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"FacebookPinterest\n\nMercedes-Benz Fashion Week is in full effect, but we here at GQHQ can always make time for a Victoria's Secret Angel, especially when she has photo virtuoso Ryan McGinley at her side. As Mercedes-Benz's Fashion Ambassador (and our go-to \"Kookie\" girl), Kloss has partnered with McGinley to unveil the all new CLA-Class with a commercial, thanks to a little bit of inspiration from Stanley Kubrick. We caught up with both of them at Lincoln Center to talk Benzes, road trips, and Valentine's Day. Catch the commercial and our Q&amp;amp;A after the jump.\n\n\n\nGQ: Let's talk about this commercial. Where did you draw inspiration from?\n\n Ryan McGinley: A little bit of Kubrick. That car driving up to the hotel in The Shining. And I'm a really big Stephen King fan; when I was younger, I read Christine, about the killer car. I've always been obsessed with that, and that was kind of my starting point.\n\nGQ: How about musically?\n\n Ryan McGinley: There's a band in it called DIIV. Like early Cure meets Joy Division. They're a really talented group of kids from New York.\n\nGQ: Were you a part of the location scouting?\n\n Ryan McGinley: Oh yeah. We shot it in this place called Tejon Ranch, which is about two hours outside of L.A. It has rolling wheat fields and beautiful rocks that look like they could be in Game of Thrones.\n\n Karlie Kloss: Wait, I wasn't there for the location scouting. That sounds kind of fun.\n\n Ryan McGinley: (Laughs) It's kind of the most important part for me. I got to use a helicopter and do these great moves. We got the exact helicopter Stanley Kubrick used and this pilot that was really insane.\n\nGQ: Because that's what you want in a pilot. Insanity.\n\n Ryan McGinley: I puked in my mouth at one point and had to swallow it. It was great.\n\nGQ: And how was it for [Karlie]?\n\n Karlie Kloss: I had to leave before they filmed that. There's a scene where \"I'm\" chasing the car, and it's not me. I don't run like that.\n\n Ryan McGinley: Yeah, we had a stunt double for Karlie. I went to the wig store in L.A. and I had to try on wigs to figure out which one would replicate Karlie's hair.\n\n Karlie Kloss: That was pre-chop.\n\nGQ: If you had to go on a road trip with anybody, who would it be?\n\n Ryan McGinley: Joan Didion.\n\n Karlie Kloss: That's a really good question. Where are we roadtripping?\n\nGQ: Anywhere.\n\n Karlie Kloss: How about James Bond?\n\nGQ: But which James Bond?\n\n Karlie Kloss: I'm going with Sean Connery. Old school. I'd love to do the Pacific Coast Highway drive in a Mercedes convertible with that scarf wrapped around my head. I like it. That's the next Bond movie.\n\n Ryan McGinley: Sean Connery would be a good road trip narrator. You could re-do The Rock.\n\nGQ: Valentine's Day is coming up. What's the best thing a guy's ever done for you?\n\n Karlie Kloss: Okay, in fifth grade, and this tells you how many good Valentines I've had, my boyfriend, Parker Stovall, gave me flowers and wrote me a poem. It set the bar pretty high.\n\n Ryan McGinley: I'm a big fan of the red construction paper heart. With those little white fibers coming out of it? That's the best.\n\nGQ: Did you ever have the stock Valentines with 50 Garfield cards that you'd give to everyone in your class?\n\n Karlie Kloss: Not only did I have that, but I just bought some at Rite Aid and I'm giving them to all of my friends. I got Snoopy ones.\n\n\n\nBy the way, if you're in NYC tomorrow (2/13), Karlie and Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar will be cruising around the city in a Kookie Truck and handing out free Perfect 10 Kookies. They benefit FEED Projects and yeah, they're pretty delicious. We highly recommend that you get involved. Map and times below:\n\nFacebookPinterestcookie-route.png"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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