New year, old style

Giampaolo Sgura for Sunday Times Style

I love this Sunday Times Style shoot I clocked last week, which looks like it was Xeroxed straight from the pages of an early 90s Elle. Everything from the soft focus ‘corporate girl about town’ vibe to the casting (Louise de Chevigny channelling Ines de la Fressange) and the gamine styling reminds me of Yasmin Le Bon-era French Elle – all that’s missing is the Filofax.

Particular highlights: the mini tan Hermes Birkin (I will be substituting with my Mulberry Small Maple tote), the boxy blazers, the Cartier watch and – of course – the hair. (more…)

Disneyrollergirl 2 Comments Design, Magazines, Photography, Shopping, Trends Cartier, Celine, gentlewoman style, Giampaolo Sgura, Ines De La Fressange, Louise de Chevigny, magazines, models, photography, shopping, workwear

8 August, 2021

Revisiting Omahyra Mota

“When I wear suits on the runway, when I’m doing a men’s show… I am not thinking that I look like a boy. [What] I am thinking the whole time is that I am just bringing the most in strength and expression; my eyes, the way I’m looking, the way I’m moving, it’s not more like a boy, it’s just strength, flavor, sauce, like swag.”

I love that Vogue has spotlighted the Y2K model Omahyra Mota, one of the most unique forces that modelling has seen in the last 20-odd years. There’s a fantastic gallery of her shows, reminding us not only of the timelessness of early noughties designers but how versatile her look really was. (more…)

Disneyrollergirl 0 Comments Designers, Fashion shows, News Daryl K, designers, Dior, Gucci, Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Miguel Adrover, models, Omahyra Mota, Tom Ford

13 October, 2020

Fresh face: Greta Hofer

Greta Hofer Prada SS21

I’m out of the loop when it comes to new model faces. But the Prada SS21 show featured all runway newbies and one in particular stood out. Greta Hofer has an air of Natalie Portman about her, combined with the garconne vibe of 90s Jeny Howorth and Y2K Agyness Deyn. A free-spirited Austrian, the gamine crop came not from a model agent’s suggestion but on a whim, administered by her own fair scissorhands in the middle of the night. (more…)

Disneyrollergirl 2 Comments Beauty, Fashion shows, News, Trends beauty, Greta Hofer, models, Prada, short hair

27 April, 2020

Yay or nay: 90’s feather cut

Just spotted this image of model Sara Blomqvist in The Gentlewoman magazine. I’m not at the cutting my own hair stage yet, but I’ve been hankering for a change on the coiff front. I like this soft messy cut.

When this cut emerged in the 90s I hated it as it was a throwback to the 70s. (If you lived it the first time, etc…) But the 90s take was minimalist and a bit grungy. Adding it to my Pinterest short hair board while I continue to ponder and grow my fringe….

WORDS: Disneyrollergirl/Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGE: The Gentlewoman
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