Equally as cool as their synth-driven electro-soul is Jack Davey and Brook D’Leau’s wild personal style, which was pretty much in tact from day one. It makes a stark contrast to certain popular, neatly packaged artists who started out as, say, a weavealicious dancehall reggae pop star one day and then a New Wave pop princess the next. Not that we’re knocking evolution. But we digress. J*Davey, whose fans include the Roots and Prince, discuss their passion for fashion.

The favorites

Jack: We’re both big fans of Martin Margiela. And I love Opening Ceremony and this Japanese line called Ato. And we’re big jewelry people. I’m really into the line C+, which uses Lego pieces.

Brook: I’m a big vintage person. Trash and Vaudeville is one of our favorite stores in New York.

24/7

Jack: “This is me all the time. I’m pretty much camera-ready all the time. For me it’s not really like an image. Like, ‘oh let me wear a Mohawk and produce this kind of sound.’ I can get on stage and be as is because everything I do in music is as is.”

Brook: We have a great sense of style on our own. And we’re really low-maintenance. We don’t travel with a lot of people. You have to have some sense of self if you’re going to be in the business now. You have to come in, like, already put together.

Keeping it real (economical)

Brook: I think the fact that we did all of this on a shoestring budget means that there wasn’t the pressure of creating an ‘image.’ It made the whole journey easy. Without the budgets, we were able to give people a sense of realism in the sense of style and the way we dress. It makes us approachable. To be big and mythical isn’t really us.

Jack: Now that all of these celebrity’s lives have been exposed through all of this new media, I think that people can understand a lot more these days the difference between what’s real and what has been fabricated.

J*Davey’s double CD package “The Beauty in Distortion/The Land of the Lost” is in stores now. 

Posted: October 29th, 2008  Category: Wardrobe  Comments: No comments#