VOLUME 2

Janelle Monáe Stars in “Noir Town,” Directed by Jordan Peele


Noir Town - Janelle Monae/Jordan Peele - Volume 2
Starring Janelle Monae; Directed by Jordan Peele; Photographs by Collier Schorr; Styled by Sara Moonves;

The scene: A private investigator is standing in a clock tower taking photographs of a parade. She is a woman, played by Janelle Monáe, and she is searching for clues to a murder. As the detective stares through the lens, she begins to realize that one of the bystanders on the ground looks exactly like her. Then she sees another identical face. And another. Suddenly, the sea of potential suspects are visions of herself. Are these women good? Are they evil? And why are these twinlike alter egos haunting her? “I wanted to create a Hitchcock moment that doesn’t really exist in a Hitchcock film,” explained Jordan Peele, the 39-year-old writer and director of Get Out, which has been widely acclaimed as one of the best movies of 2017. Peele, who was standing on the fourth floor of the abandoned Palace movie theater in downtown Los Angeles, had constructed a scenario that paid homage to the mystery and intrigue of Hitchcock masterpieces like Vertigo and Psycho. Just as Get Out is Peele’s subverted and original take on unsettling classics like Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, “Noir Town” replaces Hitchcock’s uniformly white protagonists with a woman of color.

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Janelle Monáe wears a Burberry trenchcoat, vest, pants, and tie; Giorgio Armani shirt; Cartier watch; Robert Clergerie shoes. Beauty: Lancôme. Directed by Jordan Peele.

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Janelle Monáe wears a Burberry suit; Fabiana Filippi shirt; Cartier watch.

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Fabiana Filippi shirt; Burberry pants; Turnbull & Asser braces; Cartier watch; Robert Clergerie shoes (throughout). Beauty note: Go for the glow with Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Custom Highlighting Drops.

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Far left: DSquared2 suit; the Row shirt; Nick Fouquet hat; Boss tie. Near left: Valentino tuxedo and blouse; Brioni tie; Cartier watch.

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Valentino tuxedo and blouse; Brioni tie; Cartier watch.

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Etro jacket and pants; Charvet shirt; Goorin Bros. hat; Perrin Paris gloves.

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Etro jacket and pants; Charvet shirt; Goorin Bros. hat; Perrin Paris gloves.

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Burberry trenchcoat, suit, vest, and tie; Giorgio Armani shirt; Cartier watch.

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Burberry trenchcoat, suit, vest, and tie; Giorgio Armani shirt; Cartier watch.

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Michael Kors Collection jacket and pants; 
Charvet shirt; Oliver Peoples glasses.

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Janelle Monáe wears a Valentino tuxedo and blouse; Brioni tie; Cartier watch; Goyard briefcase.