Grace Jones has an autobiography coming out called I’ll Never Write My Memoirs(out 24 September), and in it she accuses the likes of Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Rita Ora, Sia, Miley Cyrus and Madonna of emulating her style.
“Trends come along and people say, ‘Follow that trend’. There’s a lot of that around at the moment: ‘Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna.’ I cannot be like them – except to the extent that they are already being like me.
“I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money, and too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.”
Grace Jones takes aim at Rihanna – referencing the silver body paint she wore in the Umbrella music video…
“Rihanna… She does the body-painting thing I did with Keith Haring, but where he painted directly on my body, she wears a painted bodysuit. That’s the difference. Mine is on skin; she puts a barrier between the paint and her skin. I don’t even know if she knows that what she’s doing comes from me, but I bet you the people styling her know. They know the history.”
Grace, they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery …
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