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Take five: Snappy dressers playing the Newport Jazz Fest sound off about fashion
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Boston Globe, Take five: Snappy dressers playing the Newport Jazz Fest sound off about fashion >>
-by Siddhartha Mitter, Globe Correspondent | August 2, 2007
The flappers of the Roaring Twenties. The sharp suits of the bebop era. The Afrocentric dashikis and other garb of the 1970s. The quintessential American music, jazz has reflected popular culture not only with sound but with pageantry. From sartorial trademarks like Lester Young's pork-pie hat to Miles Davis's restless reinventions, jazz style has, like the music itself, crystallized that seductive combination: transgression with elegance. With the Newport Jazz Festival coming up Aug. 10-12, we asked a few of the most distinctive dressers in the lineup to share their elements of style.
Marie Daulne
Instrument: Lead singer, Zap Mama
Latest album: "Supermoon" (out next Tuesday)
Describe your fashion style: I'd say I'm Afro-European. I mix African roots with European, Paris fashion elegance. I'm attracted to '70s elegance: something funky, different, with a personal touch. I love high heels but I like to run from one side of the stage to the other, and that's impossible in heels.
Who are your fashion influences? One of my best friends is a fashion stylist. And then Erykah Badu, she invited me to her home in Dallas, with some of her friends and her little baby, and we spent three days just trying styles. She's really good at that. 08/02/07 >> go there
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