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This reminds me a lot of a Vogue Paris cover story with Gigi by Testino.
Could you all imagine if Madonna, who is the same age as Sharon, actually did something this fierce and glamorous?! Go on Sharon show them how's its done!
Both covers are gorgeous.
Why can't people just leave it at that, without feeling the need to shade Madonna,
who isn't clamoring for anything, and is living her life by her rules, and portraying herself how she chooses?
The reflexive need to drag her, is so transparent, but inevitable when one lacks self awareness.
Also, Sharon and Madonna are both fierce, intelligent, interesting, and independent women. Love them both.
Very OG YSL Opium sensibility. Such a mood. Of course it’s nothing new, just refreshing in these less than inspired fashion times.
This ought to have been Arabia’s direction coming after the gorgeous Gigi cover debut. Unapologetically glamorous, undeniably decadent, and untouchably exclusive. It should always had been the brand of a fevered dream. Irresistibly classic, old-money gorgeous and absolutely unlike anything that’s polluting Vogues covers these days. A model would have made this perfect, but beggars can’t be choosers in these fashion-famine days.
(Too bad the next issue will be back to outlet basics shot with flat lighting and pandering to American standards.)
Except she’s not just living her live privately. She’s putting herself out there— on the cover of a magazine: Pining, clawing, and desperately parroting, mimicking, seeking the attention and approval of people in their 20s for relevance. From surrounding herself with young trendy party people, to dressing like a Bratz Doll, to making music that her youngest daughters listen to, to having retouched herself into someone so unrecognizable from the woman I adored growing up. Act your age— not your shoe size, comes to mind. And again and again, the hypocrisy of supposedly defying ageism by portraying herself as this hilariously, OTT-retouched version of herself as a teenager, always surrounded by young people LOL Who’s the ageist now…???
You know, I’ve been discovering these amazing unedited interviews of hers from around 1985 to early-2000s, and she was ultimately so fascinating and also so self-aware, and not afraid to sound older than she was. Whereas nowadays, she’s mimicking and desperately following children’s attitude on SM. I’ve grown up on her and am no longer a kid, and one would think that she would also have evolved, progressed and developed into the mature woman while remaining young at heart, who’s had all the privileged experiences in the world that being at her position would afford. Instead, she's this heavily retouched, cosmetically-mutated Bratz Doll and caricature of a common 15yo on SM. How is embodying that Steve Buscemi meme admirable, inspiring, aspiring to anyone— child or adult???