Interview by Rozalia Jovanovic
Photography • Tiago Molinos
Fashion Styling • Romina Herrera Malatesta
Make Up • Yuko Mizuno/Rona Represents
Hair • Leon Gorman/See
Model • Arizona Muse/Next
Retouching • Leo Vas

Gravure: You were born in California. Can you tell me something about that, about your upbringing?

Julian Louie: I was born in Santa Cruz, California. Kind of a small university town. A surf town, politically liberal. I grew up a block from the ocean.

G: Did you surf?

JL: No. That’s one of my regrets of my childhood is never learning to surf. I was in the ocean all the time but I never really integrated into that culture. And it was the dominant culture in the town.

But it was a blessed childhood. It’s a very beautiful, idyllic place. And both my parents’ families are from the East Coast, so I was always here visiting family and I fell in love with New York. I always knew that it was somewhere I wanted to be. So upon applying to colleges, I stupidly applied to only one school here and somehow got accepted and came here. New York shaped my consciousness, certainly with respect to fashion. I was always interested in fashion from a peripheral standpoint. I’d sit around with my friends and draw but I never considered it as a career. I had an aunt who was a fashion designer, even then I never thought about it as something I wanted to pursue.
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LAFAYETTE HOUSE
A Gravure Editions Book
Now available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, & the Gravure Store.
Published July 2010,  186pp, perfect bound.

Photography • Alex Freund
Fashion • Romina Herrera-Malatesta
Hair • Bok-Hee / Streeters
Makeup • Itsuki / The Wall Group
Models • Tiiu Kuik & Michelle Buswell / Marilyn Agency

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MELLOW GOLD
Photography • Clarence K
Fashion • Lisa Mosko
Jewelry • Osanna Visconti
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