Being artistically ahead of one’s time rarely pays enough to live on.

Evidence

In Madonna’s Like a Virgin number, designer Jean-Paul Gaultier reintroduced the bullet bra of the 1950’s. Madonna sang her hit in slow motion while writhing on a satin bed, simulating masturbation in the Gaultier corset with its exaggerated pointy quilted cups while two back-up boys joined her, wearing bras with even longer, pointier cups. What Madonna and the world at large didn’t know was that two years before Madonna featured that Gaultier bullet bra, I had already designed and made my own version of this iconic undergarment and wore it for a heavy metal rock parody in my one woman show, The Last Dance of the Couch Potatoes. In my opinion, my design outdid even Gaultier’s version. My bullet bra had 5-inch silver rifle bullets jutting out from its pointy leather cups and my back-up boys wore matching jock straps with bullets accentuating their stuffed packages. You can look up the video on YouTube if you think I’m exaggerating. Ah, but there’s the rub, I was always the artist ahead of my time and never made enough money not to need a fucking day job. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 222

Categorization

• CANDY: The image of a bullet bra with 5-inch rifle bullets, claimed to predate and outdo Gaultier’s version, is a genuinely amusing and tweetable anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Being artistically ahead of one’s time does not pay — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 223

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Broader Connections

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