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Articles in May, 2009 issue of Interview

• Andy Spade, the man behind Kate, is a legendary adman, a marketing genius, and an undercover artist. His new company, Partners & Spade, is a little bit of everything, just like him
  by Glenn O'Brien
• Mayview: let's flip a coin over a design issue: Interview's editorial director and editor in chief discuss the issue
• Jesse Hudnutt moved to New York to design menswear. He reads James Joyce for his mind and Star magazine for guilty pleasure
  by Lucy Madison
• Rooney Mara wants to save orphaned kids in Kenya, but in the meantime, she's okay with building a brilliant acting career
  by Michael Martin
• Olly Alexander grew up touring amusement parks, which proved to be the perfect background for his roller-coaster film career
  by Michael Martin
• James Franco spots young director Cary Joji Fukunaga, whose first feature involves first brutal gangs, desperate immigrants, dangerous train rides, and 2,000 extras
• Capture
• Janelle Monae has a sound rooted in old-school funk, but this conceptual lyricist stretches her soulful grooves way beyond R&B into post-pop Blade Runner territory
  by Michael Martin
• Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, is back a new album that's a meditation on fame, religion, and the spiritual lives of artists—and a postcard to his old peace-, love-, and wonderment-devoted self
  by Kristine McKenna
• Juun.J is creating the most coveted menswear of the moment. You could call it militant-macho-origami-unisex futurism. Or just plain cool
  by Ken Miller
• Cyprien Gaillard loves it when things fall apart. The young French artist sees beauty in destruction, and that is why much of his incendiary work goes up in smoke
  by Alex Gartenfeld
• Mike Mills's Graphics Films
• PHI and Interview support Art Production Fund
• Bottle service
  by Alexandra Mack
• Beasty
  by Lucy Madison
• Art bag
  by Fan Zhong
• Insider
  by Alex Gartenfeld
• Dance tracks
  by Lucy Madison
• Designer within reach
  by Alexandra Mack
• Atmospheric
  by Lucy Silberman
• Miamity
  by Fan Zhong
• Deep waters
  by Fan Zhong
• Ed Westwick is not only here to steal your daughters, screw over your friends, and have a blast in New-York City. In real life, the Gossip Girl actor is a dedicated rock 'n' roller who wears his heart tattooed on his sleeve
  by David Colman
• Cuff love
  by Tom Allen
• Design of all kinds: more than one kind of design: what about drawing the world?
• Marc Newson … has turned a chair into a masterpiece of sculptural form. While he's taken over the contemporary art world with his classic references and stunning futurist effects, he is, first and foremost, a craftsman, a man who believes in his mat
  by Peter M. Brant
• Konstantin Grcic … has designed every object in the house. Even though he is one of the premier industrial-design geniuses, he believes that expertise isn't always the creative answer. Whether it be an espresso machine, a bicycle, or even a laundry
  by David Coggins
• Ron Arad … thought he could save the world with his chairs. His furniture may not have actually rescued the planet, but he has surely saved the design world from boredom and predictability: tables standing on walls, armchairs made of car seats, and
  by Anthony Haden-Guest
• A woman of all seasons: a season for no reason at all: what about falling in love again: Stephanie Seymour Brant, a Lanvin collector, interviews Elbaz and wears his vintage. pieces, while models sport the next season on the streets of Paris
  by Stephanie Seymour Brant
• Woman of great understanding: the understanding of great woman: what about not being afraid of ourselves? Robin Wright Penn has spent the past decade choosing family over work, while channelling a succession of fraught, doomed wives and mothers in film af
  by Francis Ford Coppola
• Donna Karan is New York style. The former top designer of Anne Klein launched the label that bears her name in 1984. Then in 1989, she made her New York love thing official with the line DKNY. Since then, Karan has defined chic for urbane women, made peac
  by Calvin Klein
• Albert Oehlen is a painter who is leading the way. Whether anyone is following is almost irrelevant, because Oehlen's fantastic exploratory techniques and improvisational spirit have blazed a spectacular trail through abstraction. And he has breathed some
  by Glenn O'Brien
• Red carpet Oscar virgin: a Kodak moment
  by Jeffrey Slonim
• Matt Dillon was famous at 15
• Sebastian Errazuriz, is half merry prankster, half brooding death-poet. But he's all artist and all designer. The young innovator defends his right to make anything—as long us it hasn't been done before
  by Ross Bleckner
• Karl Lagerfeld used the runway this season to show how sexy young women might look in a zero-gravity future. And one of his models turned reporter for us backstage, asking the legendary designer what the future holds for a man who never looks back
  by Sigrid Agren
• Shigeru Ban … was creating shrines out of sustainable materials when the word green only described a color. For a man who got structural ideas from wicker huts and rolls of fax paper, the buildings of tomorrow can be made of anything—as long us
  by Judith Benhamou-Huet
• Peter Bjorn and John the cerebral Swedes behind that whistling song, are vying to avoid one-hit-wonderdom with a new album that features children's choir. And they might be onto something
  by Matt Diehl
• Neri Oxman is designing chairs, artworks, even buildings that can reach out and touch someone—literally reach out and touch someone. The artist as architect is bringing some new forms of life to design
  by John Ortved
• Wavves is the stage name for a young SoCal musician who escaped a life of zonked-out video-game boredom by writing songs about it. He now enjoys zonked-out video-game bliss
  by T. Cole Rachel
• Diamond exchange
  by Fan Zhong
• Alasdhair Willis … has already led one design revolution in print. Now he and his partners, who make up the London-based firm Established & Sons, are leading a second charge. It's not a major movement … yet
  by Suzanne Slesin
• Emma Watson
  by Derek Blasberg
• Tough guys do dance: do you dance with tough guys?
  by Marlon Wayans