Glamour Dresses Celebrities As Women Who Made A Difference–And Carrie Bradshaw
4 March 2009, 2:08 PM. By Alex Alvarez
Glamour magazine is celebrating its 70th anniversary by having a gaggle of young models and actresses dress up like famous women from history - including a couple of ladies who don’t actually exist, but photograph really well.
America Ferrera dressed as United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta, remarking, “She saw her own opinion and voice as [something as] powerful as any man’s.” Fellow Latina Alexis Bledel dressed as Rosie the Riveter who, while fictional, has long been seen as a symbol of women’s strength.
Then, for some reason, celebrity spawn Rumer Willis joined Odette Yustman and Spencer Grammer as “the women of Woodstock.” Flying a plane, defending rights, blazing trails and achieving incredible success despite prejudices against race and gender really pale when juxtaposed against bored suburban teenagers who dropped acid and got laid. How embarrassed must America F. feel in retrospect?
Lindsay Lohan dressed as Madonna, which seems about right, and then someone named Gemma Stone dressed as Carrie Bradshaw, who had a sex column and was obsessed with shoes and was sometimes a crummy friend and wore funky clothes and dated lots of rich old guys and is not a real person. Unless you make the argument that she’s a fictional embodiment of Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell. Who is still a fake person. Barum-ching, etc.
What do you all think of Glamour’s choices? Who would you have rather seen included, or would want to have left off the list entirely?
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Rosie the Riveter who, while fictional, has long been seen as a symbol of women’s strength.
The famous poster that Alexis Bledsel is reenacting was based on a real woman: Geraldine Doyle. That woman, however, was not Rosie the Riveter. The story is here.
That’s interesting! I never knew they weren’t meant to be the same character. However, Glamour’s photo spread refers to the woman Alexis is portraying as “Rosie the Riveter” and I think that, when one mentions that name, the woman in the yellow poster is what people think of. Historically inaccurate, maybe, but that’s how it’s seen in pop culture.
Maybe both. The apostrophe is what effed it up. Buuuut, I’m making a comment now on something that no longer exists, so never mind.
JFC, I can find errant apostrophes, but I can’t master your comment system. Sorry.
Since today is National Grammar Day, I would like to point out that you probably mean Julie Andrews, not Julie Andrew.
But is that grammar or spelling? Ah! I also just took that section out because the powers that be wanted the article shortened. So there goes Julie Andrew and Julie Andrews, both.
And it should be a crime to dress Hayden Panettiere as Amelia Earhart.
Lindsay looks crappy as Madonna.. anyways my favorite pic is the Alexis as Rosie.
yeah and Carrie Bradshaw? I dont get it either. If it had to do with Fashion I would have pickd Diane Von Furstenburg or Coco Chanel but seems like all the women they pickd are from American History so whateves.
Aren’t the women of Woodstock in there to represent sexual expression and free love thereby justifying why I was conceived on the side of the road in a car?
What abt fab, fierce, femme shark Angela Davis?
or Kathleen Hanna?
Oh well. The person they would have gotten to pose as them would have not been sufficient anyways.