I can't believe you covered the Daphne Guinness interview in today's WWD and DIDN'T reprint this awesome exchange:
WWD: "How would you describe your style?"
DG: "Regular. Stuff that fits."
WWD: "But you're wearing 7 inch platforms."
@kwyshatz: Assuming the shoot is digital -- and most are -- then yes. You see it all. The take flashes up on a monitor as the photographer is shooting. However, it's considered bad form to look at the monitor during breaks without being invited -- some photographers find that presumptuous, I guess. When I started, however, it was particularly helpful as a way to learn how things were reading on the camera. Later, you kind of get a sense of that. I imagine Gisele, with her level of experience, has little interest in the monitor.
All well and good to have organic, paraben-free cosmetics, but claims of carcinogenic ingredients based on nothing in particular annoy the hell out of me. Ooooh...they're chemicals. Unless you can prove something, it's better to just STFU because otheriwse it just makes people with legitimate claims look as ditsy as you.
I'm confused as to why they would book Gisele knowing she was pregnant, just to airbrush it out later. Why not save the money spent on that & hire a different model? I guess I don't know all that much about the industry.
@cb831: I'm kind of with you, but at the same time, couldn't it be a good thing that a woman's career (even if she is a model) isn't put on hold because she got pregnant? Sure, London Fog could have just left her with her (seriously tiny) round belly, but if that wasn't what they had in mind when they booked her, flattening her stomach doesn't seem that drastic.
Uh, that's an interesting way to respect her privacy, London Fog. By sending out a press release announcing something she and her family weren't ready to announce themselves. Thanks!
Maybe Bare Escentuals' profits fell because everyone realized that when you wear their foundation, your face photographs as both gray and oily. That's not a good look for anyone.
Re: Gisele. I can't tell the difference. I'm not sure if this means I don't know what a 6-month pregnant belly looks like, or she's not showing because she's from outer space.
@Penny: My boyfriend's sister is five months. She is very, very petite, and even now she is super thin. Except for the basketball sized baby protruding from her pregnant belly. There is no way Gisele can be six months pregnant.
@Penny: I think the six month calculation on that site is wrong. If she's due in December, as it speculates, then in early July she still had five months to go. That makes her at most four months, maybe less if she's due at the end of December.
@picardia: And you can do all of these things and it still might not work. There's tons of factors that come into play, a lot of which you can't control.
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I will totally love it.
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I've never been on a shoot with a separate monitor for the model.
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But good for her. She's already done so much for womankind. Not least of which was the Loehmann's introduction.
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1) Don't smoke.
2) Don't tan.
3) Start wearing sunscreen daily while you're still young.
4) Use a simple drugstore moisturizer if you need one.
The rest is noise, and marketing.
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