Seeing as everyone has been blah-ing on about New York Times’ new style mag - TMagazine, I spent a good part of an hour perusing the very engaging site. Fronting the cover is Natalie Portman whose photograph spread by Raymon Meier can only be described as ‘neon ethereal’. Portman’s sillhouette bears a slight resemblance to that of the singer Feist’s ‘The Reminder’ album cover (probably my most-listened album of mid-2007), in both shape and style.
Thinking about my own poor relationship with the camera, if I ever had to be forced to take ‘professional’ mug shots of myself, I’m definitely going to hark back to the Victorian tradition of sillhouettes and turn my face to the side with perhaps a hint of my face peeking through. It goes along with my other thoughts of self-image, and this will sound completely and selfishly self-conscious, but increasingly as I walk about London going about my ways, people will come up to me and ask ‘You’re Susie Bubble, aren’t you?’, inner-fears creep in and I wonder ‘What if I had never shown my face on this blog/in press/elsewhere and remained completely annonymous with a camera forever obscuring my face?’. Are people disappointed/surprised by how I look in reality? It’s a little disconcerting that I’m thinking about these things toward the end of what has been a fantastic year for Style Bubble, publicity wise, and most people will probably say ‘Pull yourself together and get a grip!’. However, the unsure side of me does wish that maybe I should have turned my head to the side and hidden myself away a bit more…
Source: Turn to the side
