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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Mark Beaumont

Indie sleaze icons CSS: ‘It makes me so happy to see all the guys out there with lipstick’

Gleeson Paulino

They may not have been the hardest partying band of Noughties new rave, but CSS proved the hardest to party with. Paris Hilton had tried to lure the Brazilian electropop crew away to an exclusive post-Coachella A-list bash in 2007 – after all, their set had included kraut-rave track “Meeting Paris Hilton” – but they didn’t show. Another time, Lindsay Lohan got an equally cold shoulder. And as for Courtney Love, the Hole frontwoman wasn’t able to persuade exuberant singer Lovefoxxx to go up west with her to load up on the best Egyptian gear known to man.

“She invited us to go with her to Liberty to buy bedsheets,” says Lovefoxxx – aka Luisa Matsushita, the visual whirlwind famed for sashaying through sauce-tronic tracks like “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above” in rainbow sequin bodysuits. These days, you’re more likely to find Lovefoxxx, now 40, in a painter’s smock. “I was so intimidated that I would drink a lot just to be able to respond to the email. I was like, ‘Oh my God, if I go to Liberty [with Love], I’m gonna die.’ I chickened out.”

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