Decorative Coloured Birch Twigs and branches - White - 90cm's - 25 Stems

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Decorative Coloured Birch Twigs and branches - White - 90cm's - 25 Stems

Decorative Coloured Birch Twigs and branches - White - 90cm's - 25 Stems

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The mixtape is on a different wavelength from her previous work. Less ethereal and musically abstract, it’s upbeat and linear. Darjeeling, which features Jorja Smith and Unknown T, for example, sees twigs swap the sensual falsetto delivery and eerie melodies that feature on the Mercury-nominated LP1, for a UK drill beat and cadence. I can’t sing high and on one note for the rest of my career. It’s insane to do that. My fans are going to have to move with me. Or not

This isn’t a move towards mainstream pop, though. In fact, twigs doesn’t listen to and doesn’t care about what people want her to do. “It’s a trap,” she says. “I’ve written massive pop songs, but no one will ever hear them. If it doesn’t feel natural, I can’t put it out. I just need to do what I want to do.” Conscious of her time, we wrap things up. As we say our thank yous and goodbyes, twigs retreats into her phone as her PR ushers me out. It’s really sad, but a lot of abusers use the same tactics,” she says. “Once you know the language, you can be like, ‘No, I’m not confused by this. This is what’s going on.’ On reflection, it’s been very healing for me to think about the situations I’ve been in and know now that that was love-bombing and gaslighting. I’ve got the words for it. And if I feel confused, I can YouTube it. I can read about it. I can talk to people about it.” The best thing about coming forward, she tells me, is helping people to understand the language around abuse (she has spoken out about why victims shouldn’t be asked why they don’t leave). Since coming forward, she’s been able to heal from her relationship and step away from it all. Now, she’s supporting those close to her. Twigs describes herself as a private person, but she’s open about the things that matter most. In 2020, she shared her domestic abuse story after filing a lawsuit against LaBeouf. She accused him of threatening, trapping and choking her, as well as knowingly infecting her with an STD. They had met on the set of the film Honey Boy, and dated for almost a year, but the relationship turned dark. The experiences she describes going through are harrowing. LaBeouf allegedly banned her from looking other men in the eye, and threatened to crash a car unless she professed her love for him.

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One new song in particular on Caprisongs, Papi Bones, shows her pride in her Caribbean roots. “Truth stay, vibe never realer,” she sings over a buoyant dancehall beat. Trips to Jamaica have helped her to connect with her heritage. Her grandparents, who are now in their 90s and live in Manchester, Jamaica, are her muses. “They’re still together and they’ve got this cheeky romance,” she says. “There’s a romance to Caribbean culture that people don’t always think of initially. You can go out to a West Indian club and you can dance with someone for a song and it can be so intimate and amazing. In that moment, you’re lovers. It means everything, but it means nothing.” While she might not believe her skill, talent or dexterity make her special, there are elements of her character – brutal honesty and a reluctance to shy away from the darkest parts of herself – that do. Earlier, she said to me: “I think vulnerability is really hot. Am I supposed to lie about how I’m feeling or what happened today? I don’t have secrets. I’m not ashamed of anything.” The ultimate expression of the twig tree, however, has to be the illuminated display. Whether you add your own LED lights or get one of our pre-lit trees off the shelf, they can make a stunning spectacle that’s definitely festive in appearance. The tiny lights can stud the whole lengths of all the twigs, which has the effect of creating a bathing patch of light all around them. But the lights can also simply be at the ends of the twigs, that has the effect of those classic fibre optic ornaments, but with a real natural touch. Twigs moved to south London, aged 17, to pursue a career as a dancer. She attended the Brit School and then transferred to Croydon College to study fine arts. A gig as a cabaret dancer in an underground circus gave her confidence. She went on to dance in music videos for Kylie Minogue, Jessie J and even Peter Andre, though she hated it. Speaking to the Observer in 2014, she said: “Do you think I want to be dressed up as a puppet?” She also worked selling shots in a bar for a while, but it was getting spotted on a night out by photographer Matthew Stone that changed things. He ended up shooting her for the cover of i-D magazine in 2012, and that same year she started recording music, putting out her first release, EP1, independently. But not all our twig trees are made of natural wood. We also have a collection of artificial ones, which have been dreamt up by our designers into really interesting forms, but still look completely authentic.

If the colour of my skin means I have to try harder, I’ll do it,’ says twigs. Photograph: Aidan Zamiri/The Guardian LaBeouf has responded to the claims, saying that “many of these allegations are not true”, but said that he is “committed to doing what I need to do to recover, and I will forever be sorry to the people that I may have harmed along the way”. Twigs has filed a civil lawsuit against LaBeouf which will be heard next year. Twigs refers to herself as a “bursary kid”, having got a scholarship to go to a Catholic private school. “I was incredibly well educated,” she says. “I went to a beautiful school with beautiful grounds.” Those years were formative for her. It was when she harnessed her artistic abilities, and took opera and ballet lessons. She doesn’t keep in touch with her school friends, though. “There’s no beef with anyone,” she says. “But at the same time, with love, I need to leave that in the past. Making fun of my hair or telling me that it’s greasy, or that it smells funny, because I’ve put a product in it – that’s racist. And that was even some of my best friends. It made it really hard for me. I didn’t feel like I could be myself.”Dress: Erdem. Styling: Matthew Josephs. Hair: Louis Silvestre. Makeup: Lauren Reynolds for Pat McGrath Labs. Nails: Liga Tukmane at Carol Hayes Management. Photograph: Aidan Zamiri/The Guardian

On stage at the 2022 NME awards, where she won the Godlike Genius award. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Does she have a self-care routine? She looks at me, baffled: “What? Like moisturising? What do you mean?” Perhaps it’s presumptuous to assume all celebrities are like Gwyneth Paltrow, spending unlimited hours on their mental and physical wellbeing, but I can’t help but feel sisterly concern. “I’m not very good at sleeping. But last night I got about seven hours. That’s quite impressive.” It was her first album, 2014’s LP1, that really made a splash, with the opulent video for lead single Two Weeks, directed by Nabil Elderkin, being nominated for best visual effects and best cinematography at the 2015 MTV Video Music awards. She also started dating Pattinson around this time, which pushed her into the paparazzi spotlight. The pair were together from 2014 to 2017, and during this period twigs experienced horrific racist abuse from Twilight fans. She doesn’t like talking about the relationship publicly. Who would want to relive such trauma, inflicted by strangers, again and again?



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