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The sweet life

When beauty icon and perennial Nylon favorite Gwen Stefani came to New York recently – husband Gavin Rossdale and sons Kingston and Zuma in tow – we figured it was a good opportunity for a chat about her makeup memories, her harajuku lovers fragrance franchise, and her preteen deodorant preference. By Holly Siegel.

When you were on our cover in June/July 2000, you desribed your courtship with Gavin as fairy-tale like. It doesn’t seem like much has changed.
We’ve been married seven years. It’s crazy, there’s no itch. The [seven-year] itch, right? Maybe because we’ve been together for 13 years. Read the rest of this article »

A Wife Less Ordinary

No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani tells us about her affair with Gavin Rossdale, her marriage obsession and why her hair went pink by Mark Beaumont

On the third day of the celebrations, the bells of the old church strike out a storm of glitter and confetti sweeps from the sky and the bride emerges. Bouquet trembling, mile-long train borne behind her by a legion of pink-haired bridesmaids, she makes a circuit of the piazza on the arm of the venerable old Signor Stefani, treading a trail of rose petals under glass slippers. A cheer rises from the hoardes of villagers lining the square, the church doors swing open, the organ pipes a rusty wedding march and, lips now beginning to quiver, the bride plunges into the aisle, stumbling and scrambling towards… towards…

Well…towards whom exactly? Read the rest of this article »

Growing Up Doubtless

No Doubt’s Tony Kanal gains taste & maturity.

This summer marks 30 years since Tony Kanal was born and 15 since he took up bass. For nearly 14 of those years, Tony has played in the service of No Doubt, a band that began in Southern California’s third wave ska underground and became one of the defining groups of ’90s pop. With the 1995 Interscope album Tragic Kingdom, and its worldwide, bass-heavy hits “Just a Girl,” “Spiderwebs,” and “Don’t Speak,” No Doubt seemed to come from nowhere to international stardom. But this was no overnight success; Tony and his bandmates had struggled to make it since high school. Read the rest of this article »