[INTERVIEW FEATURE]
KDAF 'The 33 News'
Dallas, TX
[orig. air date: 4.13.09]
1.
Jane Aldridge in her first televised interview is calm, composed, and at home (literally). She is unfazed, but not immune to scrutiny. Her media experience includes articles and interviews in fashion staples. from ‘Teen Vogue’ to ‘French Glamour,’ and “Sea of Shoes” blog is linked daily by thousands of readers who seek her every mention.
JANE BITES
Most hits in a day? [61,000]
Kanye West ‘Boot-y call’? [Maybe]
Her personal collection of shoes include those from designers of the most exotic, avant-garde, always chic, this side of Paris (France, not Texas). Jane’s shoes artfully park in their own showroom–her bedroom closet, awaiting her selection du jour for their big break–a photo layout in ‘SOS,’ whose repercussions, one imagines, inspire serious late night sole-searching sessions, like: ‘Who has more hits?’ or ‘Who’s a played-out pump from the early 2007s?’
This three-minute clip, accompanied by Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown,” conceived as an ‘human interest peek into Jane’s closet,’ finds Jane cobbling absurdity into Zen stilettos. Jane (with a twinkle) ends … ’If I were a shoe…,’ selecting a chic 2009 Alaïa [a-LIE-a] Maryjane-on-steroids and anthropomorphizing it with only a modicum of detectable Texas bullshit, which transforms High School student-Jane into superhero-Shoenami-J!
While cynical observers doubt her Wunderkind street-cred, it seems her age is proving to be just one of her assets in the quixotic flux of the world which she chronicles and inhabits. The naysayers and omnipresent critics are eclipsed and sloughed off by their coequal but less conspicuous fans whose gallery Jane spies as if from the disguised eye of her favorite creature–the octopus–sometimes camouflaged, but always employing all eight arms in an acquisitive feeding frenzy from which no predation dare distract.
i think i like that one the best - mrjyn
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Jane, with an easy Texas laugh, and insight beyond her years (due in part to her beautiful, fashion guru mother, Judy), credits Mom with inspiration and early initiation by Kabuki.
This three-minute piece (accompanied by awful techno music), conceived as an 'Human Interest' TV-peek into a kooky teenage girl with something called a blog, but instead finds Jane flipping absurdity into Zen pancakes; cocksure, not cocky, Jane, with a twinkle, begins, 'If I were a shoe...,' selecting a chic 2009 Alaïa 'Maryjane-on-Steroids,' and anthropomorphizing it, with only a modicum of detectable Texas bullshit, ignoring her shoe-superfluity, and transforms a puff-piece, tabled in Dallas, into a real fashion-remote from Trophy Club, TX, where suburban student Jane turns into high school superhero!
~ Mrjyn
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Jane Aldridge is calm, composed, and homeless. Includes 'Teen Vogue' and 'French Glamour,' and hundreds of blogs, whose readers track her every footstep.
Jane is unfazed, but not immune to scrutiny. This featureless shiny 'boot-y' from her closet, recognizable to readers of 'Sea of Shoes,' described here as,
'One of the most popular blogs on the Internet'
Kenya West 'boot-y call'?
[Yes, but not what you're thinking. rapper, turned fashionable Sofa was all 'businessperson.]
Gumshoes? A confirmation!
Exotic gardenias, compressible freethinkers, sideshow Paris, frankincense --Jane's shoes artfully parked in their own showroom, her bedroom closet.
[I have witnessed grown women, teenage girls, and not a few men comment SOS, combining bliss, agony, deep-green envy, and obeisant supplication, with the rare Jerry Springer-reject thrown in for kicks.]
David
Bowie invited Japanese Fashion Designer, Hitoshi Hiroshi Yamamoto to
design and choreograph both his "Ziggy Stardust," and "ALADDIN SANE"
World Tours.
ONE OF KANSAI'S MOST STUNNING DESIGNS for Bowie, is the Kabuki Dress, which was worn on tour and has been photographed widely.
Born
in 1944, Kansai is the first Japanese fashion designer to hold a
collection show in London. His'71 London debut brought him international
spotlight and a long friendship with artists, David Bowie, Elton John
and Stevie Wonder.
Kansai's unique avant-garde fashion design
won an overwhelming popularity throughout the world. After participating
in '70 NY,'74 Paris Collection, Kansai launched "Boutique Kansai" in
major cities around the world, including Paris, Milan, NY, Madrid, a
true international fashion designer.
At the same time, Kansai
constantly pushed the horizon of conventional fashion shows; unusual
cast, bold and large scale stage sets expressing the wonderful strength
of human energy became his hallmark.
Kansai chose to step beyond the framework of fashion designer, and into the field of live event producing.
His
recent accomplishments include "KANSAI SUPERSHOW – HELLO! RUSSIA", held
in Moscow's Red Square in ‘93 drawing a crowd of 120,000, succeeding to
be the largest scale event in the Red Square since the end of the WW2.
In ‘95, Kansai‘s supershow, "Hello! VIETNAM" staged over Lake Bai Mau in
Hanoi City's Lenin Park, drew in an astonishing 200,000 crowd. In ‘97,
"HELLO! INDIA" drew in 50,000 crowd, was satellite broadcast to 54
nations from Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. The shows won an overwhelming
support of the audience as the largest class events in each nation and
an important contribution to international communication.
Smart and fun unlike some TexNoMex Cold Wavers I know.
But the frequencies...Dan Rather'd we do it IN THE fucking parking lot, Kenneth!
We do it, inalienably, like the fucking constitution.
We do it, Lifetime Network; and last night, we "do do do do do Heartbreaker," stoned at a club in the'Loo Wop Room.'
We do twofer Tuesdays:
ROCK BLOCK! ROCK BLOCK!
Little 'ting'-i ask--just three days, seventy-two hours.
Indian say:
"See moon ride wolf three times before make'em smokey signal."
WHERE'S MY FUCKING CIGARETTES?
That's his fault too.
"Annie D., please send me magic Belgian shoes that make my ears fall off,or render me mute, except for hot guys who are not twice + plus 12s...Who i won't love the same!
