HUMAN SKIN

Vanity Fair, February 2013, page 2: Estée Lauder publicizes a cream for all types of skin. Six pages later, a model wears a Bottega Veneta dress in the exact shade of her skin. Celine: a pale pink silky coat. Rose is the color for the Guess campaign. A few pages later, a pinky powder of diamonds colors the quadrants of the J12 Chanel watch. The advertisement of the season premiere of Girls on HBO is a close-up of a face – more skin. The first article on the Vanity Fair agenda is about skin cancer. The Covergirl+Olay promise: “2 miracles in 1, makeup meets skincare” on the next page. Skin is the theme, and leafing through the pages of the whole magazine leaves me questioning whether skin might also be a contemporary trend.

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