YES, MORE THAN A FEW PERSONALITIES HAVE MARKED US, INCLUDING GENIUSES LIKE KARL AND REI. OR SERGE LUTENS, WHO GAVE US AN EXCEPTIONAL WELCOME AT HIS HOME/WORK OF ART IN MARRAKESH. THESE CREATORS BUILD THEIR OWN WORLD,
THEIR UNIVERSE, NEVER SETTLING FOR IMITATION OR REFERENCE… THEIR KIND IS RARE, BUT FOR US THEY INSPIRE ENOUGH AMBITION TO CONTINUE PUBLISHING FOR TWENTY MORE YEARS… THEY STAND AS THE EQUALS OF ARTISTS LIKE OLIVIER MOSSET, EXILED IN TUCSON, ARIZONA, OR JULIO LE PARC… WE SENT TOP MODEL KAROLINA KURKOVA TO EXPLORE HIS RETROSPECTIVE AT THE PEREZ ART MUSEUM… JONATHAN LITTELL, AUTHOR OF « THE KINDLY ONES, » GIVES US A RARE INTERVIEW TO COINCIDE WITH THE RELEASE OF HIS DOCUMENTARY ON CHILD SOLDIERS, « WRONG ELEMENTS. » KIYOSHI KUROSAWA DIRECTS HIS VERY FIRST « GHOST FILM » IN FRANCE AND CONJURES UP THE REINCARNATED SPIRIT OF ERIC ROHMER, BATHED IN JAPANESE MYTHS. IN THE SPIRIT OF CRASH, KEEP CREATING COLLISIONS, CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, BETWEEN ART AND FASHION,ELIMINATE BORDERS AND, ESPECIALLY, PREJUDICE.