EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Georgia May Jagger On Her Minnie Mouse Show And The ‘Terrifying’ Catwalk

You think ‘Minnie’, you think ‘Mouse’, right? Well, as of this weekend, you’ll also think of something else – or more specifically, someone else. Because if you head down to the Minnie: Style Icon exhibition at Blacks Club on Dean Street today, there’s no way on earth you can leave without thinking ‘Minnie’ and then ‘May’ – Georgia May.

Curator of Minnie: Style Icon, model and photographer Georgia May Jagger has teamed up with Disney and the BFC to produce a mesmerising display of Minnie memorabilia; a show which explores the cartoon character's influence on fashion and popular culture.

‘I’m quite a Disney obsessed person,’ she tells me, when we sit down for a natter in Soho Hotel. ‘Me and my sister – she’s 31 – we’re still full-on watching Pocahontas and singing along…’

Dressed in an Ashley Williams dress, a diamanté choker from Jack Wills and sporting a Mulberry bag that she designed – with her hair half up in two cute ‘Minnie ear’ buns – Jagger is everything you’d imagine she’d be: stunning, stylish, achingly cool.

I ask what her LFW essential item is – expecting her to say something like ‘my phone’ – but instead she responds: ‘just having friends around.’

She’s walking the catwalk this week, though she wouldn’t say who for. That said, she did describe what 'catwalking' in general is like: ‘Terrifying’.

‘I’m very bad at… anything where you feel all eyes on you,’ she says, earnestly – which rather begs the question, why do it at all? ‘I don’t know!’ she sighs. ‘[Before a show] I’m like: “I don’t know if I can do this”. And then I get off it and I’m like: “Ah, I had so much fun!”

When it happens, I don’t feel I have control of my body. I know that I’m walking but I could quite easily not be. It sort of feels like you’re looking at yourself from above and you’re like: ‘Oh my god, oh my god!”

‘I can’t drink coffee before because of the nerves,’ she continues. ‘I drink a lot of coffee normally… It’s funny, I usually get more nervous in the run through because [of the] build-up… [But] then when it gets to it, I’m like “Oh”… It’s over in a second… I only like doing shows for people that I really support.’

And speaking of shows, on to *Minnie: Style Icon. *Like Jagger herself, it’s pretty impressive. Comprising of a number of Minnie-inspired photographs – some featuring self-portraits of (and taken by) Jagger – it also includes stills from Disney’s first Mickey and Minnie cartoon Plane Crazy (1929) and even… wait for it… the original Minnie inspo: the Knickerboker Minnie Mouse doll.

Yes, original.

‘The idea is, I’m the ‘gothy’ teenager with Minnie, and we’re at home on the sofa,’ she says of one of the shots, which features on the downstairs wall of Blacks. ‘Instead of some big epic Disney back drop, [I wanted] to do something that was more, ‘around the house, chilling out, teenager vibe’.’

Using double exposure, she reshot onto the film, scenic views from the Caribbean – rolling waves, trees and such – and snubbing the use of Photoshop, printed the shots as they were.

‘I did some pictures without the double exposure cos I was worried that maybe it wouldn’t come out,’ she says. ‘But that’s not really my style… Nowadays so much photography and fashion looks so similar, so it’s nice to have something [different] in every photo that’s a bit of a trademark.’

When she’s not busy working, Jagger – who is, don't forget, the daughter of Rolling Stones’ Mick and actress Jerry Hall – likes to spend time in the London home she has recently bought; a house the 23-year-old paid for entirely by herself. ‘I’ve been planning it from when I was 16,’ she says. ‘Part of the reason I’ve been working all this time is [because] I wanted to have my own space… I’m such a homebody. I like cooking and having people over and that sort of thing.’

We discuss the newly designed Jagger house interiors and, much to my amusement, she tells me she’s built a Minnie Mouse bathroom (with red and white polka dots, in case you were wondering). Sadly not Disney-themed is her closet, which is ‘a room’, and the designers in it include: Ashley Williams, Shrimps – who she’s recently got in to – Vivienne Westwood, Sandro and Rag + Bone. With such a blend of different styles, I wonder what she considers her own to be. ‘I just mix vintage and designer,’ she responds. ‘I don’t know what you would call that…’

‘I’ve been raised by Mum to think that fashion should be about fun,’ she says, and explains said ‘fashion fun’ includes the polka dots and petticoats of Minnie. ‘Most of clothes that I’m drawn towards are quite zany so I feel like we have that in common.’

Minnie and Georgia May: the ‘zany’ duo? I’m down with that.

Minnie: Style Icon will be housed at Blacks Club, Dean Street, London, and is open to the public on 19th and 20th September 2015. More information on the exhibition and registration for tickets is available on the Blacks Club website: blacksclub.com

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