What was the creative concept behind the newest teaser about?

A – This time the theme is the five senses. The idea was that the magazine always had an erotic twist and really the only action that combines fully all five senses is sex. It connects to sensual sensory memory. There’s a girl sitting and then she has something in her head, a memory and that memory stimulates all of her senses slowly. So, you see her muscles getting a little tighter, you see her starting to sweat a little bit and her mouth getting a little wetter. You see her moving a little bit and the tension and slowly there are goosebumps on the skin and she’s moving her neck. It gets more and more intense until she climaxes and then something happens which I don’t want to tell you because it will spoil the video surprise…

Yeah, I’ll wait for the surprise! Who else did you work with on the issue with?

The issue is a celebration of the power and the impact of the five senses and the creativity that comes from the stimulation of our senses…We wanted to approach a lot of different artists and speak to them about how they create and how they’re inspired by the five senses. Also how they use one sense to push the other ones. We invited Ben Gorham, of Byredo Parfums to talk to us about smell and creating his fragrance and how he works. It’s really interesting how he speaks about how every bottle has a specific way and a specific visual design. He then spoke with Carsten Höller, another amazing artist about a project that they’ve been doing together actually influencing human psychology through smell and taste. The issue is very sensual, it has different textures, gloss and matte, and it’s very delicate. There’s a bookmark that you have to scratch and smell.

Very interactive it seems.

Yes, very interactive. I really want people to be stimulated by their five senses when they go through the issue. There’s also JR an incredible artist who has a huge impact on people through their sense of vision. Daniel Arsham also did a piece for us playing with the fact that he is colorblind.

You mentioned that you worked again with Paola Kudacki. How was it bringing her into this project? I know she gives a very feminist kind of mainframe to whatever work she does.

We thought hearing was something we should focus on with Paola. It was really natural for her to start working with Woodkid because he could actually curate the list of artists that we had shot and recorded. We wanted something very modern, very minimalistic. We didn’t want to over style it so that all of the senses would pop out. Everything is of course black and white. We kept it very raw. I think the whole issue is like going back to the very basics. When you think about the power of five senses it’s everything that we know and everything we learn. At the same time, we tend to be so over stimulated in our busy world that we actually lose the connections to our senses. What you feel now is actually based on what you hear and what you see, but you’re kind of distracted because there’s so much of it.

So, why specifically the five senses? What was the driving force behind focusing on them for this issue?

Actually a book started it! It’s called “Stranger in a Strange Land” and it’s science fiction, but there’s this character that is very connected to his senses. This is going to sound really abstract, but he is raised on Mars and then he comes back to Earth and he’s really surprised by everyone being so disconnected. He has complete control over his body where he senses everything that he picks up whether it’s fear or people’s feelings, he notices and regular people on Earth are completely oblivious.

You’re now a couple of issues into 25. I know at the beginning of your journey it was a new experience juggling being a model and an editor in chief. So, what have you learned at this point that makes it easier?

I have to say this issue is really amazing and the best one so far. I’m really proud of this one. I was proud of the other ones but this one was really a force and I think we finally got it…

**laughs** Each issue is going to be like that!

I know! But I think I kind of got it now. I learned so much along the way, from dealing with people to creating and developing a subject… to having a better sense of who to get on board. I knew that at this issue I understood what I was doing so I thought, hmm… let me direct! Let me put myself in a very difficult situation where I’m not on the other side of the camera and challenge myself a little bit more! I like those challenges. I think the best part about the issue is I love creating it. I love getting the right talent on board and connecting with people. Another great thing about this issue is we have a lot of established photographers and a lot of young photographers that I reached out to.

How important to you was it to have that mix?

Very important. Incredibly important. Plus I like the idea of working with young people and giving them an opportunity to show their work and to get in with such huge names. Also, sometimes when you’re young you’re quite fearless and that’s really magical.

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