Mel Ottenberg

New York

Editor-in-Chief at Interview Magazine

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Articles

“Vibes Are Great, Honestly”: Let’s Meet Apple Martin

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.
“Vibes Are Great, Honestly”: Let’s Meet Apple Martin

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mel Ottenberg

3 hours agoTime to build an ark? "Generational" rainfall amounts are forecast to fall across portions of the central U.S. from Wednesday to Saturday, resulting in historic and life-threatening flooding across the region, the National Weather Service in Memphis said. According to AccuWeather, up to four months' …
5Mel Ottenberg Reviews Saint Laurent FW25

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Jake Nevins

TUESDAY 11:26 PM MARCH 11, 2025 PARISMy body is broken and I’m going on vacation tomorrow, but the Saint Laurent show was quite good. This show is really hitting on 1986, 1987 Yves Saint Laurent Fall-Winter shows, where he was doing bold color and proportion and silhouette. ThOSE collections were not very well-received, if I remember correctly, but I always thought they looked amazing. That was when I started drawing fashion, actually. And then I wanted to be a fashion designer.
Mel Ottenberg Reviews Miu Miu FW25

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Taylore Scarabelli |Mel Ottenberg

TUESDAY 8:12 PM MARCH 11, 2025 PARISLeave it to Miuccia Prada to tap heavyweights like Gigi Hadid, Sarah Paulson, and Laura Harrier for the Miu Miu FW25 show, where femininity wasn’t just celebrated, but stripped down to its rudiments. On Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Prada sent plaid skirts, shearling coats, and blinged-out socks down the runway to a soundtrack by Clara 3000, ratifying the brand’s status as the go-to house for It Girls from Paris to New York.
Demna Takes Mel Ottenberg Inside Balenciaga FW25

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Jake Nevins

SUNDAY 4:38 PM MARCH 9, 2025 PARISOn Sunday afternoon at the Cour du Dôme des Invalides in Paris, black curtains partitioned the sprawling interiors to create a sort of maze, ensuring that every guest at the Balenciaga FW25 show effectively had a front-row seat. And this was the kind of show where you wanted to be up close and personal.
Mel Ottenberg Reviews Valentino FW25

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Taylore Scarabelli |Mel Ottenberg

SUNDAY 11:09 PM MARCH 9, 2025 PARIS3PM might be a strange time to find oneself in the bathroom at the rave, but we’ll go to great lengths for Valentino. On Sunday afternoon, creative director Alessandro Michele presented his FW25 collection in a staged public restroom awash in Lynchian red hues, inviting guests into an opulent fantasy featuring gowns that seemed plucked from the closet of a stylish grand dame.
A Dispatch From the Front Row at Sarah Burton's Givenchy Debut

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Jake Nevins

FRIDAY 11:05 AM MARCH 7, 2025 PARISOn Friday morning, the hottest ticket in Paris was a seat at designer Sarah Burton’s first collection for Givenchy, marking a major reset for the house. “To go forward, you have to go back to the beginning,” said Burton, whose debut included references to the brand’s very first collection from 1952, updated for the contemporary woman.
Anna Dello Russo and Nadia Lee Cohen Review Chloé FW25

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Jake Nevins

THURSDAY 11:13 AM MARCH 6, 2025 PARISIn Paris on Thursday morning, everyone wanted to be the archetypal Chloé girl. But who is she, exactly? “I love the Chloé girl,” our fashion director Dara told photographer and it-girl Nadia Lee Cohen. “She’s really chic.” Meanwhile, editor Anna Dello Russo was all about creative director Chemena Kamali’s joyful invocations of the 1990s. “The best show so far this season,” she exclaimed.
“Head to Toe Swamp”: Doechii Takes Us to Acne Studios FW25

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Jake Nevins

WEDNESDAY 2:53 PM MARCH 5, 2025 PARISAt l’Observatoire de Paris, some very important guests including Bladee, Peggy Gou, and The Dare sidled up to a runway adorned with a futuristic “skyline” sculptures inspired by Swedish nature for the Acne Studios FW25 show. After a glamorous procession of short hems and soft silhouettes, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg tracked down the Tampa-raised rapper Doechii to talk bags, bites, and boiled peanuts—because sometimes you need a little Florida in France.
How Baylen Dupree Turned Tourette's TikTok Into Television Stardom

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mel Ottenberg |Emily Sandstrom

When Baylen Dupree first started posting TikToks in 2020, she quickly amassed a following of devoted fans for her playful, unfiltered videos of a young person enduring the pandemic while managing her vocal and motor tics. When Dupree’s symptoms began to reach their most extreme heights, curiosity and hate inevitably started to flood her comments. Trolls accused her of exaggerating her condition for likes, or questioned how she was able to maintain a job while living with Tourette’s.