"It was her hair that got me," says photo agent Jen Brill, upon discovering the pop singer whose debut EP, As If, sees release tomorrow. The hair—a Cousin It tangle of curls outsized for her miniature frame—and look has also garnered the attention of Franceisco Costa, and she’s recently featured in no less than a CK1 campaign, shot by Steven Meisel.
Brill heard about Ferreira from her friends in downtown rock-pop band The Virgins; she’d covered and remixed their song, and given it an impressive and ambitious turn-around. And while the 18-year-old LA transplant to the East Village has quickly established herself as a mainstay in New York, she’s kept her sugar-coated, even Europop-inflected sensibility, first evidenced on her UK-chart-topping single, "One." "She’s totally different… She’s a little pop star," says Brill.
Here’s a condensed version of the friends’ recent conversation, in which they discuss New York in the eyes of a teenage girl, and compliments from André Leon Talley: