This is Heather C.

In 1969, Italian Radical design collective Archizoom created the No-Stop City, a hyper-planned urban environment where every comfort—from temperature to light—could constantly be controlled and life was organized like a supermarket or factory. With its quantity-over-quality philosophy, the No-Stop City was a critical, exaggerated example of the increasingly artificial and consumerist 20th-century idea of utopia.

For the latest issue of Flaunt, I contributed to very different articles. One a profile of rising star Elizabeth Debicki, who charmed me over breakfast as she prepares for the deluge that’s about to come with her star-making role in Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby. Then I Skyped with one of the members of Atfal Ahdath, a Lebanese art collective who create art that explores the way memories are manufactured.

An actress making a name for herself, and art about constructing identity—maybe they’re not so different after all.

I recently had the chance to chat with Jim Drain as he preps for his new show “Drain Expressions” at PRISM gallery in Los Angeles. Our conversation touched on everything from Awesome Tapes from Africa to the enduring power of the GIF, but a girl’s got to keep some things to herself, right?

 

 

 
Model Nick Kamen, actress Emma Stone, and Leonard DiCaprio, just a few of the famous faces immortalized at the absolutely incredible Star Portraits.