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What Are You Wearing?

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This is the blog that celebrates the fact that if you’re good at playing instruments then people throw clothes at you in the hope that you’ll wear them in NME, and Topshop will buy the collection after seeing it. But we got bored of that, so now we photograph (slightly) realer people. Polish immigrant Lena Mascara’s club singing got the attention of millionaire photographer David Sims who shot her for high-end fashion mag W, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have to work behind a bar, pulling pints even though she’s an actress too. It’s almost like singing and acting aren’t reliable career choices.

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Vice: What’s your favourite thing you’ve ever been given?
Lena: Actually, I got given a Burberry coat by this guy I was planning to marry. I don’t wear it much but it’s beautiful. Another friend got me this PVC biker jacket – they were bored of my leather jackets.

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So what else would you like?
A Rick Owens jacket or the chance to sleep with him.

Good gift. Where do you like to shop?
If I had loads of money I’d buy loads of Rick Owens clothes. But I really like Polish charity shops. Basically, stuff that’s really fashionable and starting to be cool in London now will be in the charity shops in Poland, but Polish people think that it’s really shit because it’s old. And it’s really cheap.

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Where do you like to shop here?
I got these masks on eBay – they’re the creepiest things in the world. I’m always on there, it’s amazing.

Who influences your style?
A mixture of Kurt Cobain with Kelly Bundy in Gummo. It was Kelly Bundy in Married with Children for a long time, but that was a while ago. I like the way they dress in New York way more than London.

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What would you wear if you wanted to get laid?
I would wear lots of layers because I like foreplay and I like to extend that and the whole having a guy take your clothes off thing. Guys in London want to straight ahead fuck you, so to make it harder I wear loads and loads of layers.

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What would make you never want to date a guy?
I don’t like a moustache, even though they do look really good sometimes. They hurt. I don’t like it when a lame guy gets loads of tattoos to try and make them more “awesome”. I’m also not  into emos or really clean boys.

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Great, thanks Lena.

WORDS: KYLIE GRIFFITHS

PICTURES: CAMERON SMITH


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