Innholdsfortegnelse for Winter 2020 i L'OFFICIEL USA

Menelik PURYEAR PHOTOGRAPHER “Off Site” “We really wanted to work on something that captured the urban diaspora to the country and the new relaxed sense of the city.” David THIELEBEULE STYLIST “Off Site” “This story celebrates originality. Why not wear your cocktail frock on the farm and something pastoral in the city? When it comes to getting dressed there are no longer any rules.” Sam TAYLOR-JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHER “Lily on the Beach” “I’ve been looking forward to working with Lily for some time. Working with Lily Collins on a Malibu beach sounds like a perfect day in these crazy times.” Charles TEYSSOU & Pierre-Aleandre MATEOS WRITERS “Breaking Through” and “Real World” “Our relationship to nature and the living is being radically altered in every possible field from philosophy to biology and…

When considering the greatest artists of the 20th century, a lengthy list comes to mind: Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Damien Hirst, Pol Bury, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, and so on. These are the great masters of American abstract art, the most renowned members of the Young British Artists, the legends of Cubism, the leaders of Surrealism, the references of Dadaism, the pioneers of virtual art, and the founders of Futurism. All have invented their own pictorial vocabulary, with each artist’s own radical glory spread through their paintings, their sculptures, and their photographs. Today these names are taking center stage once again in a Parisian salon—but for one day only. Transported via a single, modestly-sized box, 200 pieces from several dozen…

L’OBSESSION PROP STYLIST: Haidee Findlay-Levin RETOUCHING: Picture House…

There’s BEEN SO MUCH TIME to BE QUIET and SIT STILL THAT I THINK THERE’S GOING TO BE A VERSION of A RENAISSANCE AFTER THIS, WHERE PEOPLE ARE just DYING TO be CREATIVE. When Lily Collins arrived in Paris over a year and a half ago to start filming Emily in Paris—the unsuspecting Netflix feelgood that became an overnight fame monster—the city was not as she’d expected. Born in Surrey, England but raised in LA, the daughter of Phil Collins has long been a Francophile, but upon returning to the French capital as Emily, an American hopeful trying to infiltrate the world of high fashion, the city’s volume seemed softer. With August’s heat seducing most Parisians to Biarritz or Provence for holiday, Collins and crew found themselves almost in a…

MODEL: Micaela Tosi IMG MODELS HAIR: Lorenzo Barcella ALDOCOPPOLA MAKEUP: Gimmy Arevalo SET DESIGNER: Lorenzo Dispensa AURAPHOTOAGENCY HAIR ASSISTANT: Alessandro Ragione STYLING ASSISTANTS: Emanuele Recupero and I-Ting Yeh…

Tall and blue-eyed with sunny short blond hair, at first glance Rasmus Myrup easily appears a poster boy for his home country of Denmark. And in fact he might have been—had his artistic practice not been about deifying one of modern society’s strongest misconceptions. Indeed, beyond his large smile, the artist continuously challenges the principle that natural order is based on heterosexual biological reproduction. Born in Denmark, and working now in Copenhagen after having lived in London and Paris, he has elaborated a practice akin to an ecosexual manifesto that thinks of nature not as a worldly reproductive mother but rather a queer orgy. An interest, the artist confesses, that came partly from his childhood. “When you are a kid, you learn about nature in the sense of reproduction, like…

CASTEL CARAMEL Castillon, France, founded in 2018 “The Côte d’Azur has always had an interesting art scene but one that is almost strictly institutional,” explains collector and advisor Maria-Theresia Pongracz. “I launched Castel Caramel because I wanted to add a layer to this landscape by creating an opportunity for interactions between living artists and the community.” Since its founding in 2018, the program has done just this, hosting artists like Chloe Wise and Jill Mulleady for summer-long sojourns. The artists’ extended stays in luxurious accommodations provide ample chance for dinners, curator conversations, and spontaneous encounters with the locals to emerge. Inspired by Viennese artist Ernst Fuchs, the one-time owner of the estate in which the residency is housed and Pongracz’s mentor, the residency’s ambitions are not proprietary. In fact, rather…

In 2016, L’OFFICIEL Art invited Alex Da Corte to work on a special project for its 18th issue. The American conceptual artist presented a set of collaged images titled “Dead Roses” for the magazine alongside an interview with writer Yamina Benaï and artist William Massey. “We created these collages in the spirit of my sculptures, which are often made from a collection of found objects,” Da Corte remembers. Seductive and terrifying, the artist pulled images from horror films such as the classic 1996 American slasher, Scream. Each spread acted like a mirror between two similarly-collaged compositions, invoking conflicting and unnerving feelings in the viewer. Fear is decomposed to its bare elements in these diptychs. The artist borrows from other sources of ‘90s American pop culture such as cover art from…

ART DIRECTION: Giel Domen MODEL: Hannelore Knuts HAKIM MODEL MANAGEMENT HAIR: Joeri Rouffa using BALMAIN HAIR COUTURE and WELLA PROFESSIONALS MAKEUP: Liselotte Van Saarloos using MAC COSMETICS MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Wim Vanlessen HAIR ASSISTANT: Joffrey Conings PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Annelien Geenen and Linde Stevens STYLIST ASSISTANT: Lyn Geven SPECIAL THANKS: Jean-Marc Mondelet…

São Paulo, Brazil–born Alice Braga always knew she wanted to act. “I grew up on a movie set,” she says, following in the footsteps of her mother, Ana, and aunt, Sônia, who are both Brazilian actors. “What I most loved in life was the arts, and my passion for acting came from that.” Her breakout role was as Angélica in Fernando Meirelles’ Oscar-nominated City of God, a visceral film depicting the pulsating, blood-soaked streets of one of Rio de Janeiro’s toughest favelas. “That’s when everything clicked,” she says. Since then, Braga has gone on to star in several notable Hollywood productions, such as I Am Legend, Predators, and Elysium, and has even branched out into the superhero film franchises. After three years on the shelf, X-Men–adjacent film The New Mutants…

In Cité Internationale des Arts’ austere and derelict modernist building in Paris, which sits beside the perfectly squared French garden of the Hôtel de Sens, Bianca Bondi set up vases and amphora-like vessels in a small sink in the corner of a wet room. It was a few hours before the opening of her 2016 exhibition, The Garden, and the artist was making her objects live through a painful experience: oxidation. Upon making contact with salt and water, the copper of the objects became enhanced by a sheen of sparkling grey that are sometimes seen on the rocks along the beach or on some frescoes in Pompeii that have resisted the passage of time. Looking back at the mutations now, one cannot help but think of the marvelous aesthetics of…

Since 1880, Cartier has made ordinary items extraordinary, from its first inkwells and fragrance bottles to crisp stationary and gilded lighters. In the 1930s, Louis Cartier—the grandson of the French maison’s founder—declared, “jewelry like ours is as capable of adorning a woman’s shoulders with a dazzling necklace as it is of filling her handbag with a powder compact, a mirror, a small comb, and even business cards, all stamped with the same seal of originality and art.”…

MODEL: Diarra WHY NOT HAIR: Matteo Bartolini FREELANCER using BALMAIN HAIR COUTURE MAKEUP: Riccardo Morandin WMMANAGEMENT using PAT McGRATH LABS STYLIST ASSISTANTS: Adele Baracco and Terry Lospalluto In the 1920s, when this magazine first appeared, the remote worlds of fashion, art, and entertainment were becoming interwoven like never before in our history: They were the major cultural expressions of the new bourgeois class as it took down the old hierarchical order. For the first time, fashion was called art, and entertainers were celebrated as artists. One century later, this is more true than ever. Now that Jean Baudrillard’s postmodern society is our reality, different disciplines merge into each other: musicians and artists design clothes; designers and stylists create music, films, and any kind of art. We all live and breathe…

With her wide doe eyes and porcelain skin, Ariana Papademetropoulos—who seems something between an ingenuous Renaissance figure and a Robert Rodriguez heroine—is almost as visually intriguing as her paintings; both are tinged with nostalgia and the occult. In her work, the 29-year-old dissects the obsessions of the human being. “I am a collector,” Papademetropoulos says. “Before I start painting I spend days collecting random objects that people have thrown out for lack of interest. Books, postcards, photos… Once multiplied, they take on a whole new dimension, like an obsession that leads to madness.” In 2014, luck smiled on the California Institute of the Arts alumna. “The right people saw my paintings,” Papademetropoulos says of her beginnings. “It happened very naturally: I was given the chance to organize my first exhibition…

MODELS: Alissa Sugawara THE SOCIETY Amelia Rami HEROES HAIR: Erick Williams STREETERS NY MAKEUP: Kuma STREETERS NY MANICURIST: Daria Hardeman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Roger Inniss CASTING AND PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Eli Perdew DIGITAL TECH: Brandon Bakus PHOTO ASSISTANT: Dylan Johnston STYLIST ASSISTANTS: Erika Golcher and Taylor Champlin PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Ethan Greenfield and Alberto Castillo Mena…