Women of desire
I woke up early this morning. The scent of tuberous was still lingering in the air. The sun had started to rise and gradually our bedroom shifted from a reddish glow to a soft white light. Reinout was still asleep, so it was with a lot of effort that I turned over to get my laptop that was neatly tucked under the bed. The operation wasn’t completely soundless because he stirred and turned around. But the warmness that was spreading through our boudoir must have exercised it’s immense power over him too and so he was suddenly wide awake.
Two minutes later we were both sitting with our laptops trailing the net in our own personal directions. I was going through the news as usual and came across a cultural editorial on the phenomena of Nicole Kidman. A name that has become synonymous with cool, elegance and glamour but also fragility, vulnerability and loneliness. It’s a combination I dare to say few women possess and even fewer master. Perhaps the closest icons of our time have been Grace Kelly, Princess Diana and possibly Marilyn Monroe. What is is that makes us so obsessed with these women, when they are clearly so detached from the average woman’s wants and needs? And yet we desire them, to the point of consuming them until they perish literally or as a figure of speech.
I admit I am one of those women….the follower that is. Although I loved Madonna, and consumed pop culture like any other teenager, I worshipped Grace Kelly. It was not her claim to royalty that made her my object of desire. It was her coolness, her demeanour and allusiveness. All the attributes I wanted to possess too. Perhaps I saw some reflections of myself in that. I was shy, often mistaken for being cool and aloof. I just needed a bit of beauty and elegance and I could take on that role too. Needless to say it was not that simple, and when we strive to take on the role that someone else created, we merely become actors and in worse case props to our own surroundings. My feeling is that Nicole Kidman has become just that. A statue to be adored and admired in equal measures. A statue that in the cold light of day feels less appealing to revere and behold.
Nicole Kidman in Chanel No 5 advert
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