WEARING AN ATTITUDE OF GLAMOUR

Glamour is an attitude; it’s the expression of a certain kind of confidence
It’s about possessing an air of mystery and excitement

For me glamour is a sense of understanding, a freedom to emanate your charm and elegance; I consider it beyond the notion of luxury and high fashion of Bollywood or Hollywood – it is not merely an aesthetic signal! It is a form of communication to incite respect for and around your aura and to challenge the boundary that our culture and society often dictates on freedom of expression. It is therefore a form of non-verbal rhetoric that persuades others to notice you not through words but through images, concepts and totems.

Most times you deliberately craft glamour by ignoring your discordant elements while heightening appealing characteristics. In that sense, glamour is just about the right coupling of your performance and the perception of others. By binding such performance and perception, glamour gives us pleasure, even may heighten one’s yearning. However, there’s a fine line to it – the moment you de-couple performance and perception, you either create ‘vulgarity’ or ‘luxury fashion’.  

Glamour is a SPELL and a GRAMMAR

Glamour could be in your lipstick; a sari or gown draped around your body; a thin strand of hair that a gust of air moves in & out of your face; an artful pause when you speak; or, a romance and distance between you and your audience! You do have to get it right in order to be seen as glamorous as opposed to pretty, polished, vulgar or chic. You don’t stumble into glamour; you create it, even if you don’t realize that’s what you are doing! That’s why it’s important to learn and understand the art of glamour.

- drinking champaign in the night is glamorous but the hangover next day is not;

- high heels are glamorous but the bleeding and blistering feet are not;

- walking on red carpet is glamorous but displaying nudity is not;

- speaking your mind is glamorous but uttering stupidity is not;

 

But, if you indulge too much on consciously creating a glamourous you, you might just end up working on your illusions better and instead deceit yourself with false glitters of glamour. And, that is what will become the ‘dark side of glamour’. You will increasingly try to communicate to others who you are not – in a bid to grab people’s attention towards you. It is then when you tend to move away from your own reality, your own freedom; and, that is dangerous for your persona and for your confidence!