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Harry who? What the new picture of Meghan and Harry tells us

There is no denying that Harry and Meghan pass the time but they know more and more how to get talked about: despite the fact that among the 100 people elected by Time as the most influential of the year there is also this time a remarkable list of famous people, Hollywood stars and economic geniuses, we only talk about one thing: their new photograph. The portrait, already replicated everywhere among memes and parodies, is in fact very unusual and also very unnatural, according to some even a little “disturbing”.

«Airbrushed», «airbrushed», many write, «fake», others observe, «very ugly» and «plastickly», plasticky, cut most of them short. But if you look more closely at the image, you notice other things, some interesting.

The most frivolous, “Harry’s hair looks a bit thicker”, as if the Duke of Sussex had just done a flash cure that gave him back his hair from the good old days, when his biggest problem was how to get rid of photographers when he went too far with partying in London. Even the hairstyle is very square, almost military, while that of Meghan, very fluffy and all thrown on the front a bit like an Amazon dominates the whole scene. Moreover, there is also a notable retouching of the stature of the two, who here are equal tall for the explicit intention of the photographer, who wanted “Highlight equality and equal weight”.

The aesthetic result of the symbolic choice is a bit like clones, not entirely human, as for the same weight, it is completely lacking: she has the whole foreground and stands out in front with the white toothpaste of the trouser suit and the comic black of the loose hair, which seem to say “Ok I made dozens of tight buns like vices for your photos with the Royal Family, headache stuff, now that’s enough” , and no necklaces, like him. She has a gold watch, he has ethnic bracelets. Harry, on the other hand, dresses in a way that is not more neutral: neutral colors that camouflage him with the autumn landscape behind, including the famous red hair in pendant with the fall foliage, disappears behind to make room for it.

She smiles, he doesn’t. And not a real shadow on the face, a wrinkle of expression that even a newborn cannot avoid, a movement. “Stuff,” stiff, say the most benevolent. So rigid that even the affectionate gesture of him placing his hand on his shoulder ends up failing the intent. He would be there to say I support you, but instead it seems almost a clinging, a little “let’s hope for the best”, perhaps due to the somewhat sad expression that the former prince since he is a former prince between the family quarrels and the other with father and brother often flaunts. L‘final together, more than a couple of power and philanthropy, in the portrait of the photographer of the stars Pari Dukovic is a bit like the billboard of a TV series of love and power set in Montecito, where they live, which has only one protagonist.

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