Counterforce

Agyness Deyn.

Originally born Laura Hollins, but changed her name name at the suggestion of a numerologist to something more “fortuitous.”

She’s an English model and singer, 26 years old, and what some will claim will be the return of the supermodel.

“Agyness Deyn always looks like she was just hit with a snowball,” said Molly Young here.

She is, apparently, the girl “of the moment.” Her every move just sweats out zeitgeist, I guess. From this NYT article about her:

Once or twice a decade, it will befall a young lady of supreme good looks to accidentally embody her moment in time. She becomes the visual articulation of our culture’s unspoken hopes and latent desires: a now-ness that contains the hint of a tantalizing future — to wit: we don’t know what’s next, but whatever it is, it looks like her.

The fashion prophetess? Interesting. In classic supermodel style, she’s thinking of branching out, possibly doing some acting. I’ve been hearing her name, and seeing her pictures for a while now, though I never new who she was, for a while now. But I had no idea I was looking at the future. Or that the future dates guys from the Strokes.

from here.

The future is cute, with short bleached blonde hair, and looks like an adorably twee riff on 80s new wave and punk but spiked with a very colorful post-art style that seems to be pulled off better in London hipster venues than it does here in the streets of America. The future, as embodied in Agyness Deyn is not terribly shocking, kind of familiar, but refreshingly so, I guess.

“The future never goes out of fashion. It’s just that the culture is sometimes hijacked by deeply unfashionable people.”

-Warren Ellis

I’m fascinated by people who make futurecasts, who study things that will happen before they even happen, which actually seems easier to me than to really put a fully accurate spin on what’s going on now. I admire the hell out of those with a really sharp sense of haecceity or thisness. Most moments need to be seen from more than one angle, but sometimes one of the best angles is in the rear view mirror? Eh, perhaps not. Don’t want to spend all my time looking back. I should spent it more in the here and now, strutting in the present, living in and of the moment, maybe not not as well as Agyness Deyn, but looking good in my own way whenever possible.