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Falling in love with the right woman coaxed Josh McIntyre out of the shadows and onto a stage. With Little Girls—the cheeky name he chose for his post-punk solo project—the Toronto-based musician tried to take himself out of the picture: He muffled his vocals, buried them in the mix and obscured his face in photos. But when he began to collaborate with his girlfriend, Talvi Faustmann, on the icy electronic songs that became Prince Innocence’s repertoire, the two decided to put everything out there.

“With Little Girls, it was like I was trying to make it as far removed from myself as possible,” McIntyre says from Faustmann’s home in Montreal. “With Prince Innocence, it’s more upfront.”

“This band has a lot more sincerity to it,” adds Faustmann. “It’s kind of scary for both of us, because there’s nothing really to hide behind.”

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Demi Lovato fever continues! As our August 2013 Issue hits stands, we’re celebrate our cover girl with 6 photos of the singer from our shoot in Los Angeles. Want the insider’s look? Go through the beautiful Chanel bag she brought with her on set here!

To read our full cover story, pick up the FASHION Magazine August 2013 issue starring Demi Lovato, available on newsstands or digitally through August 5, 2013.

When Piper Kerman confessed to her friends that she—a self-described “nice blonde lady” living in the bourgie side of Brooklyn—was going to jail for laundering money for a drug kingpin, they laughed at her. It took weeks to convince some of her inner circle that her conviction wasn’t a joke.

Nobody was laughing when she was handcuffed and sent to a federal correctional facility in Danbury, Conn., for 15 months in February 2004, more than a decade after she committed the crime—a time she calls her wild, experimental 20s. Kerman’s past almost destroyed her relationships with her unknowing fiancé, friends and family.

“It’s an indelible experience,” Kerman says from her office in New York, where she now works at a communications firm. “It makes such an impression on you that you can’t leave it behind. I think about it all the time.”

While serving her sentence, Kerman was meticulous about taking notes, chronicling her fish-out-of-water-and-into-frying-pan story for what would become her best-selling 2010 memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. The book’s newfound popularity has inspired a Netflix series by Weeds creator Jenji Kohan.

“The series is an adaptation, so there are some wild departures from the actual events recounted in my book,” admits Kerman, who was brought into the project to consult. “Some of the scenes are just as exciting or funny or horrifying for me to watch as they might be for other viewers.” An episode directed by Jodie Foster had Kerman recalling the sometimes startling, sometimes humorous moments she encountered while navigating the social protocols at her prison’s mess hall.

Actress Taylor Schilling was chosen to play Piper Chapman, a Kerman-esque character, for the series. Rather than imitate the woman she got to know behind the cameras, the 28-year-old Bostonian—best known for roles in Argo and The Lucky One—decided to find common ground between them.

“Being in [jail] is akin to learning the rules of a country club,” Schilling says during the shooting of Orange Is the New Black’s last episode in New York City. “This isn’t a show like Oz. It’s a different beast altogether.” Instead of portraying a violent, stereotypical view of prison life, the scripts emphasize the dramas surrounding class and status issues in prison.

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We’ve got a brand spankin’ new cover girl today, and it’s none other than hit pop artist Demi Lovato. To celebrate her covering our latest issue, we present this insider’s look at what the award winning artist carries with her from day to day. Photographed while on the set of our cover shoot, these snaps reveal Lovato’s biggest makeup obsession: “I carry a lot of concealers [and] powders because I love to have clean glowing skin, but the secret is to make sure you wash it off every night to keep your skin clear!” she said.

For more scoop on Demi Lovato, read this sneak peek from our August 2013 issue, or pick up the issue, on-stands and online now.

“I’m in fashion rehab,”our runway photographer Peter Stigter often jokes as he recuperates from his gruelling tour of duty shooting the season’s shows. Many of Stigter’s photos appear in our fall preview (“Front Row,” page 34), which highlights the season’s greatest runway moments.

But rehab is no laughing matter, especially at age 18. That’s when FASHION cover girl Demi Lovato (“Demi Goddess,” page 100) took a break from her television and singing careers to deal with, among other things, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Making health a priority has paid off. Lovato’s recently released fourth album has gone platinum in Canada. And coming clean with fans has earned her admiration—and her own ridiculous schedule. Before our shoot in Los Angeles with photographer Chris Nicholls and fashion editor-at-large Zeina Esmail, she had clocked 50 flight hours in 30 days.

Always in Fashion
14 fashionmagazine.com
18 Letter from the editor
20 Contributors
22 Behind the scenes
24 Letters from our readers

Fashion
30 News Nicola Formichetti reboots; Louboutin fever lands in Toronto; additional Loft space; and a new print to fall in love with.
32 Flashpoint Stylish women across Canada step out in moto jackets and all-white ensembles.
34 Fall preview Cheeky models, a trippy pastel forest and pop royalty: Our editors share 33 highlights of the Fall 2013 runway circuit.
42 Accessory Joy Pecknold visits an Austrian palace to get up close and personal with Omega’s leading lady.
44 Dossier Naomi, Linda, Cindy, Claudia and Christy. Randi Bergman looks back at the $10,000 a day glory of the 1990s Supers.

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Photographed by Chris Nicholls, styled by Zeina Esmail, Demi Lovato wears a dress, $995, by Just Cavalli at Saks Fifth Avenue, earrings, $455, by Mawi and a necklace, $2,250, and ring, $195, both by Liza Shtromberg. Hair by Andy LeCompte for Wella Professionals. Makeup by Mai Quynh for StarworksArtists.com. Manicure by Stephanie Stone for The New Black at Nailing Hollywood. Fashion Assistant, Amy Mach.

Fresh from causing major palpitations with her platinum-selling single “Heart Attack,” and smashing records with her fourth studio album—Demi Lovato graces the August cover of FASHION magazine. Photographed in sunny Los Angeles at Milk Studios, Lovato spoke to features editor Elio Iannacci on the highs and lows of her career as well as her views on songwriting, relationships and her return as a judge on X-Factor this fall. Here is a sneek peek of our cover story, which hits newsstands on July 8, 2013: