Tomboy Style: September 2010

UNIFORM | Isabel Marant

photo of Marant via Russh Magazine

"The Isabel Marant woman doesn't sport a full face of makeup, or even brush her hair. She wears heels, but only the kind that can be danced in all night, and when she's at home, she'll most likely be barefoot. There's an air of insouciance about her wardrobe—her clothes look as if she picked them up on a trip to some exotic, far-flung destination, or pilfered them from her grandfather or maybe her boyfriend. Marant herself just happens to be such a woman. Her effortless brand owes more to Serge Gainsbourg, and her regular collaborator, Paris Vogue fashion director Emmanuelle Alt, than it does to any fantasy femme or Hollywood starlet." —Natalie Shukur, Nylon Magazine

CONTEMPORARY | Lou Doillon

photos via madame Tran and The Sartorialist

"What attracts me is something broken, something a bit off. I never comb my hair or make anything pretty. When people look too beautiful, it's too easy. I know I'm dressed wrong if the businessman turns his head. But I like to think that after an hour of sitting next to me on the train, he'd look. I'd have grown on him."—Lou Doillon

CONTEMPORARY | Marina Muñoz

photos by Jason Jean, Turned Out By Maya

"I find that if something looks good on me, I tend to stick to it, like men's shirts, hats, trousers and simple shift dresses." —Marina Muñoz

ICON | Yoko Ono

photos by Allan Tannenbaum

"Ono’s style has evolved over time, influenced by her role as an artist, by her politics, but mostly, like a true icon, by her undeniably solid sense of herself."—Amy Larocca, New York Magazine

CONTEMPORARY | Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor

photo by Mark Cobrasnake for Exit Magazine

"As the daughter of TV presenter Amanda de Cadenet and John Taylor of Duran Duran, it's clear that coolness runs in the family. This "It" gal's personal style is a blend of eclectic vintage finds and rebel-chic jewelry." —The Fashion Spot

CONTEMPORARY | Raquel Zimmermann

Photos by Terry Richardson

via Habitually Chic

ICON | Mariel Hemingway

Film still of Manhattan via Tout Le Cine

"I grew up a tomboy, skiing and hiking; so before there was yoga and Mountain pose, there were mountains. The beauty of the Sawtooth Range was a comforting gift to me. When I could drive—and country kids in Idaho drive at the age of fourteen—I would head off alone to places where the steep hills came right down near the road. I climbed dusty trails and boulder-filled avalanche chutes up to the high places. The cool mountain air was a blessed contrast to the overheated atmosphere of home. I would propel my body upward, making a mental pact with myself that if I could just get to the top of the ridge or peak, all the anxiety that consumed me would fall away. It usually worked, too." —Mariel Hemingway

CONTEMPORARY | Coco Sumner

Photograph by Nik Hartley

"There is something of a wild creature about Coco Sumner. She's not an air-kisser, not a people-pleaser, certainly not much of a hair-brusher." —Hermione Eyre

ICON | Linda Ronstadt

Photo via Telecaster.com

"I think vitality is what is attractive to people. That's why there are a lot of pretty girls that are kind of boring to look at." —Linda Ronstadt, 1977

ICON | Georgia O’Keeffe

Photo by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918

Interviewer: It was nice of Stieglitz to let you go to New Mexico every summer.
Georgia O'Keeffe: Well listen, he didn't let me go, I just went.

ICON | Debbie Harry

photo sources unknown

"I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual." —Debbie Harry as told to BOULEVARDS Magazine, February 1981.

ICON | Joni Mitchell

photo via LastFM

"She just held her own in this business that was very male-dominated. And never made a big deal about it. Sometimes there are girl groups and they make a big deal about the fact that they were a group of girls, Joni Mitchell very quietly went out there and was the best."—The New Pornographers