Love her or loathe her, and believe me there is a vogue us september 08 sized tome of reasons why i don't love her, you gotta admit agyness deyn sure can model.
[w magazine january 2007, tfs]
just to vent, i think she's a little arrogant, that her style is pretentious, that she loves being a celebrity more than she does a model, i hate her contrived moniker for herself, and that she makes a fool of herself rather too often publicly.
But aside from that, she works it on the runway and in print transmits this overriding sense of energy. Some of her editorials are annoying and (like kate moss before her) she needs to learn the power of the Closed Mouth. But at the same time, i have seen editorials of hers that stop me in my tracks. After dismissing her for so long as just the buzz model with the latest hair, i actually gasped out loud when i saw her light and shade editorial in vogue uk october 2007. She makes such interesting and daring shapes for a model, much more interesting than old caroline trentini jumping in vogue us or racquel zimmerman strutting down a street for vogue paris.
If you can sort of look past her private life and her often horrendous personal style you see a model willing to take risks and full of energy. Anyone that has ever shot her has said the same thing, that she is a pleasure to photograph and a right laugh. And that face! It's probably some ironic hipster thing that she dresses so ugly, a sort of counterpoint to that beautiful face of hers.
This W editorial is one of my favourites of hers. the stylist did such an excellent job of contrasting the harsh masculine tailoring and the elegance of the dresses. That's aggy's allure, isn't it? She is at once the adrogynous beauty and the glamorous siren. The black and white shots are just stunning, and she looks amazing, and more importantly, so do the clothes. Agyness is clear, dynamic, strong... sometimes rather too strong for my tastes, but strong nonetheless. I think Agyness is a supreme example that you should not judge a book by its cover, or that the sum of the whole is greater than the parts... or, well, i can't think of another witty and intelligent-sounding idiom, so we'll just end it with;
The girl can't help it if she was born to pose.
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