THE RELUCTANT ICON - CHLOË SEVIGNY
By Stephen Short
A PRESTIGE HONG KONG EXCLUSIVE
For most actors, working with legendary director Woody Allen is a dream come true. But for outspoken independent film actress, television star and fashion designer Chloë Sevigny, it was far from conversational.
“Woody Allen probably said about four words to me the entire time we were shooting,” confides Sevigny about her experience on the set of Allen’s Melinda and Melinda, in an exclusive interview in the May issue of Prestige Hong Kong. “I read something about Judy Davis, who said she’d worked on a bunch of his films, maybe four or five, and he’s probably said four or five words to her, so…I felt like I was in good company. I thought at least if he doesn’t say anything to me, he must be happy with what I’m doing.”
The Academy Award-nominated star of such films as Boys Don’t Cry, Larry Clark’s Kids and Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers also discusses how her film career has been affected by her role in the successful HBO series Big Love, and the mixed blessings of being an “It girl.”
“The It-girl concept has been around forever and people don’t have very long attention spans these days, so it’s out with the old, in with the new over and over again. I’ve tried not to let that dictate me and what I’m going to do, but do what I want regardless,” says Sevigny, one of the most widely known faces of the 1990s thanks to a series of well-timed magazine cover shoots and appearances in music videos.
On juggling her commitment to Big Love, in which she plays a polygamist’s wife, and her film career: “For the past three or four years, getting film work has been much more difficult because people aren’t as apt to hire me because they don’t know if I’ll have to go back and do the series. It’s been really fulfilling, a great experience, I love doing the show...but my film work has really suffered because of it.”
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Also in this issue:
The May issue comprises 417 pages packed with the best that life has to offer, including the 89-page summer issue of Travel. Exclusive social coverage includes the global luxury lifestyle group Quintessentially’s dazzling eco-glamorous dinner, The Feast of Albion, at London’s Guildhall.
Exclusive features this month include a sneak preview of Agent Provocateur’s bold new ad campaign featuring iconic model Kate Moss.
In “The Cutthroat Life,” Fashion Editor Vivienne Tang goes one-on-one with Project Runway judge Nina Garcia, who is said to have recently left her position as Elle magazine’s fashion director. In a revealing interview held before her reported departure, Garcia discusses the challenges of juggling work and family, and the real purpose of fashion. “Sometimes people get overly competitive,” says Garcia. “At the end of the day, fashion should be fun. It’s supposed to be beauty, it’s supposed to be fun. Sometimes some people take it too seriously. But it is a business. It’s a very serious billion-dollar business. It’s never gone to my head.”
Exclusive interviews this month include Macau-born interior designer/architect Peter Remedios, who has been setting design benchmarks via some of the most luxurious properties in the world, including Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Four Seasons Hotel New York and The Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong, and designer Andre Fu, co-founder of the AFSO boutique design studio.
Not-to-be-missed features include a tour of Salzburg, famous for Mozart and The Sound of Music; Simon Tam explains how Asia’s wine market is finally on the verge of a major breakthrough; Jay Oatway tees up Hong Kong’s new 18-hole golf course at Kau Sai Chau; an exclusive fashion photo shoot on the decks of the Silversea cruise ship Silver Whisper; and a startling collection of images from Chen Jiagang of the industrial wastelands of China’s south-western provinces.
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