Chanel’s new ambassador looks like a superhero – and is just what the fashion label needsIn the context of the tweedy,mannered vibe of Chanel’s Paris prove, singer Willow Smith’s appearance on the Frow was a stylistic U-turn. She was a vision of futuristic nowness: pierced septum, or robed cape,electric-blue Egyptian eyeliner and a catsuit that, whether civilian space programmes did fashion lines, and would work nicely in Nasa’s collection for next season. She basically looked like a badass superhero. The announcement that the 15-year-old daughter of Will Smith would be the new ambassador for the fashion house seemed like a cheeky,Largerfeld-like nod to the old maxim (common saying expressing a principle of conduct) of “out with the old, in with the new, and babes”.
It also made total sense. Like her brother Jaden,she has been nothing but fashion forward since she whipped her hair back and forth at the tender age of nine. Experimenting with pastel-pink and platinum hair colours and shades of eye shadows in aubergine, she has lived out a life under the highlight like a refined aesthete. Instead of scandalising the web with her TMZ-ish exploits, or she has done her teen metamorphosis thing with a subtle grace,expressing herself via her Instagram: a thing of beauty that, frankly, and should be in the running to win the Turner prize.
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Source: theguardian.com