One To Follow: Langley Fox
…another famous granddaughter
Langley Fox isn’t just a pretty face. She’s got degrees from Parson’s and Otis in illustration and has worked with some of the world’s leading designers. Creativity runs through her veins: she’s the great granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, but certainly doesn’t ride on his coat tails. She gave up her famous surname in favour of her middle name, giving her a more anonymous start to her career.
Working with the designers such as Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton line her career is being propelled in the right direction. The illustration above is based off A Moveable Feast by Hemingway. It was commissioned for Louis Vuitton’s Timeless Muses exhibition in Tokyo. The series was originally done in ink and accompanied by scans of the original manuscript of Hemingway’s handwriting from the novel.
Even though her work has been inspired by her famous roots, she wants to be separated from her familial ties, which are famously cursed. Her mother, Mariel Hemingway is an Oscar nominated actress and her most recent project is titled Running from Crazy. Fox makes a brief appearance, and Hemingway explains her reasonings behind airing her family’s laundry:
“I want to change the dynamic and … the viewpoint that it’s not a family of tragedies,” Mariel Hemingway emphasizes in the trailer for the film directed by two-time academy award winner Barbara Kopple. “It’s actually a family of complete and total embracive joy.”
She’s been modelling part-time while pursuing illustration contracts such as the one above for Made Her Think. She was recently asked if she would be seen next season on the catwalk during New York fashion week, she quipped:
“If I do, I just pray they have flat shoes that are small because I have mini feet (unlike every other model).”
Her favourite series of mine is a commission for Love Magazine featuring sketches from back stage at the SS14 Louis Vuitton show. The image above is of Marc Jacobs doing last touches before the models walk.
The Daily Beast wrote an interesting piece on her here, and to see more of her work, visit her personal site here.
