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STYLE.COM/PRINT 04: FALL 2013TRUE GRIMESTHE STRANGER-THAN-FICTION STORY OF THE GIRL REWRITING THE SOUND
OF POP MUSIC FROM A LAPTOP SOMEWHERE IN WESTERN CANADA—AND THE DESIGNERS WHO ARE LINING UP TO SALUTE HER
By Jonathan Durbin. Photographs by Nick Haymes. Styling by Karen Langley.
ON A RECENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SHORTLY BEFORE LEAVING TO TOUR ASIA, GRIMES WAS LOUNGING AROUND THE HOUSE SHE SHARES WITH HER BROTHER AND FRIEND AN HOUR OUTSIDE VANCOUVER. THE CANADIAN MUSICIAN WORE A BLUE SILK KIMONO AND CRIMSON STOCKINGS, AND HER SLEEVES AND FINGERS WERE SPATTERED WITH PAINT—SHE'D BEEN UP LATE THE NIGHT BEFORE, SLAVING OVER A FRESH CANVAS.
Her living room was littered with her artworks, along with magazines, video games, dirty dishes, an elegant mauve Givenchy bag (a gift), an oversize plush Totoro doll, and, naturally, recording equipment.
It's a mix, but then so is Grimes (real name: Claire Boucher). Her oeuvre audibly melds a disparate array of genres, from syrupy Top 40 R&B to esoteric experiments à la Aphex Twin, and yet somehow she always manages to make her material gel. That's a testament to her confidence. She's an independent's independent: no producers, no studio wizards, no studio at all, actually. Like many of today's comers, Grimes works off her laptop.
"I've learned the hard way," she says. "I can't let people do my hair. I can't let people direct my videos. I can't let anyone touch my beats. I have to do everything. It's a lot of work, but it's also that I get to feel proud and completely in control, and I never have to worry about stuff being of bad quality or having to rely on other people."
The 25-year-old represents the next phase in the evolution of DIY. Nearly 40 years after the original punks turned the "do it yourself" slogan into an ethos, technology and social media have enabled those with the drive and the dream to give music a serious go—and go global with the click of a mouse. Grimes, a self-taught visual artist, music-video director, bedroom DJ, and choreographer, became an international phenomenon on her own terms. She doesn't like to be told what she can and can't do. She won't toe a record-label party line and isn't subject to some executive's marketing plan. She's a spirited original thinker who values pop music as highly as more so-called "alternative" forms. Grimes rejects the draconian strictures of independent culture she was weaned on—an environment that often frowns on mainstream music for being pabulum. "I wanted to make pop music because it was radical in the scene I was in," she explains. Or, as she put it on her Tumblr: "The first time I heard Mariah Carey, it shattered the fabric of my existence, and I started Grimes."HER INDEPENDENT STREAK HAS ATTRACTED
THE FASHION WORLD, EVEN THOUGH, SHE SAYS, "I NEVER READ FASHION MAGAZINES UNTIL I WAS IN THEM."
In a few short years, Grimes learned to write and record music; honed her odd juxtaposition of avant-garde beats, dreamy vocals, and vocal trills; released three albums and an EP; and directed a handful of intriguing videos, several of which have racked up more than five million views each. Her last album, 2012's Visions, was short-listed for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and earned her accolades from music's cognoscenti—everything from glowing reviews on Pitchfork to resting near the top of the NME's year-end best-of list. She toured the world with Skrillex and Diplo, spreading her own gospel. She's done all this with little outside assistance.
Her fierce independent streak has attracted the fashion world en masse—even though, as she cheerfully admits, "I never read fashion magazines until I was in them." She's made it to the front row of Chanel Couture; she's played a private show for the opening of Versace's Soho boutique. "Grimes isn't interested in being a product. She is sincere, loyal, and authentic," says Donatella Versace. "I know that I'm hearing something new and sensational when listening to [her]. I haven't felt this way about a musician for a long time." Hedi Slimane not only took to her; after he photographed her for the cover of the British magazine Dazed + Confused, he invited her to collaborate on a capsule line with Saint Laurent. Now T-shirts featuring Grimes' artwork sell for around $350 each. "That's how much they cost?" she says, laughing. "I had no idea!"
STYLE.COM/PRINT 04: FALL 2013TRUE GRIMESTHE STRANGER-THAN-FICTION STORY OF THE GIRL REWRITING THE SOUND
OF POP MUSIC FROM A LAPTOP SOMEWHERE IN WESTERN CANADA—AND THE DESIGNERS WHO ARE LINING UP TO SALUTE HER
By Jonathan Durbin. Photographs by Nick Haymes. Styling by Karen Langley.
ON A RECENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SHORTLY BEFORE LEAVING TO TOUR ASIA, GRIMES WAS LOUNGING AROUND THE HOUSE SHE SHARES WITH HER BROTHER AND FRIEND AN HOUR OUTSIDE VANCOUVER. THE CANADIAN MUSICIAN WORE A BLUE SILK KIMONO AND CRIMSON STOCKINGS, AND HER SLEEVES AND FINGERS WERE SPATTERED WITH PAINT—SHE'D BEEN UP LATE THE NIGHT BEFORE, SLAVING OVER A FRESH CANVAS.
Her living room was littered with her artworks, along with magazines, video games, dirty dishes, an elegant mauve Givenchy bag (a gift), an oversize plush Totoro doll, and, naturally, recording equipment.
It's a mix, but then so is Grimes (real name: Claire Boucher). Her oeuvre audibly melds a disparate array of genres, from syrupy Top 40 R&B to esoteric experiments à la Aphex Twin, and yet somehow she always manages to make her material gel. That's a testament to her confidence. She's an independent's independent: no producers, no studio wizards, no studio at all, actually. Like many of today's comers, Grimes works off her laptop.
"I've learned the hard way," she says. "I can't let people do my hair. I can't let people direct my videos. I can't let anyone touch my beats. I have to do everything. It's a lot of work, but it's also that I get to feel proud and completely in control, and I never have to worry about stuff being of bad quality or having to rely on other people."
The 25-year-old represents the next phase in the evolution of DIY. Nearly 40 years after the original punks turned the "do it yourself" slogan into an ethos, technology and social media have enabled those with the drive and the dream to give music a serious go—and go global with the click of a mouse. Grimes, a self-taught visual artist, music-video director, bedroom DJ, and choreographer, became an international phenomenon on her own terms. She doesn't like to be told what she can and can't do. She won't toe a record-label party line and isn't subject to some executive's marketing plan. She's a spirited original thinker who values pop music as highly as more so-called "alternative" forms. Grimes rejects the draconian strictures of independent culture she was weaned on—an environment that often frowns on mainstream music for being pabulum. "I wanted to make pop music because it was radical in the scene I was in," she explains. Or, as she put it on her Tumblr: "The first time I heard Mariah Carey, it shattered the fabric of my existence, and I started Grimes."HER INDEPENDENT STREAK HAS ATTRACTED
THE FASHION WORLD, EVEN THOUGH, SHE SAYS, "I NEVER READ FASHION MAGAZINES UNTIL I WAS IN THEM."
In a few short years, Grimes learned to write and record music; honed her odd juxtaposition of avant-garde beats, dreamy vocals, and vocal trills; released three albums and an EP; and directed a handful of intriguing videos, several of which have racked up more than five million views each. Her last album, 2012's Visions, was short-listed for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and earned her accolades from music's cognoscenti—everything from glowing reviews on Pitchfork to resting near the top of the NME's year-end best-of list. She toured the world with Skrillex and Diplo, spreading her own gospel. She's done all this with little outside assistance.
Her fierce independent streak has attracted the fashion world en masse—even though, as she cheerfully admits, "I never read fashion magazines until I was in them." She's made it to the front row of Chanel Couture; she's played a private show for the opening of Versace's Soho boutique. "Grimes isn't interested in being a product. She is sincere, loyal, and authentic," says Donatella Versace. "I know that I'm hearing something new and sensational when listening to [her]. I haven't felt this way about a musician for a long time." Hedi Slimane not only took to her; after he photographed her for the cover of the British magazine Dazed + Confused, he invited her to collaborate on a capsule line with Saint Laurent. Now T-shirts featuring Grimes' artwork sell for around $350 each. "That's how much they cost?" she says, laughing. "I had no idea!"
