We Like Your Style: Leila Moss from The Duke Spirit

Fashion is a terrain awash with Moss overgrowth, but since Kate has become a little too ubiquitous, there's more than enough room to cultivate a new species. Frontwoman of band-you-should-know-about The Duke Spirit, Leila Moss makes the list as both an antidote to the current conspicuous lack of legitimate female figureheaded rock & roll, and as a study in style swagger. Leila is tux jackets, skinny jeans, and flat boots all the better for stomping in; rolled-up sleeves rather than bare flesh, and a relentless tambourine arm.

Far from being blonde decoration, Leila is an exercise in kinetic stage power: with a pinch of Patti Smith's potent androgyny, and mussed-up tresses parked between Debbie Harry's hue and Chrissie Hynde's face-skimming layers. This look is cut-glass cheekbones, heavy-duty liner over lashes in bootstrap black, and a monochrome wardrobe all the way. We love Leila because she holds firm the line for girls in bands to look like girls in bands: not tankini-clad video girls, but just like boys in bands, only better. And for those of us with no discernible musical talent, girls like Leila Moss who push the throwback rockstar look offer at least the chance to clamber on the tour bus and play style groupies. Let us in, bouncer; we're here for the muse.