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The Next Issue, Summer 2008 | Issue 44
fronting
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- MANAGING MILLIONS: Yves Lion redesigna Mecca’s urban landscape
- TSE WHAT: Tank and TSE large it luxe for London Fashion Week
- CARRY ON CURATING: The new Folkstone Triennial promises ART where you least expect it
- NAT’S MAGIC: art loves Natalie Portman but Kristleifur Björnsson was there first
- EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES: Isabella Rossellini in animal porn shocker
- SKIN TRADE: architects and fashion designers come together to celebrate surfaces
- HOLLYWOOD SWINGIN’: Lother Hempel’s Freudian cinematic love triangle
- DEAD COOL: beauty turns morbid and gothic for autumn
- QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD: the modest, non-bombastic Fifth Berlin Biennale
- CALLING ALL CRETAIVES: Swarovski teams up with Tank to find the next Spike Jonze
- GREEN PARTY: Fritz Haeg’s buildings, birds’ nests and groovy get-togethers
- DISASTER OF PARIS: Hurricane Katrina looms over Palais de Tokyo’s new Superdome
- BLING BRING: the first look at Dior’s haute new handset
features
- POP POURRI: Yeasayer’s pick-and-mix music defies categorisation
- SCUM’S THE WORD: all men are bastards, but some bastards have their uses
- HIPSTER HOP: rapper Rollie and his Pitchfork posse: cold gettin’ cool
- BEYOND THE RAVE: why Metronomy’s indie-dance ethos is way beyond any bandwagon
- GAME BOY: Owen Pallett, AKA Final Fantasy, on pop without profiteering
- I AM LEGEND: Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer may be 100, but he still loves the buildings and the ladies
- RIOT GIRL: art collective Claire Fontaine on May ’68, radicalism and how not to be a “drivelling idiot”
- STRINGS ATTACHED: She’s India’s tennis superstar. So why has Sania Mirza decided never to play at home again
- “IF IT HAPPENED OFF CAMERA IT WAS OK”: the West’s politicians may still not have a clue how to deal with Iraq, but its filmmakers are starting to find their own angles on the war
- IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES: Serge Lutens on the mysteries of fragrance and the importance of saying “non”
- MODEL CITIZEN: Jérôme Puch on the changing and unchanging faces of fashion
- MALE ORDER: Lucas Ossendrijver and the unstoppable rise of Lanvin menswear
- BLUE MONDAY: photography by Pierre Bjork, styling by Richard Pierce
- MASCULIN FÉMININ: make make-up a boys’ own adventure
- THE RITE OF SPRING: photography by Sebastian Kim, styling by Akari Endo-Gaut
- SLOWDIVE: photography by Bruna Kazinoti, styling by Jo Barker
- THE ICE STORM: photography by Alex Prager, styling by Chloe Kerman
talk
- WILLIAM E JONES: “In American, a pervasive sense of puritanism has done violence to our visual culture”
- JIM GOLDSTEIN: “I spend a ridiculous amount of money on clothes”
- RICHARD ROGERS: “Rem Koolhaas once told me that he thought the life of an architect was a kind of a vacillation between impotence and omnipotence”
- JORGE PARDO: “Houses give a lot of license to go astray from the purely functional”
- ANN SOFIE BACK: “I actually used to get quite angry about things, but I’m not so much any more”
- CYPRIEN GAILLARD: “I’m just asking, how is all this new glass-based architecture going to age?”
