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Sole Groove
Canadian music sensation Grimes finds a nineties club-shoe revival afoot.
Her otherworldly looks have drawn comparisons to a young Björk, but Claire Boucher, the Canadian singer known as Grimes says her ethereal synth-pop sound owes more to nineties chanteuse Enya and R&B girl band TLC than anyone else. Her Tumblr also reveals echoes of that era, including an obsession with custom-made bindis, even though the 24-year-old was barely out of elementary school when Madonna first wore one. "A few years ago everyone was wearing black; now it's all about crazy neon hair and platforms" says Grimes who dyes her hair as often as other people change shoes "There's definitely a nostalgia for the nineties".
It's a feeling that has been stomping its way through fashion, too. Down past the lavish Edwardian high notes in Marc Jacobs's fall collection for Louis Vuitton to the square-toed chunky platform shoes, there's a nineties beat at work. The curvaceous, sky-high Mary Janes at Mami and Prada would have been right in step with the riotous Westwood-shod revelers of London's nineties club scene, and Miu Miu's seventies-style dandies had groove in their heart and snake- skin platform soles.
Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite remembers cultivating the look the first time around. "People dressed with a sense of humor in the clubs back then," says the singer. "I was out five nights a week for eight hours at a time, so as far as shoes were concerned, the first thing I would ask myself was 'Can I dance in these?"When Canadian designer John Fluevog got Kier's inquiry about his Munster shoe, the sculptural platforms were still a novelty "They summed up the feeling of the time they were danceable, wearable, and playful," he says. Reissues of the iconic style are selling better now than ever.
Like Kier, Grimes follows her own fashion instincts and prefers a shoe that will go the distance on the dance floor, although she has been impressed by the dizzy new heel heights at her shows "I spotted a girl in the crowd wearing ten-inch-tall white platforms with a bathing suit and blue cornrows" she says. Needless to say, she recently ditched the black combat boots she's worn for the past two years in favor of Day-Glo yellow platforms-CHOMA NNADE Category:Interview
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