SEXBOMBS Vol 2 Sirens (With Excerpt from Book)
Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, Ursula Andress, Mata Hari, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Ann-Margaret, Bettie Page, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Mae West, Betty Grable, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Lauren Bacall.
To be a star you need to rouse the senses, but to be a siren you must touch the heart. The intensity of human beauty concentrated in the most famous female sex symbols of the twentieth century is matched by their vulnerability, their daring and their sheer courage. To say they had real social power would be an injustice. Mata Hari, wrongly accused of espionage, wound up decapitated after her execution, with her head embalmed and kept in the museum of anatomy in Paris. It's hardly a state funeral or a fitting homage to a woman who wriggled public consciousness out of the Victorian era dressed as Hindu priestess. Many wanted to be 'real' actresses but had to be content with nude modeling or diminished roles. Some had lives that were larger than the screen (Ava Gardener lived like a hero from a Hemingway novel) and others chose Christianity or even a royal wedding over stardom. Whatever their fate the fact remains that we know a siren by one distinguishing factor: we cannot stop looking at them. The most incandescent example is Marilyn Monroe. Her strange combination of ghostly pale skin, childlike face and innate erotic cunning render her hard to date. Unlike modern actresses we can't sense the stylist in her clothes, the heavy hand of a makeup artist or a photographer's over bearing concept. Clearly and hauntingly, her image belongs to her and it is equal parts spectral nymph, mid century beach bunny, haughty heiress and child star. With an hourglass body and a face like Shirley Temple the oddity of Monroe is her wholesomeness. She could sell diamonds or milk. She looked naked in a white cotton dress or perfectly dignified in the nude. She didn't wear a bra (or underwear) and preferred to be stitched into her clothes. Some say she sawed off one stiletto shoe heel a fraction lower to deepen the sway of her hips. Clearly she wasn't happy, and this just serves to deepen the myth and her lure. Her own words "Being a sex symbol is heavy load" could speak for all of the women who traded infamy for scandal and some scrap of security.
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer foundation and Fashion Industry Broadcast's New Global Publishing Series Launch.
The global and highly prestigious Fashion Targets Breast Cancer foundation (which is licensed in Australia by the National Breast Cancer Foundation) in conjunction with global publishing house Fashion Industry Broadcast has launched a new global publishing operation.
Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publishing house specializing in lifestyle coffee table books, e-books and innovative Apps for mobile devices. FIB is a division of the Branding Establishment Group.
The first of seven series' are being launched in October. The SEXBOMBS series of of four titles chronicles the history of the sex symbol in contemporary culture. The four editions;
SEXBOMBS Vol 1 Golden Boys" ISBN 978-0-9808184-4-4
SEXBOMBS Vol 2 Sirens" ISBN 978-0-9808184-7-5
SEXBOMBS Vol 3 Sex Kittens" ISBN 978-0-9808184-9-9
SEXBOMBS Vol 4Young Guns" ISBN 978-0-9808184-8-2
Each of the four edition in series one is available as 280 page hard cover coffee table books available through better book sellers and Amazon RRP $39.99, e-book versions available through all major e-book sites like Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iBooks, Google books etc... RRP $9.99, and Apps for mobile devices via Apple, Google and Amazon App stores RRP $6.99. Plans are also well advanced to translate the Content into a TV documentary series in 2012.
