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Interview says it’s thing but chatter. Rumors person been whistling astir nan artsy/literary segment that Andy Warhol’s mag has suffered a wide exodus of unit successful nan past fewer days, and that nan outlet is connected its measurement retired (for nan 2nd time) aft 56 years.
But we’re told that nan storied publication is conscionable fine, convey you very much. While nan scuttlebutt said that “most” of its editorial unit person walked, its editor-in-chief, Mel Ottenberg, tells Page Six that, au contraire, “Interview conscionable signed a lease connected a caller and bigger agency space, adjacent rumor is retired successful a fewer weeks, things are good.”
Ottenberg — a big-time manner stylist who has worked pinch Rihanna and Justin Bieber, among galore others — became nan magazine’s imaginative head successful 2018, past its editor successful 2021.
He added, “It’s been a agelong clip since anyone near Interview and a fewer group so near recently, and that’s OK. We’ve hired 2 caller group successful nan past week.”
Warhol founded Interview successful 1969 pinch journalist and Village Voice co-founder John Wilcock, and it would beryllium edited by Factory types including Gerard Malanga, Glenn O’Brien and Bob Colacello.
It became celebrated for having celebrities question and reply different celebrities. Robert Pattinson and Zendaya precocious interviewed each other, Beyoncé interviewed sister Solange Knowles successful 2017, and Jon Voight interviewed Angelina Jolie successful 1997, for example.
Peter and Sandra Brant’s Brant Publications bought nan title successful 1989, and Ingrid Sischy headed it for astir 20 years, until 2008.
In 2018 it revenge for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and appeared to beryllium shuttering.
But 3 months later, Peter bought nan mag retired of bankruptcy, and it relaunched arsenic a bimonthly magazine, alternatively than a monthly.
