FKA Twigs wears ‘Post-it note dress’ for new Vogue boss
THE new boss of British Vogue has put singer FKA Twigs in the notorious “Post-it note dress” for her first cover.
The lemon yellow Loewe gown went viral when actress Aubrey Plaza wore it to the Emmys in January.
Social media users turned the gown’s striking square bodice into a Post-it note carrying various messages, while some commentators compared the bright yellow dress to a paper bag or a slice of processed cheese.
The April issue cover of British Vogue is the first from Chioma Nnadi, who has taken over from Edward Enninful and is the magazine new head of editorial content. For the shoot, she returned to her home city of London after two decades in New York, where she was editor of Vogue.com. In her first editor’s letter, Nnadi said: “While much has changed in the 20 years I have been living in the US, London’s beautiful, creative, scrappy energy – one that just can’t be found or emulated anywhere else – remains undimmed. “I knew my first cover star needed to be someone who defined that inimitable spirit. Luckily for me, it was an easy choice. FKA Twigs is an artist who represents the ideal of the modern British eccentric: she is a shape-shifter who rejects conformity and takes real joy in clothes.”
FKA Twigs, 36, who is a musician, actress and producer posed in “quintessentially British locations” including inside a red telephone box and swinging around a pole as a Routemaster bus passes by. On the cover, she sits atop a cab with the spire of St James Church, in Clerkenwell in the background.
Twigs, real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett, was at the centre of controversy recently after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned a Calvin Klein poster in which she was semi-clothed because it was overly sexualised. The ASA later backed down.
In the Vogue interview accompanying the cover shoot, Twigs explained that she had invented a new word to describe a feeling of euphoria which she experienced at a rave: eusexia.
“It’s like when you’ve been kissing a lover for hours and turn into an amoeba with that person. You’re not human any more, you’re just a feeling,” she said.
‘FKA Twigs represents the ideal of the modern British eccentric: a shape shifter who rejects conformity’