Comments on: One Blog You Should Be Reading

By: elayne

elayne — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:11:00 +0000

Leenda: One of anorexia’s late side effects can be the growth of fine hair on the face and body, known as “lanugo.” It’s the same hair that babies sport inside the womb, when they have not yet gained enough body fat to insulate themselves. It’s not thick and dark, but fine and feathery.

By: desertwind

desertwind — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:02:17 +0000

I just realized that your friend Linda is author of an article I printed out and re-read every week or so since it was published in September. She is very, very good.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2162396,00.html

By: Deandrea

Deandrea — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:54:31 +0000

Leenda: I don’t know about skinny models, but I remember reading somewhere that Stella McCartney is kinda furry, and was called ‘Wookie” by an ex.

By: Leenda

Leenda — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:55:29 +0000

Is it true that starved human bodies desperately grow extra hair in order to keep warm? That emaciated fashion models must fight increased facial hair? Or is this just a jealous rumor started by sweaty fat folks like me?

By: Glinda

Glinda — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:12:56 +0000

I do not know the appearance of the Manolo, but I do know that he is kind, intelligent, and humorous, qualities that will outlast any perceived physical imperfections.

I asked my husband if writing that would make me a complete suck-up and he said yes, but I wrote it anyway.

By: MeLizzard

MeLizzard — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:33:02 +0000

Hey, Salieri was quite the respected composer of his day–that movie employed considerable drammatic license!!

By: Bridey

Bridey — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:15:41 +0000

No offense, but I don’t think it’s entirely fair to dismiss the Manolo’s observation about his own beauty, or lack of it, with comforting words about real beauty being on the inside and bound to be recognized, and so forth.

However true that may be (and isn’t it pretty to think so?), the advantages of beauty and the price paid by those who are not beautiful — or, rather, those who fall outside the current range of aesthetic acceptability — are very real. The definition of physical beauty varies, obviously, from time to time and place to place. But the idea of physical beauty is a constant, and there is always a distinction drawn between those who have it and those who don’t.

These distinctions obviously weigh more heavily on women than men, but they are not to be offset, in either case, by various notions of “real” beauty, however valuable. They’re simply not the same thing.

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By: Riona

Riona — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:19:42 +0000

The Manolo is of course very beautiful - I meant the Salieri quote to refer to his point about designers, not about the Manolo himself …. The idea!

By: lady coveted

lady coveted — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:51:29 +0000

i’m still giggling over lagerfeld turning himself into his own corpse. he is rather looking like a peruvian cave mummy.

i love queens who have unrealistic expectations of how women ’should’ look. **ahem** sistine chapel???? i’ve seen more convincing tranny hookers (they live in my ‘hood)