Anna Wintour | Halle Berry | Smart Sensuality Life Choices

A few photos from New York’s Fashion’s Night Out, a citywide celebration of shopping and style organized by US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, connect the dots of AOC’s Smart Sensuality mantra.

The best image — one that sums up our Sensual & Superyoung mission — is Anne Wintour and Halle Berry at Ralph Lauren’s Madison Avenue flagship store. This female twosome image can easily be tied to two covers from LOVE mag #4; all eight covers are featured in Body | Beauty | Culture.

Love Magazine reminds us that women come in many flavors.

Ms Manners and Gisele on LOVE Mag #4 coversI assume you know who is who in these photos, but Anna is Ms Perfect, representing the last decade of fashion maestros and Gisele is — well the Bombshell — who rows in the same boat with Halle Berry.

Halle Berry, by Mario Testino, Vogus US Sept 2010I’m not sure if Gisele and Halle are plus-size fatties by today’s fashion’s standards, but they are close.

Doesn’t Halle look a bit hefty, standing next to Anna Wintour? This is the head-game women go through, trying to follow the dictates of the fashion industry.

Both Gisele and Halle look like Cindy Crawford and the great supermodels of the 90s, women who had hot bodies, loads of smart sensuality and woke up in the morning, knowing their reason-for-being was not to be a fashion designer’s coat rack.

These women were center stage and perhaps a bit too much of a good thing for the fashion industry.

The question at Anne of Carversville is which woman is probably healthier, with a higher libido and the strong-bones benefits of muscle lust and a positive sex life?

After Halle Berry shared her naked, pregnant mama run on a beach in Mexico story for Anna’s Sept 2010 issue of Vogue US, I’d say that Halle Berry is the goddess in this Anna Wintour |Halle Berry combo.

Gisele photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue US April 2010Just for the record, Gisele also enjoys being a Smart Sensuality Vogue Magazine earth goddess, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for the April 2010 issue of Vogue US.

We are also focused on the power of touch at Anne of Carversville. Do we understand the immune system benefits of positive touching or not?

Modern Values Fashionistas

Modern values fashionistas are into air kissing and shopping for stilettos over a sexy art-house movie. Body contact is disconcerting, somehow. Germs rule.

We’ve noticed Anna Wintour giving up her shades more recently, allowing herself to be photographed for real. Being embraced by Sean Combs, even at Macy’s on Fashion’s Night Out, doesn’t float Anna’a boat.

Anna Wintour | Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at Macy’s on Fashion’s Night Out, Sept 2010Ralph Lauren | American Fashion Patriachy Maestro

How fitting that Anna Wintour and Halle Berry should meet up at Ralph Lauren’s store for this photo op, because it was Ralph’s Fall 2010 need to slim down Filippa Hamilton in search of Ms Perfect, that tore apart the Anne of Carversville content strategy, launching us on a new course that brought women’s global politics, religion, feminism, fashion, health and self-image together in one master stroke.

I truly believe that five years from now, we will say that Ralph Lauren launched a mindset revolution among American women, thanks to the Internet. His buddy in Paris has also fueled the fire with comments about fat, potato-chip eating mommies.

Filippa Hamilton: was she fired from Ralph Lauren for being too fat or too sexy?When Filippa Hamilton revealed on the Today Show that she was fired months ahead of the infamous photoshop debacle photo, we wondered if she was too fat or too sensual.

We argue at AOC that the issue is sensuality and global control of women’s bodies, not the ruse assertion that Filippa Hamilton was actually too fat to inspire women. Smart Sensuality bodies are powerful ones; they are goddess bodies if you will: Aphrodite, Athena, Mama Wati.

Bottom line, what fashion models have experienced over the past decade is a redefinition not only of body image, but of sexy. It’s reasonable to ask if expressed female sexuality even has a place in the minds of certain fashion designers and influential heavy-hitters in the fashion business.

American Woman’s Body Image Dilemma

Real women seeking self-love are caught between fashion’s definition of size 0 beauty and American porn’s obsession with a 34E chest. And no offence Lara Stone, because we LOVE you with that gorgeous bust.

High-definition TV only creates yet another physicality challenge for women.

We’ve seen several gorgeous women — like Kate Snow — shrink like a Ralph Lauren photoshop ad. They are here one moment and gone the next. What’s the most visible element to disappear besides any reference to muscle tone and an ounce of fat? Expressed sensuality. (Read Sarah Jessica Parker | The Model of Femininity?)

Shopping As Sensual Pleasure

If men can’t satisfy us sexually, we will buy more shoes instead, refocusing our sensual desire and taking new, lovers.

No show did a better job of setting American women on a new shopping track than “Sex and the City”. A great research project would be to count the shopping-related scenes to the sex scenes in that third-wave “feminist” (and we use the word loosely) show.

Simply stated, Modern values fashion ruled for the last decade, and this is not the mindset of a Smart Sensuality woman like Gisele or Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Shakira. Smart Sensuality women kiss, cuddle, enjoy great sex and put our arms around the whole world.

Clothes are an agent of our identity, not our definition.

For every germ in our sanitised American life sanctuaries, milliions of other women are dying of malaria or honor killings somewhere in the world — and in America, too.

Smart Sensuality women get the big global picture, and because we are growing in influence — having money and lots of moxie — I’m willing to predict that fashion will change its mind soon about us fat women.

Even as size 8-10, we’re not such bad baggage to have around the photo shoot, as Crystal Renn reminds us every time she gets in front of a camera.

The self-identity power is ours for the taking, ladies.

Could I suggest we put fashion in its proper place in our lives, driving our own self-image cars down life’s super highway. God knows, we are more effective loving ourselves than loathing the women in the mirror, and we have a lot of work to do in every corner of the world.

Go back to the photo of Anna Wintour and Halle Berry. One woman is looking at you straight on — eye—to-eye, and the other is — well posing for the camera. Great photo!

Mama grizzlies sound fierce, but they’ve never seen Smart Sensuality women in action. Carry on Halle. Peace out. Anne

Comments

[tina]

i don't think halle looks hefty standing next to that frail lady. on the side view, you can see how thin her stomach and side is.