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February 2012

The rush of fashion weeks can be a lot to handle: all those invitations, flights, looks, even slideshows to click through. And yet in her infinite wisdom, Miuccia Prada has found a way make each successive fashion week new again. On the first week of each city's fashion weeks—New York (today), London (Feb. 17), Milan (Feb. 22), and Paris (Feb. 28)—that city's flagship Miu Miu boutique will exclusively make available a line of limited-edition bags.

Rose McGowan at Red Dress

We chatted backstage with Rose McGowan about a different kind of heartbreak—dangerous love. "Broken hearts suck," she said. "There's nothing pretty about them. It just takes time to heal. And there's that amazing day when all of sudden it doesn't hurt anymore. I've had a broken heart that hurt so badly that it actually physically woke me up from sleep." And the best way to recover from heartbreak? "Find somebody new, darling."

Christian Louboutin Celebrates

Christian Louboutin celebrates two decades of stylish success with his 20th anniversary capsule collection. "In France, 20 years defines a generation," says the designer. "This is a celebration of the first generation of this brand; an anniversary of its first young adventure."

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Video Premiere: The Darcys

"Josie," a cover of Steely Dan's 1977 hit, is re-imagined in the eyes of The Darcys and video director Aaron Miller.

Discovery: HAIM

Our discovery of the week is California pop-band HAIM. Composed of sisters Danielle, Alana and Este, and their drummer Tim, HAIM is definitely worth a listen if only because they seem to be the kind of band that legendary musicians and producers ask to work with. Indeed, despite only being in their early 20s (and late teens), the Haim sisters have already worked with Blondie producer, Mike Chapman, and middle sister Danielle has toured with both Jenny Lewis and Julian Casablancas. A pretty stellar endorsement if you ask us.

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Exclusive Song Premiere: 'Here Now,' Sean Bones

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Trailer Face-Off!

This week: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston vs. Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, two documentaries about legends of decades past and the stars who still love them.

All About Simon Aboud

Comes a Bright Day is British writer-director Simon Aboud's first feature film, or first feature film to make it past production. Aboud's first script, The Beautiful Fantastic, brought him to the attention of the British filmmaking world: Everybody loved it, everybody wanted to work on it, but somehow it is still languishing in preproduction limbo.

Casting Call: Killing Pablo

Killing Pablo, Joe Carahan's Pablo Escobar film based on Mark Bowden's book of the same name, has a tumultuous development history. Originally announced in 2007 as one of two competing Escobar movies (the other one, Escobar, was also indefinitely shelved), Pablo's producer went bankrupt in 2008 and not much has been heard of the project since.

Antonio Campos

Borderline Films' latest offering, Campos' Simon Killer, was picked up not by any major studio's indie distribution shingle but rather by the vaunted IFC Films—perhaps suggesting that Borderline's true home will always be within the ultra-indie world.

David Lynch

The director, artist, designer, songwriter, and auteur of the weirdly normal (or normally weird) on the joys of being promiscuous, the pleasures of earthly enlightenment, and why he has no trouble keeping it surreal.

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Weekend News Roundup! Super Bowl; M.I.A.

Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.

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Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning

Sharp and perfectly developed, Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive sets driving lessons between a young woman named Li'l Bit (Elizabeth Reaser) and her Uncle Peck (Norbert Leo Butz) as the foundation for an inappropriate affair.

Staying Awake with Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon writes about coping with tragedy in his new collection of short stories, Stay Awake.

Jack Davenport Gives Direction

Fans of BBC America or anyone who's ever lived in England will probably remember Jack Davenport as Steve from Coupling or Miles from This Life. To everyone else, he's best known for his role as Commodore Norrington in Pirates of the Caribbean. With his new role on NBC's Smash, however, Davenport has the potential to become a household name.

"I looked for the ones that weren't perfect—that weren't necessarily flattering," says 24-year-old New York-based artist Garrett Pruter of the family photographs he pulled from junk stores, flea markets, and estate sales, then sliced, scratched, and otherwise altered for his first solo show, "Mixed Signals," which opens tonight at Charles Bank Gallery.

Jon Kessler Celebrates the Blue People

Jon Kessler's current exhibition at Salon 94, "The Blue Period," was inspired by the artist's trips on the subway in New York. "I realized that half of the people riding were operating some kind of handheld device," Kessler told Interview. "They were physically there, but not actually there."

Remembering Mike Kelley, 1954-2012

Mike Kelley, acclaimed installation artist and musician, has died at the age of 58, of an apparent suicide. In 2009, Interview editor Glenn O'Brien sat down with Kelley, an artist whose aesthetic he appraised as "Joseph Beuys meets James Brown, or Marcel Duchamp meets The Contortions."

Run Away With Alec Soth

Alec Soth spent five years seeking out men who were hiding from the world, and tonight he shows the results at his first show at Sean Kelly Gallery. The legendary Minneapolis-based photographer  of Americana returns to New York to show "Broken Manual" for the first time in its entirety. (It's previously only shown in parts at the Walker Center for the Arts, and in a special-edition book.)

Tim Barber Shares His World

Tim Barber's recent book of photographs isn't self-titled. It's just called Untitled Photographs. Published with OHWOW, the monograph originated with an 2010 exhibition of Barber's work at the OHWOW gallery in Miami, and this week, Barber is launching the book in Europe with a presentation at London gallery Mother.

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Jay-Z

The story of Jay-Z’s rise from Brooklyn street hustler to the pinnacle of the music industry is one as old as America itself. But what the artist formerly known as Shawn Carter has done since he’s reached the top has been more about making history than living it down

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Evelyne Chetrite and Dree Hemingway Celebrate Sandro x Dree Hemmingway

February 7, 2012 @ Sandro Boutique, 415 Bleecker St and Le Baron, New York

Delocated Season 3 Premiere: The Polaroids

February 3, 2012 @ The Pit, New York, New York