![]() This begs the question: why is women’s self-destruction so sexually compelling, while men’s self-destruction is interpreted in keeping with the rest of their character?Īn examination of the other self-destructive behaviours often associated with ‘femme fatale’ characters proved revelatory for me in terms of answering this question. Our culture, on the whole, seems less obsessed with and enamored by men’s subterranean darknesses, their tendencies to turn their distresses inward and become careless or hateful towards their own bodies. Men who smoke are also sometimes portrayed as alluring (see: sex symbol, James Dean), but they’re just as often portrayed as bumbling fools (see: Seinfeld’s George Costanza). However, I’m not sure that my own opinion dovetails with Pugsley’s given that his research also reveals that femme fatales’ smoking is consistently sexualised, with cinematic imagery becoming suggestive as heroines engage in behavior that’s widely considered self-destructive. I can appreciate his point of view: smoking is certainly seen as louche and unfeminine these days, the kind of behaviour that a ‘responsible’ and ‘mature’ young woman (the 21 st Century code words for a ‘good girl’) would never engage in, and on that level, truly can be read as an act of empowerment or an expression of individualism. Pugsley thinks ‘smoking on screen can be viewed as a sign of potential change towards empowerment, individualism and increased risk taking for young women’. If this is the case, then it follows that the reason Moss was so magnetic on the runway was not just that she is a beautiful girl with a bad streak, but that her badness lends her a mysterious sense of power, a seductive aura that bewitches both men and women. According to Pugsley, smoking has been portrayed as both glamorous and sexy in French and Chinese cinema in recent years and is consistently used as a prop, signaling that a female character is a ‘femme fatale’. It’s a plausible hypothesis, but new research conducted by University of Adelaide media academic, Dr Peter Pugsley, suggests that more complex factors may be at work. Over at The Guardian, Fashion Editor Jess Cartner-Morley attributed the intensity of the degree to which watching Moss smoke and strut compelled her audience to the fact that the world loves nothing more than a ‘beautiful girl who’s a little bad’. According to newspapers in the UK, Moss had stolen Vuitton’s show. ![]() Images of her captured on the day reek not only of tobacco, but of an insouciant rebellion that excited a media frenzy. It was No Smoking Day, and Moss, who rose to fame on the back of the heroin-chic trend, was dressed in dark lace, fur and hot pants. Maria was born in Nicaragua and started with Fox & Friends morning show as the weather girl.At Paris Fashion Week in 2011, supermodel Kate Moss walked down the Louis Vuitton runway while languorously smoking a cigarette. She is married to an investment banker at Goldmen Sachs ![]() Shannon first started working at Fox News in 2007. Sure, we could just go online to get the news, but we watch you Fox because of your talent selection. The internet would like to thank whoever is doing the hiring over there at Fox News because the reporters keep getting hotter every day. What started as a goof on the Howard Stern show has turned into a phenomenon. ![]()
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