We consider the beauty, talent and tragedy of the Velvet Underground singer. Nico passed OnThisDay in 1988 🕊️
There are a few women in recent decades who possess that transfixing combination of beauty and tragedy. Cult females, whose talent was fractured by a harrowing thread of self-destruction.Christa Paeffgen, whose pseudonym ‘Nico’ was coined by photographer Herbert Tobias, rose to fame as a teen model working with powerhouses such as Chanel and Lanvin. However it was her involvement with Andy Warhol and his notorious Factory that raised her to icon status.
Warhol’s muse wore trademark black kohl eyeliner which brushed against thick blonde bangs. She had an androgynous, stark style – dressing predominately in masculine trouser suits and clean lines which accentuated her willowy frame. The haunting fragility of her music was reminiscent of her character. She had a sad presence; a languid romantic approach that was often introspectively dark.
A bohemian nomadic, Nico lived in several countries and battled drug addiction for much of her life. A self-confessed compulsive liar, it is difficult to establish where Paeffgen ends and Nico begins. She died suddenly in a motorcycling accident in Spain, aged 49, a tragic demise she may herself have predicted when she stated, “I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
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