“We fall all the time. It’s a family trait, someone in our gene pool had weak ankles and we’ve just all got them,” says Alana Haim, one-third of the girl band Haim she and her sisters Danielle and Este started in 2007. “We have zero balance… there’s literally YouTube videos of us falling at almost every show,” Danielle chimes in, joking that their clumsiness is the real meaning behind their hit song ‘Falling.’
I’m conducting a (somewhat chaotic) four-way Zoom with all three sisters, who are all dialling in from their respective homes in LA. They have recently starred in a campaign for US fashion label Coach to launch their new Signature monogram handbag range, a collection creative director Stuart Vevers describes as “an enduring house symbol reimagined in a language of individuality, ease and optimism that speaks to the attitude of today.” Talk quickly turns to a moment in the shoot, which was captured in New York by Juergen Teller, when Alana fell and broke a chair.
