If you’ve been
waiting for your invitation for “Club Chrissie” to arrive for, well…since
forever you are in luck! Chrissie Miller, co-founder of Sophomore and famed
self-proclaimed “hang-out-aholic” is opening the doors to the exclusive club
with her brand new web series premiering on Pharrell Williams’ i am OTHER
YouTube Channel. This week Chrissie teams up with Pharrell
to
show us how to customize headphones.
Chrissie Miller
was
already a respected NY DJ when she burst onto the
fashion scene introducing her downtown style of edgy simplicity,
with her Sophomore brand which she co-founded with designer Madeleine von Froomer. She was also well known in the NYC
party scene as the girl with the most exclusive home turned club that at any
moment you could find anyone from Lindsay Lohan to the cult band The Virgins
hanging around. Chrissie has decided it’s time for everyone to have a
little “Club Chrissie” in their life and is bringing her most stylish friends
including; designers Charlotte Ronson,
Reece Solomon, Pamela Love and Leah Dell, actress Drea De Matteo, Mickey
Boardman, Sarah Howard, Pharrell,
i am OTHER artist Maxine Ashley, and model Cory Kennedy along for
the ride. Together they will teach viewers
how to elevate their accessories from weak to chic in the fashion DIY program.
Viewers can tune in
weekly beginning October 15th to learn how to add LES chic to
everything from their iphone, to shoes, to Sophmore’s specialty, the glam cotton
tee.
“Club Chrissie is a DIY/talk show done in a way that you
have never seen before”, Chrissie says. “It’s part Wayne’s World, part Pee-wee’s
Playhouse, inviting viewers to add their own creativity to projects, so it fits
perfectly into Pharrell’s concept of 'i am other'".
Club Chrissie was handpicked by Pharrell to join i am Other’s programming as the first fashion DIY dedicated program meant to reach and inspire individuality in his community of “Thinkers, Innovators and Outcasts.” i am Other, a Google original content partner, was created with Pharrell’s vision of a channel that explored the pursuit of individuality, the defiance of expectations, and the arrival of a new class of visionaries.
Chrissie Miller
serves as “Club Chrissie’s” creator and host and has been featured in NY Times,
Paper, Style.com, StyleCaster, Vogue, Interview and more, celebrating her
successful fashion brand along with her unique personality and status as a
leader in the LES fashion community.
About Chrissie
Miller:
Born and raised in
Manhattan, Chrissie Miller first caught the world's attention with her
contemporary clothing line SOPHOMORE, launched in 2002. The collection of
graphic t-shirts and everyday separates, adored by celebrities like, Chloë
Sevigny, Bijou Phillips, and Sarah Jessica Parker and featured in some of the
most prestigious publications including The New York Times, Vogue Magazine,
Elle Magazine, and Purple Magazine, led Miller to open, Ludlow 143 in
2010, a standalone store on the Lower East Side.
Miller was one of
the first fashion designers to turn the standard look book into a veritable work
of art; commissioning well known photographers and directors, like Cass Bird, to
create moody, ethereal short films featuring a who’s who of the city’s cool
kids—Chloë Sevigny, Aurel Schmidt, Rita Ackermann, Dan Colen, and Leo
Fitzpatrick, among others. Her sense of style and perennially downtown aesthetic
has led to creative directing gigs for the likes of K Mart, Calypso, Charlotte
Ronson, Urban Outfitters, Modelina and Madison Harding.
Miller’s latest
endeavor, “Club Chrissie,” a DIY talk show on Pharrell Williams' YouTube
channel, I Am Other, was born out of her unique ability to bring together
creative people from all walks of life—from her uptown roots to her downtown
dwellings (her East Village apartment was first dubbed “Club Chrissie” by
Paper Magazine). The weekly show features interviews with Miller's
eclectic group of friends, including Drea De Matteo, Maxine Ashley, Pamela Love
and Williams.
About i am
OTHER:
Grammy Award
winning music icon Pharrell Williams launched the i am OTHER YouTube
channel in June of 2012. Williams describes the new endeavor as “a
cultural movement dedicated to Thinkers, Innovators and
Outcasts.” The newest
addition to Pharrell’s i am OTHER brand, the YouTube channel, is part of
Google’s initiative to create channels with original programming. The
line-up includes the critically acclaimed web series Awkward Black
Girl, exclusive interviews from eccentric music journalist
Nardwuar, new fan favorite Stereotypes, artist
expression documentary Voice Of Art and exclusive videos from
Williams about everything from music to food. The channel also features
significant viewer participation and creative minds have the opportunity to
interact with Williams within a community of self-defined
OTHERS.
The programs on
i am OTHER’s YouTube channel explore the pursuit of individuality, the
defiance of expectations, and the arrival of a new class of visionaries. By
celebrating creative pursuits of all kinds, the channel will showcase the
architects of global culture, music, fashion, and the arts.
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