INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

With two issues already out and a third - the September fashion issue - promising a major redesign that returns the magazine to a larger format and sees a change from the iconic typeface of its title, there are strong signs of a regaining of vitality and purpose. For the pair's debut issue, Marc Jacobs was induced to wear one of Warhol's silver wigs for the cover and friends recounted stories about the founder; for the second, actress Eva Mendes drips sweat and eyeliner and (reluctantly) talks about her trip to rehab."We want to make it a general interest magazine with a lot more fashion and art and, hopefully, the smarter side of cinema, television and music," says O'Brien, who recently caused media wave-lets by saying, as editorial director of a celebrity magazine, he had grown weary of celebrity. "I am bored of the stalking people, the 'Oh my God, Britney Spears smoking-in-front-of-her-children' type stuff. It's loathsome. Hopefully, we'll take the high road; we want Interview to be about ideas and fun and gossip, but not on that level."

The Guardian
August 4 2008