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Your face looks familiar, but I don’t know where I’ve seen it before. You act like an actor reading your lines and carry yourself like a model. The label on your latest outfit and the make of your car says more about your personality that your words. Your stylist chose the right look for the occasion. In fact, your hair is exactly like Brad’s/Rachel’s/Lauren’s; oh, you fill in the blank. You live the Real World as a Survivor, a Batchelor, an Apprentice – next big supermodel. Your job demands that you sell the dream of being associated with the company, and you walk the walk, talk the talk, wear the perfume, and eat their recommended portions. The product that is you is for sale, based on approval. You are a living and breathing advertisement for Self, backed by the brand that is .. your name.


Wear it and throw it away. Fashion used to be classic and eternal. Now retailing moves on a two-week or less turnover, with clothing so cheap you can wear something new every day! If you donÂ’t catch the velvet jacket now, your size will be gone tomorrow. You can be Marilyn Monroe/Jimmy Dean today and Marlene next week. ItÂ’s a one-minute mask that can be changed to remain up to the minute all of the time. The new attitude is having a wardrobe like a theatreÂ’s, with outfits for sitting at desks and cafes, shoes for driving the car, a hat for dinner in town. If you are wealthy enough, you can even do this with ready-to-wear, and carry a different colour Birkin everyday. But what is interesting about people in good society is the mask that each one of them wears, not the reality that lies behind the mask.


In all unimportant matters style not sincerity is the essential. In all important matters style not sincerity is the essential. Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid.
Being natural is simply a pose.