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What have you been wearing on stage? Anything new you've been liking?
ill peach (@illpeach__)
Jess: It has been fun exploring our style on stage. It’s always interesting when there are 2 people because we naturally have very different styles, so merging them into a cohesive thing takes some finessing. Lately, I’ve been very inspired by vintage corsets and pairing them with a baggy pant, weird boot or sneaker. I’m very much into the sort of Euro style of putting a sneaker with everything. Plus it makes it much easier to perform in. I love knits. Like very delicate knitted things that have holes or have been reconstructed with different embroidery/additions. Also been loving super layered skirts and vintage cheerleader skirts.
Pat: I’ve been loving vests lately. I probably bought 6 vests when we played in England and Amsterdam. Jess also has a special gift for bin diving at good will. So sometimes I just tell her to go ham and so some of my recent looks include women’s blouses or tops. First time I wore something like that it felt refreshing because of the different kind of cut and pattern. Like random shoulder pads. I recently have been exploring more fitted 70s style pants with boots. I’ve never been a boot guy before. Boots are tight.
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Do you collaborate with anyone? A stylist? A friend?
ill peach
Jess: We have in the past, but mainly do it ourselves now. There’s a couple local designers that we met at the Silverlake flea that we wore for our last tour. This one guy would screen print on lingerie. I wore that for the Hayley Kiyoko tour.
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Do you make any special pieces?
ill peach
Jess: I have made pieces for past tours. I wouldn’t say I’m the most insane seamstress/designer. But I love a very deconstructed look. And often find pieces where I rip them up, add to them, tailor them more to my body. I try to do this for some of Pat’s pieces also. I’ll add embroidery etc. Truly I need to do it more, but it is time consuming.
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Where do you find stage clothes? Any fav shops?
ill peach
Jess: We both love thrifting and get inspired by new pieces we find all the time. I’m absolutely obsessed with Goodwill Bins. I have the most insane luck there. Between Goodwill Bins and Wasteland, that’s where I get most of my stage clothes. If I need a basic, you can never go wrong with Zara.
Pat: I find a lot of cool things at Wasteland or the Pasadena flea or Silverlake flea. It’s very hit or miss but for a period of time it felt like LA’s style was very focused on vintage 60/70s period of time. Not sure if it’s just the influx of newcomers from NY (we lived there, obviously it’s a city known for it’s style), but it’s been fun to see some of that more grungy, darker energy shift in the style of clothes at these places.
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Where does your sense of style come from? Any special sources of inspiration?
ill peach
Jess: I think what I’m drawn to is always changing. I really just enjoy the treasure hunt of unique pieces. I overturn my closet a lot. Truly feel like I don’t live within one thing too long. I love Pinterest and have a pretty curated mood board, where I derive a lot of inspiration from. Been really inspired by Maison Margiela. The avant garde side of their collections really offers this other-worldly, non-perfectionist, deconstructed look that really speaks to me.
Pat: The first CD I ever bought was Jamiroquai ‘Traveling without moving’ and obviously Virtual Insanity is the greatest music video of all time and that look burned into my brain since I was a kid so I find myself drawn to what I call the British soccer look. At least that’s what I called it when I was a kid. Adidas or Fifa track jackets and Adidas samba shoes. I’m also into Cocteau Twins and Trainspotting. There’s something about that dark depressive Scottish look that I connect to oddly on stage.
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