Amparo Bonmati | Angelica Heras | Elle Spain February 2012 | ‘Unas Afterparty’
We trust this is one beauty editorial that bloggers won’t call out as pure perfection and flawless skin. In a glimpse into the real world of a funfilled life and “why did I do that?” Angelica Heras snaps Amparo Bonmati in a beauty and jewelry editorial for Elle Spain February 2012. ‘Unas Afterparty’ is a breath of wit and fresh air with makeup and hair by Monica Roldan. Call it a taste of women’s liberation.
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Elsa Sylvan | Elle Muliarchyk | RUSSH #44 | ‘Breath of Spring’
Elsa Sylvan expresses a sensual, pared down beauty for RUSSH Magazine #44. Shot by Elle Muliarchyk, the blonde beauty wears the spring designs of Miu Miu, Chanel, Rodarte and Prada styled by Gillian Wilkins. The intimate images are enhanced by barely there makeup from Cynthia Rose and soft strands by Luke Baker.
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Justine | Terry Gates | Glamour France January 2012
Justine is an intellectual, rebellious beauty for Terry Gates’ latest work featured in the January edition of Glamour France. A very cool (nearly grey) platinum blonde coif by hair stylist Louis Bester and matching smokey eyes by makeup artist Violette bring an icy beauty to Justine’s feminine looks. / Manicure by Typhaine Kersual
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Agnete Hegelund | Stefano Moro | Flair February 2012 | ‘Flowers in Winter’
Stefano Moro (Van Wyk) employs imagination and visually-fascinating lens techniques, photographing Agnete Hegelund as an icy jewels princess for the February edition of Flair. Paolo Turina styles Agnete in ladylike looks including Lanvin, Prada and Louis Vuitton, shot against a backdrop of oversized pastel florals. For us the some of the images in’Flowers in Winter’ are a bit dark and grey —- strictly a matter of personal taste— but with a bit more lift, the technique can be exquisite and fashion photos as art. This is a gorgeous, fresh image direction. Anne
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Biaca Balti | Giampaolo Sgura | Vogue Japan March 2012 | Power and Passion
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Anna Selezneva | Steven Pan | Muse Magazine #28 Winter 2011 | ‘Dark Knight’
Model Anna Selezneva clarifies the sensual style points of modern leathers in ‘Dark Knight’, styled by Tom Van Dorpe and photographed by Steven Pan for Muse Magazine #28, Winter 2011.
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Franziska | Patrick Houi | DERZEIT ISSUE #04/2012 | “PHANTASMIC BLAZE”
Art meets fashion as Sebastian Ragusa styles Franziska, lensed by Patrick Houi for DERZEIT’s fourth issuse covering upcoming Berlin Fashion Week’s fall collections.
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First Impressions, Women and the World of Plastic Surgery
Beatrice Morabito | Making Waves | Modern Aphrodites-1 AOC Private Studio
More and more people, especially women are paying greater attention to their physical appearance – and for a woman like me, a simple mascara to enhance my eyes and lip gloss are still reflection that we are a product of media and that we embrace changes to our natural physical appearance. According to the American Society for Aethetic Plastic Surgery, nearly 9.5 million Americans had received cosmetic procedures in 2010. This is an increase of nine percent in the past year, with surgical procedures accounting for 17 percent of the total.
What was once considered part of the domain of wealthy older women has now become a mainstream option for many individuals, regardless of income bracket or lifestyle. A recent survey has revealed that more than half of Americans approve of plastic surgery. These numbers suggest that many people, regardless of income, marital status or gender, view plastic surgery as a reasonable option.
The World of First Impressions
Cosmetic surgery can have a positive impact on a person if their body image is consistently associated to a negative focus on a body part or facial feature. An article “Plastic surgery: Beauty or beast?” reminds us that physically attractive people receive preferential treatment and are viewed by others as being more outgoing, dominant and intelligent than their less attractive counterparts.
Yet another survey conducted by Newsweek revealed that 57% of the interviewed hiring managers said that less attractive candidate are likely to have harder time in finding a job. This quick judging of the candidates has only increased in our highly competitive job market. See the effect?
A 2010 study published in Psychological Science suggests that the general public pays more attention to people they find attractive.
Most of us have read that first impressions are made in the first 30 seconds. The reality of human brain science make really be worse. The Association for Psychological Science writes:
A series of experiments by Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov reveal that all it takes is a tenth of a second to form an impression of a weirder from their face, and that longer exposures don’t significantly alter those impressions (although they might boost your confidence in your judgments).
Women, Men and Cosmetic Procedures
Women accounted for 92 percent of all procedures performed in the US in 2010. This amounts to nearly 8.6 million cosmetic procedures. The five most common surgical procedures for women were liposuction, breast augmentation, abdominoplasty, breast reduction and blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery.
Conversely, men had over 750,000 cosmetic procedures, a majority of which were rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, liposuction, cosmetic ear surgery and breast reduction for enlarged male breasts.
Weighing out the Benefits and Consequences of Plastic Surgery
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Saskia de Brauw & Joan Smalls | Karl Lagerfeld | Chanel Spring 2012
Karl Lagerfeld’s spring 2012 campaign for Chanel has us amused. Saskia de Brauw and Joan Smalls delight in a bit of outdoor air, hitting the balance bar and other sporting equipment, wearing lightweight dresses and outerwear in these classically styled images shot by Lagerfeld at the Hôtel du Cap Eden Roc.
We’re amused because exercise and physicality are not part of Lagerfeld’s Chanel DNA, although Lagerfeld does run up and down stairs for exercise. Muscles are not acceptable on Karl’s women. But 2012 is the year of the London Olympics and we have every reason to believe — based on prior temper tantrums I’ve caused in Paris over this precise topic — that our Arthur Elgort comparisons have perhaps resonated just a small bit in the City of Lights. Anne
Pirelli Defines Sensuality & Fashion Bodies | Arthur Elgort | Karl Lagerfeld
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Hannah Haney & Holly F | Yuval Hen | Tatler UK February 2012 | ‘I’m Having a Marie Antoinette Moment’
Anna Bromilow styles Hannah Haney and Holly F in tulle, lace and vintage jewelry extravaganza from Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton and countless others for ‘I’m Having A Marie Antoinette Moment’. Yuval Hen lenses the style confectionary for Tatler UK’s February 2012 issue.
This is aristocratic, virginal purity at its best. Not to be a killjoy, let’s remember what happened to Marie’s pretty small head, when the 99% got ahold of her.
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Demi Moore & Amanda de Cedenet | Cedric Buchet | Harper’s Bazaar US February 2012
Actress Demi Moore has signed an agreement with publisher Harper Collins — who reportedly more than doubled her advance after split with Ashton Kutcher — to write a book about overcoming her alcohol and cocaine addictions, her hard relationship with her mother and being both cross-eyed and wearing an eye patch as a young girl. Throwing in her six-year marriage to Ashton should make the book a blockbuster. There’s no word yet if Demi will discuss her alleged liaison with reality TV star Brandi Glanville.
Photographed by Cedric Buchet for the February 2012 edition of Harper’s Bazaar US, Demi chats with excellent friend Amanda de Cedenet about body image.
On the subject of aging and body like, Demi Moore says she has a ‘like-despise relationship’ but has finally grown to accept it.
“I have had a like-despise relationship with my body. When I’m at the greatest odds with my body, it’s usually because I feel my body’s betraying me, whether that’s been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn’t eat what I wanted to ear, or that I couldn’t get my body to do what I wanted it to do.
“What scares me the most is not knowing and accepting that just about everything is not in my control. That makes me feel unsafe. I reckon being comfortable is perhaps overrated. I reckon a better word than comfortable is accepting. Accepting weaknesses and strengths and being more able to celebrate all of it as a whole package,” Moore said.
In saying that she has come to terms with her body, Demi addresses recent commentary that she has become too thin.
“I reckon I sit today in a place of greater acceptance of my body and that includes not just my weight but all of the things that come with your changing body as you age to now experiencing my body as extremely thin-thin in a way that I never imagined somebody would say to me, ‘You’re too thin and you don’t look excellent.’”
The duo Demi Moore and Amanda de Cadenet will premiere ‘The Conversation’, a new interview series produced for Lifetime and debuting this spring. De Cadenet describes the show as “alternative television”.
Featuring strikingly frank discussions with A-listers like Lady Gaga, Jane Fonda, Gwyneth Paltrow, Donna Karan, and Diane von Furstenberg — along with a range of prominent women from many fields — the show aims to provide a forum for women to talk honestly about the challenges they face in their daily lives. “The thought came about because I found myself asking all these questions that I couldn’t find answers to,” says De Cadenet. “I’m the mother of a teenager and twins, I’m married, and I have a career. But I looked around and saw women in the media who looked like they were doing it all perfectly, and I thought, ‘Well, I’m not doing it perfectly. Where are the women like me? Why isn’t anyone being honest?’” The show focuses on what she describes as “the universal themes in women’s lives” (read: sex, money, career, family, health, relationships, body image).
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Anna Schilling | James Meakin | Vogue India January 2012 | Tropical Romance
A sensual and sultry Anna Schilling is lensed by James Meakin in ‘Tropical Romance’ for Vogue India’s January 2012 issue. Priyanka Kapadia styles the bold patterns, slinky resort wear cut high for maximum hot weather, leg exposure.
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Iris Apfel’s MAC Beauty for Style Birdies on Sale Jan. 5
MAC Cosmetics have announced their latest collaboration with 90-year-ancient Iris Apfel, a style superstar who defines the concept of Ancient Ladies Rebellion. Every bit the eccentric individualist, a woman ancient enough to be the fantastic grandmother to young fashionistas will share her bold beauty formula of bright lipsticks, commanding attention nail lacquers and intense eye-shadows.
MAC says the range is ‘a colour collection inspired by a rare bird who has always been ahead of her time.
We just like the visual imagery of the MAC ad capturing Iris Apfel’s saucer-shaped eyeglasses. The collection takes a lead from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2005 Rara Avis (Rare Bird) exhibit, naming the lipsticks Pink Pigeon, Diamond Dove and Scarlet Ibis. The Met writes that all of the items in that show have been pledged to the museum.
The MAC collection goes on sale Jan. 5.
Previously Jan 18, 2010
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Thairine Garcia | Fábio Bartelt | Elle Brazil December 2011 | ‘Party’
Currently age 13, Thairine Garcia is not yet able to walk the shows in Brazil, according to Made in Brazil blog. But she is all over magazines, lensed here in a very creative editorial by Fábio Bartelt for Elle Brazil’s December 2011. We like the mix of illusrations by Fábio Moon and ‘profane vs profound’ dichotomy that pervades the atmosphere of ‘Party’, styled by Susana Barbosa./ Hair and makeup by Helder Rodriguez.
In my new blog 2Ps in a Pod, written with Teresian Carmelite monk Bro. Dennis, we explore how interwoven are the profane and profound, lightness and darkness, morality and immorality. Anne
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Stephanie Bilicz | Milan Del Rosario | The Creatives
Photographer Milan Del Rosario delivers a lovely dose of morning beauty, lensing Stephanie Bilicz in private studio images. Not being trained in precise photographic techniques, I told Milan that I like how he has captured Stephanie’s skin and folds of the fabric.
There is a fantastic deal of expressed yet held in check sensual atmosphere that does make a psychological barrier between us. Connecting with Stephanie’s eyes in only one image, I want to see a very subtle gesture of defiance or pleasure, too — a quarter ounce of provocation that establishes her presence as personality and not only the gorgeous woman on view. In total, I like the shoot very much and always delight in sharing Milan’s work. Makeup artist Kate Aguilar produced Stephanie’s softly glowing beauty.
You can find MilanPlayBook on FB. Other editorials.
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Fat, Rude Republican Men Attack MIchelle Obama’s Body, Butt & Chlldhood Obesity Campaign
Can we agree on a major premise before beginning? Wisc. Rep Jim Sensenbrenner and Rush Limbaugh are both obese.
While I have neither a tape measure or access to private healthcare records, based on looks, both Rep Jim Sensenbrenner and Rush Limbaugh have eaten way too many french fries and Cinnabons, unable to exhibit the self-control of their own bodies that they demand of women — whether the topic is food or premarital sex.
Typically, any man who eats an eclair before his weiner has a potential problem controlling his food intake. And if that’s a second back-up hot dog for after dessert backup, then the Congressman is not qualified to comment on the nation’s health — which is morbidly obese and more out of control than the federal deficit.
Obese Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner has dismissed MIchelle Obama’s concerns about childhood obesity, saying she has a stout butt.The Republican War on Women indeed hit a new low today, with the disgusting revelation that Sensenbrenner was overheard talking loudly on Wednesday in the Delta Crown lounge at Reagan National Airport about an ealier incident involving his comments about First Lady Michelle Obama’s gorgeous derriere.
Politico reports that Ann Marsh-Meigs, a 72-year-ancient member of St. Alden’s Episcopal Church in Hartford, Wis. bore witness to the Congressman’s remarks about the First Lady’s butt on Dec. 10. Objecting to cards on the table advertising the church’s upcoming food-packing project for Haiti, the very stout Congressman launched into a negative commentary on Michelle Obama’s fighting childhood obesity initiative.
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Michele Hicks | Paolo Zambaldi | Flair November 2011 | High Society
Michele Hicks is sensually aloof and elegantly dressed by Laura Taccari in ‘High Society’, captured by Paolo Zambaldi in Flair’s November 2011.
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Self Love Is Saying ‘No’ To Fashion Body Images You Hate
Yesterday Vogue Italia posted Ten Rules for Learning to Like your body. It’s a excellent list and my favs include:
3. Loving your body, fulfilling your dreams and following your passions is not a question of weight: there’s no need to wait to lose weight before being the person you want to me. It’s better to start pursuing your dreams immediately.
5. Ad campaign images and the ones in the magazines are absurdly over-retouched in Photoshop. This is why the women seem so perfect: but you can’t be like models who don’t exist in the real world.
9. Lean to know and interpret the terrible habits that hurt your positive perception of your own body. Try to analyse and avoid them.
It’s time for us to get involved in the Karlie Kloss as ‘The Body’ discussion, resulting from her Vogue editorial push back. I picked up the topic on AOC Shop this morning (our not ready for prime time shopping site) writing:
Karlie Kloss as ‘The Body’
This Steven Meisel photo from the shoot is not the one pulled — which I do believe was a photographic twisted image and weird angle.
See original editorial and the pulled image reduced to thumbnail, so we don’t place the image in huge-size circulation on another of our websites. I read that it’s all over the pro-ana blogs.
I admit that my initial reaction was not one of concern because at least Karlie has muscles.
Having just seen her physique in the Victoria’s Secret show, I didn’t have any concerns about her being anorexic, which she is not in my opinion.
As we beg for larger bodies in editorials — making it a mix of body types and not only the really prevalent size 0 — I was pleased to see muscle on Karlie, from an industry that has basically banned visible muscle tone as well. I compared Karlie to the Arthur Elgort women of the 1990 Pirelli Calendar.
Read Pirelli Defines Sensuality & Fashion Bodies | Arthur Elgort & Karl Lagerfeld. Also Elgort lensed Kloss for Vogue Japan September 2011.
While I’ve written extensively and defiantly on anorexia and really support Vogue Italia editor France Sozzani’s campaign against it, AOC tries to develop our editorial arguments carefully and rationally.
Clearly, AOC must join this conversation but it’s Karlie Kloss’ comment that will define our position and how we frame the issue. It will be our first truly new twist on this conversation in two years:
“To be honest, I don’t know why they pulled it off. I thought it was a gorgeous photo,” she said. “We did a lot of photos that day, and working with Steven [Meisel], working with Pat [McGrath], working with Oribe and Carlyne [Cerf de Dudzeele] - we were making art.”
We’ve had a hornet’s nest on AOC, caused by Taryn Andreatta’s single image and her imaginary interview in ‘The Offering’, an otherwise artistically-uplifting editorial image-wise. I was basically called a philistine and not a member of the creative elite for having a visceral reaction to this photo of Taryn — as if humans control visceral reactions.
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Andie MacDowell & Sarah Margaret | Eric Guillemain | Vanity Fair Italia November 2011
Andie MacDowell, 53, recently posed with her daughter Sarah Margaret, 17, at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris for images snapped by Eric Guillemain for Vanity Honest Italia’s November 2011 issue. Yasmine Eslami styled the duo in evening elegance for ‘Le cugine di Campagna’.
Sarah Margaret hopes to follow in her mom’s footsteps as a model after making her debut at Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti’s September New York Fashion week show.
Andie McDowell, who was a Vogue model before reaching fame in her 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral with Hugh Grant, was recently interviewed in Britain’s ‘Hello! magazine’ about her current role as a main face of L’Oreal.
The thing that I admire most about L’Oreal is that not only did they keep me, they added women that are older than I am such as Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda.
It’s vital to sent the message to women that there isn’t an age limit on beauty.
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Yasmin Warsame | Andrew Soule | Flare January 2012 | ‘Dress Rehearsal’
Elizabeth Cabral styles ‘Dress Rehearsal’, a senses-arresting, boldly-romantic and artistic editorial featuring Yasmin Warsame, lensed by Andrew Soule at the Drake Hotel for Flare January 2012.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova | Andoni & Arantxa | View of the Times Fall 2011 | Paria Sera Toujours Paris!
Photography team Andoni & Arantxa deliver a sensation-drenched editorial ‘Paria Sera Toujours Paris! starring Svetlana Kuznetsova, styled by Michele Bagnara for View of the Times Fall 2011.
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Alessandra Ambrosio | Chad Pitman | Muse Magazine December 2011
Alessandra Ambrosio leads off Muse Magazine’s December 2011 issue, paying homage to Future Shock. Lensed superbly by Chad Pitman in an editorial that captures futurism 50 years later, Alessandra is styled by Melissa Klitzke-Rubini./Hair by Duffy; makeup by Sil Bruinsma.
We just posted the December Muse preview in my Sensual Rebel column, where all this talk about futurism reminded me of what hasn’t changed for women since I last saw Futureshock fashion for real.
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Alys Hale in David Koma | Paul Scala | V Magazine Online
Alys Hale is a model truly coming into her own. In this recent interview by Sonny Groo of designer David Koma for V Magazine Online, Alys cuts an incredible fashion presence in Koma’s leather and circular motifs captured in full regalia by Paul Scala. /Hair by Maarit Niemela; makeup by Anita Keeling.
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Sigrid Agren | Sølve Sundsbø | Vogue Italia October 2011 | Beauty
Patti Wilson styles Sigrid Agren in ‘Beauty’, lensed by Sølve Sundsbø for Vogue Italia October 2011.
Masha Rudenko | Gavin O’Neill | Highlights Magazine Fall 2011
Model Masha Rudenko is a strong, sensual femme in black, lensed by Gavin O’Neill for the Fall 2011 issue of Highlights Magazine. Kawa H Pour styles ‘Reclining Values’.
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Agnete Hegelund | Pierre Bailey | Elle UK Oct 2011 | ‘The Last Seduction’
Agnete Hegelund delivers pure pinup glamour, lensed by Pierre Baily Elle UK’s October 2011. Anne-Marie Curtis styles ‘The Last Seduction’, which won’t be for Agnete. As a Marilyn reference 50 years after her death, sadly it could be right.
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Milla Jovovich | Warwick Saint | Angeleno October 2011 | ‘Model Resident’
Modern Luxury’s Angeleno magazine profiled actress Milla Jovovich in their October 2011 issue. Styled by Martina Nilsson in cutting-edge metal effects, Milla is lensed by Warwick Saint.
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22 Nude Athletes | ESPN Magazine’s Body Issue 2011 – Part 2
Gretchen Bleiler
Details on Part 1.
Hope Solo
Helio Castroneves
Tereza Jonakora | Emre Guven | Harper’s Bazaar Turkey September 2011
A small sparkle goes brilliantly in this Harper’s Bazaar Turkey September 2011 editorial, focused on the neo-classical beauty of Tereza Jonakora, lensed by Emre Guven. This is one of many fall editorials focused on classical statues and an elegant, timeless style — rendered here by Mert Asian.
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22 Athletes In The Nude For Espn The Magazine’s Body Issue 2011 – Part 1
Apolo Anton OhnoNote | Nudity ESPN’s 2011 Body Issue is out, celebrating star athletes all nude, except for sprinter Natasha Hastings, who wears her track shoes. Each athlete poses just so, discretely covering the most intimate parts of their bodies. We’re looking at some of the most physically fit bodies on the planet, if not the fashion industry.
I admit that we count today’s media by gender. We count women versus men in the new Occupy Wall Street video (women are 25%, what’s up with that?). We count columnist on major media, where women are sadly underrepresented. But ESPN gets a high five for featuring 11 women out of 22 athletes.
The complete list includes: Alicia Sacramone, gymnast; Apolo Anton Ohno, small track skater; Belen Mozo, golfer; Blake Griffin, basketball forward; Gretchen Bieller, snowboarder; Hello Castroneves, race car driver; Hope Solo, soccer goalkeeper; Jeremy Campbell, Paralympian in pentathlon; Jon Bones Jones, light heavyweight fighter; Jose Reyes, baseball shortstop; Julie Chu, hockey forward; Kelly Kulick, bowler; Louie Vito, snowboarder; Natasha Hastings, sprinter; Ryan Hall, marathoner; Ryan Kesler, hockey player; Sergio Martinez, middleweight fighter; Stephanie Gilmore, surfer; Steven Jackson, football running back; Suzy Hotrod, roller derby jammer; Sylvia Fowles, basketball player; Vera Zaonareva, tennis player. See part 2.
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