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I developed [my clothing style] before the Rumours album with my designer, Margi Kent, that I met in the first year of Fleetwood Mac. I told her, 'I need to have uniform. We have to think of something that looks good. We can make three skirts, three tops, and have your shoes and your little, you know....a couple of wraps and jackets and you’re ready to go.' And that’s what I did. And the outfit that’s on the Rumours cover is exactly the same outfit that’s on the Shangri-La cover. It’s the same outfit that’s on the Bella Donna cover. It’s timeless...it’s a timeless outfit, and it has made my life much easier because I don’t ever have to think about it. ...My black skirt and my little black French corset and my little black top
and my black tights and my black boots....it’s just what I always wear, it’s
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I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school.
I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different. |
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The princess on-stage is my combination of Natalia Makarova and Greta Garbo
and the elegant rock & roll that I love...it's hard to be a fairy princess
fifty percent of the time and just be a nice lady the other half. But I like my
real self better. I don't walk around the house in dripping chiffon. |
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I had my hair streaked at the end of the my tenth-grade year and got in a lot
of trouble for it. They didn't just streak it blond...they streaked it silver.
My hair was totally ivory. I was grounded for six weeks. But when my hair changed,
everything changed. I got to wear grayish plum eye shadow. There was no way I
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We [she and Buckingham] were the opening act for Janis Joplin ~ I must
have been eighteen ~ when I saw this girl in the audience wearing a mauvy pink
chiffon skirt and very high cream suede boots. Her hair was kind of Gibson [Gibson
Girl] -she she had some pink ribbons- and I thought that's it. |
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And maybe that has a lot to do with why I went from that [points to Buckingham
Nicks cover] to that [points to Rumours cover]. Because
I said, 'All right, that's it. We're gonna work this out so that I still have
an image and a vibe, but instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women
singers are going in now, I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and
lace and velvet. And nobody will know what I really am. I will have a mystique.
None of these other people will have a mystique, but I will.' And I have
that mystique. That's one thing that I'm real proud of. |
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Over the years they've become really supersticious things for me. They're like
special good luck charms. |
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I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's
trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace. |
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I remember being in Aspen, having just written Landslide and Rhiannon
walking around in the snow in a bunny coat, a pair of patchwork jeans that I'd
spend my last $30 on, and these very high platform shoes that were kind of beige,
kind of cream-colored. They had humongous platform that made me really tall so
that I didn't have to cut of the fabulous bottoms of the jeans. Even when platforms
went completely out of style, I kept wearing them because I didn't want to go
back to being five feet three in a pair of heels. |
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The outfit I wear on the cover of Bella Donna is the same as the one
I wore on Rumours, except it's opposite, it's white. It's a strange turn-around
that I've come from black to white.... It [the outfit] was my idea, six
years ago. Margi Kent designed it. She just keeps making it longer. |
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[I have} about 25 pairs. I have them in rose pink and gray blue and mauve.
I have three or four pairs I wear every night. |
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Believe me, when I stop singing I'm gonna have a garage sale like you're not
gonna believe. We're talking chiffon, chiffon, and more chiffon. |
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Lindsey
and I] were really poor when we took that picture [Buckingham Nicks
album cover], and I went out and spent my last $111 on a really beautiful,
very sexy blouse. And they agreed to do half the session in the blouse, and I
thought 'Oh, I'll win. They'll love this blouse, and they're gonna love the way
I look.' Well halfway through the session, one of the photographers came over
and said, 'Okay, it's time to take off the blouse,' and I died. it was
awful, you know....
[As a little girl] I dreamed only about giving a little fairy tale
to people. That's what the outfit is on my album cover [Bella Donna],
that's what that bird is. That
bird belongs to my brother, that's the only reason I could work with a wild animal.
That's Max on the front. With my clothes and the things that I wear, I have so
much fun with them. I was talking to a lady today and when we were talking about
dress-up and about how much fun dress-up used to be. And if there was a trunk
in the attic, I was in it looking. And I would rather wear that drape than anything
you could sell me from Bloomingdale's. I don't like all that stuff...My fantasy
is giving a little bit of the fairy princess to all the people out there that
maybe don't have the Hans Christian Andersen books, and the Grimm's fairy tales.
If that's the only thing I can do for them, well, that's fine.
She
makes everything, and these are my boots that my little Jewish cobbler who's seventy
years old makes. A five-foot one-inch-tall person needs six inches. Onstage especially.
Standing next to Mick Fleetwood is ridiculous. Anybody standing next to Mick is
ridiculous, so imagine a five-footer. You blend into his drums, which he loves
because then he's the star. So I say, 'Wait a minute, Mick, I'm going to get tall.'
I get far on these boots. They are very out of style and I don't care. I love
them. They are beautiful suede and they are soft. I tried to get this boot a long
time ago, and it was going out then. We searched London, and I found one pair
that was like a size five, and I wear a five and a half or six, but I bought them
anyway. I stuffed my little feet into them.
