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INTERVIEWS

COVER STORY: ARTIST KOHLBEN VODDEN

In celebration of Frieze Week New York, The Untitled Magazine is pleased to present the winner of our first-ever digital cover open call, the talented Australian figurative artist Kohlben Vodden. When it comes to Vodden, equating the act of painting to merely a “mode of expression” seems reductive. Instead, each of his works is a…

INTERVIEW: DR. NICK MAVROSTOMOS ON COSMETIC DENTISTRY AS AN ARTISTIC CRAFT AND WHAT MAKES AN A-LIST SMILE

More and more New Yorkers are becoming acquainted with the “Dr. Mavro smile,” whether they have one themselves or not. At only 29 years old, Dr. Nick Mavrostomos is not only the city’s youngest cosmetic dentist, he’s already established himself as a go-to resource for a clientele of actors, musicians, athletes, and other A-listers for…

INTERVIEW: UNIFORM OBJECT FOUNDER DAVID FARRUGIA ON LATEST COLLECTION “SUPERNOVA” AND JEWELRY AS AN ART FORM

David Farrugia, the mastermind behind luxury jewelry brand Uniform Object, operates with a very singular vision. Known for its emphasis on process and stimulation, Uniform Object sees Farrugia utilizing his appreciation for artisanal practices and natural phenomena to build collections that are unmistakably his own. He prefers to keep his circle tight, only allowing input…

INTERVIEW: MODEL ASH STYMEST ON GETTING DISCOVERED AT 16, WORKING WITH HEDI SLIMANE, AND HIS MUSIC

Plenty of fashion figures are multi-hyphenates, but it’s not often that a model begins a career in acting and music with quite the style or swagger of Ash Stymest. Kickstarting his career at 16 years old, when he was scouted while skateboarding on the streets of Camden, Stymest’s CV stretches far and wide, having worked…

COVER STORY: MULTI-HYPHENATE BELLA THORNE

The multi-hyphenated Bella Thorne has taken several paths toward the “rebel” moniker. After landing her initial big break as CeCe Jones on Disney Channel's Shake It Up in 2010, Bella pursued a myriad of other roles, from more children’s entertainment to adult independent films further down the line. While it is unsurprising that she, like…

INTERVIEW: ARTIST KAT TORONTO AKA MISS MEATFACE SUBVERTS GENDER POWER DYNAMICS THROUGH SELF-PORTRAITURE

Kat Toronto, aka “Miss Meatface,” tackles contemporary femininity head on. Forced to reconsider her womanhood after a 2010 cervical cancer diagnosis and a subsequent full hysterectomy at 29, Kat turned to her family history and inner feminine expression to redefine herself and her creative process. A San Francisco Bay native, her performance-based photography confronts society’s…

INTERVIEW: GRACE VANDERWAAL ON HER WHIRLWIND CHILD STARDOM

From her childhood days of singing songs from High School Musical and Hannah Montana, singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal has always had a passion for performing. After being inspired by her Brazilian au pair to pick up the ukulele, VanderWaal hit it big at the age of 11 by competing on, and eventually winning, America's Got Talent. The ukulele,…

INTERVIEW: ACTOR TOM GLYNN-CARNEY ON HIS JOURNEY TO GAME OF THRONES SPIN-OFF “HOUSE OF THE DRAGON” FOR THE “REBEL” ISSUE

British actor Tom Glynn-Carney burst onto the scene with his breakthrough role as Peter Dawson in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. He is keeping his winning streak alive with the recently released Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. Following the House of Targaryen almost 200 years prior to the flagship series, we see Glynn-Carney…

INTERVIEW: ACTIVIST ELTON ILIRJANI ON HITTING THE RUNWAY AND HOW THEY PLAN TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE FASHION INDUSTRY

Elton Ilirjani is an activist who literally walks the walk. Beyond their decades of philanthropic work on behalf of women and the LGBTQ+ community, Ilirjani can now be found walking runways around the world for some of fashion’s most high-profile designers. As their historical track record has proven multiple times over, Ilirjani’s work as a…

INTERVIEW: ROSA LINN UNPACKS NEW SINGLE “NEVER BE MINE” AND THE SEEMINGLY “ENDLESS” JOURNEY TO MUSIC STARDOM

“I literally left my life behind and started with a blank page.” While that may be true for Armenian singer-songwriter Rosa Linn, her page didn’t stay blank for long. After representing her country at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, where she performed the rootsy, organic “SNAP,” Linn found herself catapulted to international stardom almost overnight.…

INTERVIEW: ALLY PETITTI OF “TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT” PODCAST ON MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF TELLING YOUR OWN STORY

Being a twenty-something means spending a lot of your time just “trying to figure it out.” Ally Petitti can attest to that. By her early twenties, she had already made the cross-country move from her hometown of Westchester, New York to Los Angeles, gotten a degree from USC, landed a job at Interscope Records, and…

“REBEL” ISSUE EXCLUSIVE: MADELINE BREWER ON THE REAL-LIFE PARALLELS OF “THE HANDMAID’S TALE” AND HOW WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

“As a country, we don't treat women and people with wombs like they're human beings, and it’s difficult to film certain scenes when there are things happening in the country that so closely parallel them.” The passion with which Madeline Brewer, Emmy-nominated actress on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, speaks to us about women’s rights makes…

INTERVIEW: RAHART ADAMS OF THE CW’S “GOTHAM KNIGHTS” ON DC NEWCOMER BRODY MARCH AND WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A BRAND NEW GOTHAM CITY

Rahart Adams has found himself living a dream that, for a long time, he didn’t know he had. After a breakdancing accident nearly left him with a broken back, teenage Adams was forced to either “get real” or find another creative outlet to pursue. He set his sights on acting in a way that can…

INTERVIEW: INES TAZI OF NETFLIX’S “PERFECT MATCH” REFLECTS ON THE SERIES AND WHY SHE’S NOT SLOWING DOWN ANYTIME SOON

Activist, entrepreneur, and breakout star of Netflix’s Perfect Match Ines Tazi wants to make one thing clear: she doesn’t fit into any singular box. At only 26 years old, her history has proven it – Tazi began partnering with NGOs in support of single mothers in her home country of Morocco at the age of…

“REBEL” ISSUE EXCLUSIVE: DRAG QUEEN SASHA VELOUR IS TAKING ON THE WORLD WITH HER VERY OWN DRAG “MANIFESTO”

Just as drag queen Sasha Velour’s style is dead-set on breaking the boundaries of gender identity, so too is her view on the concept of uprising incredibly nuanced. After starting out in the Brooklyn scene, Sasha’s growing profile gained enough traction to get her cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s ninth season, where she would claim…

“REBEL” ISSUE EXCLUSIVE: SOPHIA HADJIPANTELI ON MODELING FOR JEAN PAUL GAULTIER AND CONFRONTING BEAUTY STANDARDS WITH THE #UNIBROWMOVEMENT

Model Sophia Hadjipanteli stares intensely into the camera, her gorgeous, wavy brunette hair cascading down on one side, barely obscuring her right cheek. In her arm she holds a giant bottle of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Scandal perfume, her hands adorned with gorgeous, sharp, jet-black nails. Immediately her trademark voluptuous, thick eyebrows steal our gaze as…

“REBEL” ISSUE INTERVIEW: SIZZY ROCKET’S LATEST ALBUM “LIVE LAUGH LOVE” IS A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF REBELLION

Who more perfect to embody the "REBEL" Issue than an artist whose entire brand centers on it? Sizzy Rocket’s track “Rebel Revolution” tackles the current culture of musical homogeny head on, dedicating itself to the legion of musicians and other artists who, in the face of defiance and pressure to be homogeneous, live and create…

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