Michelle Williams Covers US Vogue October 2011. As Marilyn Monroe.

Ok, so this is a tad confusing. All quite post modernist really. Here we have the new October cover for US Vogue. And the gorgeous Michelle Williams is on the cover. But not as herself. Rather, as the role she plays as Marilyn Monroe in the new Simon Curtis movie My Week With Marilyn. Um, ok.

It is all quite beautiful and I want to like it. My favourite ever post modern film experience was the late great Peter Falk appearing in the Wim Wenders movie Wings of Desire, as Columbo. And this is kind of a similar situation. Only I think I like normal-Michelle better than Marilyn-Michelle, if you know what I mean. And, um, isn't post modernism (or po-mo as we like to call it), um, OVER?

The experience carries on inside the magazine with the supporting images all being in-character. The one I like the most is this 'shades of brown' situation. I think it looks more natural and contemporary - and therefore more beautiful as as result. I am told that post modernism has been superseded in 2011 by post-post modernism. An intellectual rabbit hole of a construct that can't be explained. But, that Vogue is doing po-mo on its cover at all, is bizarre the more you think about it. If po-mo is over accordingly to the artists and intellectuals - therefore out of fashion - and Vogue, the arbiter of all things fashion is utlilising it - who is wrong? Seriously, my brain hurts. This is too much for me. As you were. Pretty pictures. Ho hum.