Unrequired Reading

by Joey Pfeifer (see also: Unrequired Listening / @joeypfeifer / Facebook)

• I don’t understand all these breasts right now. They don’t look like breasts, they look like someone’s taken a grapefruit half and inserted it under you skin. I mean, it doesn’t even bear any resemblance to what a natural breast looks like. But we’re starting to think this is what women should look like. And young girls are looking at these breasts and they think, ‘Oh, I need to go have my breasts done,’ because they’ve lost touch with what a real breast actually looks like. I find it fascinating, I find it disturbing, you could consider it more fascinating, because we’re becoming post-human. We are actually starting to manipulate our bodies, because we can, into a shape. We’re becoming our own art.

  Tom Ford, interviewed on NPR.
  28 Jul 2010 / 2 notes