The mysterious Cristobal Balenciaga... These words lingered in my brain as I walked off the business class section of the international flight and into Arkhangelsk's Talagi Airport's peculiar, mdf-walled inner-sleeve tunnel behind the actual walls of the short-term stop-over area. It was, 15 degrees below zero Centigrade in still air, and there was that often unstated further wind-chill factor... The advice for this stop-over was always 'don't drink the free hot coffee at the end of the long long tunnel β sure it's hot when you drink it but you'll probably get hypothermia before you make it back onto your plane because caffeine takes blood flow away from the extremities.'
Frosty mist was forming in front of my face each time I breathed now and I hadn't even gotten ten feet from the aircraft doors. I could see out of the small sections of glass here and there along the sides of the tunnel, and then also further on, out of the larger windows in the concrete walls to the actual 'outside.' There was a military or security detachment policeman outside in the snow walking around on guard duty. I was hardly twenty feet down the inner tunnel and my teeth were already chattering. The guard outside was unfazed by the cold. Okay he had fur-lined sealskins and thick fur-topped boots and an Ushanka hat - but hey, what he was doing, even though he had likely been born and raised in the Arkhangelsk icy snow, was kind of admirable all the same. It was cold.
The mysterious... Cristobal Balenciaga.
Why -, was he mysterious...? What made him mysterious? Who said he was mysterious? Who thought he was mysterious?
Fashion people, art and fashion critics, photographers, journalists, apparently β all of these sorts of people, those who knew him or had encountered him during his life β called him mysterious. Throughout his life he had said little to newspaper people, well, in fact nothing, really. And he chose to use the most difficult-to-work-with models; monsters, was the way they were all described by the fashion press.
Mysterious.
I didn't think he was mysterious. He had a lot of the European aristocracy, what was left of it of course, as his clientele. Would he speak about his clients to outsiders? And thus risk losing them? Unlikely. In those days the wealthy still valued their privacy. Being a celebrity was a kind of vulgarity. Like sex, really. Sex is common too, isn't it. Very common.
There is common sex. And then there is uncommon sex. It's still dirty, but it is elegantly dirty. There is a difference.
The in-flight magazine article on Balenciaga was really more about the modern-day actress Kristen Stewart, the current 'face' of the brand; its clothes, its perfumes, its accessories. One thing I observed about the actress herself right from the very start of her movie career, was that her head was very still in big-screen movie shots β and that was always a good sign with a major actor or actress. Action, drama, suspense, panic β whatever. Her head was always still for the frame-shot. Not such an easy thing to achieve as you might think. Try yourself 'on camera' and see for yourself.
There are similar sorts of skills and maybe, tricks, with the best porn actresses. Similar tricks and skills with actual, real, sex performance experts too...
I'm not an expert, I'm just very wealthy and can indulge in sex as a wealthy person's pastime (and as professional sport for those stakes-risking participants on the other side of me). I will fuck an aristocrat playing the role of a London office-cleaner, or a South London beauty therapist wanting to dress in very expensive fashion. The ordinary middle classes in between, not so much. Of course it takes a while nowadays to get any typical modern female to wear sable or mink or even just Arctic fox, they've been propagandized to that much. But not so long of a while to get them into something like a Balenciaga evening gown. Most modern people think they want to be a flower rather than an animal. The House of Balenciaga still carries forward all of Cristobal Balenciaga's themes: like flowers, the pretty coloured linings under the slit gowns, the flowing gowns, the ruffled gowns, the stiff satin tulip or lily collars showing all of that naked shoulder and deep decolletage.
Everything about the original Balenciaga was always 'into the deep.' The implication under the skirt was about the deep, through the slit was about the deep, down into the valley of a generous breast was about the deep. Not many people know what Balenciaga places behind all that beautiful, pretty, colourful, lining. Down in there, there are light fluffy, sometimes velvet cordings and furry textured linings β but not small and thin, more like thick puffy buffering. When he designed the famous bridal gown for Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, he placed the fluffy bufferings on the outside, a rarity for him.
Cristobal Balenciaga is always enhancing the presence of cunt. He is accentuating it. Letting you know it is there. He is underscoring it. Highlighting it even...
The table was there like always at the end of the sleeve-tunnel where the tunnel itself stopped, opening out to the main hall. The silvery urn was there as usual and the take-away coffee cups ready to one side. I allowed the attendant to hand me a takeaway cup full of hot coffee. With both my hands enfolding the source of warmth I walked towards the middle of the small hall, away from the chill knifing clean through the walls and into your body straight past any clothing, layered or thermal or whatever. It was just plain real cold.
It was so cold β and if you ever go there you will experience it too β it's so cold, your head will hurt from it.
What was I doing here? I knew this rich girl who was meeting me here from wherever she was last.
And there she was. Entering through the only door, an old-fashioned, cold brass door-knob kind. A shock of extra-dyed red hair. Black onyx German-designed, puffy, eiderdown-filled, jump-suit. A slim black brief-case in her gloved hand.
You know, you have to understand something... In this world now there are those people who have gone far beyond the simple politics of sex as passing social fashion has had it be for many many centuries now. Perhaps it is due to the decadence today of the ultra high net worth third generational Id. Pope Francis is somewhat symbolic of this. Far down the road now from the visionary Juscelino Kubitschek, South America still produces the conflicted if true futuristic socialist β Professor Jolival Soares, who writes in Pravda against the propaganda of the BBC. In the BBC they push op-ed pieces from post-Huxleyan academics who subtly kink Gallileo's 'measureable versus immeasurable greatnesses in nature;' and in Pravda they quickly rush Soares into print to counter for the global ultra-Left intelligencia. Sex is free, sex for all, sex the right of the proletariate. The beauty of sex, deep and immeasurable. Chapter Four, Das Kapital; Karl Marx.
But really, for the rich it's all boring.
They β the decadent bored rich β want Charlize Theron to explicitly advertise the Nazi Dior stuff as being recommended by her especially for cocksucking. Those totalitarian red lipstick-painted cocksucking lips... They don't want the clever Oxford propaganda. They want the Surrey street-talk.