All trussed up in their naked dresses at last week's Met Ball, celebrities were dressing for work, not for sexual attraction. Their bodies are their tools on such occasions.
All trussed up in their naked dresses at this week’s Met Ball, celebrities were dressing for work, not for sexual attraction. Their bodies are their tools on such occasions.
Such nudity, though, is artificial, a device to provoke digital clicks rather than to stimulate any of the feelings that most people feel when they are nude or are triggered in the viewer. I remember clearly the mortification as an 11-year-old when my mother, never worried about anyone seeing her naked, flung open a changing room curtain in Kids In Gear in Chelsea’s King’s Road while I was trying on a pair of velvet loons. And that was only exposing my Chilprufe vest.It was the first time I realised that I regarded my body as private. Now I have no issue with being naked – a hospital appointment, a swimming pool changing room, a sauna, my partner.
Despite New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art rejecting her suggestion that he be the subject of this year’s Costume Institute Exhibition, Wintour – never one to be put off her mission – managed to keep him centre stage on this high-profile night, persuading many, including Zendaya, Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande, to wear extraordinary gowns designed by this recently vilified figure.
In its heyday, Matchesfashion, under founding couple Tom and Ruth Chapman, was one of the great supporters of new designers and placed meaningful orders that gave them a foothold in the business. Now, the recent large orders placed by Matchesfashion have turned into a horrible albatross. While the business still sells online, any payment goes to the liquidators and will never be seen by the designers who, in some cases, will be catastrophically out of pocket.
Regardless, the election process is meant to be confidential so we shouldn’t be able to know who the first females to be proposed will be. But secrets of the membership to the Garrick have now become more leaky than who’s been leading the latest charge against Rishi Sunak.For the purposes of research, I just counted and found I own 21 lipsticks. But that didn’t prevent me going to Space NK on Thursday to buy an Augustinus Bader X Sofia Coppola tinted lip balm.
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