“I am not a fashion person,” Zooey Deschanel claimed during my recent interview with her for the August issue of ALIVE. “I don’t really care what’s style. I want to wear clothes that express who I am, and that are flattering. I think people might respond to the fact that I don’t really care what the fashion world thinks of me; I am happy if I am able to inspire people to express themselves.”

If you make it to LouFest on August 29 (Deschanel and M. Ward—aka, She & Him—will take the stage at 8:30pm), you’ll likely find that… more …