Over the past 2 years, it ( my style ) had definitely followed my music, which is a mix of great 70’s and 80’s sounds. There are definitely some influences there. But I also started to listen to a lot of great Afro beat music, and discovered amazing things that you can do for example with Ankara, and mixing it up with mainstream pieces”. This is Solange Knowels. Or at least this has been her fashion self in the last two years.
It has to be hard to be the little sister of Mrs. Bootylicious herself, and it has to be even harder when your facial features recall the ones of (maybe) the most recognizable POP Icon of our times, which blond lace fronts, sparkly dresses and long lashes have had raised the bar of prejudices towards Solange. Whether her musical talent is genuine or not, the youngest of the Knowles sisters has a peculiar sense of style which makes her my fashion Icon of the month.
Resembling Diana Ross with a full and big afro, Kwowels suggests AFRICAness which is a feature (usually) typical of a small number of feminist soul artists with a niche audience. She is quirky looking and has a sense of style that is something in beetween Grace Jones and Vanessa Huxtable of the Bill Cosby show with a scent of Chloë Sevigny. She has a cheeky-titled blog, MY DAMN BLOG, where she posts vintage flavoured pictures of her life like any young indie rebellious fan of Morrisey would do. But she has charisma, and she sells it.
Indeed she is mainstream, she is on the cover of the magazines ( her last cover is on FASHIZBLACK MAGAZINE), she has been a L'OREAL spokeperson, she has performed at the Grammy's, she has been signed to a MAJOR label and she was one of the few guests of the very private first Tom Ford women’s collection few days ago.
She is a redefinition of beauty. PERIOD.
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