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Rihanna by Norman Jean Roy, Harper’s Bazaar, 2015 / styling Mel Ottenberg

Happy 41st birthday to pop’s alienated and complicated dark princess, the glorious Lana Del Rey (née Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, 21 June 1985). Remember when the “gangster Nancy Sinatra” first emerged with Born to Die in 2012 and uptight stale pale male rockist cultural gatekeepers bugged-out, labeling her a phony because she wasn’t really some trailer park Laura Palmer-type and she’d adopted a show biz name (guess what? “Bob Dylan” and “David Bowie” aren’t their real names, either!). Seems like a lifetime ago! And all these years later, the defiant and triumphant Del Rey is a veteran artist with an entirely singular body of work under her belt. My favourite tracks by her vary all the time but today let’s say it’s “White Mustang” from 2017. (And my favourite album will always be Ultra-Violence (2014)). Pic: from Del Rey’s gloomy gothic 2015 photoshoot with Steven Klein (shot on Polaroid, styled by Mel Ottenberg) for V magazine.

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Romee Strijd photographed by Mel Ottenberg

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