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The SF Bay Guardian Interview

SFBG You’re fabulous. What’s your deal?

CHANTELLE TIBBS Well, I play acoustic folk music with a bit of soul to it – my new CD is called Take Me Now. I have really big hair. I have a pretty sweet T-shirt company called Wear Me Naked [www.wearmenaked.com]. I make hand-painted, hand-stenciled, and screen-printed T-shirts. Our catalog is a comic book illustrated by Daniel Iley. I’m also a writer, which runs in my family. My father and my brother happen to be excellent writers. I’m currently editing the first edition of a novel I’ve written called The L.A.W.S., and I’m cowriting a book called Letters to a Lesbian and a Lutheran with the ever-so-talented Christine Whitmarsh. In my spare time I enjoy baking and collecting music. I make a mean organic cream puff.

SFBG What’s your philosophy of style?

CT I believe a solid wardrobe is a good blend of $212 jeans and shirts someone left behind in the lost and found. You’ll know you’ve found your style when you see it, and one should always be open to trying something new.

Chantelle’s favorites
Books: Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman, and Foxfire, by Joyce Carol Oates
Record: Contra la Corriente, by Marc Anthony (“My mom’s Puerto Rican. I can’t help myself.”)
Local artist: “Twiz – I wish I could buy everything he paints.”
Local designer: Exist Design (www.existdesign.com) – “I’ve even modeled for the Web site.”
Restaurant: Nizario’s Pizza (www.nizariospizza.com)
Beauty products: Egyptian musk and Vaseline Intensive Care Cocoa Butter
Thing she can’t live without: Skittles (and her brother Chris)
Check out more Chantelle at www.chantelletibbs.com.

(photo taken by cristina gonzalez)