I respect a contrived paparazzi shot. Recently I have seen a trend wherein celebrities – among them and and several low-level influencers – just so happen to be captured while shopping for fresh bouquets in metropolitan neighbourhoods in New York and Los Angeles. It’s a classic of the genre.
So much so, in fact, that reproduced those perfectly posed images for its Anok Yai, a true street style muse The thing is: if you happen to look and dress and move like the model , those photographs begin to take on the visual standards of a magazine editorial. The image above for example would not look out of place in a or magazine during their respective heydays in the early Aughts: the graffitied wall, the All Saints-ish belt, mini skirt, handbag and behemoth platforms. “Every famous person calls the paps on themselves,” said in this interview last month.
“But not everyone does it for the same reasons.” And so I have chosen to read this image as a necessary reminder that perhaps more so than any other working model in 2024, deserves her off-duty fashion flowers – those which have traditionally been bestowed onto people like and and and for wearing simple jeans and T-shirts. Look at the material: Imposing l coats, bandana customised by and sweatpants for a casual hotel exit; miniscule hot pants and hirsute knee-highs to attend birthday celebrations; and knitted skirt sets for a pre- outing.
.. which is to say nothing of the bodysuit she wore on the steps of the on the fir.