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COLLECTORS AT FRIEZE: LINDA NYLIND. LUTZ-KINOY: COURTESY OF FREEDMAN FITZPATRICK, LOS ANGELES. HOLLOWAY: BRIAN FORREST, COURTESY OF DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY, LOS ANGELES. SMITH (2): FREDRIK NILSEN, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND THE BOX, LA. LASSRY: COURTESY OF DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY, LOS ANGELES FAIR GROUNDS team. And secondly, she left home at the age healthy lifestyle habits. She also hopes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 52 of 15 and had to learn how to take care of to have more children. And as modeling herself. (She was spotted by a modeling scout careers are increasing in longevity—Cindy year with a series of Lutz-Kinoy’s bombastic, in 1999 and signed her first contract with Crawford, Carolyn Murphy and Christy large-scale acrylic paintings emblazoned with Miuccia in .) “I travel to Europe Turlington are all in their 40s—Kurkova is Japanese landscape motifs, opulent flowers sometimes twice a week and when I arrive encouraged. “They are great women. They and dancing bodies. “There will also be a nobody is thinking, ‘Oh, yeah, she is prob- are real, they go to work and are home with performance element yet to be determined,” ably very jet-lagged, she came straight from their families,” she says. They are also all promises gallery co-founder Alex Freedman. the airport,’” says Kurková. “At the end of the based in California. It’s just the tip of the artberg (see: David day, [modeling] is like being an athlete. You When Drury reappears to collect Kordansky’s group show, featuring L.A.-based just have to perform.” Kurková, he’s in a hurry. They have to run multimedia provocateur Elad Lassry). And Kurková, who celebrated her 30th back to his dad’s house in the Hollywood while it’s tempting to point out the things that birthday in February, first appeared on Hills to pick up Tobin before heading the homegrown talents share in common—in- the cover of Vogue when she was 16 (still up to Napa to visit with some of Drury’s teractive elements! an experimental approach! the youngest model the magazine has college pals from Berkeley. Like a true a DIY ethos!—the most telling theme to ever featured on the cover). Soon after, Californian, Drury insists they’re taking emerge from this Pacific Standard Time group she signed a contract with Victoria’s Se- the 5 freeway, not Pacific Coast Highway. has less to do with chronology, zip code, or cret, which she maintained until she had Kurková spins around and assures me, medium, and more to do with the elite barom- Tobin. “When I started, it was not like it “Don’t worry, we’ll be back.” • eter by which they’re measured: “We want to is now. People in the fashion industry ensure that the most innovative art is being smoked and drank a lot. We didn’t have shown at our fair,” says Joanna Stella-Sawic- cellphones or email or social media. It was LANGUAGE ARTS ka, Frieze’s deputy director. “That the best strictly about your work.” Kurková never CONTINUED FROM PAGE 120 galleries of their generation are bringing excit- dabbled in the party scene, in part because ing work that you can’t see anywhere else.” • she didn’t really have the time. In her first “People say you’re not real anymore few years of working, Kurková booked 52 because you’re buying billboards. I can’t BLACK DIAMONDS covers and to date she’s made over 400 climb those things anymore, and it’s not CONTINUED FROM PAGE 92 runway appearances. worth the felonies.” In 2008, 25-year-old Kurková met Drury, Nevertheless, Lewis’ graffiti background For chefs such as Ken Frank, who presides an L.A.-based entrepreneur/film producer. continues to inform his work, most notably over the kitchen at the Michelin-starred La Toque After a year of dating she became pregnant in the speed with which he can create it restaurant in Napa and has been known to build and they quietly wed in fall 2009. Like (earlier this year, he painted the façade entire menus around the knotted fungus, a native most expecting couples, the newlyweds of a seven-story building in Chicago in crop will be nothing less than revolutionary. did a lot of research on becoming first-time eight hours). “Some people don’t like the “Getting California growers up to speed is going parents. “It was clear to us that we wanted fact that I can do [my paintings] that fast, to be a game changer for us,” says Frank, who to do a home water birth. It was an amazing but I’ve been doing it for so long that I points out that the need to transport the ingredient experience. It was just the four of us: me, just understand how to paint [like that]. from its source to the table is paramount, given the Archie, a doula and a midwife,” she says. It’s taken 25 years to figure out how to do fact that the majority of its aromatic properties “Oh, and then, of course, Tobin came along them like that, but now I am taking longer,” evaporate in as little as a week. “Once you don’t and made five of us.” he says, referencing his new, more labor- have the perfume, you don’t have the magic.” It’s It was a joyous time but also a difficult intensive pieces which place as much worth noting that the domestic crop’s taste profile one for someone who relies on looking emphasis on his freelance typography won’t vary from its across-the-pond counterpart: perfect for a living. Any strain on her career (which famously depicts hidden messages) “There have been blind tests with [Miche- was short-lived; since giving birth she’s landed as they do on background color and lin-starred] chefs who cannot tell the difference campaigns for , MaxMara, technique. between European and non-European [varietals],” , , Rag & Bone and, Currently, Lewis is prepping for his says Chang. “The only difference will be fresh- recently, Banana Republic. She spent the past largest show to date: a three-man exhibit ness—which will be huge.” summer in Europe, working with Giuseppe at the Dallas Contemporary in the spring, Otellini insists the wait is well worth its Zanotti in Ibiza, and also visited her family alongside artists David Salle and Nate potential rewards: “The beauty of planting in the Czech Republic before hitting New Lowman. “I’m looking forward to it,” says truffles is that once they’re established, the York Fashion Week (making appearances Lewis. “It feels like I’m growing up and maintenance is a fraction of the cost and effort at the US Open, a Tod’s opening party and getting to play ball with the big boys.” of tending vineyards,” he points out. “As truffle Polo ’s Central Park show). kohngallery.com; digitalretina.com. • lovers, we’re looking forward to the day when Kurková’s interests extend beyond the we can share them.” • runway: In 2004, she attended London’s THE ART OF LIVING Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and had CONTINUED FROM PAGE 124 CLEAN-CUT small parts in a handful of films and tele- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 111 vision shows (“My Sexiest Year,” G.I. Joe: to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with The Rise of Cobra, “FCU: Fact Checker’s a series of multidisciplinary performances, people, her father was a professional bas- Unit”). She also hints at a forthcoming “Step and Repeat.” Also on deck is a presen- ketball player/police captain, her mother, e-commerce business, which will, not tation of more than 100 Andy Warhol can- a banker/artist. When Kurková was 10, she surprisingly, provide a platform for her to vases on loan from Dia, currently on display trained with a competitive Czech gymnastics expound on the importance of developing through Feb. 2, 2015, and an Elaine Stur-

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