Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Welcome to Fashion Neurosis, Dan Levy. I'm so happy to be here. Can you tell me what you're wearing today and why you chose these particular clothes? Well, I'm kind of in a state of flux in my life right now. I've just moved into a place here. So I had to rummage through what I had in my suitcase. This is a... A sweater from The Row.
These are some leather pants from Versace and shoes from the same collection. Dario Vitale's sort of collection of Versace, which I loved. And then I suppose I'm wearing a watch from my dear friend Trevor, who gave it to me when I was very young and it was the most valuable thing I'd ever owned. Yeah. And where are your glasses from? These are Celine, actually. Oh, heady Celine. I think so.
Not Michaels. Ah, I can't be sure. I've had them for a little bit. I don't know, actually.
Chapter 2: What fashion pieces is Dan Levy wearing and why?
Oh, they're nice. I like the shape. I was going for kind of a monochrome thing. Do you ever change glasses, though? I change glasses every day. Really? Yeah, I probably have hundreds. But are they all vaguely similar with a heavy frame, a dark frame? No, I've started to get into wire frames. Oh my God, you're so daring. Yeah, I've been an acetate lover for a very long time. What does that mean?
Acetate's like the plastic of the frame. Oh, right.
Okay.
I used to make glasses.
Yes, of course.
So I just, I don't know what it is. I think because I'm tied to them, I don't like wearing contact lenses. So when you have to wear an accessory every day of your life and you care about clothes, you can't, it's impossible for a single pair to suit everything you wear every day. So I like to have options. I like to kind of accessorize the day's look, I guess, with the appropriate eyewear.
I think that shows incredible strength of character because I could never do, I settle on something and my shifts are so microscopic, no one notices except me. Well, sometimes that's the best part is when you're the only one that notices. Well, I think it shows strength of character, so I'm impressed. I appreciate that. I have trunks full of them.
I've got these custom trunks with drawers that pull out to store them all, yeah. You're the multi-award winning and instantly recognizable star of Schitt's Creek, the series that kept many of us sane during lockdown. You wrote it with your father, Eugene Levy, who also stars in the show.
And you talked about creating a distance from him when you were younger because of all the attention he attracted.
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Chapter 3: How did growing up with a famous father influence Dan Levy's career?
It's called That Sounds Like a Lot, as in that feeling when you check your phone in the morning, you read three headlines, and you immediately think, oh, that sounds like a lot. I can't deal with all this. But guess what? I can deal with it, and I'm going to get into it every Friday. I'll break down whatever chaos is happening in the world, then I'll sit down with a comedian.
You can be progressive and not be, like, fucking annoying. Maybe an actor.
They go, feminism has gone too far. You go, why? Because of the Sadie Hawkins dance?
Maybe a filmmaker. Since leaving that show, I'm challenged to sparing. I just got to hang out and try to do stuff.
You're the one with the charmed life.
Could be a politician. Basically anyone who responds to my cold DMs. We're recording the whole thing in a beautiful studio. So yes, you can watch it on YouTube or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. This is not the place to get the news, but it is the place to feel a little better about it. That sounds like a lot. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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So we are 250 years into this American experiment, and I'd say it's going okay. I'd give us like a C+.
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Chapter 4: What role does humor play in Dan Levy's creative process?
I think at the time, Alex Wang was at Balenciaga. So it was like, well, we had to go to Nikola. We had to pull from the designers that Moira would have shopped at before she lost it all.
Yeah.
And as a fashion lover, this was the greatest thrill, working with my costume designer, Debra Hansen, on that show, because I got to touch these garments that I've... been obsessed with my whole life and never had access to. So selfishly, the high fashion elements of the show really kind of were a direct result of my desire to play with clothes that I never had a reason to before.
And also Catherine came in with such a clear idea of how she wanted to dress, that it was about facilitating her vision. And she had referenced Daphne Guinness. I was so fascinated by that. And the minute that she gave me that reference, I mean, how fabulous. I knew exactly where to go.
And so it just became, you know, not impersonating Daphne Guinness, but personalizing Moira's interpretation of Daphne Guinness. I mean, complete genius. And it was heaven. Yeah. And Catherine was the ultimate kind of, she could wear clothes so easily. And we were finding complicated, heavy clothes everywhere.
And she would put them on, she would put on sort of a sculptural piece of sort of Comme des Garcons and wear it so easily and effortlessly. It was a real, working with her in our fittings was one of my fondest memories of the show and some very fond memories of Catherine. But she just had, she got such a kick out of how far could we push it I mean, I've never seen anything pushed so far.
Listen, what did they say? You should always take off the last thing you put on or take off one thing before you leave the house to kind of just reduce the impact of whatever it is you're wearing. With Moira Rose, it was the total opposite. It was, can we put a hat on it? Yeah. Can we put a necklace on it? So much joy in it. Can we put a brooch on it?
And there's something so touching about the other characters in the little town who never even mention what she's wearing or what you're wearing. They're just so accepting of the family. It's kind of really moving. Yeah. I know. It's interesting. I mean, the acceptance of it all. And then costuming them was a whole other world.
But I didn't really know it at the time when we made the decision to have the town be as accepting as it was. Kind of how revolutionary that would be.
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Chapter 5: How does Dan Levy use clothing to express his identity?
I made a short film with her actually in 2003 with John Malkovich. I made these little fashion films. Can I find, are they online?
yeah they're on my website it's called hideous man and she's absolutely brilliant um wow yeah i remember getting up because she was playing in this club called trash but she came on at two in the morning so i went to bed and got up and went there and there she was singing um fuck the pain away that's right and i just thought wow this is it you know it's fantastic and She's wonderful.
She's wonderful. And such an excellent collaborator. I mean, for me, it was just about giving her some guidance in terms of the types of sounds I was interested in. The only thing I really said to her was I want the score to feel like a heartbeat.
Oh yeah, that's so good.
So track the heartbeat throughout the show of our characters and try to match that and try to make the show feel like your music is emulating a kind of heartbeat, a kind of anxiety. Yeah, it completely does that. Yeah, it's absolutely chaotic and brilliant. And funny as well. And really funny. Peaches, again, I'm drawn to people who have self-awareness and have a sense of humor about themselves.
Yeah, she has. And yet take themselves seriously. She's not an unserious person, but she can have a laugh. Yeah. She's the best kind of people. Yeah, she's fantastic. And because your co-creator on the writing is Rachel Sennett, right?
Yeah.
The actor and writer. And she seems sort of like a literary version of Peaches. Yeah. She also kind of uses, seems to use her way of dressing and her body as a literary device. And I wondered how that came, how did your partnership come about? I worked with Rachel on a television show called The Idol a couple of years ago. And I had one scene with her and we really bonded.
And I thought she was hysterically funny and really sharp. And her comedy is so specific. And I was coming up with the idea for the show and I wanted it to be a brother and sister duo thing. And I always think it's important if you're going to be writing for a character that is outside of your lived experience to authenticate it by way of a different voice.
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