Anja Rubik Is The World's Top Model

[Forrest]

The weirdest thing is they count the runwayshows. I mean, lara is only allowed to walk for CK, i think she should therfor get a big fat show. Samne this season for Freja, only a couple A shows which she choose. Doesn't that kind of excl. more count then let's say Constance who walked every show.

And indeed where is Kloss? Poly?

 

[Frws]

Freja yes Lara yes Poly yes but Anja??she maybe popular in print indeed she has many editorials and stuff but overall I would never consider her the worlds' top model. !!

 

[models_vlada]

i would have love to see also Monika Jac Jagaciak there.

 

[olga.]

That's so funny, 'cause Polish people find Rubik very plain-looking, her streetstyle is often mocked and her way of uttering words (maybe not in English, but in Polish she has horrible pronunciation). Have to say, she gained utmost recognition because of Sasha (Poles are crazy about their homegirls dating foreign beaux).

To my knowledge, Polish glossies praise to heavens Jac, not Anja.

But obviously, Anja is a superstar. However, I would think twice whether she's nr 1. Lara Stone is an icon. Anja will never be one.

 

[congacon]

sorry, but the quality of anja's works dont make her the top model. i go for quality when choosing the world top model. her recent works(campaigns, eds) are pale in comparison with girls like daria, lara and raquel. campaign wise for the last few years, daria and raquel have been consistently scored all the major only girl blue chip campaigns and they have been a regular of vogue paris and us since like forever.

 

[dreamss]

I wouldn't call lara an icon just yet
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[PrincessBird]

anja? -.-

 

[agee]

I am pleasantly surprised that Anja was named the world's top model and I think she deserves it, but I am kinda surprised that it was social media and internet searches that put her over the top, I would have thought that Freja, Abbey and Lara would have come out ahead of her in those areas, well Abbey actually did in one of them.

As far as the quality of her work is concerned, I agree that Anja is not a favorite of the bluest of the blue chip, but Anja has definitely done blue chip work and the quantity of the work that she does more than makes up for the smidge of a hit for not being a recurring favorite for an ultra blue chip like Freja is for Chanel favorite and Lara is for Vogue.

at there being a numbers-based ranking, if I had to raise a question / objection, it would be that campaigns were lumped in with covers and eds, and I would have combined social media and Google searches, although I don't think that it would have changed the outcome of this ranking.

 

[ParisFashionMuse]

This has to be a joke. Um poly? Daria? Lara? Yeah, they come way before Anja sorry

 

[congacon]

why google's outcome or search results take into account of the ranking. if u go to events such as cannes or met gala or dating celebrities then your search result will be up.

the core values of being top model are their presence in world wide magazines and campaigns. being famous doesnt make u top models.

 

[tigerrouge]

And generally speaking, while I commend the policy of purging 'most searched for' lists so they're free of sexual terms and associations, it does mean the results provided are a sanitised alternate universe rather than any true reflection of reality.

 

[Bezimienna]

I don't understand why Anja gets so much hate tbh... Just a ranking, calm down. I'm only happy for her because she is a real hard worker and without any uber-powerful support she reached that place.

 

[FashionPower]

I can't believe Karlie Kloss didn't even reach the 5th position
She pratically got every cover,ads and she's a catwalk regular!

 

[congacon]

I don't understand why Anja gets so much hate tbh... Just a ranking, calm down. I'm only happy for her because she is a real hard worker and without any uber-powerful support she reached that place.

i dotn think people hate anja. we just dont agree with the ranking.

 

[iluvjeisa]

It seems to be a little too much of quantity over quality there. I mean certain magazine covers count more than others....and being paid the big bucks for doing two weeks of work should be better than getting 10% of that money for doing loads of small campaigns.

But, yeah, I think it gets the girls right at least.

 

[agee]

This may sound like heresy, but sometimes the quality argument can get over-stated, I totally get giving more figurative points to a model who has four prestigious Vogue covers / eds, over five or six lesser Vogue / other fashion covers / eds, but when the ratio is something like 4:7 or 4:8, I think that that should be seen as comparable or perhaps even better, depending on other underlying factors, like photographers, number of page, key issue, key ed like couture, name checked, etc.

In Anja's case, yeah she is not a Wintour favorite, but she is a Lagerfeld favorite, but that tends to get discounted because he is more into Freja, she is turning out to an Alt favorite, and I would not be surprised if her Armani Code contract was one of the biggest fragrance contracts snagged by a model, and wasn't she their face for a couple of years, I know she was for at least a couple of Christmas seasons. I can see someone saying, "well she does not do the bluest of the blue chips like Dior or Chanel and she is not an Anna Wintour favorite," but then you gotta take into account the quantity of the high end brands / lesser blue chips* like Lanvin, Fendi (multiple seasons), Fendi fragrance, Armani Code fragrance, DKNY fragrance, Giuseppe Zanotti (multiple seasons), Chloe fragrance, Chloe (multiple seasons), etc., and IMO that kind of "quantity" offsets the "quality" of being a fixture in US Vogue or Karl's numero uno fave or at least makes someone a reasonable contender.

* And actually what makes a blue chip and the pecking order is debatable, granted some labels like Chanel and Dior are not debatable, but it gets muddy when you have like nouveau-ish labels like Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren and Blumarine who are heavy advertisers versus critics' choice labels like Prada and Balenciaga.

 

[elle_gb]

Agreed with everything u said.

 

[penny609]

Interesting even when it gets to sound a bit ridiculous sometimes. I would say the first real question we have to ask ourselves is not "who is the world's top model" but "what makes a model the world's top model today".

Then I think it's totally impossible to call anyone the number one, especially not these days. Back in the Supermodels era, you had a group of top models leading the pack and accessing to celebrity status. But these days are gone for long and no one can really ignore it. Then you had Kate and Gisele, who were exceptions. It was these days one name could be placed very high above any other. You could say there was Kate and the others, then Gisele and the others. You clearly can't say there is Anja then the others now.

I think the way it was done is inappropriate: another ranking! as if we needed another bloody ranking! but I guess it's like that to grab some more visibility as people like to disagree with rankings in general (sometimes for smart reasons, sometimes for the sake of the disagreeing game). It's wrong and inappropriate because of the way the industry has become over the latest few years. It's impossible for one model to dominate on all fronts and reach a truly icon status. Lara has her own strengths, Anja has others and so does Freja, Abbey, Daria, Karlie etc. They all have different paths or appeal to different targets.

It would have been interesting to have a deep analysis of the situation of today's high-level modeling and a serious discussion around the idea of stardom in fashion. But I guess, unfortunately, that a ranking gets more clicks and reactions than something deeper and more serious.