Three decades before the entertainment press started showering Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles with praise every time they made an appearance, the actress’s father Lenny Kravitz and his girlfriend at the time, singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, were making headlines for the same reason. Their capacity to coordinate outfits without trying, the way they represented cool without looking for it, and a relationship so discreet it rendered each appearance together a news event, made them one of the most enigmatic couples of the 1990s. Now that the musician’s only daughter has gotten engaged to the former One Direction singer, with each of their paparazzi shots apparently worthy of stylistic autopsy, it seems relevant to look at the intimacy of this relatively short-lived pair — they were together for five years, from 1992 to 1997 — who are nonetheless worthy of posterity, for rather obvious reasons. Both were famous, hot, and rich, but their connection didn’t manage to survive the demands of top-speed personal and professional trajectories.

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