- Who are you calling a lady?
I'll be asking whether the clincher is craft not class at the Women of the World festival at London's Southbank CentreI'm hand-stitching this article in pastel thread, which I made by unravelling the ribbon of a locket. I'm a lady, you see. We are too nicey-nicey to admit it, but we're part of a simpering zeitgeist. Cath Kidston's floral patterns crawl over gardening implements and laptop cases. Kirstie Allsopp constructs Cornish cottages from a twist of raffia and a dab of glitter glue. Etiquette guides show us how to behave as graciously as the robots in the Stepford Wives . A lady distracts herself in petty distinctions and surface accoutrements, no less so than a woman who has chosen fake plastic tits, hair and nails over watered silk. For both, femaleness is a performance maintained with a steely constancy that would be of more use in a political campaign than a home decoration or body renovation project.A lady is deeply insecure – or she wouldn't try so hard. Her crafting and baking are repetitive means of soothing anxiety and lulling herself into a stupor. They are the sad acts of an oppressed animal furnishing her cage. To call someone a lady is to sneer at her with satirical pseudo-irony and mocking pseudo-decorum. Women are women. We are not laydees, babes, chicks, foxes, bitches, sluts, whores or anything else. Or perhaps ladyhood is a feminist strike for dignity and self-definition? Maybe the lady, rigorous of mind, elegant and capable, is an admirable reaction against the crudeness of representations of women. Her penchant for needlepoint is a protest against mass production.Maybe the lady is reacting against the brutality of individualist capitalism, which says that the only thing that matters is what you've achieved in your career and that the home is uni null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Private equity firms target retailer Cath Kidston in £75m bidding war
Several private-equity firms have made first-round bids for Cath Kidston, the floral clothing and homewares retailer, that is up for sale for at least £75m. 複数のプライベートエクイティ企業のカテーテル法Kidston、花柄の服や家庭用品の小売業者は、販売のために少なくとも£ 75メートルの最大であるための第1ラウンドで入札を行った
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