Chloe Sevigny

[helena]

I like her style on the whole but she does dip into the really dodgy eigthies thing sometimes. I know she is probably being ironic but....its still a bit gross. Sometimes she does the sexy/sl*tty look as well which I don't think suits her (again done with some irony I suspect) but I think she should stick to what she's best at classic avant garde (if that makes sense). She really looks terribly good in balenciaga. The curly hair in the last picture posted about is horrendous. At the risk of sounding so facile - she has such a great little body & supreme legs! She's not the prettiest girl in hollywood but she makes up for that in her style - which will still be there when her contemporaries looks have faided (or have been plastic surgeried to the max).

 

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More...

Love that last black dress, though it does look very out of proportion on her (from this angle anyway...)

 

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I think Maggie Gyllenhaal has now bought the rights to this tiny dress, bare legs, pointy shoes combo...

 

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<- Love this, and red shoes

 

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Her modelling for Miu Miu, back in the day (that day being in '95)

 

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An editorial I love from blair, with Chloe playing Edie Sedgwick

: Edie

Chloe as Edie:

 

[metal-on-metal]

Chloe just goes to show that with an incredible body and an incredible chic attitude, you can wear anything and everything and still look amazing. From a soiled oversized white t-shirt to Versace Couture, she always looks great.

 

[faust]

She does absolutely nothing for me, stylewise, lookwise, or actingwise. <why am I posting in a star style thred?>

 

[metal-on-metal]

<why am I posting in a star style thred?>

I was asking myself that, too!

 

[helena]

faust - so which female star's style do you like?

 

[faust]

faust - so which female star's style do you like?

I don't know. Honestly. I used to like Natalie Portman before she went down the cheddar road, but it wasn't because of the way she dressed - I just liked her in entirety. I'm in a kind of catch-22 here - most famous people I like/respect don't give a flying f*$k about fashion. The last time someone seriously made me notice the way they looked was Trent Reznor in March of the Pigs video (in 1994!), and he's not even a woman . But once again, it was more than what he was wearing - it was the movement, the look in the eyes, the passion you could see sweating through, etc. You can see the video
here http://www.nin.com/visuals/index.html It's almost all the way at the bottom of the page.

These days I see so much better dressed people on the street than on TV, it's amazing. I keep thinking to myself, who the hell hires those stylists?

 

[helena]

thanks for that Faust - I'll need to look at it when I get home as I'll get my *** kicked for looking at it at work. I find myself much less influenced by 'star style' recently. I agree with you about just seeing people on the street (although not my street!) who look great. I suppose I used to like Kate moss's style a lot but more recently I just lose interest. There are very few famous people who look like they have real savvy or understand clothes. I know you aren't a fan faust but I do think that sophia Coppola's style is good - sweet & demure (much better than the half naked sexy wh*re that most sport). But I know marc jacobs isn't your thing. ....oh I dunno celebrities are all so bloomin' contrived anyway....

 

[MulletProof]

love that pic

hmm, I agree with faust, she does nothing for me either, she's been in great films but her performances are constantly overshadowed by other actors, IMO.

 

[Tinuviel]

One word comes to mind to describe her, insolent. Maybe it's a leftover impression from when I saw her in A Map of the World.
That said, I love most of what she wears.
She's perfect in Balenciaga.

 

[faust]

thanks for that Faust.... oh I dunno celebrities are all so bloomin' contrived anyway....

You are welcome, and you are absolutely right. I remember being impressed with Hilary Swank when she acted in Boys Don't Cry. Then I read an interview with her in New York magazine and I just wanted to throw up. All she talked about was how salespeople at Marc Jacobs were her best friends and all she wears is Jacobs and blah,blah,blah... Then I read an "interview" with Liv Tyler (who I think is a beautiful girl) and McQueen in the same magazine. I was nauseauted at her shallowness. Then in another magazine they ask her what she's reading and she says "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (one of my favorite books). So now I don't know which Liv Tyler is real, the dits or the intellectual, or both?

Anyway, Sevigny never did anything for me, I think she is (to be euphemistic) not goodlooking and a mediocre actress. She is a darling of the scene that I have come despise, after first turning to it as an antidote for pop culture. If she and Terry Richardson and Vincent Gallo and Tara Subkoff are paradigms of the indie culture, then I don't know where else to turn.

<end of rant >

 

[Meg]

ehh I think you are being too harsh faust. I understand the aggravation at the commercialization of indie but at the same time, I think it's what you take from it. You don't have to take everything from one person's style. If you like the way they wear a certain type a coat, is that not enough? So much of the industry is a game, whether we like it or not, and does that suck? Yes. But I think the only way to combat that is on an individual basis. That you don't buy into what the media is telling you (not saying you-faust-, just you in general because I don't think that you do do this) but that writing off all celebrities and their style isn't really the solution either.

Sorry I'm not sure if this post makes sense. It's very much in my head but I hope someone understands it!

 

[Spacemiu]

I love this look

 

[pradaesk]

strawberry, you have such a great pool of rare chloe's pictures. thanks

 

[helena]

You are welcome, and you are absolutely right. I remember being impressed with Hilary Swank when she acted in Boys Don't Cry. Then I read an interview with her in New York magazine and I just wanted to throw up. All she talked about was how salespeople at Marc Jacobs were her best friends and all she wears is Jacobs and blah,blah,blah... Then I read an "interview" with Liv Tyler (who I think is a beautiful girl) and McQueen in the same magazine. I was nauseauted at her shallowness. Then in another magazine they ask her what she's reading and she says "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (one of my favorite books). So now I don't know which Liv Tyler is real, the dits or the intellectual, or both?

Anyway, Sevigny never did anything for me, I think she is (to be euphemistic) not goodlooking and a mediocre actress. She is a darling of the scene that I have come despise, after first turning to it as an antidote for pop culture. If she and Terry Richardson and Vincent Gallo and Tara Subkoff are paradigms of the indie culture, then I don't know where else to turn.

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I don't know faust, its impossible to tell whether any of these people are nice, real, clever, dumb, shallow or whatever. we are fed what the mags or papers think we want so reality doesn't come into it....and there's another layer of 'fake' in that the celeb will screen everything thats written about them anyway. Its all just a big huge fiction. I suppose when you talk about the 'scene' I don't have any first hand experience of it as such....which is good I guess. I wa sgoing to start a thread about Terry Richardson as I was looking at his utterly crap new book Terryworld last w/e. Oh my god - that is complete p*rn. Is there already a thread on this? I will do a search

 

[Mercedes]

All pics from http://www.chloesevigny.com