“Anything which makes life more bizarre makes life a bit more bearable,” Marianne says of her own inclination to dress in men’s clothes.“Dresses are too fussy, too feminine for me.” Did she reject that sort of femininity?“I don’t think about it at all. (…) You see, I don’t care about people’s reaction to what I wear and I’ve generally had a good reaction anyway.”
Marianne Faithfull modelling an Ossie Clark suit for “Cosmopolitan” | April 1974 | Photographed by Norman Eales | Scan and retouching by Faithfull Forever