A photo from Beyoncé’s Vogue Shoot
“The image recalls the aesthetic in the performer’s groundbreaking video opus “Lemonade,” with its lyrical visual references to plantations, slavery and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust.” For all the styling effort that went into the picture, from the intricacies of the dress to the grandeur of the headpiece, the photograph itself has an enticingly slapdash, fuzzy imperfection.”
Robin Givhan, in her review of Beyoncé’s Vogue cover, relates the image to her “Lemonade” project. The way Givhan describes the imagery present is delightful as “grandeur of the headpiece,” “enticingly slapdash,” and “fuzzy imperfection” roll off of the tongue especially when reading out loud, but satisfy the mind when reading to oneself. Especially because the images portrayed in “Lemonade” have to do with plantations and slavery, Givhan does a wonderful job of making this palatable to everyone through her descriptors.
Questions:
- How far is too far when criticizing someone’s fashion?
- What made you view fashion through this objective lens throughout life? And would you ever be able to write about yourself and your own fashion the way you write about that of celebrities?