JONATHAN, STYLIST
I grew up with my mother and my aunts – strong, spirited women like the ones in Almodóvar movies. One of my aunts was a redhead who wore loads of jewels and hung out with the Romani community, and another one was peroxide blonde, with long nails. They were inspirational to me. Ever since high school, I’ve mainly looked toward women’s fashions when
I’m buying clothes. My body shape is quite slender, with narrow shoulders and narrow hips. I especially like Cher’s look from the 1970s. I find her insanely elegant, with her outrageous outfits on a long, skinny body. That androgyny is something I can totally identify with.
A delicate little necklace in gold, with letters that spell out “mama.”
A plain white Uniqlo T-shirt in thick cotton.
This is a vintage Tiffany bracelet from the 1970s, the Bone design by Elsa Peretti.
A plastic Chanel handbag I bought at a vintage store on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris. I put stickers on it: one’s a Madonna sticker, and another one on the back says “I Love Jesus.” When I did my first photo shoot with Catherine Deneuve, I asked her to autograph it for me on the inside, in black felt-tip pen. Her handwriting is doomed to rub off over time, but never mind, I’ll always have the memory of it.
Beige socks from Gentl, a brand based in Majorca. I brought them home from vacation last summer.
Prada. I’m always on the hunt for vintage Prada. I love to add a touch of it to my look.
This is a Chanel suit I found four years ago at Recess, a vintage store in Los Angeles. It reminds me of the outfit Jackie Kennedy was wearing in those dramatic moments when
JFK got assassinated. Sometimes people pigeonhole the Chanel suit as being very grannyish, but they forget that the original inspiration behind it came from menswear. I like the idea of putting my own masculine spin on a woman’s skirt suit again.
A silver bracelet by an Italian designer, Panconesi. I bought the gold bracelet in the same store as the skirt suit, in L.A. I like its slightly surrealist Jean Cocteau vibe.
I had the skirt altered to make it low-waisted so I can wear it like a sort of kilt or sarong.