Interview Magazine Baggage Shadowing ‘Relaunch’The magazine may want to start fresh, but some memories aren’t that short.

[Collection]Interview magazine is trying to start fresh, but recent history is creating obstacles. Last year saw the now 50-year-old magazine founded by Andy Warhol pushed into bankruptcy liquidation by Peter Brant, who owned the title during a period of financial turmoil that saw it eventually stop paying its bills and employees. Brant subsequently bought it from himself out of bankruptcy and apparently handed it over to his eldest daughter, Kelly Brant, who had been its president for several years, to be “relaunched” again under her leadership and a new holding company, Crystal Ball Media. Although the magazine in recent months has worked to again fill out its editorial team — several former high-profile staffers like Fabien Baron left before the bankruptcy due to lack of payment, while others were cut post-bankruptcy — and now is said to be fully staffed at around 18 people, there seems to be more than a little anxiety around getting paid. Sources told WWD that only at the tail end of 2018 did payment for freelance work on the September issue — the first issue after its May bankruptcy, meaning it was, to be clear, produced while the magazine was still technically a bankrupt entity — come through,

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