Category: Spice Girls

They’re Baaaaaaaaaaack!

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In my post Intentional Irony, I described Spice Girls as “one phenomenon of the 1990s that many would like to forget.” Lo and behold, Spice Girls are reuniting for a world tour. The Royal Observatory at Greenwich, which is the referent for zero longitude and time around the world (I won’t get into the technical details), was cleverly chosen as the site to announce their world tour.


L to R: Victoria “Posh” Beckham, Melanie “Sporty” Chisholm, Geri “Ginger” Halliwell, Emma “Baby” Bunton, and Melanie “Scary” Brown announce the Spice Girls’ 2007 reunion tour.

I hate the push-up bustiers that Posh and Scary are wearing: it looks like their boobs will spill out any moment (especially Posh). That’s not sexy, it’s tacky. Baby Spice (who is pregnant) is still cute, and Sporty looks great, better than ever. Geri Halliwell’s frock won’t win her any points with fashion cogniscenti, but I find her tousled locks and dress a refreshing change for this former topless model whose Union Jack costume made her look like some UK version of Wonder Woman.


Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell in 1997: UK Wonder Woman?

Given the media overkill surrounding the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, perhaps Spice Girls’ time has come around once again: after all, their single “Spice Up Your Life” displaced Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” from no 1 on the UK pop charts two months after Diana was killed.

Intentional irony

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How’s this for intentional irony? This chair, made of recycled paperboard, features the famous photograph of a nude Christine Keeler straddling a chair. Christine Keeler was the call girl whose brief affair with UK Secretary of State for War John Profumo (while she also slept with a Soviet spy) led to the collapse of the goverment of PM Harold Macmillian in the 1960s.

For more information about this famous photograph, visit Wikipedia. This picture has been much imitated: see the picture of the Spice Girls (one phenomenon of the 1990s that many would like to forget) on Wikipedia. Also, Joanne Whalley recreated this image when she played Keeler in Scandal (1989). More recently, Sharon Stone copied the pose for her flopperoo Basic Instinct II:

Treehugger used other styles to illustrate its post Flat-Pack for the Flat. Apparently, the irony was lost on them.