Vogue/2015/May/Interview

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Psychedelic Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, and Other Inspiration Behind Grimes’s Met Gala Look
BY LIANA SATENSTEIN
May 5, 2015
When you are Grimes (née Claire Boucher), there is no need for expansive trains, dainty clutches, or transparent gowns when dressing for the Met Gala. The musician took a more outré tack with her look for the Met Gala “China: Through the Looking Glass” dress code: Along with her double-bun bouffant (in a hue best described as "faded pink sea-punk"), Grimes wore a sparkling, zip-up, thigh-skimming leopard-print dress from Louis Vuitton’s most recent collection. “I love her music and used it in my show,” said Nicolas Ghesquière of dressing the singer. “When she accepted our invitation to be with us at the Met Gala, I already knew the dress from the collection was perfect for her. She made it her own.”
But how does one make a look fresh off the runway their own? “[We] added lots of crystals to it!” said Grimes. “I got to play around with some amazing accessories, like a gold G for Grimes necklace and a giant trunk [bag].” The singer also took some other sartorial creative liberties, first tapping into her own French-Canadian background (“I’m a Boucher, and they are Louis Vuitton, so I wanted it to be as French as possible,” said Grimes) rather than looking only to China. “Like a psychedelic Brigitte Bardot, or Sophia Loren, who I guess is Italian but she’s my favorite classic beauty,” said the singer. “I love everyone who's ever ‘gotten in trouble' for being outrageous on the red carpet, like Björk in the swan dress. I think that if you can upset people simply by being original you are definitely succeeding at being an artist.”
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