“I’ve always been red, but I make it brighter,” Karen Elson admits. “I became bolder when I was eighteen, when I met Grace.” Coddington chose the young Elson for a 1997 Steven Meisel shoot for Vogue in which she wore short skirts and big furs below a burned-orange bob with bangs—and Elson never second-guessed her hair color again. “It fits the skin I’m in,” she says.
Calvin Klein Collection sequined dress; Calvin Klein Collection, NYC. Manolo Blahnik heels.
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