3 Fashion Fails From Interview November 2013 With Claire Danes

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Curious and hungry for more Homeland? Hoping for Claire Danes to spill more secrets from the series backstage with every new magazine she’s in?

She’s on the cover of the November 2013 issue of Interview magazine and the inside story was penned by Dustin Hoffman. That sounds promising enough, doesn’t it? Because as far as the fashion quality of her pictorial, I was rather disappointed. Fabien Baron signed the photographs that seem to deliver a new level of glamour for Claire, as styled by Karl Temper. And while everything looks perfect, 3 fashion fails sneaked up in this visual story! Let’s see if you found them as well:

{3} Out of character

The overall expression is forced and lifeless. Fashion is an art. Photography is an art. When collided, both should trigger feelings. Reactions. Claire Danes Interview cover does neither. At least as far as I’m concerned. And think that her story was brought on by the character she plays in Homeland, Carrie Mathison, a bipolar CIA operative, this entire pictorial is just silly, disconnected and unrealistic.

{2} Advertising material

The images are more appropriate for an accessories-focus ad campaign than the general fashion spread they were conceived for. That’s offending for the model and the readers as well. Concentrating too much on delivering a different character than the one she’s so masterfully interpreting in Homeland, the editors pressed on some key fashion buttons offering instant makeover. Losing Claire Danes in fashion translation.

{1} Too much beauty

Deep burgundy lips, heavy mascara, golden eyelids and dark nails on top of that! The look is just too strong. Too eighties, too beautifying. Claire doesn’t need that. The beauty is inside her. This is just a bad paint job on an architectural masterpiece.

But considering the bigger picture, as this is a magazine dealing with the visual arts in a more cultural way than, say, Vogue would, I have to observe the fashion level that Claire’s pictorial has been upstaged to. The clothes she’s wearing, they’re not what can be considered routinely style-ordinary. Balenciaga, Armani, Stella McCartney, Narciso Rodriguez: these are all very distinct maisons, with a clearly grownup perspective over fashion and women and general.

Distinctiveness is what Claire Danes is about. She’s not your run-of-the-mill actress. She’s been in Television before in a series that would later on become a reference (My So-Called Life) and her character looked like written for her. The introspection and the dangerous levels of honesty and righteousness feel engraved in Carrie Mathison’s personality as well. Claire Danes is putting life in her characters like no other. Like every one of her roles is just another layer peeled off of her very soul.

So what would fashion do with someone so particularly gifted? Have her posing tummy-ache style with a Vuitton across her belly? Nah.. Until they’ll have it figured, they’ll just try new things with her. Like these shampoo-ads poses from this issue of Interview. What’s she selling?

Jewelry? Anti wrinkles cream? Nail polish? Makeup products? Hair products? Perhaps a new hair salon just around the corner? Awkward. It’s how it is. Claire Danes’ world is made of awkward. And not because of her. She’s giving it all. It’s the others who don’t know how to file her personality type. (her interview with Dustin Hoffman is really a good read if you’re in the mood for 5 pages of acting talk!)