032c ISSUE #48 – WINTER 2025/26: DEFTONES

032c Issue #48: NIN 

“We are inspired by excellence, and we don’t think there’s enough of it in the world, especially in the current political and cultural climate." -Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross / Nine Inch Nails

The dossier in Issue #48 functions as the unofficial Peel It Back tour book. Cassidy George speaks to NINE INCH NAILS members TRENT REZNOR and ATTICUS ROSS, as well as the tour’s creative director TODD TOURSO, and explores the history of the band through the concert setlist. Serving as both memorabilia and archive, it also examines why Nine Inch Nails' ideas are "some of the most pillaged in the industry." 

In Sacramento, photographer Jack Bridgland and creative director Tal Midyan capture DEFTONES and their cult fanbase in a story (featuring interviews with all five members) about how the band redefines youth culture, while being in their fifties. Meanwhile in Blackpool, musician and choreographer BLACKHAINE shows Nadine Fraczowski and Celestine Cooney around, and tells Claire Koron Elat about involuntary states of the body. 

Elsewhere, JIL SANDER’s maximalist villa is resurrected and reconstructed in a BRUCE WEBER shoot from 1998 with a text by Hamish Bowles and an intro by Ingeborg Harms. Sven Michaelsen visits artist GOTTFRIED HELWEIN to discuss Donald Duck and fascism at his Irish castle, which is photographed by Jackie Nickerson. And iconic supermodel NATASHA POLY stars in a shoot by Hendrik Schneider and Gadir Rajab inside the “Goldraum 1” exhibition at 032c Gallery. Raphael Bliss, Juan Corrales, and Claire Koron Elat shoot next-gen Brazilian model MARIA KLAUMANN in a Parisian tanning salon. Marathon runner Gabriel Proedl visits the NIKE headquarters in Beaverton. Ryan Ruby pens a eulogy to MELYVYN BRAGG’s show In Our Time. And Rahim Attarzadeh discusses the color white with COURRÈGES’ NICOLAS DI FELICE.

 The X-Files celebrate those who bring excellence to the 032c universe: the hue enthusiast RAF SIMONS, the internet existentialists THE HELLP, the servers PAULIN, PAULIN, PAULIN, the fallen angel JOANNA KUCHTA, DAVID WOJNAROWICZ’S devoted pen pal JEAN-PIERRE DELAGE, the American dreamer BRUCE WEBER, the rave cosmologist MARK LECKEY, the playful maniac TOSHIKAZU KAYANO, the icemaker MASAHIRO LAMARSH, the biotechnologist KATJA NOVITSKOVA, and the undaunted drifter SARA CHOI. As always, the BERLIN REVIEW rounds out the issue with our favorite books of the season.