Paul Sevigny

INTERVIEW BY OLIVIER ZAHM AND ALEPH MOLINARI PHOTOS FROM PAUL SEVIGNY’S PERSONAL COLLECTION NEW YORK’S NIGHTLIFE IMPRESARIO AND MUSICIAN PAUL SEVIGNY INCARNATES THE REAL DOWNTOWN SPIRIT. OLIVIER ZAHM — Paul, you’ve said that New York is your life. You were born here? PAUL SEVIGNY — I was born in Philadelphia. Then San Francisco, then upstate Connecticut, downstate Connecticut. I moved to Connecticut when I was five and left when I was 16. Then I went to high school in New York State, college in South Carolina, and I’ve lived on 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd, almost twice as long as anywhere else I’ve ever lived in my life before. [Laughs] Even when I was 13 years old, one of my first jobs was working at SoHo Skateboards downtown, and I was already hanging out… My father had a pass for the train that goes from Connecticut to New York,…