Love & Passion Quote by Isaac Mizrahi

Mizrahi’s phrasing has the clipped, backstage cadence of someone who thinks in silhouettes and surfaces: “his face was very new.” Not handsome in the traditional, leading-man sense; new in the way fashion craves novelty, a break in the visual regime. He’s pinpointing the moment when desire stops being about symmetry and starts being about vibe, attitude, and cultural permission.

Calling Jagger’s face “new” also smuggles in a history of what came before: the clean-cut, studio-polished masculinity of midcentury pop. Jagger arrives with sharper angles, a more elastic mouth, an air of misbehavior. Mizrahi, a designer attuned to how bodies read as symbols, is tracking a shift in the marketplace of attraction. “It became a sex symbol” is tellingly passive; the transformation isn’t framed as Jagger declaring himself sexy, but as the culture manufacturing a meaning around him. Sex appeal here is less biological fact than social consensus, assembled by cameras, fan hysteria, and the era’s hunger for transgression.

The subtext is that “sex symbol” isn’t a compliment so much as an assignment. Jagger’s look gets converted into a usable icon: androgynous, insolent, slightly alien. Mizrahi’s interest is diagnostic, not reverent. He’s describing how pop stardom works like branding: introduce an unfamiliar face, let the public project onto it, then watch that projection harden into an archetype. “New” becomes the engine of desire, and Jagger becomes proof that modern sex appeal can be invented in real time.