"Cool" female icons- the beautiful people? It is fact to say that the image of a cool woman has changed througout generations.
In the fourties & fifties there was Marilyn Monroe- a voluptuous peroxide blonde actress. Her birth name was actually Norma Jeane Mortenson, but I guess that just wasnt cool enough for Hollywood. She was "cool" for her looks, and seen as extra cool because of the affair she had with the American president, and her controversial death. Now would this be seen as cool today? It appears that Monica Lewinsky & Anna Nicole-Smith were far from being iconic...
For me, it was the 60's when women started being "cool" for more than just being sexy. In the sixties the festival revolution took place as well as the summer of love and sex, drugs, rock n roll. Being a hippie was "cool" and is still seen today as "cool". With this movement came Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell & other talented female artists.
Women began to emerge as strong enigmatic & intelligent people, and although Margaret Thatcher completely screwed up our country- which was not cool, her presence as Britain's first female priminister was cool.
Today's celebrity icons seem to have alterted the meaning of "cool" for me. Younger teenagers are brainwashed into thinking that Victoria Beckham, Kerry Katona & Jordan are cool. And that implies that cool is associated with too much money & too many boob jobs....
That's not cool.
In the fourties & fifties there was Marilyn Monroe- a voluptuous peroxide blonde actress. Her birth name was actually Norma Jeane Mortenson, but I guess that just wasnt cool enough for Hollywood. She was "cool" for her looks, and seen as extra cool because of the affair she had with the American president, and her controversial death. Now would this be seen as cool today? It appears that Monica Lewinsky & Anna Nicole-Smith were far from being iconic...
For me, it was the 60's when women started being "cool" for more than just being sexy. In the sixties the festival revolution took place as well as the summer of love and sex, drugs, rock n roll. Being a hippie was "cool" and is still seen today as "cool". With this movement came Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell & other talented female artists.
Women began to emerge as strong enigmatic & intelligent people, and although Margaret Thatcher completely screwed up our country- which was not cool, her presence as Britain's first female priminister was cool.
Today's celebrity icons seem to have alterted the meaning of "cool" for me. Younger teenagers are brainwashed into thinking that Victoria Beckham, Kerry Katona & Jordan are cool. And that implies that cool is associated with too much money & too many boob jobs....
That's not cool.
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