Just over a year ago,Eckhaus Lattastaged itsfall 2024 showin an empty industrial office space in Hudson Square.
It felt like Kramar was finally poised for his breakout moment.
The result of those efforts isLiving Legend,an EP made up solely of Del Rey covers.
Photo: Jason Al-Taan
It just excited me for some reason.
Im interested in fiction, says Kramar.
Its a spiritual and personal act.
Photo: Jason Al-Taan
I want full revelation.
I want total nakedness when Im making music.
So if theres a character, its Loren, naked, in pursuit of that.
Photo: Jason Al-Taan
It looks like an American flag melted and dripped over a Barbie doll or something, he says.
But I wanted to dress that dream, glamour, fantasy for these photos.
Its forVogue,so lets be Queen Bitch!
This is most certainly the story of a late bloomer, he says.
Theres no fucking doubt about that.
Some days I wish I were younger, some days I dont.
Some days I wish it happened a different way, some days I dont.
The story is the story.
What am I going to do today?
Go and make some work.
I cant dwell on what could have been.
Also: Keep your eye out for limited-edition Eckhaus Latta merch set to drop alongside the EP.
I have met her, but she wouldnt remember.
If I were to meet her again, Id pretend wed never met, he says, laughing again.
We have a mutual friend, and it was that friends birthday party at the Chateau.
And I thought that I was getting to the party fashionably late, but it turned out I wasnt.
And there were maybe 12 people in the hotel room, and Lana was one of them.
I met her, and we were all drinking, but she was just having a cappuccino.
I thought it was so glamorous.
Well, where else would one hope to meet Del Rey than at the Chateau Marmont?
Thats right, says Kramar.
Straight from the mood board to reality.
