The Hairy Trend: What Astro?
Usually I am quite good at attributing trends to cosmic cycles but honestly, the hair thing has me stumped…Does anyone have any ideas? Venus Retro and in Aries for so long? A cave-manny response to Pluto in Cap/GFC stress? The Saturn-Uranus opposition? None of the current main astro-themes seem to fit.
Seems like it would just HAVE to be related to Capricorn in some way…
http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/mammal/mtgoat/mtgoat04.jpg
okay, off to bed. Good night Mystic. Hope others chime in here!
“A cave-manny response to Pluto in Cap/GFC stress?”
Perhaps as if GFC gets any worse we may have to become hunters and gathers
chuckle
gatherers
how many “ers” are there?
Personally I don’t get it. Really I don’t. And I’m pretty open fashion wise.
Theory 1: They’ve run out of ideas having done fur/feathers/plastic/mod and now hair.
Theory 2: The Grudge has possessed designers.
Theory 3: Nanuk of the North has been raised from the Dead and intends to bring us all into the Eskimo Hair Age.
I will say this about fashion. It doesn’t matter how hip/wild/avant garde it is, if one is wearing it to adorn one’s self for increased attraction, there is actually a ceiling to the male ability to comprehend such things. Lest they be Virgoan, they will most likely only notice a blur of color, the general shape of you in the outfit and how this subconsciously indicates fertility via the right proportions, and how healthy a female specimen you are via gloss of hair/shine of skin/sparkle of eye.
This thing looks like it may have teeth and bite you. Shudder.
Is that stylist giving the hooves a trim?
Dunno either about this hairy business. I’ll lie awake tonight for sure, tormented by the nebulous existential symbolisms of modern fashion.
All I can think is that the texture suggests Earth sign, some yearning for earthiness, like a bison wishing for a prairie or something, or for Sweetpea’s mountain goat to run with the wolves. The extreme amounts of conditioner and grooming required for these articles suggests high maintenance (not naming names but Capricorn, Leo, Virgo). ‘Yes, it’s a GFC, but I’m prepared to groom, (crimp, flat iron).’ Or hairy clothing may divert attention from less frequent waxing.
Anyway, could be some complication of Saturn Uranus opp. (pragmatism vs whackjob) or Venus in the realm of Mars is just too primal + retrograde motion is some sort of viking he-man throwback.
I think I’ll take a lie down now.
I totally agree – the whole “hooves” thing make perfect sense =
Caps Taurus, virgo, all grounded creatures each drawn to the earth
i mean like we are all in turn some how connected to the earth but the hooved animals, Caps, Sagg, Taurus & Leo i thing would be most suseptable to this odd sense of fashion.
A lie down always HELPS! IM WITH YOU!
Exhausting isn’t it Master Matt? Solving the enigmas of our time?
AS it has been so shall it always be
Anorexia meets GFC meets fashion.
When resources are limited the body grows hair
thus cloaking the Goat for “uncertain times”.
those boots and the use of hair are so martin margiela…theres something about his work that seems very now, hes really interesting like a deconstructivist, and he gave us these amazinfg cloven toed boots ages ago that nike ripped off. martin did it first, and ive always thought theres something really austere about him but pagan too, and monochrome. i think the hair itself is a red herring, it could be twigs or sack or bones. i think its about needing to have something primeval near our skin. and oddly as well, i think the fact that the hair is dark makes it so different to that vile skirt with the red hair…not that red hair is vile, it’s beautiful, but the hair on that skirt looked like it had been interfered with. also, in passing, i love those crochet knickers on that link!
i think yes, like uber virgo says, a yearning for earth. arctic.
Pagan! Pagan! Yes that’s it. I’ll be able to sleep peacefully tonight.
Yes, the urge to grow horns, and stamp one’s hooves into earth or snow, and bray or bleat and emit methane. The whole civilised thing -wearing suits and man made fibres, reading Ayn Rand and pretending to understand bauhaus – only landed us all in the economic bison crap. I’m going to strip naked, run outside and roll in the dirt. Thanks 3xAqua, I feel better now.
So what’s the pagan astro signature? Neptune in an earth sign?
Where is the practicality of hairy clothes?
couldn’t we just grow the hair?
I get the feeling its cos people want to be ‘wild’ and ‘beasts’.
It’s all about hair ‘control’. I’m pretty sure it’s been covered before by feminist theory – another way to suppress female sexuality yada yada…
Well it was only 30 years ago or so that every woman had a fur coat in the wardrobe. I’d say its only the last generation that haven’t had a great deal to do with animal skins. Even leather is no where near as popular as it once was. Everythings been a bit plastic fantastic for quite a while, sleek, fitting, etc. Furry things add pounds to your look and thats been a no no for a while. Have no idea why its become hip again, but I like the pagan idea. Tattoo’s have filled that niche recently but seem to be on the way out. (This is from someone who’s been wearing the same style for 40 years so…)
consider a representation of the uncanny — the familiar made strange
I like that firegirl, not sure I totally get it ?, but I like it.
O.m.g. I have GOT it.
It’s Where The Wild Things Are chic.
A homage to the much-loved Maurice Sendak book.
oh so looking forward to the wild things movie coming out soon…
hey david
suggest googling Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973); and her Monkey Fur Shoes, 1938; also Surrealism …
have a look at shoes here:
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/65450.html?mulR=4469
Hi Firegirl – your words about the uncanny also reminded me of the gothic mode used in literature – exploring self/other, civilisation/barbarism, sublimity/abjection, beauty/horror, and holiness/blasphemy.
They are pretty barbaric those shoes.
Crikey,
One could trip on the bangs of those shoes..
Am thinking each shoe would need a leash to “heel”..he,he
also Martin Margiela draws on a lot of Surrealist influences in his work
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2008/sep/30/parisfashionweek.catwalk?picture=338122276
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/martin-margiela-fashions-invisible-superstar-868562.html
…(born April 9, 1957 in Genk, Belgium)
and check out Louise Bourgeois (born 24 December 1911), especially the Robert Mapplethorpe portrait (1983?) of her in her long haired monkey fur coat
yeah firegirl,great links i was really thinking as well of that dada fur teacup. god i love louise bourgeois, id love to see her astro.
and i totally love where the wild things are i think spike jonez is going to do a good job.
Spike Jonze is a freakin Libran genius! (With a handy little Libra stellium)
Et voila, le astro de Louise Bourgeois
http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Bourgeois,_Louise
Cap Sun, Aqua moon and Asc.
My initial, and far from logical, thoughts are Saturn in Virgo – because of Virgo’s association with animals and the counter-intuitive results of Saturnian restraint ie if you deprive yourself the luxury of grooming, hair grows wild. (I wonder if body hair will make a comeback?) Also with the icy-ness of Saturn you need fur for earthy warmth. Paired with Plutonic power in bearded-goat Cappy, everyone self-promoting status-worshipper will want Clydesdale shoes, hairy hems and the like???