Category Archives: interviews
Stinson Carter interviewed in Vanity Fair, Secrets of The Chateau Marmont
Naval Ravikant – WSJ Magazine
23andMe Founder Anne Wojcicki – WSJ Magazine
Liz Meriwether Tracked – WSJ Magazine
Click to read PDF:MerriwetherTracked
Haas Brothers – WSJ Magazine
click to read Forum Magazine Interview with Stinson Carter
North Louisiana magazine The Forum interviews Stinson Carter about the writer’s life, the Deep South and his novel, False River.
Jesse James goes Metro
Jesse James on Skincare
by Stinson Carter
BlackBook Magazine, April 2008
Jesse James is about to blow the lid off a few biker stereotypes at a Kiehl’s store near you. The 39 year old is best known as the host of the Discovery Channel shows “Monster Garage” and “Motorcycle Mania,” and for the celebrity-heavy client list of his Long Beach, California bike shop, West Coat Choppers. (Kid Rock, Keanu Reeves and Shaquille O’Neal, to name a few).
But he’s sure to pick up some new fans in the wives and girlfriends of “regular dudes who work with their hands and are filthy dirty every day like I am,” as James describes… click to continue reading
Ronnie and Vidal Sassoon
On Neutra Ground
by Stinson Carter
Room 100 Magazine, Summer 2008
Vidal and Ronnie Sassoon met in the early 90’s while she was designing a product from his “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good” line, and he has trusted her design eye ever since. Vidal Sassoon may not let his wife cut his hair, but she’s the only one he’ll let touch his houses. Ronnie Sassoon has a passion for redesigning mid-century moderns, but her latest undertaking may be her finest work yet: a major remodel of Richard Neutra’s c. 1969 Singleton House, a benchmark of the architect’s Southern California Regionalist style… click to continue reading
Kelly Slater Interview
Kelly Slater’s Surf Style
by Stinson Carter
Maxim, January 2009
Back when he was costarring on Baywatch in the early 1990s, 20-year-old Kelly Slater became the youngest surfer ever to win the world champ ionship. Now at 36––and a record nine pro-surfing titles later––the Quiksilver athlete has this year become the oldest world champion in the his tory of the sport. He’s posed for Versace, jammed with Ben Harper, penned a memoir, and dated Gisele Bündchen and Pamela Anderson. But after 30 years of hanging 10, the kid from Cocoa Beach isn’t about to hang up his neoprene and walk into the sunset… click to continue reading
Celebrity Treehouses
Out On A Limb
by Stinson Carter
BlackBook Magazine, April/May 2007
For the past decade, Roderick Romero has made a name for himself as a tree-house builder to eco-conscious notables. His clients include Sting, Donna Karan, Val Kilmer, and Julianne Moore, and price tags for his custom roots often start in the mid-five figures. He is also the lead singer of the Seattle band Sky Cries Mary. Romero’s ponytail braids put Willie Nelson’s to shame, and he wears his mystic spirituality on his tattooed sleeve. But it doesn’t mean he can’t share a laugh at his own unique calling. click to continue reading