BOOTLEG Newsprint No. 005 by BOOTLEG Market

ART : NEWS : SHOES

WIDE OPEN SPACES

Marfa Nashville New York City

RAINER JUDD AT THE DOWNTOWN WHITNEY MUSEUM CONSTRUCTION SITE, NYC

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ALLY LINDSAY

GREG MANIS

(ISSUED) BILL PHELPS

LETTER FROM THE

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SARAH ELLISON LEWIS, CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER It took about five years of living in NYC to realize that the key to thriving there was getting out. Since I am from Texas, heaven to me is lying on my back on the ground at night; I turn my head from left to right, and all I see are stars. I was raised in the country that way, and it definitely became part of my happiness quotient. You might have the same experience from your own homeland, or when you cross the Southwest U.S, or an endless ocean edge. I think a lot about how healing it is to drive to eastern Long Island, or upstate New York - being enveloped by nature was always the only cure to my anxiety. I made the clear decision to build my business in Texas, knowing I spent about half of my time wanting to be away from NYC, and instead home. When that feeling of home becomes part of your heart, you have to redefine it for yourself or let it go, right? I want my children to know what it feels like to run in the grass as far as they can - a clean exhaustion. I want them to know people who have no ties to pop culture. And I want them to connect to a history that is so beautiful and rich, they feel home, too. So here I root. I find myself cutting across wide-open spaces a lot more now that I am not pining away in an NYC apartment. There is nothing I love more, and no better use of my time … and frankly nothing I value more, as of late. The remarkable - and remarkably beautiful - Rainer Judd, co-president of the Judd Foundation, daughter of the artist Donald Judd, actress and screenwriter, was kind enough to grace our cover. I can be bold enough to say

she is a friend, and I admire her story and her spirit more than most women I have met. Her father’s destiny was mainly rooted in two very special wide-open spaces, one being the magical Marfa, Texas, and the other in a massive single-use, cast-iron building at 101 Spring Street in SoHo, NYC.

Fondation Beyeler museum in Basel, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Maison Hermès in Tokyo, and the New York Times headquarters - to name just a few. (He is married to Milly and has four children in Paris: Carlo, Matteo, Lia and Giorgio ... this part, we adore.)

Recently, after a historic renovation, the Judd Foundation opened to the public. Each floor remains as installed by Donald Judd with pieces from his collection of over 500 objects, including original sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, and furniture designed by Judd and others. Constructed in 1870 by Nicholas Whyte, the five-story building is the last surviving single-use, cast-iron structure in its neighborhood. It is also among the founding sites of the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Purchased by Donald Judd in 1968, the building became his studio and primary residence, where he formalized ideas regarding “permanent installation,” his philosophy that a work of art’s placement is critical to one’s understanding of the work itself.

We continued our wide-open space adventures this year to Nashville, Tenn, where we found our Stephen Drummond - an avid boot dealer and now our market director there - and Pap Shirock, who we photographed. An altruistic musician and citizen, Pap spends her days and nights with her beautiful bandmatehubby Chuck … the duo often used for ads and the like. She is an avid thrifter, and between that and her spiritual studies, we became fast friends, soon on the West Coast, making memories there as well. We captured Pap in her Nashville recording studio - which doubles as a vintage stash - mostly in her collections, enriched by our local fashion hoarder Chapel Drummond, sister to Stephen. We shot at “Nashville’s oldest restaurant,” Brown’s Diner, a priceless dive bar. We wouldn’t have preferred any other set. Nashville is an interesting market, farming some very special passions outside of the music genres, as of late. We keep our ear to the ground there, loving this authenticity … you should too.

I call this context - applying scale to objects makes the objects themselves have more meaning. Sort of like a little girl under a huge Texas sky, which Rainer and I share - she also was enveloped by Texas as girl, and if you have been to Marfa, you can understand why this is no simple upbringing. It is grand in scale, silence, views, peace. It was Rainer’s idea to shoot at the Whitney Museum, currently under construction at Washington and Gansevoort streets and slated for a 2015 completion. 220,000 square feet by architect Renzo Piano, the famed architect for Paris’ Centre Pompidou, based in Paris, Genoa (his Italian birthplace), and New York, now a 150-member team: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW). Their buildings include the Menil Collection in Houston, the

Finally, our visual recap of personalities, shoes and feet at the most recent fashion collection presentations in New York and Paris - a blizzard makes for some amazing texture, we think. We are writing this from our new corporate headquarters, a completely ridiculous warehouse space in the growing East Side neighborhood of Austin, Texas. When we aren’t kindly asking wasps to dislodge from our roof insulation, we are planning a shoe party with our Airstream or jumping on a plane to NYC … learning how to grow and become a shoe media company. Our blessings continue … the space to fail, the space to explore, the space to be inspired. I think it’s what God intended … abundance begets joy.

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LINDSAY 26 Name: Ally Lindsay, aka The French Fry. Hometown: Detroit, Mich. Big break: Paris Fashion Week with BOOTLEG! Weird hobby: Collecting crystals, I even keep some in my purse or pockets. Muse: Everyone, collectively.

Meal: Rosé & raspberries. Shoe: Vintage Yves Saint Laurent black satin kitten heels … the heel is a rhinestone disco ball.

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Name: Greg Manis, aka Beechnut. Agent (if any): Looking for a new one. Any takers? Hometown: Dalton, Ga. Big break: Getting a job at MILK Studios when I moved to NYC. Weird hobby: Day drinking.

Muse: Sarah Ellison Lewis (but she doesn’t know that)... Meal: Tex-Mex. Shoe: Cowboy boots always.

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Name: Berta Camal Agent: Jed Root Inc. Hometown: Havana, Cuba (now in Westchester, N.Y.) Big Break: Assisting Kevyn Aucoin and doing his client Tori Amos’ makeup. She became my first major musician client ... love them! Weird Hobby: Scary dolls. Muse: Stevie, my daughter. She’s

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a chameleon beauty and über cool. I have a blast styling her. Meal: Ropa vieja (Cuban shredded beef). Shoe: Boot freak; usually a bit weathered [is] my fave. One Ash motorcycle boot with tiny black skulls I wear to death.

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Name: Jeanie Syfu Agent: Artmix Beauty Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Hometown: St. Paul, Minn. Big break: Accidentally discovering the 8x10 Deardorff [camera] and all of its inherent beauty. Weird hobby: Antique stove lust. Muse: Marie Sophie. Meal: Turkish breakfast. Shoe: R.M. Williams boots, I live in them. Bill with beloved daughter Hazel

Big break: “Project Runway” season 5 (Bravo) as Tresemme’s lead stylist and spokesperson. Weird hobby: I’m a crazy cat lady. MEOW! Muse: My boyfriend, Vincent Oshin, for his beautiful mind and

timeless style. Meal: I’m juicing now ... but when that’s done I’d love a fish taco! Shoe: Comfortable and sexy ... girly tomboy shoes! Don’t care about the label, I just need to be able to move quickly when working.

Boyd Elder flew in from Valentine, Texas, on the outskirts of Marfa. Best known for his Eagles albums cover art and around-the-clock bolo ties.

left to right: Josh White photographed the renovation, jwpictures. com; The artist JR, Studio Manager Marc Azoulay, and friends, jr-art.net.

For the first time Mercer Street closed between Spring and Prince ... The Judd Foundation built large-scale picnic tables for the opening.

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above: Jessica Lange and daughter. Marc Azoulay, studio manager to artist JR.

Rainer with friends wearing Lanvin and Jil Sander Navy oxfords.

Our fête at the fab Burger Up in Nashville Stephen Drummond and Pap Shirock at Brown’s Diner.

images: Sarah Ellison Lewis

BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT EIC, Founder & Chief Creative Officer Sarah Ellison Lewis, sel@bootlegmarket.com Managing Editor & Chief Operating Officer Meredith Ballentine, meredith@bootlegmarket.com Assistant Editor - Andie Salazar, andie@bootlegmarket.com Nashville Market Dir. & Owner: Nashville Boot Union - Stephen Drummond, stephen@bootlegmarket.com New York Market Dir. - Ian Milan Design Assistant - Kyle Wall Research & eCommerce Assistant Delaney Collins

BOOTLEG Newsprint is the official publication and newsrag of BOOTLEG Market and BOOTLEG Airstream, founded 2010 in Austin, Texas. With affiliate offices in Nashville and NYC, distribution is online at bootlegnewsprint. com and in select studios and bookstores in LA, New York and Texas; expanding to select European cities this fall. BOOTLEG Market, BOOTLEG Airstream and BOOTLEG Newsprint make up a global media shoe company. For more, email curious@bootlegmarket.com. Copies and archives may be purchased for $5 each contact office@bootlegmarket.com.

FRONT & BACK COVER + No 005.04 Image - Bill Phelps Model - Rainer Judd Styling - Sarah Ellison Lewis Makeup - Berta Camal, Jed Root Inc. Hair - Jeanie Syfu, Artmix Beauty Photo Assistant - Kasia Gravek Styling Assistant - Johanna Cranitch Shot on location in the unfinished 2015 Whitney Museum, NYC.

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ISSUE005 SPECIAL THANKS Burger Up, Nashville; Miranda Whitcomb Pontes; Pap & Chuck Shirock, shirock. net; Brown’s Diner, Nashville; Chapel Drummond; Rainer Judd; The Judd Foundation; Graham Newhall; Whitney Museum of American Art; Gregg Rudner; Artmix Beauty; Jed Root, Danielle Williams & Marieli Zambrana; Jed Root Inc.; The Standard Highline.

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Manuel & Catherine Bach, “Daisy Duke”

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Nashville ... long known for its glitterati surrounding the country culture, a strange skyline, with tried and true music, artists, and the venues to see them. It now feels more like a tiny Brooklyn, with patches of southern charm and history, and space for historical neighborhoods. And it called us, first for our BOOTLEG Airstream tour, and later after realizing we had to have a presence there. The marketplace is overflowing with heritage brands and a return to

authenticity, far outliving the trends; more of a revival than a revolution. With eager and passionate shoe dealers like our friend and Market Director Stephen Drummond owner of Nashville Boot Union - and vintage vendors the Goodbuy Girls, plus retailing trailblazers Imogene + Willie ... our 1968 Airstream trailer full of shoes fit right in. We are grateful for the warm welcome, homegrown shoe and brand innovators like Nisolo and the breathtaking Peter Nappi boots, and

new friends like artist Pap Shirock, (who we featured in fashion on page 128.) The love affair has only begun.

True American couture … that’s what Manuel crafts inside his Nashville atelier. Christened the “Rhinestone Rembrandt,” he’s garbed some of our most iconic music legends, including Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, as well as presidents and movie stars. The 75-year-old costumer and artist from Coalcomán, Mexico,

discovered his passion for making clothing at the tender age of 7, when he learned to sew. Manuel came to America to pursue his design dreams, and after years tailoring suits, fashioning western wear and eventually opening his own shop in Los Angeles, found his way to the music mecca of Nashville. Today, his garments are still made in-house and by hand using nearly-lost couture techniques. - Andie Salazar

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He created one jacket for each state. We were digging Texas and New York, of course.

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Mast Brothers Chocolate

Barista Parlor coffee shop.

To modern-day Willy Wonkas Rick and Michael Mast, chocolate is more than just candy. Their Brooklyn-based operation, Mast Brothers Chocolate, has turned the source of your sweet tooth into a bona fide craft. Concocting innovative flavors like the spicy Chili Peppers and smoky Papua New Guinea since 2007, everything about these Iowa-natives’ bean-to-bar confections centers on quality – right down to the custom-designed paper hand-wrapped around each bar, charmingly patterned with anchors, houndstooth and chevrons. Mast Brothers products are currently sold in select stores and restaurants, like Dean & DeLuca and The Chocolate Room, with everyone from Bon Appétit to the New York Times to Vogue singing their praises. Those hankering to get a taste and learn about the process behind American craft chocolate can visit the Mast Brothers factory at 111 N. 3rd Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. - Andie Salazar BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

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One of the largest makers of multiwall paper pet food bags in America, Werthan Packaging, Inc. housed its production facilities inside the buildings of this nearly 14acre Nashville campus since 1928. The family-owned business moved into the midto-late-1800s era complex following a major acquisition, which broadened its range of production capabilities to include cotton fabrics. Having outgrown the space, Werthan recently relocated the bulk of its production to the smaller community of White House, Tenn. Now, plans are in motion to convert the vacated buildings into a mixed-use redevelopment, including nearly 300 apartments, anticipated to connect the historic Germantown neighborhood with Salemtown to the north. - Andie Salazar

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The Drummonds in vintage, per usual. BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

“Beechnut”

Our Brown’s Diner shoot / see page 128

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FASHION WEEK

(NEW YORK & PARIS)

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Scott Schuman leaving Jason Wu, NYC

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Anya Ziourova, stylist, fashion director at Tatler Russia, and creative consultant at Allure Russia / NYC BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

Giovanna Battaglia, editor at Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Uomo Vogue, stylist, and contributing fashion editor at W magazine / Rodarte shearling coat / NYC 34

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outside 3.1 Phillip Lim, NYC 36

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Lynn Yaeger, contributing fashion editor at Vogue.com and contributing writer at Vogue / NYC

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Ulyana Sergeenko / Prada clutch 42

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Assembly New York presentation, NYC 48

A PBR bonfire sculpture ... definitely our flavor / the firstever Highland presentation, NYC BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

show prep at MILK Studios MADE Fashion Week / milkmade.com BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

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backstage at The Blonds / MILK Studios, NYC

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The Blonds

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Natasha Goldenberg, stylist and Tzipporah designer. Will you be our friend? Paris. BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

outside Chanel, Paris 64

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outside Giambattista Valli and Chanel, Paris

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Charlotte Olympia, our favorite whimsical shoe designer 72

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Ulyana Sergeenko, fashion designer and photographer 74

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Linda Tol, Lifestyle Hunters outside Victor & Rolf, Paris

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Elizabeth and James Cindy watersnake-heel bootie, Paris BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

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Anna Dello Russo, editorat-large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan 84

Leaf Greener, senior fashion editor at Elle China / Stella McCartney coat

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outside Chanel 86

outside Emanuel Ungaro BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

Fendi color block heel 88

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outside Viktor & Rolf

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Ken Downing, fashion director and senior vice president at Neiman Marcus

Jeffrey Campbell Lita claw boot BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

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Alina Tanasa, Fabulous PR & Events owner and PR director, blogger at Fabulous Muses / Andra Clitan sweater, Moo sunnies

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Sonia Rykiel presentation, Paris

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Our favorite Jessicas

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INTRODUCING PAP SHIROCK Stephen keeps us posted on all things fresh in and around Nashville. Thus, when he honed in on a young musician we had to feature, I followed his lead. Then the images of Pap arrived, and I was, well, smitten. The kind of girl whose spirit lingers in an image, she is more than pretty, more than lovely ... she’s the kind of girl we all aspire to know. Stephen’s interview with Pap follows. Blush ... sigh. - Sarah Stephen Drummond: Why Nashville? Pap Shirock: I moved to Nashville in 2000 to go to school at Belmont University. [My husband and bandmate] Chuck and I both graduated in 2004 and immediately started touring. For a while, most of the people we worked with in the music business were based in New York or Los Angeles, so we thought we may have to move at some point. We’ve always loved being in Nashville, but it didn’t completely feel like home. Probably because we were spending so much time on the road, and we both missed the diversity of bigger cities. But over the past 10 years, as we got off the road some, we fell more and more in love with the city and the people. Nashville was expanding

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and diversifying - new restaurants, boutiques, art spaces and bars opening all over the city. And at the same time, people in the music business (including artists) started moving here from all across the country. So ... Nashville has kept that small-town feel, but with everything we need in a home base. And we have our Nashville family now, which grows bigger every day, and they would all be very hard to leave. SD: When did you first become passionate about music? PS: I can’t remember becoming passionate about music ... I just always have been. My Grammy (my dad’s mother) was a classical vocalist who sang professionally. My dad and his siblings grew up singing, and a couple of aunts went on to get doctorates in music. On my mother’s side, my grandpa toured in barbershop quartets for many years, and at 82 is still singing. So from my waking breath each day, I had music all around me. I sang at home with my family. I sang at church. I started playing piano when I was four or five, and was made to practice an hour a day (no exceptions!) until I graduated high school ... which, by then, no one had to make me do. SD: When did you develop an interest in fashion?

PS: My love for fashion was more unexpected, I guess ... but on the other hand, doesn’t every little girl grow up loving to try on their mother’s clothes and shoes? I got a lot of hand-me-downs growing up and some handmade clothes, with a decent amount of Goodwill buys mixed in, so I had to be creative about putting things together. I embraced not having extra money to buy “cool clothes” during high school and really dug into finding stuff at thrift stores ... which is when I fell in love with vintage! Throughout my time at college in Nashville and on shoots for our band, I started to meet quite a few stylists, and through them I think I developed a respect and love for the art of couture and high fashion. I love the mixture of old and new, vintage and modern. SD: When it comes to the shoes you wear, what are some of your favorite brands? PS: Love my boots: Code West, Justin, AllSaints ... but when I need to dress up a bit, I really like Alaia, Christian Louboutin, Lanvin and Alexander Wang. SD: What would you recommend most to anyone visiting Nashville? PS: Food: Rolf and Daughters, City House, Otaku South, Burger Up; Coffee: Barista Parlor; Clothing: Nisolo, Imogene +

Willie, Otis James; Music: The Basement, Grimey’s, Robert’s; Drinks: No. 308, Holland House; Patio party: my house. SD: Who are you most inspired by these days? PS: I am continually inspired by my father, who makes every day count by creating, writing, reading, learning, loving the people he comes in contact with, and just being. Who at 55 picked up and moved to Greece, and does that all now from there. And by my mother, who brings joy and excitement into every situation. SD: What’s on your Spotify/ Pandora this week? PS: Chvrches, Otis Redding, Frank Ocean, Haim, Tom Petty, Among Savages, Midnight in Paris (music from the film), lots of old jazz, and one song from Phosphorescent that I listen to on repeat for hours (Song for Zula). SD: What’s next? PS: I definitely have no idea ... part of the beauty and tragedy of being an artist I guess. Working on new music, releasing current music in the U.K., doing some modeling and acting, and trying to learn to love and accept the gift of each day of my life, and love the people in it more fully.

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Laurence Dacade denim patchwork boot at BOOTLEG Airstream, Burberry swimsuit, The Lake & Stars bralette, vintage robe.

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opposite: vintage cap and robe, The Lake & Stars bralette, Papâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Justin snakeskin cut-off cowboy boots. this page: Topshop earring.

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Model - Pap Shirock Stylist - Sarah Ellison Lewis Production Assistant - Stephen Drummond special thanks to Chapel Drummond for wardrobe assistance. shot on location at Papâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music studio/vintage closet and Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diner in Nashville, Tenn. BOOTLEG NEWSPRINT

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RAINER JUDD HAUNTS THE DOWNTOWN WHITNEY CONSTRUCTION SITE, NYC Sarah Ellison Lewis: Who were you named after? Rainer Judd: I’ve been told I was Baby Judd for six months before I was finally named. My brother is Flavin Starbuck Judd; Flavin after Dan Flavin, a friend and artist my parents admired. Starbuck was an ancestral name on my mother’s side. I was named Rainer Yingling Judd. Rainer after Yvonne Rainer, a friend of my parents and a dancer and filmmaker they admired. Yingling is an ancestral Swedish name on my dad’s side. SEL: Can you describe what it was like to split your time as a young girl between Texas & New York? RJ: The contrast between quiet, empty, beautiful far West Texas with the small town of Marfa and the density of Lower Manhattan is something that I thought a lot about and wrote a lot about as a child and teenager. I used to look out the airplane window onto the empty land of Texas and hope the city and the concrete never came there. It seemed like a jewel, pristine and raw. The land and spirit in West Texas was both humbling and empowering. The scale of it made me realize how small I was in the scope of the world, and yet the quiet and the world of small town life made me feel independent, empowered. Like I could do anything, make anything, I put my mind to; make a difference.

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I remember being excited every time I returned to SoHo. I would play a game with myself, waiting to see who I would see that I knew first. SoHo was a little town, too, just surrounded by millions of people. SEL: Was there a certain age that your father’s art completely made sense to you? (I wonder if because you were next to him that happened much faster…) RJ: I grew up surrounded by his art and my mom’s dance. As long as I can remember, I liked what they did, as well as Trisha Brown’s dance, Oldenburg’s work, John Wesley’s paintings and prints, Barnett Newman, Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Josef Albers ... My dad took my brother and I traveling every summer to Europe, showing us cathedrals, temples, Icelandic ruins, Irish castles and tombs, and museums. We grew up with Old Master prints in our home, even at the ranch houses, far from town. We visited Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam. We saw so many great paintings in Italy. The Pantheon, great architecture ... a long way of saying that seeing his work over many years was part of all the art I took in. I remember being taken by a large wall piece he did in 1983 at the Leo Castelli Gallery. I had a poster of the piece on my wall in my room in Marfa. It had such a complex pattern of diagonal planes in plywood squares that I would tease

him that one day I would figure out the mathematical sequence of this symphony of his. I remember in film school utilizing his mathematical sequence for progressions to structure my thesis film. I once knitted him a scarf that had colors like his Swiss pieces. He loved to talk about color, think about color. There is still so much to learn about color. My father and brother once concluded with smiles that black was the color of car to buy if you didn’t like the form so much, but liked how the car performed. Any other color would make the form more pronounced. I think of this often. SEL: What’s your current favorite shoe? RJ: Fiorentini + Baker boots, Barbara Shaum sandals, Jack Purcell sneakers, my new Jil Sander Navy [oxford booties, available at BOOTLEG Airstream]! Loeffler Randall pumps, my black Proenza Schouler t-strap heels. What were those amazing black pumps with ankle straps in the photo shoot? (Barbara Bui pumps, page 146) SEL: Can you tell us anything about current personal projects? I know you are writing a bit… RJ: The main project I’m working on is a narrative feature film about a little girl’s discovery of a window of opportunity when a convergence of circumstances calls upon her to act in an unexpected way. It takes

place in SoHo, 1977, and West Texas. For film acting I work with manager Davien Littlefield and this wonderful coach Marilyn Fried, who worked with Strasberg. It’s so nice to be connected with that generation. SEL: Any fond memories of your mother’s shoes or accessory collections? RJ: My mom’s halter top! Her raspberry earrings. The TrainaNorell dress she wears in the Francesco Scavullo portrait of her and my dad. She had a glittery, multicolored, striped blazer that I always loved. Also, there is a film of her dancing where she is wearing a black glittery top, so simply cut, with plain jeans and jazz shoes that just look like comfortable men’s shoes.

Images by Bill Phelps Muse: Rainer Judd Styling by Sarah Ellison Lewis Makeup by Berta Camal, Jed Root Inc. Hair by Jeanie Syfu, Artmix Beauty Photo Assistant: Kasia Gravek Styling Assistant: Johanna Cranitch Shot on location in the unfinished 2015 Whitney Museum, NYC.

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Zara jumper, Giuseppe Zanotti stilettos / opposite: H&M ribbed pullover

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Etro dress & shoes / opposite: Zara jacket & blouse, Prada silk pumps 150

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