Redcherph I digested the content in the new Chrome Hearts magazine spread. Here are my thoughts:

The album stuff was news but what really stood out were Cher’s descriptions of her kids. Chastity should be proud (although it’s hard to top The Simpsons prediction of a President Chastity—that was before rehab—but still, not too shabby). Cher’s words for Chastity: pure, values, honest, good, warm, loving, kind to animals, will help you in any situation, high standards. I sure wish my mom had a laundry list of attributes like that for me. And Elijah made it into the Sonny category of Readers Digest’s most interesting people. It was funny when Cher said Elijah is "just starting to be human." Because you know only great things can happen from there.

This "magazine" is really a catalog for Chrome Hearts merchandise and the interview was far from mind-blowing. In fact, its hipness hurts a bit. It was entirely too chatty just to get off the ground. And when they started discussing designers, my eyes rolled back in my head.

However, the photos were swell. Cher is very "on point" in them all:

  • Chromehearts21_3 I’m sort of tired of the Cher Goth font.
  • Cher is wearing lots of cross-purpose baubles, including the re-emergence of the waist bracelet.
  • The cover photos with the mirrors are playful but is that a closet, a store, a dressing room?
  • The back photo strikes me as very 90s (Sandra Bullock in Vanity Fair or something) but also very 70s in an Audrey Hepburn/Mary Tyler Moore way. Cher’s in her prom dress but tempers her inner-valley girl with a leather jacket.
  • I love the European backdrop picture with the saucy tongue (Kath and Kim say “it’s different, it’s unusual”).
  • Cher sports Goth hair – are we doing bangs or no bangs? This reminds me of her awkward yet gritty late 60s hair period when she grew out her bangs.
  • Glad the big earrings are back. No one looks better in big earrings. Cher pulls them off every time.
  • Not used to seeing Cher in so many baggy clothes. Will take getting used to but I’m all for it.
  • The candids are cute and – oh this is who that is! I think this illuminates the interviewer as her friend who everyone thought was her boyfriend for a few seconds a while back.
  • The Chrome Hearts backless t-shirt picture/poster is clean and good but my least favorite. I just saw Born Losers two nights ago for the first time and so I’m freaked out by this biker look right Cherrsad_5 now. Add Cher’s mean stare to it and I feel like I’m in trouble for breaking in on Cher while she’s getting ready to get on a Harley and bust some knees. Also, too much makeup in this one.
  • The closeup photo is gorgeous – love the slash of red (these pictures are luxuriously colorful—appeals to my inner Renoir). Her bracelets are a bit Madonna-meets-mental-institution, but the pose is perfect and the makeup is soft and muted. Love it!!

Let us hark back to another great Cher photo, one I just found on Ward Lamb’s Jackson Highway page (which is always evolving, so check back often). This page is really the Bible on that recording session and its collateral materials, including this advertisement, her hip out, her hair blowing in the wind.

Now this is hipness I just love.