There was a time, back in the late ’90s, when we were in high school, Bust magazine was taking off, girls were putting white-blonde streaks into their dark hair, and reclaiming the image of Bettie Page was fresh and exciting. Over ten years later, we just can’t take it anymore. Now that Katy Perry is running around with blue bangs, doing press for her lamentable single “California Gurls” in garish bikinis cut to ’50s pinup proportions, we are declaring the shark jumped. If we see one more celebrity dressed up as Page (who, in case you haven’t seen Mary Harron’s The Notorious Bettie Page) wasn’t a particularly happy or empowered individual), we’re launching a protest against the stylist. Click through to see everyone from Kathy Griffin to Juliette Lewis in Bettie drag and blow this overdone trend a kiss goodbye.
Katy Perry
Kathy Griffin
[via PopCrunch]
Mary-Louise Parker
Jenna Jameson
Juliette Lewis
[via Black Book]
Renée Zellwegger
[from W, via]
Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Gos and Margaret Cho
[via Sarah's Blog]
Megan Gale
[from GQ, via]
Perez Hilton
Comments (3)
Bettie’s going to be the pin up icon … there’s no getting rid of Marilyn Monroe or Jackie O or James Dean or Madonna or … y’know? Sure, it’s an easy sort of homage/cultural reference/rip-off (depending on how you feel about the icon–admire/accept/despise) but that kind of style isn’t going away. As we can see from Perez getting in on it–it’s untouchable.
also Beyonce totally played Bettie in her “Why Dont You Love Me” video and it was HAWT. http://soldout.squarespace.com/blog/2010/5/28/my-hellcat-dreamgirl.html
Beyonce can do whatever she wants!
Dear lord that Perez Hilton picture was frightening.
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