Beverly Grace Jones was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, where she grew up with her strict grandparents “I wasn’t allowed to do anything. I wasn’t allowed to watch TV, I wasn’t allowed to wear fingernail polish, I wasn’t allowed to play any games or even listen to the radio.”
Wish you were here. Grace Jones and Jerry Hall were roomies in Paris, 1973.
“Modelling is bitchy, but that’s OK because I can be very bitchy, too. And I can understand bitchiness.”
1975
Smoking hot, Grace Jones photographed by Marco Emili for La Perla
1977
Grace at 29 years old, wearing a crocheted skullcap with blonde extension. Love this smokey undereye liner look.
1977
Disco Sizzler
1979
A catsuit is always a good move
“I feel feminine when I feel feminine, I feel masculine when I feel masculine – I am a role switcher,”
The iconic publicity poster for a stop on Grace Jones’s Nightclubbing record tour in France in 1981. All angles here with her memorable flat-top hairstyle & wide-shoulder suit jacket.
1983
Grace wore an Avant-garde Issey Miyake woven rattan vest and sculpturally-pleated skirt to the Grammy Awards where she presented with Rick James.
1984 😈
1985
A View To Kill
1985
Statuesque. Grace Jones and Dolph Lumdgren by Helmut Newton.
1986
Grace Jones on the set of Vamp with Keith Harring and a blunt red bob.
1987
"I never ask for anything in a relationship because I have this sugar daddy I have created for myself: me. I am my own sugar daddy. I have a very strong male side, which I developed to protect my female side. If I want a diamond necklace I can go and buy myself a diamond necklace."
1989
Accessorized! Grace Jones at Cannes Film Festival. No rules in those days.
1990
Grace and Naomi ❤️
1990
Micro bangs. Grace at Naomi Campbell's birthday party wearing a beautiful Issey Miyake ensemble.
Golden Issey Miyaki and fur at the CFDA Awards in 1990, peep the short bangs under that hood.
1991
Not much to see here.
2000
Shoulder-length braids and fur on Y2K NYE.
2000
It's all in the details, and there are a lot of details here; from the delicate red beaded skullcap and bold red lip to the strappy turquoise kitten heel.
2001
A white lotus moment, Grace Jones looking chic at the 54th Cannes Film Festival.
2003
Sculptural body at the Fashion Group International 20th Annual Night of Stars in NYC. Another iconic headpiece.
2008
Love her commitment to Issey Miyake.
When art imitates life as a metallic blue breast plate by Issey Miyake, it's the skullcap again too.
2013
At Isabella Blow Fashion Galore! wearing a Yayoi Kasuma-style spotty helmet.
2016
An outer body experience at the Fyf Festival
2019
Hair in dreads for Tommy Hilfiger X Zendaya SS19 show at Paris Fashion Week, she's got it.
2021
Caught up in fishnets.
