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.
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Personally I find it hilarious. Little girls playing at being 'bad'.
Too cool... I'm officially stealing that graphic... ;-)
That reminds me, Dubya's 40th reunion at Skull & Bones should be coming up shortly.
Is he allowed to invite Laura to those shindigs?
Keith died 20 years ago. He just hasn't fallen over yet.
Arrrrrrrr, matey, them landlubbers arrrrr vury strange blokes.
Aaarrgghh!
Ah yes, the herd of independent fashion minds.
ACK! Looks like they dug him up to take THAT picture! He looks worse than the skulls on the scarf!
Arrrgh!
I thought that was a result of the Black Plague; because death was all around.
Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
For a start
Reminding us
We could be torn apart
Tonight
Death is everywhere
There are lambs for the slaughter
Waiting to die
And I can sense
The hours slipping by
Tonight
Come here
Kiss me
Now
Come here
Kiss me
Now
Death is everywhere
The more I look
The more I see
The more I feel
A sense of urgency
Tonight
Come here (touch me)
Kiss me (touch me)
Now (touch me)
(touch me)
There are flies on the windscreen
There are lambs for the slaughter
There are flies on the windscreen
Come here (touch me)
Kiss me (touch me)
Now (touch me)
(touch me)
Come here (touch me)
Kiss me (touch me)
Now (touch me)
(touch me)
Yes, the medieval fascination with death probably stemmed from the plague. Which begs the question, if this phenomenon truly is a repeat of that fascination, what looming specter of death is responsible for it?
It isn't like this is the Cold War, with the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads every day.
The lights are down in Germany
and Germany is closed to me
different somehow this time.
The airport's still, cold corridors
ring empty beats through hollow feet
that I find to be mine.
Different Germany.
History repeats somehow.
Different Germany.
Afraid to know you now.
And past my eyes with leathered gaze
stare clean-cut boys all dressed as men
in sharpened uniform.
Who turned the clock? (Moved on or back)
and what dark chill is gathering still
before the storm.
Out in the street a tableau double-glazed
with laughing girls whose fastened smiles
are clearly not meant for me.
Yeah. I'm reliving my childhood...
heh heh...you said "skull"
The threat of nuclear (or chemical, or biological) annihilation is hanging over our heads every day, except now the opponents aren't available to negotiate, and have no fear of, indeed have an overt desire for, mutually assured destruction.
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