"Wuthering Heights is a story about pain, revenge and the Yorkshire moors as a metaphor for bad life choices. But if Emerald Fennell's forthcoming adaptation is anything to go by, it's also about bows. In the two-minute trailer for the film, Cathy wears red bows and black bows, navy bows and pink bows. There are bows around garden pots, and bows around baddy Edgar Linton's throat. Some bows flutter in the fell wind, others are unlaced at speed."
"Bows are, of course, not new. Victorian children wore them, Marie Antoinette wore them. So did Jojo Siwa, and Minnie Mouse. But today's versions sometimes carry more weight. Take the Welsh rugby player Georgia Evans, who was attacked by trolls earlier this year for wearing pink hair bows during a game, leading to a volunteer-led ribbon station and more than 1,000 bows being worn in solidarity at a game against Fiji."
Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation foregrounds bows as recurring symbols and props, with Cathy shown wearing multiple colored bows and a white bow cut from her bodice in a sexually charged shot. Bows appear on clothing, around garden pots and even around Edgar Linton's throat, sometimes fluttering in the wind or being unlaced. Bows have historical precedents from Victorian children to Marie Antoinette and pop figures like Jojo Siwa, but contemporary bows often carry social and political weight. The Welsh rugby player Georgia Evans endured online abuse for pink hair bows, prompting a volunteer-led ribbon station and mass solidarity at a match. Modern bows range from demure red-carpet looks to dramatic, gothic statements, and have become centerpiece fashion elements.
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