Interview's New Regime

Big changes at the magazine set up by Andy Warhol to turn his downtown friends into celebrities: in place of a frumpy lesbian, Interview is now to be led by a gay fashion template. From John Koblin's profile of Christopher Bollen, the magazine's new editor: "In crisp white oxford-cloth shirt by Adam Kimmel (“He’s my favorite designer”), gray Karl Lagerfeld sweater vest, Dior navy cords and Margiela brown shoes, he was an advertiser’s wet dream." One didn't think it possible: the new Interview may be even more self-loving than the old.[New York Observer]

A Magazine All About Me

Word comes in over the tipline that Christopher Bollen of V Magazine is to take over as editor of Interview, the post recently vacated by the unpleasant Ingrid Sischy. If true, hottie-about-town Bollen would be an appropriate hire for Interview, a magazine founded by Andy Warhol to explore the cult of celebrity which has devolved into a desultory circle-jerk of downtown personalities. Bollen was featured in Me Magazine, a publication with a similarly nauseating premise: each issue is devoted to a single "creative individual" and their circle of equally creative friends. (Much like today's Gawker!)