Theres no getting around the ugly association of gender transition with violence, other than to say that it feels thoroughly aestheticized, of a piece with Psycho and with De Palmas career-long fascination with split personalities in earlier thrillers like Sisters and Carrie, and later ones like Body Double, Raising Cain and Femme Fatale
The way the American market received the new design is described by Janet Wallach, author of Chanel: Her Style and Her Life (1998): Despite its simplicity, however, it took a daring woman to design it and, oddly enough, an American audience to accept it
Conversely, if you spend less, then youll still have to pay $1,000
Color is rich and fresh, the same as the picture