Due to recent highly publicized marital developments, your reporter felt compelled to ask Karen about her marriage to Jack White and about whether it will affect her singing career. "I'm happy, so obviously that's incredibly, incredibly important to me. That's all I'm going to say. The Citizens Band is where I really want to put my attention now and whatever happens after that will happen. This is the most important thing." Despite the contributions made by her colleagues, anyone who knows her can see that Sarah Sophie Flicker has her fairy-dust-sprinkled fingerprints all over the project. She claims that the costumes are the last thing to be thought of but that hasn't stopped her from enlisting the fashion designer Zaldy, a good friend of hers, to whip up some gowns for the girls. Sarah was born in Denmark to a Danish mother and American father; she grew up in Copenhagen and Northern California. She recalls one formative episode when her mother, a trained dancer, took her to the ballet at the Royal Danish Theater. Sarah was four. When it was time to leave, little Sarah had to be pried from her seat and told her mother she wanted to live in the theater from then on. She swears she threw up when she got home.
"I've done ballet my whole life," Sarah says. "I started acting in commercials when I was 12. I took a big break and went to law school. Then I moved to L.A. to act and that was perhaps the most degrading, miserable experience of my life." Sarah has always been tough to categorize. She sums it up best herself when she says, "I can't explain it other than I've always been the way I've been." And what she's been is an otherworldly apparition who's inspired everyone around her with both her pantomime pin-up aesthetic and her choreography. We at Paper fell in love with her at first sight. She first came to our offices in 2000, when she was working on a documentary by Susanna Howe. Shortly after that, we were shooting our friend Milla Jovovich for our cover, and Milla told us that she'd love to be styled by her friend -- Sarah Flicker. Sarah isn't exactly a stylist, but she went on (with Jorjee doing makeup) to style Paper fashion stories and covers. She has also worked as a filmmaker, writer, stylist, trapeze artist and contortionist, but, she insists, "I am certainly not a singer. Finally all the weird things I've done in my life are culminating in something that makes sense, which I never thought would happen."
The Citizens Band comes along at a time in New York nightlife when clubs have strayed far from the good old days of cross-pollination and have become mired in the expensive model of bottle service and demographic segregation. "I definitely don't think Citizens Band would be the same in the daytime," Adam says. "There's something magical about nighttime, the atmosphere of theater lights." He continues, "I think it does contribute to have people sitting at tables with wine and cocktails. It allows them to relax and maybe be a little more open to feeling the things we're throwing out there."
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