Was Alessandra too busy for this?
I hope so! I find her one-dimensional face super annoying..
I think this is beneath Gisele and even Candice. Probably beneath Naomi too but we all know she invited herself to this and may have even showed up unannounced as soon as she heard there was an 'Icons' project in the making.
Lol at Hailey's number to make it seem like she does not have the shortest torso in the world. The amount of airbrushing on Paloma is also crazy. She does look as great as.. she can, but it just highlights how disingenuous these strategies are, there's no in-between and both sides are subjected to a type of conditional work that reminds you the change is superficial.. you either commit to the lifestyle that achieves a very specific body, and they'll leave little things like stretch marks or pores to make you relatable, or they'll hire you for being super relatable but airbrush the hell out of you for the aspirational effect.
Also think it's hilarious that despite the scandals, the amount of criticism and scrutiny they're still under, they still
don't get the memo and still think it's about the models and that if only they rearrange them differently, they might finally get out of their financial predicament
. Once they adopted the beauty pageant format to survive on public television (the
'it's my childhood dream and biggest professional ambition to walk the VS show in a thong! ' vs. the pre-2002
'we gathered the most sophisticated, unattainable high fashion models you will never see next door'), they dug their own grave and can't seem to understand the brand as anything other than a suspended-in-time, Miss Universe souvenir type of store, just look at those 3/4 cups from 2006, the stupid padding, the textures, the bands, the straps, the bottoms. There are so many amazing brands of lingerie and swimwear now and it's baffling they really think they can compete by recycling the same bra from 2002, 2008, 2012, 2018 and just changing the color and print. For what it's supposed to do (t-shirt bra, I assume), just go Skims...