There is nowt that gets us more hot n' sweaty than a super-hot frontwoman and they don't come much more perfectly packaged than electro-popsters Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano. We first caught Little Dragon at a tiny festival in 2008 and their return gig at London's Corsica Studios this week reminded us why we fell in love with her.

As fashion front women go, Nagano's got it goin' on. Covered in gigantic snaking tatts, she's a Swedish-Japanese cultural powerhouse that plays with geometric patterns, fringing and subverting feminine an masculine sensibilities. And it works oh-so-well so well.  

Musically her voice hop, skips and jumps from a whisper to an undulating high note that's both haunting yet angelic and these contrasts are totally reflected in her style. Already appropriated by the fash-pack, the group performed at Hugo Boss' S/S12 show and Nagano is BFF's with designer Ann Louise Landelius who designs a lot of her avant-garde stage outfits.

Right now we need Yukimi Nagano more than ever; she's the indispensable antidote to the now, tiresome Gaga and predictably hyper-sexualized blandness of Rihanna and Katy Perry. Stick to the pages of heat magazine while we wait for our dentist appointment girls, when it comes to who really gets our juices flowing, we want girls in bands.

Little Dragon's new single Ritual Union is released july 26th

Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:43:18 by Alice Nyong