Interview September 2008 : Kate Moss by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

[iluvjeisa]

Originally Posted by MissMagAddict

And now you can get a year Interview for less than $10.00 from their website

Kind of batty....I hope they're not aiming for a bigger audience at the price of whoring out...

[helmut.newton]

This is what covers of fashion magazines should look like. NO annoying text. No pimping of celebrity culture. Just one strong shot with the title of the publication.

It's more fashion and less low brow that way

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Moss is a celebrity aswell so there is no huge difference at all.She is overexposed and oversused.

Stefano's shot looks wonderful though.

[tigerrouge]

Now this is a red cover that leaves UK Vogue September in the shade, it's stunning stuff, and a great taster for the new-and-improved contents, it all sounds good, so let's see...

[Bahiyya]

For whatever reason other more eloquent folks are saying exactly what's on my mind when it comes to certain magazines these days.

The Imagist on the latest Interview:

But what disappoints this reader...is how reactionary mainstream publications still insist on being when faced with the rapid fire changes of our new digital media culture. Instead of factoring in the interests and tastes of that new audience, it reverses direction and embeds itself deeper into the distant legacy of Brodovitch.

The same units of cool, Kate, Mert n Marcus, Stefano Pilati, Karl Templer, Inez and Vinnodh, Craig McDean... etc, keep migrating back and forth, back and forth between ID and French Vogue, Self Service and Pop, Interview and V perpetuating a dialogue of redundant imagery with nothing peculiar and nothing personal to ground you in the specific magazine you are reading.

theimagist.com

Cool, eye-catching cover but I am not impressed by the choice of cover model, photographer or content subjects so far. Yawn.

[Ampop]

Here people this is the BEST offer (Subscriptions) I could find for you all . . . Karma accepted. Lol.

http://cgi.ebay.com/INTERVIEW-MAGAZINE-SUBSCRIPTION-4-YEARS-SUPER-LOW-S-H_W0QQitemZ360041600570QQihZ023QQcategoryZ280QQrdZ 1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2e m118Q2el1247

This is the one I used ... it works fine.

xoxo,
A m p o p B o y .

[MissMagAddict]

^Yeah... Unless I get them free... I get all my US Mag subscriptions off eBay... it's really the only way to go... and I've never had a problem with anyone I've purchased a subscripion from.

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

WOW thats a great deal

[MissMagAddict]

Here's the entire post from The Imagist... for those that are interested...

“It’s time for a magazine to have well-executed visuals to counterbalance the culture of point-and-shoot "...“Quality needs to be put into magazines today, otherwise there will be no reason for magazines to exist.”

Fabien Baron in WWD on the new Interview

Juxtapositioned against this quote by design master Fabien Baron was the headline in the Friday 8 2008 edition of WWD that "Magazine Circulation Falls In Half", asserting that magazines as far ranging as Vouge (-14.8 %) to Shape (-10%) were seeing plunging newstand sales. Implicit in Baron's statement was the idea that it was lavish printing, a generous scale and "blue-chip" content that was going to allow the new Interview to differentiate itself from a clogged field.

Or in Le Baron's words in WWD, "It comes back to the idea that there have always been certain titles that people have collected, not just use a magazine for a month and then throw out, but have actually kept,” said Bollen. “We thought about Interview as one of those magazines.”

All this reminded me of a conversation I once had with a young Conde Nast editor. "Magazine people make magazines for other magazines people," he had dismissively as he saw me leafing through an issue of Fantastic Man.

True, there is an informed, cultured, sophisticated, literate , college educated audience with a highly disposable income that religously visits Nobu, hops on a friends yacht to Mykos and haunts all the good art fairs, recession or not. They will die and go to heaven while reading Joseph Kosuth's interview with Martin Margiela in Interview's new issue.

But what disappoints this reader,(as much as I might aspire to all the above) is how reactionary mainstream publications still insist on being when faced with the rapid fire changes of our new digital media culture. Instead of factoring in the interests and tastes of that new audience, it reverses direction and embeds itself deeper into the distant legacy of Brodovitch.

The same units of cool, Kate, Mert n Marcus, Stefano Pilati, Karl Templer, Inez and Vinnodh, Craig McDean... etc, keep migrating back and forth, back and forth between ID and French Vogue, Self Service and Pop, Interview and V perpetuating a dialogue of redundant imagery with nothing peculiar and nothing personal to ground you in the specific magazine you are reading.

A part of that problem tends from those units of cool are what advertiser's ( that dwindling community ) want as insurance for their investment in the pages. But the great hope is that some shrewd young editor will realize that the culture of point and shoot has a vast market potential for that body of talent that will learn to grade it up to blue chip level.

Abstract words yes, but all of a sudden the cleverness of all those Meisel/Vogue Italia Paparazzi/ Rehab/Reality TV star shoots strikes home all the more.

In a digital age staying connected is everything, much as that proposition is exhausting. Its the thing I loved most about Warhol. From silkcreens to polaroids to an MTV show , a brilliantly executed, insidiously designed point and shoot moment was his specific genius no?

[Katie123]

anyone know where I can find this in London?? and how much it would be in pounds?

[wheneveriwakeup]

All of her covers are becoming a huge blur, imo...
She almost always looks great..
but she's just so tired these days...
I wish she were more selective...

[vogue28]

I can't wait to see Kates ed inside this issue. The picture allready posted looks amazing, thanks for posting

[BerlinRocks]

Originally Posted by Bahiyya

For whatever reason other more eloquent folks are saying exactly what's on my mind when it comes to certain magazines these days.

The Imagist on the latest Interview:

theimagist.com

Cool, eye-catching cover but I am not impressed by the choice of cover model, photographer or content subjects so far. Yawn.

i love TI and often go overthere ...
but sorry to say : "yeah, and what's new under the sun ?" ... these words bring nothing ...

What do you want for a first issue of a revamp (well-known-famous) magazine ?!
a unkwnw guy coming from the (now mainstream) myspace/blogosphere or whatever shooted by his gf in Peru wearing his harlem bff's collection ?!

I think Kate is great for a magazine that is the son of Mr. Warhol ...

and if this itw of Kosuth and Margiela is not a rumor .... I can tell you I'm one of those who's f***ing excited and don't feel ashame about it !

[fafafafashion]

Awesome cover! It definitely made me look twice!

[fafafafashion]

Originally Posted by helmut.newton

This is what covers of fashion magazines should look like. NO annoying text. No pimping of celebrity culture. Just one strong shot with the title of the publication.

It's more fashion and less low brow that way

I agree! I wish more fashion magazines would stick to the single photograph-title of magazine idea for the cover!