Best of Design Matters: Kim Hastreiter
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This episode of Design Matters originally appeared in March of twenty twenty six.
To me right now what we're going through that I feel like I have to put art out in the universe. Artists have to like put the best art, the best inspiration out in the universe right now.
From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Melman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, a conversation with Kim Hastrider about New York City, art, magazines, and about breaking the internet.
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Kim Hastrider is a creator and a connector of worlds, as well as an editor, curator, collector, and catalyst who has spent more than four decades at the center of cultural emergence. As the co-founder and longtime editor of Paper Magazine, she built one of the most influential platforms documenting the intersection of art. Фашн, музик, а нийф інтон Нью-Йорк і Біон. She's also worked with everyone from Keith Herring to President Barack Obama, and her new book Stuff, a New York Life of Cultural Chaos, tells the story of her life through the objects and people she has encountered and gathered along the way. Kim Hastriter, welcome to Design Matters. Thank you.
I'm so excited to be here.
Kim, I understand that you identify as both a loudmouth and a snob. Why why is that? Why those two particular
has a little to do with DNA, I hate to tell you, but it's not not a learned thing. But I am kind of stubborn, like my father was, and a super opinionated. And also the older I get, the more I get that way because the time is running out. I mean now I'm kind of like in fast motion because I turn 70. When I turn 70, you know, you kind of see the end end and then I become like completely a maniac about like not wasting time. There's no transactional stuff. It's all has to be like high bar. I have a high bar.
Yeah, as I'm getting older and older and just right behind you, a couple of years behind you. Everything becomes more urgent. Yeah. You grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, and by your own mother's account, she described you as a square suburban girl. How is that possible?
I was just young, you know, I was I don't know if you remember villager outfits, but you know, I wore like villager outfits with high socks and like A line skirts and like little circle pins. I went to high school, junior high school, I walked it was in the suburbs and so I had a lot of friends, but I wasn't no one was kooky or like outrageous.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening context and who is the guest on this episode?
0:01–10:34
2
How did Kim Hastreiter’s childhood in West Orange shape her view of art and culture?
10:34–20:09
3
What experiences at Washington University and Nova Scotia College of Art influenced her creative path?
20:09–28:58
4
How did Kim’s move to New York and her first apartment reflect the challenges of launching a career?
28:58–37:16
5
What role did the Soho News and early collaborations play in the birth of Paper magazine?
37:16–47:52
6
How was the iconic ‘break the internet’ Kim Kardashian cover conceived and executed?
47:52–58:42
7
What themes and stories does Kim explore in her memoir *Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos*?
58:42–1:10:52
8
What advice does Kim give to the next generation about documenting culture?
1:10:52–1:21:33