A model in a print Batsheva dress appeared at a microphone on a balcony on West Broadway and solemnly declaimed. Doll heart.”If you knew these words, you really knew them. Model after model stepped to the mic and chanted snatches of Hole songs, alternately angry, bruised, fearsome and mocking. Beneath their wigs and braids, a few were recognizable: Christina Ricci, Veronica Webb, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Theodora Richards. Batsheva Hay found fame designing what were popularly referred to as prairie dresses, modest little frocks in Laura Ashley fabrics.

Source: New York Times February 13, 2019 20:48 UTC