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SPREAD UM: Two Parts To Harper’s Bazaar September Issue
Hillary Frazier, Style Editor August 19 at 11:50
Read More:Amber Valletta, Camilla Åkrans, Cindy Crawford, claudia schiffer, harper's bazaar, helena christensen, Katie Fogarty, Kendra Spears, Kristen McMenamy, Leighton Meester, Nadja Auermann, peter lindbergh, september issue, Shalom Harlow, Tatjana Patitz
With September just around the corner, the big issues are coming out. Harper’s Bazaar (US) played with a lot of different things this season, even Aggy and Leighton Meester as cover pics. See more from these spreads on Cult.
(Photogs: CAMILLA AKRANS, PETER LINDBERGH. Models: KATIE FOGARTY & KENDRA SPEARS, AMBER VALLETTA, CINDY CRAWFORD, CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, HELENA CHRISTENSEN, KRISTEN MCMENAMY, NADJA AUERMANN, TATJANA PATITZ, SHALOM HARLOW)
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SPREAD UM: “Supermodels Supernaturals” by Peter Lindberg for Harpers Bazaar September ‘09
Monique Montagnese, Contributor August 12 at 1:11
Read More:Amber Valletta, Cindy Crawford, claudia schiffer, harper's bazaar, helena christensen, Kristen McMenamy, Nadja Auermann, Peter Lindberg, Shalom Harlow, Tatjana Patitz
The super model loving lives on, but airbrushing dies? Hmm… I’ll see that when I believe it. Harpers claims that there is no makeup or airbrushing used in this editorial, and I’m not sure about that either. Regardless the models, in their 30’s and 40’s look amazing. Another plus is the sharing of supermodel approved beauty tips, such as not to eat dairy because it can lead to break outs from Claudia Schiffer.
Ugly Beauty: A Report on the New Beauty Standard
admin June 29 at 8:28
Read More:angelina jolie, beauty, gemma ward, helena christensen, kate mo, kate moss, MODELS, naomi campbell, sasha, Sasha Pivovarova, ugly beauty
We might always relate models like Helena Christensen, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell to the definition of “beauty”, tall, skinny, long hair and angelic conditions.
You can definitely find pretty girls anywhere in town, from Bondi Beach to small alleys of Paris, but only a few in the world resemble real beauty, which is often as its best removed from glamour and adornment.
Beauty is more than just one type and that it comes in different shapes and sizes as well. “Many might find pretty is the same as beauty” quoted by Alexandra Shulman, Editor of British Vogue who recently wrote in ‘Beauty British Now”, “but actually their enemies, as the blandness and acceptability of pretty cancels out the greatness of beauty.”.
Emma Pei
Most people will define Chinese top-model Du Juan’s round face, creamy flawless skin, and gorgeous bone structure as the “real” beauty of China, less would look at rising star Emma Pei’s alien-like quality and immediately comes to mind that she is strikingly beautiful.
What majority thinks is beautiful is always the right answer, which is wrong! Embracing individuality is the real beauty as people like Kate Moss have challenged and created a whole new beauty aesthetic. She was the very few in the early 1990’s who were different, oppose to Linda, Christy and Naomi who had the bodies and polished stance.
Kate defined a new type of beauty that is recognized and accepted now in this generation. She defines beauty, as beauty demands a kind of originality that makes you pause and admire. Beauty is not being perfect, as the strange and peculiar quality makes beauties what they are.
Since then, there have been models who have epitomised a moment, like Lily Cole who almost didn’t make the list, as bookers find her over dolly. Models and people like her depict a more fragile, bizarre, unusual specimen of beauty, the technical term – ‘Alien Beauty’.
Sudanese goddess Alek Wek immediately broke the Western beauty standards and blew the fashion industry away, as she dominates the runway from Galliano to Calvin Klein. Polley Fey is an icon in defining Alien Beauty, as she conquers the fashion stage without sacrificing a bit of her individuality. In the 90’s Fey was one of the biggest models in the fetish scene, as she appears frequently on Torture Garden fliers.
Sasha Vs Gemma
The fashion industry have mistaken model Sasha Pivovarova as Australian gem Gemma Ward. Sasha started off in the industry with just negative feedback, no one liked her. She is more than just a Gemma-clone; the fact that the crowd sees them alike is so ironic.
I have found indie model/music agency label very interesting to interview, as they only represent 20 models and a couple fellow musicians oppose to larger agencies who casts more commercial girls who could earn the cash for the company. As I interviewed their Model Manager, Lance Labreche, we both discuss about how the fashion industry have adapt the notion of ‘beauty’ in the last years. As he comments that “The standards of beauty tend to swing back-and-forth like a pendulum along a certain amount of seemingly already agreed upon parameters”.
Part of Lance’s job as a model manager is to balance what consumer wants and how to introduce new forms of beauty that as he says “can increase a particular demographics size and scope for the fashion entertainment and scope we service”.
Away from the fashion industry and yet, in general women and even men still gage themselves against an image of impossible perfection. Nothing is really going to change unless people accept that “flaws make you beautiful”, and that there is more than one type of beauty in the world.
Not being blonde and blue eyed, five foot tall, slender with perfect silky skin would not put you in the category of being ugly. ‘Ugly’ is a terminology used for those who don’t accept diversity. Some people might be more beautiful than others, but no one is truly ugly. Brutality, cruelness and war is real ugly.
Our eyes have always blindfolded our hearts, as we always look at the physical beauty but not necessarily see the beauty quality of a person through their personality or accept another kind of beauty.
True beauty should be more widely recognized by those shallow people out there who just go for looks, former top model Cheryl Tiegs also recognises that “true beauty really does have to do with an inner light that does shine”. Even though looks might play an important part of where you stand in the community, without a positive and genuine personality, a person will not go far.
Even though I may not be a fan of Cate Blanchett , I admire her message ‘you don’t need plastic surgery even though you are 39 years old that starts to gain wrinkles’. Cate does not intend to alter her natural beauty, as she felt that “one could not run away from the passing of time, which leaves its marks inevitably, even if one’s skin or one’s mind”.
No offence but Mrs. Playboy a.k.a. Pamela Anderson used to be beautiful and had striking features before she had plastic surgery. Her cheeks are bulbous, her lips are insanely puffy and her skin waxen and shiny. We should not blame her actions, as this world can be quite crucial to you. But people should consider and try to be who they are. They should not change because of other people, even though if someone told you that you look disgusting, if you find yourself beautiful, that’s the most important.
Not long time ago, I was the kid who read fairytales. Most of the books describe heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. Since then, I believed that one of the qualifications to be a great person is to be “beautiful”. Time to time, as a teenager, I will look at the mirror, comparing myself to the models from Fashion TV and say “why am I so fat?” or “why am I ugly and they aren’t?”
Labreche reckons that “Ugliness tends to come from the same thought process as beauty”, as I question him if he feels ugly or not and when? He responds with a big yes, “I would have to say, yes, there are times when I feel ugly. I would even go a step further and admit that there are times when ugliness becomes an active choice or impulse”.
At 17 and half years old, writing this article right now, I am fully confident to tell everyone that I have realized outer beauty was not so important to make someone good. Though I somehow understand why people could be so materialistic and depthless. Shouldn’t we accept who we are as an individual, isn’t our natural “beauty” enough to fulfill ourselves?
If others can be confident, why can’t you. The beauty looked at with the eyes doesn’t last forever. Or should I say, you should now try to accept the new generation of beauty.
Nine Daughters and a Stereo are created by Eva Gödel the Art Director of the model agency, and Kira Bunse prominent freelance fashion photographer who runs the company together. Agency named after a David Bowie/Iggy Pop song lyric and originally conceived as a thesis project, now becomes one of the most interesting and successful agency based in Germany. They’re casting methods are different than other fellow competitors, they don’t walk around shopping malls and find the next “it” girl, but they target to a niche of poor, young and pale youngster, mainly guys who dwell the streets of Germany.
From my own observations and from the response of Bunse and Gödel, we discovered that Europe in particular embraces diversity. Diversity of humans, got more open, both of them said that “There is a bigger variety of looks and styles and personality got more important”. Girls don’t find macho jocks in high school that attractive anymore; ever since Adam Brody introduced Nerd Chic and made girls go crazy about their nerdy boyfriends.
Gödel have made a really simple yet powerful statement that “Beauty is relative. It is a subjective experience – Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Time changed and passed and like Europe and other parts of the world we should embrace who we are and openness guarantees a long term beauty.
SOURCE: Ugly Beauty (our perspective in 09)
MAG HAG: Helena Christensen for Citizen K
Rebecca Alexander, Editor June 3 at 4:35
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Love Helena, but I do have to say that she looks a bit thin…
MOMENTS OF STYLE: Parsons Fashion Benefit
Rebecca Alexander, Editor April 30 at 3:00
Read More:Anna Wintour, calvin klein, chanel iman, eva mendes, francisco costa, helena christensen, Marc Jacobs, Marni, Peter Som
It’s always interesting to see how certain runway pieces translate into event outfits, especially when they are worn by real life women instead of models. I also love that some pieces are altered to be more ‘ready to wear’ which gives them more life, although I must admit that it’s not fair that celebs get to wear collections not yet available for me to purchase.
Helena Christensen’s Apartment
Rebecca Alexander, Editor April 29 at 3:20
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Helena Christensen’s apartment featured in Vogue Paris May 2009. A bit more clutter then I would have expected…
MOMENTS OF STYLE: the Cool Kids Attend the H&M/Matthew Williamson Party
Rebecca Alexander, Editor April 29 at 2:22
Read More:alexis bledel, amanda setton, chanel iman, Dree Hemingway, erin featherson, H&M, helena christensen, lucy liu, mary-kate olsen, matthew williamson, olivia palermo, pat fields, selita ebanks
The launch of ‘Matthew Williamson for H&M’ at NYC’s The Majesty party brought out a bunch of cool kids.
Selita Ebanks
Olivia Palermo
Helena Christensen
Mary-Kate Olsen
Erin Featherston
Amanda Setton
Lucy Liu
Alexis Bledel
Chanel Iman
Pat Fields
Dree Hemingway
SPREAD UM: Helena Christensen for UK InStyle April 2009
Andy Wass March 6 at 1:10
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Helena Christensen covers the April 2009 issue of UK InStyle.
Inside, the 40-year-old Danish model talks children, love life, and health; and of course continues to look supermodely.
GALLERY: Helena Christensen for UK InStyle April 2009.
SPREAD UM: Helena Christensen and Ed Westwick for Harper’s Bazaar
Rebecca Alexander, Editor February 11 at 12:55
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Supermodel Helena Christensen seduces Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick in the upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar shot by Terry Richardson. The resident bad boy looks hottie hot hot, as usual, as does 50 year old Helena.
Fashion Photography From A Model’s Perspective
Kirby Marzec, Managing Editor January 23 at 2:54
Read More:eric wright, Façonnable, helena christensen
Forget the runways, the magazine and the billboards, Helena Christensen is taking a brief modeling hiatus to pursue her fashion photography career. That’s right, Christensen will be in the pit of photographers at the end of Façonnable’s catwalk in Paris on Saturday to shoot the debut show of her friend, designer Eric Wright. The model will also shoot her second campaign for the label sometime in the near future!
For more, check out Vogue.com!
Ad-Dict: Agent Provocateur
Amanda Gabriele, Contributor November 3 at 12:52
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