[foto_decadent]
'the innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time'
w.b yeats
I remember when this editorial came out in australia and new zealand there was controversy with a capital C, censorship boards, parents, teachers, even teenagers complaining that the spread was indecent because it showed 15 year old Zippora Seven and 16 year old male model (can't remember his name) naked in a bath and insinuated alcohol and drug use. People were calling for Russh to be remanded, fined, sued, banned...
I thought it was a gorgeous shoot though, and it was supposed to be an homage of sorts of the kate moss/johnny depp era, a relationship that i loved and wish still continued (kate moss was in far better shape with johnny than she is today with pete/jamie). The shoot was so evocative of young love, the thrills and perils of being in love for the first time, and the invincibility that is so synonymous with being young. I don't know, i'm probably reading too much into it (as usual) but what i got from the shoot, and it's clear and unveiled relation to the johnny/kate relationship is how there really is no boundaries when young. destructive behaviour, animosity, passion, wasting time, not doing anything by half measures... i mean, that's youth. nothing is as bright and exhilarating but at the same time despairing and never-ending as being young. At least, that's my opinion of it anyway. :P
And of course Yeats goes all poetical on us, but it's true isn't it? the innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. Time robs us of our beauty and our innocence, among other things. With age comes new realisations, new understandings... nothing can ever be the same as it was before. You look at the world with different, tempered, eyes. After your first love, your first broken heart, your first disappointment, your first moment of pure ecstasy (and not the drug kind), you are changed irrevocably. The excitement and wonder that the world holds seems old hat, the despair and distress that it holds a daily reality. And as each day slips through your fingers it gets harder and harder to connect to the innocent, and it must be said, the beautiful, of yesterday.
And i think that's what the editorial, and yeats, is about. Time changes everything. For better or for worse. And nothing is ever the same again.
[zippora seven image; foto_decadentjohnny and kate image; flickr]
Thankyou once again for all your lovely and sweet comments.
X
for those looking for the whole editorial, it can be found here;
at tfs the whole ed is there, including the pics of the male model. at the fashionising forums the pics are just of zippora (although she is the majority of the ed).
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