CONTENTS

THE COVER

IRIS APFEL wears dress by Comme Des Garcons; top, tights, glasses, jewellery and shoes Iris’s own; headpiece by Dufy photography JEFF BARK styling ROBBIE SPENCER

THE FRONT

18 first shot: LINDER STERLING

20 JAMES MURPHY selects LAWRENCE LEK

22 RYAN TRECARTIN selects LAUREN DEVINE

24 HOW TO DRESS WELL selects O F F LOVE

26 residency: JULIE VERHOEVEN

DAZED & APPROVED 30 FASHION 32 BOKS 33 ART 34MUSIC 35 FILM

36 new designer: LUKE BROKS

38NEIL HARBISSON

40 RUBBER SOUL

42 ARCTIC GHOSTS

44 JAPANESE WINTER

46 GENERATION CHANGE

48 fashion archive: MARILYN VANCE

50 your history: SOPHIE CALLE

52 ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE

54 PRINCE RAMA

56 head to head: PINAR&VIOLA

58 transformer: DANIEL PINCHBECK vs JOHN ALLEN

THE MAINS

60 HISTORY BITES celebrating the rise of the off-modernists with six specially commissioned artworks

72 SSIONIC BLOM in and around NYC with the new prince of pop, SSION linchpin Cody CritchEloe

78 cult vip: THE WIZARD OF OZ the unbelievable art of underground psychedelic illustrator JIM LEON

82 THE ALCHEMIST bloodshot glass eyes and slugs with skulls for heads: down in the lab with jewellery designer Delfina Deletrez

88 ART OF GLASS art/pop radicals BECK and PHILIP GLASS on why remixing is the modern way of engaging with composition

94 DESERT OF THE UNREAL let multimedia artists FATIMA AL QADIRI and SOPHIA ALMARIA expose you to the malls, shawls and inhospitable exteriors of their of Gulf-futurism manifesto

100 THE AGE OF IRIS it’s an Iris Apfel world, and we’re just making a magazine in it. The nonagenarian style-queen dispenses fashion wisdom while draping herself in Commes Des Garcons’ latest THE FASHION

110 REAPPEAR HERE photography ari marcopoulos styling karen langley

132 WHERE DO THE ROBOTS GO? photography CHARLES FREGER styling JULIA HETTA

THE BACK

146 q&a music: drill-wave rap sensation KATIE GOT BANDZ

148 q&a art: creative whirlwind JIM SHAW

C O N F U S E D

150 q&a fashion: j’adore, j’adore, j’adore CATHERINE BABA

152 q&a film: Borat with edge CAVEH ZAHEDI

154 q&a tech: king glitch JAMES BRIDLE

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156 q&a books: the noir of Bush CHRIS KRAUS

122 PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN COMING HER HAIR photography RICHARD BURBRIDGE styling ROBBIE SPENCER

158 q&a politics: veteran adbuster KALLE LASN

160 last shot: TROJAN youth, interrupted