What will we find this week? Welcome back to another edition of Flashion Backward, a UI feature that’s the spiritual cousin of our recently debuted Flashion Forward. Here, we rifle through our treasure trove of interviews to fish out a vintage gem–the better to explore the strange vortex in which fashion and musicians meet. Onto this week’s buried treat…
Pop and world music maven Donna De Lory can seamlessly blend an intense and dizzying array of influences, effortlessly setting Indian mantras against modern beats without sounding like a generic purveyor of om-flecked massage parlor music.
Her approach to fashion, on the other hand, is totally and admirably hands-off. Comfort, color and a vaguely Eastern vibe (in that order) appear to rule the day. Donna’s feelings about her hair are evidently more complicated, but it could be summarized a la Saturday Night Fever, thusly: “Don’t touch the hair! I spend a lot of time on my hair!”
Men and women the world over are extremely attached to the wee little follicles sprouting visual treats from their scalps, to the point where they’re more comfortable accepting completely random sex/relationship/career advice from completely random winos/crazed street corner shouters/their parents than they are accepting of the probably sage advice from experienced stylists and experts on the pros and cons of, oh, trimming their bangs.
Now take a lady who’s worked with uber-divas Carly Simon, Madonna and Belinda Carlisle, tell her to chop her lengthy locks or she’s out of a job, and you’re going to have a hairy situation indeed. And that’s exactly as it should be.
TOPICS: Flashion Backward, Queequeg