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The Rise and Fall of the Harpsichord in the 1960s
Between 1965 and 1969 the harpsichord lit up recordings by everyone from Miles Davis to Brigitte Bardot, the Beatles to the Four Tops, Elton John to Waylon Jennings. But what was it about this boxy, donkeyish uncle of a piano that could transcend such disparate contexts? And what made it such a ubiquitous presence internationally in the music of the 1960s? By Tom Greenwood
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Jared Leto. Interview and Cover Story
“I wanted to be a painter but felt constrained by the two-dimensionality and by the process at the time. I explored everything from sculpting to pottery to photography and then focused on filmmaking, all the while making music in my own time. It was there and with music I connected in a deep way.” Interview and cover story with Jared Leto by Yu Tsai. Fashion by Martina Nilsson
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As beautiful as the chance meeting. Interview with a Jewelry Artist
One of the reasons why award-winning jewelry artist Märta Mattsson started working with dead organic material was because insects scared her. By confronting the uncon- scious, her creative process works as a kind of cognitive behavioral therapy that allows her to explore the polarity between the ugly and the beautiful, the repulsive and the appealing, […]
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BEAUTY STORY: DESIRE, DESPAIR
From our Head Piece Issue. Photography by Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, hair by beauty editor Ali Pirzadeh and fashion by Anna Trevelyan. Click for details.
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FASHION STORY: CABARET VOLTAIRE
Photography by Nikos Papadopoulos and fashion by Nicholas Georgiou. Click for details.
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Out Now! The Headpiece Issue is Available Online
The new issue is themed “head piece” and is centered around what goes on inside and outside the head. For the cover story, Yu Tsai shot and interviewed Jared Leto in L.A. Sophie Caby met up with director Gaspar Noe in Paris, Maria Ben Saad talked to Caroline Evans about her new book on the first fashion shows, Ann-Sofie Back headed out to the shooting range with a couple of female cops from the Stockholm police force and Tom Greenwood tracked down whatever happened to the harpsichord. The rest of the issue is filled with fiction, neuro science, fetishism, food, quantum mechanics, art and pictures from close to seventy contributors.
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Exquisite corpse. Interview with Artist Asger Carlsen
Nothing disturbs us more than our own bodies. Their tendency to break down, their weird smells and shapes, the inevitability that they will decline and eventually decompose and disappear. Nietzsche described it as the root of ugliness. “What does man hate?” he asked, ready with a catalog of the body’s potential failures: heaviness, exhaustion, convulsions, paralysis – the smell, color and form of decomposition. “There is no doubt about this: man hates the twilight of his own type.” By Julie Cirelli
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Out Now! The Head Piece Issue from Contributor is here
Our new issue is themed “head piece” and is centered around what goes on inside and outside the head. For the cover story, Yu Tsai shot and interviewed Jared Leto in L.A., Sophie Caby met up with director Gaspar Noé in Paris, Maria Ben Saad talked to Caroline Evans about her new book on the first fashion shows, Ann-Sofie Back headed out to the shooting range with a couple of female cops from the Stockholm police force and Tom Greenwood tracked down whatever happened to the harpsichord. The rest of the issue is filled with fiction, neuro science, fetishism, food, quantum mechanics, art and pictures from close to seventy contributors.
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Interview with Humberto Leon and Carol Lim at Kenzo
Contagious energy is what Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are all about. Since their arrival at Kenzo in July 2011, they have turned the somewhat dormant brand into an achingly cool line, delivering great clothes and accessories for boys and girls. When the two California natives chose downtown New York to launch Opening Ceremony in 2002, they managed to capture the essence of fashion within a retail environment, mixing street style cred with fresh proposals. By Philippe Pourhashemi
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FASHION STORY: AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL
Photography by Igor Termenon and fashion by Katherine Whyte. Click for details.
