For Her Role in ‘The Crow,’ FKA Twigs Wanted to Smell the Part

We’ve seen an uptick in method-dressing from actors and performers of late; the observe appears nearly synonymous with performing and movie tradition on this explicit second. However FKA Twigs has at all times taken a singular, character-embodying strategy to her public appearances, whether or not she’s publicizing her forthcoming album Eusexua or her function within the movie The Crow, which opens in theaters in the present day.

Whereas technique dressing requires seems to be that play to the half, so to talk, Twigs’s private fashion can’t be so simply decoded. If something, each outfit—together with the brown faux-leather bustier prime and sheer boy shorts she wore to an album-listening occasion earlier this week (made all of the extra distinctive by geometric-patterned make-up resembling tribal facial tattoos), and the next evening’s sultry and glam black classic Armani slip gown for The Crow’s New York Metropolis premiere—is characteristically unpredictable. That is an artist whose homeostasis is a state of fixed transformation.

After all it’s no shock that Twigs would carry her personal idiosyncrasies to Shelly, her character in The Crow, as a way to make her really feel extra actual—and the challenge on the entire, much less intimidating. “The Crow is such an iconic world. It’s very formidable to dive into it,” she tells us on the morning of the movie’s premiere. She’s carrying a tawny brown V-neck sweater, her hair pulled again to point out off her half-shaved scalp. Certainly, the unique 1994 movie, primarily based on the James O’Barr comedian collection of the identical title, has develop into a cult traditional for its era-defining darkish gothic visuals, in addition to for the tragic on-set loss of life of its star, Brandon Lee, on account of a prop-gun mishap.

However she’s fast to level out that director Rupert Sanders’s re-telling is finally a love story, and one during which Shelly—whose violent homicide propels the plot—is greater than only a catalyst for revenge; she’s a logo of purity and hope. To develop into Shelly, Twigs collaborated intently with the costume-design duo Kurt and Bart, whose previous tasks embrace The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay and Nocturnal Animals, to create a private fashion that intersected together with her personal. Shelly is a personality outlined by her group, Twigs explains. “She has these cool buddies which might be getting themselves in bother. They’re partying, taking medication, escaping their households. They’re very indicative of a coming-of-age era of younger folks actually looking for themselves.”