![]() What do you remember about first meeting Manfred?Ĭonnie Girl: Everybody was telling him about this new Black girl in New York. The way you described meeting Haley and hearing Casey was a fan of yours is similar to how you started modelling for Mugler. The high-low philosophy of spreading the Mugler vision. That was such an incredible gift added on to being included in this wonderful project. ![]() Watching her, I started to see things that I thought were the brushstroke of Antonio, but it’s her and the way she carries herself, her aura. I didn’t want to fangirl, but I’m an illustrator and Antonio Lopez is one of my heroes of fashion illustration so I bit my tongue and tried not to ask her incessant questions about him, but we spoke on set. I got to walk with Jerry Hall and her hair. The campaign image of you together is the moment.Ĭonnie Girl: It’s incredible. Then, a couple of months later they called me for the Mugler H&M explosion. We were marvelling at the show and the booker said: ‘Haley is in love with you and wants to meet you’ so we met and took some pictures together and she told me that her and Casey wanted to work with me. I’m a runway coach with New York Model Management and one of the bookers is really great friends with Haley Wollens. On the night of the opening of Thierry Mugler: Couturissime at the Brooklyn Museum, I saw Casey with Kylie Jenner. To be a part of a legacy in a moment where you’re not worrying about making your rent or buying food, you can think about it on a deeper level and I really got a moment of being able to do that.Ĭonnie Girl: We spoke before when they were doing the films during COVID, but my passport had expired so I couldn’t do the first one and then the second time didn’t work out either. It was good for the soul in a way and got me to sit up a little straighter and pick up my chin. It was fantastic to be part of a cast that was all sizes, colours, ages. So, to see Casey and Mugler take from that and expand it was beautiful and incredible to be part of it. Along with Gaultier and several other designers, Manfred pioneered this back in the day. His vision of inclusivity, agelessness, body image – all of the things he stood for which are now en vogue. It was a real testament to Manfred and his legacy for Casey to bring back the old cows out of the pasture.Ĭonnie Girl: It was so beautiful and it honoured Manfred in such a wonderful way. ![]() Hey Connie Girl! Tell me, how it feels to be dipping your toes back into modelling?Ĭonnie Girl: Scary and wonderful.
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