What does the inauguration’s authoritarian-chic fashion tell us? Designers are suddenly eager to dress the Trumps
Rhiannon Lucy CosslettThe first time round, high fashion shunned the president’s family. Now industry figures are flocking to them
Taking time off from telling us about intimate tears, breast feeding and getting a pram down the steps Rhiannon turns to fashion. How lucky we are to have such an edgy, powerful, feminist writer for our age!
I’m a bit doubtful myself. Who are these high fashion designers that shun Billionaires?
Much has been made of how Melania’s stark get-up contrasted to her Jackie O cosplay at the last inauguration. This time there was no attempt at demure people pleasing: she looked positively authoritarian. It was a merciless hat that said: “Resistance is futile, and I won’t make eye contact if you try to beg.”
Melania looked exactly like a woman who knew almost everyone she had to meet that day was trying to imprison her husband and destroy her family, and she was disgusted with them.
This is the revenge tour.
Seems to be compulsory for female scribblers at the Telegraph to have three names; Rhiannon Lucy Coslett, Sophia Money-Coutts, Boudicca Fox Leonard, Heidi Fuller Love (yes, really)……. I’m sure there’s another one as well. Rhiannon (back to the Seventies and that awful Fleetwood Mac song) takes the biscuit, though, for writing appalling self-pitying drivel.
Heidi Fuller Pies, more like.
everyone she had to meet that day was trying to imprison her husband and destroy her family,
But knowing they all smirked gleefully when the weaponised FBI were searching through her bedroom drawers raises the stakes sky-high.
There will be a reckoning.
Speaking of authoritarian, have a look at Rhiannon’s haircut.
Much has been made of how Melania’s stark get-up contrasted to her Jackie O cosplay at the last inauguration. This time there was no attempt at demure people pleasing: she looked positively authoritarian. It was a merciless hat that said: “Resistance is futile, and I won’t make eye contact if you try to beg.”
Rhiannon confuses her feelings with reality. Guardian girlies just don’t understand that their emotions are not a form of cognition.
John – Oh, yarpsolutely.
And, while it may be at the pettier end of the scale of evil things they’ve done, the unceasingly negative media attention when Melania was simply trying to play the game and do her job as First Lady will have annoyed her. The First Lady is essentially the American equivalent of the royal family, they do fluffy stuff and cute photo ops. They’re not political players so don’t usually attract hostile media, but those norms were defenestrated for Melania.
She wasn’t shown any of the courtesy or respect shown to Jill Biden, Laura Bush or Big Mike. Couldn’t open a cat shelter without the MSM declaring that it was “proof” of her marriage being over, and couldn’t turn on the TV without her son seeing “comedians” “joke” about beheading or otherwise murdering her husband.
Revenge is best served with ICE.
It was a merciless hat
Beyond satire. The horror of the merciless hat.
Of course, whatever Melania wore she’d be the subject of hatchet jobs from thick, hate-addled bitches.
Seems to be compulsory for female scribblers at the Telegraph to have three names
This one’s in the Guardian, FormerTory! Easy mistake to make; both rags suffer from TDS and both are awash with Polly Fillas.
What’s wrong with The Mac though?
OT: Big Mike. How did this story come about? She looks a bit more convincing to me than that fat fucker TTK was fawning over.
That hat is distinctly merciless: the authoritarian-chic designers knocked off the concept from Clint Eastwood’s lid in The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
Norman – she’s a beefy big lass compared to her peevish twink husband, and has a horribly unpleasant, entitled personality. So it’s funny to call her Big Mike.
TMB – or an elegant woman in a 1980’s pop music video by Duran Duran
I once did a UK tour with such a person. She was called Alison Moyet.
Did you ever record/rehearse at the Peter Gabriel place outside Bath?
No, but I photographed its interior for the studio designer, Neil Grant. I worked in most of the big London studios but to my regret, never Abbey Road.
Well, your name on here is “Norman”. The studio building was bought from a company called Spafax, owned by a bloke called Tim Norman. Who was best man at my parent’s wedding. And after whom I am named.
I just enjoy the trivial circularity of your nom de plume here given that connection with the studio….
OT: if you’re interested in the session musician world, this is an excellent site:
https://sessionstories.org.uk
I did a few big tours with Richard Bailey.
My name’s not Norman but a close relative has that name, as of course do many admirable luminaries including Norman Wisdom, Norman Parkinson and Norman Watt-Roy. It’s a fine name, which I use in tribute to that relative whose views I have come to share.
I also enjoy trivial circularities, as the world seems to be full of the most unlikely connections.
I can see the email addy you use so I was already assuming that Norman wasn’t right. Which is what adds rather to the joy of the trivia. That you choose that name here…
I always kinda hoped that our Norman was Norman Watt-Roy.
As if! I doubt the Blockheads ever needed my services. Here’s the great N W-R showing how it’s done at Hammersmith in 79.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNj7OfHvc5I
And there I was, thinking Norman Vincent Peale…
I live near Peter Gabriel’s studio in Box (near Bath). The wife and I went over there a couple of decades ago to have a poke around and have lunch at the Northey Arms (?). I didn’t recognise them – my interest in music ceased in 1968 – but my wife did note Peter Gabriel and Chris de Burgh having lunch together. But then I didn’t recognise the old Lord Bath (the one before the hippy) in the Bath Arms in Horningsham. He asked about the new bitter I ordered and I bought him a pint. I really am rubbish at people and faces. However, I can remember people’s cars and sometimes the registration numbers. I’m obviously on the spectrum!
I like to listen to YouTube music when I’m reading and the wife is at the other end of room watching TV. for some reason YouTube keeps pushing Solsbury Hill at me. TBF I do like it, especially this performance but it seems to be every 3rd song.
https://youtu.be/WeYqJxlSv-Y?si=jflNWSTiWdlMqMXG
Yes, it’s great that we have such a principled feminist writer who fights so determinedly against the sexist media who comment on man’s behaviour but a woman’s apperance.