i-D Magazine Summer 2011: Jamie Bochet & Michael Pitt, ph:Gregory Derkenne

From i-donline.com:

Text Sarah Hay
Photography Gregory Derkenne

Two seasons ago Jamie Bochert caused a frisson of excitement when she opened the Marc Jacobs show: who was that girl?

The New Jersey native had retired from modelling three years previously to concentrate on making music. Heads turned and the Gothic beauty was snapped up for campaigns with Lanvin, Gucci and Marc Jacobs, walking for Ann Demeulemeester, Balenciaga, Celine and Narciso Rodriguez’s autumn/winter 11 shows. Back in 2003, when Jamie first left modelling, a scruffy guy with dyed jet black hair ordered a beer at the bar where she was working. “Fuck bartending,” the guy told her, “you should concentrate on your music.” The two began dating and moved in together. That Christmas Jamie’s new beau surprised her by buying her a piano. “I’d just met Jamie and I didn’t tell her what I did for a living,” says Jamie’s boyfriend, the actor Michael Pitt, over the phone from the couple’s Brooklyn apartment. “She had no clue. Then all of a sudden she saw me dubbing lines in Last Days (Gus Van Sant's tribute to Kurt Cobain). In the scene I was wearing a dress and had blonde hair, she was quite surprised!” When she’s not busy modelling, 32 year old Jamie spends her time writing songs with the view to entering the studio soon with Michael to record them. They are yet to secure a record deal but the buzz surrounding the couple is already strong. Going under the musical moniker of Frances Wolf, Bochert’s songs possess a dark, haunted romance that builds to an emotive crescendo before falling away to an eerie lullaby...

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New York Times Pulse: Jamie Bochert

From The New York Times Pulse by Karin Nelson :


Photo:Samantha Rapp

JAMIE BOCHERT, model and musician.

WHAT I’M WEARING NOW The dress is Camilla Staerk. The belt came off a kimono-style robe from the Park Hyatt hotel in Tokyo, and the jacket and shoes are Ann Demeulemeester. I don’t wear a lot of designer clothes, but when I do, it’s mostly Ann’s stuff.

STYLE CREDO I like to be comfortable. But if I’m not feeling well, I’ll dress up. I remember one time I wore this dress to Home Depot, and my heels were clicking down the aisle. My boyfriend said I was like Marisa Tomei in “My Cousin Vinny,” but you know, if you’re not feeling good, at least you can look good.

MOST RECENT PURCHASES It’s a rare occasion that I go shopping. I have to be in a really bad mood and need instant gratification. Designers give me things, or I take stuff from my mom, who’s a little Italian woman from New Jersey. The last thing I bought was a tie-dyed jumpsuit from the designer Leana Zuniga. That was good. And a hat from Marc Jacobs’s spring collection — one of the boaters, but I haven’t worn it yet.

THE ONE THING I WANT These Rick Owens boots that are no longer available. But it’s O.K. I’ll live.

CURRENT INSPIRATIONS Gypsies, Morocco, ballet. I’m having a big Ballets Russes phase. I’ve been wearing a lot of dance cover-ups, and I want to find a feather hat and wear eye makeup like they did. I’m also really into the 1920s and ’30s. I’ve been wearing old nightgowns from that time.

CURRENT PROJECTS I’m writing an album that I plan to record in January. I play piano, guitar and sing under the name Frances Wolf. The same things that inspire my style, inspire my music.

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