Michigan Model in Ad Campaign That Queers '70S Beauty Standards
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Republicans Copyright 2021 By Ellen Shanna Knoppow www.PrideSource.com BTL | January 14, 2021 3 Prim-n-Poppin is the work of New York-based Photographer Julia Comita and makeup artist Brenna Drury. The reimagined vintage ads redefine ‘70s fashion with a more inclusive lens. Courtesy photos. A New Campaign Redefines ‘70s Beauty Standards With LGBTQ Themes BY EVE KUCHARSKI Prim-n-Poppin, which officially launched in identities. ads brought out an emotional response in January, New York-based photographer Julia It includes detailed interviews with each both the project creators and the participating Comita and makeup artist Brenna Drury have model and allows viewers to access an in- models. ithout dispute, the ‘70s were an imagined a world that better reflects the diverse depth resource list of allied companies and iconic fashion decade. Tie-dye, world we live in. organizations that value beauty just as much Where did the name for Prim-n-Poppin come floral, bell-bottoms, mini (and The online project is a series of reimagined as the emotional health and well-being of the from? Wmaxi) dresses. It’s not hard to pick out a seminal vintage magazine ads that includes models people who are interested in fashion today, trend whose influence can be seen even in of various races from the body modification, unlike the antiquated original source material. Julia Comita: We like that name because modern day wear. vitiligo and body positivity communities. But Recently, Comita and Drury shared why “prim” is sort of alluding to the vintage portion But despite its fun fashion, the decade it’s not only representative of physical diversity. inclusivity is as important as ever in fashion of it. You know, more old-school and more idealized white standards of beauty, largely Prim-n-Poppin showcases five reimagined today, what it was like breaking modern proper, if you will. And “poppin’” is more leaving out anyone who didn’t meet the mold vintage beauty ads that also highlight models makeup rules to create the project, and why alluding to present-day. It is a combination of of skinny, cisgender female models. Now, with with ranging sexual orientations and gender seeing diverse representation in these vintage the two. And it’s just a fun title. 4 BTL | February 18, 2021 www.PrideSource.com What was the process of coming up with the project, of course, but it’s a start to seeing the idea? advertisements as how I see my world today, which makes me very happy. Brenna Drury: We met through Instagram. I messaged her to collaborate. That was in early It’s great that the concept of diversity extended summer 2019 and I made a few mood boards, out to sexual orientation and gender identity as three of which were more along the beauty lines well. How did you find the LGBTQ models featured of pops of color and in Prim-n-Poppin? fresh skin. And then I threw in the vintage Comita: There are advertisements, a number of great which were just agencies out here colorful fun. We that are catering to a started with that more diverse group and agreed that we of people. There’s would like to do places like We Speak something a little that we pulled talent bit different. And from. They even have then, while looking a whole category through the vintage in their roster for advertisements, we fluid. And Slay was were picking up another agency that on the undertones we cast from; Slay is like how non- the first exclusively inclusive they were, transgender agency. I and just the more actually didn’t know conversations we those agencies before had, we were able we did this project. to narrow it down This was something to exactly what we Brenna and I had wanted it to do. Cory Walker. Courtesy photo. talked about. Brenna did a lot of research and sent some agencies to Once the project was completed, what did you my attention and we were able to find everyone feel when you saw all the diverse faces repre- except for Cory (Walker), who did the soap sented in this traditionally exclusive way? ad, who I was referred to from another project a few months before who I shot with. I just Comita: Very emotional. I don’t know, it just really loved their energy and they photograph makes me smile. If I look at all the original ads really well. all together, from a surface-level perspective I might be like, “Oh, those are funny.” But if I Was there an artistic challenge that was unique really look at them, I don’t feel good because it to shooting this project? doesn’t feel correct. It feels very one-sided. So, seeing all of the faces together now, it makes Drury: For me, I wouldn’t say it was a me feel kind of emotional because this is the challenge, but the makeup aesthetic was world we live in. Especially in New York City, obviously different during that time, and the we go out the door and we see so many different way that I like to do makeup now is skin- kinds of people. These are our friends. forward. Back then it was more caked on, so Drury: We would love to expand on the it was an adjustment to put that much makeup on my clients. I knew that it would read how I wanted it to read, but that was the only thing for me. Comita: I don’t know if I would call this an artistic challenge per se, but I guess one of the things that was different about this project was making sure that everybody was being a little bit silly or over the top. We’re not asking them to model to make themselves the best they can look; it’s more about, “Let’s get the feeling across of this picture and what we’re trying to communicate.” Drury: Posing was something that we talked a lot about, whether it was like they were selling the cellphone and it was like this (pained smile). Now, it’s just more casual, but I feel like there was a period of adjustment when the talent were getting out of their normal modeling state and being just, like, extra. (Laughs.) See Prim ‘n Poppin, continued on p. 6 Kaguya. Courtesy photo. www.PrideSource.com BTL | February 18, 2021 5 of the makeup (in her hand), a few of Michigan’s Poppin: A Closer Look at the people that we showed it to once Prim-n-Poppin Model Jesi Taylor Cruz it was done, there was a question of like, “Is that rubber fashion and unequal wages.