Fashion and Marie Claire
Nadir| July 23, 2009 2:04 pm 
I recently gave an interview to Marie Claire mag (int) and was asked to do a piece for them relating to my work and also women’s fashion. This seemed natural to me since I’m known as something of a fashion icon around here (North America). I’ve rocked the always-in-style shaved head and have exclusively worn Khakis with unadorned grey t-shirts (from Isaac Mizrahi’s ‘Blasé Collection’) since 1999. Before that I used to wear jeans, ugh, how pedestrian. Plus I’m at a point where I can ALMOST keep my lunch down if someone switches my tv set to “what not to wear” (that’s right, “tv set”).
This piece came up right as I was leaving for a week of vacation; to swim with dolphins in the gulf and watch mermaid shows at Weeki Wachee springs (recently in the news over a manager getting fired for sexually harassing one of the mermaids. In which I played absolutely no part. Despite my lascivious winking and honking gestures during the shows) but anyway, I digest, my point is I had to come up with something on the heels of my vaca. I pumped out the pencils quick enough, no big, but I’m not really a colorist by trade. I felt the urge to have a go at it anyway and to make a long story short after flying down the coast, visiting water parks and feeling generally exhausted from sushi and liquor, I stayed up all night coloring this thing… with a mouse. It was tedious but I got it done well before their deadline. So what happens next you ask? Well they bump the interview several months back. Such is the publishing world.
Here’s the final piece.
