The Faces: Our heroes and heroines of today

From tennis ace to beauty entrepreneur: we can’t get enough of these personalities at the moment.

Jannik Sinner

Matchball boy
If you want to know what the most important tennis trophies in the world look like, visit Jannik Sinner’s Instagram profile. He won a bowl in Tokyo. A trophy in Vienna. A crystal in Miami. And in Toronto a … glittering bear trap? The 22-year-old is lifting so many prizes that we’re starting to worry about his serving arm. If the Italian continues his virtually flawless season, he will be ranked number one in the world this year. A meteoric rise, and yet the modest simpatico remains down to earth.

Tierra Whack

The Surreal Deal
On the day her debut album was released, Tierra Whack almost choked on a potato chip. The tragicomic anecdote stands for the art of the rapper and R&B singer. Good and evil live next door to each other in a colorful neighborhood. On the cover of “World Wide Whack”, the American presents herself as the sad clown Pierrot. But she doesn’t just create a spectacle in the music circus. The video clips should play in a continuous loop in museums of modern art. And the kaleidoscopic outfits make Tierra an inimitable style icon.

Kara Swisher

Flamethrower
When there were more cowbells ringing than keyboard keys clacking in Silicon Valley, Kara Swisher began her column about California’s up-and-coming tech sector. Since then, the journalist and podcaster has experienced everything and predicted many things: start-ups that shot up like space rockets and crashed again as billion-dollar companies like a deep-sea anchor. The words in Kara Swisher’s new memoir “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” read like purgatory for an industry whose genius and madness have only just warmed up.

Martine Rose

In Full Bloom
Martine Rose once worked behind a bar to finance her fashion label. In the meantime, the big brands are queuing up to be served by the Englishwoman. With each collection and collaboration, the designer serves up a colorful cocktail, but her unusual ideas remain wearable in everyday life. The fact that one of the most innovative voices in men’s fashion is female brings new flair and warmth to the scene. You could feel this in the party character of the London Fashion Week showcases. But Martine now serves shirts instead of shots.

Charley Crockett

Grand Ole OG
Finally a cowboy without bullshit. If Authenticity were a western town, it would elect Charley Crockett as its sheriff. In his songs, the country singer searches for coolness instead of kitsch. Because he is back to the roots of the genre, his songs blossom with timeless beauty. The Texan wrote the songs for his new album “$10 Cowboy” on tour through the USA. At truck stops and casinos, he looked into the cracks in the land that would soon lead to hell. And has finally become a poetic contemporary witness à la Bob Dylan.

Reneé Rapp

Press Mayday
There are jobs that require nerves of steel: bomb disposal, crime scene cleaning, Reneé Rapp’s PR team. The singer and actress’s interviews have the chaotic energy of a tornado in a florist’s store. The multi-talented artist unabashedly rants and rails against frustration and lust. We hope the Gen-Z favorite remains forever undefeated as the final boss for every media training agency. Not despite, but precisely because of this authenticity, the star of the movie musical “Mean Girls” is currently roaring from one success to the next.

Nicolas Di Felice

Arte Blanche
Courrèges defined the look of the swinging sixties like almost no other brand. But a few years ago, the label seemed as contemporary as a flirtation attempt by Austin Powers. As the new Artistic Director, Nicolas Di Felice has installed a fountain of youth in the traditional house. Since then, the company has enjoyed a great deal of amour in the Parisian fashion world. The Belgian, whose grandfathers worked in coal mines, demonstrates a talent for Courrèges’ main color, white. This also appeals to competitors: Jean Paul Gaultier brings the up-and-coming star on board as a guest couturier.

Colman Domingo

Red Carpet Golden Boy
Colman Domingo did not take home the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the end of the evening. But the actor doesn’t need gold trophies to outshine everyone else. His gala outfits are as spectacular as his roles in films such as “Rustin” or “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. He dedicated his talent to Broadway for a long time, which is why the 54-year-old still looks like a fresh face in Hollywood. But with the maturity and experience that give him the necessary authority for difficult parts like Michael Jackson’s father in the upcoming biopic.

Claudia Sulewski

Creme de la Creme
Everything is running smoothly for the Cyklar skincare brand. Six months after its launch, beauty incubator The Center has added the startup to its portfolio and is stirring things up for the international market. The young and youthful company was founded by beauty expert Claudia Sulewski. She used to test lotions on her YouTube channel, but now she makes millions of dollars from them herself. Meanwhile, boyfriend Finneas sits beside her with a crush and dedicates songs to her when he’s not producing hits for his sister Billie Eilish.

Conan O’Brien

Legend Unleashed
The top of his head is still far too red to call him a gray eminence. Conan O’Brien hosted various late night shows for almost 30 years. Always a little crazier, riskier, funnier than his colleagues. And also: more visionary. While celebrities are waved through five-minute interviews elsewhere, the former “Simpsons” author offers his guests all the time in the world in the podcast “Conan Needs a Friend”. He is now also touring them in his TV comeback “Conan Must Go” – because just one studio has always been too small for his talent.

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