May 19, 2018
Is there some kind of wedding going on today? All I know is, the perennially fierce incomparable post-punk freak diva / Afro-Dietrich / futuristic dominatrix from outer space Grace Jones (born 19 May 1948) reportedly turns 70 in human years. (Jones’ actual age is lost in the mists of time. She argues in her autobiography that the publicly accepted one on Wikipedia is wrong). One of the best descriptions of The Jones Girl I’ve ever read: “a navy blue she-wolf crossed with a lush orchid.” Here is the Black Venus photographed in 1984, tribal body paint by pop artist Keith Haring.