Check out this new, fascinating interview with Chloë Sevigny from The Advocate (US), a monthly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender magazine. Chloë was last interviewed for the publication for a Boys Don’t Cry cover story in March 2000, scans from which are available at our gallery.

The interview covers a lot of Chloë’s sexual orientation-related film and television work (such as her roles e.g. on Will & Grace, and in the films Broken Flowers and If These Walls Could Talk 2) as well as her own sexual orientation and her thoughts on the subject in general. She also talks about what happened onstage at this year’s Golden Globes in January, when the usher escorting her to accept the award for Best Supporting Actress (Television) accidentally stepped on and ripped her Valentino gown. It’s a really fun, honest and interesting article, so be sure to have a look!

Excerpts from the interview below; read it in full at Advocate.com:

Whenever I read about you turning down big-budget films like Legally Blonde to maintain your indie cred, I think, Why does Chloë hate money?
[Laughs] Well, it wasn’t the Reese Witherspoon part — let’s set the record straight — it was the Selma Blair part. But I was offered a Joe Orton play off-Broadway, What the Butler Saw, which I thought would be more challenging. I guess I didn’t realize the full potential of Legally Blonde at the time, but now I love those films — they’re hilarious.

Selma Blair interviewed you some years later for Interview magazine. Was the fact that you turned down her role an elephant in the room?
Aw, no, that stuff happens all the time. And so many girls have been offered parts that I’ve ended up doing, and I see them all the time — like the girl [Mia Kirshner] that got fired from Kids, which was the reason I got the role. Those are the breaks.

What attracted you to Monet, the apartment-flipping lesbian, on Will & Grace — Edie Falco as your sugar mama?
I was a huge Will & Grace fan! I loved Sean Hayes, and I just wanted to try a sitcom and see what that was all about. But what’s funny is that after I appeared on the show I could never watch it again. It lost the magic. We shot for two days, and the first day I was doing my quiet-whatever kind of acting that I do, but then I was like, If I don’t turn it up 10 notches, I’m just going to blend into the walls. So the next day I went in rip-roarin’ and ready to go, trying to ham it up, but it’s really hard to ham it up next to that cast.

[...] Another gay Big Love writer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, did an impressive job of fleshing out the Alby and Dale relationship in the “Strange Bedfellows” episode earlier this season.
He did. He invited me to some bowling benefit for Second Stage Theatre the other night, so I went out to support them and hang out with him. He’s actually writing a musical version of American Psycho right now, which is really odd.

You don’t want any part of that?
No. [Laughs] But I would love to do Broadway. I guess I’m waiting for the right thing and the time. It’s hard to commit to anything like that when you’re on television.

[...] A few days after the Golden Globes ceremony, when I discovered on Greginhollywood.com that the escort who stepped on your dress, Joe Everett Michaels, was gay, I thought, Great, another reason for people to hate us: As if our pesky demands for equal rights weren’t enough, now we’ve gone and ripped Chloë Sevigny’s Valentino!
Oh, geesh, I know. He actually found me in the ballroom afterward, came up to me, and was going on and on, like, “I’m so, so, so, so sorry!” The poor guy. Accidents happen, so of course I accepted his apology. You know, I had a feeling something was going to happen. I thought I was just going to stain the dress or that I was going to trip, but leave it to the gays! [Laughs]

News at last, and some fantastic news at that! Chloë Sevigny is currently featured on the cover of the August-September 2009 issue of Tokion (US). The shoot is brand new and nothing short of amazing, and personally the cover shot is one of Chloë’s best yet — simply amazing. The inside features doesn’t disappoint, either. The gallery has been updated with five hi-res scans of Chloë’s feature, courtesy of classicalbang @ The Fashion Spot. Isn’t the feature just stunning all around? Oh my gosh… I’m in love.

New Photo Albums:

• Magazines in 2009 > ‘Tokion’ (US) August-September 2009 Scans

Not a lot to report on Chloë of late, I’m afraid. However, the Interview magazine website has a really cool (and dead funny) interview with Depeche Mode frontman David Gahan, as conducted by Chloë Sevigny, “a die-hard Depeche Mode fan.” Except from the interview, courtesy of InterviewMagazine.com:

SEVIGNY: You’re preparing for the tour . . . You know, I tried to go see Depeche Mode 101 when I was a kid. I was in, like, junior high.

GAHAN: You must have been about 5 or something. [laughs]

SEVIGNY: I was not! I was about 14 or 15. I listened to a lot of music growing up. My father kept very current, and then I had my older brother. But Depeche Mode was the first band that was my own. It was my discovery.

GAHAN: Oh, cool.

SEVIGNY: But I couldn’t raise enough money to buy the concert tickets. My babysitting pay wasn’t really doing the trick. So there was this kid that hung out at the park where I grew up. He was kind of like Damone from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Do you remember that character? He would sell concert tickets and pot and whatever else. This guy drove a Honda CRX with a WDRE bumper sticker. I went over to his car and was like, “Do you have any tickets for Depeche Mode?” He said, “Yeah, they’re some-odd dollars.” I didn’t have enough so he said, “If you give me a hand job, I’ll give you the tickets.”

GAHAN: Oh! No way.

SEVIGNY: I didn’t know what that was then, believe it or not. So I went back to my friends who were in another car and was like, “He said he’d give them to me if I gave him a hand job.” My friends said, “No! Don’t do it!”

GAHAN: Oh, my god.

Chloë Sevigny recently talked shoes and label collaboration to Women’s Wear Daily:

Trendsetter Chloë Sevigny, star of HBO’s Big Love, knows shoes — she fêted her second collab with boutique Opening Ceremony earlier this year and will debut a capsule collection with Bass this fall. Here, she dished to Insider about what she designed and what she loves.

Q: What challenges did you face with the new Opening Ceremony collection?
A: I wanted to do a chunky heel, but we couldn’t get the shapes right, so we ended up doing wedges. The wedges this season are much thinner and sexier. We made this amazing pair with strappy buckles that go all the way up. They are already on back order, so I’m very enthusiastic about that shoe.

Q: You have a reputation as a huge shoe collector. What’s your organizational method?
A: Oh my God, I have hundreds of pairs. I keep them in a stairwell in clear plastic boxes, labeled. But the pairs in heavy rotation are in my everyday closet. Right now, my favorites are these cowboy boots by NaNa that I found at a flea market in Austin, Texas. I also have a pair of combat boots by NaNa — I am very into that brand right now.

Q: What would be your dream collab?
A: Hermès, maybe? [Laughs.] That might be reaching a little high. Actually, NaNa would be a great collaboration!

Chloë Sevigny is currently on the cover of The Sunday Times’ Style (UK) May 17 2009 issue, y’all! You’ll recognize the cover shot from Chloë’s last year’s Doingbird shoot. The article (sans photos) is also available for viewing at TimesOnline.co.uk — below’s an excerpt:

I ask her to “take me through her outfit” (you’re allowed to do that sort of thing, you know, at a grand fashion parade like this). Well…” she says in mock Dolly Parton, “I’m wearing… a top from my new line! It’s silk and has a pocket here if a girl wants to wear it with no bra! And I’m wearing some vintage Claude Montana leather shorts I got in Rellik the other day, and some buckled wedges from my new line, which also come in suede, which is very nice.”

On this decade’s crop of ingénues — Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Lady GaGa et al — with their grasping need for the limelight, today’s get-up would look positively desperate. On Sevigny, it comes off as the essence of a modern fashion statement. We sit having a tea in the corner, away from everyone. “I’d never want to become famous now,” she says. “I feel like there’s a real cockiness with young people today. Maybe it’s protective, a shell. But the new celeb daughters and sons, the pop stars, are wise beyond their years. “And,” she adds, “that really irritates me.”

As always, if anyone is able and willing to send in scans of Chloë in this issue, please do so! Thank you.

Some time back we reported of Chloë Sevigny being interviewed for the current, April 2009 issue of US magazine, Interview, regarding her latest collection for Opening Ceremony. The interview is now available online at InterviewMagazine.com — check it out! From InterviewMagazine.com:

BOLLEN: If you haven’t noticed, I really like the sweater leggings.
SEVIGNY: The Fair Isle–like leggings? Yeah, I think my main inspiration was gay lumberjack. That was the jumping off point. Because I know a lot of boys who dress kind of lumberjacky but they also look a little gay at the same time. So I wanted something kind of urban and outdoorsy.

BOLLEN: I wonder if older gay bears are mad that young bisexual twentysomethings stole their pickup look?
SEVIGNY: I think it’s a sexy look. So I would say overall it’s more of a ’90s influence. Preppy, but worn in a punk manner. There were these hip-hop kids in the ’90s called the Polo Kids who wore Polo Ralph Lauren, but in a really street way.

BOLLEN: In general, what guys do you get fashion inspiration from?
SEVIGNY: Nick Cave. But he’s tall and slim so everything looks good on him. Definitely Dave Gahan. But then there are people in my life like Joe DeNardo from the band Growing, Ben Cho, who always looks great, and my friend M. Blash . . . Maybe also Q-Tip circa 1992.