Julian Casablancas

Julian Casablancas, the scion of Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas and Danish model Jeanette Christiansen, emerged from New York City's gilded cage to become the voice of a generation. Or at least, a generation of Brooklyn trust-fund kids who yearned for the grit of CBGBs, but with better hair.

While The Strokes certainly made their mark with albums like Is This It, defining a sound that launched a thousand leather jackets, Casablancas himself remains a figure shrouded in a haze of mystery, cigarettes, and perhaps a touch too much self-seriousness. His musical output outside of the band has been, shall we say, more