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subscribe to style file blog via RSSMelody Gardot Used To Make Her Own Clothes, But Now She’ll Settle For Lanvin
April 12, 2010 3:33 pm
Had fate not intervened, Melody Gardot may well have used her voice in fashion. “Part of it is my strange proportions,” said the double-platinum singer, who played Paris last week before heading back home to kick off the U.S. leg of her world tour. Strange, that is, but runway-ready. “At 13, I had hit my adult height—although I was a lot skinnier—and I could never find things that fit, so I started making all my own clothes. I even sold some pieces to friends,” she recalled. “My grandmother was a sometime seamstress, so I knew the basics, but I didn’t know the beauty. I would take materials I loved, wrap them around me, pin them, and sew them up.”
Draping, says Gardot, is why she found a kindred spirit in Alber Elbaz at Lanvin, who took an interest in the singer and dressed her for the tour. “It took me a little longer to get the beauty of zippers on the outside,” she says, “but once I actually tried the clothes on, I got it.” She’s changed her hair recently, too, so she had to downsize on sunglasses (she juggles three pairs by Ørgreen: one for stage, one for daytime, and one for restaurant lighting). Backstage on Friday, she topped off her Lanvin with her latest score: a fire hat charmed off a local pompier who came to vet her set at the Olympia. “They gave us such a hard time, I had to have something to show for it,” she joked. Alber, getting any ideas?
tags: Lanvin, Melody Gardot
I think the personal style is very important and have our physical characteristics and individual beauty as a center of creation. People are unique and it is very important to know what the fit well and value each one.
Leila Silva
By LeilaSilva on 04/12/10 at 5:19 pmhttp://www.leilasilva.wordpress.com
If you have had the pleasure of listening to this young woman DO SO NOW - she is that good. I usually listen to Led Zeppelin or Tool…but this lady is incredible
By lauraljk on 04/15/10 at 1:09 am