glamour

When I think of glamour, I think of high fashion, couture, bright lights big city. I think of the makeup store Sephora, and I think of the show Sex and the City. East coast glamour is high end clothes that are preppy looking, and west coast is expensive dresses and tans.

However, after watching this movie, I’ve realized more and more that there is a dark side to glamour. This involves back stabbing, and making bad things look chic, like cigarettes and drugs, much like the look in fashion coined “heroine chic.” All glamour boils down to is money, the more the better. At least, contemporary glamour is this way. There used to be such thing as old glamour, with stars that just portrayed an air of classiness and sophistication. That is what old glamour used to be. It was about being classy.

Glamour today, much like in the movie we saw, is about quick, dirty money. It’s about living a rich lifestyle, but  not necessarily a classy one. For instance, the well known Paris Hilton. In today’s day and age, she is considered glamourous. However, she is probably the most trashy, disgusting individual I have seen in a long time. She is completely classless, and a far stretch from the days of Jackie O’Nasis or Princess Diana. The main character in the movie completely (for lack of a better term) whored himself for more money and fame. That is what glamour is today. It’s about being sexy, powerful and rich, minus being sophisticated. A decent example of this is in the Great Gatsby. Even though the Old riches came from money, they were much classier than Gatsby, who was a “nuevo rich,” and just spent his money on things like big parties and stuff to make him look better. He in actuality was a bootlegger. This is how I feel glamour is portrayed today: a disgusting, classless game where people will step on anyone to get more fame and power.