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foreword there’s always this communal obsession with superheroes during the summer. People across the globe line up to see the myriad blockbuster comic book remakes, and

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this summer is certainly no different. Perhaps it’s something about the temporarily perfect weather that makes people not merely want to realize their full potential, but somehow impossibly exceed it. while we’re all for idealism, we’re also realists: we believe in always trying to be our best selves, but in tangible, practical ways. As this summer issue took shape, it became obvious we don’t need special powers to feel super in the coming months (even if we do have some girls with superhuman bodies, like izabel Goulart on page 90 and Adriana lima on page 114). right now, menswear is having an incredibly powerful moment: we saw that on the runways in January when the fall collections came storming out like an international army of style. (Perhaps this is where the idea for our fashion revolution story “Before the fall,” on page 92, came from.) there is a real sense of excitement around the way a man dresses—or in the case of Bruce weber’s bungalow diary, undresses. we packed these pages with hot looks for the summer, but this amazing moment in menswear is too good for us not to give our readers a thorough preview of the coming fall. for us, the man who embodies this new generation of hardworking, super-stylish (and super-handsome) actors is our cover star Alex Pettyfer, an englishman who has played a disney beast with a heart of gold and an alien who has fallen to earth to save a damsel in distress. (Never mind in his next film, Now, he plays an evil immortal.) other stars from this issue? we have the boys from MtV’s new series Teen Wolf, proving even lycanthropes can have high school drama; a powerhouse of the top californian water sports teams; and violin virtuoso charlie siem as photographed

by Alasdair Mclellan, (page 66); and more.

Mario testino’s pictures from rio de Janeiro (page 72), which document a journey with real life VMeN through south America’s sexiest city, embody our thoughts on the summer: give us the beach and give us the sun—we don’t mind spending a fortune on a tiny swimsuit, because this summer skin is in.

Perfect bodies, master talents, super sci-fi, sensational fashion—we hope our issue satisfies the season’s craving for the remarkable, but also reminds you that, powers or not, we’re all capable of creating something spectacular. the edItors

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herbal remedies and smuggle him to a safe haven, where a gentleman named father Duroc swore him to an oath known as the V-Pledge, which endowed steele with…well,

every time we sit down to conceptualize an issue of VMAN, we always ask ourselves:

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nothing really. V-Man doesn’t have any superpowers, but he is in incredible physical condition, highly courageous, and of immense intellectual acuity. smart guys in great shape with no mystical ability beyond a stellar moral compass? It’s almost as if this comic had been created in our image then sent back through time—which we’re not ruling out as a possibility. as for our shared consonant, it comes from the World War II american propaganda slogan, “V is for Victory.” While we’re not fans of brainwashing, we certainly love a good campaign.

It often takes a piece of history to remind us that we’re living in our own moment, no different from those behind us or those to come. We feel more fortunate than ever to contribute to the endless archive of creative spirit, to participate in the cartography of imagination, that enduring document of the human condition. hark, you future VMeN out there, we’ll find you no matter how much time comes to pass. after all, we’re superheroes. Elliott DAViD

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who is a VMaN? he’s a world traveler, a culture hunter, an ambassador of taste—an aesthetic explorer. he’s always evolving and searching for avenues of expression, new modes of masculinity, and he’s unafraid to cross or create boundaries of self-articulation.

In saying this, we’re not merely referring to the incredible actors, artists, musicians, and innovators we collaborate with and feature in the magazine, but to our readers as well. so you can imagine our surprise when, during our relentless search for candidates, we found perhaps the most ideal VMaN—in a 1940s comic book by the hyper-apropos name: V-Man. born Jerry steele, V-Man was once but a regular american hero, liberating the inmates of german P.o.W. camps with naught but his intuition and bare hands. hardcore. but a martyr was made of steele when he was captured and executed. according to folklore (or Wikipedia), a local peasant was able to revive steele using

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The elephant in the room is a stuffed peacock.

The four primary cast members of MTV’s forthcoming Teen Wolf series are gathered within the confines of the Paramour Mansion, a sprawling 1930s estate set behind concrete walls and an ornamental gate, tucked away in the residential hills of Silver Lake, California. Replete with giant oil paintings, endless hallways, gurgling fountains, and a giant swimming pool fit to drown a gangster, the room we’ve picked to speak of werewolves and teenagers is full of peacocks. So, the elephant in the room, of course, is actually Twilight.

“I was offered a role in Twilight and said, ‘No,’” admits

Tyler Hoechlin, who plays Derek Hale, the enigmatic

elder wolven apprentice to the newly fanged titu-

lar teen. “I played three years of college ball. My first year at Irvine, it was about two weeks before our first game and it was a six-week commitment to go and shoot up in Oregon. I just couldn’t do it. There were forty other guys on my team. I was the starting second baseman. I couldn’t bail on those guys and leave them high and dry.”

Hoechlin seems resigned to his decision. It’s all in the past now and judging by how he interacts with his new costars, he’s quick to loyalty, speaking of Colton Haynes, Dylan O’Brien, and Tyler Posey in terms of brotherly team-spirited endearment that must be leftover from his days on the baseball diamond.

“I’m excited,” he says of the new show. “We all get along so well. There are a lot of things out there that are of this genre, but we’ve done a good job of blending the mythology with the reality of growing up and it would be a captivating story no matter what.”

Posey, who plays Scott McCall, following in the footsteps of both Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman from the two 1980s films upon which the show is only tangentially based, agrees. “We have really good comedy, good romance, it’s super scary at times, and it’s also dramatic,” he says. “It’s a really well-rounded show that a lot of people will love not just because it has werewolves in it. But the fact there are werewolves is just badass!”

There is also plenty of lacrosse involved. If you’re looking for a reprise of Michael J. Fox’s hirsute torso

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bursting from his yellow tank on the basketball court, you won’t find it in MTV’s reboot. Filmed in Atlanta, the show’s writer/creator Jeff Davis thought the physicality of lacrosse mixed with its own Native American mythos would better showcase McCall’s lycanthropic athleticism. And according to Posey, Davis also thought that the way kids carry their sticks out of their backpacks just “looks cool.”

“I hate lacrosse,” laughs Haynes, who plays Jackson, the requisite bully hell-bent on discovering why McCall is suddenly scoring goals and stealing his girlfriend. “I grew up in Kansas. I never played.” He’s mum about exactly how successful or unsuccessful he’ll be over the course of the show in dethroning his new rival, but does offer a hint of a twist.

“You just might learn to actually like me by the end

of the season,” he says with a mysterious squint. “I wasn’t originally supposed to be a recurring character, but they kept me around for a reason. You’ll just have to wait and see.”

MTV is fully behind Teen Wolf, not bothering to wait and see if the show catches on, having filmed the entire first season in full and debuting it this summer to catch the hordes as they exit their own high schools en masse in June. The bankability of the Twilight saga is not lost on anyone, but the cast is enthusiastic and completely free of cynicism about any parallels made to the franchise that launched a thousand supernatural spin-offs.

In fact, they invite it. They’re proud of their show and happy to share among the minions who pine for even more monsters saddled with claws alongside usual adolescent anxieties.

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“Who knows why genres go in and out of popularity?” offers O’Brien, McCall’s pal and Adderall-rattled sidekick, Stiles, on the show. “Twilight was a friggin’ hit and that certainly launched this generation’s obsession with the supernatural. But, then again, it’s a genre that’s been popular forever. It’s just one of those timeless stories that can be told to every generation. It just kind of happens.”

He pauses and takes a look around the ridiculous room, at the peacocks and the paintings, and starts laughing.

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petey wright the MODeL MUSiCiAN From wrestling to modeling to music, our First VMAN model search winner proves he’s got the wright stuFF Diving headfirst into new territory is nothing unusual for Petey Wright. Take, for example, his competing in the United States Wrestling Organization as “The Wright Stuff,” always entering the ring to a New Kids on the Block theme song, or his winning VMAN’s inaugural model search in 2008 and quickly becoming one of fashion’s top male models. Wright’s latest adventure hits closer to home: son of a songwriting father, the 22-year-old has been penning tunes in New York for the past year and periodically recording them in his native Nashville, Tennessee.

Although Wright prays at the rock altar of John Lennon—he sports “WWJLD” on the inside of his right wrist—it’s his decidedly less acclaimed influences who shape his approach to making music. Sipping a Bloody 24 VMAN

Mary, Wright remembers his first CD, a gift from his father: Hanson’s debut album. “I really like pop music a lot. The radio was fine with me, Trisha Yearwood, Shania Twain.” Unable to help himself, he breaks into the chorus of Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much” before continuing with his genre-hopping list of favorite musicians, which ranges from Outkast to Mumford & Sons.

When asked about his own music, Wright replies, “It’s all so different. I’ve got a country song, pop, rock, a ’50s song. They’re feel-good songs. After a songs ends, I want you to be smiling, maybe cook some breakfast.

I don’t want to write the song that makes you want to call your ex-boyfriend.”

But that doesn’t mean romance isn’t a major inspiration for Petey. “I write a lot about girls,” he says. “I love girls.” A waitress he met only twice inspired his song “Kara Lane.” “It’s my first ballad. My sister loves that song. That’s really all that matters to me.” Despite not having found a true romantic counterpart, even as an in-demand model, Wright confesses his desire to settle

down: “I want it when I’m watching some romantic com-

edy and go, ‘They’re so good together!’ Then the truth sets in, and I know, yeah, I still want it.”

Because he looks like Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street , Wright’s sudden foray into music recalls Depp’s own early musical aspirations. If that comparison sounds like snarkiness or criticism, Wright’s candor and optimism dispel any notion that he isn’t for real. Offering reflections on subjects ranging from Justin Bieber (“He is going to be a really badass 26-year-old”) to skeptics of models turned musicians (“Oops, well, I guess it’s too late”), Wright is honest and candid—qualities that separate earnest musicians from the rest. “I would like other people to like what I’m doing. Or don’t like it. Just listen to it and give it a shot.” rObertO reyeS phOtOgrAphy SANtiAgO SierrA StyLiNg pAtriCk MACkie See A fILM Of THIS SHOOT ON vMAN.COM AND ON THe vMAN iPAD APP

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From toy planes to military drones, klabin is the master oF aerial surveillance Gabriel Klabin grew up on a mountain in Rio de Janeiro, his

bedroom window looking out on a cliff that has become one of South America’s most famous paragliding destinations. The view was instrumental in his development: “I’ve always loved the process of making things fly and enjoyed flying myself. I like the idea of making machines that can extend the body’s physical abilities.”

The fantasies that cliff inspired have since become serious business: six years ago, Klabin, now 26, founded the company Santos Lab (named in honor of Santos Dumont, the Brazilian inventor of the airplane), which specializes in creating drones and other flying machines 26 VMan

equipped with cameras. After he posted videos of some of his unmanned flights on YouTube, the Brazilian Navy asked him to help design their observation devices. The results were stellar, and stealthy: drones that can take off and land by themselves, follow moving targets, and record in any weather conditions. After the Brazilian Navy, the United Nations came calling, ordering up drones to check on conditions in Haiti. Klabin has done special projects with the Rio de Janeiro police force as well.

Although he studied a range of courses in college— from biology to philosophy—Klabin learned about aerodynamics mostly by trial and error. His first recording, made with a camera strapped onto a radio control airplane, was both disappointing and inspiring: the image quality was compromised by vibrations caused by the plane’s engine, which then caught on fire, yielding a few

precious seconds of usable footage before the whole contraption plummeted back to earth.

Recording devices that fly sound like they could lead to some sticky situations, and Klabin has found himself in his fair share. His favorite? The time his drone flew into an apartment, and when he went to fetch it, the lady who answered the door told him she hadn’t seen any flying objects that day—but he knew she had stuffed it inside her bra: “I showed her the image being transmitted from the plane to my laptop, which was a recording of her boobs.” derek blasberg PhOtOgraPhY JOhan sandberg stYling Christian strOble SHIRT AND T-SHIRT diesel NecKLAce dinh Van

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a singing, dancing, clueless missionary: meet the moral compass in the book of mormon, broadway’s newest (and most profane) musical from the creators of south park Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, Andrew Rannells got minimal exposure to musical theater or the Mormon faith. But all that changed earlier this year when he was cast as Elder Price in South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s rip-roarious new musical The Book of Mormon, an outrageously hysterical (and at times outrageously offensive) tale of mismatched Mormon missionaries sent to Africa to convert the occupants of a village oppressed by a guerilla military.

While Rannells admits he was a fan of South Park’s provocative pop culture humor growing up, he never imagined he would be one of the headliners of a musical from the show’s creators, especially since that show pokes fun at, in no particular order: Christians, Africans, AIDS, God, Hitler, pedophilia, and women’s anatomy.

Rannells said such taboo topics became comedy gold in Park and Stone’s hands. “They are so funny and smart and innovative, and the idea of them reinvigorating a theater genre is very exciting.”

While the play will definitely attract a whole new audience to the musical theater, Rannells admits he did feel some apprehension about the script when he first read it. That apprehension was found in both the material and the musical numbers. For example, he points out an entire scene built around an African expression that translates to “Fuck You, God.” While it may be hard to laugh at in print, seen live it’s a real knee-slapper. To Rannells’s point: “The people who will have the biggest problem with the show are the ones that don’t end up seeing it.”

At a lunch at the Four Seasons before the musical’s Broadway debut, Hollywood power producer (and The Book of Mormon backer) Scott Rudin said that of all the actors they auditioned for the role of Price, Rannells was the only one who brought a hearty sense of humor to the character. Says Rannells, “I’ve never been part of a show like this. So I hope I bring some humor to the play; at its heart, it’s delivering a message through humor.” There are some big names laughing: Joan Rivers, Mike Meyers, and Tom Hanks have all come to the show, and so has James Bond himself. “When I saw Daniel Craig laughing in the audience, I knew we were doing something right.”

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PROFILE

OSKAR METSAVAHT THE SOUL OF BRAZILIAN STyLE The founder of osklen puTs his Brazilian soul inTo every susTainaBle sTiTch “Brazil is booming!” declares Oskar Metsavaht. We are standing on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro as the sun sets, amidst thousands of Brazilians of all ages carrying white flowers into the sea in honor of Yemanja, the Brazilian deity of the ocean. A former physician, Metsavaht is now the proud founder of the Brazil-born global lifestyle brand Osklen.

Osklen was conceived in the ’80s while Metsavaht was mountain climbing in the Andes. Then a young

doctor, he volunteered to design the technical gear for the expedition. “The design was cool,” he happily remembers. “My friends liked it and asked me to make some more.”

“During the same time, in Paris, I was getting to know [legendary embroiderer] M. Lesage, who was a family 32 VMAN

friend,” he continues. “I leapt at the opportunity to spend time in his haute couture atelier and be introduced to the fashion world. With just $7,000 I opened my first store, in Búzios, in December, 1989. It was more technical outdoor clothing than fashion, but with a Brazilian mood and minimalistic but colorful pieces.”

Oskar’s empire now includes over sixty stores in Brazil, as well as boutiques in New York, Miami, Tokyo, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the success of his Rio de Janeiro–based foundation, Instituto E, dedicated to the promotion of Brazil as a global leader in sustainable development, has led to his recent nomination as a UNESCO Ambassador.

His particular brand of social awareness plays a dominant role at Osklen. His Arpoador line of tennis shoes come in materials such as recycled fish skin sourced from regions of the Amazon basin controlled by indigenous tribes. “The Arpoador shoes are inspired by the way of life I have in Rio,” he says. “The simplicity of nature

balances with the sophistication of the urban.”

“I like to say Brazilians conquer by seducing, not by aggressively competing to be champions,” he adds. “I don’t really like the style of running shoes or the trekking ones that people used to wear in casual conditions.

The sole of my shoe is designed to grip the sand and the rocks—to feel the ground, not absorb it.”

When talking about how Brazilian culture is exported through its homegrown products and brands, Oskar uses a particular term to describe the energy of his country and people: “the ‘Brazilian Soul,’ as I like to describe it, is what I really think we Brazilians can bring to the world,” he says. “Binding our natural resources with our social and environmental sustainable development projects is a mandate that we are given.”

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StarFUcKer Band oF the SUmmer THIS PORTLAND fOuRSOmE’S NEWEST ALBum, Reptilians, IS A BLEND Of AVANT-, BOuTIquE-, AND HYPER-POP THAT mAKES THEm OuR BET fOR BAND Of THE SummER Everyone soundtracks their summers. Come the warmth, music suddenly becomes almost tactile, tastable. Songs

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KEIL CORCORAN Starfucker began as the gleam in a young Josh Hodges’s eye. When noticing a deficit in party vibes around the greater Portland area, Josh [Starfucker frontman, songwriter, and former sole member] began to construct party jams designed to dissolve the sexual boundaries of local house-show goers. As the roster of band members grew and the Starfucker portfolio became more diversified, indie mainstream takeover became Starfucker’s number-one priority. Once takeover is achieved, low-level indie bands shall be consolidated into super groups whose revenue shall be used to build yachts for wealthy politicians.

ED Reptilians is big dance pop, and you could easily blow up at any second; I think your success at this point is far more likely than failure. Are you pot committed to the project and, at this point, the name?

KC If our music does indeed blow up, I believe success may be a bit hard to achieve. Generally the music buying populace prefers living/attractive performers to charred skeletons. Although our music is highly combustible, we are nevertheless committed to it and our stupid name, even though our lives are in constant jeopardy.

ED Why the Alan Watts references? I’m an avid Watts reader/listener/follower. I listen to one of his lectures

or guided meditations at least once a week. What’s the connection?

KC Sometimes we feel like it’s important that people realize that they are merely an aperture through which the universe is experiencing itself. And there’s a good possibility we are but a daydream in some vast cosmic mind.

ED Your music has a shiny, happy veneer, but dark undertones. How much of it is tongue-in-cheek?

With a name like Starfucker, a guess would be all of it.

But then you sample Alan Watts, which implies more serious issues, themes of death, being, the quaking mess. What’s the inspiration here?

KC Generally Josh is a pretty optimistic and happy person, which I think explains the tone of the music. He is also a hypochondriac who’s totally obsessed with death and dying. Someone gave him the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and now he’s constantly yammering on about having cancer. Which explains the lyrics. Dude’s an enigma wrapped in a mystery or some shit.

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sexcapade, they become another layer of psycho-sensual skin, feeling your feelings with you, or telling your feelings how to feel. Feel me? Pool shenanigans, road-trip forfeiture, daytime blackouts, lost bromances, group field trips into psychotropic otherworlds, hot night sinning, deliberate and accidental fires—it’s a time for bookmarking memories and re-writing future pasts for which we’re wont to want musical accompaniment. And there’s almost always a certain band who dominates our limbic airwaves during these cherished summer months. This time around, our bet’s on Starfucker, whose new record Reptilians (Polyvinyl) has the perfect hybrid of hooliganistic fever-dance biodigital pop hooks and existential meditative undertones (they even sample lectures from epic guru of master truths Alan Watts). you can use it to shroom your face off or dance yourself clean, and isn’t that balance what summer’s all about? We sat down with multi-instrumentalist and part-time vocalist Keil Corcoran to talk sweat, indulge in sarcasm, and posit the superstar future of these fuckers. elliott david

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super destruction When artists Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and Niagara, together with filmmaker Cary Loren, set up to play their first show as Destroy All Monsters on New Year’s Eve in 1973, their only instruments were a violin, a saxophone, a vacuum cleaner, and a coffee can. Since that humble debut, the Detroit musicians and performance artists continued to play shows from 1973 until 1985, but rarely recorded (many had never heard the band’s records until Thurston Moore issued a three-CD compilation in 1994). Also during that time, they created six issues of a now legendary zine entitled Destroy All Monsters. Released between 1976 and 1979, the handmade issues contained graphic collage, photography, illustration, writing, and other works that distilled the group’s prismatic and dystopian view of media and social values. Nonprofit art publishers Primary Information have put together all six issues of the zine (plus a portion of a lost seventh issue that has never seen the light of day) in Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979. The 225-page tome pays tribute to and documents this exemplar of DIY media that shaped the face of American punk. Know your role models.

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When Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli first stepped into their jobs as the creative directors of the house of Valentino, they found themselves at the top of a fashion empire, with what many would agree was a very daunting view. The good news is that since taking over in 2008, the duo has proved itself in the worlds of haute couture, womenswear, and women’s accessories. So it’s only the logical next step to reinvigorate its men’s department.

“We feel now is the right time to showcase our collection,” Piccioli explains.

It’s hard to believe that the Fall collection that was shown in Paris this season was their first public foray into the men’s market, but they were sure to pull out all the stops! “The collection melds the maison’s sartorial heritage while possessing a modern flair,” Chiuri says. According to Piccioli, that translated into “developing superstylish pieces using innovative fabrics, like waterproof cotton, drilled leathers, mixing cashmere with leather and fur with wool.”

By blending more serious pieces of a man’s wardrobe (like the double-breasted overcoat) with younger elements (like a striped turtleneck), the two hope to successfully bridge the gap between Valentino’s loyal clientele and the new generation of young people who are looking for something, as Piccioli puts it, “understated yet luxurious.” The menswear collection is the final thrust for the designers in a continual fashion movement. Says Chiuri: “We look forward to evolving season to season in a way that runs true to the heritage of the house.”

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super surf legacy Band of Outsiders has unveiled the latest in its THIS IS NOT A POLO SHIRT range, an edition of unlikely polos bearing the indelible photographs of LeRoy Grannis. A surfer since 1931, Grannis began to record the beach cul-

ture that thrived on Twenty-Second Street in Hermosa in 1960, and went on to become one of the most important documentarians of the era, earning monographs, accolades, and a spot in the International Surfing Hall of Fame.

“His images and his legacy are sort of ingrained in Los Angeles culture,” says designer Scott Sternberg of the late lensman, who passed away in February. “Looking at a Grannis image makes me wish that I were on that beach, watching those surfers, under that sun, in that decade. They capture a time and place that is just so desirable.” The shirts themselves wound up providing an ideal canvas for the saturated surfer scenes. “The piqué fabric creates a halftone effect,” Sternberg marvels. “It looks great and services the original image quite well. It would be awesome if these shirts exposed more people to LeRoy Grannis’s work.”

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To celebrate ten years of innovative design collaboration, Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas have teamed up to push the limits of sportswear even further with the Adidas for Yohji Yamamoto Fall/ Winter 2011/12 collection. “Ten years ago, together with Adidas, we created something that did not exist before and completely projected the future,” Yamamoto says of the Y-3 brand that emerged from the splicing. “My desire was and is to make sportswear elegant and chic.” Containing apparel and footwear for both men and women, the limited edition range will be available at Y-3 boutiques worldwide in July.

says of his debut menswear collection for the iconic italian fashion house. “There were things i couldn’t find that i wanted for myself, like the perfect tuxedo jacket, a hand-stitched leather trench coat, and silk pajamas and scarves in over-dyed prints.”

Expanding the Pucci empire to include these garments as well as bright knits and shirts in Pucci’s trademark prints, was of course the designer’s solution to this quandary.

Aside from himself, Dundas’s inspirations include serge gainsbourg, Keith Richards, and various other icons of rock and roll. “And Emilio Pucci himself,” Dundas adds. “he was the ultimate jet-setter.”

As part of the design process, Dundas personally tried on every garment then asked himself if he would wear it or not—a selfish litmus test, as he describes it, and something he obviously doesn’t get to do when designing for women. Asked if this project was for this season only, Dundas says he is putting together a “wish list” that he thinks would be an appropriate companion to his women’s shows— which means that for summer all he may offer male shoppers is swim trunks, shirts, and slippers. not that he doesn’t have big goals for the Pucci brand. First his women’s collection, then a buzz-worthy accessories business, now men’s... what’s next? “That’s simple,” Dundas smiles. “Planet Pucci!”

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SUPER SwEatER, SCotLaND-StYLE in the early 1900s, Pringle of scotland became one of the first brands ever to introduce knitwear as outerwear.

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stalwarts have paired their Fall/Winter 2011 menswear collection with the similarly pioneering lens of legend-

ary photographer Walter Pfeiffer. Disarmingly classic with a touch of raw, Pfeiffer’s lens casts the collection in a perfect light, yielding both a stunning campaign and an arresting film accompaniment, which debuted earlier this year on VMAn.com. Featuring a trio of young men skating and sledding in—then stripping out of— Pringle’s signature knitwear, the video proves that a seasonal sweater can be sporty, sensible, and a tool for seduction.

Any man who’s searched for one will know that nothing is harder to find than the perfect rucksack. Convenience is often sacrificed for sleek design, leaving you either looking sharp with a stuck zipper or taking it easy but looking too teched out. For his thirteenth collection, Kris Van Assche circumvents this conundrum by merging his signature sober aesthetic with the ease and efficiency of Eastpak. Made of parachute cloth and leather, and equipped with two interlocking metal rings, these sophisticated hybrids are part sportsack, part military, and totally up for grabs in June, at Kris Van Assche and Eastpak retailers.

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SUPER STORAGE SOLUTION Beginning in April, Brussels art and architecture collective Rotor presents a project at the Fondazione Prada, where the Prada Collection is shown each season. Using their “nonproductive” construction materials, which sit in storage after initial use, Rotor reconstructs physical environments that have briefly but meaningfully housed fashion shows of seasons past, lending them both longevity and gravity while turning a critical lens on usages of material resources in fashion. “From an idea turned into a form,” the artists say, “what is left is just a physical presence.” Rotor runs April 13 to June 5, 2011.

SUPER SURF TEES Surfer turned designer Tin ojeda unwittingly started his design career by customizing a surfboard.

“I painted the words ‘Drug Money,’ and people in Montauk were tripping on it,” he says. Today he sells hand-painted, hand-dyed shirts at Barneys. “It has nothing to do with drugs or money,” he laughs. “I do it for the love of art.”

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SUPER LUMINESCENT Fashion in Brazil has become practically synonymous with Luminosidade. The Brazilian platform is celebrating fifteen years of São Paulo Fashion Week this summer, showing more than thirty-five brands. “We believe fashion is inspired by a plural vision and constant dialogue with other creative networks,” say co-founders Paulo Borges and Graça Cabral. This year, the duo extends that dialogue to include Design São Paulo, an event taking place in conjunction with fashion week at Ibirapuera Park. If it sounds mercurial, it’s meant to. “Companies that work with intangible items will always defy categorization,” Borges and Cabral explain. “We work with dreams, desire, and services.”

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Not everyone conceptualizes a self-portrait as a severed head bound in sensory-depriving leather. But Nancy Grossman isn’t everyone. In May, director of MoMA PS1 Klaus Biesenbach brings the inimitable artist’s infamous sculpture series “Heads” to New York’s Long Island City. Comprising fourteen noggins carved from wooden blocks and overlaid with strips of everything from bomber jackets to boxing gloves all held together with zippers and nails, the works were first constructed in the late ’60s through the ’80s, and were inspired by the liberation movements of the period, as well as the Vietnam War. Unsettling as much as they are inspiring, they aim not to resemble the artist so much as her psychology and societal role, creating a self-portrait of silent witness to the cruelty existent in the surrounding world. “Nancy Grossman: Heads” runs through August 15, 2011.

“I feel that we are on the verge of a seismic shift in menswear,” says Alexandre Plokhov upon debuting the menswear collection that bears his name. “I hope that after countless seasons of being force-fed the regurgitated diet of yet another version of preppyism, the buying public is finally ready to consider design-driven clothes.” If this is the case, who better to turn to provide such design than the innovative mind behind the now defunct men’s label Cloak, which shuttered in 2007 (whereupon Plokhov took the men’s helm at Versace for the next three years). “It took some time to find the right co-conspirators,” Plokhov says of his year after Versace, spent developing the line. Conspiracy does appear to be afoot: smart and cerebral without feeling insular, the layers and pleats are perfectly Plokhovian. But “whether these things are intriguing to other people,” he abjures, “time will tell.”

VMANDATES SoUNDS oF ThE SUMMER SUEDE Suede (Reissue) Cool Britannia’s sovereign rulers are resurrected this summer in the form of expanded editions of their five studio albums via Demon Records. The remastered ’90s staples come embellished with B-sides, unreleased songs, demos, and DVD extras, including recent interviews with the revived Britpop bon vivants. Featuring vital glam cuts “The Drowners,” “Animal Nitrate,” and “Metal Mickey,” the debut album from the band—who brought in estranged guitarist Bernard Butler for the project—hits shelves with reinforced impact on March 30 th.

FoRD & LoPATIN Channel Pressure (Software/Mexican Summer) Last fall, switchboard midifunk duo Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin released a debut EP so intoxicating (under their previous moniker, Games) that New York label Mexican Summer gave the boys their own imprint, suitably titled Software, to release their full-length. The band, revamped as Ford & Lopatin, have created an LP that is as much a game change as a name change. At times robotic, at others breathlessly real, Channel Pressure, out on June 7th, takes listeners on a bizarro ’80s joyride, weaving a narrative of lonely boredom and feverish technolust that could make a grown hacker cry.

GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact (4AD) With Eye Contact, New York’s art world audio auteurs make their return with a sonic thrust into the sublime. Hitting the web with no less than an eleven-minute leadin track, “Glass Jar,” vocalist Lizzi Bougatsos and the boys boldly establish themselves as masters of their soundscape, leading listeners through a woozy and wondrous window to euphoria. The following nine tracks (three of which have “∞” in the title) offer a shimmering, psychoactive feast, including heavy synth ambience, intuitive tribal drum flourishes, and melodic multi-instrumental techno crescendo. Ascendant and transcendent, Eye Contact, out on May 10 th, concludes with a hoarse digitized decree that reinforces the motif of infinity: “LIVE FOREVER.”

SSIoN Bent (self-released) Kansas City’s infamous Technicolor troublemaker is back, and by the sound of his new LP, Bent, he’s ready to dance. Trading in Courtney Love for Culture Club, artist/musician Cody Critcheloe draws himself into a dark, downtempo, and utterly desperate dance record, without losing his glaring fixation on pop. References range from Marianne Faithful to Stevie Nicks, with Critcheloe’s punk (wo)manifesto planting its flag on the intro track, as he sings, ad infinitum, “Listen to the girls, listen to the girls.” In signature metapunk spirit, SSION’s record is free for the whole month of June on SSION.com.

LITURGY Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey) These Brooklyn post-black

metal experimentalists return with Aesthethica, the follow-up to their 2009 debut. This is the future of screaming. A deeper level in the geology of good hurt.

Controlled guitar noise explosions with heart-and-windowshattering tornado melodies, Aesthethica makes you want to thrash around while wearing a gas mask. But a superchic one. It’s the music you would listen to if the earth was cracking open, if entire nations were spilling into the streets demanding the blood of their leaders, if flocks of birds were falling dead from the sky. So, you know, now.

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13 & GoD Own Your Ghost (Anticon) Masters of nostalgia-core, this perfect union of Germany’s the Notwist and Berkeley’s cerebralrap outfit Themselves are back (after a six-year hiatus) with a second album of beyond beautiful avant-pop that epitomizes longing. And what’s summer for if not future looking back, the anticipation of missing memories you haven’t even made yet? If you plan on falling in and/or out of love with some brand of hipster or scientist, you’ll find your first/last fuck song here; might we suggest “Armored Scarves.” The joyous or the depressed, the saved or the devastated, this music is perfect for any emotional extremist. Just make sure whatever you’re doing is done in slow motion.

SUPER SECRET “I don’t like sewing for less than ten hours straight,” says designer Haans Nicholas Mott, who this season launches his private label of unisex couture, all of which is entirely handmade by Mott himself. “It takes a couple of hours to work into my rhythm and a couple of hours to work back out,” he continues. “I’m interested in the long repetitive processes, the hand painting of fabric that takes 150 hours, the long seam that takes six hours to sew by hand, each way, and the destruction of meaning through repetition.” Mott, whose background is in architecture, has worked in the past with designer Thom Browne and artist Slater Bradley, so it makes sense that his current line, Shroud, which serves as an aesthetic home base for the private label, is a true union of fashion and art. The garments are the beautiful outcomes of a solitary performance art, and will be adored by fans of Paul Harnden and Rick Owens alike. His exquisite pieces come in severely limited editions, with Mott holding invitation-only trunk shows in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. For more information, e-mail info@point14.org

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May 25–29 San Miguel Primavera Sound 2011, Barcelona, Spain Presenting perhaps the coolest lineup

at any of the summer music festivals, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound offers to audiophiles an epic assemblage of Echo and the Bunnymen, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Odd Future, Kurt Vile, SALEM, Pulp, Suicide, Animal Collective, and Swans, all in one town on the same long weekend.

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June 1–3 Venice Biennale Preview, Venice, Italy Another in the series of what may be contemporary art’s biggest and most important ritual event, the Biennale’s 54th incarnation takes place this year. Directed

by Bice Curiger, the show is entitled ILLUMInazioni (ILLUMInations) and features eighty-two artists from across the world, including thirty-two born after 1975.

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June 19 Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever, Long Island City, NY Millennial media maestro Ryan Trecartin takes his nonsequential non sequitur to MoMA PS1 in the form of Any Ever, a largescale video work containing seven cybernetic, stylized installments. Produced in Miami and starring intergenerational actors and artists (including out-of-work tween stars from Orlando), the piece invites viewers to surf through their audiovisual language in sets from the films, IRL. If you don’t know what that means, you probably aren’t ready.

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July 1–17 Manchester International Festival, Manchester, U.K. The thinking man’s summer music experience is definitely the Manchester International Festival. The event combines conceptual performance with the sounds of Snoop Dogg, Sinéad O’Connor, Damon Albarn, and Björk—who debuts her Biophilia live show, composed of music, apps, the Internet, and installations.

Perhaps the most high-concept headliner, however, is Marina Abramovic. The artist pairs up with actor Willem Dafoe to perform a play, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, accompanied by the music of Antony of Antony and the Johnsons.

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Alex Pettyfer is still posing in front of Mario Testino’s camera at a studio on the outskirts of Paris when his publicist pulls me outside for a quick chat. She wants to know if I have read Pettyfer’s Wikipedia page, which I have not, but of course I tell her that I have. It’s all wrong, she tells me, and I shouldn’t even bother. So, as soon as she walks away, I pull it up on my Blackberry.

What I find there turns out to be inaccurate but harmless: Pettyfer was not approached by Ralph Lauren at a toy store when he was a little boy and made into a baby supermodel; while he did appear in two Burberry campaigns, he was never a model aspirant; and—my personal favorite, because it’s so ridiculously random— his family is not best friends with Channing Tatum’s. Beyond the Wikipedia entries, however, I see that in the weeks leading up to our photo shoot quite a few less-thanflattering posts about Pettyfer have shown up on the gossip blogs. That’s why, when our shoot wraps and we grab a couple of cheeseburgers at a hotel near the Place Vendôme, the first thing we talk about is his online reputation.

“I think my Wikipedia is full of bullshit because I actually don’t have anything cool or interesting to be said about me,” the 21-year-old Pettyfer explains. I ask if he wants to add the word “yet” to the end of that statement, but he declines. “I’ve heard I’m called a bad boy, or difficult—maybe that’s because I don’t take any bullshit.”

Here’s the thing about Alex Pettyfer: apart from some films he made before he was old enough to drive, and unlike other child actors, there isn’t a preexisting narrative on the future Hollywood heartthrob. Today, Pettyfer finds himself a relative unknown on the brink of stardom, a blank canvas on which anyone can project a scandalous backstory.

A magazine or a Web site can say whatever it likes about Pettyfer right now, because there isn’t an online search to say otherwise. He’s amused by the gossip machines that fuel L.A. (a city he has a few strong opinions about, but we’ll get to that later), particularly since he lives soberly and sedately in Tinseltown, where TV stars on drug and prostitute benders only get more famous with every arrest. For the record, he tells me, “I don’t go out, I don’t drink, and I don’t do drugs.” I think he’s being honest: here in Paris, when I drag Pettyfer from Katy Perry’s backstage dressing room to the vodka- and champagne-soaked VIP section of Louis Vuitton’s Fall show, he politely declines to imbibe any spirits. He’s a bad boy with good manners, a rare species in the film industry.

Let’s go back to the beginning: Alexander Richard Pettyfer, the son of an actor father and an interior decorator mother, was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, a quaint town in the English countryside. (Apart from Pettyfer, the other big name to come out of Stevenage is that of Formula One racing champion Lewis Hamilton.)

When he was 11, he moved to a place called Isher, and then a few years later, the family relocated to Windsor, where the Pettyfers still reside.

When he was 13 years old, Pettyfer’s school took a field trip to the I-TV television studios in London, where they happened to be holding auditions for Tom Brown’s School Days, a made-for-TV movie starring Stephen Frye. The casting director spotted Pettyfer, asked if he’d audition, and eventually gave him the title role. In the wake of that film, Pettyfer found himself moving to L.A., getting an American agent, and spending five months securing the lead role in the film Alex Rider: Storm Rider, released by Weinstein Productions in 2006.

After that film, Pettyfer admits, he became a little disillusioned with the acting game. “I don’t think it was for me at that age,” he explains. “I felt like the industry was just a factory. You hear a lot of people say they want to make art in this industry, but so few people actually fucking do it. I was disillusioned by [Hollywood] at the time, but now I’ve come to accept that’s just the way things are: it’s called show business, not show art.”

On his break from acting, he took a few lengthy sojourns through Europe, and to help finance them, booked two modeling gigs with Burberry. In 2009, he returned to L.A., quickly landed the title role of Kyle in Beastly, the remake of the fairy tale classic “Beauty and the Beast.” Next up was the lead role as a superpowered alien in I Am Number Four, opposite Glee actress (and then-girlfriend) Dianna Agron. How does he explain pocketing two leads in feature films so quickly? “I’m a very lucky boy to be at the right place at the right timel,” he says, his handsome, chiseled face opening into a smile.

An alien with a heart of gold and a good-natured beast who finds love—easy fare for a handsome up-and-comer. But Pettyfer wanted to try something different for his next role, so in this fall’s Now—a drama based on a future world in which humans stop aging at 25, then use time as a currency to extend their lives—he plays a villain. “This bad guy is an insane nutcase, but so intriguing and charismatic. A crazy motherfucker who can literally turn on someone on a dime. He doesn’t give a fuck, and he has all these twitches.” It’s rougher stuff than Disney redux, and there’s even a rape scene with Justin Timberlake.

Pettyfer based the madness of his character on Charles Manson, but made him clean-cut. “I like classically twisted, so he’s in a Tom Ford suit, his hair is slicked back, and he’s supremely intelligent.” He already had some requisite bad-guy tattoos: among them a cross on his chest, a black ring on his finger, Arabic writing on his arm, the phrase “What Goes Around Comes Around” on his shoulder, and, as you can partly see in these pictures, the phrase “Thank you” on his lower abdomen—“In case I forget to say it,” he winks, by way of explanation.

Pettyfer is happy his career is taking off, but on the downside, he says, living in Los Angeles sucks: “I’m going to slag off L.A. so badly, and you’re going to write every word, and it’s going to be so fucking funny.” Well, he’s right about that!

“L.A. is growing on me a little bit, but it’s still a shit-hole. I think it’s this insidious pool where nearly everyone lives in fear.” Is there any saving grace to living in Southern California? “Geographically it’s fantastic: in a half hour, you can be on the beach in one direction, go snowboarding in another, or go out into the desert. But socially it’s disgusting. I wish they’d just run all the cunts out.” He doesn’t even like those A-list red-carpet events. “I really don’t give a shit about any of that. I wish I had some interesting stories [about living in L.A.], but to be honest I mostly just do my work and then go home.”

Newfound fame isn’t Pettyfer’s favorite thing. He grimaces with disgust when he recalls being chased into an In-N-Out Burger by paparazzi. He says he now prefers to stay at home with his two dogs, a pit bull and a French bulldog. But he does have an exit strategy: “Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp’s career—and then you move to Paris.”

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It’s hard to say what qualifies someone as virtuosic, an elite accolade of antiquity and class that shouldn’t be haphazardly thrown around. Is precocity a prerequisite, early hints at some universalistic schema? Is it technical genius or a more soulful brilliance? Or is it, beyond all else, someone whose performances make you feel as if you’re watching the impossible made possible? A story: at the age of 3, a young British boy hears a Beethoven violin concerto on the radio and feels an immediate communion with the sound. Two years later and he’s performing violin recitals for his prestigious music school. At the age of 11, he’s traveling to Zurich for concerts. By the age of 15, he’s in Brazil, performing his first concerto with full orchestra accompaniment. And by 17, he’s playing with the Royal Philharmonic. Today, at 25, Charlie Siem seems already to have been canonized as a contemporary virtuoso, packing concert halls around the world, bringing a global appreciation back to classical music.

We tend to agree, as does luxury menswear brand Dunhill, who features Siem in their Voices campaign, which is a celebration of achievement; Siem is featured alongside venerable journalist Sir David Frost and artist/writer Harland Miller. Not his first foray into fashion, Siem can count among his admirers fashion icons like photographer Mario Testino and designer Vivienne Westwood, who had Siem perform live for her charity ballet Alchemy. His musical collaborators nowadays tend to also stay in the iconic range: his recent show at London’s Royal Albert Hall was a performance alongside the Who’s Roger Daltrey. We spoke with the Cambridge graduate, who had just finished his newest, self-titled album, which he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, about the contemporary role of classical music, rock and roll, and what it means to be a virtuoso.

ELLIOTT DAVID You were 3 years old when you first

heard the violin. When someone feels a communion with something—a violin, a tennis racket, whatever—at

such a young age, of course an early passion is ignited,

but when they go on to become among our greatest talents, one could argue they were born for it. Do you believe in some sort of romantic fatalism, a deeper connection between you and the violin? Or do you feel like it really is training, practice, dedication?

CHARLIE SIEM I think it’s a combination of both to be honest. There has to be a natural predisposition to do something that just comes. I always felt that the violin was something very natural physically for me to play. I

think maybe a lot of people have some kind of genetic makeup to do something that they never end up doing just because they never find it. I think I was really lucky to have heard the violin and to have had the opportunity to play it. And it just so happens I’ve taken to it naturally and I still had to work at it. It’s no good if you’ve just got the genes to do it. You need to have the will as well.

ED It’s interesting how in classical music, these pieces endure for centuries, the same music played over and over in entirely different countries, cultures, and societies. But in pop music, the idea of other bands playing cover songs doesn’t really translate beyond kitsch or momentarily fun pastiche, with some rare exceptions.

CS I think the difference is that a lot of pop songs are written by people who are obviously very talented, but they’re not necessarily trained musicians. So the complexity of the music is not really there on the same level as you get with, say, a Brahms violin sonata, which is written by a genius who didn’t write it for himself to play, but rather put it together in such a scientific way that if you analyze it, you’re like “this guy was out of this world in terms of what was going on in his head.” With a song, let’s say, written by Bruce Springsteen, it’s great because Springsteen’s singing it as an expression of himself; it’s not necessarily profound enough to last forever and be covered by loads of other people because it doesn’t make as much sense without him in the equation. I guess because it’s fairly simple music in comparison.

ED Do you feel that the contemporary audience appreciates it on that level of scientific composition?

CS No, I don’t think they do at all, not specifically all the little details, but I think they appreciate it on a different level. You can’t avoid being moved by it in some way.

ED Do you think that people now, what with everything digitalized and fragile, our micro-attention spans and rabid multitasking, have a patience for a single instrument narrative?

CS I think so, definitely. The rise of this digital age and so much stuff being available, in a way makes it easier for people who are always looking for different things to listen to, for new inspiration, because music is so readily available. They get bored of all the pop songs they would’ve listened to so easily—you put your iPod on and you can constantly have a sound track in your head as you walk around. It’s a ritual. So, if you listen to David Bowie, it’s going to be great because you don’t listen to it that many times. But if you’re listening to it again and again and again, as you can in the world today, it gets

boring very quickly. So people are looking for sounds, I reckon, and it gives, perhaps, instrumental music and all different sorts of music more of a chance.

ED I feel that people get so saturated by the digital world that they long for handmade things, and they want to see a performance, they want to see a human create something.

CS I think the element of live performance and relating to the performer, doing something that’s kind of unreal on the stage, that’s never going to go away. And beyond whether it’s classical music or otherwise, I think that people respond to something being done well and presented in a quality way—that will always be the case.

ED Do you get the songs looped in your mind after rehearsal?

CS It gets intense. It definitely creeps into your subconscious. You dream about scenarios when you’re on the stage and you’re kind of combining different pieces together, and it becomes some crazy trip, and you wake up with your heart pounding. You can’t avoid the music: you’re playing a lot, it’s at the forefront of your mind, but it’s also at the back of your mind; you hammer it in there for years and years and years. So, yeah, once you’re under the spell of the violin, you can’t really escape.

ED What does “virtuoso” mean to you? How do you define it? How do you relate to it when it’s applied to you?

CS In the context of the violin, there are two sides: on the one hand, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, the great composers used the violin just like they used the oboe and everything else: to write. And the principal theme is the music as opposed to the instrument. What makes the violin and the piano unique is that they also have this other culture to it, which is the cult of the virtuoso, where the instrument itself is at the center of the meaning and the performance, because you’ve got these guys who were basically exploiting all of the possibilities of the instrument, and had to create something almost out of this world. It’s like the circus of the violin, all these different effects and techniques to literally blow the audience away so it becomes a show of bravura and flamboyance, and that’s what virtuosity is all about with the violin: bringing that to life. A virtuoso is somebody who tackles this music in the most flamboyant way. They would play it at high speed, capturing the essence of what virtuosity is, which is out of this world, extraordinary.

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what’s something new Yorkers can learn from Brazilians?

I try to be calm and collected yet still full of life, even

in the midst of the madness of NYC. Brazilians could

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izaBel I was born and raised in São Carlos, a small town about 143 miles from São Paulo. I am a smalltown girl at heart. how did you get into modeling? and when was it clear this would be your calling?

I was discovered in a grocery store with my mother. Soon after I went for a meeting, and they mentioned I could travel the world. At that point, I was on board. how old were you when you first traveled?

I was 17. I lived in Paris for about a year, then I came to New York when I was 18. how often are you back in Brazil?

I am based in Brazil, so I spend a lot of time there. Being close to my roots keeps me grounded. how did it feel to shoot on your home turf?

Very authentic and natural. how do you bring your Brazilian mentality to new York?

convenience is really special. what does fashion mean to Brazilians as compared with people in other parts of the world?

Fashion means a lot to the Brazilians. They take it rather seriously, and how could they not? Brazil has produced so many international top models: Gisele, Adriana, Alessandra, Raquel, Isabeli—the list is endless. Brazil also has its own fashion industry. Aside from maybe Russia, there is no other country that I know of that has produced so many international top models. what’s your ideal summer day?

One spent with my dog and loved ones, surrounded by great food, smothered in sunlight, with no phones—just food, sun, love, and the sea!

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Hair Cim maHony (THe Wall Group) GroominG asami TaGuCHi (l’aTelier nyC) models Jules HamilTon (adam nyC), aiden andreWs (Ford ny), rJ KinG (requesT), CHarlie WesTerberG (dna), CHrisTian plauCHe, pHillip KHarabarin (Vny), Jana KnaueroVa (neW yorK models), ben blaCK (apm), laWrenCe sTiers (maJor) pHoTo assisTanT KaiTa TaKemura dp ula ponTiKos (CasaroTTo marsH) sTylisT assisTanT oliVia KozloWsKi Hair assisTanT GreGory allen exeCuTiVe produCer asHley Herson on-seT produCTion asHley sCoTT on-seT produCTion assisTanT FauVe iannizzi CasTinG daniel peddle CasTinG seT desiGners lou asaro and anTHony asaro(11TH sTreeT WorKsHop) CaTerinG beTTer beinG speCial THanKs brenT lanGTon aT b2pro

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models Yev spiridonov (Cesd), Jonathan mClane (Q6), erik soderbergh (next), lasse hansen, matt lombardo, luCas goosen, niCk bellenbaum (wilhelmina), Jesse tarr photo assistants miChael murphY, Joe digiovanna, Jeff tautrim produCtion dawn boller (tandem produCtions for little bear)

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AdriAnA

LimA And the boys from brAziL Brazil isn’t some stereotype of Beach Beauties and hard Body guys with genetic, year-long tans. it’s a culture that invites chic design and experimental aesthetics. here is supermodel adriana lima, along with two of Brazil’s top male models, in some of summer’s most graphic and aggressive looks photography pierre deBusschere styling tom van dorpe

Adriana Lima needs no introduction. Hers is one of the most recognizable faces in modeling, and she very well might be Brazil’s most cherished export. We sat this global ambassador of beauty down for a chat about her heritage and her superpowers of love. vman tell us a bit about your Brazilian background, where are you from and

when/how did you leave? adriana lima I was born in the capital of Bahia, Salvador, and I left my home

fifteen years ago. what is the Brazilian perspective on art and fashion, and how do you see it as different from the american or new york perspective?

I think Brazilian art is very futuristic. One example is Oscar Niemeyer, the biggest Brazilian architect who built the most important monuments, museums, and parts of the city of Brasilia. He is over 100 years old and he’s still alive and creating. Brazilian 114 VmAn

fashion is getting big around the world. Carlos Miele is my favorite designer—he

knows how to create clothes for women in an elegant and sexy way. how often do you return to Brazil?

I return to Brazil at least three times a year. if you had a superpower, what would it be?

I consider myself a hero. Why? Because of the love my husband and I created together: our daughter, Valentina. There is nothing more powerful than the ability to create life through love. how do you feel the Brazilian spirit in your everyday life?

I am very blessed and proud to be a Brazilian. I believe we are more connected with nature, and we smile a lot.

LOg ON TO VMAN.COM TO See AdrIANA IN AN exCLuSIVe VIdeO Of THIS SHOOT

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ROMULO WEARS JACKET RAF SIMONS PANTS MARC JACOBS SHORTS THE BARONESS LATEx BAND TABLEAUX VIVANTS HAiR ROLANDO BEAUCHAMP fOR BUMBLE AND BUMBLE MAKEUP KAORU OKUBO fOR NARS COSMETiCS (MANAgEMENT ARTiSTS) MODELS ADRiANA LiMA (MARiLyN), JEAN CARLOS SANTOS (fORD Ny), ROMULO PiRES (WiLHELMiNA) MANiCURE CHRiSTiNA ZULETA USiNg OPi (WALTER SCHUPfER) PHOTO ASSiSTANT RyAN ZiMMERMAN STyLiST ASSiSTANTS KAREN WiSDOM AND ERiN SULLivAN LOCATiON ROOT [BK]

BeSt of BrAzil WE ASkED RIO DE JANEIRO’S gRAND DAME ANDREA DELLAL TO PICk hER hOMELAND’S hOT SPOTS

“Everyone must go to Ipanema beach! Posto 9 and Arpoador provide a fabulous mix of people, and when it’s sunny and the sea is nice—there is nothing else like it!”

Dellal, as a young model, dressed as Carmen Miranda in the Brazilian countryside, photographed by Johnny Rozsa

“Fernando de Noronha is an ecological reserve. It’s very beautiful and perfect for scuba diving. Stay at Pousada Maravilha or Pousada Zé Maria, which are my favorites because they’re so charming and rustic.”

“The Museum of Contemporary Art In Niterói is an amazing building by Brazil’s most famous architect, Oscar Niemeyer.

And it has the most amazing view of Rio”

“Rent a house in Angra, which is a couple of hours from Rio and is made up of 365 islands: perfect, one for every day of the year! “

Dellal, relaxing in a rooftop pool in Rio de Janeiro, photographed by David Prichard

“Brasilia is Brazil’s capital city, with so many different kinds of architecture. It’s a trip!”

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