ICON
“If You Look for Change, You Find Change”: Fassbinder Muse Hanna Schygulla Reflects on a Life in Cinema
March 14, 2025
After the Berlinale premiere of her new movie, Fassbinder’s greatest muse joined us to discuss her collaborations with the titans of 20th century film, from Godard to Varda.
EXPAT
Claire Tabouret Designed the New Stained-Glass Windows at Notre-Dame. She’s Ready for the Blowback.
March 13, 2025
“It’s not very French to move things around or to change things,” says the painter, who was commissioned to design the new stained-glass windows at Notre-Dame. “Maybe that’s one reason why I had to leave.”
GREEN ROOM
“Demonic, Ethereal, Fun”: Seven Minutes Backstage With Sasami
March 13, 2025
Before her show at Rough Trade, we joined the classically trained musician to talk about her recent pivot to pop music: think Bruce Springsteen meets alien huntress.
NYC
“Get Weirder and Fucking Weirder”: Erin Magee and Lourdes Leon on Boys Clubs and MadeMe Girls
March 13, 2025
The designer joined her friend and MadeMe muse Lola Leon to talk streetwear codes, spiritual alignment, and why the gays invented fashion as we know it.
PFW
“It’s the Return of the Heiress, Babe”: Mel Ottenberg Reviews Saint Laurent FW25
March 12, 2025
After Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent FW25 show, our editor-in-chief called us from the car to fire off some closing thoughts on pencil skirts and debutante glamor.
GORE
Michelle Uckotter on Serial Killers, Control Freaks, and Her New Series of Slasher Paintings
March 12, 2025
The painter joined her collaborator Riley Mac to explain how Ronald Reagan and a recent breast augmentation inspired her new series of “hippie-slasher” paintings.
FICTION
Can a Trans Writer Be America’s Next Great Novelist? Torrey Peters Thinks So.
March 12, 2025
Earlier this month, we visited the “Detransition, Baby” author at her Brooklyn apartment to talk about writing amidst the Trump administration’s assault on trans rights.
OUTSIDE
“We Should All Be Worried”: New Yorkers Flood the Streets for Mahmoud Khalil
March 12, 2025
On Monday afternoon, we joined thousands of New Yorkers at Manhattan Federal Plaza, where The People’s Forum hosted a demonstration against the sudden detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
PFW
“It’s Got Swagger You Don’t See Anywhere Else”: Interview Reviews Miu Miu FW25
March 11, 2025
“Even though it’s giving 1950s, it wasn’t stuck there,” raved our editor-in-chief.
PFW
“Sickly Victorian Child, in a Glam Way”: Dara Reviews McQueen FW25
March 11, 2025
“It’s nice to get wild again,” said our fashion director of the frizzy hair and diaphanous gowns featured at Seán McGirr’s third women’s collection for McQueen.
IN CONVERSATION
“Everybody Can Be Romeo and Juliet”: Anne Imhof on Love, Danger, and DOOM
March 11, 2025
The performance artist joined New York legend Justin Vivian Bond to discuss “DOOM: House of Hope,” her epic new three-hour show at the Park Avenue Armory.
PFW
“It’s About Power Dressing”: Demna Takes Mel Ottenberg Inside Balenciaga FW25
March 10, 2025
After the Balenciaga show, we tracked down Demna, Nadia Lee Cohen, Loic Prigent, and “Anora” star Mark Eydelshteyn to discuss the season’s horniest suits.
PFW
“Rebellious, Twisted, and Fun”: Mel Ottenberg Reviews Valentino FW25
March 10, 2025
“This takes some real balls,” raved our editor-in-chief of Alessandro Michele’s latest collection for Valentino, staged in a makeshift public restroom awash in Lynchian red.
SOUND ADVICE
“I Haven’t Been to a Function Since Birth”: Pop Experimentalist Saya Gray Makes Us a Playlist
March 10, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, the Toronto singer revealed what sounds she hopes to hear at heaven’s gates and the drink she’s getting DoorDashed to the studio.
PFW
“Clothes For Women!”: A Dispatch From the Front Row at Sarah Burton’s Givenchy Debut
March 7, 2025
After taking in Sarah Burton’s debut collection for Givenchy, Law Roach, Gwendoline Christie, and Yseult joined us to talk clothing for women, by women.
ICON
“I’ve Never Felt Younger”: Michelangelo Pistoletto, in Conversation With Maurizio Cattelan
March 7, 2025
To mark a career-spanning retrospective at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, the 91-year-old artist joined fellow Italian Maurizio Cattelan to find out if art still has the capacity to shock.
RORSCHACH TEST
“You Might As Well Just Freeball”: Dylan Efron on Liars, Leg Day, and Jockstraps
March 7, 2025
After outlasting a castle of mischief-makers and main characters on season three of “The Traitors,” the reality TV heartthrob joined us for this week’s Rorschach Test.
PFW
“Joyful, Girlish, Visionnaire”: Anna Dello Russo and Nadia Lee Cohen Review Chloé FW25
March 6, 2025
After the Chloé FW25, our editors pulled some fashionable attendees aside to talk pantaloons and roller blades, and shoulder pads.
ICON
“I’m Not Romantic About the Past”: Michel Auder on 60 Years of Documenting New York’s Underground
March 6, 2025
As his 1970 remake of “Cleopatra” returns to NYC screens, the filmmaker joined us to to talk about quitting heroin, embracing video, and getting stoned with Jane Fonda.
NOVELISTS
“Always Hold the Reader’s Hand”: Adam Ross, in Conversation With Taffy Brodesser-Akner
March 6, 2025
The author of the sprawling New York novel “Playworld” joined Taffy Brodesser-Akner for a wide-ranging conversation about memory, trauma, irony, and reading reviews.