SMOKE BREAK
“It’s Like, Baby Doll”: Backstage With the Performance Artist Narcissister
September 20, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we caught up with the enigmatic artist following her first performance commission in 12 years at Pioneer Works.
NYFW
“It’s About the Ease of Dressing”: Meet NYC’s Three Hottest Young Designers
September 14, 2024
This NYFW was all about the indie designers, and there are some newcomers on the scene. We stopped by three of the most-hyped sophomore shows of the season—Shame, Skip Fame, and Ben Doctor—to see what has the underground excited.
fashion
Designer Lucila Safdie Makes Clothes for the Tumblr Girls
September 13, 2024
“I actually think a lot of my fashion sense comes from Gossip Girl,” says the London-based designer. “When I was in high school, I used to wear headbands because of Blair.”
NYFW
“Spanishly Elegant”: A Front Row Report From Luar SS25
September 11, 2024
“It was iconic. I sat behind Madonna and Ice Spice.”
nyfw
“She Has Some Sass to Her”: Inside the Grown-Up Glamour of Iseder SS25
September 10, 2024
“I wanted to be very bitchy and clean,” said Taylor-Paige Garvin and Sharon Mishiev of Iseder’s SS25 collection, presented Sunday in deep FiDi. “She has some sass to her.”
NYFW
At Women’s History Museum SS25, the Dolls Can’t Be Broken
September 6, 2024
“Cunty, showstopping, and inspirational,” were just some of the ways attendees described the label’s SS25 show, where medieval references met recession vibes.
SOUND ADVICE
New York Indie Duo Patch + Have Money on Their Mind
August 26, 2024
“Imagine Patch + is a bar. We’re tending & You just got a free drink.”
SOUND ADVICE
Tinashe Made Us a Playlist for a Nasty Girl Summer
August 2, 2024
“Have fun with your friends, be hot, do whatever you want to do, go outside, and get some sun.”
SMOKE BREAK
“No Free Toes”: A Cigarette Break With Photographer Emilio Tamez
July 29, 2024
For this week’s Smoke Break, the photographer stepped outside with us at her downtown monograph launch to talk diamonds, couture, and chameleonic muses.
VOICE NOTES
“I’m Mental”: Live From Crackhead Barney’s Unhinged Presidential Debate
June 28, 2024
Downtown, the performance artist hosted an off-the-rails live version of the presidential debate, so we stopped by to hear from the candidates—or their alter egos.
SMOKE BREAK
We Chainsmoked With Fashion Icon Michèle Lamy at the Queendom Screening
June 27, 2024
In this edition of Smoke Break, we caught the fashion legend after a screening of “Queendom,” a new documentary by director Agniia Galdanova.
SMOKE BREAK
“I’m a Natural Exhibitionist”: A Quick Cig at Church With Writer Rayne Fisher-Quann
June 19, 2024
“We’re at church with our fans and we’re gossiping,” declared the literary it-girl at her sold-out Secrets reading last week. “It’s very Southern Baptist.”
RORSCHACH TEST
RXK Nephew on Whippets, WET Tanks, and the Trump Trial
June 3, 2024
To mark the release of his new album, “Till I’m Dead 2,” the rapper took the hot seat for this week’s Rorschach Test to sound off on terrorism, Telfar, and the Illuminati.
SOUND ADVICE
“Destiny, Blood, Ecstasy”: Meet Genesys, the Fashion Students Throwing Cyberpunk Raves
May 30, 2024
For this week’s Sound Advice, the London fashion students-turned-ravers made the euphoric cyberpunk trance playlist of our dreams.
SMOKE BREAK
“Twinks Are Persisting”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Club Rash Boss Jen Sillen
May 16, 2024
For this week’s edition of Smoke Break, we lit one up with the nightclub don diva who recently revived Bushwick hotspot Rash after an arson attack left the club in ruins.
SMOKE BREAK
“Explore Page Realness”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Artist Kiernan Francis
May 9, 2024
For our inaugural installation of Smoke Break, we caught up with artist and filmmaker Kiernan Francis at his raucous LES opening.
dirty
“It’s Really Fucking Turnt”: Five Minutes With Teyana Taylor at Her Secret Burlesque Show
May 8, 2024
“It’s actually really fucking turnt,” said the singer and actor, who kiki’d with Interview on the dance floor at her secret pre-Met Gala party.
fashun
Julia Fox on Dumpster Diving and Fashion Disasters
May 2, 2024
“Just, like, an erect penis on a hat.”
SOUND ADVICE
Shoegaze Princess Wisp Makes Us the Ultimate Grunge Playlist
April 19, 2024
In this week’s SOUND ADVICE, TikTok’s shoegaze princess opens up her Pandora’s box and tells us the songs that make her cry and what she’ll be wearing when the world ends.
tour diary
“Pray, Smoke, Take a Shot”: Anycia Takes Us Backstage at Her NYC Show
April 12, 2024
The Atlanta rapper called us from the hair-braiding salon to talk about falling in love with New York City on tour and tell us her backstage tequila of choice.