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I have a new girl crush. She's not even technically a girl, but actually Alexandra Golovanoff, the television journalist anchor of french tv show La Mode. She embodies that easy french effortless that is so oft-coveted and so rarely carried off. She is elegantly undone at all times, has reportedly never dyed her hair and hardly wears make up. She has that knack for making bizarre pieces work - like hot pink Balmain chubby furs (perhaps these french girls just have balmainia in their bones?).What I love most about Alexandra is she has an earthy, tousled, irrepressibly 'real' quality to her style. I'm going to dub it the Tracey Emin effect. Just like the famous artist, Alexandra can't help but seem wholly present in whatever she wears. Not untouchable like Anna Wintour, surrounded by an eternal glass wall. Not perfectly poised like Barbie Blake Lively. Just real. Her hair is messy - she has flyaways (but oh! what flyaways!), she has bags under her eyes, her clothes have rips, she wears the same things over and over again. It says something about France that a television host would be allowed to represent herself in such a way - irrepressibly earthy, touchable, real. I can only speak for Australia, but the canon here is overwhelmingly of the bohemoth kind - the bigger you are the better you are. Don't associate yourself with reality, even if you are a reality star. Be bigger, be better, be bolder, be braver. To be on TV is to become a personality. I think Alexandra is someone who represents the idea that to be on TV is to have personality.
She is another one of those golden girls who reminds me of that Yeats poem. "Who could love you for yourself alone and not your yellow hair?" Oh, to have golden locks just like that..
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