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- From: pcg@panix.com (Paul Gallagher)
- Subject: Re: What is with some of these models we see today?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.033302.12518@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:33:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.125551.8610@ac.dal.ca>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <1992Nov4.125551.8610@ac.dal.ca> egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
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- >I would like to know what is going on with the modelling agencies and all of the
- >decidedly ugly models that are appearing in Vogue and on the runways these days.
- >I was always told that models needed certain attributes if they were to be
- >successful. But what about Giselle, Kristen McMenemy, and Linda Evangelista?
- >They have some terribly ugly faults, and I thought models were supposed to be
- >virtually faultless. I know that there has been a trend toward more
- >untraditional looks, but when you see someone like Giselle, who looks terrible
- >in some of the recent ads in Vogue, it makes me think that perhaps just anybody
- >can get into modelling these days.
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- >I think Vogue should look toward the newer faces such as Helena Christiansen
- >Beverly Peele, and Niki Taylor. And lets see more Christy Turlington, I think
- >she is the best Supermodel today.
-
- This is an interesting article. I remember being very surprised the first
- time I saw a picture of Gisele.. and kind of pleased that ugly girls can get
- to be supermodels too :)
- Advertisements and fashion shows are meant to sell clothes and cosmetics, of
- course, so I suppose it makes sense to promote models as celebrities rather
- than just always featuring the most attractive women.
- Also, fashion ads are directed at women, mostly. I have noticed some
- women have very different ideas about feminine beauty than I do. There
- is the concept of "jolie laide": people like Paloma Picasso or Georgette
- Mosbacher are admired for their style, especially by other women, even
- though I, a typical male, probably, find them very unattractive.
- You mention Helena C., Beverly Peele, Niki, and Christy. I agree
- they are astonishingly pretty, but there's more to beauty than being
- pretty. There's room for sophisticated-looking Linda, slutty-looking
- Kristen McMenamy, and weird-looking Gisele...
- Also, models are the creations of photography, in a way. For
- example, Steven Meisel claims credit for creating Linda Evangelista,
- correcting her "wide nose, full cheeks, and weak chin" through makeup and
- lighting, cutting off her hair, and otherwise altering her image, according
- to an article in the March 1992 Allure. For example, she would pose with
- mouth slightly open, biting the insides of her cheeks, to give her face a
- thinner, more angular appearance. She would "thrust both hips forward,
- shooting one hip out to the side, and balancing her legs one behind the
- other," as well as wrapping her breasts with gaffer's tape, all in order to
- give the appearance of a more curvy figure with a tiny waist.
- It seems likely, that if the beauty of the photograph of the model
- is the product of so much artifice, photos of the model taken by other
- photographers without such efforts might be much less impressive.
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- Paul
- pcg@panix.com
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