High Profile
Edited by Michael Hingston
High Profile: Accordions, Fur Pillows, Neck Workouts, Unexpected Nudity, Olympic Medals, and Other Takeaways from the Best Celebrity Profiles in Recent Memory is our ode to the sometimes-misunderstood, occasionally maligned, but never-ignored type of journalism known as the celebrity profile.
High Profile is a box set collecting 10 of the best profiles from the past decade, including:
Caity Weaver on Dwayne Johnson
Sam Anderson on Weird Al Yankovic
Katrina Onstad on Penny Oleksiak
Stephen Rodrick on Lindsay Lohan
Chris Jones on Roger Ebert
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Bradley Cooper
Mary H.K. Choi on Rihanna
Hilary Mantel on Princess Diana
Jonah Weiner on Kanye West
Allison P. Davis on Asahd Khaled
“Celebrities aren’t padlocks in search of a key; they’re products of their time, placed on a pedestal because their talents respond to the peculiar needs and anxieties of the cultural moments they live in.”
The cover of each booklet in High Profile features an original portrait by UK-based artist Paul Thurlby, whose work you may have seen in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
There are three versions of High Profile to choose from. The regular edition features a black-on-black stamped metallic case. The case for the glam edition, meanwhile, was designed to match Asahd Khaled’s custom sneakers: matte gold foil, gold box lining, gold staples. And our limited edition run of 100 copies are covered in ravishing red stars, not to mention hand-numbered and signed by Thurlby.
H&O 014 / ISBN: 9781777185534 / September 2021