Au Naturel Is Beauty

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(A) au naturel (adj; French): "1: cooked or served plainly
2a : being in natural style or condition b : NUDE"

"2a" is the most common usage in US, and the meaning in my title.

All definitions are from www.m-w.com

(B) Rachel Dodes, We Don't Mind the Gap: The Fashionable Flash a New Smile.
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720004575478213601248720.html

Note:
(1) David Delfin
http://www.davidelfin.com/

The online edition of this report displays more photographs than the print
edition. Mr. Delfin's and model Lindsey Wixson's photographs appear online
only.

(2) Lacoste
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacoste
(René Lacoste founded La Chemise Lacoste in 1933 with André Gillier)

French name Lacoste: see Coste, which is a variant of Cote. Cote means a
slope or riverbank, less often on the coast, from Old French coste (Latin
costa ‘rib’, ‘side’, ‘flank’).
(3) "pillow-lipped" means lips that are "plumped up."

"In a new ad for Hudson jeans, Mick Jagger's pillow-lipped, gaptoothed model
daughter Georgia appears open-mouthed and topless, locked in an embrace
with a tattooed man." This sentence refers to this campaign series.
Georgia May Jagger Hudson jeans fall 2010 ad campaign
http://stylefrizz.com/201008/georgia-may-jagger-for-hudson-jeans-fall-winter-2010-2011-ad-campaign/georgia-may-jagger-hudson-jeans-fall-2010-ad-campaign-2/

Please click photographs below the main photo (with a tattooed man) to see
others in this series.

She is seventeen.

(4) Miu Miu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miu_Miu
(Miu Miu is a high fashion brand from the Prada fashion house, opened in
1992 and headed by Miuccia Prada. The name of the collection is taken from
Miuccia Prada’s nickname)

Miuccia Prada was born in Milan, the youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada,
founder of the company Prada.

The Italian and Spanish family name Prada means meadow (Latin pratum).

(5) The WSJ report goes on to state, "Miu Miu's fall ad campaign features a
young model named Lindsey Wixson wearing a fur vest and flashing long,
neatly spaced teeth."

Miu Miu Fall 2010 Ad Campaign. Twisted Lifestyle, July 11, 2010.
http://www.twistedlifestyle.com/2010/07/miu-miu-fall-2010-ad-campaign/

(6) Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942; born in New York City; German-born
father and mother of French ancestry) founded Condé Nast Publications in
1907.
(7) physiognomy (n; Greek physiognōmōn judging character by the features,
from physis nature, physique, appearance + gnōmōn interpreter)

The noun "physiology" 生理學 has the same Greek origin for physio.

(8) begone (intransitive verb;  contracted from "be gone" (imperative)): "to
go away: DEPART—used especially in the imperative
<in his frustration the beleaguered actor cried out to the autograph seekers
, “Begone and let me finish my meal in peace!”>"
(9)
(a) The Wife of Bath's Tale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale
("The Wife of Bath's Tale (Middle English: The Wyves Tale of Bathe) and
prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are
probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his
most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. ")

Please sections 1 and 2 (Prologue and Tale, respectively)

(b) The WSJ report quotes, "as help me God, I was a lusty one/ And fair, and
rich, and young, and well begone."

The above appeared in the Prologue.

The following is the modern translation (by A.S. Kline, 2007), about how the
Wife of Bath, or Alisoun met and married the fifth husband, Jankin (the WSJ
quote is in the middle of paragraph 6 below). The original, The Canterbury
Tales, was written in Middle English.

"My fifth husband – God his soul bless! –
Whom I took for love, not for riches,
He sometime was a clerk of Oxford town,
And left the college, and seeking found
Lodgings with my friend, there made one –
God keep her soul! Her name was Alison.
She knew my heart, and my secrets she,
Better than our parish priest, trust me.
To her I revealed my secrets all;
For had my husband pissed against a wall,
Or done some crime that would cost his life,
To her, and to another worthy wife,
And to my niece, that I loved as well,
I would have told the secret, just to tell.
And so I did full often, God knows
It made his face full often like a rose,
Red hot for very shame, and sorry he
For telling me his secret privately.

"And so befell it that one day in Lent –
For often to my friend’s house I went,
As ever yet I loved to laugh and play,
And to walk in March, April, and May,
To hear sundry tales among the alleys –
Jankin clerk, and I, and my friend Alice,
Into the fields about the city went.
My husband was in London all that Lent;
I had the greater leisure for to play,
And to see, and be seen, every day
By lusty folk. How did I know what grace
Might be my destiny, and in what place?
Therefore I made my visitations
Went to vigils, and also to processions,
To preaching too, and these pilgrimages,
To the miracle plays, and marriages,
And wore my gay scarlet as I might.
The worms, and the moths, and mites
Upon my soul, gnawed it never a bit;
And why? Well, I was never out of it.

"I’ll tell you now what happened to me:
I say that in the fields around walked we,
Till truly we made such a dalliance,
This clerk and I, that at a chance
I spoke to him, and said to him that he,
If I became a widow, should marry me.
For certainly, with no false modesty,
I was never without a little surety
Of marriage, nor ever had far to seek.
I hold a mouse’s heart not worth a leek,
That only has one little hole to bolt to,
And if that fail, then everything is through.

"I maintained he had enchanted me;
My mother taught me that subtlety.
And I said too, I dreamed of him all night;
He seemed to slay me as I lay upright,
And all my bed indeed was full of blood –
“But yet I hope that you will do me good,
For blood betokens gold as I was taught.”
And all was false; I never dreamed of aught,
But by way of following mother’s lore,
In things like that as well as others more.

"But now, sir – let me see – what’s to explain?
Aha! By God, I have my tale again!

"When my fourth husband was on his bier,
I wept for hours, and sorry did appear –
As wives must, since it’s common usage,
And with my kerchief covered up my visage.
But since I was provided with a mate,
I only wept a little, I should state.
To church was my husband borne that morrow,
With neighbours that wept for him in sorrow,
And Jankin, our clerk, was one of those.
So help me God, when I saw him go
After the bier, I thought he had a pair
Of legs and of feet so fine and fair,
That all my heart I gave to him to hold.
He was, I swear, but twenty winters old,
And I was forty, to tell the truth,
But yet I always had a coltish tooth.
Gap-toothed I was, and that became me well;
I’d the print of Venus’ seal, truth to tell.
So help me God, I was a lusty one,
And fair, and rich, high-spirited and young!
And truly, as my husbands told me,
I had the finest quoniam that might be.
For certain, I am all Venereal
In feeling, and my heart is Martial.
Venus gave me my lust, lasciviousness,
And Mars gave me rebellious boldness.
My ascendant Taurus, with Mars therein –
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin!
I always followed my inclination,
By virtue of my constellation.
It made me so I could never withhold
My chamber of Venus from a fellow bold.
Yet have I Mars’ mark upon my face,
And also in another private place.
For, God wisely be my salvation,
I never loved with any discretion,
But ever followed my appetite,
Whether he was long, or short, or black or white.
I cared not, so long as he liked me,
How rich he was, nor of what degree.

"What can I say, but at the month’s end,
This jolly clerk Jankin, my godsend,
Wedded me with great solemnity,
And him I gave the land and property
All that had been given to me before.


(10) "I REMAIN, YOU DESIRE by GABRIELLE REVERE

Exhibition September 1st - 21st
                         8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Location Sotheby’s
1334 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021
b/w 71st and 72nd Street"
http://www.mk-mag.com/post/1042384249/gabrielle-revere-i-desire-feat-lindsey-wixson

Ten photographs in the exhibition.

(11) androgynous (adj): "having the characteristics or nature of both male
and female"
(12) More gaptoothed looks:

Liz Mancini, Gap Tooth Beauties: 11 Women With A Perfect Smile. StyleCaster,
Nov. 10, 2009.
http://www.stylecaster.com/news/6290/gap-tooth-beauties-11-women-with-a-perfect-smile
(Georgia May Jagger; Brigitte Bardot; Lauren Hutton; Jane Birkin; Madonna;
Natalie Cole; Vanessa Paradis; Lara Stone; Abbey Lee; Kat Denning; Anna
Paquin)

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