Designer Dossier: Revamp
Designer Dossier: Jamie Powell, Revamp
1. Who are your favorite designers? i live in a world of vintage influences, but from today’s world: Jason Wu, Tomas Maier
2. Who/what is your biggest influence? my mom
3. Favorite article of clothing? a pair of holey jeans with patches on top of patches, bought from a thrift store when I was in high school
4. Favorite color? green
5. Favorite junk food? ice cream
6. What’s for breakfast? freshly baked brezel stick with cheese from Guglhupf Bakery
7. What’s your most treasured possession? a notebook my mom and I mail back and forth that is full of song lyrics, inspiring quotes, and advice on life in general.
8. What’s in heavy rotation on your iPod? Aesop Rock, MF Doom (and all his other various aliases), MGMT, The Raconteurs
9. How do you work? Describe (briefly) your process. my available materials steer the direction of my designs - I have a vintage clothing wholesaling business that provides most of the materials for my line, so what I create depends a lot on what comes in the next bale of vintage goodies.
Latest creation: a dress made of 3 vintage scarves.
10. What inspires you now? wanting to learn something new
11. If you weren’t a designer, what would you be? a farmer
12. East Coast rap or West Coast rap? Chicago is where it’s at
13. Favorite place to cocktail. at home
14. If you could be anywhere in the world. . . on a beach in the Dominican Republic
15. Favorite/best trend? lately it’s feather embellished headbands and hair clips
16. Worst trend? Those MC Hammer -style pants [Harem pants] that I keep seeing in magazines, but not on anyone in real life… who do those look good on?
17. A bit of advice to give. . . read a book
18. Who’s got style - a favorite style icon. I don’t know if she’s an “icon”, but I really love Scarlett Johansson - she’s like a modern day Marilyn
19. Your designs are meant to be worn.
20. At age 8, what did you want to be? a writer
21. If you could have a super power, what would it be? the ability to pause time like (Zack on Saved by the Bell).
22. I wish I had a huge pile of money to give to my parents so they could retire.
23. A recent purchase/splurge. amazing necklace by Good Girls Studio (Raleigh designer, if you don’t know her yet, you should)
24. Mountains or the beach? mountains!
25. On tap for next season. vests, ladies’ suit jackets, shirtdresses..
26. On your night stand? 7 Life Lessons of Chaos by John Briggs and F. David Peat
27. In 20 years we will still be trying to figure it all out.
28. Always eat your vegetables.
29. Never go to sleep angry.
Thanks for the props Jamie! Looove your scarf dresses