"Offstage, she is arresting, with cutting blue eyes and a mane of curly brown hair.
"In her videos and photos, she often wears a mask of catlike makeup, giving her features a defamiliarized, almost otherworldly eccentricity."
Lorde, or Ella Yelich-O'Connor to her friends, tells the magazine her style icons are Grace Jones and David Bowie and names Comme des Garçons, Miu Miu, Moschino, and Simone Rocha among her favorite labels.
"The kind of clothes that I've found I like to wear over the past year and six months have all been things that make me feel powerful and strong."
- www.nzherald.co.nz