The French-Canadian experimental musician discusses supporting indie designers, reimagining weapons, and respecting the art of fashion with her long-time stylist Turner ahead of the Met Gala.
The Making of Grimes’s “Dune-esque” 2021 Met Gala Look—Plus, the Meaning Behind Her Sword
“I mean, I feel like it started as a Dune thing,” says Grimes (the experimental musician also known as C, and possibly soon, Clair de Lune), of the look that she and stylist Turner created for tonight’s Met Gala red carpet. She’s uptown on Sunday morning , sitting on a bed of silky sheets in New York’s Carlyle Hotel next to a large sword (which she plans to carry on the red carpet), and waiting for a breakfast spread to arrive. Turner glides around the room arranging various chrome accessories. It’s about 30 hours until the red carpet begins for 2021’s gala, celebrating the new exhibit “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” and we’re discussing the logic that led them here.
“I had asked her, ‘What is American fashion? Does that mean that people come as a picket fence? Or a horse, or…?’” Turner says of their first conversations which ultimately brought the pair to Frank Herbert’s American novel, Dune, adapted into both David Lynch’s 1984 film and next month’s iteration starring tonight’s co-host Timothée Chalamet. “We were working with the Dune movie people,” Grimes explains, noting that they’d planned to sort of “hire me as a professional fan, or like, an influencer or something,” she laughs. No official contracts happened in time, so the unofficial look is “Dune-esque.”
Courtesy of Turner
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Arden Fanning Andrews
