Bjork Fashion Update

Bjork at Sonar; Photo - New York Times Bjork's new look: Do we attribute it to her usual lovable nuttiness or can we say it's Matthew Barney? A close-up black and white shot of Bjork's new bowl cut, which Kelefa Sanneh called "fetching."

Gothamist thinks she looks like some 70s androgynous male singer in that drapey, Halstony top, but it's escaping us. Who does she look like? We need your help. Hilton, are you there?

More Bjork fashion:
- At the Oscars in the swan dress - which was totally characteristic of Bjork
- With Matthew Barney at the Cremaster 3 premiere

And Bjork on DVD: Greatest Hits - Volumen 1993-2003 and Volumen Plus.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on June 17, 2003 11:48 AM

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A.S.

How the heck do you know what she looked like during KUKL?

nick

What else can be done when you've been bald, long-haired, orange-haired, pig-tailed, coneheaded, corn-rowed, buzzed, bobbed, butchered, wet, dried, fried, twisted, tied, ponytailed, veiled, bewjeweled, bedazzled, chopped, layered, afroed, and geisha'd?

Not surprisingly, she had this same haircut back in the days of KUKL.

rion

i'm going to date myself here, but i'll guess she's channeling 70s figure skater dorothy hamill.

Choire

DAMN! kiri beat me to it. Hella Yoko. I'm scared. Bjork is hurting me.

kiri

she's pulled a Yoko O all the way.

callalillie

What's she wearing on her face? She looks like Jordie from Star Trek. Either that or she fell asleep on one of those desk toys with the pins that molds to your hand when you touch it...

Glenn Peoples

Rivers Cuomo circa '94. Also very Johnny Ramone, "End of the Century" era (check the album cover http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70305141517&sql=Aoc8o1vdjzzma). It's very Bjork to toss such a curveball, and we wouldn't expect anything less, but I'm afraid this one is outside of the plate and in the dirt.

Aserdaten

Elton John had that haircut for a while in the late 70s, I think. During his freaky sunglasses phase.

eli

Here you go: Joey Lawrence. Whoah!

jake

definitely one of the ramones. or my twin sister in 3rd grade- that was a bad haircut.

Hilton

I dunno. I love Bjork dearly, and think her music is so much more accessible and meaningful than the (pretentious) work of her boyfriend Matthew Barney, but this haircut is kinda pointless. She had SUCH beautiful hair in the video for "Pagan Poetry," long and flowing and primeval-like. Kinda an Icelandic Bottecelli thing (speaking of pretentious, how many allusions can I fit in one post?). I just don't like her bowl-do. Girl looks good with long hair.

Jen

Nice. I had a bowl cut when I was little, but certainly nothing as artfully styled as Bjork's. It's very glam.

Toby

Yes, 'Eight is Enough'! That's totally what I was going for. But at least this provided me an excuse to google 'Matthew Lawrence'.

eli

A glam Marky Ramone? The little kid from 'Eight is Enough'?

Toby

A young Matthew Lawrence, perhaps? (Graphic illustration: http://www.dreamagic.com/vivianrose/lawrence.gif) That haircut was 'fetching' on 3rd graders in 1992. All she needs to complete the look: a Trapper Keeper binder and those high-top sneakers with the flashing lights in the heel. (Personally, I like the new 'do!)