Thanks very much GU! I'm off to do some more investigating & enquiring on this.
p.s. I think this is getting to a paradox which concerns those with an interest in fashion - conflicts of the romantic vision of glamour and art, and the more unconcious needs to prove ourselves (to gain respect)or to be 'accepted' ???
Kate's inspiration to the public is more than Garboish, she has an element of tragedy, I think, since the scandal, the fact that she was in pictures that looked seedy in that recording studio, and that's very contradicting to glamor, how the press hounded her, even investigated by the Scotland Yard(Tang Wei was singled out in China by the gov't, because of her nudity and the not too anti Japanese position in Lust, Caution, I found similarity in the UK Scotland Yard singled out Kate Moss, the Chinese gov't was afraid that Tang Wei's success would open a flood gate to all the mainland Chinese women,who would get the suggestion that selling their bodies to get rich is the way to go, Kate Moss singled out because the Scotland Yard said her influence on impressionable young people, that they would just copy whatever she does, similar mentality, different subject matter) all that, added the extra element of darkness to her, that in this day and age of politically correctness, is very attractive to think about.
Kate's voice was fine reading the poem, of course it's a different feeling when not a theatre trained person recite, but as long as the feeling and honesty are in it it's still authentic.
Beautiful and intelligent editing, it is a pleasure to see a film so sensitively handeled. It is so rare to see such gentle and emotional work in fashion. Fashion has tended to become so brash and overtly sexual.Well done Ruth Hogben.
