In addition to being an actress and musician, Zoë Kravitz regularly kills it on the fashion front. The Mad Max star, who has broached the subject of race in a few of her recent interviews, covered C Magazine, and talked about the significance of the braids that she’s been sporting as of late.

originally did them as a joke, like an ode to the ’90s,” she says. “They aren’t some symbolic thing, but it still feels important, I think, to be a brown girl with natural hair. You see blond girls with the same hair in every movie.”

Photography by Daniel Jackson, Styling by Mattias Karlsson. Read more at C Magazine.