December 7, 2009
Tavi & Joanna and Rei Kawakubo
(Joanna Newsom via Boner Party)
Comme des Garçons is headed up by Rei Kawakubo, who personally invited Tavi over to Japan and let her pick out six items. Tavi is 13, she writes a fashion blog and has always worshipped Kawakubo’s fashion sense.
Joanna Newsom is dating Andy Samburg, star of SNL. But she used to date Bill Callahan, who performs musically as Smog, as well as Noah Georgeson who produced her first record and also produced for Devendra Banhart. Georgeson says this: “From the autumn of 1999 until the spring of 2004 I lived in the first floor apartment in a Victorian house on Castro Street in San Francisco. At first, I lived alone in a room that was about the right size for an infant to feel comfortable, and that had, in fact, once been a nursery. After a while, I moved into the room down the hall from the nursery. It was bigger and I shared it with my girlfriend Joanna and her harp and all the collected materials of our lives. Among the waves of our life in this room, Joanna wrote most of the songs that ended up being her first album, and I wrote these songs.“ Joanna Newsom’s second cousin is Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco. Girlfriend plays the harp and writes 20 minute songs about mythical islands.
Both Ms. Newsom and Ms. Gevinson are in Comme des Garçons jackets.
Oh hell no, I have no idea what it means, this information rolls around in my head all day. But I thought it was interesting.
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thank you.
Me, I love Rei Kawakubo, so I found it interesting.
I’ve been a fan of Tavi’s for months now. She seems (to me) the most natural, confident, talented person I’ve come across in quite some time. I can’t wait to see her impact on the world as she grows up.
When I am the Oprah, I will have Tavi and Rei Kawakubo on my show. I will have them explain the design and its influences. I will buy everyone in the audience a Comme des Garçons jacket. With the knowledge they will have gained during the show, they will understand. They will weep and reel.
Spin audience, spin! Squeal audience, squeal!
I was just flipping through L’official’s winter 09 book and read the synopsis of that line, symbolizing people on the run, who are trying to hide while in plain sight. And I remember thinking, oh who’ll ever wear that in NYC? Well gee was I wrong. At any rate, I do like it. Even if I’m not exactly one to wear it.
Weep! Reel! Spin! Squeal!
Rick, I have no idea what it means either. I am having enough difficulty getting past the difficulties that must arise whilst trying to perform simple tasks like getting ones knickers down for a pee.
It looks such a tangle.