Five Minutes with the Coppola Siblings at Villa Zegna
All photographs by Dean Bradshaw. MONDAY 9:03 PM, SEPTEMBER 9 UPTOWN In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg broke bread with visitors of Villa Zegna, the Italian...
View Article“Ghost Got Horrible Reviews”: Demi Moore Remembers the ’90s
In 1996, Demi Moore made headlines when she became the highest-paid actress in history, for Striptease. Around that time, she appeared on the cover of this magazine, where the A-lister was met with a...
View Article“Diva With the Fake Tan”: New Yorkers Sound Off on the Presidential Debate
Since the last presidential debate, Joe Biden has exited stage left and Kamala Harris has stepped up to the podium to go head to head with Donald Trump. On Tuesday night, bars across New York decided...
View ArticleThis Election, Dr. Cornel West is Leading With Love
Dr. Cornel West at the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 2024. Photos courtesy of Dr. Annahita Mahdavi West. For decades, Dr. Cornel West has served as one the United States’ most visible and...
View ArticleBottega Veneta and Rahim Fortune Take Us Inside Area 51
Bottega Veneta, photographed by Alec Soth. When Bottega Veneta descended upon Area 51 to shoot their FW24 campaign video, a swarm of models landed like aliens from the planet of gorgeous faces and...
View ArticleBoiler Room’s Amar Ediriwira Made Us a Kind Of Fashion Week Playlist
Photo courtesy of Amar Ediriwira. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from...
View Article“Surveillance Is Not Intimacy”: Esther Perel on Cheating, Prenups, and Polyamory
Photo courtesy of Esther Perel. Esther Perel is a modern relationship expert. She is, perhaps, the modern relationship expert. On her podcast, Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel, the Belgian-born...
View Article“I Always Felt Like Tinkerbell”: Kara Young Takes Us Behind the Scenes of...
Kara Young, photographed by Dev Bowman. Of Kara Young, a swooning stan—me— once wrote that “to fall headfirst for one of her characters is to have seen Kara Young act at all.” That was about her...
View ArticleDesigner Lucila Safdie Makes Clothes for the Tumblr Girls
Photo courtesy of Lucila Safdie. For fashion designer Lucila Safdie, girlhood is insatiable. Safdie’s girl, like many, is a media vampire, latching on to an obsession and draining it before moving to...
View ArticleCreative Director Genesis Webb Takes Us Inside Chappell Roan’s VMA Takeover
All photos by Lucienne Nghiem. Few stylists today are doing it like Genesis Webb, the Oklahoma-born architect of Chappell Roan’s vibrant, campy and utterly original aesthetic. As expected, Interview‘s...
View ArticleRobin F. Williams and Jenna Gribbon on Cults, Motherhood, and Queer-Coded Horror
Robin F. Williams, photographed by Curtis Wallen. “We really went there,” Robin F. Williams proclaims about a wild vacation to Fire Island she took with friend and fellow painter Jenna Gribbon. The...
View ArticleLana Rhoades and Julia Fox Go Deep on Celibacy, Advocacy, and OnlyFans
Lana Rhoades wears Jacket McQueen by Seán McGirr. When Lana Rhoades shows up at Julia Fox’s apartment for an interview, nothing is off the table. Best known for her brief stint in the adult film...
View ArticleWake Up, Bitches. It’s JW Anderson SS25
SUNDAY 11:45 AM SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 LONDON Yesterday, our senior editor Taylore Scarabelli landed in London town and headed straight to a newly revived riverside market building to witness the JW...
View Article“I Want to Carve Out a Place in Culture”: Behind the Scenes of Olly Shinder SS25
Olly Shinder, photographed by Ben Freeman. When I met Olly Shinder, founder of his eponymous menswear brand, he seemed calm in the eye of the Fashion Week storm. Fashion East, the London-based...
View Article“Masturbatory Is a Compliment”: Tony Tulathimutte on Corniness and Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte, photographed by Clayton Cubitt. The first time I applied to Tony Tulathimutte’s CRIT, the workshop he teaches from his living room in Crown Heights, I was rejected. Though at that...
View Article“Are You Gay?”: John Early, in Conversation With Sky Ferreira
John Early, photographed by Max Lakner. As of last week, John Early, one of the funniest and most influential comedians of his generation, has an album of covers, originals, and stand-up called Now...
View Article“I Feel Like a Mother”: A Quick Cig With Mowalola After Her SS25 Spectacle
Mowalola Ogunlesi and Lyas. MONDAY 11:37 PM SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 NORTH GREENWICH The Nigerian-born, London-based designer Mowalola Ogunlesi doesn’t like to overcomplicate things. Her fashion shows, like...
View ArticleZane Phillips on Squats, Dick Pics, and Injectables
Photo courtesy of Zane Phillips. In late September, The Flea Theater was fitted out with a set that resembled something like an influencer’s Dreamhouse for the production of Pretty Perfect Lives. The...
View ArticleGarth Greenwell on Art, Sex, and the Human Urge For Self-Destruction
Garth Greenwell, photographed by Oriette D’Angelo. When Garth Greenwell told me that “actually writing embodied experience is basically impossible,” I nearly laughed in his face. There are few authors...
View Article“I’m Lactose Intolerant”: Richard Kind Goes to Zabar’s to Eat Cheese
Richard Kind wears Jacket and T-shirt Stylist’s Own. Everybodyʼs favorite character actor visits Zabarʼs to sample the best coagulated milk protein they have to offer, lactose intolerance be damned....
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