Accessories are kind of important, but only if you have the time to put them on. When I get up in the morning I have 1/4 of a brain. I usually write things on my hand at night so I wake up and have them printed on my face. It's purpose is so I can look in the mirror and be reminded to go to the bank, to remember to bring my computer, whatever. Usually, however, this doesn't work out the way I planned. I get up, and walk out of the apartment without the things I need, without looking at myself in the mirror and, most importantly, without washing the ink off my face. I'm sure Chanel would love me.
It's such a comforting feeling to know that your in style without even trying to be. For that moment in life you can just be-and be accepted that way too! A rare situation. So I will embrace this moment: The moment of temporary tattoos, or, in my case, temporary ink stains. Which are essentially the same thing. The new trend is about to hit stores after its subsequently hitting of runways on this Spring 2010's fashion week and will spill onto clothes as well as skin as we see Gautier's stockings. I am more interested in skin tattoos. Clothes tattoos remind me of those tee shirts in Filene's Basement that I really liked when I was 11. As much as I love being in the center of the fashion world, something about these "Les Tromp L'Oeil de CHANEL" tattoos is strange.
I always wanted a tattoo, but never a real one. In order for me to get a tattoo I would have to survive something like a mountain lion attack and get a mountain lion tooth tattoo on my temple: The tattoo would be my crest, my gift and my curse, not to be too up front about it, but a battle wound. Or I see a tattoo as being the tribal tattoo. The beautiful curves and patterns all over the body would be a person's identity. The illustrations of a society, is so much part of them that the morals are on their skin as well as in their blood like the Maori.
Of course people like Rihanna have the "battle wound" tattoo already: Her infamous "never a failure, always a lesson" tattoo written backwards. Where tattoos were once believed to symbolized to others, one's connection to the world socially, they now, can be a simple reminder: "Chanel," or, "call grandpa" or "a little cliche mantra that I can regard while standing in front of my mirror." Whatever this ink stain is, it's not important, it's a glimpse into a lifestyle. We don't associate ourselves with a culture the same way indigenous tribes, say, in Africa do. Rather than belonging to the Na'vi's "people" with glitter and shine encrusted in our skin, we belong to ourselves, and the tattoos are an individual's allegiance to him or herself. Even this allegiance can be erased, however, and leaves us with scars as in the lazar removal. The moment a person may have thought they were being, as Dame Judy Dench described as "shocking" they realized they may not have wanted the tattoo in the first place. There are many reasons for a person to get a tattoo that was permanent. But that was before. As much as I love to be all the rage, the tattoo of Chanel seems to be a symbol in itself of our intense individuality and its lonliness.
Your lede is very funny.
ReplyDeleteI think there might have been a better way to link to the W story. Say outright "a story in W" and link to that.
Beware of linking to the same story twice - even if from a different source. If you wanted to say the look was hitting the run way, you either needed another example or at least another picture.
Also, your funny like about the t-shirts you liked as a kid - could you have found us a photograph of that to link to? Remember this particular medium has particular advantages - use them!
I like the Rhianna link - your instinct is dead on there, but why on the word "backwards?"
Also, watch you - you attribute you something to Judy Dench that Helen Mirron said - and it's to the SAME pic of Channel girl. Did you even need that tangent and link?
So, I really like your thought on this subject - both interesting and entertaning. But work on taking advantage of the medium in which you're working. (also, I didn't understand how the chanel tatoo was a sign of how lonely we are??