Hopefully you’ve all noticed that Coco’s Tea Party has taken a more personal turn this year, and as a result I’m no longer covering fashion news and cover stars. It’s helped reignite my love for blogging, but today I’m going to break the rules a bit and feature Tina Fey’s US ELLE November cover. Why? Because the styling is frigging fabulous (I love the camel Max Mara coat and personalised Equipment sweater), and for some reason my Tina Fey obsession has reached new heights this month.
I’ve been watching her talk show appearances on YouTube at every opportunity I get (this clip is particularly funny), and I recently read her book Bossypants for the third time. If you’ve yet to experience the wonder that is Bossypants please order a copy immediately or put it on your Christmas wish list. I promise you won’t regret it. Every chapter is insanely quotable, including the following passage, which I would like embroidered on a pillow.
“I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat.
A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful.
Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits.
The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”
So it goes without saying that I will be ranscaking my local newsagents until I get my hands on Tina Fey’s ELLE cover (it’s one of eight). You can see the rest of ELLE’s fabulous “Women in Hollywood” shoots on ELLE.com now. Let me know which is your favourite…
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Images Paola Kudacki for ELLE USA // Quote from Bossypants by Tina Fey, Sphere books
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