Icon: The Model Now

How the stylings and attitudes of today's top models Agyness Deyn (left) and Coco Rocha (right) recall 1982's Liquid Sky's Margaret and Adrian (middle).

As part of the Museum of Moving Image's Fashion in Film Festival last month, Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky was shown in all its stylish drug poetic glory. Before the screening, the president of the museum revealed he was still in film school when the heroin-and-orgasm-obsessed-aliens-observing-downtown-Manhattan-club-scene-flick was originally released. He explained how it had been considered the coolest of the cool movies among his peers back in the day, and remarked how surreal it felt to be showing it now, 25 years later. The surreal experience continued as the film rolled, realizing much of the underground fashion scene depicted (this was the time of Christy Brinkley covers) has carried over as the popular fashionable attitude of today ("Let's just move to Berlin, baby."). Most of the drama occurs between the two roommates, (and sometimes lovers) Margaret and Adrian, who both channel two of today's top models. Margaret, played by Anne Carlisle, is a tall, lanky, and adrogynous model, and with her bleached cropped cut, is a ringer for the London-to-Lower East Side star Agyness Deyn. As Paula E. Sheppard brings enough furor to her character of the long haired, smiling drug dealer/screaming performance artist Adrian, one can't help but compare her looks to the irish-jigging, killer-runway-faced, Canadian Coco Rocha. It's heroin chic, twice removed.