The alliterate model only landed her latest cover because the company she worked with insisted or they wouldn't advertise with the magazine for a few months. Cover landed.
I assume this type of pressure is applied or implied for every 'cover' shoot. Sometimes the mag has the power and sometimes the customer. I assume tit for tat is the general rule.
"Is this all what it takes to be a "super" model these days? To be quite tall and stringy and passably attractive enough not to attract too many flies?"
@Samantha: Back when there were models like Christy Turlington, Paulina Porizkova, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen, Tatjana Patitz, etc.
It was Evangelista I had in mind. I remember being in a checkout line behind a guy who pointed to her cover and said to his male friend/S.O. "See what I mean? She's hideous." It was a particularly unflattering closeup.
There have always been pretty faces but beginning around the mid 80s/early 90s, there were a whole lot of alternative looks too.
Karlie Kloss?
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ReplyDeleteIsn't this how most covers work though?
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Is this all what it takes to be a "super" model these days?
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Exactly, @longtimereader
ReplyDeleteShe landed a cover and my flight landed with only 10 minutes of fuel left! So I guess we are all winners!
ReplyDeleteI assume this type of pressure is applied or implied for every 'cover' shoot. Sometimes the mag has the power and sometimes the customer. I assume tit for tat is the general rule.
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ReplyDeleteThere's usually very little tit in their tat.
A half ounce of healthy weight and it's straight into the sixty fag a day, speed, enemas and puking purdah for a week or two.
Christ forbid they ever put some heffalump of nearly 100 pounds on their precious covers.
Flashy Vic - I hear you:) Should have used 'quid pro quo'.
ReplyDeleteWhen was it any different?
ReplyDelete"Is this all what it takes to be a "super" model these days?
To be quite tall and stringy and passably attractive enough not to attract too many flies?"
@Samantha: Back when there were models like Christy Turlington, Paulina Porizkova, Naomi
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It was Evangelista I had in mind. I remember being in a checkout line behind a guy who pointed to her cover and said to his male friend/S.O. "See what I mean? She's hideous." It was a particularly unflattering closeup.
ReplyDeleteThere have always been pretty faces but beginning around the mid 80s/early 90s, there were a whole lot of alternative looks too.
Kloss- one of the most busted faced "supermodels" we have right now
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ReplyDeleteshe was always so bland to be a model
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