Kristen McMenamy has always challenged conventional beauty standards, saying in multiple interviews: “All I ever wanted was for people to not pick on me."

Writing for V Magazine 147, Sam Falb notes:

When NARS founder Francois Nars shaved off McMenamy’s eyebrows for Anna Sui’s Fall/Winter show in 1992, it foretold the arrival of grunge’s impactful wave in fashion. This was the catalyst that took McMenamy from a lanky goth Pennsylvanian to an icon of alternative style, crossing lines of queerdom experimentation and following the cultural pulse wherever it took her.

George Cortina styles McMenamy in Alaia, Alexander McQueen, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Dolce & Gabbana, Mugler, Rick Owens, Roberto Cavalli, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more for fashion story ‘Kris Kong’.

Solve Sundsbo [IG] captures the goth queen of aliens and the public who appreciates her resolute commitments to her identity in V Magazine [IG]./ Makeup by Val Garland; hair by Shon Hyungsun Ju

Follow Sam Falb’s ‘take’ on Kristen McMenemy in second paragraph link top of article.

AOC covered McMenemy’s October 2023 interview in Sunday Times Style and resourced an excellent Nick Knight interview with her about Peter Lindbergh’s fashion shoot ‘Diaghilev’, a creative event that put her in the creative fashion spotlight. Increasingly confident about her visual persona, the divine goddess never looked back.