Vogue/2013/Jul/Interview

Interview
Photoshoot
===Interviewhttps://archive.vogue.com/article/2013/7/grimestulsi-gabbard===
GRIMES
As it is with Alexander Wang, the term wunderkind is frequently used to describe Claire Boucher, the 25-year-old artist known as Grimes, who models the designer's first collection for Balenciaga in "Paris Match". There's her singing career, for one, which took off after her third album of bewitchingly breathy synthetic pop, Visions, became the alternative-music sensation of 2012 and earned the admiration of fashion types from Hedi Slimane to Donatella Versace. The feeling is mutual, as Boucher has started engaging with high fashion more and more- always on her own terms, though, and with a preference for fellow boundary-pushers "I'm not interested in designers who just make stuff that is nice," she says, adding that she likes Balenciaga for its dramatic shapes that often reference the Spanish Renaissance, a favorite style period. While studying neuroscience at McGill University, Boucher hand-sewed Shakespearean costumes for the school's theater company. These days when not working on a new record, she finds time to perform, paint, and direct her own music videos, not to mention book the occasional photo shoot. "Modeling is not something I'm amazing at right now," she says, "but I'm getting better." --- KATE GUADAGNING
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