A girl, a style: at Louise Chen in Paris

A girl, a style: at Louise Chen in Paris
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Une allure underground entre la France et l'Angleterre, des yeux en amande qui pétillent, une humeur décapante : Louise Chen pourrait être l’emblème du new cool féminin 2020. Tour à tour Dj, testeuse de resto au top du branché ou collectionneuse de vinyles et de t-shirts de concerts nineties, la Franco-Taïwanaise vit à mille à l’heure. Et se met en pause une journée pour nous recevoir post-confinement, chez elle, à Paris.

Par Eugénie TrochuUne fille, un style : chez Louise Chen à Paris Une fille, un style : chez Louise Chen à Paris

Louise Chen hasn't slept since 1999, well, that's what we can read in her Instagram bio.DJ, producer and obsessive fan of music and pop culture, she is both vogue girl, inconvenience in hip-hop as in gospel, and the best girlfriend dreamed of.Of Franco-Taiwanese origin, in the thirties brilliant, she launches into music first like a hobby.In the 2000s and dust, then trainee at Ping Pong a box promoting independent music, a friend with a darling cafe residence in Belleville show him how vinyl plates and a mixture work.Musical love at first sight, she goes directly to a DJs crew and begins to play music in bars: the darling coffee, the truskel, the motel, the without worry, at Moune… it is in 2011 that things become moreSeriously and that she launches solo: “I started by organizing a party at the social club, then several, and it was thus born the multidisciplinary female collective Girls Girls Girls and my Bourgeonnant DJ career.”Since then, she has been following festivals, clubs and dates around the world, also playing for the high events on the fashion planet: from the opening of the Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées to the Star Jacquemus parade in the lavender fieldsValensole.

Music

A musical career in the firmament, which requires health crisis, had to be paused: “All the projects fell into the water!And our industry suffers enormously.Without tour the musicians no longer really have sources of income apart from the sale of t-shirts or songs on Bandcamp.And no one really has visibility as to a potential return to activity.It is very difficult to project yourself and know how to reorganize yourself.Let's say that I have the feeling that I will certainly have to reinvent myself before the end of the year ... "A wind of change which arrives at a doubly interesting moment since it was initially planned to move to London this year."So not only do I expatriate but in addition I will have to adapt and operate a turning point in my career.In short, everything is changing in my life! ”In the meantime, she keeps her residence as DJ with her radio show “Chents” one Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m..Live (an independent webradio based in London, Manchester and Los Angeles) while working on new songs, learning the guitar and planning the future since her new "at home" in London.

A style

Une fille, un style : chez Louise Chen à Paris

She describes it as: “cute -missing boy”.Sometimes Boyish: vintage jeans or well-cut clips, t-shirts and hoodies of music merchandising, vintage men's shirts found left to right, Oversized prada or acne leather jackets with a large cozy sweater LOEWmenswear and 70s chucks.Sometimes Girly: Paco Rabanne dress with Claudine collar, Prada and Chouchou boots with little knots in the hair. Une croisée des genres et des styles, portée en mix & match, qu’on retrouve dans sa liste de créateurs préférés : Prada, Lemaire, Julien Dossena chez Paco Rabanne, J.W.Anderson at Loewe, Dries Van Notten, Sacai, Molly Goddard, Bode, Peter Do and Cecilie Bahnsen…

Icons

His fashion inspirations come to him from the Top MTV parade between 1995 and 2004.More wedged you die.His favorites?The transparent highs of Archi the bassist of the Smashing Pumpkins, the Dickies pants of Gwen Stefani - singer of No Doubt at the time of the album "Tragic Kingdom" in 1997, Mariah Carey with her 501 and her little one and her littleWhite t-shirt in the clip of “One Sweet Day”, the DR.Martens and the chucks of the Hardcore rock groups, the 90s skaters looks, Janet Jackson and his red fringe in 1998 at the time of the album "The Velvet Rope", all the looks of TLC in 1994, all the looksJean Baggies of Lauryn Hill classmates in “Sister Act 2” and the outfits of Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills.

Collectors

A pile of all cotton concert t-shirts, Merch tower that Louise Chen was posting confinement on her Instagram every day, accompanied by a tasty anecdote. Son préféré, celui qu’elle sauverait en premier des flammes si son appartement brûlait ? Le Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness” de la tournée 1996.

Jewelry

Always the same: a Cartier clash ring, another imposing signed Chloé, some gold chains surmounted by Jade, birth gift from his Taiwanese family and a “L” pendant decorated with 3 diamonds that offered him his father.

Bags

Even if she has a passion for recordy tote bags or bananas "so practical to spend her life in club", she has learned the idea of the handbag for two years.Right now, she walks her essentials in three models: the famous Prada Nylon, a Loewe puzzle or a last crush signed Chloé.

Shoes

A collection of prada heels, nike sneakers and converse quite impressive."I have to admit, the shoes are my cute sin ... with the sunglasses.”On a daily basis she alternates between a pair of chucks or the black and white nike waffle of collaboration with Sacai.In summer, Monomania Slides compensated Celine Vintage or Tongs Lemaire.

Evening

In club, the Jean's uniform, pimple basketball of a slightly transparent tight top or a group t-shirt.For big evenings, black lemaire black pants and heels or a sexy tight dress signed Molly Goddard.

Last impulsive purchase

A turquoise parka and a woolen sweater at Noah.

Follies

What she calls her "stage clothes": a mini Molly Goddard glitter dress and a pink pink yellow silk dress and pink tulle.

Beauty

Morning and evening cleaning of the face in light water and cleansing foam DR.Barbara Sturm, followed by a little “facial treat itebly sk-Ii” as a tonic.Followed by a routine adopted and validated for NAID signed life: NIOD Glucosid Modulating + Copper Amino Isolate Serum Niod + Multi-Molecular Hyaluronic Concentrate Niod to which she adds a day cream Suzanne Kaufmann "Day Cream Line A" or a littleAugustinus Bader cream.

Photographer: Adeline May Journalist: Eugénie Trochuhair and Make-Up: Sergio Villafanevideo: Etienne Baussanproduction: Mathias Holst