Round and round we go, like our Amanda Jones . . . she's the darling of the discotheque crowd of her lineage she's rightfully proud, miss Amanda Jones . . . (Rolling Stones, 1966).
Did you hear a Playboy Club will return to London at 14 Old Park Lane in Mayfair, very close to the original 1966 location?
Which brings us to fashions, fads, and culture. The Lady Gaga explosion is something to behold -- there is no escape. Through osmosis if nothing else, Lady Gaga is inside you! She's in all of us . . . Dada reigns! All hail Lady Gaga!
Compare with SuicideGirls: Guide to Living (2010). Fashion styles embracing tattoos, piercings, nudity and occasional allusions to Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1996).
Fashion and life style: a continuum spectrum, cyclical, an expression of freedom or conspicuous consumption? Lady Gaga, SuicideGirls. Classy, trashy, snazzy, flashy . . .
Do you have a favorite style, a hated style? I have no qualms about Lady Gaga or the Suicide Girls -- all power to them. I don't like when fashion gets too Chamber of Congress Republican, or "churchy" to the point of tacky. The fashion I hope never returns, however, is Victorian-in-mourning formal wear, from the death of Prince Albert to the death of Queen Victoria, late 1861 to 1901. That's got to be the ugliest fashion period I can think of for formal wear.
Today's Rune: Defense.
2 comments:
Erik, I love all expressions of self in style or whatever. Campy is fun!
I love Lady Gaga so much. I absolutely love her crazyass outfits. What can I say, Ihave a fondness for the crazies.
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