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electriklights
04/08/09

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Uncle Karl was struttin'.
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mostlynormal
04/08/09

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I'm not imagining myself particularly moved by the story of a wealthy privileged woman ending up wealthy and privileged. But maybe the film will provide an interesting look into other women's lives.
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Easybreezy
04/08/09

@mostlynormal: I agree completely.
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moosesanddeers
04/08/09

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Is this really Tatiana?
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HereComesMyBaby
04/09/09

@moosesanddeers: I thought the same thing! Eeep!
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PersonOfInterest
04/08/09

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I don't understand why an intelligent girl from a well to do family in NYC would go into modeling. She has so many other options. Modeling seems like a job that would only be attractive to girls who wanted to live in the big city or had no other skills to make lots of money.

On a side note: There is a picture of the photog Kelly from RHoNYC was married to in the clip. Their age difference is much greater than the Count and the Discountess. Ew.
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TatianaTheAnonymousModel
04/08/09

@PersonOfInterest: Yes, that would be Gilles Bensimon. He was Elle magazine's creative director/main photographer for eons. Before he married Kelly, he was married to Elle Macpherson. Bensimon was a kingmaker of the 80s/90s supes.
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Understater
04/08/09

@PersonOfInterest: Modeling seems like a job that would only be attractive to girls who wanted to live in the big city or had no other skills to make lots of money.

Wrong. Many models are actually girls/boys who just happened to be at the right place at the right time and were spotted by modeling scouts. It seems like many of the big-name models kind of "fell" into modeling and watched their careers snowball. Modeling is not as easy/mindless as it seems, it actually requires a lot of dedication and stamina and it can be really lonely at times as well.
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Chivone
04/08/09

@Understater: eh, you're getting your picture taken. you're walking around in painful shoes. the flash on the camera doesn't sap the soul. Not that that is in complete disagreement with your statement, I agree it's probably not AS easy/mindless as it seems.

I agree with PersonOfInterest's comment. to go into this field with all the opportunities afforded to you, strikes me as silly. All the models I know do it as a side hustle along with artsy shit that barely pays the bills. And they're apparently lucky to even find paying jobs.
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Understater
04/08/09

@Chivone: eh, you're getting your picture taken. you're walking around in painful shoes. the flash on the camera doesn't sap the soul

::Sighs:: Really, do some research before you make conclusions like that.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
04/08/09

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Good for her!

But will it be as funny and insightful as the Bruno movie?
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pear.shaped.Sara
04/08/09

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Umm, I am 24 and I still like coloring books. The documentary looks intriguing I must say.
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Sanfo
04/08/09

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What an incredible idea- I hope that this movie can highlight some of the issues found in the industry ("not-rape," for example?) in a healthy way that can normalize this overhyped, oversexualized, and slightly terrifying industry.
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ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox)
04/08/09

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All I can think is that a title for model drama movie could Blue Steel Magnolias. Lots of tears, accents and people getting their hair done.
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electriklights
04/08/09

@ImDatNinja:

Hahaha. YES!
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Hana Maru
04/02/09

In reply to Runway's In, Britney's Glam, And Topshop, Topshop, Topshop!!!!
What is the danger in tuning in to Lifetime? That you'd have to see commercials for grody uncool Lifetime shows about ladystuff instead of that smarmy "Only on Bravo. Watch what happens" guy?
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
04/02/09

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PS: TopShop don't make their own accessories - Freedom Jewellery is a concession (used to work for the concession company - some of the store managers DESPISED us because we'd often have better sales figures than them during "hard" times)
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vanka-vstanka
04/02/09

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I like TopShop's denim A LOT. The quality and styles are pretty good, and they come in a 30-inch inseam when usually I can't find anything below 32. So I am all about their jeans and don't bother buying denim anywhere else.

But the rest of their clothes are pretty hit and miss, IMO. Most of it is kind of tacky and wouldn't be appropriate for anybody but a sixteen-year-old girl in London. I used to shop there because it was the best option I had. Do you like hot pink satin and ruffly miniskirts and peacoats? You'll love TopShop. But otherwise... meh. And the shoes are very cheap-looking, although the price doesn't reflect that.
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MissMoneypenny
04/02/09

@vanka-vstanka: You forgot to say SKINNY 16-year-old girl in London. Although my husband's teenage cousins in Leeds and their friends dress that way, too.

The last time I went in TopShop the most exciting thing was the candy they sell by the sales counter.
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vanka-vstanka
04/02/09

@MissMoneypenny: TopShops with candy????? I've only been to TopShop in Russia and there is no candy.
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girlwithoutahero
04/02/09

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Dear Topshop,

SHIP TO CANADA

Kisses,

Everydaybrogues
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R_Claw
04/02/09

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Topshop!!! I can't wait, I will be there this weekend!
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Tart of Darkness
04/02/09

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Where is the rest of Britney? Didn't everyone all pretty much agree that a real life Barbie would fall over? Well I submit that a real life Britney in those proportions would fall over too.

It's not bad enough that "stars" are encouraged to become toothpicks, do we have to photoshop them to half the size of toothpicks??????
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Hana Maru
04/02/09

@Tart of Darkness: The Candie's ads are awful for whittling stars down to where they're barely recognizable. I wouldn't be so mad about it, except that I remember when I was 13, posting one of their Jenny McCarty ads up in my room so it would remind me to stay on my diet. I was 105 pounds and I din't think I was thin enough. It is really kind of evil to present that impossibly thin and poreless image as the beauty ideal to girls.
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tscheese
04/02/09

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I can't get behind the TopShop mania. It sounds like a nightmarish miasma of crowding, clothes that wouldn't fit me at my very thinnest, and H&M quality at J. Crew prices. No thanks.
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