US Vogue July 2018 : Gisele Bündchen by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

[szonline]

Always considered Gisele Bundchen one of the most overrated models.

 

[chanelh]

Gisele is surely hot and a character in her 20s, but after she turn into this whole happiness, love and family and green earth bla bla bla thing, it just feel so pretentious and boring, making me no longer interested in her....
I like the loud, aggressive and eating pizza drinking beer Gisele

 

[Miss Dalloway]

What a throwaway issue, they should thank their lucky stars for Gisele’s magic. Buying this just for her cover and spread.

 

[Deleted member 130879]

Always considered Gisele Bundchen one of the most overrated models.

Preach! She looked cool in the late 90s with the darker hair but she went downhill fast. Both in look and in overall work. She lost all her versatility.

Post-2000 blonde bombshell Gisele always looked like a white trash footballer's wife to me. And she keeps getting worse and worse as this cover proves it.

 

[SicKie]

So weird people misunderstand her words "modeling never defined me", she says it in a way that modeling was just a job for her, it's never defined her lifestyle and the way she sees the world unlike many other models who live for this business, it's nothing wrong with to live for your career, but it's unfair to misinterpret every word she says. If you take a closer look at Gisele you'll notice she's not a typical model, she's never been a glamorous fashionista, who goes crazy over trendy clothes and luxury. She's just a simple person who took modeling as a job but never as a lifestyle. Yeah, there are other models who are non-typical ones when it comes to their lifestyles, like Natalia, or Christy etc, but they never say things like that about them, it's always Gisele who gets criticized for every word she says. I'm sure everyone sees who she really is but somehow they don't want to admit it.

 

[tigerrouge]

I respect her success, and I think her fashion career is probably beyond compare.

But when it comes to words, I have no personal interest in being lectured about the environment by a jet-setting supermodel with a mega-mansion.

 

[mepps]

So weird people misunderstand her words "modeling never defined me", she says it in a way that modeling was just a job for her, it's never defined her lifestyle and the way she sees the world unlike many other models who live for this business, it's nothing wrong with to live for your career, but it's unfair to misinterpret every word she says. If you take a closer look at Gisele you'll notice she's not a typical model, she's never been a glamorous fashionista, who goes crazy over trendy clothes and luxury. She's just a simple person who took modeling as a job but never as a lifestyle. Yeah, there are other models who are non-typical ones when it comes to their lifestyles, like Natalia, or Christy etc, but they never say things like that about them, it's always Gisele who gets criticized for every word she says. I'm sure everyone sees who she really is but somehow they don't want to admit it.

All of this.
I'm not her biggest fan, but I definitely respect her enormous achievements. I totally got what she meant when she said modelling didn't define her.People just don't like when models don't adhere to their regressive ideas of what a model should be like. Giselle has a brain and she's not afraid to use it.

 

[Benn98]

I read her feature online because the issue isn't out yet, at least not in my area. All I fervently disagree with is that you CAN read Lao Tzu and still party. Just ask Gloria von Thurn und Taxis!
It's not so much what she said, but how she said it. The Lao Tzu comment for instance, there's something very flighty within the context of that comment.

Based on the edits (thanks Zorka! ), this issue looks terribly underwhelming so far. It seems Tonne and Phyllis are the only stylists who truly understands the identity of this magazine. I can't get behind Natalia by Zoe Ghertner. It's just so uneventful. And if Lucinda's little contrasting edit highlighted more the glamour and glory of yesteryear than our modern world.

 

[SicKie]

I respect her success, and I think her fashion career is probably beyond compare.

But when it comes to words, I have no personal interest in being lectured about the environment by a jet-setting supermodel with a mega-mansion.

well yeah, that's your personal opinion but when it comes to me, I don't think there's a problem with anyone to talk about the environment and have millions of dollars, a jet and a mega mansion. They are celebrities who have fame and ability to be heard more than anyone non-famous, so I like whenever I see someone famous promotion taking care of the environment. I just don't think flying around with jet harms the environment as much or even more than plastic pollution for example or destroying huge forests all these years.

I read her feature online because the issue isn't out yet, at least not in my area. All I fervently disagree with is that you CAN read Lao Tzu and still party. Just ask Gloria von Thurn und Taxis!
It's not so much what she said, but how she said it. The Lao Tzu comment for instance, there's something very flighty within the context of that comment.

It's just her opinion, just how she believes and how she feels, it's not necessary to be true for everyone, she just stated her opinion, that's all.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

So weird people misunderstand her words "modeling never defined me", she says it in a way that modeling was just a job for her, it's never defined her lifestyle and the way she sees the world unlike many other models who live for this business, it's nothing wrong with to live for your career, but it's unfair to misinterpret every word she says. If you take a closer look at Gisele you'll notice she's not a typical model, she's never been a glamorous fashionista, who goes crazy over trendy clothes and luxury. She's just a simple person who took modeling as a job but never as a lifestyle. Yeah, there are other models who are non-typical ones when it comes to their lifestyles, like Natalia, or Christy etc, but they never say things like that about them, it's always Gisele who gets criticized for every word she says. I'm sure everyone sees who she really is but somehow they don't want to admit it.

She gets criticised because of her lack of her awareness is staggering. She can scream over the rooftops that modelling does not define her, but actually it does. She is a total supermodel cliche, that's why it grates that she's convinced, much more than other models, that she's above it. She has the dubious millionaire jock husband, the sexy lottery host clothes, the tacky houses, the healthy living, the patronising speech, the pet causes, the big supermodel entrances, the hidden plastic surgeries, the overall weird slightly disconnected behaviour of someone that all her life only knew adulation and the cherry on the cake of the model cliche the insistence that what made a famous millionaire does not define her. How can she be more what she's trying not to be?
She made it, she should be proud of it. She is something else. You don't hear Kate Moss saying modelling does not define her, it gave her a pretty good life, being known as a model is not incompatible with doing something for yourself.

 

[cestmagique]

well yeah, that's your personal opinion but when it comes to me, I don't think there's a problem with anyone to talk about the environment and have millions of dollars, a jet and a mega mansion. They are celebrities who have fame and ability to be heard more than anyone non-famous, so I like whenever I see someone famous promotion taking care of the environment. I just don't think flying around with jet harms the environment as much or even more than plastic pollution for example or destroying huge forests all these years.

How is the wastefulness of a private jet and a massive resource- and energy-intensive mansion (one of many homes they own, no doubt) promoting taking care of the environment? That's taking care of Gisele, environment be damned. It's blatantly hypocritical. Gisele can have everything she needs and wants, yay! If everyone did that we'd need about 100 more planets and no, that's not just 'my opinion.'

THAT SAID, as far as modeling is concerned, Gisele is an icon. She has obviously earned her stripes. I'm not particularly interested in her, but I don't mind her popping up on covers because at least she does good work.

 

[MulletProof]

I understood it exactly as SicKie and have my (want to say superb but I'll keep it humble) memory to make sense out of her statement.

She's making a clear point that her career does not define her and it never did. You can prefer to be cynical and insist it is the opposite, that her whole existence is based on what she did for a living and it defines her as a person but nobody really knows what her relationship with her career has been like, especially in the peculiar circumstances it unfolded (not a choice of her adult years, extraordinary level of success, praised exclusively on her appearance). Most models, from Rianne Van Rompaey to even Natalia and the ones that have gone back to uni, have expressed a difficult relationship with the way they're understood as people at the peak of their careers, it's not unusual for people to take steps on how not to let it f*ck with your head too much.

Even though most people you run into do define themselves by what they do for a living and cannot see a different way of existing and will often enter depression/suicidal territory if they're removed from an environment that they believe "embodies" who they are, I still find it awfully tragic, not to mention unhealthy and the fact that people can't even conceive the thought that you can have a monumental, decades-long career and still go out of your way to keep some sanity or sense of identity that has nothing to do with profit by committing to several things (from spirituality to sports to travel or charity) to remind yourself that that does not define you.. I think it says more about our system, the understanding of success and profession that system has taught us, than it does about her..

I was a teenager when she was the most in-demand model... she was everywhere, seemed to be second in line to Wintour in terms of authority and was often in the same clothes and hardly seen outside events.. definitely not desperately courting the paps the way models did before and after her. She did become kind of obnoxious when she downgraded to 'football wife' and to that world that's all football and being Republican and never trying to step out of the shadow of your athlete husband but I think she has still remained somewhat the same, not starving for always being the center of attention, no social media proof of a severe case of narcissism (which most models have these days..) and still no style lol. The idea that she gets covers thanks to her husband just shows, besides typical sexism, profound ignorance in fashion and it's just fashion yeah, but in order to talk about anything, maybe go through files, its history and get a clue. Otherwise you're not so different from that model that was last seen in school at age 14 and dares to talk about medical treatments in a publication..

 

[michelabella]

I didn't even know anyone would be surprised about this. She has been saying since her early 20s that modeling was always a business to her and not a lifestyle. I even always considered that the main reason for her success.


From Harper's Bazaar UK 2008/stefmodels.fr

 

[Wintergreen]

Supposing that what she says about not caring about being famous is true, I would much rather take the Carmen Kass route and be semi-retired with like 20 or 30 million dollars in the bank living a comfortable and intellectually stimulating life than date a fvckboy like DiCaprio or marry a Trump supporter to increase my profile and keep getting jobs and have like 300 million dollars instead of 30.

But maybe that's just me.

 

[vogue28]

I'm ALL for seeing Gisele back on the cover of American Vogue, and ALL for I&V behind the lens - yet I'm not jumping for joy. It looks more suited to a magazine like Porter! I just wish there wasn't so much scenery going on in the background of the cover. I would've preferred a closeup portrait of Gisele (like shot from Anna's Editor's Letter).

And as per usual, the fashion content is flat and dull as dishwater. Those photographs of Anna Ewers by I&V are a total breath of fresh air, however.