The New Fashion Cue: Britney Shears
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On Friday night in Los Angeles, trainwreck pop-starlet Britney Spears walked into a hair salon and -- in view of the cameras that have stalked her since adolescence -- picked up a pair of clippers and shaved her head.
The 25-year-old former Mouseketeer and mother of two then marched her bald head into a tattoo parlor and had a pair of tiny red and pink lips drawn onto her wrist.
Britney out of control! was the conventional wisdom on the celebrity Web sites and cable news yesterday. The latest episode comes after an ugly divorce, panty-less hard partying, rumors of rehab and a mysterious cross-country flight (in coach!) earlier Friday.
Or was it the opposite? For by shaving those tresses was she not reasserting control over the performance art that her life has become? How better to renounce the tawdry sexy-schoolgirl posturing that sold out her childhood? A shaved head is self-effacing, ascetic, a howling cry for authenticity -- and perhaps the ultimate kiss-off to all those producers, publicists and paparazzi, to the stage parents and the sleazy exes.
Except . . . ohmygod, it is so totally not a good look for her.
-- Amy Argetsinger
