The National Velvet and Black Beauty of newsletters trots out an interview with novelist Caroline Palmer. Plus: an iffy heiress, a breast-cancer breakthrough, and the Spreadiest movie of the year.
This has nothing to do with the book BUT that Clinique compact as signifier took me back...
I was at dinner with college friends during a school break, before going out to the bars, when I pulled out my Clinique lipstick to refresh. A 'friend' promptly asked "oh, is that from a GWP?" and I had no idea what she was talking about, as my mother had given me the lipstick. I learned that GWP lipsticks are in a plastic tube, real lipsticks are in a metal tube (silver for Clinique, gold for Lauder). Basically saying "oh, can't you afford to buy a lipstick?" We were all upper middle class sorority girls, so there was no reason for her say boo, she just felt like it.
I knew about clothing signifiers, we were all about Guess and Girbaud jeans (we called them Compliments) in those days, it was my first clue about cosmetics as signifiers.
I had no time, I am in a rush.....but BY GAWD!
I
COULD
NOT
HELP
MYSELF.
I read every goddam word!
Aw, E.! Now our cheeks are bright pink. We love you!
This has nothing to do with the book BUT that Clinique compact as signifier took me back...
I was at dinner with college friends during a school break, before going out to the bars, when I pulled out my Clinique lipstick to refresh. A 'friend' promptly asked "oh, is that from a GWP?" and I had no idea what she was talking about, as my mother had given me the lipstick. I learned that GWP lipsticks are in a plastic tube, real lipsticks are in a metal tube (silver for Clinique, gold for Lauder). Basically saying "oh, can't you afford to buy a lipstick?" We were all upper middle class sorority girls, so there was no reason for her say boo, she just felt like it.
I knew about clothing signifiers, we were all about Guess and Girbaud jeans (we called them Compliments) in those days, it was my first clue about cosmetics as signifiers.
I thought that compact was aspirations welllll into my 20s