Something strange has happened to youth culture. No one seems sure who’s responsible: identikit Hennes dolls, popsters who can file tax returns before they learn to kiss, or the terrifying epoch of the acid grandad? With only one interesting teen left in the visible world (Charlotte Church, just so you know), i-D asks who stole our teens? Text by Paul Flynn. Photography by Alasdair McLellan/ Obsessed with Teflon faces and bodies, and cosmetic surgery as a form of entertainment, the anti-ageing market is capitalising on our fears of mortality and laughing all the way to the bank. But what’s wrong with a few wrinkles in the first place? Here i-D explores the pointless pursuit of uniform skin, and looks at those thinking beyond the goal of ‘sameness’. Text by Liz Hancock. Photography by Hiroshi Kutomi/ Every new generation hungers after a face, this one gets two at the same time in the shape of white hot actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet. Their new film collaboration Mysterious Skin is shaping up to be both the hippest and most radical teen movie of the year. So just how does it feel to be dangerously sexy? Text by Skye Sherwin. Photography by Kayt Jones/ The most innovative musical revolution since punk is surging through the London urban scene. Beats are flowing from bedroom studios and professional set-ups all over the capital. Blending hip hop with bashment and dancehall, new sounds are evolving from UK emcees and labelling can’t keep up. Here the beat makers and rhyme slingers are brought together for the first time ever in print. Text by Hattie Collins and Chantelle Fiddy. Photography by Jason Evans/ From his gleaming position as the bratpacker de jour of ‘90s New York, to a magic act disappearance dogged by rumours of drug taking and arson, it looked like the party had ended for Harmony Korine. Now rising from the flames of his own notoriety, he is finding new creative direction with the help of arts scene dynamo, fashion designer agnès b. Here they talk film, girls, and taking acid. Text by Ben Reardon. Photography by Ben Reardon. Photography by Gaspar Noe and agnès b/ The Giorgio Armani brand is celebrating its thirtieth year and the man himself has just touched seventy. Here the fashion legend reflects on his legacy, growing older, and the all important question of succession. Eleanor Friedberger, frontwoman of rock outfit The Fiery Furnaces, adds the heat modelling key Armani looks. Text by Jamie Huckbody. Photography by Timur Celikdag/ With a string of film stealing roles in outsider indie fare, sultry voiced Zooey Deschanel has never shied from life’s quirkier moments. Now she’s seized the spotlight working with a seven foot alien in summer smash to be, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’. Text by Nancy Waters. Photography by Keiron O'Connor/ Fashion photography by Tesh and Edward Enninful, Murillo Meirelles and Ciro Midena, David Bailey and Karina Givargisoff, Mikael Jansson and Karl Templer, Takay and Jo Barker, and Duc Liao and Kanako B. Koga.