It’s refreshing to see a model who challenges the
conventional guidelines of being a monotonous, childlike blank canvas. Now and
again there’s someone who is as interesting as the clothes they’re wearing.
Adopted as Karl Lagerfeld’s muse for the new ‘Boy’ Chanel bag,
Alice Dellal is a fitting face. Lagerfeld’s reported ‘crush’ on the 24-year-old
Brazilian has brought her to the attention of many, including Marc by Marc
Jacobs who has also made her the face of its SS12 campaign.
That’s not to say she’s new to the world of fashion. She has
an impressive background dominating the covers of worldwide glossies and catwalks
of iconic designers since she began to model in 2003.
Sure, being the heiress to the fortune of a property tycoon
will have helped to propel her name but there’s something about Alice Dellal
which screams now.
Her androgynous image is in sync with the continuous trend,
which has been present for several seasons. Dellal, with her half-shaven head
and petite yet masculine frame, is a punk embodiment not seen since the likes
of Agyness Deyn.
Rock and Roll go skull-ringed hand in skull-ringed hand with
fashion and Dellal, as drummer of the band Thrush Metal, pours her metal core
into her look. Her musical soul and presence certainly has an air of Moss about
it and she even followed in her footsteps as her replacement as the face of
Agent Provocateur in 2008.
Although being ironically feminised in the first glimpses of
Lagerfeld’s latest production, Dellal oozes feminine power and uniqueness, a
face which won’t fade away for a while.
