I'm perusing "Paris Fashion Week: Pamela Anderson sits front row at joyless Valentino show" (The Telegraph).
Next came the news from the French philosopher/art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, writing in 2009: “Fireflies haven’t disappeared... We’re just too blind to see them. It’s the incapacity of an atrophied gaze to read signs of hope in the night.”
This model best exemplifies the mood. Look what fascism is doing to people!
Bones and silk, for that awkwardly bumpy look.
Anyway, was the venue at the Valentino show "uncompromisingly ugly"? That's a judgment call. I really want to know the facts about what Pam said about "fascism and fireflies." I like alliteration. I envision an alphabet book — illustrated by A.I. — that has "fascism and fireflies" for F.
What can we do for the other letters? A is for anarchy and angel food cake....
But I end up using A.I. to figure out what Pam actually said, and — I'll cut the snark — it was quite eloquent. If I am to believe Grok, Pam did not "lecture." She sat in the front row and the audience heard her voice in a prerecorded script-reading.
She read something that the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote to a friend in 1941 when he was 19 and living in Mussolini's Italy: “The night I told you about, we saw an immense amount of fireflies... They made little woods of fire inside little woods of bushes and we envied them so much... The ever-changing gleam of desire, one that keeps burning despite the unsettling shadows of our present.”
Then Anderson read something Pasolini had written in 1975 — "The Disappearance of the Fireflies" (Scomparsa delle lucciole) — when the bright lights of the "new fascism" of consumerism had somehow extinguished the fireflies.
She read something that the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote to a friend in 1941 when he was 19 and living in Mussolini's Italy: “The night I told you about, we saw an immense amount of fireflies... They made little woods of fire inside little woods of bushes and we envied them so much... The ever-changing gleam of desire, one that keeps burning despite the unsettling shadows of our present.”
Then Anderson read something Pasolini had written in 1975 — "The Disappearance of the Fireflies" (Scomparsa delle lucciole) — when the bright lights of the "new fascism" of consumerism had somehow extinguished the fireflies.
Next came the news from the French philosopher/art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, writing in 2009: “Fireflies haven’t disappeared... We’re just too blind to see them. It’s the incapacity of an atrophied gaze to read signs of hope in the night.”
Nice speech, but is it the fault of our "atrophied gaze" if that depressed, skeletal model reads as hopelessness?
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The Warsaw Ghetto look is so 1945.
Fashion and frogs. Ribbit.
So if a fashion show is joyless, it avoids the accusation of consumerism?
This look is not appealing to guys. Is it the gals' Choice? Or a fetus... feature of... uh, an alternative persuasion. Queer and progressive, a wicked appropriation of fashionable grooming a century earlier with DEIst motivation.
There are pop culture theories that Pasolini arranged his own death.
Consumerism: the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods.
I suspect the people running this fashion show very much want to sell their fashionable wares to ... consumers. Even to New Fascist consumers.
Not that anyone cares but a healthy fashion industry would be way more catty about this…
Bones and silk, for that awkwardly bumpy look.
Zing!
Well done.
“Go out there with big smiles. There’s no point in being sullen.”
-Ed Sullivan, The Doors
CAROLYN: Where's Jane?
LESTER: Jane not home. We have the whole house to ourselves. Christ, Carolyn. When did you become so joyless?
CAROLYN: Joyless? I am not joyless. There happens to be a lot about me that you don't know, Mr. Smarty Man. There's plenty of joy in my life.
LESTER: Whatever happened to that girl who used to fake seizures at frat parties when she got bored? Who used to run up to the roof of our first apartment building to flash the traffic helicopters? Have you totally forgotten about her? Because I haven't.
CAROLYN: Lester, you're going to spill beer on the couch.
LESTER: So what? It's just a couch.
CAROLYN: This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.
LESTER: It's just a couch! This isn't life! This is just stuffIt's just a couch! This isn't life! This is just stuff, and it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts.
Socialism and skeletons is a historical analogy from that period of Diversity, Equivocation, and Indoctrination.
The Pussy rack is an unfurnished state for a Hat hung on a fashionable dress and boyish jubilee in a market with privileged consumption.
This is a wonderful article if you’re interested in fashion and what passes for our glitterati today. 130 photos with nice detailed descriptions. Thank you.
I guess they decided to continue pushing body positive but on the other end of the spectrum.
Fascism in France must be a fashionable dig at Macron.
I can relate to the joyless face and downcast eyes. I see it a lot while trying to navigate the excrement and drug needles on city sidewalks.
Thanks Kevin @7:01am. That scene from American Beauty stayed with me long after leaving the theater.
That's exactly right. The world has always been an unfathomly beautiful place combined with unspeakable depravity and ugliness. We each of us choose how to see the world. How we see the world either uplifts our souls or destroys our spirit.
The difference in the two attitudes is fear.
@suchomimus9921 commenting on a censored video of a Ukraine strike on Russia "pixelated like a Japanese beaver," a turn of phrase that has apparently struck Taiwan.
Maybe think of fashion as pixelation. It seems to fit this show mostly.
Look what the left is doing to young people, making them miserable and sick when they should be enjoying the best years of their lives. That girl is a symbol of what they are doing to young people because they are miserable and sick.
Gotta move those shmattes.
Fear of fascists is the fashion.
Is it really fascism without Hugo Boss?
Speaking of fascists and fashion, I really enjoyed the first season of "The New Look"* and am hoping for a second season. I don't see any news about when the season will start, just that it will shift focus from Christian to other designers after his death. That does not sound enticing to me, but they did a good job with the first season, so I guess I'll just have to trust them on this.
*But not as much as "Murderbot".
Fashion is for self-absorbed world dwellers. The left whine about capitalism - but that is capitalism on parade. The only takers are leftists. Fine by me.
yick. Waste of time and money.
Put a sombrero on that girl.
Why do all models look so unhappy?
At least Lana Del Ray looked nice. And happy with her red neck husband.
Fashion is the ultimate fascism..
Howard: "The difference in the two attitudes is fear."
These days it's also a very accurate indicator of which party you vote for.
If only we had universal antifa-thugs - then life would be full of abundance and love.
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” - Emerson
The louder they shout fascism...
External fake-Fascist Fear mongering creates internal Auschwitz.
Luckily, normals have a very simple antidote for "Bones and silk, for that awkwardly bumpy look." Sydney Sweeney in real American jeans.
There is nobody I count on for an intelligent take more than a woman who has always been smoking hot, and so nobody ever told her she was wrong. So yeah, Pamela Anderson is just the person I would go to to understand the complex interplay of political power and dynamics. After all, she needs housekeepers, cooks, and gardeners, and we plebes just can't understand it. And if our wages get too high, the wealthy men she hangs out with would have to pay higher wages to their workers, leaving them less for their sumptuous yachts plying the Mediterranean or South Seas, or wherever they feel like taking her!
Give me fireflies and fascism over anarchy and angel food cake, any day (the so-called women in these shows could do with some angel food cake, if you ask me).
The model in the photograph is not the offspring of fascism, she is the punch line of a nasty joke created by really viscious homosexual men - "You like beautiful women, boys? Here, eat this shit :-) !"
OK, I get it. This has nothing to do with clothing that makes a woman attractive or confident; it's ART!!! No woman in her right mind is going for this "look". No guy who can afford it and wants some sweet arm candy is reaching for his wallet.
And, it's ART only because some asshole told you it is. Possibly the same critic who'd get a woody llooking at a painting of Whoopi taking a dump on Melania.
Sad, really. My MIL was a top Powers model in the 1940s (covers and commercial). I lived with three young women doing the same, 40 years ago - delightful people fully enjoying their youth and beauty to the max. My best friend was a guy from Oz who transitioned to the other side of the lens and is still shooting some of the most beautiful women in the world and dares to call it "work".
Aside: "French philosopher/art historian" - does DOGE know this person is still on the payroll?
Are we having fun yet?
Fashion, like all other institutions dominated by leftists, is a sinkhole of sexual harassment, ruthless exploitation and disposal of the weak and powerless and monstrous levels of income inequality.
Anyone else try to watch the new Netflix series "Ed Gein". After 15 minutes, turned it off --- appalled, absolutely appalled by what is clearly director's intent to create textbook instruction on amoral psychopathic behavior norms. Most movies and streaming content media sites are mired in dystopian anti-social dreck. Depressing as heck, but also luring viewers to accept these anti-social and amoral characters as societal norms. Same as violent video games. And now, apparently, also emulated by high fashion design houses, led by celebrity designer celebrating their own amoral anti-social personalities.
“There's a brand new dance but I don't know its name
That people from bad homes do again and again
It's big and it's bland, full of tension and fear
They do it over there but we don't do it here
Fashion! Turn to the left
Fashion! Turn to the right
Ooh, fashion!
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep-beep
Beep-beep”
—— David Bowie
Rich gotta rationalize.
Is reference to "the bulge" to note the pronounced hip bone, or what appears to be male genitalia below the navel?
Model photo reminds me of Duchess of Wales Kate at Trump dinner at Windsor Castle. She also looks remarkedly skeletal and unwell. Media and fashion industry once promoted images of very young very beautiful thin teenage girls as the aesthetic perfection. Now they promote sullen androgynous skeletal look as the goal for fashionable women, leading me to conclude media, fashion industry, and trans-activists all want to erase cis-gender women altogether.
n.n said...This look is not appealing to guys. Is it the gals' Choice?
Supposedly the clothes hang better on skinny models. They're supposed to be hangers with pretty faces.
NKP - I remember reading, years ago, a very cogent argument that couture shows were pretty much 100% a game of gay men who hate straight women (especially normies). The writer was using the '80s supermodels as part of his evidence - the manly silhouettes (broad shoulders, narrow hips) except for big boobs and round buttocks, the thick eyebrows, the hard jawlines. If memory serves, he was writing during the '90s maybe? Or early aughts? and pointed out that the "heroin chic" models all looked like androgynous twinks.
So basically all models were supposed to evoke attractive (to gay men) gay men, and women were to be pounded over the head with "this is what you have to look and dress like in order to be beautiful, even though we all know you can't." He did not except that era's Victoria's Secret models - same broad shoulders, narrow hips, but with strategic fat deposits to help them fill out the lingerie.
I wish I could remember who wrote that piece. I'm definitely not doing it justice.
They're supposed to be hangers with pretty faces
Yes yes some designers even don’t want pretty faces. Banal, alike…
Miss Anderson should take her ass back to Canada then. Fuck successful rich immigrants bitching about conditions in the US. Maybe Canada will work out better for her.
The Corrupt Democrat Party is Pure EVIL.
Figure it out.
That model in the blue dress — bring her to Wisconsin and get some meat on her bones with brats and beers.
"Supposedly the clothes hang better on skinny models. "
That's like the joke about the Bulaski suit. A guy comes into some money, decides can finally afford a good suit, so he asks around, and everybody tells him that Bulaski is the best tailor around, and so he goes there, gets fitted, and waits, and finally the suit is ready for the final fitting, and he goes in, tries it on, but one arm is a little long, and Bulaski tells him "Just hold your other shoulder a little high" and he does, and it fits, but the collar is uneven, but Bulaski says "Just hold your head a little to the side." He's getting a little suspicious, but everybody says that he is the best, so he goes along. Then he tries on the pants, and one leg is longer than the other, and Bulaski tells him to walk with his hips turned sideways, and his leg a little splayed. He thinks, "well, this guy is the best," so he walks out into the street, and on the street he meets a guy who says "Wow, that suit fits you so well, it must be a Bulaski suit!" and now the man is proud, and he says, "It sure is! How did you know!" and the guy says "Only Bulaski could fit a cripple like you!"
Just curious. I wonder if any of those forty to sixty million people who starved to death on collective farms ever got to think any poetic thoughts about fireflies? I guess death by starvation doesn't inspire poetic thoughts the way resistance to fascism does.
"Is reference to "the bulge" to note the pronounced hip bone, or what appears to be male genitalia below the navel?"
Gazing into the shadows of the crotch, I see a bat in the hanging upside down position.
In Europe they are being flooded with propaganda that anybody who opposes their war over who rules over some Russian speakers in the territory of the former Soviet Union that had been traditionally Russian for centuries, longer than the US has been a country, are "fascists," and since opposition to involvement in the war is very widespread in Europe, you can find a "fascist" under ever rock.
A fascist in Europe is somebody who opposes government policy, which is of course so anti-fascist, that regrettably, they have to ban free speech, and imprison their political opponents.
"Supposedly the clothes hang better on skinny models."
Yeah, that was already a well-worn idea when Marilyn Monroe said it to Tony Curtis, who was in drag, in "Some Like It Hot" in 1959: "Clothes hang better on you than they do on me."
Are we sure this model isn't a transgender? That face and figure look mannish.
And yes, isn't it so awful today. Things were so different in October 2024, the birds were singing the song of freedom and progress was on the march. Fireflies were dancing in the dark to the flickering hope that President kamala would be elected.
Then the darkness of facism fell up on the world. The torch has gone out. The fireflies have gone dark. Rosie is in exile. But things will change.
There's a non-conspiratorial explanation for skinny models. A runway show is a complex logistical operation. You're making the clothes, by hand, ahead of time. You're matching them up with models you've ordered sight unseen. You don't have the time or material to make a lot of alterations right before the show - and even if you did, it might totally disrupt your look. So you want 'standard size' girls you can just put the clothes on, with little or no adjustment. Height is easy - they're either that height or not. As far as horizontal size, it's easier to have everyone diet down to leanness than to have them put on weight, with more individual variations. Et voila the tall skinny model.
It probably also 'helped' that French women tend to be thin anyway, and postwar French women were really thin from wartime rationing.
Gays actually tend to like voluptuous women from an aesthetic perspective - see, eg, Real Housewives, What Not to Wear, and how the designers squee with delight when the plus size girls show up on Project Runway. CC, JSM
I didn't sign in to The Telegraph, but I did see the three photos at the top, and those three people could easily pass for the young front men of rock bands patterned on Aerosmith.
A famous simpleton, possibly Wallis Simpson, a woman who through her greed and arrogance inadvertently saved Great Britain from a genuinely fascist king, once said, "A woman can never be to rich or too thin." Mrs. Simpson was quite svelte, but her bones didn't show. She hoped to approach being too rich like an asymptotic function, but her fascist king was forced to abdicate.
As for those too thin "fashion models", no wonder they wear the face of despair, it's a classic symptom of bulimia nervosa. One may despise Victoria's Secret for its cheap sexploitative marketing and overseas workforce, but at least its models are well-fed.
Simpleton, Simpson, asymptotic, symptom -- one uncommon digraph repeated in four different words in a very short rhetorical piece. Even Aristotle didn't think of that one.
OK, I read the whole post now, and I would delete my comments, but better to leave them and feel sheepish.
If you gaze long into a crotch...
OMG! Trump is starving the models. NAZI!
John Mosby: if you had watched enough seasons of Project Runway with your granddaughter like I did, you would know that it is very easy for seamstresses too alter fashionable clothing to quickly fit the model either like a glove or gunny sack depending on the aesthetic. These are the pros from Dover. Just because you don't like the product doesn't mean that the people that make it happen are technically incompetent.
Lana Del Rey has lived rent free in my head since I saw that Doin' Time music video
So, trans males have a heterosexual kink, which explains the progress of simulants in the transgender spectrum. Transsocial is a poor imitation. They want their same sex and feminine gender, too. The female sex on womb farms. Queer.
Fashion shows at that "level" are consumerism with all the benefit to the consumer abstracted away, leaving only the masturbatory fantasies of the "artists".
Unlike, say, car shows, which still include actual automobiles. (Until Jaguar's PR firm gets its way.)
Can someone buy the poor fashion model just one ham sandwich?
The gloomy girl in the blue dress looks a whole lot like my first wife. Thanks for reminding me.
The "devil with a blue dress on" runway model actually looks like Kamala's stepdaughter (and Ben Affleck's daughter - without the mask - who made a speech at the UN)
Ella Emhoff: https://tinyurl.com/372y22zr
Violet Affleck https://tinyurl.com/mr49emaw
The model is pouting because they wouldn't let her wear makeup.
“Gazing into the shadows of the crotch, I see a bat in the hanging upside down position.”
Rawlings or Louisville Slugger?
That dress would look great on Sydney Sweeney.
Howard: " if you had watched enough seasons of Project Runway with your granddaughter like I did, you would know that it is very easy for seamstresses too alter fashionable clothing to quickly fit the model "
Well, I don't have a granddaughter, but I have watched a lot of PR, and your point is well taken. However, most PR episodes are one designer:one model, or sometimes more than one designer per model. Also, the designers usually have more fabric than they need from their trip to Mood. Or they can cheat with endless supplies of muslin. And the design shop, "factory," and runway are all close together, so all those resources are available to fix dress/model mismatch. None of these things are true if you are a commercial design house needing to show a dozen looks in Milan today, then in NYC next week, and Paris the week after that (or whatever order the Fashion Weeks are in).
Also, there are a lot of PR episodes where the designer for whatever reason runs out of fabric or whatever and the model winds up with some bizarre nip slip or beaver-patrol shot. Great drama for a Bravo show, but not a great thing to have happen in Milan if millions of orders are riding on it. CC, JSM
looks a little like piper pirabo, who was on the spy series and yellowstone, as the ditzy environmentalist who got a little of the medicine due her,
I miss Baywatch and those long discussions Pam had with Hasselhoff about Italian neo-realism, existentialism, entomology, and Eurocommunism.
"Leora said...
That dress would look great on Sydney Sweeney."
Sydney is selling a lot of denim with that same look on her face.
The Left are in a psychotic tailspin. What side of the brain is the "emotion" side? That's the side that the Fireflies are in right now.
She looks miserable. Starvation would do that to you.
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