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Jeweled Amour by Rene Habermacher Vogue Japan 2013

Rene Habermacher, photographer, Junko Editor, Rena Semba fashion editor/stylist, vogue Japan

In this image you can see a high-class woman dressed in her wealth eating at the dining table. Her glance is focused away from the camera as if she was looking at another person at the other end of the dining table, perhaps her husband. This photograph was taken just slightly below eye-level so we are looking up at the model. This gives the model more authority to us and a higher status. The photo is in focus so that we can see the detail of the jewels that she wears. The main focal point within this image is her mouth and red lipstick. Her arm acts as a pathway for our eyes to look up to the model’s mouth and see the large shiny flower shaped ring on the model’s middle finger. This image is cropped so that we are able to closely look at the jewels she wears. The cropped image does not let us see her bent arm or what else is on the table in front; this way we are left to our own imaginations of what or who the model is staring at and what else is on the table that could influence her look and posture. I believe this image does conform to the typical stereotype of an upper-class woman from the amount of jewellery and expensive suit she is wearing. However this photo is not realistic as the model is not wearing any clothes underneath her jacket so that the viewer’s attention isn’t distracted away from the pearls around her neck. I believe this image is about the upper-class women in the 90s and the way they have to portray themselves in order to keep their higher status either by what they wear or to be visually appealing to their other half. Rene Habermacher captures the 90’s upper class woman to show off their wealth through jewels and mannerisms to give a sex appeal to the viewer drawing them in to what makes a wealthier woman sexy and successful.