Willow Smith, 15, and her older brother Jaden Smith, 18, grace the cover of Interview magazine’s September 2016 issue, and this marks the siblings’ first cover together.
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During the interview, Jaden and Willow also talk about their parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. “What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society says people should be focusing on – it’s something spiritual that only certain people can grasp and accept”. “There’s people, like me and Jaden, who want to utilize social media to elevate the consciousness of those people who feel like all they want from social media is to be famous”, Willow told Williams. “My parents told me that the world was harsh and that we had to be strong within ourselves”.
Willow say’s her parents play a huge role in allowing her to experiment without judgement.
Jaden echoed his sister’s thoughts, adding: “I 100 per cent agree with Willow on that one”.
Jaden says he wants to be “gone”, while Willow sees herself “in the mountains somewhere in a tent cooking a squirrel”. “It’s the mother of all sciences because it’s just how things move and how things react to the world around them”.
The two fashion icons spoke on a variety of things in their interview conducted by style icon, Pharrell Williams. “I feel like that’s where most of our confidence comes from”.
“The way that Generation Y and Z, Millennials – whatever you want to call them – are living their lives completely differently than in the past”.
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Jaden and Willow Smith both have a lot of ideas and visions for the future beyond what we can imagine. That goes into technology, into music. It’s literally insane. Kids will paint a picture of themselves that is so far beyond who they actually are. “The only thing that we want to keep people updated with is that we want to keep the kids that are following us, the kids that are looking up to us updated on what we’re learning and what we’re thinking about life”. How people look at us in public is not how we actually are in private. We really went all the way.
