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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.

Bethany Cosentino

I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, “Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?” But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?
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Beach Cat Hate
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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Fashion Girl Icons
I have personally been affected by women’s reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.
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Causes Issues Support
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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Clothes Designer Shows
I’ve always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.
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Fashion Opportunity Urban
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.
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Clothes Cute Looks
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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Becoming Daughter Together
It’s scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, “Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?”
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Song Thinking Writing
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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Needs Thinking Writing
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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Advice Being Giving Yourself
I don’t really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
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Alternatives Female Liz
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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Art Reality Thinking
I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, “They get it, man. They totally get it.”
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Beach Cat Stupid
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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Beach Modern Party
I don’t really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
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Attention Pay Trying
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I’ve done.
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Done Fashion Involved

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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