Real ones have been on their Phoebe Philo s**t since '04!
Danielle Haim comes through talkin' deep-cut L.A. merch, Y2K-era Chloé jawns + rocking mf crowds this fall
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☮️✌🏻 — Jonah & Erin
Danielle Haim — she’s a young GOAT who makes monster chunes with her GOATLY sisters Este and Alana, to the degree that their last album, Women In Music Pt. III, was Blackbird Spyplane’s No. 1 Album of 2020 (no. 2 was a tie between everything Westside Gunn put out.)
WIMPIII contained so many slappers that fellow L.A. native Paul Thomas Anderson directed videos for like ~12 of them and he shot Haim’s album cover, ‘cause greats recognize greats !!
More impressive than any of that, though? Danielle is swagged out & knows her way around a fire garment. Case in point: I was backstage at a Haim show back in 2013, wearing an Usher Confessions Tour tee (it might ring a bell for readers cuz I’ve rocked it in pics here), and Danielle knew that a Mach 3+ shirt would elevate her stagecraft so she borrowed the tee, rocked it onstage, and crushed the show…
When someone makes a Haim documentary, will they credit Blackbird Spyplane with this early “make-or-break” assist? Probably! In the meantime, I hit up Danielle to see if she wanted to tell SpyNation about some rare & cherished possessions… Her reply (paraphrased) was, “O let’s do it king, I have mad s**t that fits the bill, including some SPICY archive Phoebe Philo, bang my line!”
Blackbird Spyplane: So you’ve been collecting early ‘00s Chloé pieces from the Stella McCartney and Phoebe Philo eras. Erin just gave me a rundown on this s**t — how Karl Lagerfeld was at Chloé for ages, then Stella replaced him straight out of Central Saint Martins with Phoebe as her No. 2, and they reacted to ‘90s grunge & minimalism with this super glammy, bratty vibe, where they weren’t afraid to play around with looking ‘tacky’ or ‘vulgar’… What about their designs resonates with you?