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Using his modern interpretation of the original Proust Questionnaire, Jefferson Hack uncovers the true mindsets of his peers


  • Juergen Teller, Self-portrait: Head Behind Lamp, Bubenreuth, Germany 2002

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Juergen Teller

    He put Victoria Beckham in a paper bag for Marc Jacobs, shot Charlotte Rampling nude next to the Mona Lisa and bundled Kate Moss into a wheelbarrow. He is, of course, the inimitable Juergen Teller...

  • Marisa Berenson

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Marisa Berenson

    Since her birth Marisa Berenson, granddaughter of legendary Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, has lived her life in front of the camera lens – even her christening portrait was published in Vogue. Dubbed the “It Girl” by Yves Saint...

  • Tracey Emin

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Tracey Emin

    in Jefferson Hack’s modern interpretation of the original Proust Questionnaire, British artist and Royal Academician Tracey Emin talks aeroplanes, giggle fits with Stephen Fry and never giving up.

  • Sandra Bernhard

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Sandra Bernhard

    American comedian, singer, actress and author Sandra Bernhard has had people in hysterics since she first started her career as a regular and popular staple at The Comedy Store. Featured in Comedy Central’s list of the 100 greatest...

  • Natalie Massenet

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Natalie Massenet

    To kick off a special collaboration between Net-a-Porter and anothermag.com for the next weeks, the website's founder and executive chairman and newly elected Chairman of the British Fashion Council Natalie Massenet answers Jefferson...

  • James Franco

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | James Franco

    Riding roughshod across the concept of the importance of focus, James Franco's cultural universe encompasses every practice imaginable - from acting, directing and filmmaking, across teaching and poetry, to music, fiction and art.

  • Carine Roitfeld, 2007

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Carine Roitfeld

    Arguably one of France’s most stylish women, Karl Lagerfeld once said that if you close your eyes and imagine the ideal French woman, it would be Carine Roitfeld. Here, AnOther delves deeper into Roitfeld’s true mindset as Jefferson Hack...

  • Jake and Dinos Chapman

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Jake Chapman

    For the past year, Jake and Dinos have been working in separate studios to produce a series of works in isolation from each other, and only in the staging of this show will each become aware of what the other has done. So in the form of...

  • Peter Philips, Creative Director of Chanel Make-up.

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Peter Philips

    As the Creative Director of Chanel Makeup, Belgian Peter Philips holds the position described by Vogue magazine as the "most coveted job in cosmetics".

  • John Waters

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | John Waters

    Prestigious filmmaker John Waters is feted for his cult film Desperate Living in 1977 – in which he cast real-life convicted criminals and porn stars – and Hairspray in 1988, which has more recently been adapted to the long-running hit...

  • Yoko Ono

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Yoko Ono

    John Lennon once described her as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does." As well as being well known as John's wife — images of the pyjama-clad couple's 1969 Bed-In For Peace...

  • Glenn O'Brien

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Glenn O'Brien, Writer

    New York-based Glenn O’Brien is a man of many talents. Having started his career editing The Georgetown Journal and Andy Warhol’s Interview, he has since gone on to work at Rolling Stone, Playboy and High Times, start the journal Bald Ego,...