Fall '08 Fashion: Just Bee Yourself ~ Trend de la Creme - Trends in fashion, style, beauty, design, and popular culture.

Photo: Model Isabella Rosellini in Green Porno

I'm replaying the fall '08 runways in my head when an image of model Isabella Rossellini clouds my thoughts. Why is this interesting? Because, earlier this year, the fashion icon dressed up like a bee [among other things] and starred in insect porn without losing the respect of [most of] the fashion community. Hugh Hart of WIRED interviewed Isabella, and among the myriad of totally inappropriate questions he could have asked, he went with, "Were you concerned that dressing up in a bee costume might affect your image as a high-style glamour icon?" to which Rossellini replied, "I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not."

Who needs huge breasts when you have double-D eyeballs?

Hmmmm, just following what she likes to do? I'm hoping that bee orgies and snail trail aren't on her bucket list. (Oh well, can't fault a girl for being adventurous. Not!) What I find unbelievable about the WIRED interview is this: A fashion icon stars in a movie called "Green Porno" in which she re-enacts insect sex, and the interviewer wants to know if "dressing up like a bee" might hurt her career? How about, "Do you think still photographs of you mounting the ass of a fruit fly will hurt you in the future?" Now THAT my friends is what I [we] really want to know.

But bee sex aside, the fall 2008 runways really were buzzing with black and yellow. So if you feel like getting your bee on, now's your chance. Just stay away from the insect porn for my sake. I'm not looking to do another post like this anytime soon ;)