12:14 pm - 08/05/2009
BREAKING NEWS! SHARON STONE REVEALS SINEWY HALF CENTURY OLD BODY ON COVER OF PARIS MATCH
WORLD YAWNS IN RESPONSE. WAITS FOR COOCH.
If anyone speaks French there is an article about this on the Paris Match Website. I would LOVE to know what is said...
Awesome article translation courtesy of
tres_francais
what's the story behind these photos?
When I came into the studio, Alix Malka told me he wanted to reinvent me. He got clothes sent to me and I understood he saw me the way I am in reality, which many people I collaborate with don't. In fashion magazines, everything is organized by age. This is what you've to wear when you're 20, at 30, then at 40. I'll never get into a mold, I won't dress the way people want me to dress. Doing this photoshoot was very funny. I found out Alix was a real professional and I really appreciate that; He made me think about Herb Ritts or these very important directors I worked with such as Scorsese or Albert Brooks. These photos are really graphic and show the woman as a work of architecture, a sculpture whose curves look like Rodin's work. At the beginning of the shoot I acted as a dancer as many photographers are looking for long lines. Alix told me "i wanna see your muscles, how your body is made". That's an unusual approach. Fashion photographs have been showing the deconstruction of women's body. Alix wanted to do the opposite, to express feminity in a healthy way, celebrate strength and joy.
The perfection of your body at 51 is a provocation. This provocation, I guess, is part of the relationship you've with the lens and of the way you play with this image
Is there an age when you're supposed to refrain yourself from doing some things, like showing your body? If someone is shocked by these photos, that's a reflexion on his own views on age and he could ask himself why he resigned himself. What these photos represent is nothing surprising to me, my life didn't change at 50, I didn't change. I don't see where the provocation is. If I asked myself the question I probably wouldn't have done these photos as I don't consider myself as provocative. And who decided when life was supposed to begin or to stop? I don't want to live depending on the way people see me(?). In these photos, I see myself as one of Renoir's models. It's more shocking to see teenagers who bare all in magazines, than to see a 50 y-o woman. Don't you think so?
The picture is overly retouched but she looks great for 50, y/y?
SOURCE
I'm 50 and I like to kick and stretch!!
WORLD YAWNS IN RESPONSE. WAITS FOR COOCH.
If anyone speaks French there is an article about this on the Paris Match Website. I would LOVE to know what is said...
Awesome article translation courtesy of
tres_francaiswhat's the story behind these photos?
When I came into the studio, Alix Malka told me he wanted to reinvent me. He got clothes sent to me and I understood he saw me the way I am in reality, which many people I collaborate with don't. In fashion magazines, everything is organized by age. This is what you've to wear when you're 20, at 30, then at 40. I'll never get into a mold, I won't dress the way people want me to dress. Doing this photoshoot was very funny. I found out Alix was a real professional and I really appreciate that; He made me think about Herb Ritts or these very important directors I worked with such as Scorsese or Albert Brooks. These photos are really graphic and show the woman as a work of architecture, a sculpture whose curves look like Rodin's work. At the beginning of the shoot I acted as a dancer as many photographers are looking for long lines. Alix told me "i wanna see your muscles, how your body is made". That's an unusual approach. Fashion photographs have been showing the deconstruction of women's body. Alix wanted to do the opposite, to express feminity in a healthy way, celebrate strength and joy.
The perfection of your body at 51 is a provocation. This provocation, I guess, is part of the relationship you've with the lens and of the way you play with this image
Is there an age when you're supposed to refrain yourself from doing some things, like showing your body? If someone is shocked by these photos, that's a reflexion on his own views on age and he could ask himself why he resigned himself. What these photos represent is nothing surprising to me, my life didn't change at 50, I didn't change. I don't see where the provocation is. If I asked myself the question I probably wouldn't have done these photos as I don't consider myself as provocative. And who decided when life was supposed to begin or to stop? I don't want to live depending on the way people see me(?). In these photos, I see myself as one of Renoir's models. It's more shocking to see teenagers who bare all in magazines, than to see a 50 y-o woman. Don't you think so?
The picture is overly retouched but she looks great for 50, y/y?
SOURCE