In THE LOOK, OC friends drop by to try on our favorite new arrivals and tell us about their wardrobe preferences past and present.
Name: Alice Lancaster
Hometown: St. Louis
Why did you move to NY? Living the dream, you know
What have you been wearing lately? A lot of black, gray, and white
Favorite spots to shop? I like Uniqlo because I wear so much black and it’s so good for basics. I also find Beacon's Closet pretty good.
Can you tell us about the customized clothing you make? When I started off I just painted on pieces of my own and then I was like, “Hey, who wants these?” Then I had people requesting specific things, like, “I want a red sweatshirt with zebras painted on it.” So then I started doing things like that.
Do you go thrifting for pieces and then paint on them? I haven't done too many recently because I don't want to make stuff and have it sit around my apartment, because that was what I was doing for a while and I don’t want to fill up my whole house with stuff that people might not want. But I do want to do more, so I like to do customization when people tell me exactly what they want.
Does that curtail into you wanting to do your own designs or prints? I would love to create prints or collaborate with a big designer.
Tell us about your involvement with the
Alice Lancaster doesn't take herself too seriously. In the two hours we spent with her, she treated herself to a head scratcher, gleefully jumped on her couch, and pretended to paint on an (almost) finished painting. Alright, so we asked her to do all of those things, but she didn't hesitate to have a good time with us. Lancaster's apartment seemed to bare her soul, equal parts cultivated and playful. Her vibrant portraits and figures decorated the walls while another more postmodern piece (a dried out spaghetti noodle hung on a nail) caught our eye. Lancaster jokingly remarked, “that's a really important piece."
At the border of her kitchen, a large painting rested on an easel with a Post-it note that bore the phrase "Fuck Vaginas" on it, a statement that Lancaster does not mean literally. She was just venting about the problem area on her latest nude. Last October, the Bushwick-based painter made waves over a different vagina of the menstruating and masturbating variety. The illustration Lancaster drew at the request of friend PETRA COLLINS for the Period Power Tee sold at American Apparel caused a media frenzy. Since then, the artist has been featured in several exhibitions including a recent group show at the National Arts Club. When we were done horsing around, we chatted with the painter about art, Law & Order, and beauty.
At the border of her kitchen, a large painting rested on an easel with a Post-it note that bore the phrase "Fuck Vaginas" on it, a statement that Lancaster does not mean literally. She was just venting about the problem area on her latest nude. Last October, the Bushwick-based painter made waves over a different vagina of the menstruating and masturbating variety. The illustration Lancaster drew at the request of friend PETRA COLLINS for the Period Power Tee sold at American Apparel caused a media frenzy. Since then, the artist has been featured in several exhibitions including a recent group show at the National Arts Club. When we were done horsing around, we chatted with the painter about art, Law & Order, and beauty.
Name: Alice Lancaster
Hometown: St. Louis
Why did you move to NY? Living the dream, you know
What have you been wearing lately? A lot of black, gray, and white
Favorite spots to shop? I like Uniqlo because I wear so much black and it’s so good for basics. I also find Beacon's Closet pretty good.
Can you tell us about the customized clothing you make? When I started off I just painted on pieces of my own and then I was like, “Hey, who wants these?” Then I had people requesting specific things, like, “I want a red sweatshirt with zebras painted on it.” So then I started doing things like that.
Do you go thrifting for pieces and then paint on them? I haven't done too many recently because I don't want to make stuff and have it sit around my apartment, because that was what I was doing for a while and I don’t want to fill up my whole house with stuff that people might not want. But I do want to do more, so I like to do customization when people tell me exactly what they want.
Does that curtail into you wanting to do your own designs or prints? I would love to create prints or collaborate with a big designer.
Tell us about your involvement with the