Another one of those "model acts all imperious in the presence of her maid" lengthy fashion editorials, this time from Velvet Italia back in 2011. If there is something fashion photographers like more than maids, it's hotel rooms. This one is legendary Negresco in Nice.
I like the second to last picture. It looks like a former mistress, who is now the maid, having one last word with her former maid. Maybe she's begging to switch back or pleading for her not to leave with her old boyfriend.
ReplyDelete"Maybe she's begging to switch back or pleading for her not to leave with her old boyfriend."
DeleteOr, at the very least, to put on something a little bit more appropriate for going out! As a former maid, the new mistress still has a lot to learn when it comes to style.
So that's what the Negresco looks like! I'm amused, because aeons ago in high school I was in a production of "The Boy Friend", a musical which takes place at a finishing school in Nice, and one of the girls is being pursued by "that terribly rich and good-looking American who's staying at the Negresco".
ReplyDeleteThe girl is such a bitch, it would serve her right if she were forced to labor at the hotel while the rich boy took a chambermaid back to his estate in America.
Come to think of it, one of the characters in "The Boy Friend" is a member of the nobility who is living a life of penniless desperation -- but alas, it's a boy, and he winds up reconciled with his family and marrying a rich girl. What a pity that it isn't a rich girl who winds up doomed to lonely obscurity and hard work....
Love your ideas. Old musicals do tend to follow very cliched, predetermined plots, but I could totally see something like than in a more modern, off-off-Broadway production. Come to think of it, a lady-to-maid story is the dark and perverted version of your typical girl-finds-love-and/or-happiness plot.
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