We were all rejectedit was only the boys.
I thought, This art is better than being in Mary Boone.
Other luminaries like Willi Smith and Ingo Maurer lived in the same building.
A look insideStuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos.
A collection ofPapermagazine ephemera.
She had the magazine for more than three decades.
I soldPaperthe same week my mother died, she explains.
A collection of Hastreiter’s clothes from the late ’70s and early ’80s
And we packed it all up, and everything was delivered to my one-bedroom apartment.
She hired two interns to properly organize and archive her belongings; the project took a year.
I would just ask my friends, What do I do with this stuff?
Hastreiter launchedPapermagazine in her loft on Lispenard Street. Other luminaries like Willi Smith and Ingo Maurer lived in the same building.
Should I make a movie or a documentary?
(Well, thereisa lot of stuff!)
It is a book that, like the writer, contains multitudes.
A collection ofPapermagazine ephemera. She had the magazine for more than three decades.
It starts as a straightforward memoir told by the everyday objects of family life.
Then we switch gears.
She remains a punk at heart and collects objects that fuck with perceived notions of acceptability and class.
Hastreiter’s collection of Ted Muehling earrings
(Hastreiter is also an avid gardener.)
The brilliant illustrator Ruben Toledo drew a genealogy tree of Hastreiters friends.
She has kids, and I dont have kids.
When Hastreiter turned 40, she switched to a standard uniform made of a simple design that she re-creates in a variety of colors and fabrics.
So she shocked me a bit, and I rethought it.
I was supposed to be an artist, and I ended up doingPaper, she says.
She continues, Im a manifester.
The brilliant illustrator Ruben Toledo drew a genealogy tree of Hastreiter’s friends.
I see things how they should be.
Some examples of the art and the philosophies that mean the most to Hastreiter
A hopeful ending
Stuff: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos, copublished by Amazing Unlimited and Damiani Books.
