A close-cropped portrait that is simultaneously a face, a costume, and a worldview. The subject is seen frontally, close enough that the face fills most of the canvas. The hat is enormous — a wide-brimmed form in gray-green with a spiral rosette on the right side — and immediately establishes the painting's obsessive interest in circular, spiral forms that recur throughout Sidney's abstract work.
The eyes are replaced by kaleidoscope spectacles: each lens is a concentric ring of color, one centered on magenta, one on blue, suggesting the subject sees the world through color wheels. The hair falls in stripes of color — red, pink, blue, brown — rather than natural tones, continuing the chromatic transformation. The skin is yellow-green with heavy orange-red shadows, and the face bears a small mustache introducing subtle gender ambiguity.
What Sidney has done here is unusual: he has painted a person who has already become an artwork — whose every element of self-presentation is a consciously aesthetic choice. The spiral spectacles and the hat's rosette are the same motif as Sidney's abstract spiral work, making this a key bridge painting between the figurative and abstract sections of the collection. The title says fashionista but the painting says something deeper about a person who lives inside a self-made visual language.