CAN YOU SHOW ME YOUR FAVORITE ITEM OF CLOTHING? - PART 1
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY AMY KELLNER
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Angela DiCarlo
Makeup artist
I found this dress downstairs in the fat-girls department of Rainbow on Delancey Street in New York. Wear a black vintage slip underneath, put on some false eyelashes and some control-top pantyhose and you got yourself a cute look! I was wearing it in L.A. when I was on tour with Fischerspooner, and Simon Le Bon came to the show. I was such a big Duran Duran fan growing up. I asked him to sing me “Last Chance on the Stairway” and he didn’t remember the lyrics!
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Ian Reid
Pro skater
This is a shirt made by my man Ace Boon Kunle. It’s IRAK, but IRAK really stands for Ian Reid Always Kills. This shirt represents the way I feel about kids I see in the streets right now. They’ll buy anything just because some asshole on the internet said, “Buy this shit, it’s cool.” The shirt has the black dude coming up with the idea, the Jewish dude financing it, the Asian dude has a factory, and then there’s the kid who buys it just because. Does it get any simpler than that? Fuck no, that’s it right there.
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Chrissie Miller
Fashion designer/club owner
This is my favorite jean jacket. I’ve had it since I was maybe 18. I’ve even lost it a few times and gotten it back. I don’t think I’ve ever washed it or anything. It’s just faded from wearing it so much. It used to be dark blue. If you look through my photo album, I’m wearing it in most pictures. I take it everywhere. It’s been to Paris, to Miami… Um, Staten Island. Man, if this jacket could talk!
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Jessy Brodsky
Student/painter/cocktail waitress
This is my mother’s dress. I stole it out of her closet a couple of years ago. I don’t know where she got it. Maybe it’s vintage, but it’s probably just some 90s thing. But this is what I wear on dates and when I want to feel feminine because it’s very simple and girly. You don’t have to think about it much and then you’re ready to go! I’ve had good luck in it. It’s pretty much my lucky dress.
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Ramona Bean Sidlo
Model agent
This is my navy-blue cloak with gold buttons. Three years ago I envisioned this cloak in my mind. I looked in every thrift store and couldn’t find it. Then, this past September I was walking down 10th Street and there was a random sidewalk sale on the street and there it was. I was like, “Oh my god, this is it! This is THE cloak.” I was so excited. It was exactly how I envisioned it to be. And it was only $10! Best thrifting score ever. It’s everything that I ever wanted in my wardrobe.
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Simon Curtis
Graphic designer/DJ
This is my bootleg Flavor Flav sweatshirt, circa 1988. I got it at a flea market in Jersey. Public Enemy used to be my favorite band. They changed my life. Flavor Flav was the man—I mean, before all his new fame now. Pre-Betty Ford. I like the wonderful production quality of this shirt. It has that vintage bootleg quality. Like remember those Mickey and Minnie Mouse shirts where they’re a homeboy and homegirl? That level of quality.
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