Corinne Day channels Richard Avedon for UK Vogue.
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Footage of the original Vogue-ers featuring Michael Alig, Michael Musto and other scions of the scene.
Say what you like about Big British blondes, as America has discovered, they make damn good copy.
Something very strange is happening in America. Maybe it’s Parasite Hilton fatigue, or just the latest burst of anglomania, but the shiny media — from gossip blogs to Vogue — have become rather obsessed with our own beloved British double-D-listers. The likes of Kerry Katona and Jodie Marsh have become cult staples on the snark blogs, occupying the very spaces where Hilton was once mocked so mercilessly. Meanwhile, the patron saint of DD, Katie Price (aka Jordan) has even been given a demure makeover in this month’s American Vogue. And US Vogue gets the Jordan thing:
In Britain, a big bust, frankly displayed below a girl-next-door smile, can make a woman famous absent any other talent. Don’t be fooled. Katie/Jordan has talent aplenty. A newspaper editor once called her “the biggest driver of tabloid sales in the country”. She is a living brand. She has successfully parlayed her Dolly Parton-type body toward Brangelina-type celebrity via Martha Stewart-type business savvy and an Oprah-type instinct for female popular culture.
There’s also a lovely moment in the article where the author attempts to clear up Jordan’s cultural roots:
‘Chavs’ is the latest moniker for Britain’s underprivileged white youthquake.
We couldn’t (and haven’t) put it better ourselves.
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