Idealised Images
Couture Magic
Vogue Italia
(March 2008)
Shot by Steven Meisel
Vogue Italia
(March 2008)
Shot by Steven Meisel
There is something about the word perfect which makes me uncomfortable. For some reason I often tend to associate perfect with bland. The most beautiful of things always have a flaw, however large or small, and it is that touch of eccentricity and un-perfect that makes it all the more interesting.
This is what I find so alluring about this editorial. Indeed above all else, for me, there is that flaw - there is a sense of the messy and unclean. And yet it is this highly stylised mess that sets it apart. A clean cut editorial of Couture becomes too idealised and runs the risk of becoming bland, for I suppose it is in that way too perfect. However there is a sense of difference and intrigue in this shoot evoked by the somewhat rough edges. Rough edges which I should point out as being luxurious in their imagining. Indeed one only need to look at the supposed smudges, created from burnishing the models in gold and stylised hair and makeup.
It is interesting, exciting and above all beautiful.
Currently playing: Essi Psefti - Despina Ricci
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This is what I find so alluring about this editorial. Indeed above all else, for me, there is that flaw - there is a sense of the messy and unclean. And yet it is this highly stylised mess that sets it apart. A clean cut editorial of Couture becomes too idealised and runs the risk of becoming bland, for I suppose it is in that way too perfect. However there is a sense of difference and intrigue in this shoot evoked by the somewhat rough edges. Rough edges which I should point out as being luxurious in their imagining. Indeed one only need to look at the supposed smudges, created from burnishing the models in gold and stylised hair and makeup.
It is interesting, exciting and above all beautiful.
Currently playing: Essi Psefti - Despina Ricci
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