On Monday night in Paris, Karlie Kloss and the style designer Rick Owens have been reminiscing about their first assembly. It was, Ms. Kloss stated, 17 years in the past when she was so recent to modeling that her mother accompanied her to the becoming.
What a distinction a decade and a half makes. At present Ms. Kloss sits on the Mount Rushmore of fashions who’re family names. Along with her husband, Joshua Kushner, she additionally runs Bedford Media, a burgeoning media conglomerate, and it’s in that capability that she reunited with Mr. Owens on a nonetheless evening on the trailing finish of Paris Style Week.
Mr. Owens and his spouse, Michèle Lamy, had supplied Ms. Kloss their austere Left Financial institution maison for a dinner celebrating the relaunch of i-D journal, which the model-turned-mogul purchased in 2023 after its earlier proprietor Vice filed for chapter.
“It’s a unprecedented piece of style historical past,” Ms. Kloss stated over the clinking of Champagne glasses. “I simply didn’t need it to die.”
The mission of the journal, Thom Bettridge, i-D’s new editor in chief, stated was to revive “the spirit of what it was however for proper now.”
First, what was: Based in 1980 by Terry Jones, i-D was a holy textual content for a technology of indie style acolytes. For a younger designer, photographer or mannequin, receiving an i-D characteristic was like getting blessed by the pope. Mr. Owens recalled that a long time in the past i-D gave him one in every of his earliest profiles.
The primary print challenge of Ms. Kloss’s overhauled i-D contains covers with the mannequin Naomi Campbell, whose first journal cowl was really a 1996 challenge of i-D, and Enza Khoury, a heretofore unknown 18-year-old excessive schooler from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, who was chosen from greater than 800 undiscovered entrants that answered i-D’s casting name.
“We simply needed to place our stamp on somebody who’s fully new in a approach that Terry Jones used to do,” Mr. Bettridge stated.
The journal had flown Ms. Khoury and her father, Adam, to Paris for the dinner. Wearing a sleeveless Gucci gown (she had picked the outfit from choices i-D helped safe for her), Ms. Khoury stated it was her first time leaving the nation, not to mention parachuting into Paris Style Week. She was shocked, she stated, by the cleanliness of the highways and the abundance of electrical vehicles. The subsequent day, she was attending the Miu Miu and Kiko Kostadinov style reveals with the i-D workforce.
“It’s an extremely lovely factor,” Mr. Khoury stated of his daughter’s surreal European spin.
Different dinner-goers, who sat in thronelike chairs of Mr. Owens’s creation, sipping soup from martini glasses, have been much less new to the pages of i-D, an indication that the brand new possession hadn’t diluted the reverence that these within the trade have for the journal.
Juergen Teller, who shot many i-D covers, caught out from the gothed-up visitors in his pink T-shirt. (There appears to be an unstated gown code at Château Owens.)
The German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, one other previous cowl contributor, convened with the Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, and Petra Collins, who photographed the rapper SZA for a 2018 i-D cowl, walked into the eating room with Benjamin Barron and Bror August Vestbo, the designers of the buzzy label All-In.
Mr. Jones was unable to attend the celebration, however his college-age granddaughter, Phoenix Rodan, was current, a sign that the brand new iteration of i-D has acquired the household’s blessing.
Ms. Kloss labored the room in a statuesque Rick Owens gown. “Are you able to sit down in that?” Mr. Bettridge requested. Ms. Kloss assured him she may and proved it come dinnertime.
Throughout dinner Mr. Owens reclined on a bench fabricated from felted human hair.
“There’s a certain quantity of gravitas to having one thing printed,” Mr. Owens stated of why he supplied his residence for the event. “On-line every thing is so fractured.”
The journal speak was transient as he’s extra fascinated with enjoying artwork docent in his own residence.
For a couple of minutes, pausing solely to greet the petite Miami rapper JT, who wore a ceremonial Owens robe, the designer referred to as out highlights from his superior artwork assortment. On an reverse wall was a grandiose Artwork Nouveau urn by Georges Hoentschel. At his left was a Guernica-inspired mural by his daughter Scarlett Rouge with a fossilized-looking Anselm Kiefer go well with excessive. Simply across the nook was one other Kiefer piece that was, Mr. Owens stated, “main, main.”
One other room held a tank stuffed with sperm from the gonzo musician-artist Tommy Money. Nonetheless, essentially the most out-of-place factor in Mr. Owens’s concrete tomb of a house was a banal copy machine out of a suburban enterprise heart. Chez Owens, it seems, is a real reside work house.
After dinner, visitors stuffed into the lounge, the place they discovered Ms. Lamy singing “You Are So Stunning” with ASAP Rocky, who slipped in through the dessert course in a Chanel ski cap, snakeskin Puma sneakers and blacked-out Ray-Bans that he by no means took off. As midnight neared, Mr. Owens slipped away upstairs. It was time for mattress.
