Interview Magazine

All photos courtesy of Aida Osman. In another life, one could easily imagine comedian Aida Osman as a modern day philosopher. At just 29, she’s enjoyed starring roles and writing credits on a litany of highly-esteemed comedies, like Issa Rae’s Rap Shit, Nick Kroll’s Big Mouth, and Ramy Youssef’s Ramy. Now, the stand-up, screenwriter, and actress is continuing that streak with a role on Will Ferrell’s new show The Hawk out this week on Netflix.

Madonna photographed by Herb Ritts for Interview. In honor of Madonna co-headlining the first-ever FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show this Sunday, we dug up one of her first conversations published in Interview magazine written by Glenn O’Brien. The pair banter about the making of her Blonde Ambition tour, filming Dick Tracy, and Donald Trump running for president…Check out more of the eerily prescient discussion below.

“Hope lives in a place where you allow the world to hurt you enough to know that you are stronger than the worst it can offer,” says Nigerian-British photographer and activist Misan Harriman. This willingness to be vulnerable brings power to his images shot on the front lines of various protest movements and capturing the universal hurt, rage, and hope in the faces of those fighting for social change.

All photos courtesy of Cannelle. Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve featured playlists from Eera, Eli, and Petra Collins. This week’s installment comes to us courtesy of Cannelle, the Marseille-born, LA-based artist packing night clubs worldwide with her bilingual electropop sound.

All photos courtesy of Dara. For Pandora, there can never be too much whimsy. And with their new Wonders collection, designed in partnership with creative director and stylist Harry Lambert, the brand may have finally achieved peak zany. The line features pieces that are the embodiment of playful luxury, depicting squids, frogs, pea pods, and even ice cream cones, all crafted out of hand-picked Baroque pearls that add an unexpected dash of pure elegance to these designs.

A last-minute yes to a girls’ weekend in Joshua Tree turned into the most terrifying night of Izabel Pakzad’s life when a stranger in a green Mustang chased her for almost ten minutes down a dark desert highway with zero cell service and nowhere to turn. The experience felt like a horror movie, and years later, she turned it into one.

It’s a sweaty Friday night, and Charli XCX just blessed the crowd at Music Hall of Williamsburg with songs from her upcoming album Music, Fashion, Film, alongside Clairo, Kim Petras, and underscores. After the show, Charli and crew popped over to Night Moves for the afterparty, where Mel Ottenberg and Hailey Benton Gates stole her for a quick backyard cig and got straight to it, talking about acting ambitions, favorite directors, and underwear situations.

Photo courtesy of Sue Tompkins. One of the hardest tasks for any artist is to simply sound like themselves. In the case of Sue Tompkins, there’s almost no mistaking her voice for anyone else. The Scottish multi-media painter and performer is probably most widely known as the frontwoman of Life Without Buildings, the cult indie rock band whose legacy as one of the very best of the 2000s was cemented long before TikTok came back to super-charge their reputation again.

All photos courtesy of Villanelle. When the members of Villanelle turned on their Zoom camera on Monday, their elation was palpable. Not because they were thrilled to speak with me, but because England had just beaten Mexico 3-2 in the World Cup the night before. No hard feelings, though.

Kitty Lever, photographed by Julian Ribeiro. Kitty Lever lives in a universe of her own creation. Via her Instagram alter ego, the content creator, model, and poet has curated a totally singular aesthetic language that seamlessly fuses together things as seemingly disparate as her love of the written word, Gollum, improv comedy, and a background playing D1 sports.