Beautiful Women

[Squizree]

^wow! your grandfather is so lucky!! did he have a conversation with her? how was her character exactly? it's one of my ultimate wishes to meet her before she passes away..I think she is still alive. nothing much is known about her nowadays..

No I don't think he did, but she's stunning.

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Gene Gene Gene , I just keep finding more photos I love and have to post them here

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source: sanfranciscosentinel.

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Moreee:

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sal2009/todocoleccion.net

 

[CharmingNicky]

Gene is obiviously a beauty but to me she doesnt have this striking and memorable look as Audrey Hepburn. I've never followed Gene's career or anything so by the time I leave this thread, I will forgot what she looked like, the opposite of Audrey.

 

[Empress Merel]

Honestly, I never got Audrey. But that's just a matter of preferences I guess.

Gene is so gorgeous in the last pic posted.

 

[Fantomette]

WerbowyStegner you should check Gene's thread in the "icons from the past" section, we're several fans there

The Queen Fawzia of Egypt pictures left me speechless.

 

[ParadEyes]

more pics of Fawzia and Soraya..can't get over them.. this is exactly how I imagine royalty to be like

Queen Soraya

in her wedding to the shah of Iran

The Goddess Fawzia

and finally Fawzia's Daughter, Shahnaz who isn't as pretty as her mother IMO

flickr/sokarbokar1,tulipnoire,joans20thcentury

 

[Vangie]

I agree with all that said Gene. She was so beautiful! I've posted pics of her and Emily Didonato in the perfect face thread. Emily belongs here too, for me.
When i was little and i saw Mannequin 2: On the Move, i remember i thought that Kristy Swanson was the most beautiful girl ever! In that time...

my own collection.

 

[WerbowyStegner]

^All really beautiful! I love Emily Didonato too shes so extremely beautiful!
I just came back from Toni Garrn's thread and my goodness she is breathtaking

getty

 

[WerbowyStegner]

FEW RIVAL THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF VALENTINA.
SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL EVEN WITH MINIMAL EYEMAKEUP.

style.com

 

[Squizree]

^ Valentina for SURE!

 

[ParadEyes]

^ Toni is so gorgeous!

Tamsin is also very beautiful

m5zn.com

 

[FashionPower]

Just 1 name...TONI GARRN!
She looks like a grecian goddess in this dress

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[pavonine]

Inasmuch as haven't seen all the women who've ever existed, I think the title of the thread is a bit of a misnomer. Most Beautiful celebrity/model/actress of all time, or rather, most beautiful celebrity of the 20th and 21st century sounds more apt. For all we know, there might've existed a woman in the Dark Ages whose beauty would've blown Kate Moss and Angelina Jolie out of the water.

I think to even consider suggesting someone's name to these lists, I think the beauty of the person should transcend the trends of the times they live(d) in. I don't think there's anyone who comes to mind instantly.

There are many names thrown about in this thread whom I find exceedingly pretty, but just not beautiful. Toni and Valentina for instance. They're so obviously pretty, and take gorgeous photographs, but without the je ne sais quoi which wins them a place in the pantheon of beautiful women. Many models looks excessively pretty - Valentina, Toni, Snejana, Devon, Lily D et al - but somehow I don't find them beautiful. They are very generically pretty.

Curiously, I don't find Kate Moss and her like to be 'beautiful' either. Don't get me wrong, she's impossibly stylish, photogenic and works clothes like nobody's business, but even in her prime, I never found her to be out of this world beautiful. Ditto with Audrey. She's elegance and grace personified, but I don't equate beauty to elegance or sophistication or stylishness or grace. For then, by that token there'd be plenty of non-celebrity women who're stylish/elegant/graceful.

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[reee]

Adriana Lima is my passion

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Devon is generically pretty? LOOOOL. Lily D is also another one that I don't find generically pretty. I find that they're both more unique looking , although Lily D is a lot more generic than Devon

 

[ParadEyes]

pavonine I absolutely agree with you in every word. I think we got carried away in this thread without paying attention to the title.
more than half of the women in this thread don't really match the title..
it should be changed

 

[pavonine]

Re: Finding Devon generic. I guess if she were entirely Caucasian, she could've been called exotic. But she's half-Asian, and a lot of Asian girls have that look. As for Lily... she's the archetype of generic, IMO. Blonde, blue eyed, tall, slim, with perfectly symmetrical and perfectly pretty features. There's not a whit of elusiveness or mystique about her looks. I mean, there would've been countless women like Lily till now. It's the same with Toni and Vlada and all the other dolls.

Another thing is that models especially are all very young. Except the ones that make it big, we don't really get to see how a model 'ages'. They're all so young when they start off when they're 15-16 and their careers are over by the time they are in their early twenties, and save an ed or two which are few and far between, we don't see them much in their thirties and forties. Some women turn more beautiful as they age, and some beauties lose all the vestiges of their beauty when they hit 40 or thereabouts. In my book, a truly beautiful woman, one whose beauty warrants a mention in this thread, should be beautiful at all ages, and not only in her adolescence.

Like I said, I find it well-nigh impossible to anoint a celebrity/model/actress/socialite the most beautiful woman of all time, the corollary of which implies that we're only taking into consideration the designer-clad glitterati, quite a few of them not so much bona fide than a product of media scrutiny and hype and overexposure (Cheryl Cole immediately comes to mind). I do find a lot of them unconscionably pretty, and some even truly beautiful (Gene, for instance) but I wouldn't go as far as to single out the ONE.

 

[Harumi]

^I don't think a single contributor to this thread is taking the title seriously. It's pretty evident since most people post several pictures/names. This thread and the 'Perfect Face' one could be merged as they serve the same purpose: a place where TFSers can post images of beautiful women. My point: it's a bit pointless to analyse this thread's title to the extend you have gone to.

As for your main points, I disagree with your definition of generic, which you seem to equate to perfection.
To me generic is the bland prettiness of those girls who have nice features but who you immediately forget and would not look twice if you saw them in the street. Emma Watson, for example, is pretty in a generic way.
I don't know about you, but if I met Toni Garn or Lily in the street, I would gape and stare like a moron. And if you live in a place where those kind of faces are a dime of dozen, then you are one lucky b-tard.

Speaking of Lily, she is hardly generic even by your criteria and is actually quite the unconventional beauty.
Her face is asymmetrical (her shin especially is very crooked), her eyes are a bit too spaced out and she has swimmers' shoulders. Not exactly your standard issue Barbie Doll. I think she gives that impression of perfection because she is a truly luminous girl: literally with her flawless skin and bright eyes, and figuratively, with that movie star aura that makes her stand-out among the sea of Blonde-Blue-Eyed models.

One thing we will agree on is that true beauty stands the test of time.
Age, maturity and self-knowledge add a layer to a woman's beauty. Young girls seldom 'inhabit' their beauty, if you see what I mean.
Women that I find gorgeous such as Angelina, Cate Blanchett or Rachel Weisz are far more beautiful to me now than they ever were in their early twenties.

 

[melfreya]

^^I agree with the whole argument Harumi I would add that I don't find Lily generic at all. Personally I'm not very fond of her looks because I find her eyes too spaced out, her shoulders way too broad and she always gave me an alien type look. But that just shows how different everyone's opinions about beauty are and that's why it's fun to have this kind of threads here. It's just fun, we don't need to make a sociological analysis about it and take it too seriously!