i-D Magazine Gets a New Life Just as Cool as Its Old Life
What a difference a decade and a half makes. Today Ms. Kloss sits on the Mount Rushmore of models who are household names. With her husband, Joshua Kushner, she also runs Bedford Media, a burgeoning media conglomerate, and it's in that capacity that she reunited with Mr. Owens on a still night at the trailing end of Paris Fashion Week.
Mr. Owens and his wife, Michèle Lamy, had offered Ms. Kloss their austere Left Bank maison for a dinner celebrating the relaunch of i-D magazine, which the model-turned-mogul bought in 2023 after its previous owner Vice filed for bankruptcy.
'It's an extraordinary piece of fashion history,' Ms. Kloss said over the clinking of Champagne glasses. 'I just didn't want it to die.'
The mission of the magazine, Thom Bettridge, i-D's new editor in chief, said was to restore 'the spirit of what it was but for right now.' Image Karlie Kloss, center, sitting beside the cover star Enza Khoury and her father, Adam. Credit... Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
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