Bespoke TREND custom tailors est. 1972(via Hannibal Part II: Little Red Riding Revenge)‘Hannib

Bespoke TREND custom tailors est. 1972(via Hannibal Part II: Little Red Riding Revenge)‘Hannibal fans beware: within this post lurks spoilers! The image of a young woman in a red riding jacket often brings one thing to mind: little girls being devoured by wolves disguised as kindly old grandmothers. The Red Riding Hood story dates back to the 14th century; in the original tale, the wolf serves up the grandmother’s flesh and blood to the little girl, who unwittingly eats it before climbing naked into bed with the wolf.For those of us who grew up with an axeman to save the day, the image of the wolf bedding down a girl with a belly full of cannibalized flesh is carnal, and vicious –– and certainly fitting for a show like Hannibal, which takes many of the visual cues for its macabre aesthetic from both art and the stories and philosophies we have interwoven with art. Hannibal even takes on its own Red Riding Hood in Margot Verger, a young woman who has grown up under the abuses of both her father and her brother, both of whom are practically nobility in the pork industry. Brother Mason has managed to raise a line of pigs that eat live human flesh, and itches to feed Margot to them –– having grown up around the casual violence and slaughter of the slaughterhouse, he takes a sick pleasure in discovering new forms of violence. This is where Trend comes in, clothing Margot in a red riding jacket for the pivotal scene in which Margot is presented before the flesh-eating pigs.Continue reading here -- source link

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