Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison
Conjure a mental image of Stevie Nicks—conjure being the right word—and you likely see a slight woman in a flowing vintage dress or skirt, draped with scarves, shawls, feathers, and lace, her Goldilocks hair crowned with a top hat or maybe a claret-colored beret.
It’s a look that’s not so much layered as strewn, but whatever you might call it—haute fortune teller? Laurel Canyon sorceress?—it’s crafted. “A long time ago I decided I was going to have a kind of mystical presence,” she once told Interview magazine, “so I made my clothes, my boots, my hair, and my whole being go with that.”
