

BH Thank you.

GH Thank you.

CM If you were to change one thing about yourself, Bella, what would it be?

BH Um, I think that I don’t have a lot of patience sometimes.

GH I was gonna say the same thing [laughs].

CM I have no patience whatsoever, so don’t worry about that. That’s a good thing, because then you get rid of all the nonsense. Be impatient because you know what you want. And if you can’t get it, well—let’s go, let’s move! That’s good. I promise you it’s not bad. Be impatient, not horrible. Horrible is one thing, impatient is another. You know what you want, and you haven’t got time to waste. Who is your hero?

BH Can it be my mom? My mom, 100 percent.

GH I would say the same thing.

CM She sounds like a wonderful, perfect mother. I wish I had a mother like that [laughs]. If Instagram imploded tomorrow, ceased to exist, what would your reaction be?

BH I would be so happy.

GH I feel like the world would be so diferent. I mean, really it’d be great because everyone would be of their phones. But I think it would change our industry and the world. I think people wouldn’t know how to function, unfortunately. It really is the center point of so many industries now. I think it would change the economy.

“Be kind and generous to everyone you meet. yeaH, it’s Bizarre Because it’s weird for people to Be nice tHese days.”—Bella Hadid

CM And people’s thinking.

BH That’s for sure.

CM Well, I don’t even know how to Instagram, so don’t ask me. I don’t know what it is. What do you do on your days of from modeling?

BH Eat [laughs].

CM What kind of food?

BH Everything…

GH I’m on a mission to fnd the best cheeseburger in New York City. So I go do that. Right now it’s at J.G. Melon, on the Upper East Side.

CM That place has been there for 50 years, I was there at the opening.

GH It’s the best burger. Best one.

CM Okay, what is your most thrilling pastime? Maybe you shouldn’t answer that [laughs].

Are we gonna be honest or are we just gonna fool around?

GH Over New Year’s, I went skydiving.

CM All right, do you have a personal motto?

GH When people ask me about my workout and eating habits, I say, “Eat clean and work out to stay ft, have a burger to stay sane.” Bella?

BH I don’t have a motto yet, guys [laughs].

GH The one that I just said is one I made up, but I do have one I think is a very good way to be in life, especially in our industry. It says, “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.”

CM My personal motto? Try to laugh every day. At least one laugh, then I’m feeling great [laughs]. Which one of you is more rebellious?

GH Bella.

CM What is the most rebellious thing your sister has ever done? I ran away with a bullfghter.

So if you can do something better than that then you can say it.

BH That’s amazing.

GH The most rebellious thing Bella has ever done? I mean, she hasn’t gotten a tattoo yet.

CM Have you ever fought over a crush?

BH No, never. We would never touch the same person.

GH We don’t have the same type.

CM Your mother told you all about modeling. A lot of models come in and they don’t know how to deal with rejection. That’s the most painful thing for a model. Sometimes they’re beautiful, but just not the type, or the job is not good for them. That rejection is terrible.

BH Yeah, my mom put us into the modeling world with a good understanding of things going into it. She told us about the ups and downs.

GH She was very realistic, she didn’t sugarcoat it.

CM Do you think narcissism is an epidemic, as recently suggested in the New York Times?

GH A lot of people are turning against social media, saying that it’s creating an epidemic of narcissism. Narcissism has obviously been around for a very long time. People are hard on others for taking selfes, but that’s our generation. You can spin it negatively, but also you have to realize all the positive things it’s doing for a lot of industries, and for education

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in other parts of the world—being able to view and understand diferent cultures and different peoples’ lives without being in those places. I think it’s better to look at the positives.

Obviously, there are a lot of people who do like to take pictures of themselves and whatnot, but if it’s their way of expressing themselves, then that’s fne.

CM I think there’s a line between narcissism and insecurity. Some people go overboard to make up for wanting to be part of the group. So in that sense, I don’t think it’s a bad thing.

Both of you are incredibly beautiful, incredibly successful, and yet incredibly sweet. What makes you so nice?

GH It’s the way we grew up.

BH No matter if they’re working next to you, below you, or above you, be kind and generous to everyone you meet. Yeah, it’s bizarre because it’s weird for people to be nice these days.

CM Believe me, you guys have been lucky. It can be so bitchy and so cruel. Have you encountered any nasty attitudes or behavior in the industry?

GH There are some people who are mean at times, but I think generally we are in a generation of models where it’s becoming normal to support each other, and I think it’s really diferent.

We’re lucky to be in that generation of girls where we’re really pushing for girl power and supporting each other and being friends with everyone. And I think it’s becoming less cool to be like the catty models that we’ve all heard the stories about. There are a lot of diferent girls in the industry, including Taylor Swift—I just did her music video. She put something like twenty successful women in the industry in her video. I felt so lucky to do that because I felt like it was really a sign of our collective willingness to support each other and have each other’s backs and kind of hold hands along the way.

CM In this issue of V, Iman says modeling is not so hard. Do you agree or disagree?

GH Um, I disagree.

BH I disagree.

CM Yes, I disagree.

GH I think that if you’re not working hard, it’s not going to be an image that can make someone feel something, and that’s really important. I fnd that the pictures where I was the least comfortable are sometimes the best ones.

CM Yeah, in a funny angle, right? Balancing, right? Who are your favorite models of all time?

GH Kate Moss. You. BH Our mom.

CM Now, when your mother retired from modeling, she became an interior designer and started a family. Do you have plans for life after the runway?

BH When I moved to New York, I stopped riding horses. I want to eventually get a barn and have my mom come live there with us and just ride horses and become a photographer and do that. That’s my goal. Riding horses and taking photos [laughs].

CM Sounds very healthy. What about you, Gigi?

GH I’m very career-minded and I think I’ll always be someone that will— CM Do something?

GH Yes. CM Well I’ve enjoyed talking to you, I think you’re terrifc, and I love your attitude.

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what’s one way to step out of the shadow of your famous dad? make it a Leap! champion equestrian jessica springsteen takes bruce weber to her farm in weLLington, fLorida, to show him who’s the boss

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Jessica Springsteen is no ordinary rock spawn. The only daughter of Bruce Springsteen and his wife and bandmate Patti Scialfa, Jessica has deftly avoided becoming a TMZ regular for her carnal or criminal misadventures. No rehab stints or leaked sex tapes for her. Nor has she tried to piggyback of her parents’ fame to embark on a solo musical career or embarrassed herself on reality TV. “One of my friends in high school used to say, ‘Oh, it would be so much more fun if you were a huge brat!’” ofers Jessica.

“But I’m pretty boring. As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.”

Instead, the 23-year-old Duke graduate has parlayed her lifelong love of horses into a promising career as a professional show jumper. In only a few years on the circuit, she has cemented herself as one of the top female riders under 30 and has consistently ranked in the top 50 in the world (no small feat in a sport where riders typically mature in their 30s and 40s).

Her promising results, and no doubt her on-brand rockand-roll provenance, has prompted Gucci to name Jessica as an equestrian ambassador alongside Monaco royal Charlotte Casiraghi and Edwina Alexander, arguably the best female jumper in the world.

“I remember going to Europe for the frst time for a competition four or fve years ago,” recalls Jessica, “and seeing Charlotte and Edwina wearing Gucci and just thinking, Oh

my God, they look so amazing. I really looked up to them as riders as well. They’re amazing riders and they’re both such amazing people—so sweet and kind.”

Reserved but polite, Jessica is not only a good emissary for the fashion label but also for the sport, about which she speaks with the zeal that others her age typically reserve for shopping and boys. “It’s exciting for me to help more people learn about the sport,” she says. “None of my friends really understood it when I would tell them about it. They had to come and watch. I can see how it could look easy or like the horse is doing all the work. But there’s an incredible amount of communication, balance, and precision involved. It took me 18 years of training to get to this level.”

Jessica, dressed not in jodhpurs and a jacket but in sweatpants and a Duke T-shirt, is sitting in the austere lobby of the new 1 Hotel in South Beach. A few hours earlier she competed in the Grand Prix fnals of the Global Champions Tour, where her new ride, a nine-year-old mare called Carolina, had a clear frst round but hit two rails in the fnal jump-of to fnish in a respectable sixth place.

When Jessica was four, an earthquake sent her family (she has two brothers, one younger, one older) scrambling from Los Angeles to Bruce’s birthplace, New Jersey. Her mother had always wanted to ride and started taking lessons at a nearby training barn.

“Of course, the minute I saw her doing it I wanted to do it,

too,” Jessica says. “The barn right across the street from our house ended up being one of the top junior training barns.

It was kind of lucky how that happened. I ended up training there until I was about 18.”

Though her results have been healthy, including a frst place at the Winter Equestrian Festival earlier this year, Jessica admits she still has a ways to go before her talent matches her aspirations, which include a place in next year’s American team at the Rio Olympics.

“Right now my best horse, Vindicat, is hurt,” she explains, “and even though I have several horses—here and in Stratford-upon-Avon in England, where my trainer lives—I don’t really have another horse that can do the very top levels right now. So that’s not ideal. But, you know, you have to keep plugging away and getting stronger and better. And it’s like any sport—you’re not going to win all the time.”

Even in the event that she doesn’t make the cut for the Olympics, or that her jumping career goes of the rails, she says that she has learned a lot of life lessons from the sport.

“You learn discipline and how to be committed to something at a young age,” she says, “because they’re such special animals and they deserve to be treated the right way.

You can’t just blow it of after school. They need you. And I think training really hard and having positive results gave me a lot of confdence. I mean, there’s no better feeling than seeing your hard work pay of.”

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Alyx designer Matthew Williams found the buckles for his debut F/W ’15 collection at a Six Flags theme park. “I took my kids there and I thought, This seatbelt buckle is insane,” recalls Williams. “So I contacted the supplier and got them to remake it for me.”

Aside from the buckles’ visual appeal—they’re striking additions to an apocalyptic leather jumpsuit and a host of utilitarian belts—the California–raised, New York–based Williams was drawn to what they symbolize. “For a Californian, amusement parks represent a loss of innocence—a right of passage. Maybe you have your frst kiss, or get drunk for the frst time,” Williams explains, adding, “Alyx is a very personal project to me. It’s named after my daughter.”

Now 29, Williams has been exploring the fashion industry since he was 17. He would sit in downtown L.A.’s magazine shops, poring over international fashion bibles for hours before returning them to their shelves. “I didn’t have enough money to buy the magazines,” he says.

Williams eventually took a summer internship at a friend’s denim brand, learned the ins and outs of pattern cutting, and dropped out of college to pursue an uncertain career in the fashion biz.

A risky move? Sure. But it paid of. During his internship, Williams was asked to make a jacket for Kanye West. The rapper, entrepreneur, and fashion world fxture was so impressed with the fnal product that he hired the then 23-year-old the next day. “That’s where my journey really began, being able to travel the world with Kanye,” Williams says. “He opened so many doors for me. He’s my biggest champion. I’m forever indebted to him.”

Aside from being Kanye’s creative director, Williams has designed costumes for Lady Gaga and worked closely with photographer Nick Knight—which is how this photo shoot for V came about. “Nick has been an amazing mentor for the last six years,” Williams says while sitting in a cab in London with the shoot’s two stars, his good friends Scout and Tallulah Willis. “He taught me how to create imagery. For him to believe in me and this project so much, I feel really blessed.”

Produced in Italy’s fnest factories, Alyx is an amalgamation of subcultures and Williams’s life experiences. “The frst collection is a sum of ideas—things from my childhood, girls I felt were empowered and beautiful, working in entertainment, imagery of the nightlife scene that I grew up with. I love the idea of clothing taking on a life of its own at night.” All this translates into metallic bell-bottoms, white skinny jeans with a silver waist, and round-toed platform creepers ft for Frankenstein. Meanwhile, shredded, oversize trousers, strap-embellished cargo pants, and leather jackets with exaggerated industrial zippers project a ’90s raver vibe.

Williams was a sculptor in his youth, which explains the shapely black pufer coat, and his metal trims are inspired by the view from his ofce on New York’s St. Mark’s Place. “When punks fnish a cigarette lighter, they’ll break it and snap the metal piece to their clothes. I love that I can mold something like that into part of our story—our DNA.” To be frank, much of Alyx’s F/W ’15 looks like it could have been plucked from The Matrix, but Williams sees his designs as staples for the contemporary wardrobe. And while they have an arresting severity, his clothes seem to capture a moment in time—they speak to the alternative, sometimes nostalgic sensibilities of the millennial generation. They also speak to buyers—famed French concept shop Colette and New York’s Maryam Nassir Zadeh have already picked up the line.

So why did the designer choose this point in time to embark on a solo endeavor? Why launch Alyx when he could easily continue working with celebrities and industry superstars?

“They say it takes 10,000 hours to become a master at something, and to be able to use your intuition to make decisions,” Williams says. “I’m going into my 30s. I’ve done costume design and made clothes and created visual imagery for 10 years for other people. I’ve learned from some of the great minds in the industry. Everything I’ve done has been a step toward [Alyx]. And now I want to try my hand at showing my own ideas.”

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BEYOND CONVERSATION: MARIlYN MONROE

“The thing about Marilyn Monroe is that she’s never out of fashion,” says Max Mara creative director Ian Grifths. “There’s always something somewhere that’s inspired by her.” Today, that something is Max Mara’s F/W ’15 collection, which is centered around not only Monroe’s signature sex appeal, but her academic inclinations. V cover girl Gigi Hadid strutted down the Italian house’s runway in February looking the picture of a sultry—albeit studious—Monroe (who was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926). “Gigi really represents the spirit of Marilyn—happy with herself, voluptuous, sexy, and intelligent,” Grifths continues. “Marilyn left behind a library of 400 titles, and she had read Burton, Milton, Einstein, and Dostoevsky.

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Gigi Hadid channeled you in the Max Mara show, for which you and your voracious reading habit were the inspiration.

MARILYN MONROE Now, I wouldn’t say she channeled me, because she didn’t. But she did envision and reinterpret my eye for fashion and taste. Though I loved Max Mara’s version of upscale intellect, I would never wear a blouse that was see-through. For me it was either all or nothing.

You’ve been portrayed by many actresses over the years, including Lindsay Lohan and Michelle Williams. What do you think of their performances?

MM Oh, Michelle Williams did a wonderful job. She was so into her role. She was so good, it felt as if I was reliving my life. Wonderful, wonderful job. Lindsay Lohan was put up to that disgusting piece of work, so you can’t blame the child.

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. Here, the late Hollywood star speaks with psychic Jesse Bravo about her modern-day portrayals and why there’s nothing wrong with capitalizing on beauty.

And Jessica Chastain is reportedly about to play you in Blonde. Are you excited to see how she interprets you?

MM Jessica Chastain is a strong actor but I’m most excited by the flm itself. So many movies focus on the pressure at the top. I hope this one will tell the great story of accomplishment it took to get there. That’s where I will always hang my hat.

What was the most difcult part of fame? The best part?

MM The most difcult part was always having to be “on,” and very rarely getting time to be a normal girl. I tried to stuf that endless hole with material things and it never worked.

I was always looking for something bigger. The best part was knowing that everyone wanted to be with me and enjoy my company. I always got what I wanted and it felt great. I enjoyed fame a great deal, but staying on everyone’s mind isn’t an easy thing.

You had three husbands and some exciting lovers. Which man was your favorite to be with, and why?

MM Arthur Miller was the best. He understood what it took to be successful, and he was stern but agreeable. He knew what he wanted and took it with strength.

Your rumored relationship with JFK is still speculated about today. Can you give us the facts?

MM Yes, it is out in the open now, but in my day there was no one more powerful and more respectable, so I had to creep in the shadows. I wanted to believe it would work out, but I knew deep inside that it couldn’t. It felt so good to be hidden in the dark and away from the public eye. Jack was exciting and strong. He knew how to treat a lady, too.

Your death was called a “probable” suicide, but a defnitive cause of death never materialized. Did you commit suicide?

MM I did commit suicide. On purpose! I was using sedatives a great deal to cope with life and to sleep. It’s unfortunate, but I took too many. There was no killing. This is just a story of not wanting to endure life’s painful lessons anymore.

Have you been reincarnated?

MM No. My last life was too painful and I’m not ready to come back.

You were very difcult to work with at the end of your career. Was that because of the drugs?

MM When you start to get everything your way in life, you create this diferent reality in which you don’t have to abide by anyone’s rules but yours. I fell into that trap. Drugs made me aloof, but not bad.

What do you think of today’s fame-obsessed culture?

MM It’s always the same. People want to follow and be what they aren’t, and those who step up and capture their attention get all the glory—and yes, all the pain, too.

Have you noticed how often you’re misquoted these days?

MM Many misquotes are from people who have their own agenda, trying to make me the dumb blonde, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I was thoughtful and also a philosopher.

Do you have any regrets?

MM Yes. I wish I had seen the great side of victory and that I had lived in happiness instead of focusing on the things I didn’t have. I just wanted to be loved and to be happy.

Many people have been referred to as “the new Marilyn,” Anna Nicole Smith and Kim Kardashian among them…

MM Anna Nicole Smith was a favorite of mine. She pulled herself up and people may not understand the rocky journey or the pressure. Anna sufered like me and for that I love her.

Kim isn’t like me and Anna. She is smarter and understands the games. I know she’ll be around when many others won’t because she continues to reinvent herself, and that is the key to the game.

You’re the iconic American sex symbol, but your acting ability and intelligence were extraordinary. Is it frustrating that you’re often remembered for your looks frst and your talent second?

MM No way. You have to remember that it was my looks that got me the breaks I needed. What’s the use of having so much talent if no one ever notices you? But I wasn’t just a pretty face. I was the complete package.