NYT: models all look alike

[sinstinker]

from FVII



Exciting news for "21st century model" fans and people who get goosebumps from the current "A-list" faves - some biz experts are quoted in the NY Times on the quality of the latest model crop from IMG Models and Co:

Cintia Dicker - backstage in NYC
"...The feminine ideal at this particular moment in fashion is epitomized by Sasha Pivovarova, a young woman from Moscow who affects an unblinking robotic stare on the runway and who walks in an ungainly goose step that makes her look radio controlled..."I don't know what it is with these girls," said Hal Rubinstein, the fashion director of InStyle magazine, referring to a group that some of the still photographers who track the global fashion circuit have taken to calling moodles (as in poodles). "We had a show in New York, and they told me, 'We can get you all the big girls,' " Mr. Rubinstein said, referring to a benefit runway presentation InStyle staged to inaugurate the spring 2006 season. "Then I went backstage, and I couldn't tell one from another."..."

Allegedly, the "designers" don't want mods who may "distract from the garments" - the truth is that all these designers are complete idiots who will just take what the agencies and production people offer them as the "models of the season". In the 90s, they championed the "drop dead gorgeous woman" because that was what the top agencies and their playboy bosses wanted to promote - and they are in no position to dictate what the mods should look like, assuming they ever cared to.

The moronic nature of fashion people is illustrated by a comment Elbaz (a designer who was "stale and boring" when he worked for YSL, according to Cruella Wintour and her lackeys, but is now in the Vogue "10 best" list, since he is employed by a major Conde Nast advertiser) once made on FTV - "I had so much trouble getting the top girls for my show and was so upset that I decided to forget about them and select my own mods from what else was available instead" - he sounded like he launched his own little revolution against the fashion world...

 

[CharlottefromCA]

I posted something similar here..


http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32995

Is it the same article? I'm not sure...

 

[Faith Akiyama]

I don't think it's the same article; This one just quotes yours Both very interesting, though!

"Cintia Dicker - backstage in NYC" -- Where did that come from? I'm assuming it's a picture caption that got copied/pasted with the text...but does it indicate that Cintia is part of the crop of lookalikes or the contrary? *Is confused* If it is the former idea, then people need thick, thick glasses XD

 

[yourbestfriend]

Theres alot of things i dont agree with the people who write FV models, but w/e

 

[fashionista-ta]

I have very rarely posted on any of the model threads and am alot more interested in the clothes than who's wearing them, but clearly all the models do not look alike. I do think Sasha looks like a sullen, bitter Gemma, and there are subgroups of models of certain types who bear some resemblance to each other, but ... there's something wrong with anyone who thinks this ... I won't attempt to diagnose what

 

[sinstinker]

see I am divided on this issue, charlotteCA (sorry if i did not get name right )

it is not unusual that like the modeling industry in journalism people take from each other, so yeah are posts are very alike in this forum I have brought up only my opinion , but fashion/models repeats itself, for whatever and I am just going off here on my tangent not fact, we feel comfortable with familiarity, hence, the comparisons on every model thread I have seen some sort of comparison statement (mona J, sophie-h-w , she reminds me of kate moss, or this girl reminds me of marja, or she reminds me of isbeli and so on, I myself make comparisons, and have said on occassion if u lined up all the blonde models on one side and the brown haired ones on the other , well they blend, does not take away from their beauty and if u really, really, look at the model of ure choice u will see the subtle differences, a mole here and there, a bump on her nose, the actual shade of the models eyes, but to me in the fashion industry they want us to want likeness, not the girl that stands out of the rest ( by the way the picture of cinita was only their cause it was to late for me to delete, and to me cinita is an example of stand out, but I could say
like the article wants I could say
she has a young fuller version of sissey spacek ( the actress), thats the only red haired actress I could think of and I really dont think that

but look at your major fashion magazines and see who dominates them, the only country I see who takes chances and brings us girls like cinita, and not daria or hana are the japanese, I get their vogue, spur, elle, ginza, I see the familiar faces also, but not to the degree you see here in the united states, I will come out and say it , I dont like american vogue, its usually dominated by a celeberity and one model who does three layouts , I really dont like most of the american fashion magazines, I lean towards to european, italian,french, greek,australian, russian vogue and so on( sorry for the long rant ) I look at these models faces really look at them and even on occasion as i know alot of u have done corrected the person about the model cause u have really looked at them, and please i mean no dis-respect for those who love daria or hana cause they are beautiful, cause they are part of an elitist crowd called a model