Word: chanelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chanel advertisement for lipstick is a particularly blatant example of the publicity exploitative, sexist advertising practices that make profits by perpetuating sexually submissive images of women. Chanel, an international corporation, helps set standards for female perfection, nationally and internationally. The priority is global profit at the expense of an enlightened world attitude toward women. The public female ideal, which becomes internalized as private ideal as well, to be emulated is a sexually submissive one. The healthy development of women as individuals and the healthy development of society as a cooperative community of equals will continue to be stunted so long...
Whereas many agree that the ad is offensive, overtly sexual, and in poor taste, it is not intuitively obvious to some why the ad is sexist. There are two reasons why it is sexist. First, women are objectified in order to sell products. Second, implicit in the Chanel ad is not only that women must use cosmetic products to be sexually appealing, but that they must also perform the appropriate acts. The lipstick perched between lip-sticked lips symbolically links the two ideas of sex appeal and of unequal sexual (and other) status. The cultural norm of female beauty allows...
...that being forced at times to speculate and use the memoirs of others has enhanced their book. Misia is not well known to Americans. To the degree that she is recognized in the U.S., it is through her friendships with Diaghilev, whose ballets she supported lavishly, and later with Chanel, whom she also supported in the designer's early years. The authors' four-handed biography shows the virtues of the professional duo pianists' timing and technique, but they never take their subject with full scholarly weight. Instead, they have produced an alluring (any sense of the word...
...died in 1950 at 78. Her last years were lonely and idle; she was dependent on drugs. Her closest friend remained Chanel, who desperately wanted to take over her crown, her legend. There was nothing to inherit. As Cocteau said of Misia: "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly." -Martha Duffy
...marvelous feeling about the arts, a real interest, but not heavy like the Germans. They enjoy art and then go off and have a great meal. GOLD: We spent the entire winter of 1974 in Paris doing interviews. No one refused us, but some people wanted to talk about Chanel instead. We returned three times for shorter periods...