We’ve seen an uptick in method-dressing from actors and performers of late; the observe appears just about synonymous with performing and movie tradition on this specific second. However FKA Twigs has all the time taken a singular, character-embodying strategy to her public appearances, whether or not she’s publicizing her forthcoming album Eusexua or her function within the movie The Crow, which opens in theaters immediately.
Whereas technique dressing requires seems to be that play to the half, so to talk, Twigs’s private fashion can’t be so simply decoded. If something, each outfit—together with the brown faux-leather bustier high and sheer boy shorts she wore to an album-listening occasion earlier this week (made all of the extra distinctive by geometric-patterned make-up resembling tribal facial tattoos), and the next night time’s sultry and glam black classic Armani slip gown for The Crow’s New York Metropolis premiere—is characteristically unpredictable. That is an artist whose homeostasis is a state of fixed transformation.
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Photograph: Getty Photos
In fact it’s no shock that Twigs would deliver her personal idiosyncrasies to Shelly, her character in The Crow, with the intention to make her really feel extra actual—and the mission on the entire, much less intimidating. “The Crow is such an iconic world. It’s very formidable to dive into it,” she tells us on the morning of the movie’s premiere. She’s carrying a tawny brown V-neck sweater, her hair pulled again to indicate off her half-shaved scalp. Certainly, the unique 1994 movie, based mostly on the James O’Barr comedian sequence of the identical identify, has turn out to be a cult basic for its era-defining darkish gothic visuals, in addition to for the tragic on-set dying of its star, Brandon Lee, attributable to a prop-gun mishap.
However she’s fast to level out that director Rupert Sanders’s re-telling is in the end a love story, and one through which Shelly—whose violent homicide propels the plot—is greater than only a catalyst for revenge; she’s an emblem of purity and hope. To turn out to be Shelly, Twigs collaborated carefully with the costume-design duo Kurt and Bart, whose previous initiatives embrace The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay and Nocturnal Animals, to create a private fashion that intersected along with her personal. Shelly is a personality outlined by her neighborhood, Twigs explains. “She has these cool pals which can be getting themselves in bother. They’re partying, taking medicine, escaping their households. They’re very indicative of a coming-of-age technology of younger folks actually looking for themselves.”
