VOGUE UK November
2015
From Sean Connery
to Daniel Craig, Bond movies to me are adventurous, exotic, action-packed and
literary justice, not until I began my literary criticism did I realize that
Bond episodes are highly Daedalus complex and absolute sexism. And indeed, Interviewer
Giles Coren toward the idea to a Bond girl, is ‘so loaded with sex and
submissiveness and double-entendre.
Through fashion
photographer Craig McDean’s observation, Léa Seydoux on fashion campaign pages
of VOGUE UK November 2015 issue, with Jitrois black stretch leather jumpsuit,
looks like Scarlett Johansson but with that Vanessa Paradis gap between front
teeth. Seydoux’s eyes are able to communicate with, conveying her either a
lethal sex kitten or an innocent girl-next-door, within a second. Photographer
McDean does not apply soft-focus this time on Seydoux as he tried on Emma Stone in Interview May 2015, instead, on ‘bond girl’ image a monotone, and Max Mara
and Christopher Kane skirts he adapts pinky spring atmosphere to contrast the
‘black leather jumpsuit’ fatal feel. The stripe setting of the monotone images,
Seydoux’s disarmingly alluring pose is as if she is ‘getting wet’ with the
devastatingly fitted suit. Seydoux ‘s wearing of peachy pink Prada jersey coat
makes her as sweet as ‘Florale’ (Seydoux is also the face of Prada Candy
parfum), but her voices, as Coren describes, is so softly, and giggles often
during the 2-hour chat.
Born as Léa
Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne, her family is well known in France: her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is the chairman of Pathé and her father is CEO of the French wireless company Parrot. Despite
her interest, Seydoux family didn’t aid Léa
to gain her acting career. The reason of her being an actress, is because
‘people can take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken
everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you, buys you
clothes and food…’ (219). But for the Bond girl, she points out that ‘most
women love a Bond girl. They don’t care about the politics. They like how she
looks, what she wears’ (222). I do care about the feminism at Bond series, but
I have to admit that I am in love with Léa Seydoux’s wearing ivory white crepe suit and
Chloé suede sac that Spectre scene filming in Morocco.
New spokeswoman of Louis Vuitton, a professional doctor Madeleine Swann in Sam Mendes’ Spectre, and winner of Palme d’Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour, this unlikely Bond girl’s job is not just to get wet, get frisky and get killed. And I am anticipating Seydoux’s silhouette appearing on some covers of fashion magazine soon.
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