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Carrie Brownstein on aliens, sandwiches and bad outfits: ‘Big hats are my most recurring fashion crime’


Ahead of an Australian tour, the Sleater-Kinney frontwoman responds to 10 randomly selected questions – sharing her party trick and the best advice she ever got

There can be things that you really worry about in the moment that feel dire and irreversible – then you wait six months and it just doesn’t matter any more. I go somewhere like Mexico or Marfa, Texas and I’ll think, “Oh, this giant cowboy hat looks great on me!” And I will wear it throughout the entire trip. When I was a kid, I was watching horror movies like Nightmare on Elm Street – films that were more fantastical and unbelievable.

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