Grab your most fanciful garb and join UI as we Flashion Forward to a magical aesthetic land through which we coquettishly zip about the closets of our fave new interviewees. Each week we pluck a recently added interview from our warehouse of current clips and try to read between the artist’s sartorial lines.
This week’s exploration is super-exciting: How often does one get to peer into the mind of a Natural Born Killer with a set of pipes that produces a “gravelly, brazen yowl” with a “spacey, Latin-tinged, tribal, grungy, droney, occasionally bluesy and even, just for a second, a little country” vibe?
Appropriately, Juliette Lewis, an Academy and Emmy Award-nominated actor with almost mind-bending range sees director Federico Fellini as a kind of spiritual, philosophical and intellectual Godfather.
His ability to weave intricate visual tapestries from straightforward plots that seamlessly intersect with otherworldly whimsy has produced some of the most psychologically astute, gorgeously shot films in the history of cinema. Below, Lewis waxes poetic on Fellini’s work and how fantasy and reality exist in separate worlds that often collide with each other–in tour de forces lie “Nights of Cabrini” and “All That Jazz”–and her own, brilliant mind.
Luckily for us, unlike Fellini, whose creativity was generally reserved for the silver screen, Lewis lets hers lap luxuriously on every shore of her creative life–especially when she’s standing in front of her closet.
I daren’t imagine what runs through her mind sometimes–the Viking helmets paired with peekaboo mini dresses (love the panties!), the bikini/sweatsock/knee-guard combo, the headdresses, random turtleneck sweaters–but at least she keeps things interesting, and oddly enough, Lewis’ strange mixture of confidence, quirkiness and ethereality grounds even her strangest looks; she’s simply appropriately attired for the strange and wonderful universe she lives in.
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TOPICS: Flashion Forward, Kathleen Willcox