Insi-De THE GENDER AGENDA ISSUE: Gay, Straight, Bi, Boy, Girl, Man, Woman, Trannie, She-he, He-she… WHAT-EVA! 2008 sees gender distinctions blur more than ever before. Fashion/Features 110 Step 1: Follow Your Own Path She’s sugar and spice, and all things nice. i-D meets up with Rinko Kikuchi, Japan’s first Oscar-nominated actress. Text Sarah Hay Photography Matt Jones 120 Step 2: Live Healthy Representing a new breed of body conscious supermodel, meet Catherine McNeil the latest Aussie to storm our catwalks. Photography Daniel Jackson Styling Alastair McKimm Text Dean Mayo Davies 130 Step 3: Release Your Stress Photography Collier Schorr Styling David Vandewal 140 Step 4: Perfect Your Look Collier Schorr meets Creative Director at Chanel Make-Up, Peter Phillips, to discuss cosmetics, make-up as art and Catherine Deneuve. Photography Collier Schorr Make-up Peter Philips Styling David Vandewal Hair Jimmy Paul 146 Step 5: Learn What Suits Charlie Porter engages Junya Watanabe in a frank exchange about what menswear and tradition means to the Comme des Garçons designer. Photography Ben Dunbar-Brunton Styling David Bradshaw Text Charlie Porter 154 Step 6: Never Regret Photography Richard Bush Styling Sarah Richardson 164 Step 7: Originate Never Imitate Director and visual artist Floria Sigismondi and lead vocalist of Living Things Lillian Berlin discuss their marriage, and strut their stuff for the camera. Photography Max Vadukul Styling Soraya Dayani Text Sarah Hay 172 Step 8: Like What You Do Photography Kayt Jones 182 Step 9: Shape Your Body Paul Tierney meets French porn star Francois Sagat to discuss his time assisting Lagerfeld, Testino and Roitfeld and his dream to be a fashion photographer. Photography Lukas Wassmann Styling Bernhard Willhelm 190 Step 10: Life Is Good Photography Tung Walsh Styling Erika Kurihara 198 Step 11: Learn From Mistakes Discreet, dark and desirable, Rick Owens is the ultimate design decadent. Text Holly Shackleton Photography Rick Owens 204 Step 12: Be Comfortable In The Skin You’re In Everyone’s favourite wisecracking amphibian has teamed up with streetwear label Supreme on a range of T-shirts. Hear Kermit discuss his love of fashion, New York, and going green. Introduction Jeremy Abbott Interview and photography Terry Richardson i-DANDY, i-DARE, i-DUCK, i-DIVE 28 Your body is your canvas, don’t leave it bare. Quiff that hair, kohl those eyes and paint that face, as this season beauty trends are to be worn loud and proud. Ellen Von Unwerth presents feminine beauty today, new Canadian designer Rad Hourani cements his status as one to watch, Ohne Titel branch out into a jewellery line as organic and gorgeous as their clothes, 50 Cent keeps it real with his new collection for Reebok, pay tribute to some of the best shoe designers of the moment – Christian Louboutin, Pierre Hardy, Jonathan Kelsey, Giorgina Goodman, Giuseppe Zanotti and Atlanta Weller talk us trough the inspiration behind their designs, Miu Miu find inspiration on Eastern shores, designers go dotty for Disney, Terence Koh loves fashion and fur, Blaack Homme sharpen the male silhouette, Pharrell blings it up with a jewellery line for Louis Vuitton, and Fred Perry collaborate on a T-shirt range with i-D’s very own Simon Foxton. i-DID, i-DIDN’T, i-DON’T, i-DO 212 Factory Revisited: Special Drag Queens, studs, hustlers, popstars, heiresses, artists, art tits; anything went at Andy Warhol’s Factory. Here we celebrate the original beautiful people with interviews with Superstars Holly Woodlawn, Joe Dellasandro, Ultra Violet, Billy Name and Bibbe Hansen. Text Matt Bochenski, Sarah Hay, Hanna Hanra, Karen Leong, Holly Shackleton 220 Reviews The cream of this month’s print, art, music and film, together with profiles on Warhol actor Taylor Mead’s new book documenting his life working with Warhol, Dutch artist Amie Dicke on issues of gender and sexuality in art, New York club night 1992, the latest teenage London tearaways S.C.U.M and fashion photographer Sean Ellis’ new film, Cashback. 226 i-Con Pete Burns Dead Or Alive singer Pete Burns blurs gender distinctions and sexuality; here he talks to i-D about plastic surgery, Wife Swap, and his love of car crash celebrities. Text Paul Flynn Photography Michael Simpson