Jane Aldridge [in her first television interview] is calm, composed and at home [literally].
Her CV 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 featurette includes shiny 'boot-y' from her closet [recognizable to
readers of 'Sea of Shoes'--her industry-watched blog, described here
as, 'One of the most popular blogs on the Internet'].
Jane Bites:
Most hits in a day? [61,000].
Kanye West 'Boot-y call'?
[Yes, but not what you're thinking. Rapper, turned fashion maven and SOS fan was all 'bout business.]
Got shoes? Affirmative!
Exotic, avant-garde; always chic; impossible to find this side of Paris
[France, not Texas], Jane's shoes artfully parked in their own
showroom--her bedroom closet, await her selection du jour for, either
exercise, or their big break--a photo layout in 'SOS,' where one
imagines serious late night multilingual bitch-sessions on who has more
hits [CDG or AD]? And who's a played-out pump from the early '07s?
[As a reader of 'SOS' (she also posts very occasionally to my blog), I
have witnessed grown women, teenage girls, and not a few men comment her
posts, combining bliss, agony, deep-green envy, and obeisant
supplication, with the rare Jerry Springer-reject thrown in for kicks.]
Jane, with insight beyond her years, and an easy Texas laugh appropriate
to them [due in part to her mother, Judy Aldridge, former Japan-based
fashion model, current designer and vintage retailer at 'Atlantis
Vintage', credits Mom for inspiration
and an early initiation by Kabuki [a time-capsule from Judy, stored in
her attic, and labeled, 'for Jane'].
This three-minute clip [accompanied by awful techno], conceived as an
'human interest peek into Jane's closet,' finds Jane flipping absurdity
into Zen pancakes.
Cocksure, not cocky, Jane [with a twinkle] begins, 'If I were a
shoe...,' selecting a chic '09 Alaïa 'Maryjane on Steroids' and
anthropomorphizing it with only a modicum of detectable bullshit into
that which would normally define superfluity, but which here transforms a
teenage puff-piece, tabled in Dallas, into a real fashion remote from
Trophy Club, where suburban student Jane turns into 'Shoesea'
Superhero-- "Shoenami J"!
Most 17-year-old young women would have Tweet'd, Facebook'd and
Myspace'd this item faster than you can say Demeulemeester. Ms. Aldridge
was kind enough to extend me the favor. I'd like to take this
opportunity to thank her for her permission to vicariously participate,
witness and begin a viral phenomenon.
It's been a learning experience to clock a Ferrari's 'Zero to Sixty' Hits-Per-Hour next to my Hybrid, and I'm humbled.
p.s. While cynical observers doubt this wunderkinds' credibility; it
seems that her age is proving just one of her assets in the quixotic,
constant flux of the world which she chronicles and inhabits; however,
that which fuels the her current flame, will only see her passion prove
its limit.
~mrjyn
Thanks again.
I hear this short might make it to CNN? Who knows! I'll update this post if I find out.
and thanks again KDAF!
xox Jane