State of Grace
What does a pop culture icon do mere weeks after celebrating her 67th birthday? If you’re Jamaican-born fashion and music legend Grace Jones, you hit the stage in Australia — topless, in tribal body paint and a sheer waist-high corset for a performance at the Vivid Sydney festival.
The thousands of Aussies in attendance at last weekend’s concert ate it up — as in true Jones fashion, there was wildly entertaining theatrics to be experienced, which in this incarnation came complete with a gold mask and feathered headdress.
Even as 70 looms, Jones’s performance Down Under demonstrates that the former Spanish Town resident-turned-global superstar and fashion influencer, who counts modern-day style icons Rihanna and Lady Gaga as fawning fans, has no intention of tempering her legendary outré artistry or avant-garde wardrobe anytime soon.
Fans of the provocateur can also look forward to the documentary Grace Jones — The Musical Of My Life directed by Sophie Fiennes and co-financed by BFI Film Fund and the Irish Film Board that is described as “a cinematic journey into the private and public worlds of Grace Jones, mixing intimate personal footage with unique staged musical performances.”