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I would say that there is squeamishness, but also a sense of humor.
Both she and the magazine know what they're doing with that photo on horseback and that literal headline that can't help but carry tons of irony:
"Victoria [Federica] takes charge of her life."
The image is splendid,
worthy of an international fashion magazine,
and the carambola is twofold: on the one hand, the magazine achieves that square of the circle that it so badly needs (attracting a new public without losing its
ancien regime
essence ) and, on the other, the niece of the king
is postulated as the simultaneous representative of both worlds
.
Victoria purifies the
monarchical antiquity for the generation of Instagram and Tiktok
.
And incidentally recovers the tradition of the equestrian portrait.
Felipe IV on horseback (Diego Velázquez, 1635) Archive
The cover is worthy of appearing in a gallery
along with the Velázquez, Goya, Rubens and Madrazo on horseback from El Prado.
Also, why not, next to Espartero's horse.
For the balls.
Victoria (Federica) taking the reins of her life is somewhere between
Prince Baltasar Carlos on horseback in the Madrid museum
(that disturbing Velázquez child on a crazy little pony) and the recent cover of British Vogue with Beyoncé feathered on a
horse so artificial that it It could be a Damien Hirst work.
Queen Isabel de Borbón on horseback (Diego Velázquez, 1628-1636) Archive
Victoria Federica's photography is more naturalistic
than that of the black artist because any photograph would be,
because the Spanish magazine is not the British
one and because the intentions of both portraits could not be more different.
Beyoncé is preparing to conquer the world
again with a new album;
@vicmabor just wants to record that her conquest, whatever it is, is already happening.
What's more: it is possible that she is the Bourbon girl, the first in her family
to stop being suspected of spending our money.
Prince Baltasar Carlos on horseback (Diego Velázquez, 1935) Archive
His media presence, conveniently monetized,
would allow him to maintain his elevated lifestyle
.
Have all of us Spaniards financed the necessary initial investments so that Victoria Federica now reaps these fruits?
Undoubtedly.
But let's think that there is always a worse one: there is nothing more to look at his brother
De ella.
Don't get too close to the baby, they might as well eat a stray bullet.
Charles V on horseback at Mühlberg (Titian, 1548)Archive
LIKE MADONNA
The horse is a powerful icon.
Almost
all of us know of people who regularly ride
and are not necessarily millionaires, but
the case of someone poor and from the neighborhood with equestrian hobbies is not known.
Horse riding as a preserve of the elites has had several milestones in Spain.
From the fans of Marta Ortega,
at the same time very discreet and hyper-ostentatious, to the debate on the opportunity
for the royal family to have their own facilities for the practice of four-legged sports.
Now added to this is the decision of its
most fashionable member to recover the royal equestrian portraits
and to do it on their own.
Not posing for Antonio López, but on the cover of the magazine, dressed and combed like a star.
The daughter of Elena de Borbón and Jaime de Marichalar could have chosen to sneak into the already famous photo of Rosalía, Belén Esteban and Pedro Almodóvar, but she has preferred to distance herself from the Spain united by the tra-tra and
launch a message of superiority so anachronistic as effective.
Equestrian portrait of Carmen Martínez-Bordiú (Dalí, 1972) Archive
She appears in
Hello!
because she can,
on a horse because she can and take charge of her life because she can
.
With the tranquility and endearing recochino of those who have not lived anything other than luxury and steeds.
Like when Carmen Martínez-Bordiú said that for her Franco was only her grandfather.
The granddaughter neither lied nor lied to herself,
but she showed that she lived in a parallel world from which there was no point in leaving,
if everything was crappy, disgusting and with extra fries.
She tells Victoria Federica
that she wants to have a family and dedicate herself to fashion.
She will get it.
Equestrian portraits are reserved
for those who have everything and want everything.
In that case, an image is worth a thousand words, a hundred thousand
likes
and a million
followers
.
The first thing Madonna did when she moved to the UK after marrying Guy Ritchie was to take up horse riding.
One of his
aesthetic reinventions of her was in fact inspired by the world of the horse.
Because she could.
@Vicmabor you can too.
fuck?
Well, a little yes.
And she knows it.
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