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2 days ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Tina Knowles is a mom to many, but it took a lifetime to put herself first. In a memoir out this April, the entrepreneur recalls her triumphs and traumas, from an impoverished childhood in the segregated South to building a family-run music empire alongside daughters Beyoncé and Solange—and a husband who couldn’t stay faithful. “I got tired of everybody else telling our story and judging us,” the 71-year-old reveals to Ellen Pompeo.
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6 days ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
To Vybz Kartel, born Adidja Palmer, “New York [City] is Jamaica 2.0.” So it’s no surprise that the dancehall icon’s blowout weekend at Barclays Center evoked the same feeling as his Kingston comeback a few months ago. The Freedom Street bash was Kartel’s first performance since his imprisonment 13 years back—and the largest music event in Jamaica in half a century—but he never let circumstances slow him, relentlessly dropping music from behind bars until his release last year.
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1 week ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Jordan Firstman won’t guard your secrets, but he might remix them. The writer, filmmaker, and comedian, known for Big Mouth, the Sundance-nominated Call Your Father, and the feature film Rotting in the Sun, started collecting his followers’ various secrets on Instagram around the time his pandemic impressions series started to go viral.
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2 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Colin Self is tapped in with their trickster self. It’s an archetype the multidisciplinary artist has had a lifelong relationship with, a mischievous spirit-world manifestation of the sentimentality that comes out in their work. From puppetry school to avant-drag with Hari Nef to opera with Raúl de Nieves, there are no limitations to Self’s expression. But their latest brainchild is the most pure and poignant yet.
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2 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Pressure Point, Eli Roth, and Benny Blanco. This week’s installment comes straight from the USB of New York nightlife vixen Sausha de la Ossa.
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3 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Mekala Rajagopal
How does the daughter of two megastars end up so grounded, quick-witted, and sharp? Never mind that her mom built a wellness empire and her dad fronts one of the biggest bands on the planet—Apple Martin just has it. She grew up singing and playing guitar, and now, at 20, the Vanderbilt Law student splits her time between the library and the stage. On campus and at Interview, where she interned two summers ago, she’s just a regular girl with a private Instagram.
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4 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Boy Harsher |Mekala Rajagopal
Carolina-born artist Kinlaw is something of an adrenaline junkie. “I’m looking to heighten stakes, especially physically, and have something to push back on,” she told Jae Matthews, one-half of electronic duo Boy Harsher, of her artistic ethos. Since her spontaneous move to New York at 17, Kinlaw’s practice of music, movement, and choreography has been propelled by full-throttle impulse, from her past works at MoMA PS1 and Pioneer Works to later collaborations with SOPHIE and Caroline Polachek.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Lourdes León León |Mekala Rajagopal
Being a woman means perpetually deciding whether to follow or flout the rules you’re given, but for some, the easy answer is to unflinchingly give zero fucks. That irreverence is what makes a MadeMe girl— “and it’s the opposite of it girl,” quips founder Erin Magee.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
TUESDAY 12:23 PM MARCH 10, 2025 PARISThis past weekend, McQueen FW25 told a feral fairytale in the botanical gardens of Paris. For Seán McGirr’s third women’s collection at the British fashion house, he went full “neo-dandy,” paying homage to those maximalist men of the 18th and 19th centuries. After the show, our fashion director Dara called us up to gush over the grotesqueness of it all.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal
TUESDAY 5:46 PM MARCH 4, 2025 PARISOnce upon a time at Paris Fashion Week, our fashion director Dara pushed through swarming crowds outside the Tuileries Garden for Dior FW25, where Maria Grazia Chiuri presented a sweeping fashion fairytale fitting of the iconic French house. Red military coats, pantaloons, and ruffles were proof that the modern appetite for nostalgia knows no limit.
