Stardust to Dust

posting this one again bc I need to talk about it. (via paper mag) paul looking like a tom of finland inspired drag king. the homoerotic hypermasculinity turned submissive and worshipful / the french maid fantasy of a woman who's socially inferior but saucy becoming the disinterested dominant.

and then. well. the stylist for this shoot, kat typaldos, posted on her instagram story that this image was inspired by guy bourdin. and ok. the 1977 photo in question:

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”