AOC founding muse Alicia Keyes flexes her muscle, lensed by Nico for Madame Figaro December 2014. Keyes, awaiting the birth of her second child, is the face of Givenchy perfumes. In her interview, Alicia explains that she infuses her recording studio with scent and shares some tough words for fashionistas:

Who are your models, your style icons? The English singer Sade Adu is the ultimate symbol of grace and timeless elegance. Nina Simone also inspires me, forever. She was fiercely itself and defied public opinion. Today we tend to suffer the opinions and prejudices of others, whether our surroundings, our companion, our employer, or more generally the company or the media. It suggests a compliance picture to be “acceptable”. It is oppressive. Nina Simone, she said over and over again: “I am what I am, take it or leave it. “It is a model. She constantly reminds me of the need to be me!