Vogue/2013/Sep/Interview

Interview
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﻿ON THE FAR SIDE
With her ethereal look and sound. the Canadian singer Grimes has created a style all her own.
In the last two years Claire Boucher, the artist better known as Grimes, has crisscrossed the globe several times over with little more than a backpack of thrift store finds. Of course, it helps that her fans often make her wardrobe go the distance, regularly piling their weird and wonderful handmade costumes at the stage door. "The clothes have started this dialogue," says Grimes, who is dressed in an Indonesian sundress gifted to her after a performance in Jakarta. "This kid gave me a crazy Beyonce-style feathered-swan outfit in the Philippines, and I wear it - but it's a little heavy to dance in for more than one song."
The 25-year-old Vancouver musician, who picked up a slew of new obsessions on her recent tour of Asia, is having her first kimono fitted today by Arte Group, a traditional kimono studio based on Manhattan's Upper East Side. With her Manic Panic-tinged hair, wide-set eyes, and fairy-like frame, Grimes could easily have stepped out of the pages of a manga comic. "Anime characters are overtly feminine, bet they're also killer fighters," she says, resting two delicately tattooed hands on the pale-pink obi that is being secured around her waist. "Tve been labeled cute so many times that I want to react against it."
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[...]supernatural heroine played by Milla Jovovich in Luc Besson's 1997 cult film The Fifth Element, and in many ways, it seems, the trappings of her new life are still foreign to her. A Givenchy purse sits amid her collection of nylon backpacks she considers it too precious to carry. "I thought about taking it to Paris Fashion Week, but it was terrifying," she says. "I kept thinking, What if it gets stolen?" And though Boucher would accept a Webby award for Artist of the Year later that night, she doesn't even own a cell phone. After two years of touring, she's looking forward to an offline existence working on music for her upcoming album in the privacy of her own bedroom. "I don't keep up with the Internet," she says, turning to glance at her finished kimono in the mirror. "Everything that is Grimes is a product of my brain." --- CHIOMA NNADI
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