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MEET
& GREET
Introducing the faces
behind this month’s issueAhead of his major
exhibition at the V&A,
fashion photographer
Tim Walker tells contributing
editor Robin Muir how
objects at the museum
inspired his newest images
(Dream Catcher, page 204).
“I was trying to find those
rare moments when you’re
completely illuminated,”
Walker says of his time spent
immersed in the collections.
“You are almost stepping
outside yourself.”Contributing fashion editor Joe McKenna
styled Kaia Gerber in New York for
this month’s cover. “I first worked with
Kaia when she was 10 years old, for
Versace’s children’s line,” McKenna says.
“You could sense she would be
a great model.”Growing up in America, Binx Walton
grappled with her mixed-race identity from a
young age. As a result, the model truly felt
the impact of her first trip to West Africa- with photographer Juergen Teller for Bring
It On Home (page 216). “It’s good to place
yourself in a situation where you truly do
understand what had to happen to create
you,” she says of the experience.
A life spent between New York
and London is anything but a
sartorial cinch, says British author
Zadie Smith, on page 236. “I’ve rocked
up to Hampstead Heath for a picnic
looking about ready for the Afropunk
festival in Fort Greene,” she writes.
Grand Union, her first collection of
short stories, will be published on
3 October by Hamish Hamilton.On page 137, Salman Rushdie tells
Helena Christensen about his favourite
places to eat in the world. As for
Christensen’s own dining habits?
“Food is sacred to me, so I put a lot of
effort into my restaurant choices.” Go
where the locals go, advises the super.In The Hurt Inside, on
page 150, Emma Barnett- journalist and one
third of Newsnight’s
all-female broadcast
team – describes nearly
“sleepwalking into
infertility” when her
endometriosis went
undiagnosed for
two decades.
Iris Palmer by Tim Walker,
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