Courtney Love's previous public fashion choices. PHOTOS: Reuters, AFP

Courtney Love admits Lycra, Spandex and rubber were all bad style choices

Former Hole rocker Courtney Love muses that unlike Kate Moss, she doesn't always nail her fashion attempts

BY Alice Newbold | 23 October 2013

Courtney Love at the premiere of her 1999 film '200 Cigarettes' Photo: Reuters

Courtney Love might have scored herself a Saint Laurent campaign at the ripe age of 49, but the controversial rocker admits her fashion career hasn't always been so successful.

"Obviously Lycra and Spandex and rubber were all bad ideas, but I'm very open," Love admitted to Fashionista. "I always try, but it doesn't mean I'm Kate Moss and always nail it."
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Fashion modesty aside, the former Hole front woman believes "context" has been the cause of some of the style discrepancies against her.
"Kate and I went to a store in Notting Hill and purchased the same exact almost Victorian capelet; I wore mine first and got slammed for it and she wore hers the following week in an identical boho outfit and it was heralded."
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Love also maintains that "weight… and facial beauty" play heavily in public style critique. Nothing to do with Love's penchant for X-rated slashed dresses and nipple flashing, then.
The wife of late musician Kurt Cobain also gave her two pennies' worth on fashion's current penchant for grunge. Despite her affiliation with Saint Laurent, who are waving the grunge trend flag for autumn/winter 2013, Love says "I don't see it anywhere, really. I have always used a flannel shirt as a belt. It's classic in some ways."
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Love, who launched her own fashion line in 2012, instead advises "crust punk" as the next street trend to dabble in. Commenting on the metal-influenced genre that brands itself with pseudo political slogan patches, dread mullets and homemade tattoos, Love said (with what we imagine as a wry smirk): this "ought to be interesting through higher-end designers."

Another of Love's questionnable style choices. PHOTO: Rex