Debbie Harry is down to be wrong

The Blondie icon talks her new fashion collaboration and forthcoming album.

- BY KATERINA PORTELA

BLONDIE frontwoman Debbie Harry is gearing up to release the band's next album, "High Noon," next year.

When you're talking about Blondie frontwoman and style icon Debbie Harry, nothing is predictable. She appeared at our interview with opaque cat eye sunglasses and her signature shag haircut stylishly mussed. The smirk on her lips told me that our conversation would be memorable.

Decades before, she crashed onto the rock 'n' roll scene with new wave and genre-bending band Blondie in 1970s New York City. It wasn't without work and a lot of risk-takingthroughout her career, Harry has not shied away from risks. From being the first musician to rap in a No. 1 Billboard song to pursuing a solo career and an acting career post-Blondie breakup, following her creative instinct is something that comes naturally.

Most recently, the fashion icon released a line of clothing inspired by her lifelong punk aesthetics and androgynous style. In collaboration with Oregon-based brand Wildfang, her most recent foray into fashion is indicative of one thing: Debbie Harry is still hungry to do more.

As Blondie gears up for its most recent album, produced by John Congleton, set to release early next year, Harry sat down fora conversation on her influential style in her new fashion line, how AT has nothing on her, doing the “wrong” thing and how that “old search for soul” is motivating her as she steps into the studio once again.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

You've constantly reinvented yourself from a harmony singer to a lead singer in a band to soloist to an actress to bandmember again and now as a fashion collaborator. What do you think pushes you to constantly reinvent yourself and pursue new creative passions?