ON THE COVER

COURTNEY LOVE BY MARIO TESTINO
From hot commodity to hot mess and back, Courtney Love has a new album,
a new book, and an inner critic that won’t shut up 

V FASHION WINTER 2006

ALL OR NOTHING by Mario Sorrenti
GROUP SECTS by Mario Testino
LOST IN SUBURBIA by Alasdair McLellan
USE YOUR ILLUSION by Richard Burbridge
STAR POWER by Magnus Unnar

FEATURES

HEROES
Writer Gore Vidal discusses his life and the lost republic; photographer Sam Haskins recounts the times of Cowboy Kate; actress Nancy Allen remembers her marriage with Brian De Palma and her days on the sets of Carrie and Dressed to Kill
NORTHERN GIANTS
T. Cole Rachel goes on snow patrol to Oslo’s Øya Festival for indie rock with a more humanist bent
DOUBLE TAKE
Casting directors tell actress Lynn Collins she’s too exotic, too beautiful, and too sexy–which is why she’s in four new films
SCANNERS
Artists Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman create a series of computer collages with heavy psychological fallout
CRASH COURSE
Director Rodger Grossman brings the live-fast die-young ethos of the seminal band the Germs to the silver screen
LIKE, WOW!
Curator Yvonne Force makes an art form out of drying off
WORK IN PROGRESS
Jeff Koons hulks up with his team; Vito Acconci goes to Coney Island; and Marina Abramovic plans her own funeral
MILLIGAN’S RUN
Actor Dustin Milligan finds that being Canadian hasn’t hurt his American film career
A MARRIAGE OF MINDS
Viktor & Rolf and H&M tie the knot
CRAZY HORSE
And the V young photography award goes to...Swedish photographer Cathrine Sundqvist for her stable of horse portraits
BUGGING OUT
A high school crush takes a dangerous turn in Carter Smith’s Bugcrush
ALL THAT GLITTERS
Swarovski has sparkled for designers since fashion began
COWLES MINE
Gallerist Charles Cowles has kept one of the most impressive collections of photography to himself for decades. Now it’s the public’s turn to see it
THE SMELL OF SUCCESS
Actor Ben Whishaw prefers people’s natural scents, but that didn’t stop him from taking the lead in Perfume
CIRQUE DE SPOONER
Designer Gareth Pugh and musicians Fischerspooner channel the Moulin Rouge at the Deitch Projects’ annual Art Parade
THE BAND PLAYED ON
Chin Up Chin Up’s frontman Jeremy Bolen opens up about his band’s progression since the tragic loss of its bassist
POWERHOUSE
Art galleries from around the world fill in the blanks for our first young gallery showcase
ROCK DIARY
Photographer Hedi Slimane and writer Alex Needham present another Brit rock wonder
V-BAY
A holiday smattering of blinding bling
DESIGNER PORTRAIT
Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa is no sacrificial lamb
EXTRA
The people and things to watch in the worlds of music, film, art, books, and shopping
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
Behind the scenes at the Spring/Summer 2007 shows
BEST OF 2006
It was a wild, tricky, all-out, off-the-hook, what-the-fuck, beautiful, hard, impossible year, wasn’t it? 2006, we hardly knew ya...
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