\u00a0Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out Kim Gordon’s inspiring trajectory as prolific noise musician, visual artist, and fashion designer, peruse the looks she’s had over her incredible thirty-year career, and check out the looks she’s helped create.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a founding member of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon’s been a style icon for over three decades now. \u00a0She attended Otis Art Institute and moved to NYC in 1979, where she had planned to pursue making visual art, but all that changed when she heard noise acts like DNA and Mars, making sound her main medium. \u00a0But she’s always retained a chic, artistic eye when it comes to her wardrobe, which takes a DIY aesthetic to bold new levels.<\/p>\n

Gordon’s always been seen as unassailably cool, whether clad in grunge-era staples like plaid jackets, black chokers, vintage tees, shredded jeans (and her signature striped dress!) or designing high-end lines for Mirror\/Dash and Surface to Air. \u00a0Her turn as fashion designer stretches back to the 90’s, when she created X-Girl with Daisy von Furth, a skater inspired line geared toward the Sassy<\/em>-reading crowd. \u00a0These days, she’s doing noise improvisations with Bill Nace as Body\/Head, playing in sculptural platforms, sequined minis, and billowing tops. \u00a0She’s also been focusing on creating visual art and writing a memoir with the working title Girl In A Band. \u00a0There is pretty much nothing she can’t do, and the grace and wit that’s carried her through intense life changes is reflected in her clothing choices.<\/p>\n