Alex Frank

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Alex Frank

Alex G Frank·Follow14 min read·--Perfume Genius got clean and fell in love. Then he realized sobriety doesn’t make adulthood simple. (Interview originally published in THE FADER January 2017)If anyone is keeping the tradition of gay kitsch alive for the 21st century, it’s Mike Hadreas. He and his boyfriend of eight years, Alan Wyffels, both 35, live on a corner in Tacoma, Washington, in a house painted lemon on the outside, lime on the inside.

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Alex Frank

Alex G Frank·Follow18 min read·--Paramore’s Hayley Williams has been an icon of an entire generation’s angst. Now, at 28, she’s finding she has her own unrest to deal with. (Originally published in THE FADER in June 2017)When I first meet Hayley Williams, she hits me with a hug and just about the biggest smile you could ever hope for.

1 month ago | ssense.com | Morgan Maher |Alex Frank

You catch a whiff of her before you see her, as the velvet scent of her Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds wafts all the way down the hallway to the small elevator that opens onto the lobby of her floor. Amanda Lepore’s apartment—the space in which she transforms into the glittering celebrity we see on red carpets and club openings, with corsets and high heels and wigs and accessories that she bejewels herself —is just a tiny studio, decorated with Marilyn Monroe photos and animal prints.

1 month ago | netflix.com | Alex Frank

“It was rejuvenating. It was a rebirth. It was a reconnection with my roots,” says actress Zoe Saldaña. By Alex FrankMarch 3, 2025All About EMILIA PÉREZThe Oscar nominee finds her meatiest — and most meaningful — role yet. Jacques Audiard’s film stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez. Emilia Pérez and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl celebrated big wins. The audio team balances magic melodies with lively acoustics of reality.

Nov 20, 2024 | netflixqueue.com | Alex Frank

With garments old and new, costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini transforms Angelina Jolie into the ultimate icon of arias. 5 min readYou can’t tell the story of a diva’s life without the right gowns — wardrobe and jewels are essential to our idea of the prima donna, one of many tools these formidable women use to transmit mythos and majesty.