Charlotte Free and the Pink That Didn’t Ask Permission

Charlotte Free arrived on the modeling scene in the early 2010s carrying the kind of look that made agencies nervous and photographers obsessive—that hair, genuinely pink, worn long and tangled and unapologetically strange against whatever editorial she happened to be standing in. The day-grunge concept suited her well. There was always something deliberately undone about the way she photographed, less polished-runway and more found-her-like-this, and it made her briefly the face of a particular moment when fashion remembered it was allowed to be weird.