McQueen is something of a unifying thread in the book and a man with an evident weakness for tomboys: His Her favorite image is one of Steve McQueen and his first wife, Neile Adams, shooting pistols in the desert. ''It doesn't have butch connotations anymore.'' ''It's become acceptable, even fashionable, toĭescribe yourself as a tomboy,'' said Lizzie Garrett Mettler, the book's author and the creator of the Tomboy Style blog from which it sprang. ''Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion'' (Rizzoli, $32.50),Ī compact coffee-table tome, celebrates these style icons and their countless lesser-known sisters via dozens of vintage and contemporary photographs. Birkin's two younger daughters, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon. Chung was preceded by a long line of women who made stealing from the boys seem like the most stylish thing in the world, notably Katharine Hepburn,įran?se Hardy, Patti Smith, Jane Birkin and Ms. Here, Garrett Mettler helps us break down some of the classic tomboy types.THANKS in large part to Alexa Chung, the tomboy look has been enjoying unprecedented appeal of late. (For example, Chris Evert is a classic jock, while Debbie Harry fits squarely in the "rebel" category.) Old Hollywood aficonados will pore over the shots of Katharine Hepburn, who Garrett Mettler calls “one of the godmothers of tomboy style, and Marlene Dietrich: “She was sort of the sophisticate, sauntering around Paris in tuxedos.” Newer entrants to the borrowed-from-the-boys game, like Dree Hemingway, Janelle Monae and Alexa Chung, are also showcased in the volume, out now. People would say, she’s tomboy, and it just kind of clicked…I just used the blog as a sort of inspiration to flesh that out.”įor the book, Garrett Mettler began with seven different tomboy archetypes-the jock, the prep, the rebel, the naturalist, the adventuress, and the girl next door-and chose corresponding icons to incarnate them. I’d see it on fashion blogs and street fashion. “And then I noticed a sort of shift in the word. “I grew up as a tomboy-as a kid, and I never really shook that inner tomboy, even as an adult.” the author explains. Lizzie Garrett Mettler's blog-turned-book, Tomboy Style, examines menswear chic from all angles. Tomboy style is everywhere these days-on the Rag & Bone runway, on Kate Lanphear in a street style shot, and on so many of the chic women we see walking around every day.
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