Show

• Show explores an ambiguity towards how men and women relate
• "the models walk/high heeled as curlews/stalking a narrow shore" 


  Empowers the models presented as predators "stalking". Image of them as skinny and tall plays into societal expectations.
• "the crocodile pit of cameras/flashing their teeth for more"


  Power dynamic shifted, the paparazzi men in power. Sheers criticising scopophilia, and the voyeuristic nature of the industry.
• In the first half of Show, the use of animalistic similes and metaphors links it to the wider systemic issues of the fashion industry and what women should aspire to be.
• "the fall of the dress, the jewellery [...] the dusk of your skin" 


  Suggests artificiality. Empowerment can come from something artificial, women gain power from their sexuality. Masculine-centric way of empowering women, a shallow focus.
• "the spell, the artful hocus-focus"


  Spell-captured by her beauty, presents himself as powerless.
• "setting the room about you out of focus"


  Links to the semantics of the 1st half - cameras and paparazzi. Suggests the male gaze is everywhere, occupies the public and private domain.