On Female Perfection
GOOD FOR US
“I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of crow’s feet. Then you shall see me coming out strong.” – The playwright George Bernard Shaw to the actress Stella Campbell (the first Eliza Doolittle), with whom he corresponded passionately for forty years.
NOT GOOD FOR US
“No one wants to see a round woman.” — The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, after one of Germany’s top fashion magazines banned professional models in favor of “real life women.”
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Okay, I give up. I don’t want to be an ugly round woman. I am resolved to lose 40 pounds. I weigh 138.
Lagerfeld is living in a tiny world in more ways than one.
In a farmyard of crows feet is nice and poetic, and therefore more in service to the poet than the lady. Did he really think she’d be pleased with this? More proof that men don’t get it.
Lagerfeld and others of his ilk have no idea what’s going on in the world. You, on the other hand, do. This blog is fun because it’s got style and class and it’s right on target with things we need to think about. It’s very unique. Thanks.
Sixteen chins on a farmyard of crow’s feet? I believe I’d be on the way to the plastic surgeon!
This is poetic, but not very inspiring. I don’t like either of these.