cbamd.com caught up with the former schoolteacher before she headed over to the festival.Thank the rock-and-roll style gods for Alexis Krauss, front woman of noisy pop duo Sleigh Bells, whose sartorial-slaying style is greatly appreciated in the current sea of zanily dressed pop starlets with a penchant for trend-hopping. There's the sea punk, the ratchet realness, the ghetto gothic, the lovelorn old Hollywood damsel in distress. Then there's—sartorial sigh—the normcore. But with three Sleigh Bells' albums under her studded belt, Krauss continues to keep it real with the classic rock-and-roll duds. She's doing something very right, and we're not just talking about Sleigh Bells' inescapable bangers soundtracking Spring Breakers, The Bling Ring, and HBO's Girls.

The Brooklyn-based band plays Coachella for the third time starting this weekend (Saturday at 9:10 p.m. PST between Lorde and Pharrell, to be exact), which will find Krauss hair-whipping (and probably crowd-surfing) whilst belting it out.

cbamd.com caught up with the former schoolteacher before she headed over to the festival. She spilled about her thoughts on the (oftentimes unfortunate) Coachella fashion norm, her dreams of working with Alexander Wang and meeting Pharrell, and her style evolution: her suburban alt-kid-meets-pop-diva high school style; her corporate, crocs-heavy schoolteacher style; and her (of course) current killer style as a punky princess.
POST: 2024-05-22