Mr Toledano : A new kind of beauty Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon’s hand?
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Posted by Vanderleun at March 3, 2010 12:02 PM
On the beauty: I'd bet a nickel that half the chicks were trannies, and the ones with the grotesque udders belong on a silicone dairy farm. The prettyboys were neither.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at March 3, 2010 9:10 PMBeauty? Rather, mental illness.
Posted by: Caravaggio at March 4, 2010 5:50 AMMr. Toledano is trying to be provocotive, in an already-done-to-death post-modern way. It isn't evolution anymore than ritual scarification is.
Or maybe it is cultural (de)?evolution.
Or it's all in the eye of the beholder. I dunno.
But I so would buy one of those 'Choc and Awe' bars. (See the American Gift Shop series)
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