I buy most of my clothes online, I just sit around and look at websites and say ‘oh that looks cute’ – and then I just buy it and hopefully it fits because buying stuff online is always sort of risky.
BETHANY COSENTINOOne of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
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I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was “Baby Jesus” – so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!
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Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.
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Touring is definitely work. You’re spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it’s not the easiest thing in the world, but it’s better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.
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I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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I don’t think lyrics need to be deep – just write whatever comes out of you. You don’t need to find intense meaning in everything.
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Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don’t copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
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Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.
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There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I’m like, “I want to go to Mars. This is insane.” But I can’t go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.
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I love clothes so much, I always have. It’s awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.
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I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
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It’s very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it’s also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what’s comfortable and makes me feel good.
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I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it’s so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That’s what music has always been for me. It’s been a way to tap out of what’s going on in my personal life.
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