Faux Pas

Native “Pour le visage de Mademoiselle Vodianova, comment allons-nous faire pour lui rendre toute sa noblesse?”    The three creative directors of French Vogue were sat round a coffee table, smoking cigarettes, deciding on next month's cover shot.    “Je pense à un sourire subtil, à la fois lumineux, chaleureux et séduisant. Un sourire ne coûte rien et inspire la joie de vivre. Tout le monde sait le faire. Quand une personne vous sourit, vous ne pouvez faire autrement que de rendre ce sourire. C'est si simple!” Said creative director #1.    “Simple, oui, un peu trop simpliste même. Et en cela, je ne suis pas d'accord. Je pense qu'avec un visage aussi elegant que celui de Natalia, nous avons besoin de créer une juxtaposition. La beauté de son visage contrastant avec la laideur de la tristesse, de la colère, de la douleur, de la peur,” said creative director #2.    “J'entends bien vos points de vue,” said creative director #3.    Creative director #1 and creative director #2 were perplexed.    “Permettez cependant que je continue. Messieurs, nous devons prendre l'actuel climat culturel en consideration. La temperature de la philosophie et de l'intellect au sein meme de la société et de la mode. Ne nous limitons pas à la seule stratégie du petit bonheur la chance! Comme le disent nos amis norvégiens, nous ne souhaiterions pas choir entre deux chaises, n'est-ce pas? Montrons non seulement que nous avons un peu d'amour-propre en la matière mais, prouvons aussi que nous comprenons les differences qui nous distinguent les uns des autres. A cette fin, Je propose un blanc. Une page blanche sur laquelle nos lecteurs pourraient y inscrire toutes leurs peines comme tous leurs espoirs, tout leur amour comme toute leur haine. L'émancipation d'une franchise. La vie telle qu'elle est,” suggested creative director #3.    “Ah oui,” agreed creative director #1.    “En effet! Oui, un blanc,” said creative director #2.    Creative director #3, sensing victory, proclaimed, “Comme ces fous d'anglais le diraient - we will draw a blank!” Subtitled    “What are we going to do with the beauteous refinement of Miss Vodianova's face?”    The three creative directors of French Vogue were sat round a coffee table, smoking cigarettes, deciding on next month's cover shot.    “I think a slight, yet bright, seductive smile. For a smile is fun and free and inspires happiness within the reader. Anyone can smile. For when someone smiles to you, you cannot help but smile back. It is so simple,” said creative director #1.    “Simple, yes, but not sophisticated. No? So I disagree. I think with such an elegant face as Natalia's we need to create a juxtaposition. The beauty of her face contrasted with the ugliness of sadness, anger or pain,” said creative director #2.    “Ah yes. I agree with both of you,” said creative director #3.    Creative director #1 and creative director #2 were perplexed.    “Allow me to continue. Gentlemen, we must take the current, cultural climate into consideration. The temperatures of both philosophy and intellect within society and couture. We should not just employ a strategy of hit and hope. For as the Norwegians say, we do not wish to fall between two chairs, do we? To such an end, and to show we have little ego within this matter and prove we posses understanding of the universal differences within our readership, I propose a blank. A blank page on which our reader's pains and hopes, loves and hates maybe written. The empowerment of an openness. Which is life itself,” suggested creative director #3.    “Ah yes,” agreed creative director #1.    “Indeed, yes, a blank,” said creative director #2.    Creative director #3, sensing victory, proclaimed, “As the crazy English would say - We will draw a blank!”

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