| GarboSpeaks! |
06-19-2005 01:37 AM |
After Stevie did that pictorial/Interview in Interview magazine (w/Kidman on the cover, TISL era) it showed Margi's phone # inside. I said I'm gonna call her! I was at my job, and I was telling people I was thinking about it, and they are like hell yea, go for it. So I'm like nothing is gonna happen right?
I go to call her, and I ask for Margi. Some woman says "May I ask who's speaking." I say Anita. She says ok, hold on a minute. (WTF??? OMG, this woman is getting Margi to the phone. Not like it's a big deal, but I dunno, Inever thought she'd get right on the phone!!!!!) A woman gets on and says "this is Margi, can I help you." Trying to keep my cool, although my heart is racing a mile a minute, I say to her that I was a big fan of her designs, and really an ardent fan of Stevie Nicks. I told her I would be coming to the LA area, and was there anyway I could meet her. I ask if I could come by the (what I assumed she'd have) boutique. Margi says that it isn't that kind of place, that the building she works out of, she is there only by appointment, when she has stuff to work on. She then asks if I am a designer. I say that no I am not, but that my best friend is a costumer (I'll brag and live vicariously thru my pal, she is a costumer and a great one at that, and did the costumes for the film "A Mighty Wind") and that that was who I was coming to visit. That she too would be most intersted in meeting Margi. (Sort of true. My friend Jaimie is a Stevie fan cause she loves me. lol, but does dig Stevie's style!) She said that was very nice, but she would be busy. Margi then proceeds to tell me that Stevie will be doing some PR work that week, and that Margi would be fitting her during the time I would be in LA. (IMO, I swear that was an outright time/date & place to be, but I played it cool like I hear that kind of 411 all the time. lol) I proceeded to tell Margi of her accomplishments, and hear Margi's voice change, and she then tells me, "wow, you did your homework." I tell her that I'm not going to lie, I am a HUGE SN fan, but that w/out Margi's vision, stylewise, I don't see how Stevie could have the sort of icon status that she does. (I'd say the same to HWW, come on people, am I lying? W/out those amazing clothes, and visuals that HWW has taken and captured, would we still be as smitten? Yea, it's about the music, but the image doesn't hurt either!) Again she said that I was very nice, and that really she would love to meet a loyal fan (I think she made mention of "loyalty", or "you are a loyal fan" remark twice) but that she was just so busy. She appreciated my call, and said not to hesitate to call again. I told her that maybe after the TISL tour and promotion slows down, that perhaps I would try again. She said that would be fine. Ofcourse I never did. Each time I am going to be in LA, it's cause FM or SN is in full swing, so Stevie prolly keeps her busy.
All in all I would say that Margi is one of the nicest people I've never met. LOL. Not once did her tone of voice sound like "red alert folks, we have a fruitcake on the line" nor did she same fake or weary of my taking her time. Some where on a disc, I have a detailed transcription that I pecked out after the call in a flurry, cause I was flatly just so amazed she came to the phone. She was very considerate and seemed really interested in my friend, being a designer and all. I would love to meet her one day. I'd really love to have enough moola to have a Margi Kent original something. Until then, my seamstress costumer friend keeps me in HER originals. ;)
That's my story.
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