beeghosts:roofbeams:hari nef for harper’s bazaar shot by by pari dukovic styled by anna trevelyan “T
beeghosts:roofbeams:hari nef for harper’s bazaar shot by by pari dukovic styled by anna trevelyan “Transgender model and actress Hari Nef has skyrocketed to fame as an emblem of contradiction. At once exposed and recalcitrant, freewheeling and brooding, the 25-year-old face of Gucci Bloom is a modern Madame X. So it comes as no surprise that in high school she wrote a paper on John Singer Sargent’s famed woman in black and made one of her first trips to New York just to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see her. ‘She had a reputation and a free spirit; she was a haver of affairs and an attender of parties,’ Nef says of the 19th-century Parisian socialite, whose real name was Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. But Nef is perhaps most drawn to Gautreau’s apparent disinterest: ‘You can be in a beautiful dress with your skin exposed and be very sensual, but it doesn’t mean you have to lock eyes with the first Tom, Dick, or Harry you see. Maybe you just want to stare at the wall.’” (x) -- source link
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