Featured in L'Oficielle USA
Grace was photographed and interviewed for the L’officelle USA magazine back in June 2024. The article was shared online earlier but the Magazine was published on November 22. The interview took place at the Black Cat café on Manhattan's Lower East Side. In the introduction, the interviewer, Audra Henrics wrote "back in june, L’officiel USA commissioned me to have coffee and a cig with Grace Vanderwaal, an absolute spark plug of a person and artist …🌟 it was a pleasure." Grace had been featured on “L’Oficielle once before ,in May 2018.
Grace talked about Megalopolis and about her upcoming LP."I feel attached to this project that I'm working on right now more than anything. It's the best work I've ever done in my life. People ask me what my next album is like, and I'd just say it's a lot of meaningful production. The sounds are extremely intentional, and everything you're hearing, I chose myself. I had so many complex feelings about becoming a young woman, and I'm very inspired by the future me, what my experience has been, and also some feminist theory. Everyone's like, "fuck the patriarchy," but it's so much deeper than that. Patriarchy is within the core of who you are, and there's a sense of resentment in finding out half of your core isn't yours. 'That's just a shocking feeling as a young woman. I wanted to capture the nuance of that."
Audra Henrichs is a New York City-based journalist specializing in reporting and feature writing on music, entertainment, and cultural moments and movements.
Photos are by Calvy Click a fashion stylist and consultant.
Styling was done by Emily Soto
L’Officel: full name L'Officiel de la couture et de la mode de Paris ("The Paris Official [Magazine] of Couture and Fashion"), is a French monthly fashion magazine. It has been published in Paris since 1921 and targets upper-income, educated women aged from 25 to 49. It was the official publication of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, came to be known as "the Bible of fashion and of high society". (Wikipedia November 2024)
