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Coco de Mer | Damona quarter cup bra set | Odyssey Spring Summer 2024
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Pamela Anderson for Coco de Mer, 2017
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Coco de Mer
In centuries past the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica) was known only from empty or rotted pods that had floated across the waters from the then-uninhabited Seychelles Islands, located in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar.
The coconuts falling from the trees which ended up in the sea would usually be carried eastwards by the prevailing sea currents to the Maldives (whence their name). As the un-germinated nuts are heavier than water they cannot float, so the species habitat is limited to their native islands.
On the tree, the coconut is a giant green orb, but inside, with the outer husk removed, it closely resembles a pair of female human buttocks. Because of this resemblance one of the archaic botanical names was Lodoicea callipyge, in which callipyge is from Greek words meaning ‘beautiful buttocks’. In modern Seychelles creole, the fruit is called 'coco fesse’ — which crudely translates as 'butt nut’. Because of their unique shape and size (the largest nut in the world) the shells of these nuts have been prized by many cultures for centuries, and the species habitat is now part of a world heritage site and the sale and harvesting of the nuts is carefully monitored.
The nut can weigh up to 45 lbs., it takes two years to germinate, and seven years from the fertilization of the female fruit until their maturity. The trees can grow to be either male of female, and the female tree can bear fruit for the first time when it is about twenty-five years old, though it takes about one-hundred years for the female palm to reach her full mature height of 100 feet or so. The male trees grow about twenty-five percent taller.
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pamela anderson by rankin for coco de mer, 2017
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A startling new discovery has rocked both the botany and marine biology communities – a new species of coconut has been discovered growing underwater around the remote island archipelago of Nullepartia!
For centuries, sailors’ folklore has told of a mysterious coconut-like fruit that floats from the bottom of the Indian Ocean. In 17th century Europe, this enigmatic seed prized in cabinets of curiosities and dubbed “La Noix de La Sirene”. No specimens of the seed have survived into the 21st century, leading many historians and botanists to conclude the "Mermaid's Coconut" was a legend… until now!
The uninhabited volcanic islands of Nullepartia were claimed by France in the late 18th century, but their obscure location far from trade routes and lack of natural resources meant few people have ever travelled there. In early 2024 an intrepid team of scientists led by Dr. Philippe Faux and professional adventurer Miguel La Variel tracked down the true origin of La Noix de La Sirene. According to the team’s reports, the beaches of Nullepartia are littered with the heart-shaped coconuts and more were floating ashore. The team’s scuba divers discovered palm-like plants bearing the distinctive seeds growing underwater on the reefs around the islands. However, the dive team may be suffering from hallucinations becasue they reported half-fish, half-human beings armed with spears chasing them away from the palm grove. The scientific community is anxiously awaiting the next report, but strangely the team has gone silent since their last dive to collect specimens of La Noix de La Sirene…
APRIL FOOLS!
This fake news story was inspired by the real plant Lodoicea maldivica, an endemic Seychelles palm species aka the "Coco de Mer". This species has the largest naturally occurring fruit, weighing up to 36 kg and taking 8 years to mature. Since its biological origin remained unknown until 1743, the seed was the inspiration for many myths like the fictional story above!
Stay curious and always use your critical thinking skills!
Art credit: DALL E 3 and Katia Hougaard
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#coco de mer#lingerie#Png#pngs#png clothes#png fashion#designer fashion#designer clothes#moodboard#Polyvore#aesthetic pngs#png images#Transparent#c
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Ana Neborac by © Rankin
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Coco de Mer | Camellia • robe in Leavers lace + silk | Intertwine Collection Fall Winter 2022-23 lookbook
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Took the time to visit a tropical greenhouse yesterday, which is one of my favourite things ever to do.
This is a coco de mer, which is the largest seed in the world and can weigh up to 30 kilos.
And yes. I know what it looks like.
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Coco de Mer | Marella • in silk + Chantilly lace | Odyssey Spring Summer 2024
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Who: Nicole Ari Parker as Lisa Todd Wexley
What: Coco De Mer Athena cutout embroidered tulle and satin bodysuit in Claret - Sold Out
Where: And Just Like That 2x01 “Met Cute”
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Helena Christensen for Coco de Mer 2022 Icons Campaign
#Helena Christensen for Coco de Mer 2022 Icons Campaign#fashion#style#model#beauty#helena christensen#coco de mer#supermodel#lingerie
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“Surrounded by an all-female team – something Coco founder Lucy Litwack takes pride in – and wearing pieces designed for the female, rather than male gaze, made Howard, the brand’s latest ambassador, feel elegant and empowered.”
OK. I know this is mainly a lingerie and perfume reviews blog but I’m going to pick this statement apart here a bit.
Unless they’re cinema studies or women studies students, most people probably don’t know the origin of the term and concept “male gaze” which was coined by Laura Mulvey in her seminal 1975 article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.”
I seem to recall Mulvey eventually came to regret the ubiquity and use of her concept of the male gaze though I can’t verify this with a source. What I can say is that Mulvey was specifically speaking to the manner by which films represented women. By analyzing multiple examples, she determined that a certain cinematic style of representation consistently provided “scopophilic” male pleasure in the act of sexually objectifying women who became the bearers of narrative meaning and never the creators of it. This theory was then expounded by other theorists including the notion that cinema trains its female viewers to identify with the male subject and camera’s point of view and to take a masochistic pleasure in their own objectification.
Also following from this were feminist filmmakers and photographers determined to challenge the male gaze. This started off with women seeking ways to frustrate that scopophilic, voyeuristic pleasure by using a variety of visual techniques that eventually branched out in all manner of different ways of looking. Since this is not a film nerd blog, I’ll leave this here by encouraging you to seek out the work of female/feminist directors and photographers to discover these creative experiments in responding to the concept of the male gaze.
What does this have to do with Coco de Mer’s latest campaign? I want to be clear this post isn’t a criticism of Charli Howard and her body positivity project but I find it more than a little grating to see the exact same visual techniques described by Mulvey reinstated here and sold back to us as a campaign that challenges the male gaze. I don’t have a problem with Howard’s entirely rote and predictable sexy poses, come hither eyes and so on but please don’t tell me this presents a challenge to the male gaze in any way. Are we really to believe that being an independent, elegant, confident woman photographed by another woman somehow grants one immunity from normative modes of sexual objectification conceived of by men?
This kind of assertion is a prime example of one of the failures of third wave feminism, a movement that began as politically radical and subversive became so easily and completely absorbed, commercialized and twisted beyond recognition by mainstream (patriarchal) society such that the very visual tropes Mulvey interrogated in her 1975 essay are being represented here in 2023 as resistance, or to be more accurate, a marketing buzzword.
“When you shoot something from a female gaze, it’s completely different,” Howard is quoted as saying about this shoot.
I agree. It’s too bad there’s not much that’s “completely different” about this campaign.
UPDATE: Coco de Mer's social media staff member responded to this post by sharing their own post about the female gaze which I'd invite you to read. The company defines the female gaze as possessing qualities like emotional intelligence, respect and empowerment which is evident not only in Ms. Howard's campaign, but others from the brand that can be contrasted with dehumanizing campaigns in the fashion industry.
Again, I do not believe an individual woman represented as independent, empowered, respected and exercising her free will as necessarily presenting any serious political challenge to the male gaze or male scopophilic pleasure, especially when considering the way other feminist artists have approached the matter. But I also recognize how this can be groundbreaking as well, especially in a greater context of images where female models are not granted their basic humanity in representation. I also don’t want to suggest such a campaign is “bad.” I just think models not being treated like pieces of meat is a low bar to hop over and certainly the actresses Mulvey considered like Dietrich were not abject, debased women. We can call the Coco de Mer campaign an example of a female gaze but I wouldn’t describe it as a project that confronts, interrogates, upsets, or dismantles the male gaze. Instead I’d ask us to consider how radical political concepts, terms, images and entire movements are constantly being absorbed, neutralized and sold back to the mainstream.
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Coco de mer (four views) - partially carved & polished
Coco de mer (five views) - carved & polished
Coco de mer (six views) - uncarved, on stand
Coco de mer (five views) - fashioned into a tea caddy
#art by others#other's artwork#sculpture#nature's sculpture#nut#Seychelles#coco de mer#Lodoicea maldivica
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pamela anderson by rakin for coco de mer, 2017
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