US Vanity Fair May 2009 : Gisele Bündchen by Mario Testino

[*ana*]

Hmmmm I think the idea of most beautiful woman is something that is interesting but Vanity Fair has seemingly gone about it in a very dim way. Beauty is a very compelling subject - lets be honest for a moment, we wouldn't have websites like tFS if we weren't all in some way interested in beauty, it's surrounding culture and people who are deemed beautiful. I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea of a magazine talking about female beauty in terms of saying such and such actress / model / personality has a face that is indicative of the current cultural perceptions of what is attractive.

However, the problem with the VF list is that it's very middle of the road and almost predictable. You have your completely obvious choices, a few out of touch additions that reek of tokenism and a couple of very bandwagony oh so trendy picks. What would have been more interesting would be if you get an eclectic group of people to talk about what beauty means to them / whose beauty inspires them. Get Woody Allen to wax poetic about Scarlett's allure or have Nicolas Ghesquiere say what makes girls like Jennifer Connelly or Hilary Rhoda so special to him. Get Zadie Smith in to do an essay, have someone who isn't Annie Liebowitz shoot a portfolio of great beauties throughout the ages.

Just do something that isn't Gisele with Testino for the ten millionth time. Angelina for the billionth time. Halle for the zillionth. Are these the only women worth talking about when it comes to phyiscal attractiveness?

The contents better blow the tired Helen of Troy concept out of the water. Ranking beauty is boring, talking about beauty can be compelling. Quite frankly I'd rather see a bit of attention payed to unconventional beauties, those on the list so far are all very very traditional - completely unchallenging in a way...

i totally agree with you, Luxx. it could be a very interesting issue but instead it's just a shallow - and very questionable - beauty contest. i have to admit gisele looks a-mazing in these pictures though. the cover is much better than i expected.

 

[testinofan]

Gisele look fabulous, and Rob all have insipation of Helmut newton doday Meisel, Lindberg, Mert Alas etc, but in this case no think the photos are same, all have insprations but in im take a pic in the street are lindberg i dont think

 

[eternitygoddess]

She's been in the business since she was like 13, 14.

But, it's because she's ugly...?! WTF?

I agree with rh85. It's more important for models to have an interesting rather than merely beautiful face.

 

[eternitygoddess]

Ziyi Zhang??

Most of the Chinese people think she's UNATTRACTIVE.

If VF wants to add diversity by picking an Chinese actress, they should've picked Gong Li.

 

[Suburban Snob]

God I love Gisele.

 

[MissMagAddict]

An even bigger cover for those that like it...


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Haters to the left please

There's another B&W image I saw on E! News tonight that hasn't shown up on vanityfair.com yet.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Well...it's always scary to have an image of the most beautiful woman in the world looking like she has male hips. And to be honest, if you pull down those pants it's almost as if you don't know what you will find. Uhm, I guess it's good with androgyny, but...sold in the form as quintessential female beauty...ahhhhh I don't know....it seems a bit sick. But what can you say, her face is exquisite here, as always.

 

[rh85]

Well...it's always scary to have an image of the most beautiful woman in the world looking like she has male hips. And to be honest, if you pull down those pants it's almost as if you don't know what you will find. Uhm, I guess it's good with androgyny, but...

that's right, without the head it looks like the body of a 18 years old man

 

[XavierRaphael]

That hip is leading to something we have no ideaaa is there

 

[lamies022]

The cover might not showcase her amazing body (yes I know she doesn't have hips but so what, women come in all different shapes) but Gisele is a model's model there is no doubt about that. I will definitely be getting this

 

[eternitygoddess]

I would hate to be in Bridget Moynahan's position.

Not only was the pregnancy-situation heart wrenching enough, but to have your ex's current flame/wife plastered EVERYWHERE with proclamations of "most beautiful and most sexiest" all the time is utterly awful.

Most women would hide under the covers and never come out.

 

[Kanna]

Anyhow that cover is stunning, so is Gisele's ed.

 

[rh85]

? The funny thing is everyone always says gisele is sooooo curvy and has a great body, but she is really quite scrawny.

well, here in TFS you will read that very often, I mean, it's a high fashion oriented forum where the perceptions are a little bit altered, have you heard that "In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King", that's what happens with her, compared to those other models with weird bodies Gisele is voluptuosly womanly, but out of this fashion world Gisele's body is just like you name it, scrawny.

Every time I see Gisele news in justjared, PerezHilton or any other mainstream cyber place most men dislike her. they say she's a man and things like that, you will always see the word horse there.

 

[fincher]

source: newslicious.net

 

[Luxx]

Alright, I feel like were venturing further and further away from the topic of the issue.

If you want to talk about the Gisele/Brady/Bridget love triangle. Take it to Rumor Has It.

If you want to talk about whether or not Gisele is pretty or curvy take it to Supporting Cast.

If you want to talk about the May issue of Vanity Fair then lets actually talk about it.

I know the lack of information regarding the issue makes staying on topic harder than if we had a full set of scans ready to go but we have to make efforts not to go off in ten different directions.

 

[Luxx]

source: newslicious.net

I believe this was from a previous Vanity Fair article on Gisele. The one where ironically she stated that she'd never get married.

 

[MissMagAddict]

I believe this was from a previous Vanity Fair article on Gisele. The one where ironically she stated that she'd never get married.

Yes... it is... from Vanity Fair October 2004

 

[tarsha]

An even bigger cover for those that like it...
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Haters to the left please

There's another B&W image I saw on E! News tonight that hasn't shown up on vanityfair.com yet.
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thank you MMA for big cover

 

[indie]

I believe this was from a previous Vanity Fair article on Gisele. The one where ironically she stated that she'd never get married.

And what about tops 2 years of modeling

Gorgeus cover though! Oops there goes my skirt....

 

[iluvjeisa]

Alright, I feel like were venturing further and further away from the topic of the issue.

If you want to talk about whether or not Gisele is pretty or curvy take it to Supporting Cast.

If you want to talk about the May issue of Vanity Fair then lets actually talk about it.

Well, with due respect....the fact that the cover says "The most beautiful woman in the world?" accompanied by an image of Gisele does lead to that conversation. You can't claim it's off topic....the curvy or not discussion should go to the weight thread, though. We could wish that "Is Gisele the piettiest girl in the world" was off topic for Vanity Fair, but no, it's apparently not.