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Sarah Sophie Flicker

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The filmmaker and co-founder of The Citizens Band shares her vintage vision and psychedelic-meets-chorus girl style. By Hayley Elisabeth Kaufman, Photos by Kava Gorna

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If you can't tell by now, we're completely smitten with Sarah Sophie Flicker's whimsical style. The always-fashionable Jane of all trades—whose extensive résumé boasts stints in both performance and film—has a knack for making vintage and ready-to-wear alike look easy au currant. Whether she's swinging from a trapeze, singing satirically about American politics, or playing dress-up with her daughter Arrow, Flicker injects her own pastiche of old-meets-new into each inspired ensemble. Taking a break from her numerous projects, the clotheshorse-cum-creative powerhouse spoke with us about raiding friend's closets, her former 'tween style, and the art of dressing sans rules. Believe us, we're taking notes.

What five key pieces define your everyday style?
"I love tap pants, designer Alison Lewis gave me an amazing high-waisted pair that I wear a lot! Anything with old sequins, flapper dresses, and French lace bed jackets. A great pair of platforms—I love my Mayle leopard print ones."

Do you have any fundamental rules of dressing?
"Rules schmooles. Dress in what makes you feel confident, and unique."

What was your style like when you were 13?
"Geez, I'd have to say that it's pretty much the same! I've realized that I have things in my closet that have weathered almost two decades! I did go through a "harder" phase in the '90s. Jorjee Douglass (from The Citizens Band) called it Macy's Punk because we were such dorky wannabe's."

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Who are your fashion icons?
"Ballerina Anna Pavlova and all the Ballet Russe dancers. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group ladies, writer Anaïs Nin, '70s all-girl rock band the GTO's, legendary dancer Isadora Duncan, early screen siren Clara Bow, Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, legendary art muse Marchessa Casati, model and actress Anita Pallenberg, and Jane Birkin."

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