Pallenberg, the German-Italian actress and quintessential rock chick, had died at 75, much has been written about her contribution to music history — most notably her effect on the Rolling Stones. For three band members, she was something of a lifestyle catalyst (also, at least for two, a lover).
Less space has been devoted to her effect on fashion, even though she was not only an indelible part of the designer inspiration kit, but also practically created a genre of dressing still on view today.
She is credited with having influenced the Stones’ look — the low-slung pants and furs and feathers and floppy hats and jewelry that transformed them from a jacket-and-tie boy band into icons of decadent glam in the mid-1960s. But another way of thinking about it is that they filched her look. And they were not the only ones.
Keith Richards, with whom Ms. Pallenberg was involved for more than a decade and with whom she had three children, notes in his memoir, “Life,” “I started to become a fashion icon for wearing my old lady’s clothes.” Because he ultimately became more famous than she did, the look is associated with his glory years. But it belonged to her.
Kate Moss, the model whose personal style and penchant for dissolute musicians is chronicled with obsessive attention by the British news media, is often described as the heir to Marianne Faithfull, another Stones paramour/muse. But Ms. Moss’s look is derived more closely from Ms. Pallenberg’s, including the sweeping coats, the unbuttoned satin blouses and the romping-in-the-concrete-garden hippie frocks.
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