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, ‘A Rare Bird’ L’Wren Scott interviewed for the Los Angeles Times by Merle Ginsberg about the Academy Awards (2000)—— “the style director, all 6’3” of her was having a hard time standing still, in an office at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that was converted into a makeshift fitting room about two seconds beforehand, for Oscar’s band director Don Was. Scott was suffering from a clear case of Oscar’s adrenaline.
—— no one in Hollywood would dispute Scott’s style. She has shown It & wielded It since her days as a Chanel & Thierry Mugler model in Paris, to her move to LA five years ago.
——ten days before the big night , standing there in black jeans and black leather jacket, with long crystal earrings partially obscured by long black hair, she’s excited by the couture looks from London and New York she’s been able to bring to the Oscar’s show.
—— Scott also met with Stella McCartney and asked her to do Chloé clothes for the Isaac Hayes segment. Jimmy Choo is doing all the women’s shoes. “I asked them to put extra Swarovski crystals on the rims of the shoes and around the heels for extra shine as the girls move across the stage.”
—— “I’m not sleeping too much these days,” she sighed over a cigarette. “On Sunday I’ll go down to the Shrine at 7 am. I have a 30 person crew that day. I’ve assigned a caretaker for every person who appears on stage that night. As for me; I special ordered the Alek Web Dior sequin jogging suit for rehearsal, which I’m going to wear with Galliano’s newsprint jacket. I told John {Galliano} I HAD to have that for rehearsal. The actual night I might do a couple of changes.
—— by late evening I’ll be in the highest heel - I have an Ossie Clark dress I bought from Cameron Silver at decades a few months ago. I’m feeling a lot of Ossie Clark inspiration these days.”
—— photographed by Harry Middleton (@hmiddletonphoto) in her Hollywood office just a few nights before the show
—— no one in Hollywood would dispute Scott’s style. She has shown It & wielded It since her days as a Chanel & Thierry Mugler model in Paris, to her move to LA five years ago.
——ten days before the big night , standing there in black jeans and black leather jacket, with long crystal earrings partially obscured by long black hair, she’s excited by the couture looks from London and New York she’s been able to bring to the Oscar’s show.
—— Scott also met with Stella McCartney and asked her to do Chloé clothes for the Isaac Hayes segment. Jimmy Choo is doing all the women’s shoes. “I asked them to put extra Swarovski crystals on the rims of the shoes and around the heels for extra shine as the girls move across the stage.”
—— “I’m not sleeping too much these days,” she sighed over a cigarette. “On Sunday I’ll go down to the Shrine at 7 am. I have a 30 person crew that day. I’ve assigned a caretaker for every person who appears on stage that night. As for me; I special ordered the Alek Web Dior sequin jogging suit for rehearsal, which I’m going to wear with Galliano’s newsprint jacket. I told John {Galliano} I HAD to have that for rehearsal. The actual night I might do a couple of changes.
—— by late evening I’ll be in the highest heel - I have an Ossie Clark dress I bought from Cameron Silver at decades a few months ago. I’m feeling a lot of Ossie Clark inspiration these days.”
—— photographed by Harry Middleton (@hmiddletonphoto) in her Hollywood office just a few nights before the show