The waist-length California girl blonde hair. The fringe. The scarves. The shawls. The suede over-the-knee boots. The vests that can read as Laurel Canyon hippie heyday or the “Lady of Shalott.” Stevie is timeless. Stevie is lowercase romantic and capital-R Romantic (in the Byronic, poetic sense); free-spirited bohemia and capital Bohemia (in the castle-dwelling, vampiric lore sense). Her life has played out in love-triangle rumors and White House performances alike. And tonight, when Stevie Nicks takes the stage with Fleetwood Mac, the crowds at Madison Square Garden will be angling not just to hear her sing “Rhiannon” or “Gypsy,” or “Leather and Lace” but to catch a glimpse of her signature leather and lace, gypsy style. Which just happens, of course, to be right on cue with the resurgent love for crochet, for the seventies boho revival that was all over the runways for spring, for fall’s transitional dressing, for October’s dark, witchy vibes.
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