Purple Magazine
— F/W 2013 issue 20

Body/Head

Bill Nace and Kim Gordon

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text by LIZZI BOUGATSOS
portrait by ANNABEL MEHRAN

Kim Gordon’s new band, BODY/HEAD, will release its first album, Coming Apart, in September 2013. Kim Gordon sings and plays guitar alongside guitarist Bill Nace.

 

Kim Gordon, My Light Worker

An artist friend of mine from Berkeley, who used to be married to an astronomer, recently moved around the corner from me in Chinatown. Her apartment is on the top floor with a balcony overlooking the Five Points. During her renovation, I saw pastels being stripped/born in the kitchen, pinks and light-blue hues awakening like one would see in a Hopper or Hockney painting. The lights she strung around her bedroom were reminiscent of Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood sign, and she used a metallic curtain from the party store’s blinds. Whenever I visit Lutz Bacher, who dresses like the Unabomber, btw,…

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