![]() ![]() There’s a girlish, coquettish quality to Letters of Marque, fragile cotton and silk numbers trimmed with ruffled Chantilly and Leavers lace, in an evocative turn-of-the-century style. I was so frustrated, I thought, You know what? I’m going to do it myself. I went looking and couldn’t find anything like that. But it’s quite old, and I can’t wash it very often. (Dash, a gorgeous 42, made for a minor Clueless controversy when she was cast to play a teenager at age 28.) “That was the only thing I could put on to achieve that. “After I had my daughter, I wanted something sexy and comfortable, and I wanted to feel pretty,” says Dash, who also has a 17-year-old son and has been married to actor and Seventh Day Surf Company designer Emmanuel Xuereb for a year. According to Dash, the jacket is more than 150 years old. The inspiration behind that attitude, not to mention the line’s conception, was a vintage bed jacket she bought 15 years ago at Paris 1900, a Santa Monica store famous for its Belle Epoque wares, some of which have been used in films, including Titanic and Legends of the Fall. I feel like it’s all gone too far,” Dash explains. “I want to bring pretty sexy back, without being too provocative. ![]() On the contrary, Letters of Marque is subtle, demure even, and-pop tarts, take note-that’s the way the actress thinks it should be. After all, Dash is talking pirate booty here. With a notion like that, one might reasonably expect the collection, which sells at Lingerie on Lex in New York and Ann Dessous in Berlin, to veer toward salacious. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life,” she remarks. “It’s about the lingerie, not me.” Dash even proved her budding garment chops by making the trade-show rounds last fall, taking a booth at the Curve Expos in New York and Las Vegas-no easy task, as anyone who’s walked the mile-long aisles can attest. “It’s not Letters of Marque by Stacey Dash,” she points out. Which is why she named her year-old line of romantic boudoir lingerie Letters of Marque and not, she likes to make clear, after herself. What Dash-best known for her turn as Dionne Davenport in the 1995 hit Clueless-also doesn’t want to be is just another in a laundry list of celebrities gone Seventh Avenue. “I can’t,” says the Bronx native, laughing. But then, Dash has recently joined the hyphenated career ranks of actor-designers, and she’s not about to rock the fashion boat with snippiness. She eventually settles for the relatively safe “tougher,” refraining from something more colorful that could be taken as a slam. The fashion world is…”Īctress Stacey Dash is searching for just the right word, trying to be polite. ![]()
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