Q&A: Theodora Richards splurges on unicorn-hair shorts

Theodora Richards makes a good save after losing her shoe at the Joe Fresh Style Spring 2010 show. Photography by Angela Y. Martin
Theodora Richards makes a good save after losing her shoe at the Joe Fresh Style Spring 2010 show. Photography by Angela Y. Martin

Theodora Richards—the 25-year-old model progeny of Patti Hansen and Keith Richards—is, you imagine, a high-rolling rock heiress. Mustn’t her trust fund be just heaped with Rolling Stones royalties? And modelling still pays, right? In the past few years, she’s fronted for Burberry, Erin Kleinberg and—alongside big sis Alexandra—French Connection. This spring, she joins fellow rock princesses Daisy Lowe and Pixie Geldof in the high court of C’N’C Costume National models. But then you meet her, fresh off the cheap-and-cheerful Joe Fresh Style runway (where she lost a shoe but bravely kept walking) at LG Fashion Week in Toronto [See the full Joe Fresh Style Spring 2010 show], and she’s all breathlessly chatty, literally in her stockinged feet and talkin’ ’bout her budget woes. Do you feel sympathy for the spawn? Read on.

This article originally appeared in the April issue of FASHION Magazine.

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