JADEN AND WILLOW SMITH SPEAKS FEELINGS

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 Interview By Pharrell Williams

 photo by Steven Klein

At this year's Met Ball in May, our friend, Interview alumnus André Leon Talley welcomed Willow and Jaden Smith to the red carpet by enthusiastically proclaiming them the future of fashion. We happen to agree with him—and not just because the two teenage artists project an earnestness and general, as well as gender, nonconformity that happens to align with the fashion industry's present tastes—we believe that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's children and namesakes are the future, and we wouldn't necessarily even narrow the claim to fashion alone.

For starters, will we be able to so easily differentiate between artist, designer, model, and performer in the future? And will those differentiations even matter? Will difference hold back the great merge? Or will industries—be it fashion, music, movies, technology—integrate even more comprehensively than they are now? Maybe in the future, the Buddha will have been right and all will be one.

If increasing intersectionality and multiplicity is where we're headed, the fresh prince and princess of Calabasas are indeed the vanguard. Between them, Jaden, 18, and Willow, 15, have more hyphens in their descriptions than Morse code—which, tbh, they probably speak: recording artists, actors, designers, entrepreneurs ... They check so many boxes that they actually present a few conundrums (and not just the intentionally cryptic koans in which they often speak on social media).
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