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Kate Moss on the Possibility of Moving and Making Movies, Bags, and Shoes

fashionologie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:41:18 PST

>> In the March 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Glenn O'Brien asks cover girl Kate Moss about her fashion design career. "Um . . . I'm not really a fashion designer," she retorts. "I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf."

O'Brien responds, "Well, that's what lots of famous designers do. They find great old clothes in stores and copy them. Most designers today are really stylists. How many do you think can really sketch?" Kate replies, "Lee McQueen doesn't do that! [John] Galliano doesn't do that! There are lots of them who don't. Stella [McCartney] is a proper designer!"

Kate may not consider herself a designer, but she's got a clothing line with Topshop and a new handbag line with Longchamp - whose company's chief executive John Cassegrain is clearly thrilled with the outcome: "We have not really made a plan or a budget for Kate - but she is known worldwide, everybody likes her and she has already given us more visibility." And she's not done - she wants a jewelry collection, she tells the International Herald Tribune, “to get out my jewelry and say ‘this necklace’ and ‘this bracelet.”’

She continues: “Not shoes. I’ll leave that to the professional craftsmanship. And I wouldn’t do a sneaker - I would do a ballet pump. I bought sneakers thinking they would be good for working out in Ibiza, and I looked down and thought ‘That’s not my foot!”’ Kate says there's no "master plan" for her career, but you won't catch in a movie. “I couldn’t sit on set - sitting in a caravan for six months.”

Finally, all those rumors of moving to Paris aren't true - she would never live anywhere else. “I’m so British. I just like going home. I like the bus stops; I just do. I love the country. I like being able to get in my car and drive myself.”

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fashionologie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:49:38 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE -Glenn O'Brien spoke to Fashion Week Daily and Page Six last week after being replaced by Fabien Baron at Interview, leaving much-repeated quotes like "It's like a Greek tragedy. Like watching a company going insane, instead of a person" in his wake. In retaliation, Interview owner Brant Publications has filed a lawsuit again O'Brien today, alleging that he breached a confidentiality agreement by giving the aforementioned interviews. [WWD]

fashionologie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:52:25 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE -As rumored, Fabien Baron is coming back into the Interview fold as editorial director, replacing former co-editorial director Glenn O'Brien. Baron was originally fired in January and took creative director Karl Templer with him. After he left, the logo revamp he did was replaced and Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag of M/M Paris were brought in as creative directors. Baron is said to be talking to top talent about coming back with him - M/M Paris do not appear to be currently working on the August 2009 issue and are expected to leave the magazine - will he revert the logo as well? [WWD, FWD]

fashionologie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:34:06 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE -If editorial director Glenn O'Brien leaves Interview as rumored, Fabien Baron might be back to run the show. While the magazine's owner Peter Brant is embroiled in a messy divorce, his son, Brant Publications' new president Ryan Brant, is said to be running the show and wants Baron, who was popular with advertisers, back. Discussions between Baron and Brant have gone far enough that Baron has approached top talent about returning to Interview with him. [FWD]

fashionologie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:56:13 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE -The turmoil for Peter Brant continues, in both his personal and professional lives. While Brant was in Europe last week, one of his bodyguards was arrested for shoving Brant's wife, Stephanie Seymour, into a door. Brant and Seymour are in the midst of a messy divorce, and police have reportedly been called a number of times for disturbances on their property, ranging from a car windshield being smashed with a bat to a complaint from Seymour about a GPS unit placed on her car. Brant's magazine Interview has also seen a lot of upset recently; editorial director Fabien Baron and creative director Karl Templer left after a few short months, and now Baron's co-editorial director Glenn O'Brien is said to be leaving after his relationship with Brant has deteriorated. [Greenwich Time, WWD]

Quote Of The Day: Glenn O'Brien's Fashion Week Diary

coutorture — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:28:04 PDT

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But let me tell you this, you people out there in public relations land, put Glenn O'Brien in the second row and you won't be seeing him at your show! Ever! You and your has-been designer will be like the Westin Palace, a fading memory on a dim horizon, waiting for the wrecker's ball or the redecorator's estimate because I know the blogs will feel that I have somehow slipped down the totem pole. And I'm a top not a bottom.

”"Fashion World: A Report From The Front Row (Mostly), Interview

Cost Cutting, Mainstream Pressure Caused Fabien Baron's Interview Exit

fashionologie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:32:17 PST

>> Now that the news of Fabien Baron and Karl Templer's departures from Interview has had a chance to sink in, a little background on the breakdown. According to sources close to the magazine, Baron, who also owns agency Baron & Baron, spent too little time in the office and too much money on shoots. Fabien's co-editorial director, Glenn O'Brien, seems to confirm these reports: "Fabien is a busy man. We haven’t seen him a lot up here. We have to have our needs met here.”

That, in addition to the fact that "he comes with a big price tag," especially in a time of falling ad pages, did not bode well. His pricy fashion spread expenditures did not mesh well as Interview's bottom line went lower than expected, and supposedly, Baron began to feel pressure from Brant Publications to cut costs, "take the magazine more mainstream, popular, and Hollywood." Although Baron hung up on WWD when asked for a comment, he and Templer, who chose to leave when Baron was pushed out, "tried to come to terms and were very disappointed at having to leave."

According to Glenn O'Brien, the parting wasn't so pretty: “In any creative enterprise, there’s always screaming." But until April, when M/M Paris take over creative direction of the issues . . .
*image: source

Kate Moss, Unplugged, in Interview September 2008

fashionologie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:56:26 PDT

>> She may famously avoid going on the record, but in the September 2008 Interview, Kate Moss speaks. Glenn O'Brien's piece, which comes as close to a conversation with Kate as you may ever get, runs the gamut from her controversial weight to daughter Lila Grace, with a little comedic word-association in between. Let the gems begin . . .

She wasn't a big fan of working with Mark Wahlberg on those famous Calvin Klein ads.

At the time he was such a d*ckhead. He wasn't very nice.

And she got more than she bargained for when she met Frank Sinatra at his 80th birthday party.

I was with Johnny [Depp] at the time. And Frank came over to me and got all of his security to close in so Johnny couldn't get to me. I was sitting down having a cigarette, and he just walked in the room, and he spotted me and made a beeline to me. So we were encircled by security in this backstage area, and he's like, "How are we doing, little Lady?" And I said, "Happy Birthday, Frank!" and I want to shake his hand, and he just lunged at me . . . He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

Who she thinks is square, and who she thinks is bisexual . . . »

fashionologie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:46:41 PDT

>> INSIDER WIRE —To further promote his Interview cover, Marc Jacobs will be appearing on Charlie Rose tonight along with Stephanie Seymour, Glenn O'Brien, and Peter Brant to talk Andy Warhol, art collecting, and the fifteen minutes of fame phenomenon. [Style File]

The Interview Situation, Laid Out in Full

fashionologie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:13:14 PDT

>> Interview has had a major case of rotating door syndrome in the last month or so. While its owner, Peter Brant, is in the midst of a messy divorce with Stephanie Seymour, editorial director Glenn O'Brien has been replaced by his former co-editorial director, Fabien Baron, who was allegedly fired from the magazine last Fall for going over budget; Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak of M/M Paris, who were brought in to replace creative director Karl Templer when he left alongside Fabien Baron last Fall, are now leaving the magazine so that Templer can come back (and also because they were supposedly owed three months pay plus expenses); editor-in-chief Christopher Bollen is being pushed out as editor-at-large so that executive editor Stephen Mooallem, who has been at the magazine for six years, can be installed as editor; and fashion director Joe McKenna is also rumored to be leaving. On top off all that, O'Brien is now being sued by Interview for giving interviews after his departure, violating a non-disclosure agreement he says he didn't sign.

So what exactly is going on? »