Esperanza Spalding for The NY Times T Style Women’s Fashion Fall 2011

August 19, 2011 in NY Times T Style Magazine with 4 Comments

Esperanza Spalding covers the NY Times T Style Women’s Fashion Fall 2011 issue. Photographed by Alice O’Malley, styling by Susan Winget, Hair by Chuck Amos for Bumble and Bumble at Jump. Makeup by Asami Taguchi at L’Atelier NYC.

“The contrast between the Esperanza Spalding that you see onstage and the offstage Esperanza, jazz bassist and singer, was not immediately apparent at breakfast the day after her big sold-out show at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the kickoff of her summer tour. Onstage she is luminous, a major chord of exuberance, swinging behind her stand-up bass, eyes closed, singing to the lights, an evangelist of joy in various cool time signatures. At breakfast, meanwhile, she was soft-spoken and contemplative, almost demure.”