A FRENCH ACADEMICIAN
May 3rd, 2011
A FRENCH ACADEMICIAN, Jean d’Ormesson, a Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, two philosophers, André Glucksmann and Bernard-Henri Levy, the finest writers, Patrick Besson Lambron Marc and Frederic Beigbeder Marie Darrieussecq …
A FRENCH ACADEMICIAN, Jean d’Ormesson, a Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, two philosophers, André Glucksmann and Bernard-Henri Levy, the finest writers, Patrick Besson Lambron Marc and Frederic Beigbeder Marie Darrieussecq, and the best photographers (Paolo Reversi, Ellen von Hurweth Richard Avedon …): summary of number 16 of the magazine “selfish” in intervals “spasmodic” in the words of its founder Nicole Wisniak, looks like a record . This magazine chic, a rare and expensive (35 €), exclusively in black and white, is a singularity in the press today. It is always highly anticipated because you never know when to look: the latest was released in 2006 and sold three times on internet auction sites, less than No. 12 with Yannick Noah naked jumping on the cover (300 €) and No. 1 and 2 that exceed the 700 €.
The horoscope of Berlusconi, Libra, by Besson: “This stubborn pain in the kidneys is normal”
Another feature: the unity of content. Nicole Wisniak, seconded by Thérond Eleanor, daughter of Roger Therond, the legendary boss of “Paris Match”, by Siegfried de Turckheim, the son of the designer of Triplets and Judith Grumbach, his own daughter, takes care of everything including advertisements. The brands (perfumes, Amber Jewellery , champagne, clothing, shoes …) are staged by the director herself who chooses the poses and models, and the artist who will seize them. “A double page can take up to a month of preparation,” she says. When she started in 1977, she was, she assures, that 8,000 francs on bank account and still living with his parents. But his friends were not anyone. Helmut Newton and Francoise Sagan, who have set foot in the stirrup, with this advice: “Do not be a newspaper with journalists but with writers.” The name “Selfish,” which has since been sold to Chanel, it occurred to me as a provocation. “Everybody wanted to be because it was an area of freedom, without commercial constraints. All these talents together had no other concern than the quality of what they did, “recalls Nicole Wisniak who always fun to marry each other, according to their affinities. Thus, in the issue just published, which has two volumes and 240 pages, Diane von Furstenberg talks to Ingrid Betancourt, Pascal Bruckner visits Switzerland in Roman Polanski Gonzague Saint-Bris book one of the last interviews Jacqueline de Romilly; Patrick Besson asks Keira Knightley and writes the horoscope twelve personalities, Berlusconi (Balance, “this stubborn pain in the kidneys is normal”) Ahmadinejad (Scorpion, “after a busy year, a year of great radio active “) and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Taurus,” will you just installed in the Elysée furniture you do we blame those of Marrakech “) to Albert of Monaco (Pisces,” Oedipus complex recovering); BHL list twenty commands for use by experienced paranoid, Michel Schneider talks about music with Renaud Capuçon, Léa Seydoux is laid bare by the author of “99 francs” and Valerie Lemercier, fashion icon , is suitable to meet the required Almodóvar, Mike Tyson (armor) or Brad Pitt. On the eve of the release, Nicole Wisniak has stage fright: “I throw ten ideas in the trash before realizing the eleventh and maybe I am wrong. I’m never happy. Nobody will ever me the bar so high that I put it myself. “