What They Wore

Carol Kane arrived in black velvet, yellow hair blazing and lips ruby red, with stylish black glasses. With her little-girl voice and sweet, open manner, you could blink twice and think you were seeing Marilyn Monroe! Then in came Janeane Garofalo with a CBGB’s tee, leggings and a riot of patterns and colors, all very American Apparel.

These stylish women are in the current cast of Nora and Delia Ephron’s hit show, Love, Loss and What I Wore at the Westside Arts. Kane has been in Wicked on and off recently, succeeding Rue McClanahan in the Carole Shelley role– plus she’s been Richard Belzer’s wife on Law and Order SVU. And what is her fashion preference? “I have always worn black” and “I buy something and wear it till it falls off my body.”

As for Garofolo, she tells Michael and Susan that she’s devoted to American Apparel and her tattoos, which she’s always ordered to cover up. (She bares them for Theater Talk!) Her family was “never fashion-forward.” The women in the audience love the revue, particularly, says Kane, the mother-daughter teams that come to the show. Garofalo, noting her great respect for the artists who work in fashion, nevertheless decries fashion’s “let ‘em eat cake” attitude – creating expensive vanity items while so many in the world are doing without.