Hasta La Creative!

Covered: Influential music site Pitchfork, which was acquired by publishing conglomerate Cond Nast in 2015, flexed its cultural muscle last night by hosting a party to celebrate its first digital cover, featuring singer-songwriter-model-actress Sky Ferreira. The animated coverone is planned each quarter to help hype a high-profile storyis an initiative by new-ish Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel (formerly EIC of Spin), who took over from Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber last fall. Ferreira spoke with Pitchfork’s Camille Dodero for an exclusive interview leading up to the release of her next album “Masochism”which comes a full six years after her critically-acclaimed debut studio album “Night Time, My Time.”

The fte was at Kinfolk (Ferreira, naturally, was the guest of honor) in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, and Conde Nast’s biggest in-house star, Anna Wintour, the Vogue editrix and company-wide artistic director, actually popped over from Manhattan to party with the kidswhich is, you know, sweet.

And finally… The front page of the Styles section of The New York Times this morning includes a story about the relaunch of iconic British style-and-culture bible The Facewhich is returning as an Instagram account this week, a website next month and then a quarterly print magazine starting late summer. It opens with a poignant anecdote about the sense of community that certain publications can foster. In “The Return of a Magazine That Changed Culture,” Charlie Porter writes,

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