He slings his Gucci backpack over his shoulder, hitches his belt, and, with an actual “Yee-haw,” ambles into the elevator, expecting the doors to open onto a team generating ideas for him, as if he were the guest of honor at a party that’s meant to be in full swing. He’s recently committed to a specific attire - Westernwear - inspired by one of his more recent projects, a country-music persona, Thomas Wesley, under which he plans to release an album soon. He does, but rejects three baseball caps, even though he thought his hair looked dirty, saying he’d prefer a cowboy hat. “Wes” - short for Wesley, as in Thomas Wesley Pentz, his actual name - “choose one,” she says with some urgency. Hurrying to make himself professional, using the Tesla like Clark Kent’s phone booth, he changes into cowboy boots, while Sara Nataf, his creative director and Swiss Army Knife companion (friend, joint roller, spirit freer, vibe keeper), holds up three different belts with big, showy buckles. He is late, though, hopping out of his Tesla with his team about an hour after the writers are scheduled to arrive.
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Palace Costume belt.ĭiplo needed to meet with the writer’s room for the relaunch of Major Lazer, the short-lived FXX animated series from 2015 that he developed based on his first and best-known music project, the electronic-dancehall group by the same name. De Beers necklace, price upon request at. Apparently, Monday-morning meetings are a fact of life, even for DJs.
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Plus Diplo had other things to do: a facial appointment, yoga, meetings, which is how we’ve ended up in the last place you’d expect to find Diplo: a rent-by-the-hour conference room at the type of West Elm–furnished co-working space where the snacks are free and the water bottles are branded with a petcare start-up’s logo. was locked in 98-degree weather, and nobody was willing to suffer heat stroke (well, I was). I chose my bathing suit with care.īut the conditions for a hot-tub party for two weren’t optimal: L.A. What do two people do in a hot tub? Talk? Simmer together like two ingredients in a soup? Still, it was easy enough to picture: a galaxy of chest freckles in which float planets of bad tattoos, abs so well defined they resemble freshly grouted bricks, muscular thighs, skater-boy-length blond hair, all wet, all enhanced by perspiration, him smiling, single gold front tooth glinting in the sun.
Like, of course, the only way to interview an omnipresent DJ-producer who had just recently started posting a lot of high-caliber shirtless pictures on social media and posing in Calvin Klein underwear ads would be in a tiny, man-made, temperature-controlled body of water, doing … well, I don’t know what. The plan was to spend the afternoon in a hot tub with Diplo. Dior Men pants, $1,000, at Dior Men Boutiques. David Webb earrings and necklace, price upon request, at.
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