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Interview Magazine

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Zendaya for Interview

Ph. Nadia Lee Cohen

Styling: Mel Ottenberg, Law Roach

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Q: What are you thankful for? A: “My health and my family. And Lana Del Rey.” John Waters interviewed in AnotherMan magazine, 2018

“I think of the ad campaign for Russ Meyer’s Lorna... [The tagline] could go for her: ‘Longing, love, lust, life, Lana. Too much for one man.’” John Waters interviewed in Harper’s Bazaar, 2023

“She tells a story in her music. She gives a mood and a story and a way to think, and she paints a picture in your brain.” David Lynch interviewed in Harper’s Bazaar, 2023

Happy 41st birthday to pop’s alienated and complicated dark princess, the glorious Lana Del Rey (née Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, 21 June 1985). Remember when the “gangster Nancy Sinatra” first emerged with Born to Die in 2012 and uptight stale pale male rockist cultural gatekeepers bugged-out, labeling her a phony because she wasn’t really some trailer park Laura Palmer-type and she’d adopted a show biz name (guess what? “Bob Dylan” and “David Bowie” aren’t their real names, either!). Seems like a lifetime ago! And all these years later, the defiant and triumphant Del Rey is a veteran artist with an entirely singular body of work under her belt. My favourite tracks by her vary all the time but today let’s say it’s “White Mustang” from 2017. (And my favourite album will always be Ultra-Violence (2014)). Pic: from Del Rey’s gloomy gothic 2015 photoshoot with Steven Klein (shot on Polaroid, styled by Mel Ottenberg) for V magazine.

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Mel Ottenberg | © Emiliano Granado | Financial Times

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Romee Strijd photographed by Mel Ottenberg

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Zendaya x Interview Magazine (Outtake)

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“Aquamarine” by Addison Rae