Tecla Insolia gave a beauty shock on the red carpet of the film The Tree at the Rome Film Festival. The twenty-year-old artist arrived, in fact, beautiful and smiling, wrapped in a black dress with a strapless bodice. Dark hair appears under the armpits which she showed naturally to the flashes. After all, why not show yourself as you want? Provocative gesture or simple and free self-expression?
For those who were there in 1999, the image immediately brought to mind an equally radiant Julia Roberts who, on the red carpet of the London premiere of Notting Hill, he dispensed smiles and something to (s)talk about.
His armpits bushy in fact, they immediately filled pages and pages of newspapers at the time: it was the era in which female bodies were hairless, shiny and toned. Visible hair? OF COURSE in its pure state. And to think that until the 70s/80s they were considered absolutely common (has anyone ever (un)talked about Sophia Loren’s?).
Julia Roberts was truly wonderful that evening: she wore a vermilion dress studded with sequins, lipstick en pendant, straight hair gathered in a messy bun. No one, however, really noticed his look. The media attention was concentrated entirely on a precise moment: the moment in which the actress began to greet the fans, raising her right arm and exhibiting with total nonchalance a cascade of dark hair. An episode instantly labeled as faux pas by the press of the time and which in 2018, during an interview, the American diva herself revealed to have been purely coincidental. She simply hadn’t calculated the sleeve length of the dress. In short, no feminist message launched. Although this episode is considered by many the Zero point of body positivity.
Twenty-five years later the hairy armpits still manage to turn one’s nose up to someone. Tecla Insolia, last in chronological order of the group of winning girls who show themselves as they want (from Lourdes Leon to Giorgia Soleri) we don’t think she wanted to be provocative or challenge stereotypes (hopefully no longer in 2024). The actress and singer simply carries on the awareness of the new generation of girls who grew up on bread and Instagram who chose to show off their armpit hair as an aesthetic declaration of freedom, free from all the beauty clichés anchored to the concept of femininity.
It is clear that just the fact that we are talking about it means that the path of women’s demands for the conquest of freedom over their own bodies is still long. The point is always the same: hairless or hairy, who cares in the end? Is the fight against conventions, at least for women, still played out today, literally, on a razor’s edge?
Source: Vanity Fair
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