Posted on 03/02/2006 5:15:42 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Skull Fashion: Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Wednesday, March 01, 2006 By Samantha Jonas-Hain
Skinny celebrities like Lindsay Lohan are finding new ways to flaunt their bones as grim reaper fashion statements breathe life into this season's hottest trends.
Taking their cue from bottles of arsenic, fashion designers around the world are going gaga for Mr. Skull and Crossbones, adorning everything from jeans to jewelry with his bony image.
"We shipped the first skull jacket out in October and it blew out of the stores," said Melissa Hodgson, president of Anoname, a company that sells denim embroidered jackets and jeans to Macy's stores around the country. "Macy's did a whole ad campaign featuring the skull."
While boho chic is out, death is very in. Fashion pioneer Sienna Miller has been seen accessorizing everything from jeans to dresses with a $450 Alexander McQueen skull-and-crossbones scarf, and Lohan made a killing at a December party wearing the same Thomas Wylde "Skull Row" scarf that Carmen Electra used to keep warm at Utah's Sundance Film Festival.
Lohan, Ashlee Simpson, Kate Moss, Mary-Kate Olsen, Nicky Hilton and Nicole Richie are also partial to the McQueen scarf — Lohan has hers in three colors, according to In Touch Weekly.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
What a cesspool Hollywood has become.
What's next? Pirate clothing?
Stupidity plus money equals fascination with this moment's idiosyncratic.
Small wonder Jews and Christians are considered the enemy in a society that worships death.
And puffy shirts?!
Pirate clothing is sooooo three years ago. Didn't that trend go out with Seinfeld's puffy shirt?
excerpts.....
"I own a McQueen scarf. It's really pretty and feminine. It mixes elements of both hard and soft," she added.
"The only place I could find one was on eBay and people were bidding as much as $800 for it," she said.
***
"Pixiegirlshop.com sells cutesy skull hand towels by Kathy Steig, $15, some of which have heart-shaped eyes, as well as a glow-in-the-dark skull-and-crossbones dog T-shirt, $30, and a polka dot-and-skull iPod mini case, $25."
***
"The response [to skulls] has been amazing. I have been doing skulls for at least two years and there are more sales than ever,"
***
"When I went to Mexico and saw all these skull figurines, I thought they were creepy. I didn't plan on doing a line with skulls. It came to me after I saw Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Carribean."
Hooray for Hollyweird.
Along with oven-mittens.
"But I don't wanna be the first pirate!" - Jerry Seinfeld
|
|
Keith has always been the trendsetter... |
No accounting for bad taste. Looks like Kate Moss was in inspiration. What's next - those area 51 alien symbols. Ooops, just blew fashion's best kept secret for next season.
What can you expect when they think a gross disgusting movie deserves an award.
Fortunately oscar does not necessarily = $$$, and we can make that clear to those misguided folks.
But he's not properly accessorized without the scarf!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
