Frida Kahlo
This is John Paul Gaultier's version of FridaFrida Kahlo is a Mexican painter, born on July 6, 1907 and passed away on July 13, 1954.
Her life had always been scarred by physical suffering and emotional suffering. She was contracted with polio when she was five. In 1925, a bus accident caused severe injuries to her when a pole pierced her from the stomach to the pelvis. Consequently, she had to go through 32 surgical operations throughout her life and had her body confined by corsets of different kinds and mechanical "stretching" systems.
Lots of her paintings were done laying in bed. Her condition deprived her of having children but she insisted to give it a try. She managed to conceive but eventually went through miscarriage.
In the movie called Frida, I watched Frida (Salma Hayak)making a painting of the fetus kept in a bottle while lying in the hospital bed with so much sorrow. I remember I wept madly watching that particular scene.
Fashion inspired by Frida designed by John Paul Gaultier
Through out the decades, Frida 's life has continued to inspire and move many people in every possible way. Her intensed, passionate yet heart-breaking relationship with Diego Rivera, a painter had made a great impact in her as a painter and as a person. Diego, an womannising husband who even slept with Frida's sister had indirectly led to her affairs with both man and women in order to escape from such excruciating despair. Of course,in the end she forgave Diego and her own sister, after all, that is what love is all about, being forgiving. She is also famed for her active involvements in the Mexican Revolution. Many of her disturbing paintings project a sense of misery. She is the very artist who coloured suffering with a life of its own.
