BIG HELLO TO THE ALL NEW SYSTEM BEAUTY. MICHÈLE LAMY – LARGER THAN LIFE / BIGGER THAN DEATH – ON THE COVER. SHOT BY JUERGEN TELLER
– IN THE BATH, CHEZ KIM KARDASHIAN. ALL OF IT AWESOME. WAITING TO BE READ IN A PERMANENT STATE OF READINESS.
Most iconic of icons. Michèle Lamy on the cover. Inside, in conversation with the artists Anselm Kiefer, Fecal Matter and....
Kim Kardashian! Michèle helped design Kim's office – we think – we don't actually keep completely up to date with these things. The world needed to see the two of them together again though, that's for sure.
Spend as much time around old books as we do and... this is an actual nightmare scenario.
Elsewhere in the issue. "It was this extreme version of perfection." Thomas de Kluyver talks Gucci and Alessandro Michele in a now timely retrospective interview.
More made-believe make-up visuals by way of Sam Visser. Highly skilled super-styled shoot by Ethan James Green and Katie Burnett with hair by Sonny Molina.
You can't expect too much fashion in a beauty magazine but... the zipper thong! From the Thomas de Kluyver shoot. Photographed by Carlijn Jacobs, styled by Katie Burnett with hair by Olivier Schawalder.
System Beauty launches today. First copies at IDEA at Dover Street Market London, Los Angeles and New York. Very equally priced at £34 / $34 / €34.
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THE IDEA SIGNED STORE. VERY HANDSOMELY SIGNED BRYAN FERRY LYRICS BOOK. MADONNA ON THE COVER OF AMY ARBUS ON THE STREET. PATTI SMITH WITT SIGNED ACROSS THE COVER. ALL WONDERS.
Yes. All signed.
THIRTY times WOW and that is not even a third of it!
FORTY-FIVE times WOW and that is not even a quarter of it!
ARE WE ON AIR? WE ARE ON OUR OWN FAVOURITE PODCAST IS WHAT WE ARE.
Say hi to Arman Naféei (in barefoot Basquiat pose - not Keanu) the host of the fabulous Are We On Air? podcast. This week, we, or at least David the D of IDEA chats with Arman for his weekly voice notes series. Arman is such a welcoming, gentle interviewer that David now has no idea what he actually said on the tape. Which may well make it worth listening on this link...
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