5 Badass Quotes From Lorde About Fashion, Feminism, And Miley Cyrus

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1. First, there’s her no-nonsense approach to The Great Miley Debate:

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, ‘Oh, you’re not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls’ thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. … Now when people are like, ‘Tell me what you think of Miley!’ I’ll say, ‘What do you think of Miley?’ and they’ll flounder and say, ‘Well, I think she’s really talented…’ and I’m like, there you go.

It’s so condescending when people are surprised to hear that young women aren’t all secretly waged in an underground war against each other, and I’m thrilled to see that Lorde refuses to play into that.

2. Then she promptly moves on to making us jealous of her avant-garde fashion sense:

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been into clothes, but not really labels– that’s kind of only been in the last year or so. It’s something I’ve always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad’s stuff and borrow my little brother’s stuff and all that jazz. … It’s just, if something is cool, then it’s cool.

So not only are her clothes interesting, but they’re interesting in an authentic way. Damn. Right now, even Chanel is trying so hard to replicate that “it’s cool because it’s cool” aesthetic, and they’re majorly failing.

3. Next, she moves on to brilliantly shooting down the way fashion photographers treat young women:

I have found that there is a lot of stuff, particularly on photo shoots, that people expect of girls, like ‘Pop that hip out a bit more! Can you just give me a wink? Can you look a bit more sexy? Or if it’s an outdoor thing they’ll be like, ‘Oh, you’re in a long, beautiful dress? Let’s get you sitting in this field and looking confused. Some of the stuff, I’m like, no one would ask this of a guy.

Spot on. Spot freaking on.

4. And then she expertly sums up what we’ve been trying to put into words for-freaking-ever:

I think I’m speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn’t even be something that people find mildly surprising. …I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there’s a set of rules, and people will be like, ‘Oh, this person isn’t a true feminist because they don’t embody this one thing,’ and I don’t know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

Gender Studies classes around the world could benefit from a guest lecture by Dr. Lorde.

5. And to make you love her even more, she tops it all off with an awesomely punchy quote that I kind of want embroidered onto a throw pillow:

Don’t let some random comment that you wouldn’t have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.


Read more: http://www.thegloss.com/2014/01/03/fashion/lorde-interview-fashion-feminism-miley/#ixzz2pRHrP5HO