So, I’m not going to ask just any artist to rewrite the Interview logo-but Tabboo! doing the t-shirt art is great. You don’t want to overdo it, or do it the wrong way, or use the one that I don’t want you to use, if you know what I’m saying. I couldn’t believe it.Īnyway, I feel very particular about the Interview logo, because it’s changed so much over the years. We had people like Emily Ratajkowski and Jason Nikic, our publisher, in the basement of The Cock with a gaggle of naked gogo boys dangerously close to them.
He DJed my first night at The Cock in 1998, and was literally the first cool gay guy I met when I was a teenage intern in New York City. There were a million people there, like Julia Fox and Jenny Dembrow. So, we had a launch party for the collection at The Cock that was super fab. So, when we started talking about artists to work with for this limited-edition t-shirt for Farfetch BEAT, Tabboo! was the obvious perfect choice. But he’s also just fun to yap and kiki and laugh with. I also just know him to be a hysterical, really fucking cool person with a legendary history at places like the Pyramid Club for being a punk rock drag queen and a forefather, foremother, whatever. Tabboo! is having such a well-deserved renaissance as a great, important artist, which is phenomenal. I’ve also known Tabboo!, in real life, for 20 years now. The lyric from “Deee-Lite Theme” on that album, “from the global village in the age of communication, “New York City”-that is New York to me, and Tabboo!’s handwriting is all over that album cover. Tabboo! did the Deee-Lite World Clique album art, all the Deee-Lite everything. Tabboo!’s handwriting was all over early ‘90s Ingrid Sischy-era Interview, and is, to me, the coolest handwriting ever. You guys, see it.īut I also knew Tabboo! through the pages of Interview Magazine, because I was obsessed with Interview when I was a teenager. It’s fucking major, and if you’ve never seen it, it’s sort of the best. I don’t know if it’s available outside of YouTube, but I just watched it last week on JetBlue, so maybe it’s streaming now. He does a major song, “It’s Natural,” in the movie. I’ve known Tabboo! for a really long time. Below, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg gives us a primer on the artist’s legacy, and models the exclusive t-shirts alongside our fashion director Dara.Ģ0 percent of the collection’s proceeds will be donated on behalf of Interview and Farfetch to the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the oldest and largest advocacy organization for LGBTQIA+ youth in the United States. The designs feature original typeface by the legendary drag icon and artist TABBOO!, as well as portraits of the queer icons and Interview favorites Candy Darling and Divine. The three-piece limited-run capsule collection, out today, is exclusively available via online fashion hub Farfetch BEAT and pays homage to this magazine’s long history of queer iconography. Last week, we teased the return of the iconic Interview t-shirt at a steamy Pride party at The Cock.
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