She was the down-to-earth supermodel with the peroxide crop – now Agyness Deyn is making it in the movies. She talks about life beyond the catwalk
• Agyness Deyn models this season’s sparkliest party wear
There’s a moment during our shoot with Agyness Deyn when it becomes obvious what all the fuss is about. She is wearing a gold sequinned tunic teamed with knee-high socks, the perfect stage for the show that is her ludicrously long legs, and as she sidles past the crew in the hallway, everyone is taken aback. The girl who arrived in a corduroy jacket and brogues an hour earlier is gone, and a bona fide supermodel has taken her place. In her broad Lancastrian accent, Deyn politely asks how much time we have left, before adding that she had “better go put summit else on then”, and slides away, leaving everyone a little dazzled in her wake.
Not so long ago, in the pre-Cara era, Deyn was one of those first-name-only supermodels: for a time, it was all about Agy. In 2008, i-D magazine put her on its cover with the simple word “icon”; the fashion world and the tabloids fell for the former chip-shop girl from Rossendale with the peroxide-blond crop (“the Agy”, naturally), while Zara commissioned mannequins inspired by her body.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.
• Agyness Deyn models this season’s sparkliest party wear
There’s a moment during our shoot with Agyness Deyn when it becomes obvious what all the fuss is about. She is wearing a gold sequinned tunic teamed with knee-high socks, the perfect stage for the show that is her ludicrously long legs, and as she sidles past the crew in the hallway, everyone is taken aback. The girl who arrived in a corduroy jacket and brogues an hour earlier is gone, and a bona fide supermodel has taken her place. In her broad Lancastrian accent, Deyn politely asks how much time we have left, before adding that she had “better go put summit else on then”, and slides away, leaving everyone a little dazzled in her wake.
Not so long ago, in the pre-Cara era, Deyn was one of those first-name-only supermodels: for a time, it was all about Agy. In 2008, i-D magazine put her on its cover with the simple word “icon”; the fashion world and the tabloids fell for the former chip-shop girl from Rossendale with the peroxide-blond crop (“the Agy”, naturally), while Zara commissioned mannequins inspired by her body.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago.