She is not pretty is too skinny and has always looked old. Makes no sense. You put her next to Laetitia Casta, Cindy Crawford and the like and she looks like a joke. She was also the one responsible for the trend to start using stick thin models in fashion. Bah.
shareSuccessful fashion models have always been very thin. A good model is like a clothes rack. You focus on the clothes, not the model.
For example, big breasts on a fashion model is just a never. Those types might model cheesecake or bikinis. But for haute couture the model must be tall thin and with small breasts.
That's too bad.
shareSomebody once pointed out to me that women and gay men make up a large proportion of the fashion industry and then pointed out that a lot of models are rail-thin without a lot of the curves that hetero guys find seductive and it has coloured my perception of model selection ever since.
shareBut it's not a gay conspiracy against straight males. It's just that curvy hips and big boobs distract from the clothes. A model is basically a hanger.
shareYeah, the rise of "curvy", I mean the ones like Hannah Palmer, nobody is really going to pay attention to the cloth on her.
shareOh, yes, absolutely. Sorry - just to clarify - I didn't mean to imply that it's a conspiracy or anti-straight men, just that it's an underlying factor in the selection of fashion models. The only time this is really relevant is when heterosexual men are blamed for pressuring women into being skinny when the bracket of "attractive woman" is actually much, much wider for straight guys, who will find a lot of different body types attractive - whereas the fashion industry/beauty magazines promote a specific kind of woman to - as you rightly point out - highlight and sell clothing.
So, yes, no conspiracy, no disrespect or blame placed on women or gay men or even the fashion industry - just saying that it is what it is and there is this important element that gets overlooked.
As they say, the camera just 'likes' some people. I used to work with a girl who wanted to be a model. We all thought she could do it. But when she had some headshots done it just wasn't there. The camera didn't like her. By contrast, some people who don't seem all that in person nevertheless 'take a great picture'.
shareI think she had a beautiful face and she had the snotty attitude and the vacant stare to take great pics.
I feel this way about Gwynith Paltrow as a beautiful actress. I never saw it. She was cute but I felt the beauty aspect of her persona was all PR hype.