Category "Enemy of Beauty"

Halloween Weekend (Part 4/5)
Enemy of Britney Spears

On Sunday, I saw the cover of Britney Spears' new album.

Britney Spears' new album, "Circus"

Image credits: Kate Turning / Jive Records

First I thought it was some kind of joke for Halloween. I mean, her face looks asymetrical, not as asymetrical as mine though! Plus, it's supposed to be the album of her comeback. And it looks so... boring. As if she was to keep singing the same crap. Well, it is really the cover of her new album. And there yet other people who can't master Photoshop are promoted!

Enemy of Louis Vuitton

What is so special about these Louis Vuitton bags?

Honestly?

It's good quality, I agree, but I'm sure there are bags of same quality and cheaper. I guess one could say it looks nice as well, however one cannot say this brownish pattern is particularly original.

To my eyes, the only reason why someone would buy Vuitton stuff is snobbery. I don't know if the Vuitton buyer thinks: "I'm gonna show I'm a person of taste" or "I'm gonna show I can afford luxury accessories". But hey, after all, if they want to spend shitloads of money for a bag in order to show off, it's not my problem.

But it turns ironic when LVMH, the company owning Louis Vuitton, considers itself as the victim of its own success. Well yeah, now, something unacceptable to the brand, all the rubbish people want to have a brownish Vuitton bag!

Tara Reid, Louis Vuitton bag

Image credits: WireImage

Here, one of the actresses starring in the student comedy American Pie, Tara Reid.

Lindsay Lohan, Louis Vuitton bag

Image credits: WireImage

The young actress Lindsay Lohan who recently made the headlines for going to jail and more recently for turning gay.

Jessica Simpson, Louis Vuitton bag

Image credits: FilmMagic

The actress-singer Jessica Simpson whose career is in freefall and who recently tried to make a comeback by singing country music.

When seeing its image of luxury product destroyed by these cheap girls, Vuitton struck back by suing all the music videos featuring their bags (such as Britney Spears' for example) Yeah, looks like, for the brand, luxury must absolutely not look affordable to those who are not part of the elite!

Anyway, that is not that bad. The worst is when LVMH sues a Darfur organisation.

I have to be careful when using these pictures, I could be sued too... But by FilmMagic and WireImage.

Enemy of Vogue India

I found an article looking like Le Monde's article source!
Vogue India: "Poor and Chic" in Fendi

Image credits: Vogue India

An old woman missing her upper front teeth holds a child in rumpled clothes ? who is wearing a Fendi bib (retail price, about $100).

[...]

The editorial spread was "not just tacky but downright distasteful" said Kanika Gahlaut, a columnist for the daily newspaper Mail Today that is based here, who denounced it as an "example of vulgarity."

There's nothing "fun or funny" about putting a poor person in a mud hut in clothing designed by Alexander McQueen, she said in a telephone interview. "There are farmer suicides here, for God's sake" she said, referring to thousands of Indian farmers who have killed themselves in the last decade because of debt.

Vogue India editor Priya Tanna's message to critics of the August shoot: "Lighten up," she said in a telephone interview. Vogue is about realizing the "power of fashion" she said, and the shoot was saying that "fashion is no longer a rich man's privilege. Anyone can carry it off and make it look beautiful," she said.

Vogue's Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India [Heather Timmons for The New York Times]

Enemy of Keira Knightley

Poster for the movie "The Duchess" with Keira Knightley

Image credits: BBC Films/Pathé

Don't you think there's something wrong in that picture of Keira Knightley for her latest movie, The Duchess? Yeah, she looks like a robot. I don't know who airbrushed that photo, but for a romantic movie about the 18th century, it looks like the graphic designer actually made a draft for "Terminator 4: attack of the wigged cyborgs". Too much Photoshop can harm the realism of pictures.

Enemy of Heroes

The rubbish TV series Heroes is gonna resume soon. It basically talks about people with superpowers and who fight each other, some want to destroy the world of course, blah blah blah... Here is a poster you can find in the Tube and which reads something like "Who can you trust to save the world?"

A promo poster for TV show "Heroes"

Image credits: NBCU

Well, surely not two idiots with blonde-dyed hair.

Live fast...

Diesel ad showing a young couple running with the tagline 'Live fast'

...and waxed!

Always Look For Inner Beauty

Poster showing a woman watching a man's butt

For once, we agree!

Confidence is beautiful

Ad on the Tube reading 'Confidence is beautiful'

On the Tube, an advert with a beautiful woman and a handsome man (he even seems gay!) and a tagline "Confidence is beautiful". And just under, "with cosmetic surgery".

Although it's the complete opposite! Cosmetic surgery is, precisely, for people who don't feel good in their skin! And I think that believing that a nose fix or a boob job can brind back confidence is a mistake.

Panem et circenses

"X Factor" is not only about finding pretty faces. It's also about finding utter counter-celebrities.

In the first part of the series, just like in France, the jury auditions people and choose the best candidates. And when someone is bad, they are also highlighted to make sure that spectators can let go of their darkest feelings. I watched these shows too and I enjoyed laughing at these people too. But the English X Factor managed to take it to a whole new level!

This year, during the final, when the public's favorite candidates were fighting for the first place, producers appointed on stage the worst auditionees TO MAKE THEM SING LIVE! When I saw that, I was buffled! It looked like the humiliation they suffered during the first part was not enough, they needed to come back to finish off their ultimate piece of dignity, and to sacrify it on the altar of Panem et circenses. Because, indeed, if they came back this time, after being laughed at nationwide, there is only one explanation: money. You can respect someone who believed in their lucky star and who failed once, you can't however respect someone who gets prepared to be ridiculed once again in order to get money. And this is how it looks:

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The credits of that video must be on the website hosting it.

The most horrible sequence is probably the one with the obese girl. Having four guys carrying her in order to show the spectator they needed several guys to take her on stage, it looks like a "freak show", which is so insulting that it's violent.

These youngsters should sue the TV channel and the production, get loads of money back and gain some dignity from it.

Tell me, they didn't do the same in France, right?

What's up with Shayne Ward?

Everybody is talking about Shayne Ward like he's God on Earth.

But he's just some guy who won fucking "X Factor" just because he had a pretty face!

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