I'm just back from the Immergut Festival and it was a blast although the weather was more than shit. The blast were especially the
YEAH YEAH YEAHS. I never was quite a big a fan of them but now I am. Couldn't have anybody told me that their newer songs are really that good. Cause I only knew the first EP
Master. I've never heard of
Maps or
Y Control before. But now I have.
And of course for me they are also interesting in a fashion way. Especially Karen O. and her awesome stage costumes. All her stuff is designed by the NYC indie designer
Christian Joy. She's not only designing for the YYYs but also for the Liars and, of course, she also has her own collection. Which is also actually quite nice and on top - really affordable.
This was actually Karen O.s costume for her show at Immergut festival. It kind of looks like a leotard with a skeleton print on it. It's very stretchy. It also has a hood sewn to it which covers Karens whole face. And she likes to play with this. Pulling the hood completely over her head at specific parts of their songs. While doing this it looked like her head was transformed into a giant crocodiles head with the jaws gaping wide open and she's sceaming "AAARRRT STAAARRR" into the Neustrelitz' sky. The leotard also responds with black light in a flouric way. The skeleton and the bowels glowed in different colors. You could actually make out the heart (as you can also see in the picture) and the uterus with the ovaries. So the current album title
Show Your Bones got quite a new dimension for me. The fringes on her arms and head were the same colors as the artwork of the cd cover. It's a circle.
Besides this I tried to work on a piece about the so-called indieuniform. Cause a lot of people look the same every year. But actually the kind of style has changed over the last 5 years. Back in 2002 when we did our first documentary for the Festival all the indie kids wore flared jeans, track jackets and into-the-face-combed-hair. But this year - and it already kind of started last year - a new style has risen: Main color is black. Sure. With hair, too. Also boys dye their hair. Kind of messy hair style for some or - en contraire - really exact cuts (have a look at Karen O.'s current haircut). Skinny, slim pants. Really tight. Mainly black. Combined with black sweater of any kind, fitted. Or a striped shirt as well. On top a black leather jacket - blouson or biker-style. And shoes: hi-top chucks - any color, vans slip-ons or as a *special*: pointed black bootees, quite tight, for guys and more loose bootees with reaped bootlegs merely in white - altogether very 80s.
