Kinfolk #52

For The Influence Issue, Kinfolk is exploring the powerful currents that shape our world and sway our decisions: power, money, politics—and other people. We meet Anna Sorokin, who, under her alias, Anna Delvey, manipulated a remarkable sum of money out of Manhattan’s elite. We also catch up with Kaitlin Phillips, the indie publicist whose job is to manufacture influence for her creative clients, and speak to fashion model Dennis Okwera, who, having escaped the brutality of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda as a child, has since returned to spearhead a philanthropic foundation to uplift his community. Elsewhere, we discuss the upcoming presidential election with Waleed Shahid, a senior political strategist behind campaigns for Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and treat Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved cat, muse and heiress Choupette to a stylish summer vacation. The rest of the issue returns to classic Kinfolk coverage, including interviews with influential chef Alison Roman, the French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, opera singer Jeanine de Bique and photographer Sven Marquardt (who happens to be a doorman at Berlin’s notorious Berghain).