TV presenter Tea Khachich about favorite outfits
FOR RUBBER "WARDROBE"we take pictures of beautiful, original or strangely dressed people in their favorite things and ask them to tell stories related to them. This week our heroine is TV presenter, director and columnist Vice and Wired from New York, Tea Khachich. She told about the things left after the wedding, her graduation collection based on selfies, favorite mini-dresses and pharmacy finds.
Like many girls, in childhood I wanted to be a princess. My favorite cartoon characters were they, and the princesses had cool friends-beasts. As a teenager, I realized that being a princess sucks, you can also become a king. I envied guys who were cooler than girls. They had their own companies and groups, they joked loudly in class. However, I did not want to meet the coolest guy in school - I wanted to be one. So, for many years, I wore baggy cargo pants with pockets, dimensionless punk T-shirts, skate shoes and twisted horns on the hair with gel. Quickly made friends with skaters and bad guys who were expelled from school. At the same time, they behaved with me as badly as they did with their girlfriends, and I realized that the guys are not the solution. Guys are a problem.
Girls are cooler, but not always feel it. I decided to become the best of them. By the age of sixteen, I discovered the power of sex in me and started wearing tennis miniskirts, knee socks, crop tops and tails. In college I got carried away with black color - I added, so to speak, refinement to my wardrobe. Living in Milan taught me to understand what chic means, so now I can neglect this knowledge. I began to wear heels and leave the house with a full make-up, like the drag queen Devine from the John Waters films. So I became who I am now - a girl who, after all the post-punk and post-tomboy experiments, still wants to be friends with non-existent animals.
Versus Versace Dress, 3.1 Phillip Lim Shoes
Relatives bought this outfit for my birthday. True, a month after the holiday. This dress is wild sex. It is frightening and has secret power. I can do anything in it that pleases as long as there is enough air - the dress is cramped. It is painful to wear shoes, but I love them for that: they remind you to behave accordingly, like a greedy child.
Jeremy Scott dress, Opening Ceremony shoes, CVS Pharmacy bag
This dress lived up to sales and sold at a discount of 80%: I think, just no one could pull it on their boobs. Shoes also had a discount - 60%. Not surprising! I bought them in the middle of winter, when I was unsuccessfully looking for shoes. Hair bag grabbed for five bucks in the network of pharmacies CVS Pharmacy. In fact, this is not a bag, but a children's gift bag, but I use it as a handbag. In this outfit I feel like a cartoon who I always wanted to be.
Tothem dress, Opening Ceremony shoes
The brand Tothem is based in Milan. They make wonders of graphics. I love this dress for sitting tight, and all my swellings are visible behind.
Crumpets x Tea Hacic dress, Opening Ceremony shoes, Versace bag
I made this dress myself! My dissertation at NABA fashion school was based on selfies and screenshots from iMovie. We can say that the graduation collection is a statement on the subject of today's technogenic narcissism. Well, or you can just consider me a daffodil. In any case, I look cool in a dress of my own authorship.
D & G skirt, Lazy Oaf top, American Apparel sandals, earrings - gift
Every time I wear this skirt, I overeat, and I have to unbutton it in public. But it is worth it. The top is very practical: it shows the guys where to put their hands. Usually they know nothing!
Crop top, skirt, American Apparel sandals, Nordstrom faux fur, earrings and clutch - a gift
I bought this fur stole for a wedding. Ever since, my husband hates this thing. Every time I intend to wear it, we swear. Italians definitely have no sense of humor! This outfit, by the way, is my favorite. I think I always wanted to dress like that. Especially when, as a teenager, I watched Spice World for the twelfth time.
Zara stole, Opening Ceremony dress, Bebe belt
I borrowed this dress a year ago from a friend of Julia. The same night, when he put on, slept with a guy. I think the dress is loaded for good luck. I also consider it a great success that nipples appear through the cutouts. Anyway, this is a magical thing, and I am grateful that I can now call my dress.
Betsey Johnson dress, vintage jacket Levi's, Zara sandals
I stood in line for a sample sale for an hour to get this dress. It became my first designer thing. I have been putting him on for over a decade at important meetings, interviews, dates, parties, funerals, and all sorts of hooligan tricks I also perform in him.
Club Monaco skirt, The Casualties fan T-shirt, BCBG bag, Dr. boots. Martens
I got this shirt at The Casualties when I was fourteen. I still remember how the next day she smelled of sweat and cigarettes; At home I cut her off and went to school. The boots were the only pair of flat shoes when I was twenty with a tail. I think these are the boots that a vampire would wear when he received an invitation to a dinner party.
H & M Pajamas, American Apparel T-shirt, Dr. Boots Martens
I bought this pajamas when I danced a striptease. I was cold when I waited for my turn to dance, and I wrapped myself in this pajamas — I felt incredibly gorgeous. Looking back, I understand that the dancer from me was useless.
Accessories
All accessories are gifts. Fur earrings were presented by a friend, a gold bracelet was given to relatives, a clutch bag with a snake was given to Yulia's best friend (the author of the photo for this “Wardrobe”), pearls - mother, shell pendant - sister. I usually focus on buying black things so much that I forget about accessories that can transform outfit. I appreciate that my loved ones are watching so that I don’t look like country star Johnny Cash all the time.