HOTLOOX REWIND: A Retrospective on Moira Capulet's Mourning Fashions
By Sydnee Lang (via OK! El Asilo)
The past six months have not been kind to Fairfax Media heiress, fashion mogul, social media icon and general person of note Moira Capulet. And I don't mean that in the snide, "oh they've aged badly," way as much as I mean that this has been a half-year of great personal tragedy for Moira.
In February, Moira had the unfortunate luck to be the one to discover the body of her cousin, Reid Fairfax, following his tragic murder at his own charity gala. A few months following, the family was rocked with further tragedy in the death of her grandfather, Leopold Fairfax, leaving young Moira Capulet as the sole inheritor of both his fortune and his media empire.
Counter to conventional wisdom, though, tragedy has far from withered Moira’s beautiful face. Quite to the contrary, actually, she has channeled the personal tragedy of her personal life into great art in the form of her latest fashions. The following will be an examination of these looks as what they are: works of art.
I had to include this look in close-up (from Moira’s first public appearance after the press conference she gave following her cousin’s death), because a wide shot just doesn’t do her fantastic makeup justice. Moira stunned at a benefit brunch for AIDS research in a frankly pretty frumpy antique mourning gown, but dressed it up with silver graphic eyeliner and white mascara (a bold choice for a woman who was still, at this point, publicly bursting into tears). Girl must use industrial-strength setting spray.
Okay, okay, bear with me. This look (a gorgeous Sinead Frost original dress, with silver embroidery accents hand-stitched by Moira herself) was a bit controversial in its time, but listen: it’s good.
This was the actual dress Moira was wearing when her cousin’s body was discovered, and yes, that’s his blood still on it. Reportedly, when she realized there was no hope of getting the blood out without ruining the dress itself, Moira opted to make the stains PART of the dress. And frankly, I can’t think of a more apt metaphor for grief and tragedy, can you?
(Moira has worn this number to a few events, but this snapshot is from her profile for the El Asilo Times, which you should all read right now.)
Moira has gone through a few hair colors since February, but this one is a wig, actually. Capulet’s triumphant return to the modeling scene of El Asilo sure did kick off with a bang, a hitherto unprecedented collaboration between herself and the seldom-seen-together Blair Blackwood and Orianthe Bathory. Here, all three titans are seen modeling original looks from up-and-coming designer Kristel Marcel Choi, with whom Moira has partnered closely in the past.
Every look in this shoot is magnifique, obviously, but I’m really partial to the Black-Swan-meets-Jesus-Christ-meets-Weeping-Mary look Moira is sporting in this shot. They’re pretty disparate influences (and bold considering her very-much-not-a-catholic background), but astute readers of this column know I LOVE bold.
(Discussion question for this week’s article: Is Orianthe Bathory actually that sexy? Or are they just tall? It makes you think.)
I think it says something about the column I write that I’m calling this the most wearable look out of the bunch. There’s not much to say about this look, but I’m including it for a few reasons: Firstly, I love a good f**king pantsuit. I know my editor is going to remove that, but it’s true. Second: Blood tears and a sleek red bob were a bold choice for the occasion, that being the press conference at which Moira properly accepted her new position as president and CEO of Fairfax Media and announced her plans to move the company’s headquarters to El Asilo over the course of the next few months.
Moira is being cagey about her plans for the company, but she has said, and I quote, that “Fairfax Media is and always has been a company for the people, and we’re interested in adding some established beacons of the free press in El Asilo to the Fairfax Media family, in order to best continue the fight for justice in not only the city-state of El Asilo, but in America itself.”
Hmmm!
I still think this makeup look does look a bit clownish, though.
That’s it for this week, dear readers. Pick up OK! El Asilo next week for a returning favorite! (Hint: It’s Anthen Reiter. Of course it is. It’s like you people don’t even KNOW me.)
(SYDNEE LANG is a real journalist, goddarn it!)