Saturday, March 5, 2011

Karen Elson and Jack White: Frock & Roll


Fell in Love With a Girl 
This is no ordinary rock star—model union. “A strange bird,” Elson calls herself—and you could say the same of him.
 
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz


Floored 
“When I did play them for him,” Karen (with Jack in a dressing room at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium) says of the songs she'd written, “he said, ‘Wow, why are you hiding this?’ ” He ended up helping produce The Ghost Who Walks.
 
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz


Going Platinum 
“I was terrified because I thought, God, now I've really got to make this legitimate,” Elson says of her recent solo debut at South by Southwest. Her band members, from left: Mark Watrous, Jackson Smith, Rachelle Garniez, Olivia Jean, and Mark Fellis.

Photographed by Annie Leibovitz


 Colorful Personalities 
“He's brilliant because he gets the realness of you,” Elson says of working with White.
 
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Power Ballad 
Her beauty—lyrical, luminous—always brings to mind a woman from another decade, another century: Whether cast for the fashion cameras as a WWII land girl or as a pre-Raphaelite take on a medieval damsel, she evokes poignant romance. Filmy, diaphanous dresses become her.
 
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Liner Notes 
The White/Elson clan has settled in the Tennessee capital, where Karen was shot hanging out with her band at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge (its previous songwriting habitués include Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson).
 
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Garage Band 
The Brit supermodel makes a gas-station stop in Nashville with her band.
 
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Karen Elson and Jack White: Frock & Roll

Click on the link for the complete Vogue article. Well worth reading.

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