Since she cycled onto our screens in the summer of 2019, Hunter Schafer has forged a path with few precedents. Five years ago she was living in a Bushwick loft, filling her journal with doodles and planning a move to London to study at Central Saint Martins. One debut role as free-spirited high schooler Jules in the Emmy-winning phenomenon Euphoria later, and she has a handful of feature films in the pipeline, ranging from David Lowery's pop melodrama Mother Mary to horror movie Cuckoo and box-office catnip The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. At the time of writing, Schafer is embroiled in a historic Screen Actors Guild strike that prevents her from speaking about her onscreen life — but her career has always been multifarious. As a teenager growing up in North Carolina, she drew openhearted comics for Tavi Gevinson's Rookie. After signing with Elite Models aged 18, she was sought by Miu Miu, Rick Owens and Dior, and today she is an ambassador for Prada.
For AnOther Magazine's shoot, the 24-year-old found an equally brave, wide-roving accomplice in Viviane Sassen. The Dutch artist, celebrated for her surreal visions, has long had a parallel career bringing her unique eye to fashion, a world whose boundaries she has reshaped into her own playground. On the eve of Sassen's landmark 30-year retrospective, which opens in Paris in October, the pair discuss creativity, transformation and the lifeline art has thrown them.
I've been a fan of yours ever since I was in high school. My friend Tyler Mitchell told me about your work. I know
