Models Lula-Allie Villain and Myrthe Bolt front a new Wolford hosiery Spring Summer 2019 campaign. Rife with seeming disconnects. Ellen Von Unwerth brings her signature image style to the campaign anchored in the tag #TrueCharacter.

AOC loves EVU but ‘Perfectly Angry’ as a kitchy vision of #True Character — while white nationalism and #MeToo sweep Europe and America — is a bit tone deaf. It reminds me of the girls just wanna have fun cabaret scenes in Germany as the Nazis came to power back in the 30s.

Wolford has always been associated with true boss ladies and younger boss ladies in waiting. Think of all the recent drama around returning US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s red coat when she confronted Trump in the Oval Office. Think of incoming House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who scored a total political upset in New York and is holding environmental action protests in Pelosi’s House office, demanding a green action platform now. That’s #TrueCharacter in 2019. Enuf said. ~ Anne