Gisele Bundchen

[Oria]

She is huge because of this:

http://www.km02.com/gbundchen/runway/original/ru052.jpg

Because before the girl from ipanema tan, blonde highlights and curlers turned her into the 'sexy' VS clone that many hardcore fashion fans (like most of us on this board) hated, she was this picture above. Razor sharp cheekbones, eyebrows that soared to heaven and an unorthodox defiant nose and chin that didn't make you go "oh she looks like..." but rather "I've never seen anything like her". She was a perfect mixed blood Brazilian -a perfect marriage of germanic and hispanic and she looked so young, so fresh and boy could she work a camera.

Are you a writer? I would hire you to write my bio. B)

But a little clarification, Brasilians are not Hispanic.

 

[PussyLee]

I always suspect Gisele to be predominantly German, in ancestry. Although she's a true-blue Brazilian by heart. Gisele will always be remembered as the model who started the Brazilian revolution, the time when the modelling industry got tired of the waifs, heroin girls, pixies and the strange looking, and head to RIO. Gisele is the original Girl of Ipanema. She brought back curves (still debatable if she has one, more like side-view curves) in fashion.

 

[Cirque Paris]

Going back to the original question, Gisele IS a supermodel because she is simply fierce. As it was mentioned, she is versitile, but has a particular sexual edge that's all her own, which I think is most recognizable. She has a killer model body and has become an icon because of it. One day I thought.. she's not the most gorgeous woman you could ever run into, but there is something most certainly captivating about her. I love how she works the camera like no one else right now. I think that that's her signature. Airbrush and photoshop or not, she has crazy perfect angles that she just knows how to work in front of the lens. She's simply perfect as a model.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Are you a writer? I would hire you to write my bio. B)

But a little clarification, Brasilians are not Hispanic.

Well I am studying English at Cambridge!! Really though I have a tendency to wax lyrical over beauty -it is rather embarrasing in conversation cos people think I am a nut. Do Brazilians not have Portuguese blood and couldn't you categorize the Portuguese racially as hispanic? Any way they are a very diverse people and have some sort of predominant Latin blood (not Gisele -I think she is mostly German -full half anyway -does anyone know what her mother is?)

 

[morgan38]

Well I am studying English at Cambridge!! Really though I have a tendency to wax lyrical over beauty -it is rather embarrasing in conversation cos people think I am a nut. Do Brazilians not have Portuguese blood and couldn't you categorize the Portuguese racially as hispanic? Any way they are a very diverse people and have some sort of predominant Latin blood (not Gisele -I think she is mostly German -full half anyway -does anyone know what her mother is?)

"Hispanic" comes from the Latin word for Spain and has a broad reference towards all Spanish speaking cultures of both hemispheres. "Latino" is a Spanish term used for all people of Latin America. Thus because Brazil was settled mainly by the Portuguese and not the Spanish (according to the Treaty of Tordesillas), I suppose you could consider her Latino but not Hispanic. However, if she is mostly German with very little Portuguese or Native roots, I doubt you would.

ETA: Also, I've heard that many Latinos preferred to be referred to as such, as opposed to "Hispanic".

 

[Oria]

Well I am studying English at Cambridge!! Really though I have a tendency to wax lyrical over beauty -it is rather embarrasing in conversation cos people think I am a nut. Do Brazilians not have Portuguese blood and couldn't you categorize the Portuguese racially as hispanic? Any way they are a very diverse people and have some sort of predominant Latin blood (not Gisele -I think she is mostly German -full half anyway -does anyone know what her mother is?)

I think you write very well, do keep it up.

@ Brasilians- well I'm one and I'm mixed with African, Port, Native, and Japanese. I'm pretty typical. But no we are not "racially" Hispanic. Hispanics= colonized by Spain/Spanish speaking etc in the US. We trace ourselves back to Portugal, (although Brazil is derived from both Port/Spanish- the word I mean) etc. We don't speak Spanish which is another reason why we aren't considered "Hispanic". You could call us Latino (because we speak a Latin language), but I prefer either Brasilian or South American. It doesn't offend me, but I'm Brasilian and a tad bit nationalistic in my views, a lot of us actually prefer just Brasilian. I've actually never heard of Hispanic until I entered the US. I really think it's system they use to classify people who are from Spanish speaking countries, which I'm not. Culturally we are different, from our food to our music, again not better, just different and I love to clarify whenever possible because a lot of people think we are Hispanic.

http://www.brazilbrazil.com/latins.html - a good, funny read.

 

[Nemova]

She was a perfect mixed blood Brazilian -a perfect marriage of germanic and hispanic and she looked so young, so fresh and boy could she work a camera.

Many people already clarified this so I'll just add a few things. Gisele's roots are half-German, half-Italian, both of her parents were born in Brazil and she's definitely 100% brazilian because probably less than 5% of our population can be called native. The majority comes from different mixes of races and nationalities, such as portuguese, italian, african, german, japanese and in a smaller scale, dutch, finnish, hungarian, french, english and so on.

BTW, great post Oria,

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Brasilians- well I'm one and I'm mixed with African, Port, Native, and Japanese. I'm pretty typical. But no we are not "racially" Hispanic. Hispanics= colonized by Spain/Spanish speaking etc in the US. We trace ourselves back to Portugal, (although Brazil is derived from both Port/Spanish- the word I mean) etc. We don't speak Spanish which is another reason why we aren't considered "Hispanic". You could call us Latino (because we speak a Latin language), but I prefer either Brasilian or South American. It doesn't offend me, but I'm Brasilian and a tad bit nationalistic in my views, a lot of us actually prefer just Brasilian. I've actually never heard of Hispanic until I entered the US. I really think it's system they use to classify people who are from Spanish speaking countries, which I'm not. Culturally we are different, from our food to our music, again not better, just different and I love to clarify whenever possible because a lot of people think we are Hispanic.

Yes! I second that -great post !! If anything has made me want to leave England and decamp to Brazil it is that post... actually linoleum, doughnuts and ...well anything also have the same effect. I love that Brazilians are so mixed -it is why they are so gorgeous. The prettiest girls at my agency are Brazilians

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Gisele's roots are half-German, half-Italian

Just like Leo -funny

 

[oicicup]

omgmgomgmogmog i love leo

 

[Nemova]

Just like Leo -funny

That's true. Interesting..

 

[SiennaInLondon]

omgmgomgmogmog i love leo

Me too!! Comes from being 12 when Titanic came out!! I can't believe that Leomania is one of the defining periods of my life !!

 

[lady grey]

IMG question?

other than the ultimate supermodel Giselle, who else is with IMG models? thanks.

 

[Nemova]

Daria Werbowy, Amanda Moore, Karolina Kurkova...

 

[sashatheelf]

other than the ultimate supermodel Giselle, who else is with IMG models? thanks.

tyra banks, heidi klum, liya kebede, gemma waaaaaard, and jpoop

 

[Oria]

Yes! I second that -great post !! If anything has made me want to leave England and decamp to Brazil it is that post... actually linoleum, doughnuts and ...well anything also have the same effect. I love that Brazilians are so mixed -it is why they are so gorgeous. The prettiest girls at my agency are Brazilians

You're funny- again love the words...wax poetics all day if you like.

@ the kudos from you and Nemova- muito obrigada!!

 

[SiennaInLondon]

muito obrigada!!

Which means 'very obliged' phew -had to use Babel Fish translator

 

[sasseestefanie]

big nose???
Mine is far more prominant

 

[Nemova]

^nevermind them. Gisele's nose is perfect and so is yours.

 

[miserylovescompany]

I don't think that Daria will ever be as commercially huge as Giselle. She just isn't as classically beautiful. Her features are...sharper. Gisele definately has a more chiselled face than some others, but Daria's hard set features cancel out a lot of her prettiness. I don't know if that makes much sense. I don't think that people loook at Daria and go "That is something I'd aspire to"...and honestly, I think that's important to commercial success.







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