Modern Melancholia

"The archetypal fashion photo conveys a certain coldness, froideur, disappointment,a profound reluctance to embrace domesticity and a preference for some undisclosed state of otherness...these endless stagings of femininity conjure psychic landscapes and scenarios of loss, melancholia and illegible rage....How does feminine melancholia come to feature as a condition of young womanhood today? What does it mean to be constrained, or stuck, or immobilised by a loss that must remain unspeakable?"

Angela McRobbie - Illegible Rage Pg112