Herta Mueller, Fashion Icon
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I have not yet read the work of Herta Mueller, this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature. As of this morning, I hadn’t even heard of her. But after seeing this image on Jezebel (and promptly making it my desktop—I suggest “stretch,” but “tile” is a powerful alternative) and conferring with other DoubleXers, I feel confident that Herta is on the road to fashion icon status. Here's a photo gallery of the Romanian-German writer, rocking her signature colors (black for the clothes, red for the lips) that you're sure to be seeing more of soon.
Correction, Oct. 8: The original version of this post mistakenly identified Mueller as Romanian-Russian.
Samantha Henig is the associate editor of Double X, and can be reached at samantha.henig@doublex.com.
Comments
We haven't read what she's written, but she has great fashion!
By: Elerue | Thu, 10/08/2009 - 14:42
I understand there's a need to get something out quickly on a website for women when the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to a woman. I also understand that she's not widely read in English yet (I had never heard of her until today), and so it's not feasible to get something out on her works or her life right away.
But the first post here about her is on her fashion? The first commentary you can offer on a life spent working under censorship to become the 13th woman ever to win literature's highest international honor is on her likelihood of becoming a fashion icon?
For all of us women working in male-dominated fields (like literature), and who mostly want to be recognized for what we do and not what we wear, here's to hoping the next post about Herta Muller is more germane to her true contribution as a woman to the world of letters.
Fixed!
By: Noreen Malone | Thu, 10/08/2009 - 13:57
Thanks for the sharp eyes, Tricia.
Nope, not Russian
By: Tricia | Thu, 10/08/2009 - 13:04
You're mushing together all your old Commies. She's German by nationality, grew up in Romania, emigrated to Germany.