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Thursday
11Jun2009

PROJECT PROFILE | Julia Frakes

credit: Caroline Torem Craig/PAPER Magazine

FULL NAME: Julia Frakes

AGE: 19

OCCUPATION: Fashion Writer, PAPER Magazine

TWITTER NAME: @bunnyBISOUS

WEBSITE: http://www.papermag.com/blogs/fashion_schmashion and http://www.bunnybisous.com

Describe yourself...

Rather ebullient and enthralled by fashion from an art historical perspective.

Hidden talents...

I can make a killer, spot-on duck "quack" noise. And do a split. That's about it.

Dream interview...

Stephen Jones, Rachel Maddow, Yoko Ono...

Favorite book...

Most recently? "Paintings in Proust" by Eric Karpeles and "Personal History" by Katharine Graham; although generally just about anything by Virginia Woolf, Doris Kearns Gooding, Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Jane Austen, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Cousens, Sophie Dahl, Henry James, Hermann Hesse, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare... and of course, Simon Doonan!

Film?

Lost and Delirious, Running with Scissors, Winter Passing, Miss Potter, Sylvia, Scoop, The Graduate, Donnie Darko, Paris: Je T'aime, Sense and Sensibility, You've Got MailLes Demoiselles de Rochefort... and anything Woody Allen

Record?

Initials BB by Serge Gainsbourg, How to Make Friends by FM Belfast, Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Love Songs of the Hanging Gardensby Kelley Polar, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon & Garfunkle, I Created Disco by Calvin Harris, Wincing the Night Away by The Shins, The White Album by The Beatles, and Chelsea Girl by Nico.

Although this week The Lilac Time by Pelle Carlberg, I Have Hands by The Bran Flakes, Slow Dance by Jeremy Jay, Lambs Anger by Mr. Oizo,The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (eponymous album), Fantasy Black Channel by Late of the Pier, and I Feel Cream by Peaches have all been all on repeat..

Shop?

Of all time? Without a doubt Merci (111 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris)!

Opening Ceremony, Colette, Pas de Deux, Browns Focus, Aedes de Venustas, and Screaming Mimi's surely round out my top faves.

Style?

If Alice in Wonderland met a forest pixie on Beatrix Potter's land trust... I am quite drawn to fairies of folklore, horses, twee, and a certain self-deprecating whimsy.

Favorite Quote...

"He has found his style when he cannot do otherwise." –Paul Klee or "Sanity is a cozy lie." –Susan Sontag

What advice do you have?

Never underestimate the simple, innate power of kindness and extending oneself beyond the call of duty.

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Reader Comments (1)

I'm digging this project profile thing

June 14, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKirsy Lovett

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