my deep dark love affair and a side of angry ranting...

now, you can all claim that you loved her first, but the thing is, i have had a love affair with charlotte gainsbourg for nearly 13 years. ever since i saw her in jane eyre... she was perfect, pretty, but not too pretty, insanely interesting, and supremely talented. i have to admit, that i haven't seen many of gainsbourg's newer films... although i did try and make it through the science of sleep... wow. but her portrayal of jane eyre has always captivated me... i watch it every single time it is on television... i have contemplated purchasing the dvd, but have you ever noticed how a movie loses it's magic once you own it... you never watch it instead you sit through commercial breaks to watch it on tv... so strange...

any who, she has turned into this magical creature, big surprise her mother was none other than jane birkin, an impossibly beautiful actress, singer, model... maybe you have heard of a birkin bag... hermes... ring a bell?  and her father was french musician serge gainsbourg. that kind of dna is seriously special.

well, if you have never heard charlotte sing, you totally should... her music has this strange, super french, dramatic, folk thing going on... i adore it. it's perfect inspiration music. great to just have on in the background. i adore any of the songs in french... so soothing.

but if you haven't heard her music you have definitely seen her mug all over everything balenciaga, she is the face and inspiration for their new perfume and nicolas ghesquiere has a total girl crush on her, can you blame him? she is is just effortless in all that she does... she's so french, yet seems so personable.

i am just in love with this chick. she has such a chill style and i totally just dig it. and i just love that she doesn't try to be anything other than what she is. there are no fillers in her lips, no plans for a nose job... she just is. and really isn't that what we all should be doing!? just being the most beautiful we can be without changing a single thing. 

i have been kind of going through this "hate the fashion industry" moment because i hate all of the fake that it's constantly putting out into the world... shouldn't it really come down to dressing REAL women... i know gainsbourg's tall and thin, but she isn't a stick, nor will she blow away with the wind... really women are all sizes and the industry should glorify that, but instead what it does is once or twice a year give a shout out to a plus sized model... it's not consistent nor is it genuine. I will never be a fashion industry size 0 again and with the way i eat and the amount i exercise it would be unhealthy to try... and at this point a nose and boob job are just out of the question... i just have to remind myself sometimes that i am real and beautiful and shouldn't compare to the airbrushed nonsense that i surround myself with. you shouldn't have to feel inadequate when looking at fashion... you know i love a skinny girl, but sometimes too skinny really is too skinny. 

what do you think? is it your own problem if you feel alienated by the fashion industry? or should their be a movement towards more normalcy in fashion? do you feel pressure to change because of the superficial industry that we love so much?  do you love you some charlotte gainsbourg? are you rushing out to rent jane eyre at this very moment?