FASHION Magazine
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Are We in a Pixie Cut Renaissance?
Zoë Kravitz can pull off just about any hairstyle. And over the years, she’s changed her look enough times to prove it. The actor has tried a bleach blonde bob, an upper cut, braids, and in The Batman, she pulls the pixie out from her beauty repertoire once again. As Catwoman (played by Kravitz), Selina […]
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The Enduring Legacy of the Catsuit
When it comes to archetypal femme fatale, Catwoman reigns supreme. The complex character — who walks the line between villain and antihero — represents power, independence and perseverance. All of these traits are embodied by her signature outfit: the catsuit. Since The Batman was released in theatres on March 5, audiences have been transfixed by […]
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Zoe Kravitz will play Catwoman in The Batman + More Culture News You Missed This Week
Zoe Kravitz is the new Catwoman, Margaret Atwood wins a joint Booker Prize, and more.
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The 17 Most Stylish Female Superheroes in Comic Book History
Happy National Superhero Day, everyone! Practically every other actor wants in on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Extended Universe train. Gal Gadot will reprise her role as Diana Prince in Wonder Woman this June, Academy Award winners Lupita Nyong’o and Brie Larson will star in Black Panther and Captain Marvel, respectively, and Cate Blanchett […]
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Pretty hurts: How Hollywood shaped the way we see evil beauty today
Evil beauty from the beginning »
Beauty, at Walt Disney Studios, is in the eye of the animator. Disney films have always conflated natural beauty with inherent goodness, unnatural beauty as inherent wickedness, giving their princesses and heroines the eyes, hair, lips, and skins female villains would kill for.
Sleeping Beauty, Disney’s 1959 masterpiece, is the best example of this dynamic: born with all the markers of ‘natural’ beauty, Aurora is both a good person and good to look at. She’s blonde, thin, graceful and beloved by animals, fairies and humans. She’s also almost entirely silent—in Ariane Lange’s piece on the history of pre-Disney Sleeping Beauty incarnations, she counts only 263 words spoken by our titular beauty, not counting lyrics she sings or the noises she makes in response to other characters. The action starts for Aurora when a single drop of blood appears on her sixteenth birthday, rendering her unconscious until a man comes to legitimize her existence with his mouth.
Our villain, Maleficent, is Disney’s greatest hot bitch in charge. In sharp contrast to Aurora, Maleficent is funny, a woman who speaks often and with great force, so bad and so beautiful all at once.
Photography by Hulton Archive/Getty Images
