Erik, I think you made a good point about how the next supermodel will have to be someone who can bridge the gap between high fashion and commercial.
But if I hear the term "intellectual model" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Because if we can be honest (and polite), that term has been given to European girls whose beauty only makes sense to the likes of Madame Prada and her casting director. Kind of like how people use the word charming...
And if any newbie looks aristocratic and exudes a certain "hautiness" it would be Jourdan Dunn. All day. SHE looks intellectual. But I don't see her in Vogue? Her options should be crazy, but wait, I almost forgot, fashion's "top talents, usually so adept at anticipating their public's preoccupations and desires, appear to be utterly disconnected from the cultural stream."Anna Wintour's words not mine.
Speaking of a dictatorship...how interesting would it be if this model revolution began on Balenciaga's runway instead of in Milan.
White is not always right
Erik, I think you made a good point about how the next supermodel will have to be someone who can bridge the gap between high fashion and commercial.
But if I hear the term "intellectual model" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Because if we can be honest (and polite), that term has been given to European girls whose beauty only makes sense to the likes of Madame Prada and her casting director. Kind of like how people use the word charming...
And if any newbie looks aristocratic and exudes a certain "hautiness" it would be Jourdan Dunn. All day. SHE looks intellectual. But I don't see her in Vogue? Her options should be crazy, but wait, I almost forgot, fashion's "top talents, usually so adept at anticipating their public's preoccupations and desires, appear to be utterly disconnected from the cultural stream."Anna Wintour's words not mine.
Speaking of a dictatorship...how interesting would it be if this model revolution began on Balenciaga's runway instead of in Milan.
Image is everything.