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Shortly before Chloe Sevigny took off pandora bracelets for an acting role in Europe, a job that would keep her away from her East Village apartment for several months, she visited a neighbourhood holistic food store to buy birdseed for her canary. When the saleswoman asked if she was a member of the store’s frequent shopper discount program, Sevigny said yes and gave her name.
Well, frankly, if you have been near the fashion, art, skateboarding, grunge or nightlife scenes of New York City at any time since roughly 1995, when Sevigny made her breakthrough in the Larry Clark film Kids, you might have said the same thing about her idiosyncratic style. She is someone who, now 36, appears equally confident wearing a pinafore as a prairie dress as a Saint Laurent pantsuit.
It was once said of Sevigny, when she was 19, after Jay McInerney wrote a profile about her in The New Yorker, that she was the coolest girl in the world. Laurels of her part-nerdy, part-perverse sense of fashion have been bestowed cheap pandora bracelets at her since.Her fabulous poses and linguistic mannerisms are so well known that they have become the popular subject of an online video parody by the comedian Drew Droege, who dresses as Sevigny and recites ridiculous insider fashion references like ‘‘this ironic art smock by Balenciaga Le Dix by Nicolas Ghesquiere.’’
There is really nothing more to be said about just how stylish Sevigny is, except perhaps to ask how it is possible that she has managed to maintain her cool status far longer than any of her contemporaries while, at the same time, professing her own boredom with contemporary fashion and what remains of the club scene.
‘‘I’m just not as excited by it,’’ Sevigny said, of both. ‘‘I don’t know if it is a reflection of what they are producing, or just my feelings towards it. I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today — let’s be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.’’
Now wait a minute. Wasn’t that her seated front row at the Proenza Schouler show in February and, before that, at the Costume Institute with the designers? Or, what about at Marc Jacobs’ dinner party after the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards last month, with her date, the tattoo artist Scott Campbell, seated at Jacobs’ centre booth? She certainly doesn’t look like someone bored by contemporary fashion.
Though you see her everywhere, at art openings and at fashion shows, you don’t get the sense she is overexposed or pie-eyed about the scene links of london uk. Balenciaga does still send her bags of clothes sometimes, she said, but they don’t fit.
‘‘I hate going to fashion shows,’’ she said, wheeze-honk-honk. ‘‘I find them boring.’’
Nevertheless, it seems like people have been constantly discovering, or rediscovering, Sevigny, ever since she was cast in a Sonic Youth video with Jacobs when she was just a teenage intern at a fashion magazine. She was famously offered a leading role in Kids while hanging out with a group of skateboarders that included Harmony Korine, the film’s screenwriter, in Washington Square Park, brought to mainstream attention when she was nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for Boys Don’t Cry and more recently praised as America’s favourite sister wife on Big Love. Now the fashion world is into Sevigny again, a result of a popular clothing collection she introduced with Opening Ceremony, the downtown retailer, in 2008.
No profile of Sevigny over the years has failed to note either her distinctive laugh or the impression that she is a little bit coy about her coolness, but also mostly genuine. Both are qualities that make people like her. It also helps explain why her fashion designs, now sold in 100 stores around the world, have been so successful. They hold the promise of Sevigny: looking cool without looking like you are trying.
‘‘She was always that way, the Pied Piper who had all these kids following her down the street,’’ said Andrea Linett, who was a fashion editor for Sassy magazine in 1992, when she spotted Sevigny, then 17. A girl from Darien, Connecticut, Sevigny was standing at a newsstand wearing tan oversize Lee corduroy overalls and a homemade patchwork hat over hair that extended to her derriere.
Linett later hired Sevigny as an intern for Sassy. She also introduced her to Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, who asked her to appear in the video for Sugar Kane, which was filmed in Jacobs’ old showroom, and Daisy von Furth, who used her as a model for the X-Girl collection.
‘‘She never looked like she was trying at all,’’ said Linett, who is now the creative director of eBay Fashion. ‘‘She was kind of an pandora bracelets uk sale old soul, a little bit goofy and completely unpretentious. You see a lot of people with great style, but they are boring.’’