Hilary Rhoda by Paola Kudacki for The Debut Issue of Heroine Magazine

Paola Kudacki shoots Hilary Rhoda for the debut issue of Heroine Magazine. Styled by Karen Kaiser.

LAUNCH ISSUE – THE NEW WOMAN

Based on the massive global success of HERO, September 2014 sees the launch of HEROINE.

The future is multi-faceted and its leaders are genre-evading, dynamic provocateurs who progress opinion. This is precisely the time for a new, intelligent and informed edition that talks directly with the protagonists of today’s unique attitude. HEROINE is our essential edit of the people, places and experiences that frame the next six months.

JUNO TEMPLE interviewed by DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Cover star JUNO TEMPLE (Maleficent, Sin City, Lovelace, The Dark Knight Rises) is a leading light in the small cohort of genuinely talented young women acting in Hollywood today. Character first, comfort later – this Somerset-born English export is determined to do it the old-fashioned way. Interviewed for this issue by DANIEL RADCLIFFE (Kill Your Darlings, The Woman in Black, Harry Potter) and shot by SEBASTIAN KIM.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

We shoot the FW14 PRADA collection exclusively inside artist CARSTEN HÖLLER’s new exhibition Leben in Vienna and consider the long-running relationship between Prada and the art world. Designer Peter Dundas reflects on taking the helm in the high-octane world of PUCCI, balancing heritage and innovation.

Writer/producer/director/actress BRIT MARLING is the epitome of the modern quadruple-threat in movie-making. She discusses the meaning of life (and oregano) with Alicia Van Couvering.

As the new documentary following RAF SIMONS’ first couture show in 2012 for DIOR is set for release (Dior and I), we reflect on the designer’s work at the house so far in TWO YEARS IN, accompanied by an exclusive FW14 fashion story.

RAMESH NAIR, artistic director of MOYNAT enthuses about re-imaging innovation a century later from the brand’s luxury leather atelier just off Rue Saint-Honoré. HEATHER CORCORAN, executive director of pioneering digital arts organisation RHIZOME in New York, ponders the future of net art for an increasingly connected generation and FATIMA AL QADIRI, contemporary art’s leading polymorph, fuses music, culture and visuals to comment on social preconceptions.

Writer KAREN ORTON explores how educating girls is the biggest threat to global terrorism in a groundbreaking essay, while MATTHEW WHITEHOUSE considers a worrying shift in European politics in TURNING RIGHT.

VICTOR DEMARCHELIER captures the season’s silhouettes with fashion director GRO CURTIS and PAOLA KUDACKI shoots the HILARY RHODA for MODERN WOMAN – a 24 page story in New York. Photographer JOHNNY DUFORT and stylist EMMA WYMAN capture six different versions of KIM PEERS in KIMX6 and we visit AUNT RUTH at home in Hertfordshire.

Restauranteur JACKSON BOXER tells us why he cooks the way he does, BELLA FREUD reveals how she’d quite like to be a drummer and WILLIAM VINTAGE invites us into his world (and wardrobe).

Plus our take on some of the season’s most dynamic collections, including SAINT LAURENT, CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION, BALENCIAGA, LOUIS VUITTON and FENDI.

Also including horror’s newest femme-fatale LORENZA IZZO, a musical wolf pack: WOLF ALICE, designer ANTHONY VACCARELLO – Paris va va voom via Italy and Belgium, musician MELISSA BROOKS (inspiration: Bikini Kill and Britney Spears), ALIA AL SENUSSI the Libyan princess connecting art worlds, and designer LUCAS NASCIMENTO.