By Gunther Reinhardt
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Annie Clark aka St. Vincent dresses up as a Seventies Glamor Girl. Similarities with the Warhol muse Candy Darling are anything but coincidental Foto: Zackery Michael
Between soul and funk, glamor and gutter: the exceptional musician St. Vincent tells stylish stories from New York on “Daddy’s Home” – and by the way about herself and her father, prison inmate 502.
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Stuttgart – Discreetly battered, the diva sits on the early train to downtown Manhattan. The high heels and make-up are a thing of the past, the fur jacket is matted. The patina of shabbiness makes it look even more extravagant. We are in New York in the early 1970s: Manhattan is not yet an amusement park for tourists, but a voracious juggernaut and Times Square one of the most dangerous places in the world, a bizarre fairground where glamor and gutter are close together – and venture right into the middle Annie Clark, who calls herself St. Vincent and disguised herself as the woman on the early train to the soulful, defiant metropolitan vibe of the song “Down and out Downtown”.
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