MAD MEN — ISSUE Nº 107

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Words by Jack Kerouac

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6—7 EDITO by Romeu Silveira 8—9 MASTHEAD 12—17 JESSE DRAXLER

interviewed by Hernan Quintanilla

20—25 PABLO HENRARD interviewed by Talicia Ramsey

18—21 XIMON LEE

interviewed by Talicia Ramsey 28—43 WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Wilkosz & Way 64—75 LAST NIGHT IN PIGALLE by Julien Bernard 44—63 UNFINISHED SYMPATHY by Miguel Villalobos 76—83 JWAN YOSEF interviewed by Mateus Lages 84—95 HOT BOYS by Fernando Tomaz 96—109 HAIR by Aldona Karczmarczyk 110—117 GRIFFIN by Carina Toledo, with photography by Wanda Martin 118—123 MARTINE ROSE

by Talicia Ramsey, with photography by Wanda Martin 124—137 NOTHING BEHIND ME,

EVERYTHING AHEAD OF ME

by Romain Sellier 140—159 CIVIL WAR

by Orsolya Luca 160—177

LOCALS ONLY by Cecilia Duarte 178—191

NEW ROMANTIC by Josefina Bietti

194—201 A conversation with The National’s frontman MATT BERNINGER

by João Lourenço 202—207 GLAM

by Adriano Damas 210—217 DYSTOPIAN YOUTH

by Dinosaraus 218—219 WHATS NEXT

by Carina Toledo 223—233 GRAVITY

by Gustavo Ipolito 234—247 SECOND LIFE

by Kristiina Wilson 248—249 GUIDE

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radio, digital issues and all forms of social media. Yes, U + MAG is celebrating you can also have U+MAG ten years of activity. in print using the print-ondemand system, which has And our relationships to- been available for our readday are completely dif- ers since 2012. But believe ferent than they were in me, this is just an option.

2004. It is time to redo, rethink, rebuild, rear- U+MAG is fluid, dynamic, range, and remix every- and changing. thing we learned and absorbed in that first decade. U + MAG has its roots in the digital world.

And we are proud to be part of something irrevers- The day we lose that esible: the domination of dig- sence, we know we’ll be ital and the social media, headed in the wrong diwhich occurred in the last rection. ten years. We were born We work hard to portray in the boom of Fotolog; we a generation of creative grew up in the early years people. of Flickr; we were part of the first boom of fashion We work hard to conblogs; we developed our- nect creative people from selves as a magazine on around the world and Tumblr (which is still rele- from different fields. vant); we embarked on the More than ever, we are iPad, iPhone, and tablet interested in connections, revolution; and, finally, we in remaking everything created our own platform, we’ve done before, just including our own website, in a different way. This is

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the essence of ‘REWIND/ thank our brave team FORWARD’, our magaof directors and editors. zine’s mission.

With this edition, we get We prefer to think about into a mode of celebration the next ten years as some- that will run until Novemthing unexpected.We are ber 2015, when we will open and ready for all the complete eleven years. changes that the world All future editions will be will pass through. We are commemorative in some open to trying all the possi- way, starting with the first, bilities for communication, which will come out in sharing, and development March. They’ll all include that will inevitably appear. surprises along the way.

The best thing about cre- We will keep doing what ating a magazine like U we believe. + MAG is that you never know what’s coming. You This is the fuel that keeps are ready to be surprised this project alive. every day.

Happy new year!

These first ten years have been wonderful because Happy 10+! of all of the people who went through this magazine and for all those who are about to be part of this project. It’s hard to mention all of their names, but I just have to thank these professionals. I also Romeu Silveira

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Masthead Contributors Fernando Tomaz Heleno Manoel Diogo Martins Otavio Rosselli Julien Bernard Benjamin Brouillet Diamanta Kayenga Yann Bousand Larcher Cyril Laforet Wilkosz & Way Sam Moukhaiber Sasha O’Neill Sue Thompson Cecilia Duarte Romain Sellier Gustavo Ipolito Adelmo Firmino Giovana Giacomin Shiori Takahashi Ester Padilha Bruno Cardoso Miguel Villalobos Lu Phillippe Guilmette Cedric Joliver Kristiina Wilson Beau Barela Jessi Butterfield Aldona Karczmarczyk Aska Ciesielska Michael Bielecki Logan Jackson Beata Milczarek Orsolya Luca Andrew Ceciliato Pernille Nadine Sven Bayerbach Lin Zhu Tamas Csordas Dinosaraus Thomasz Malka Adriano Damas David Diniz Monica Ventura Josefina Bietti George Krakowiak André Puertas Flavio Lacerda Carlos Sales Teo Miranda Roberto Pasandin Wanda Martin Zhana Medvesh

Creative Director & Founder Romeu Silveira Fashion Director Igi Ayedun Fashion Editor-At-Large London Tomas C. Toth Fashion Editor-At-Large New York Dwight Reeves Fashion Features Editor Carina Toledo Digital Features Editor Hernan Quintanilla Arts & Culture Editor Mateus Lages Editorial Contributors Talicia Ramsey João Lourenço Copy Editor Yasmin Tayag

2004-2014 © U+MAG, the artists and contributors.

All Rights Reserved.

Special Thanks Arthur Ribeiro Van Dorsen Talents Tom Jacq Nico Helbig

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Personally of everything. Not a word not a thought, a grief, not a joy, boy, not a doubt scorn, not a lust fear, not a smile, name, not a face, n

Words by Samuel Beckett

course I regret word, not a deed, , not a need, not , not a girl, not a doubt, not a trust, not a lust, not a hope, not a not a tear, not a no time, no place...

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Interview Hernan Quintanilla

Jesse Draxler is a collage artist.

More than likely, you have seen his work. In only a few years, Jesse has become one of the Internet’s ‘it’ artists; his work is being considered as decorative art and is featured in almost every art blog and magazine and even in The New York Times while also being reblogged on just about everyone’s Tumblr.

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With just enough abstract weirdness, his collages combine all mixed media forms and celebrate the work of other creatives by twisting their work into something daring, uncomfortable, and more questionable than reliable. Using images found throughout the web, mainly on art and fashion sites, his work serves as a scrapbook that reflects the current aesthetically driven trends that can be, thanks to the Internet, followed in almost real time. With his pulse on forward-pushing imagery, Jesse remains ahead of others, raising our expectations of what we have come to expect of the Internet and of artists.Â

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It’s hard to put a name on what you do, can you attempt to sum it up?

I work with pre-existing images to transform them into something else using a number of techniques and materials. Among other things.

Where do you get your images from? Do you hunt for specific images or are you just an avid collector?

Both. A good majority of my visual material these days is given to me directly from photographers. I also make regular trips to my favorite used book stores, various news stands, etc. It turns into a lifestyle, always on the lookout for things to use no matter where you are.

What are the upsides and downsides of being dependent on the Internet to not only find material but to also publish your own work in?

I do not find the imagery I use in my work online, but yes, I feel a deep sense of gratitude towards the InternetI feel like the Internet is my relative, familyit has brought people into my life who have become family. I don’t see any downsideit’s all good as long as you’re using it right.

With so many artists on the Internet – why do you think you have been able to stand out?

This seems more like a question you, as someone who picked me as a stand out, should be answering.

(Feel free to answer here:______ ) How much of what you create is experimental and how much is already thought out?

Everything is an experiment. I usually know what medium I want to use or what style I want to approach the project in, but as far as the physical aspect of creating the workthere is always an experimental tone to the work flow.

When do you let go of your work and say it’s done?

Whenever I want.

Would you say you have found your own style that’s recognizable?

I’m settling into myself, for sure.

Which artists have been your biggest influences?

It’s hard to say anymoreI’ve stolen from so many.

You received a BFA, was it worth it both financially and educationally?

I had a long diatribe about how the art school I got my BFA from has since declared bankruptcy and the absurdity of paying back loans that were used for an education from a school that no longer existsbut I’m just going to say no.

(I actually have an ongoing project in which I paint all the student loan bills I get in the mail black, I call it “Black Mail”.

In another interview you said music carries a lot of influential weight on your work and that you were reacting to the mood it creates for you. How much of your work is a reaction to something and how much is a reflection of your own self-exploration?

100% to both questions.

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Interview & Words Talicia Ramsey Portraits Mateus Lages

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Ximon Lee

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What was it about the street children of Leningradsky that inspired you to create the collection?

Do you think that creativity is sometimes lost with commerciality and the ability for clothes to be wearable?

The documentary “Children of Leningradsky” reminds me so much of my childhood and my birth Fashion is art, but it has to be wearable at the end town. The grey Soviet architectures, abandoned of the day. To make an artistic, wearable, and marplaygrounds, and colorless long winters in the docketable outfit is challenging. Especially in these umentary represent a deep nostalgia of vivid childdays, fashion designers are compromising to make hood memories. I found something really romantic profit. However I don’t think creativity is lost with and fascinating about these years when I was free commerciality since you have to be more creative and ignorant in this autistic northern town. Scenes when it comes to translating conceptual ideas to in the documentary where the homeless children simple touches for costumers to appreciate. It’s like near Leningradsky station run on the winter streets summarizing a book to a page of writing. To me, in oversized, layered and randomly styled clothes it takes a tremendous amount of creativity to comare unforgettable; I was obsessed with the way the pete this task homeless children dressed and styled themselves in clothes collected from trash. I started collecting What materials did you use to create your collection? images and videos about these homeless children I used sandwiched denims, knits, and trash bags and decided to fly to Russia to get my mood board in this collection. Most of the hardware are industogether for my graduate collection. “Children of trial parts or found metal objects. Natural indigo Leningradsky” is very personal, and every layer redenims are bleached into different shades of blue. veals something about my childhood.

This collection is a juxtaposition of soft and hard, organic and synthetic materials.

Has travel always been a key inspiration in your work?

How important is sustainability in the fashion industry I’m a nomadic person, and travel is already a part to you? of my life. Every journey stimulates new ideas for Sustainability is important, and as a fashion demy design. But inspiration can come from everysigner I feel ashamed of how much waste this day lives here in New York. Tacky bling-bling dress industry generates every day. The paper, printing, in a techno night club, stained aprons in a street sample fabrics, and testing materials during design corner diner, vintage jeans in a second-hand store, are all very wasteful yet essential. Thus, we should and even a dialogue in a café drive me to sketch. aim for better designs, not more designs.

The best part of living in this city is that you will Who is the Ximon Lee customer? never lack of inspiration.

How important is experimenting with outfits that aren’t particularly wearable to you?

Boys who are hungry for new things and adventures.

Experimenting with new materials and silhouettes Where do you see yourself and your label in the fuis important because you are pushing the bound- ture? aries by realizing what you are good at and what I want to do small collections for now and see how skills you are lacking in. Experimental or concepthey go first. Everything takes time and money tual outfits are usually not wearable, but these outin this industry, so it’s hard for me to predict the fits will have enough details and highlights, which growth of my brand. I just like to focus and do you can easily translate on simple outfits. my best on the collection I’m currently developing.

Eventually, I’d like to have my own lifestyle brand, it doesn’t need to be just about clothing, but food and events.

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Interview & Words Talicia Ramsey

Pablo The Belgian designer has gained significant recognition for his sleek yet innovative take on menswear, landing a place between the ten finalists of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography of Hyères. He has interned for Theory, in New York, and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Currently based in Paris, Henrard earned his degree at La Cambre, in Brussels, in 2013.

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Henrard

His black engulfed graduate collection is titled “Maelstrom,� inspired by the literature of Jules Verne.

Merging shapes, textures, and materials to construct an intriguing combination of unique silhouettes, contemporary cuts, and experimental styling, the collection is both classic and fashion forward. Sheer black turtlenecks are worn as part of all-black ensembles, creatively shaped oversize leather jackets are coordinated with skin-tight leather pants, and traditional sweaters are inventively deconstructed.

This is classic modernism inventively reimagined.

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What inspires you to start designing?

Generally I get inspired by a wish, something I really care about. Something I want to tell.

And one day, I find the way to tell with a picture of any kind while I’m watching a movie, visiting an exhibition, walking in the street.

For “Maelstrom,” the inspiration came from Captain Nemo, from the Jules Verne novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”.

What does your creative process consist of?

The mood board is really important for me, from that I make most of my decisions. I create the board with pictures that I confront with each other telling new stories, and I mix them with most of the fabrics I’m going to use for the collection and the way I’m going to use it. I like to manipulate the fabrics, to make atypical associations. From the board, I start to sketch most of the collection in a very vague way because there is a lot of changing when I create the cloth by drape! I always find a way more subtle way to express my idea by drape.

What influenced the mainly black color palette?

It comes from the inspiration of the collection.

“Maelstrom” is about the abyss. I really wanted to translate the darkness of the depth. I was fascinated by these parts of the oceans that were mainly obscure; meanwhile, the creatures living in have such amazing and bright colors.

It was also a way to express the darkness of my character.

Some of your designs apply a slightly feminine aesthetic. What attracted you into using this style?

The idea of the collection was to recreate a masculine wardrobe giving the men the opportunity to express themselves, their sensitivity, and their sensuality with something else other than the traditional suit. The idea is to reappropriate clothes from the wardrobe that are not used anymore in menswear, such as basques or tuniques... I proposed a new way to be elegant by using codes from feminine couture, fitted waist, draped volumes and structured lines. The shapes and the way they sublimate the body bring out a very sophisticated approach of the man.

Do you believe that masculine dress codes are still prevalent in the menswear industry?

I love codes, and references from the menswear, and it’s very often used in womenswear, but it is too classical in menswear. I think there is another way to use all the amazing archives from the masculine dress codes in menswear.

Also, why can womenswear be inspired by menswear and not the opposite? There are a lot of codes.

A key aesthetic of your collection is deconstruction.

What compels you to deconstruct traditional clothing?

It gave me the opportunity to completely reappropriate codes from both wardrobes, masculine and feminine, and create new vocabularies. Some of the contemporary dress codes need to be broken and reused differently to push mentalities further.

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What does the process of deconstructing garments consist of?

It was more about creating organic shapes.

Starting from a classical and official sailor wardrobe, I created the idea of clothes and garments in movement around the body, creating a circulation between the different layers of the silhouette. All the garments are asymmetrical; the notion of movement around the body creates an organic approach of the cut.

Do you enjoy being experimental with your designs?

I don’t know if we can still pretend I am being experimental these days, but I learned at La Cambre how to completely break the classical idea and notion of a garment.

And I’m having a lot of fun trying always new things, even if it seems to be far away from a cloth you could wear to go to work.

The idea is to propose a vision a bit less mainstream than a pair of jeans and a jersey t-shirt. I really would like to change opinions about how to dress, especially in menswear.

Do you believe that the experimental nature of your designs compromises the commerciality?

No, I’m giving a strong image, sending a message, but I also have a lot of more classical garments in the collection. I work a lot with fittings so I really create the garment on the body to fit him the most and to sublimate it.

What type of customer do you believe is attracted to the Pablo Henrard label?

I think that the label attracts the men who like the idea of being different. I don’t expect to talk to everybody, but at least I give the opportunity to men who really want to wear something different and acquire another way to be sophisticated and dressed up, as couture or very unique pieces from women’s ready-to-wear could be for girls.

Where do you see the label going in the future?

I would like to develop both menswear and womenswear in the same idea. I’m tired of seeing women with badly cut jackets and men with boring outfits.

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Words by Jean Baudrillard

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coat 31 Jil Sander vintage blouse OPPOSITE PAGE shirt Neil Barrett turtleneck Acne Studios trousers Christophe Lemaire

32 top Jil Sander Coat Maison Martin Margiela trousers Dries Van Noten opposite page sweater Kris Van Assche trousers Maison Martin Margiela

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Wuthering Heights

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by Sue Thompson at Aveda featuring model Nicholas K. at Mode Models

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40 shirt Engineered Garments jacket Acne Studios turtleneck Raf Simons opposite page shot Neil Barrett sweater Jonathan Saunders

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42 sweater Alexander Wang opposite page rollneck Raf Simons accessories stylists own

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t-shirt vest 45 Slow andstylist’s Steady own Wins the Racetrousers jeans Vejas Hood By Air OPPOSITE PAGE jeans Hood By Air jewelry 1-100

Jeans by Hood By Air

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t-shirt 47 Slow and Steady Wins the Race jeans Hood By Air jewelry 1-100 opposite page top Helmut Lang jewelry 1-100

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coat 49 Saint Laurent shorts Gypsy Sport

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t-shirts 51 Slow and Steady Wins the Race OPPOSITE PAGE vest model’s own

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Photography

by Miguel Villalobos

Styling

by Lu Phillippe Guilmette

Featuring models Isaac Weber at New York Models & Radek Szalankiewicz at VNY Models

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top Gypsy Sport 53 vest and trousers Saint Laurent

Sympathy

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scarf One Hundred tank Saint Laurent poncho Gypsy Sport opposite page vest stylist’s own trousers Vejas

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bomber Eri Wakiyama trousers Helmut Lang

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vest stylist’s own trousers Vejas all jewelry 1-100

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Last Night in Pigalle photography

by Julien Bernard styling

by Benjamin Brouillet styling assistance

by Diamanta Kayenga make-up

by Yann Bousand Larcher hair

by Cyril Laforet featuring model Adrien at Elite

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76—83 A conversation “I come from with artist a pretty mixed Jwan Yosef background from northern Syria. A mother from a family of one religion and a father from a family of a different belief. Good enough reason for my parents to move on to more neutral ground” Interview Mateus Lages

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Hello Jwan, how are you feeling today?

I’m feeling good! I’m having an early start in the studio preparing a couple of new projects for the fall.

Lets start off with an easy one, where are you from and where do you currently reside?

I was born in Syria, grew up in Sweden and have been living in London since 2010. Totally stretching over the continent.

Why did your family move from Syria to Sweden?

I come from a pretty mixed background from northern Syria. A mother from a family of one religion and a father from a family of a different belief.

Good enough reason for my parents to move on to more neutral grounds.

Are both your parents from Syria? What were there different religions? What were some of the implications of them getting married?

Yes both of them are from Syria, but it s a pretty random mix. I come from a Kurdish Muslim father who married an Armenian Greek Orthodox Mother, both from well known families in their town in northern Syria.

Not an ideal mix in those days.

Or ever in that case.

Do you have any religious beliefs?

No I don’t. I’m very spiritual and understand that there are some truths to religious writings; I just don’t necessarily see how people can read them literally.

Do you feel any different being Middle Eastern and growing up in Northern Europe? People seem to be very open there but newspapers and political cartoons have been known to stir things up.

It’s a good question really, growing up with two very distinct and different backgrounds, the blond Swedish archetype and the slightly warmer Middle

Eastern one. I never really related to a certain country or culture but more so of a continental one. Sweden back in the 80s was different from what it is today.

The country greeted us with open arms and today it’s one of two places I like to call home.

A friend once told me that Swedish people are always happy because you meet them outside of Sweden… Is there any truth to this?

Ha ha, that’s super true, there’s a good reason for Swedes being one of the most well travelled people. The country’s pretty dark and cold most of the year, and has equally created a culture that’s very similar to its environment. So for a Swede once they’re outside of their ‘territory’ they’re happy to open up in ways they don’t feel they can do at home.

I loved growing up in Sweden but I was equally as happy to leave it.

It’s a confusing culture really, Swedes are extremely proud of coming from Sweden but not many I know have much joy in living in the country.

Jewish art mafia or Gay art mafia?

Both ! I love the combination, two distinct and in their characteristics, very different ‘cultures’ coinciding and sharing the art world. This is more humour than it is facts.

Is there an Arab or Muslim art Mafia?

Oh there definitely is; Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, a mouth full I know. She’s The Power Patron of the Middle East and probably the world. I think the Middle East is growing a genuine interest in western art and creating its own understanding for contemporary art.

Art and power plays a big role for any developed country and the Middle East is catching up on it by the looks of it.

Artists are not politics, but what are your views on Israel, American occupation and the Arab spring? In America the general public sees the military as liberators of oppressed people.

I think all artists are more or less political, however our approach to our subjects is different.

Any idea of any country looking to ‘liberate’ another is in it self super wrong. It’s ancient colonisation mentality and is completely unfitting for any modern or democratic country.

For an artist of Middle-Eastern descent your work seems to avoid a lot of political and social conflict. Is this something you plan to tackle in the future?

It all depends on what point of view you’re looking from. I consider myself a foreigner wherever I go; In Sweden I’m an Arab, In Syria I’m a Swede and in London I’m neither Syrian or Swede. Politics and social conflicts are in my opinion distractions. There are bigger pictures to everything and focusing too much on such matters will only get you blind. Awareness is crucial but full on dedication will only mislead you I think. There’s a bigger picture to work on!

Artists are usually unhealthy looking. You look like well built Rugby or American Football player. I always feel uncomfortable seeing photos of Bjarne Melgaard.

How does it feel to be ripped and Artistic?

Its funny you say, these things don’t go unnoticed. Suffering and sacrifice is a big part of artistic development and in most cases the body is the first to go.

In my head in order to keep my mind going I need to keep my body going. It is vanity as much as it is health. One sticks out no doubt in having this build and not always in the best way.

The art world is very much tied to rules and manners and surprisingly looks play a big role, I don’t necessarily fit the model.

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You’re move towards 3D art seemed very natural, how would you word that transition? Was it a natural progression?

It was a very natural transition. I’ve always been aware of my paintings materiality and its performative qualities. I think only now am I making that reactive almost sculptural process a focal point.

Are they still paintings or were your paintings always meant to be objects?

Yeah I guess they are paintings. I still consider myself a painter, even though it leans to sculpture at the moment the subject is still painting; It’s painting that’s very self-aware.

Have you taken a lot of inspirations from bodybuilding, fitness and the military? How have they influenced you beyond being references for your work?

Totally, My subject mater early on had been all about masculine extremes; steroids, the military and so on. All references to my own work would be from own experiences of gender ideals.

What is a regular day at the gym for you?

I’m super lazy at the gym, I nip in and out. Do a quick work out, clear my head and head back.

Your works are usually not very large, in modern standards at least. I once read that larger pieces became common after artists in America utilized larger industrial spaces to produce works. They mentioned that working conditions in Europe restrained the artists to smaller practice. I find that now a day’s when an artist impresses you on a smaller canvas he almost requires more applause. What are your reasons for sticking to smaller scaled painting in an art market that wants everything BIG? I’ve always enjoyed making smaller work. From a working perspective it gives me a lot more control of the object.

Its easy to be impressed by bigger works simply because they physically dominate you as a viewer.

However smaller pieces require more attention and in return, if well executed, the experience is much more intimate and rewarding. The difference is like talking one on one, rather than to a big crowd.

Its easy to be impressed by bigger works simply because they physically dominate you as a viewer.

However smaller pieces require more attention and in return, if well executed, the experience is much more intimate and rewarding.

See Art, Make Art or Buy Art.

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Subtlety is king, how would you sell subtlety and simplicity to our readers?

Present all things in simple terms, there’s no point in saying anything if the person in front of you can’t understand you in a clutter of terms. This goes for language, art or fashion.

Your work always seems to hint or nod, what is the purpose of teasing the viewer?

You don’t want to make lazy work by feeding the viewer with all kinds of information. Hints tend to challenge the viewer and also give him/her space for their own interpretation. Let them think!

Do you mean lazy for the viewer or lazy for the artist?

Well both; you want to challenge yourself as an artist as much as challenging your viewer. Somehow you choose who sees your work by presenting a certain kind of imagery, but its not always what it seems.

You said that once you tried to “work as an artist” rather than being an artist, what made that difficult for you?

What are some of the difficulties of separating the artist from his work?

I think coming to terms with the fact that an artist and his work are as one is crucial in order to create something genuine. The most difficult part is that I never really zone out of my work. I’m always working in my head.

Is your choice of subject somehow reflective of a media obsessed culture?

No I don’t really reflect around media obsessions.

What makes art not ‘pop art’?

Pretty much anything that represents something that stands above everyday objects and people, I think.

What is your favorite Gerhard Richter piece?

Betty, 1988.

With the presence of the Internet do artists now have more time for themselves?

Now a days you can get yourself out there but have a somewhat reclusive self. How do you think the Internet is changing the way we see artists and how we feel towards their works?

Well I think ones real life behaviors reflect ones Internet presence. If you’re a reclusive artist probably you will be reluctant to exposing yourself online as well.

Internet is totally changing the whole scene, for the better. Its stripping off the heavy culture that sometimes weighs down on art and giving it to people that otherwise wouldn’t be able to see it. There’s a total restructure of the whole art scene going on at the moment. As an artist I feel I have more control over my own exposure than I would without the Internet.

What about when third person parties get involved?

Oh that’s great, they get to do what I normally hate doing!

Do you have any last words to our reader’s?

See Art, Make Art or Buy Art.

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photography assistance

by Diogo Martins fashion assistance

by Otรกvio Rosselli special thanks to Arthur Ribeiro

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featuring models Agustin Aleborn at Elo, Anderson Weisheimer at Ford, JosuĂŠ Wiese at Way Eric Carvalho at Lequipe

shorts 86 Victor Dzenk over metalized shorts American Apparel opposite page jacket AlĂŞ Brito shorts Cavalera necklace and bracelets stylists own

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Griffin is a British brand with twenty years of history and accomplishments that seem to be on the wish list of any young designer of this generation. Jeff Griffin started his label in 1994, after a few years in Milan working under Valentino and Gianfranco Ferré. Committed to the high quality of Italian craftsmanship but also drawn by the edge of London streetwear, the Saint Martins graduate infused his own project with the best of both worlds: contemporary and urban outerwear for men, made in Italy or locally in the UK. After opening his first shop on Portobello Road, Griffin marked the early 2000s with collaborations with artists such as Banksy and Peter Kennard. Over many years, the brand premièred collections with shows at Paris Fashion Week and in Tokyo. But what do you do after you’ve done it all? Where do you go to keep living the dream?

To Jeff Griffin, the answered seemed to be in the opposite direction. In 2010, the designer moved his studio to the rural village of Hartland, close to the cliffs of the North Devon coastline. Now he truly lives the outdoor feel his brand represents. The new home is a source of inspiration for his clothes but also part of a bigger lifestyle that Griffin has become. The eco-retreat Loveland Farm is being developed with the latest green technologies while maintaining design as a key element¾try not to fall in love with the décor of their geodesic dome pod.

Speaking exclusively to U+MAG, Jeff Griffin told us all about his journey to glamour and back, now flying comfortably under the radar.

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Can you tell us how you first started in fashion and what motivated you to this career, early on?

I was 16 back in 1983 and wanted to join the Royal Navy but was told they were not looking for New Romantic Punk Rockers. l replied, “Who cares.”

I was given a multiple choice test and l scored, nine of out of ten, to choice my career path as a fashion designer. I was only given a place due to being a boy, and they were desperate for boys to break up the bitchiness. The first day of art college, l knew l had arrived, and l loved it, l really loved it, girls, clothing, fabrics, glamour, and it wasn’t like work. Living in London and at Saint Martins in the late eighties was a fantastic place to be, we had the start of fashion as we know it today. The Face magazine, i-D, Blitz mag, the first cool British designers like Christopher Nemeth at The House of Beauty and Culture, Galliano, BodyMap, etc.

Your aesthetic is all about the outdoors lifestyle, which is usually a focus for textiles but not for fashion designers.

Your brand seems to unite both. What made you choose this segment?

I started Griffin back in 1994 after returning from working in Italy for Valentino and Ferré. l felt strongly for the mix of Italian quality and what was happening in London, so l started a brand which was a contemporary bridge between high-end fashion and sportswear with a strong streetwear edge. Today we are still doing this, but I’m older and wiser, our customer is still urban, but l live in an extreme location.

Before we were in Portobello Road, which was also an extreme location, rich and poor, music, arts, and I’m still inspired by both… l think as a designer you are inspired by your surroundings, and of course this rubs off, but I’ve always loved mixing opposites, from military to peace, urban to outdoors, heritage to modern, but this is our lifestyle.

You started your brand exactly twenty years ago, and for a long time took the very traditional route, with catwalk

shows in Paris and several big brand collaborations. Now, the brand seems to have taken a more low-profile route. Could you tell us more about this transition and this new moment? Was it a conscious choice to take a position more under the radar?

This journey was never planned, l never had anything mapped out, l have done everything from the heart and at a moment’s notice, it wasn’t about traditional routes. We have played with the system but mainly outside of the system. We were the first fashion company on the web outside of America, we were one of the first companies to do pop-up stores, work with artists, Stanley Donwood, Banksy, and Peter Kennard. Catwalk shows in Paris, London, and Tokyo, we were running like crazy, but that’s what you do when you are young, you are running from sponsor to sponsor, and it’s only when you try and take control of your finances that you realize it’s not sustainable to be doing these big shows on a promise of what the future will be.

So after 2008, l came to the conclusion l wanted to run a sustainable business, and this meant cutting promotions and living on the dream of tomorrow and live for today, it’s not so glamorous or darling, but you can sleep at night.

So being sustainable makes you a lot more focused on what you are trying to do, and what you want. What does everyone want? To be happy. Do the ups and downs of show to show make you happy?

When we think about British menswear, what comes to mind is high-end, welltailored suits. However, your clothes do have a very British feel about them, even though an outdoors lifestyle is not a local characteristic. How do you feel that your heritage shapes your designs?

When l think about British Menswear, I’m thinking Barbour, Burberry, Mackintosh, all strong menswear brands which are almost bulletproof, elegant, practical, quality, has attitude, and will last. I think of Griffin in the same way. I was born here, educated here, worked a lot in Japan and Italy, but in the end you are who you are, and

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it will come though in your work, this is why we get employed a lot across the world as a lot of people like the British style. It’s true a lot of people also dislike it and go more for the Italian soft and lightweight glitz.

“Britishness” and the British lifestyle have been major topics in recent news in the UK, and many criticize the London-centric politics of the UK. That can also be said about fashion, as most designers are based in London.

You went on the opposite direction and moved your studio to the north of Devon. How has this move influenced your creative process?

I love London and lived there a long time, and there are a few reasons why l think being out on the Atlantic coast is better for us. Fashion is a small community, and we all see the same things. We are bombarded on a daily basis with ideas and media.

I think of it as a visual pollution.

Out here, my brain is free. Imagine a musician or a writer getting away to be able to write with a clear head, this is what I’m doing. I love designing in chaos, and l can get a lot of ideas from cities, but when you have been in one place for a long time, you become blind. For me, it is better when I am traveling as I am more focused and open to the world and visuals around me.

What has been your biggest challenge so far?

The biggest challenge as a creative person is always the business side, talking to business people who are not passionate about ideas, quality, and just want the easiest, cheapest route, l always say you can do better with strong ideas and quality, as other companies can always be cheaper.

And what has been your biggest accomplishment so far? What makes you the happiest?

My biggest accomplishment is every day I’m living the dream, l still have the same feeling when l went to art

college in 1983, it’s not like working, it’s doing what you love and mixing every day up. l design fourteen collections a year, and l love it, l have a great team around me, I’m healthy, and if everything gets too much, l go and visit my two Asian Water buffaloes in the back field. We have a lot of cool people and friends come and stay with us, as we also have an eco retreat, geodesic domes, and a campsite, and a lot of them don’t give a shit about the world of fashion, which is refreshing as we also know a lot of mad fashionistas.

You put a big focus on manufacturing, producing everything either locally or in Italy.

What’s the most challenging about keeping this level of control? What other measures towards ethical production and sustainability would you like to take?

Keeping everything local or in Italy has many reasons, control, and quality, but the one thing l love more than anything else is creating ideas and working with craftsmen, the pattern cutters, fabric designers, and machinists. It’s less about ethics, it’s more about working with people who love what they do and have a passion, it’s a skill, it’s about an idea.

Because if you take this away, what is it all about, just making stuff ?

What’s the point of that?

What are the future steps for Griffin?

To continue living the dream and build on what we have created, we grow our own food, we create our own energy. We sell to some of the best stores in the world, and we have managed to keep it small and beautiful, but it’s true, l would love to spread the dream and sell more to more like-minded people and create a movement of people who care.

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Emerging into the fashion sphere as a mens shirt designer, London-based Martine Rose has since established her brand in the ever-evolving scope of British menswear and run with it.

Supported by Fashion East and the NEWGEN award, Rose gained notable attention with her uniquely characteristic yet sophisticated designs and distinct creativity. After showcasing her Spring Summer 2013 collection at London Collections: Mens, she catapulted herself to the forefront of avant-garde menswear and has since gone on to be stocked worldwide as well as obtaining a collaboration with the boutique department store Browns.

Her latest collection for Winter 2014 fuses intriguing silhouettes with vintage motifs in an eclectic moc – croc, faux fur and Lurex mix. Rose continues to experiment with feminine styles and unexpected combinations to produce something significantly original and continuously exploratory.

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It’s a very supportive place to be if you are interested in menswear. It’s really forcing people to take notice, which is great.

What attracted you to menswear?

It’s my natural aesthetic, I can’t remember it ever being a conscious thought; I wear men’s clothes myself, so I just lean that way in my design aesthetic.

Do you feel that menswear allows you to be more experimental as it’s not as established as womenswear and there is more to be explored?

There is definitely an element of freedom within the conventional rules of menswear.

I have always enjoyed exploring how those traditional boundaries can be pushed, in terms of colour, fabrication, and cut. I don’t really compare it to womenswear in regards to whether it’s more experimental, but it certainly has its own traditions that I feel lend themselves to being explored. Rules are meant to be broken.

Do you enjoy applying traditionally feminine components to your collections?

I enjoy playing with cut, fabrication, colour, and adding an element of femininity is part of that play. Menswear has always had a touch of the dandy about it, whether its rude boys preening at the barbers on a Friday night, getting measured for a suit on Saville row, or matching your silk cravat to your socks¾femininity within menswear has always existed to an extent.

It’s acceptable for masculine tones to be adopted in womenswear, such as the androgynous look; do you believe that menswear is reaching an era where it can acceptably overlap with womenswear?

I don’t think we are in a particularly unique time in terms of men adopting a more androgynous look. There are various examples of this idea: punks, the new romantic scene, and club kids became really quite mainstream. Perhaps we are less surprised by it, so in that way it’s more accepted, but it’s still fairly niche if you think about the whole male population.

Why do you believe that the relationship between music and fashion is important when designing?

Of course both music and fashion reflect the mood of the times, and as a designer, that’s my job!

How do you believe that the two mediums enhance each other?

They are one of the same thing, they are inseparable.

What is it about the fusion of styles, materials, prints, and patterns that excites you?

I find it exciting to use a cheap fabric and treat it like the most expensive¾that is luxury to me, to labour time and attention on a cheap fabric and to use it in a way so that it becomes special, it takes on a different meaning. I also really find it exciting when things sit slightly uncomfortably together; there is an awkward beauty in that.

Do you think that this fusion relates to your various musical and cultural influences?

Perhaps; I haven’t really thought about it in that way.

Do you believe this is a signature to your aesthetic?

I think so; I think that’s what people recognize in my work the most, that and the more extreme silhouette.

What do you envision for the future of your label?

Sunshine and happiness!

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Many bands give up before even getting there. Others change their tone and attitude after a huge hit.

Few continue to innovate, leaving old ideas and gimmicks in the past, album after album. Perhaps this is the recipe for The National’s success, a band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late nineties. It took almost a decade for the dark melancholic songs of the band of brothers and friends to conquer the general public. In recent years, they sang on President Barack Obama’s campaign trail and signed tunes for TV series like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire.

Last year, before the release of their anticipated sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, they were invited by the Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson, to attend his newest performance, “A Lot of Sorrow,” at MoMa PS1. For six hours straight, the band played their song “Sorrow” (meaning: 108 times!), from 2010’s “High Violet”, in front of a swirling dry ice display.

The final result is on view at Luhring Augustine Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York, through December 21, 2014.

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Unafraid to sound too emotional, The National’s lyrics present a very particular depressive and self-deprecating tone. It is as if they are not ashamed to expose their flesh and bones. They dissect the wounds we pretend not to see, and this characteristic makes their music resonate to a wide range of audiences, from teenagers to old Morrissey fans. “Most of what’s in our music is just the general anxieties of trying to be a decent person in the world,” says Matt Berninger, the National’s frontman, between sips of Guinness before one of the three night concerts at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, last June.

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I feel that there’s a real fear of being emotional in songs.

I would add that today we don’t pay enough attention to our emotions¾that old conversation about how technology is bad and is destroying real connections.

We’re connected to millions of people and yet we’re alone together. The connection is not real. I admire that you don’t follow rivers; it’s like you’re not worried about being cool. Can you tell us a little bit about the process of writing such an emotional record?

In terms of what’s cool, I had a lot of confidence about writing stuff that was emotional, complicated from a relationship perspective. I’ve always liked writers like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen¾those were always people that were not afraid to be emotionally honest. There a lot of artists that write emotional songs; sometimes I feel like they’re canned emotions or the idea of an emotion and not really a true emotion. The writers I mentioned were able to somehow portray or capture or just write in a more honest way about emotional things; it wasn’t so romantic, it was sometimes full of the ugly stuff, and it wasn’t overly melodramatic in terms of the details of what they were writing about. It was more honest about the other stuff. People have been writing emotional music forever; sometimes it just feels thick. Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen are in my head. To me, they are the coolest. To say I don’t worry about being cool isn’t right¾I think about that. Morrissey is unbelievably cool, he writes about emotional things and funny weird ways that also seem honest. There’s music with people seemingly crying out in fake emotion, like Hollywood emotion.

That’s always been a turnoff to me; it’s cheesy melodrama without any of the reality. Without any of the complicated ugliness or self-deprecating ugliness.

Too many people write songs about loving someone that’s all full of that “I love you” with all capital letters and “blah, blah, blah.” Love is not like that. Love is not that simple. Love is something you do, not something that descends upon you. Like in the details of a conversation with someone that you’re angry with, but you know that they’re important to you so you stick with them. That’s love! Getting through the complicated ugly moments. It’s not all about big gushing emotion, it’s the small details. Insecurity and anger can be a big soupy mix of little details, and I like writing about that stuff.

I get a feeling of nostalgia with your music. Are you trying to make amends with the past?

No. I am telling stories about characters.

Sometimes in romantic or just other kinds of relationships that sound like probably that there’s somebody… but almost always, it’s about myself or my relationship with my wife. But there are a lot of different names; I use the name Jenny a lot, for example. And so there’s no real other person. In the songs that I mention women, it’s often about my wife or just about myself or just about characters. So they’re not autobiographical, really. I think maybe people want to believe that they are. The emotions are true, are autobiographical emotionally, but not the specifics¾the details of the story and the events in the songs. I am a writer; these aren’t diary entries.

So I could say you feel comfortable in writing about people that you know?

Yep. But they’re not about people I know but things I think about, real things that I obsess over. Whether they’re actual real details or not, usually not, the details usually aren’t real ... sometimes they are ... I don’t know. But they are all trite and personal to me on a more abstract level. I’m not just making up stuff because I think it would make a good song.

Do you not write of things past and the way you wanted things to be?

Yeah. You try to say things in songs that are a way of saying things that you wish you’d said in real life. Like, you wish you’d said it that way. I think in every kind of art, whether you’re making movies or writing books, you’re trying to create a reality, what you want that reality to be true. What you wish life was like. Or… you’re exorcising real demons in a fake way, like if you’re writing horror movies, you’re writing that because you want to scratch an itch that’s somewhere in you. Not that you want to kill anyone, you write a horror movie about an awful murder or something like that to scratch a different kind of itch.

Speaking of demons, in this last album you seem to have accepted yours. When and how did you realize that’s there’s no way to fight, that you need to accept pain and that loneliness and sorrow will remain with you?

That one song that’s on demons is about parts of your brain you get dark with in ... the melodrama in your own life.

It’s not my demons so much as being okay with the way your brain works.

Acknowledging that you’re just in a mood, it doesn’t define you, these dark moments... or these light moments, vice versa. The truth is that the real demon in my life, like smoking, was one of the biggest, hardest things I ever had to fight against. In a funny way, the demons I’ve had in life I don’t battle.

I mean, I’ve had some depression, but I don’t have manic depression, I don’t have hardcore depression. I know people that have had much more significant clinical depression, and that’s the demon that I’m lucky that I don’t have. I’ve had a little of it, but not much. Some people figure out how to handle it. My demons are more like, anxiety, fear, short temper. You try to not have a short temper. I guess my demons in the past have been more like “Am I gonna be a good husband, am I gonna be good dad?” And the anxieties and fears over that. I feel like I am, so I’m winning that. I quit smoking a few years ago, and that was the hardest thing... one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to battle. I’m lucky that I’m relatively healthy, and I haven’t had other kinds of issues or challenges yet... but I will… anyway, so.

What about other anxieties?

You mean like, with the world? It’s not like I have debilitating anxiety over the direction of the world. I did have it worse when George Bush was president and then it was alleviated to a certain degree when Obama was elected. I mean, I’m lucky enough.

I’m a middle class white American, and I have it pretty easy compared to, like, kids in Russia right now, and I see their country going backwards.

Or like a young family in the Middle East just trying to have their family safe. So I’ve got it pretty good, pretty cushy. Most of what’s in our music is just the general anxieties of trying to be a decent person in the world.

I’ve heard you feel a little more relaxed about the lyrics now…

It used to take me a long time to write about anything. I used to stare at a blank page and try to write great lines, and then I realized the process is better when you just write a lot of stuff and not edit yourself.

Then later go back and start to pick and choose. I learned to relax my process a little bit and open up the process to writing lots of bad stuff¾stuff that I’ll just throw away.

So now I just write lots and lots of stuff, and then later I go back and try to collage things together and weave them together into ideas and

“I am telling stories about characters.

Sometimes in romantic or just other kinds of relationships that sound like probably that there’s somebody… but almost always, it’s about myself or my relationship with my wife. But there are a lot of different names; I use the name Jenny a lot, for example. And so there’s no real other person.“

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themes. I feel that I’m having more fun with the process of writing the words. I don’t work any less hard than I used to, but I just stopped overthinking it the whole way through. I have more fun with it and don’t worry about whether it’s good until later. I used to write things down and then scratch them out and mill over ideas until they were just right, and then I’d write it down. I’ve learned the process can be much more easy and more fun and organic. You’ll have plenty of time to tweak and massage. I write more and edit later.

Do you write everyday…when you’re on the road?

I don’t write everyday. I write when I feel like it but then again you have to make it a choice to sit and say, “I’m going to put some time into it now.” But I find it fun and easy to do, I’m patient with it, and I don’t worry if I sit there and an hour goes by and I don’t have any good ideas. I don’t worry about that anymore. I’ve learned to relax a little bit and just enjoy the slow process.

Your wife, Carin Berninger, was a fiction editor of the New Yorker. Is she a big influence in your writing?

I met her before “Alligator.” That was the first record I was letting her see and hear some of the songs. She had opinions right away. She was telling me what she liked and what she didn’t like, and she would say she had ideas. She raised my game in a lot of ways, meaning she made me a better, much better writer. One, she

could tell when she saw something she’d say, “You know, I don’t believe that, that feels fake.” She has a chord view for that kind of tone, but the truth is, I wanted to impress her. I’m not an academic; I mean, I read, but I’m not a bookworm. I know I’m really a smart person, but I would never consider myself a sort of higher intellectual, and my wife is part of the reason I work really hard. It’s because I want to impress her, and if I can’t figure it out and I can’t impress her, I’ll just steal her ideas. So it’s turned out to be a very good creative relationship. I’m really lucky that the person I spend my life with is also the person I do the art with, too.

She very much was a major influence on editing the movie my brother made.

Whether this is what she wanted to do¾and it’s not¾she’s been pulled into it, and she’s made me a better writer. The movie is good because of her. She’s been a major, major part of it for a long, long time.

Does literature inspire you?

Yes, sometimes. More so in the way that somebody writes and less in what they wrote about. There is this novel, “Play as It Lays” by Joan Didion, that has sort of a surprising way in the way that she puts together thoughts and sentences. It was fragmented and didn’t connect on the dots but left a lot of room for mystery. There’s something about that book that I think has been a big influence on me. “Lolita” is also a big influence. The book was able to tell about something pretty sinister, pretty diabolical, meaning a pedophile.

He [Vladimir Nabokov] was able to write about a pretty dark thing but get past that part of it and dig into a human mind that’s struggling. It’s really a funny novel, sort of a black comedy, but it’s not that simple, it’s even more complicated than that. I love that book for that reason: you can write about ugly things in beautiful ways, you know.

Recently, I haven’t read anything that has been a big influence.

It’s funny to hear Didion’s name. I thought of her when I listened to “Trouble Will Find Me” for the first time. You know, she says that we forget too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

There’s definitely a motivation in writing something down or creating something and recording it, whether it’s just a thought, because you’re trying to stop time a little bit and you want to make something. We take photos of our lives. Why do we do that? Why do we need to? I mean, we can look in the

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mirror if we want to see ourselves, but we take pictures of our kids and our families and ourselves at moments because we always want to go back and remember. Remember that our life is good and things are good and remember that things are good because it’s easy to forget. Sometimes we get lost in fear and darkness and sadness. And sometimes you have to remind yourself. Sometimes it’s easy to forget all the little bits and pieces that make it. Life is really hard to live; it’s hard to stay alive in the world, it is. Not that you’re going to get hit with a tree, but people everywhere, no matter how healthy of mind and spirit you are, sometimes you look at the darkness, and all you can see is the darkness. So you have to capture the little bits of light and replay them for yourself. That’s what songs are, that’s what movies are¾people are trying to remember.

You write this stuff because you want to rethink it, and you want to capture it again, and you also express something and other people listen to it because they want to feel less alone in the world. You write about something that’s dark and sad. I want to talk about this thing because you know you’re not alone, you make something out of it, people respond to it, and that’s why I loved certain music that was about depressing things but made you feel good because you think, “I have felt that, I know that feeling, and I’m not alone.”¾its common and normal, it’s a human thing to feel these bad feelings.

That’s why music has a special ability to connect to emotional darkness.

People love it, you know; we’re a dark band, people come, and they have so much fun, they drink and they sing

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along to these dark things. Because it’s so cathartic, and it feels very healthy, and that makes you happy about your life because there are all these other people that have the same kinds of anxieties. That’s the music I connected to, and I think that’s why people connected to our band.

Does going live give you some kind of catharsis? Is there a ritual you do before going on stage?

I drink a bunch of wine, and I drink a bunch of wine while I’m on stage.

That’s definitely one of my crutches, to be able to do that because I have to get a little bit inside the song. I can’t just be up there and look at thousands of people and then do the song that was written in my bedroom, lyrics in that very extroverted way. I have to go into the introverted thing in order to feel it so I close my eyes and drink a lot of wine. That allows me to not be too hyperaware of the crowd and all that kind of stuff. So it’s a strange thing to perform these songs. I’ve started to learn how to enjoy more than I used to, yeah, I don’t know… my ritual is simple. I drink some wine, and I close my eyes. When I don’t drink I can still do it, it’s just not as much fun.

It is not a secret that ‘all the wine’ is all for you. I remember the concert in Rio, April 2011, where you fell during a song. I saw you several times and you’re always all over the place.

The energy is fantastic, but I have to admit that sometimes I fear for you. Do you still feel uncomfortable being on stage?

I climb on stuff, and I smash stuff. I’m always looking for ways to escape a little bit. Part of the channeling… it’s like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sort of thing. It’s easier to be Mr. Hyde up there, and then I’ll jump into the crowd. I don’t know why I do it. I do things that are mine. I have ticks that are just like things that I do, I don’t try to over think it. I do get hurt a lot. I get cut, I hit my head on shit all the time. Bang my shins on stuff all the time. I’m often bloody and bruised after shows. But never that bad, I never jump off a ten-foot thing. I never do crazy shit. I also never jump onto people, sometimes people try to lift me up and pass me around. I don’t want to do that. I never crowd surf, I go into the crowd and I walk around in the crowd, it’s different.

In Berkeley you were walking in the crowd and people were pulling your hair and stuff…

Yeah, It’s gotten weirder. Its fine right up to the edge, but couple of times it has crossed that edge. People are pulling in, yanking and rushing too much. People are falling down. It’s not just that I’m in danger, but other people are in danger so I try to stay out of the parts of the crowd where it’s too big of a mass of people. I try to stick along edges or whatever. I don’t know if I can do it anymore. I might have to stop doing it soon a little bit just because the crowds are too big and it’s a little bit too crazy.

Recently you wrote songs for some TV series, like “Turn” and “Game of Thrones”. yYou were even featured on the soundtrack of “The

“We work really hard because we know how easily and how fast it could just disappear. It makes us work harder. It’s a tricky thing, and we’ve also been lucky. I don’t know why people come to see our shows or buy tickets or buy our records more than other bands. I mean, I know we make good stuff, and I like it, and we won’t put something out there unless we love it.

The five of us love it.

So maybe that’s all that matters. If we like it, then we let it out into the world.

I don’t know how different we are from other bands. We know how lucky we are that we still exist and people still care about us.“

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Hunger Games.” What’s the biggest difference between writing for yourself and writing on demand?

It’s fun in a very different way.

To write for someone else is art.

Somebody else has a vision and a thing that your song is just supposed to be a supporting element. In some ways it takes the pressure off in certain ways. The “Game of Thrones” thing, for example, we didn’t write that it was George R. Martin who wrote those lyrics, and we just channeled it in a way and did a performance of it. That was really fun. It’s easier to write for other things like that than it is to write for one of our own records.

I take it really seriously, and I love to do it, but it’s a different mindset.

You’re writing something to support someone else’s art. That’s fun.

Have you considered releasing a solo album?

No, because I don’t know how to play the guitar or the piano. Over the years I’ve worked with friends on songs and with musicians other than The National. There are some things that are out there, but they’re definitely not solo projects, they’re collaborations. I will probably release some things that aren’t “The National,” but they’re definitely not solo projects. For me to do a solo project¾I wouldn’t even want to listen to that. It would just be me talking, it would be terrible. For one, I need music, and then I need somebody else to bounce stuff off of.

If I go walking too much in my own footsteps, it gets boring even for me.

What about writing something that’s not music…?

I don’t think so. It’s just not what I like to do. If I would ever write short stories or a novel or something like that, I would have already written something. I would have been motivated to do that a long time ago, and I really haven’t. I haven’t, and I don’t have a burning itch or desire to write a short story or a book or a novel. Working with my brother on this film that he made was obviously a whole different kind of thing. My brother and my wife, the three of us, collaborated strange fun things. We might do something together again, I don’t know what that is. But no…I don’t think I’ll write prose, and definitely won’t write poetry.

Many bands tend to fall apart or grow stale after a

huge success. “Boxer” was hugely popular in 2008, and after that, “High Violet” was considered one of the best albums of the decade. How the band has survived during this long process¾of playing in small venues to being asked to sing by President Obama?

I really don’t know how we manage to survive. How we managed to stick together. I think it has something to do with the fact that there’s family/brothers, that’s part of it. The band started after we were all adults. We have some perspective about it knowing how lucky we are to be in a rock band and to have people coming to see our shows.

We are well aware of it being a very rare, very, very temporary thing. We work really hard because we know how easily and how fast it could just disappear. It makes us work harder.

It’s a tricky thing, and we’ve also been lucky. I don’t know why people come to see our shows or buy tickets or buy our records more than other bands. I mean, I know we make good stuff, and I like it, and we won’t put something out there unless we love it. The five of us love it. So maybe that’s all that matters. If we like it, then we let it out into the world.

I don’t know how different we are from other bands. We know how lucky we are that we still exist and people still care about us. When we toured with R.E.M, Michael Stipe said something like, never forget the fact that people are coming to see you play rock songs that you guys wrote in your bedroom and they want to hear them. You’re lucky that people pay attention or care about your rock band. To get anybody to care about your rock band is so rare, never phone it in if you’re playing in front of these big places. You have to deliver because a lot of people pay fifty bucks and travel three hours and it’s the only show they’ll see all year and they’re way in the back.

You’ve got to make sure you give them their money’s worth because you’re lucky that they came. That’s always been in our heads the whole time. We are very grateful and very conscious that it could go away tomorrow. I think our fear of being brushed aside or forgotten about has been a very motivating creative catalyst. Fear of disappearing, yeah.

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like they can’t abandon their previous work. What do you do to focus on the next project and leave the old stuff behind?

Do you still feel the pressure to always delivering a better album than the previous one?

We usually will go away and not think about it for a little while. We will attempt to recharge and put it aside and not over think about the thing until we get excited about new ideas. Every time we’ve said, like, “Let’s make a record about this next time,” it’s never helped us. The songs that we’ve written with that kind of pressure behind us, like, “Oh, we need a new song,” have never been any good. For us, it’s always about waiting until we naturally feel like writing a song and see how it comes. Let it organically sort of be born.

Right now we have no plans or ideas of what kind of record to make next time, and I’m glad we don’t. I’m glad we’re not thinking about it yet because when we do start thinking about it, it will be organic. We’ve never tried to pressure it or force it, but then when we do get into the studio and we’re starting to work, we know that we try to make the best record we’ve ever made every time. I assume that most bands are always doing that, trying to make the best thing that they’ve made every time, because there’s no reason not to think of it that way.

The movie Mistaken for Strangers made the world know that you also have a brother.

Beyond than that, it showed us a very human aspect of you and the other integrants of the band. After the documentary, you wrote a song about him (“I Should Live in Salt”). There’s a lot of pain and regret in that song. Do you feel some kind of guilty for leaving him behind in Ohio?

I went off to college when he was still a little kid, and maybe the time when he needed an older brother the most was when I was gone. The song is about a few different things. Some of that song is a little bit about that, but then it’s also about realizing that you’re two different people, and there’s just some things that you can’t shape a person or hold someone’s hand through life through everything, and they have to do things their own way. I think my relationship with my brother is actually really, really good and when he came on tour, it’s gotten even better.

There’s a lot of fighting in the movie, a lot of conflict and a lot of tensions, but we worked through a lot of stuff and it was, I think, with your family you have the most tense type of relationships with because you care the most¾they’re the ones that are the most important.

That’s why a husband and wife will fight more and have more vicious fights than you have between anyone else because it matters and the stakes are higher. It matters that much more, you care that much more with somebody like your family. I think my relationship with my brother is really, really healthy and really good, and the process of this film made it even better. I’m nine years older, and I had to do my thing, it’s not like I have that much guilt. When I went off to college he said that he didn’t actually miss me that much. It was funny because I think I missed him more, I felt more anxiety and guilt about it than I even needed to. But he also thought it was cool that I was living in New York, and he would come to visit me. So the song is kind of about feeling anxiety and guilt about having gone off in one way and left your family. “Bloodbuzz Ohio” is like that…its about leaving Cincinnati. Half the song’s about older relationships and things where things are going badly and you wish you had handled them better. If you went back in time you would probably do things differently, but by and large I think I did make mostly good choices, and I don’t think I would go back and change anything. Because its led to this thing now, to where my brother and I are closer than ever, he still lives with us and he’s made this movie, but now he’s got all these opportunities. If I had done something differently or he had done something differently, it wouldn’t have led us to where we are right now. It’s a good place.

Do you know about Tom’s future plans?

Like I mentioned earlier, the three of us are trying to do something again and we don’t know what that is. It’s not going to be a documentary. My brother is who he is in the movie, and he’s fun to watch.

He’s brilliant, but in a weird and unique way. I think we’ve learned to laugh about life and the world in funny ways through him, and the movie, it’s really funny, we know the movie is funny, and we made it that way. And then the movie is sad and poignant and meaningful because we made it that way on purpose. We actually enjoyed telling that story, and we learned how to tell that story together. We kind of want to tell more stories. Tom’s thinking the best place for that is television, like an episodic thing. It’s not going to be another documentary. The shows that we love are like, “The Larry Sanders Show.”

“Louie” is brilliant. Obviously my brother is different so we’re not doing something like that, but, yeah, we’re trying to cook something together.

Have you and the band had doubts about the documentary?

When it started out, there was no movie.

It was just going to be stuff for our website,

“Like I mentioned earlier, the three of us are trying to do something again and we don’t know what that is. It’s not going to be a documentary. My brother is who he is in the movie, and he’s fun to watch.

He’s brilliant, but in a weird and unique way. I think we’ve learned to laugh about life and the world in funny ways through him, and the movie, it’s really funny, we know the movie is funny, and we made it that way.

And then the movie is sad and poignant and meaningful because we made it that way on purpose. We actually enjoyed telling that story, and we learned how to tell that story together.“

“I would like to try to write a pop record.

Something that’s more lighthearted, catchier, and more fun. The National has a certain sort of chemistry, which is good. I love the chemistry of our band, I love the chemistry of the songs and the records, but I would like to write something that’s sillier and a little less melodramatic, a little lighter in tone and stuff. I don’t even know if I’m capable of that. I start writing something and it automatically starts to get important.

I can’t stay with something unless I actually feel connected to it…that it’s significant.“

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but then all of that stuff wasn’t that interesting. The only thing that was interesting was my brother.

No one in the band even wanted a movie about the band, so there never was one. My brother spent so much time on it, he wanted to make something. My wife said, “It’s got to be about Tom.” “You know, if you want to make something,” she said to Tom, “if you want to make a movie, you should be more a part of it than the band.” He didn’t have that much interesting stuff with the band, the interesting stuff was him struggling with his own things.

That allowed the movie to be about something even more interesting.

There were many points along the way where we thought there is no movie. This is terrible, this is a pile. It wasn’t until toward the last few months where it started to fall together, the pieces of it started to fit together into this.

Is your brother happy with the success of the movie?

He is really happy, but he is also now really worried because he says he is more confused now about what to do with his life than before the movie. Before the movie I think he thought he would probably work at a TV station in Cincinnati.

The local news station, which is what he was doing for a while.

Maybe he would be a wedding videographer. I don’t know what he was going to do. He was going to try to make little movies with his friends and little horror movies but he had kind of almost given up on being a director. He had definitely kind of given up on that and then this thing came along. Now he’s directed a documentary, but he knows he’s not a documentary filmmaker. So he’s got no interest in making another documentary. He’s been offered low-budget horror movies from people that have seen this movie, and they know that he’s made these other horror movies, but he’s not sure that he wants to do that. The three of us have talked about trying to make something that’s different. A different kind of a show with him in it. That’s as far as we know right now.

Musically speaking, is there something you would like to try in the upcoming album?

I would like to try to write a pop record. Something that’s more lighthearted, catchier, and more fun. The National has a certain sort of chemistry, which is good. I love

the chemistry of our band, I love the chemistry of the songs and the records, but I would like to write something that’s sillier and a little less melodramatic, a little lighter in tone and stuff. I don’t even know if I’m capable of that. I start writing something and it automatically starts to get important. I can’t stay with something unless I actually feel connected to it…that it’s significant. It may just be a stupid thing to even try. Some of the stuff I’ve done with a few friends may see the light of day because it has a different personality to it, and it’s a different collaboration with a different collaborator so it doesn’t feel like The National. I think everyone in the band want to try other things. Aaron has been doing a lot of producing of other people’s records, and that has been really healthy for our band. Some of the stuff I’m talking about I have been working on for years and it’s actually helped The National because I’m able to scratch some itches in one way that’s very satisfying, and then when I come in The National record I’m fully invested in that because I’ve released certain other pressures in other ways. It’s made our collaborative thing less pressurized. Everybody in our band has been able to go relieve that pressure on other things. I’ve never put anything into the world yet other than the movie. Bryce has his classical stuff, and Aaron is doing a lot of producing. I have some other things too, but none of them are finished.

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Fashion, forever the technological late adopter

It’s been a long 15 years since Hussein Chalayan premiered technology on the runway, with his iconic mechanically animated dress from the Echoform collection. Since then, the fashion industry has never truly embraced the possibility of technological garments, as if to say, “Chalayan’s done it already, no point bothering with this now.”

Words Carina Toledo

His visionary show for AutumnWinter 2000 never left the runway for the streets, and this mentality only reveals how shortsighted the fashion industry can be.

What we have been calling ‘trends’ seem to actually be fadswe get sick of them before they even hit stores.

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The fashion industry cannot proudly say it’s been an early adopter of technological innovation. We were one of the last industries to invest in e-commerce (“Who would want to buy clothes online?” was the question at the time) and in social media (and now here we all are, in deep relationships with our Instagram feed). Lately, in discussing wearable technology, fashion journalists have pinpointed the fact that “wearable technology was not very wearable” as a problem, without considering the idea that these complex garments are prototypes not fit to the day to dayat least not yet. This not-so-groundbreaking statement is only a symptom of the bad influence that the copying of trends by fast-fashion retailers has imprinted in our minds. If I can’t have it now, then why even initiate this discussion?

The first two examples relate only to sales and the way we communicate fashion, whereas wearable technology will affect the very product of fashion. How will an industry that has craft and artisanship at the core of its value system cope with the swift moves of technology?

The Spring-Summer 2015 season marked a new age for technology and fashion, but not through the initiative of designers, it seems. No, it’s the Silicone Valley engineers who are approaching fashion leaders to beautify their productsthe “Made for Glass” Diane Von Furstenberg collection and the Intel and Opening Ceremony partnership are great examples. In London, Richard Nicoll presented a beautiful LED fiber-optic dress sponsored

by Disney. During Paris Fashion Week, the Apple Watch had a big fashion moment, with a display in the window of Colette and the biggest names in fashion paying visits to the boutique to try it on. Later, the Apple Watch made it to the cover of Vogue China on the wrist of Liu Wen, modeled as casually as any other luxury item.

Tech executives are now pulling lessons from fashion to make their products more appealing to consumers, but the logic of these devices still follow a very Silicon Valley agenda (a wristband to count our steps? Isn’t the pain of a pair of stilettos enough?).

How long will we have to wait for fashion to set its own agenda? How long will it take for fashion designers to seek out engineers with big ideas waiting to become reality through their clothes?

Big innovation is in the air. Now we just have to wait and see in whose hands it will unfold.

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