—After All the Money in the World — which traces events surrounding the kidnapping, by the Mafia in 1973 in Rome, of John Paul Getty III, the grandson of oil magnate John Paul Getty, against a $17 million ransom which the patriarch refused to pay — R

—Londoners Jonathan Anderson and Russell Tovey are great friends and even greater fans of contemporary art. For this “Conversation” issue, therefore, it went without saying that they should have free rein to converse about their shared passion. Ander

VOGUE HOMMES Serge in private? JANE BIRKIN “He looked dark, ‘mad and dangerous’ as people said of Byron, but he was a clown. I don’t know any writer–poet of his ilk with such imagination. He loved entertaining the children and did it like no one

Stylist’s assistants BIANCA DIOCESANO,ANIELLO LUCAMIGLIARO andSAMUEL TOSI GroomingLOUIS GHEWY Props SYLVAINCABOUAT ProductionOLYA SINIAKOV Post–production THERESAHONG forCOSMIC PIXELS ModelBABY ROBERTS ■

VOGUE HOMMES What’s your aim in life? HELMUT LANG My aim is to have an authentic life, whatever that involves. VOGUE HOMMES How did the idea for Chic come about? NILE RODGERS In the mid–1970s, my girlfriend took me to see her favourite group, R

VOGUE HOMMES What was your first impression when you landed up in Hollywood in the mid–1950s? JOAN COLLINS It was intensely glamorous. Everyone was beautifully dressed, including the crew. Everybody had a cigarette hanging out of their mouth. I u

VOGUE HOMMES You also met Marlon Brando? JULIETTE GRECO Brando came to Paris after triumphing on Broadway with A Streetcar Named Desire, as he had had an offer to make a film in France, an adaptation of Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, I think.

VOGUE HOMMES The writer James Baldwin said something to the effect that the myth leaves one’s existence in pieces. What does that mean to you? CATHERINE DENEUVE You don’t necessarily have to be caught up in the myth. It’s a trap to believe in you

LIQUID CONCRETE The top of the bottle — like a block of cement — and the colour give a foretaste of what to expect from this perfume that is full of layers. Sensual tuberose melts into raw extracts of black forest with juniper, gaiac, agar and birch

VOGUE HOMMES Do you go out a lot? XAVIER DOLAN I go out when I’m in love, when I’m chasing after someone I met during the day who’s somewhere else at night. But generally speaking, no, I don’t go out much. I hate to sound dull, but I’m past that.

VOGUE HOMMES What does it mean to be an actress? ISABELLE HUPPERT What a question! That’s a really tough one. We’ll come back to it. I have to think. Why do you ask me the question so directly? VOGUE HOMMES Because you seem to be one of the fe

—Creation does not happen in a void. It is not an illumination or a spark given from above. Creation is intuition and feeds from dialogue, debate, process, even just within oneself. Fashion-making is a much more hands-on and confrontational process t

VOGUE HOMMES It’s often been said that you had an almost masculine charm about you — the self–assurance of a man and the curves of a woman… BRIGITTE BARDOT I’ve always done as I pleased, that’s all. And I know that I have more balls than a lot of

VOGUE HOMMES You were magnificent as Prince Charles in “The Crown”. How did you manage to get the part? JOSH O’CONNOR I’m good friends with Vanessa Kirby, the actor who played Margaret in the first two seasons, and I’d heard via her that they wer

VOGUE HOMMES You’ve given hundreds of interviews throughout your career. Is there one question you’ve never been asked? TOM FORD I honestly think I’ve been asked just about everything. Possibly no one has ever asked me about my favourite sex acts… V

VOGUE HOMMES What is the quality you like most in a man? KATE MOSS Humour. VOGUE HOMMES Could it be said that you taught America minimalism? CALVIN KLEIN If that’s the case, it was involuntary. I just designed what I wanted to wear myself. Purit

Stylist’s assistant HECTORJ. GUZMAN Hair and make–up ALEXANDERSOLTERMANN Props ELEONORASUCCI Models LUCASEL BALI and TAKFARINES BENGANA ■

VOGUE HOMMES The Iggy Pop of the 1970s meant danger.The stories you can read in “Please Kill Me” arescary, like the one where after rollingin crushed glass, you tried to go and see a womanon the other side of town. But you couldn’t find a taxi to t

VOGUE HOMMES In “American Psycho”, you wrote about the cynicism of the Reagan era. Has the world changed, do you think? BRET EASTON ELLIS These days, everything is so much easier. It’s so much easier, for example, to create a fantasy self on the

VOGUE HOMMES Are you afraid of death? GIORGIO ARMANI It’s starting to be a part of my projects. I’m afraid of violent death, of death that deforms you. My dream is to go to bed one night and not wake up next morning. That would be the ideal death. Y

VOGUE HOMMES Are you fed up with being treated as the Godfather of cinema? FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA The idea supposes that I have an answer for everything. And I don’t have any solutions at all! I’m like a beginner. I write something, and I really have

—When Alfred Stieglitz met Georgia O’Keeffe, he was a 52–year–old photographer, painter and gallery–owner internationally renowned for his avant–garde spirit. She, on the other hand, was an art teacher in Texas and an unknown 28–year–old. The artisti

VOGUE HOMMES Was Saint Laurent an artist? PIERRE BERGÉ My usual answer to that is that fashion isn’t an art form and is special in that it is ephemeral. It has the decency to die young. That said, you need an artist to create fashions, certainly.

VOGUE HOMMES What makes a good song? CHARLES AZNAVOUR I don’t believe a song is ever completely finished. There is always a comma in the wrong place, a word that needs to be refined, or added to create rhythm, musicality. I have songs stashed awa

—On one side of the planet, American Virgil Abloh, artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear, creator of the Off–White brand (recently bought out by LVMH), friend of rappers and — despite turning 40 — a veritable icon for the today’s youth fascinat

VOGUE HOMMES W hat’s your definition of happiness? LARRY FLINT It’s written in gold letters in my aeroplane. “Happiness is not a destination, it’s a way to travel.” VOGUE HOMMES What is elegance? ALBER ELBAZ You can’t define it. I refuse to be