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Max Irons Talks About Crushing On Kate Moss, His Love Of Uggs, And More In Our Exclusive Interview

Posted 1/24/12 12:00 pm EST by Chrissy Mahlmeister in Campaigns, Dudes, Interviews

Max Irons in New York on Jan. 19.
Photo: Getty Images

When we found out that actor Max Irons (yep, the son of Jeremy Irons) was the new face of Macy's INC, we pored over his spring/summer campaign images and pined for the chance at seeing that chiseled jaw in person. So when we were invited to meet and interview Max about his new modeling gig, we fired up our digital recorders, scrawled a slew of questions in our oh-so-official journo notepad, and immediately hoofed over to The London Hotel on a crazy-cold Thursday morning. Ushered into the all-marble lobby, we were ferried up to the 50th floor in an elevator lined with mirrors where we could panic-fix our wandering liquid eyeliner and fix our damp hat hair because, you know, smudged makeup and matted follicles are the ONLY thing standing in the way of making Max OURS.

Tags Campaigns, Dudes, Guy Fashion, Interview, Macys, Max Irons

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New Universal Artist Azealia Banks Talks Nails, Weaves, Shopping, And Boris The Boot Man

Posted 1/18/12 6:57 pm EST by Mary H.K. Choi in Interviews, Video

Azealia Banks.
Photo: Matt Barnes

As some of you may know, hyper-cute, 20-year-old, uptown MC Azealia Banks landed a major record deal today, signing with Universal Music Group.

I am now officially signed to Universal Music.

— ? YUNG RAPUNXEL ? (@AZEALIABANKS) January 18, 2012

This is awesome, considering we've been quietly stalking her and sending a grip of positive vibes her way since she came into our offices to gossip about style. As I've rhapsodized in previous posts, I think your girl is the mazin'. Truly hilarious and basically the bee's knees and fearless in that way where you cannot believe how wicked-auspicious THIS PARTICULAR collection of traits is in one tiny, mortal person. While you can read all about the deal anywhere on the information superhighway except for...ummmm...Wikipedia today, the thing I wanted to bend your ear about, or rather bogart your eyeballs on, is this fistful of awesome videos.

FIRST OF ALL, A LITTLE BACKSTORY: I dragged Azealia in here while she was recording and because she was headed out of the country for a slew of European engagements, we were pressed for time. Basically, I made her film without hair and makeup. YUP, AND SHE WAS COOL ABOUT IT.

The only reason I'm throwing out the preamble is that you can tell by this The Hundreds cover (shot by Brooke Nipar and featured after the jump) and the leading photo by Matt Barnes, your girl can run the gamut between girl-next-door easy-breezy and
VAMP. BOOM.

Tags Azealia Banks, Interviews, Videos

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Sky Ferreira Channels Madonna In A Shoot By Mario Testino For 'V' Magazine

Posted 1/9/12 7:23 pm EST by Alex Catarinella in 'It' Girls, Interviews

Sky Ferreira for "V" magazine.
Photo: Courtesy of "V" magazine

There's a new, young, and wildly talented firecracker of a pop star channeling Madonna these days, and her name is Sky Ferreira. We could make a list of why we heart the 19-year-old—the Bloodshy & Avant-produced pop gems, her towering Calvin Klein billboards in SoHo, her penchant for jeggings—but now there's a new DROP DEAD GORGE reason in this V magazine Music Issue spread, shot by the legendary Mario Testino. Holy bangles!

MTV style caught up with Sky this past weekend and dished heavy about Madonna, music, Fashion Week plans, OH, and we also gabbed about her Twitter BFF (Azealia Banks) and her IRL BFF (Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson).

Tags Azealia Banks, Garbage, Gregg Araki, Madonna, Mario Testino, Shirley Manson, Sky Ferreira, Stephen Gan, V Magazine

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Watch Beavis And Butt-Head In This Stüssy Sweatshirt For A Less Sucky Winter

Posted 1/4/12 5:02 pm EST by Mary H.K. Choi in Designers, Interviews, Shopping, TV Shows

Stüssy x Beavis and Butt-Head.
Photo: Courtesy of Stüssy

If you're anything like us, you embody the couch-locked pop-culture pundits Beavis and Butt-Head to the extent that you're maaaaaybe too lazy for appointment viewing. Though the resurrected run, aka Season 9, JUUUUUUST ended and that's all dreadfully it does also mark the AWESOME occasion of the entire 12 episode run being available for viewing online. DO THE MATH: this means you can watch it all on your iPad or laptop or Kindle Fire or whatever IN BED, which is the most luxurious viewing experience of all.

The only thing that gilds that ol' lily of a lazytime supine 'splosion is if you're WEARING a Beavis And Butt-Head x Stüssy crew neck sweatshirt with cashmere leggings (OH WE KNOW) while doing so...and drinking an alcoholic milkshake from a sippy cup (WHILE LYING DOWN). The thing you should know about your new and very necessary jumper is that its existence is partly owed to the birth of one man (NO, NOT MIKE JUDGE, but good guess). This dude goes by the name of Adam Jay Weissman and he is not only the art director at Stüssy and responsible for special T-shirt projects like Stüssy x Marvel, he is also the producer and percussionist for L.A.-based R&B, pop, soul, "cosmic sci-fi" trio Pollyn.

He's cool so we interviewed him and learned about what inspires him, what he loves about the CLASSIC MTV icons, and how the Beavis and Butt-Head-Stüssy collab almost never happened.

Tags Beavis and Butt-Head, Designers, Shopping, Stussy, T-Shirts

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Lady Gaga's Barneys Workshop Opens Tonight So We Interviewed Collaborator Kerin Rose

Posted 11/21/11 1:00 pm EST by Mary H.K. Choi in Interviews, Shopping

A-Morir by Kerin Rose spike moto gloves.
Photo: Courtesy of Barneys

YOU GUYS. The Lady Gaga Workshop at Barneys opens TONIGHT. For those of you who have been checking out the countdown, you will notice that the final Gaga goodie is a leather glove made by none other than MTV Style pal and frequent Nicola Formichetti/Haus of Gaga collaborator, Kerin Rose. Kerin makes a painfully gorgeous, super sparkly eyewear collection dubbed A-Morir By Kerin Rose but she also custom makes masks, teacups, spiked hoodies, jewelry, and basically a litany of other wonderfully crafted works of art that make you feel like opposable thumbs and fine motor skills were wasted on you.

We caught up with the flame-tressed designer to chat about how long she's been in cahoots with the Gaga x Barneys project, what you can expect to see at the pop up shop's unveiling, and why you don't have to be racked with guilt should you drop a highly irresponsible amount of cash buying heaps of presents from this particular spot.

Tags A Morir, Barney's, Gaga Workshop, Interviews, Kerin Rose, Lady Gaga

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Joyrich Clothing! Everything You Need To Know About This Nicki Minaj And Lil Wayne Favorite

Posted 11/8/11 4:45 pm EST by Rory Rockmore in Designers, Interviews

Leah & David / Joyrich Clothing, L.A.
Photo: Joyrich / GIF: Rory Rockmore

Joyrich is one of those brands that if you haven't heard of it, you're definitely about to and if nothing else, you've CERTAINLY seen it. With major presence in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan and, of course, here in the U.S., the label's vibrant graphics and ultra-saturated palette are gloriously frenzied when worn head-to-toe and perfect for accent pieces as well. Plus, seriously, check out their blog if you haven't already. Such good feedin'.

ANYWAY, while we were in L.A. we (editor's note: well, only Rory went and returned with a KILLER TAN and leopard print EVERYTHING) caught up with the folks responsible for the aesthetic, Leah Schmidt and David Melgar (known as Leah & David [no surnames needed]) who took us behind-the-scenes at their Spring/Summer 2012 lookbook shoot. We got to spend some QT with the dynamic duo who design, blog, run the daily operations whilst being CUHRAZY entertaining and looking fantastic. Obvi. So stay tuned and learn a thing or seven.
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Tags Designers, GIFs, Interviews, Joyrich

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Meet Jonny Makeup: Musician, Socialite, Jeremy Scott Bestie, And Clothing Buyer

Posted 9/26/11 5:15 pm EST by Rory Rockmore in Dudes, Interviews

Jonny Makeup at the Jeremy Scott NYFW afterparty.
Photo/GIF: Mr. Gif

Were you to look up Jonny Makeup on these here interwebs, you would learn that he is a performer, writer, and great American socialite. What that means is that his pretty mug has appeared on American Apparel ads as well as their tees, he's had a criminally underrated fledgling rap career (he and his crew the V.I.P. Party Boys are marvelous and have appeared on Cobra Starship's "Damn You Look Good and I'm Drunk"), and there exist about one bazillion photos of him in Google images where he's hugging up on everyone from Paris Hilton to Peaches Geldof. Since he decamped for sunny Los Angeles from New York, we had the pleasure of bumping into Mister Makeup at Jeremy Scott "Lust in the Dust" SS2012 fashion show, where we chatted about his newest hustle—buyer for the hipster party photographer Mark "the Cobrasnake" Hunter's new digi-retail store, The Cobra Shop.

Jeremy Scott afterparty
Photo/GIF: Rory Rockmore

Tags Cobra Starship, GIFs, Jeremy Scott, Jonny Makeup, The Cobra Shop

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EXCLUSIVE: Tavi Gevinson Dishes On Online Magazine 'Rookie' That Launches Today

Posted 9/5/11 6:00 am EST by Mary H.K. Choi in Interviews, Ladies

Tavi Gevinson.
Photo: Courtesy of Tavi Gevinson

There are few style blog readers who are unfamiliar with Tavi Gevinson, aka the "Style Rookie," aka the 15-year-old blogger wunderkind who routinely sits front row at fashion shows and hobnobs with the sisters Mulleavy (of Rodarte, no big deal) and graces the cover of Pop magazine. She is the tow-haired girl who raps about Rei Kawakubo (in the pocket too, if you must know) and has pwned a great many other fash blogs since launching her blogspot when she was 11. TODAY, she launches her lifestyle site Rookie Mag, and we at MTV Style are just super amped. SO we talked her face off. We dished about media empire dictatorships run (like a BOSS) by teenagers, Jane Pratt, dressing up like chickens (as you do), and what you do when you're a 15-year-old spokesmodel for a bajillion teens who love and trust you. You know, really easy stuff...

MTV Style: Why launch Rookie on Labor Day?

Tavi: We wanted to start in September but a lot of our schedule is based around the start of the week and it was awkward to start on a Thursday or Friday.

Tags Interviews, Rookie, Tavi Gevinson

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How To Make A Lady Gaga VMA Meat Dress...For Dogs

Posted 8/24/11 10:00 am EST by MTV Style in Interviews, Red Carpet, Video Music Awards

Lady Gaga and Cher at the 2010 VMAs, and their canine dopplegängers.
Photo: Getty Images

If you haven't seen the animal reenactment of Lady Gaga winning the 2010 Best Music Video Award and asking a scantily clad Cher to hold her meat purse, you are clearly missing out on the internet. When redone by a wig-wearing Sugar and a non-meat omnomnoming Moxie, the moment is every bit as memorable (but way cuter) than it was the first time around. And not only are animals acting like (famous) people heart-melting, but the costuming is so impeccable that we had to speak to the woman who sat down to replicate the VMAs Gone Wild looks...but for pint-sized pups. Check the reenactment in its furry fabulousness after the jump.

Tags 2010 Video Music Awards, 2011 Video Music Awards, 2011 VMAs, Cher, Lady Gaga, Video Music Awards

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