It should come as no surprise that Grace Jones — genre-splicing diva, model, a Bond villain’s henchwoman and global avatar of the outré — can deliver a dramatic line: “I’m a wild one, a wild child, and I’m partying to the next party.” At her recent Malaysian outing, the pin-up gladiator of flamboyance sheds her signature flat top hair and outrageous outfits, often refracted through the lens of long-time collaborator, French photographer Jean-Paul Goude. But her headgear that defy geometry, incapable of containing the woman wearing them, stay. Charisma undiminished and her defiantly idiosyncratic self unchanged, the gleeful impresario of cool and chaos holds precisely the dazzling star power Ombak Festival, Desaru Coast Malaysia’s maiden music extravaganza, needs to draw crowds in waves.
Some iconoclasts prize effortlessness but the 76-year-old Jones, well into the fifth decade of her career, demonstrates hard work. The cameras capture the force and determination…
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