Numéro 233

In this Numéro 233 : an exclusive interview with Christine and the Queen, who presents their new poetic and flamboyant musical project Redcar; an interview with the singer Lous and the Yakuza, who releases her second album Iota; a portrait of the 23-year-old artist Oete, the upcoming French pop icon; an interview with Casey Cadwallader, the talented designer who took the reins of the house of Mugler in 2018; a focus on the duo Gerard & Kelly, whose work mingling dance, art, and cinema, is exhibited at the Carré d’art in Nîmes, France.

 

Also, Jeremy Thomas, the producer who won the Jury Prize in Cannes for his film Hi-Han; One Fine Morning, Mia Hansen-Løve’s new film with Léa Seydoux; the sculptor Carol Bove, who will soon be exhibited at the David Zwirner Gallery; portraits made by the enigmatic Viennese artist Marina Faust; the contemporary mutant interpretated by photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Babeth Djian; fashion series by Bastiann Woudt, Damien Krisl, Umit Savaci, Szilvester Mako, Yulia Gorbachenko and Noël Quintela.  

In a world where everything must be controlled, measured and rationalised, passion unsettles: it escapes control and refuses compromise. Also in this issue: Victoria Luengo, who brought two films to this year's Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's Autofiction and Rodrigo Sorogoyen's L'Être aimé; Leïla Bekhti, whose work relentlessly explores identity and female emancipation, and who has turned her red-carpet appearances into a powerful statement; Eartheater, unveiling a seventh album of experimental electroacoustic pop; La Vie d'une femme, starring Léa Drucker and Mélanie Thierry; Arthur Harari's L'Inconnue, in competition at Cannes with Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider.

By a swimming pool in Los Angeles, Taylor Russell opens up with fire and daring in this issue. Also in this issue: Pedro Almodóvar, who has just presented Autofiction in Cannes, a dive into the workings of his mind and a creative process he describes as an inner ocean of emotions; Alewya, the London-based singer, songwriter and producer releasing her debut album this summer; Iliona, at 25 one of the brightest stars of the French-speaking scene; Charlotte Cardin, named female artist of the year.