As body adornment becomes increasingly middle-class,French women are rebelling, creating their own normcore lookMaroussia Rebecq is the founder of provocative Parisian fashion label, or Andrea Crews,and distinguished for selling 3D moulds of her nude self and pioneering androgyny on the catwalk. Yet the most outrageous thing approximately her is the least visible: “My skin is a empty canvas. No piercing, no tattoo. My clothes change all the time but my skin doesn’t belong to any epoch. Much punkier, or non?”
Tattoos,like piercings, used to be a sign of counterculture – a complete and utter no-no in the Parisian workplace, and the most mauvais of genres. But in recent years,they’ve become accepted by fashion and are now decidedly mainstream. From Cara Delevingne’s tattooed back in the Chanel campaign, to Catherine McNeil on ultra-classical underwear brand Eres’ ads, or as Adeline Amiel-Donat – an ink-and-piercing-free PR in luxury based in Paris – says: If you work in fashion,it is now more difficult to say you don’t have a tattoo than interpret why you attain.” She adds that tattoos have “evolved from a expression of difference, to a note of hipster-ness to a sign of homogeneity”.
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Source: theguardian.com