by For Demas’s last couture show for Balenciaga, he threw the long -time friend of the Kim Kardashian brand. The ninth look in a 34-year-old salon procession in salon style was a vision in ivory satin with many glittering diamond and it is a look that you may have seen before.
The ensemble, consisting of a Faux fur coat, which was paid in springs-bone slip doll with contrasting top cladding, and white satin concert pumps to Elizabeth Taylor’s character in Richard Brooks 1958 film cat on a hot tin roof. In the film, Taylor, when Maggie Pollitt, has a similar pump in an intimate conversation in an intimate conversation with actor Paul Newman like her husband, Brick Pollitt. (Funny enough, it is the 1960 film butterfield 8, in which Taylor slips a fur coat over a similar thrust and a taxi comes.) The original look is timeless -you could wear it today, as the Balenciaga show proves -but it has this ever -nais -quois that the incompatible bridge between sex and sophistics is so good.
And then you have the jewelry. Kardashian was wearing Lorraine Schwartz’s chic dream with 134 Karat Diamond Choker and Lucent Bond with a 32-carat diamond chain with a diamond case with 30 carat. However, the showpiece was a few Lorraine Schwartz 15-carat diamond and platinum earrings that Taylor’s husband Mike Todd gave her before he died (and who were later bought back from Lorraine Schwartz at auction).
Kardashian is long about her admiration for Taylor. In an interview from 2011 between Kardashian and Taylor for bazaarShortly before Taylor died, the contemporary media icon praised the actress and explained: “I am a huge Elizabeth Taylor Nerd.” Kardashian opened the conversation with questions about Taylor’s famous jewelry collection and asked in particular: “Is size of importance?”
Both women have a reputation as provocative members of public society and force us to re -calibrate our own ideas of femininity. The name Elizabeth Taylor is in Hollywood glamor, yes, but also passion, tragedy and resilience. Her many marriages were food for newspaper sales. Decades later, Kardashian was also separated from the tabloids. In parallel to her own mega famousness, she advertised her affinity to old Hollywood icons, who were often victims of her own perceived sexuality, such as when she wore Marilyn Monroes “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress from 1962, Mr. President “, 2022 controversial.
This Balenciaga landing reference was no coincidence; Demna also has a story in which we have our ideas of fashion, luxury and fame re -evaluated. Do you remember the catwalking show spring/summer 2022, in which the guests were unknowingly went a red carpet, which was then broadcast in the event location? For his last show, interrupted with the highlights of his career, he said in an explanation: “I came as close as possible when I am satisfied in this endless striving for impossible perfection – the decisive ethos of Cristóbal Balenciaga.” And who has a higher standard of impossible perfection than the women who have been checked by the media both in the past and in the present?
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