Vogue Paris December 2002/January 2003 : Gisele Bündchen by Mario Testino

[VogueGirl8910]

"Noel au Soleil"
Model: Gisele Bündchen
Photographer: Mario Testino
Stylist: Carine Roitfeld
Hair: Marc Lopez
Makeup: Tom Pecheux
Manicure: Brenda Abrial




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[VogueGirl8910]

"Dans les bras d'Helena"
Model & Star: Helena Christensen and Norman Reedus with they son Mingus
Photographer: Mario Testino




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[Melancholybaby]

Embrasse Moi Jessica
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Model: Jessica Miller


theseventh.com via Jacque Marcel

 

[Bernie Flood]

Embrasse Moi Jessica
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Model: Jessica Miller


theseventh.com via Jacque Marcel

Was this by EA?

 

[Melancholybaby]

Was this by EA?

I'm not too sure tbh. I can check my physical copy when I visit my parents later this month if no one else has confirmed by then.

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^99% sure it was by EA as the stylist assistant was Veronique Didry. She only assisted EA before being fashion editor later on.

 

[Lola701]

^99% sure it was by EA as the stylist assistant was Veronique Didry. She only assisted EA before being fashion editor later on.

Jessica Miller as a model with Terry Richardson as a photographer is already telling…
Jessica was her Daria before Daria lol

 

[Melancholybaby]

Jessica was her Daria before Daria lol

So true! Jessica disappeared from VP right as Daria made it onto the scene! A bit sad in a sense Jessica walked so Daria could run.

 

[vogue28]

Jessica Miller by Terry Richardson is 100% styled by Emmanuelle Alt, just checked my physical copy and had a lovely trip down memory lane in the process. Always loved Jessica Miller on the pages of Vogue Paris and then of course Daria Werbowy. Othilia Simon gives me baby Daria vibes, so loved the few times Othilia graced the pages of VP too!

 

[Bernie Flood]

So true! Jessica disappeared from VP right as Daria made it onto the scene! A bit sad in a sense Jessica walked so Daria could run.

Jessica Miller was a star in Europe and I don’t think she ever even had an editorial for American Vogue

 

[Lola701]

So true! Jessica disappeared from VP right as Daria made it onto the scene! A bit sad in a sense Jessica walked so Daria could run.

They favor each other a bit no? I find it funny that Jessica was a Chloe girl under Phoebe and Daria was a Celine woman under Phoebe as well…

She had a weird career tbh. She was really the model of I&V or Terry R. So I never felt like she expressed any type of versatility.

She was a VP regular but she never fronted the big campaigns the regular of the magazine got. And I don’t remember her being linked with a big, game-changing designer of that era.

 

[MulletProof]

^ She was super hyped up in the US. She had that major Calvin Klein contract and there were articles everywhere online (style, models.com, etc) and in printed publications (Bazaar, etc) on how she was the next big thing and basically the new Kate Moss (because.. CK).

I loved her, but she was a part of a not-so-lucky small wave of models that got caught in between a shift from the hype of the Brazilians (1998-2002) to the rise of the more puritanical doll-like models (2004-2007). Jessica Miller, Eugenia Volodina, Louise Pedersen, Filippa Hamilton and initially Natalia Vodianova, they were all lumped into the same group and had a kind of dark & mysterious vibe to them and were quite sexualized. They were in every show and expectations were high. W October 2002 even presented them as the new supermodels. US Bazaar did feature all of them regularly but I think Jessica and Louise, just like Susan Eldridge (also popular then), did some very risky, NSFW type of work abroad and had 100% 'bad girl' reputations (Susan was dating Terry and did some really raunchy work, and Jessica was a part-time groupie- dating the Incubus guy and the System of a Down guy around 2003), which kept them from ever representing the more conservative US Vogue values (lol) and I think that did it for their careers. Next thing you know Natalia 'snatched' the coveted CK contract, Vogue did a 180 on her image (her debut in an American publication [Bazaar May 2002 by Sorrenti], vs. the Alice in Wonderland story in 2003 and the Cinderella narrative is worlds apart), and Filippa became a Ralph Lauren model.

I don't think Jessica was impacted by Daria's quick rise at all. Terry wasn't even that influential. I'm not a model agent but you probably do need to forecast changes in the industry and make choices accordingly and I think the work she did prevented her from branching out into the next era and into the one market that can secure your career (the US) with Vogue, the beauty contracts and all that.

 

[Melancholybaby]

^ She was super hyped up in the US. She had that major Calvin Klein contract and there were articles everywhere online (style, models.com, etc) and in printed publications (Bazaar, etc) on how she was the next big thing and basically the new Kate Moss (because.. CK).

I loved her, but she was a part of a not-so-lucky small wave of models that got caught in between a shift from the hype of the Brazilians (1998-2002) to the rise of the more puritanical doll-like models (2004-2007). Jessica Miller, Eugenia Volodina, Louise Pedersen, Filippa Hamilton and initially Natalia Vodianova, they were all lumped into the same group and had a kind of dark & mysterious vibe to them and were quite sexualized. They were in every show and expectations were high. W October 2002 even presented them as the new supermodels. US Bazaar did feature all of them regularly but I think Jessica and Louise, just like Susan Eldridge (also popular then), did some very risky, NSFW type of work abroad and had 100% 'bad girl' reputations (Susan was dating Terry and did some really raunchy work, and Jessica was a part-time groupie- dating the Incubus guy and the System of a Down guy around 2003), which kept them from ever representing the more conservative US Vogue values (lol) and I think that did it for their careers. Next thing you know Natalia 'snatched' the coveted CK contract, Vogue did a 180 on her image (her debut in an American publication [Bazaar May 2002 by Sorrenti], vs. the Alice in Wonderland story in 2003 and the Cinderella narrative is worlds apart), and Filippa became a Ralph Lauren model.

I don't think Jessica was impacted by Daria's quick rise at all. Terry wasn't even that influential. I'm not a model agent but you probably do need to forecast changes in the industry and make choices accordingly and I think the work she did prevented her from branching out into the next era and into the one market that can secure your career (the US) with Vogue, the beauty contracts and all that.

Thank you so much @MulletProof for providing much needed context and putting things in perspective as always. Never thought of it that way (was a preteen in 2002 and not from the US) but I remember seeing those very sexualised Mario Sorrenti shot eds of Natalia from back then and then her getting married, and that 180 rebranding happened straight afterwards (if I read that grating fruit stand on a street market story one more time...).

OT, your post made me dig W's October 2002 issue out of my old bookcase. Spent a good hour flipping through it, while sipping iced coffee. Lazy Sunday morning bliss.

 

[MulletProof]

^ You're welcome!

Natalia was actually already married and with her son when she began working with Sorrenti, before American Vogue took her under its wing. I remember reading an interview where she said she had some kind of health issue after giving birth and couldn't stop shedding weight and that the way her career started picking up when nobody had paid much attention to her before her son and when she was healthier made her more depressed. That rebranding sucked because she was actually a fantastic model that I would've loved to see in more, non-Vogue publications and shows (she only walked CK for years after that). But I think she did the best out of her circumstances.. without getting too wild into speculations, I also think her lack of success initially pushed her into that 'dreamy' marriage out of desperation.. it sounds (from the stories over the years) that she was the kind of 'less than a runway filler' type of model in Paris that get sent to parties to cater to not-so-good-looking older, rich men.. which to me explains the way she dumped him years later (overnight, no mercy, that pre-30s moment when you realise Prince Charming is actually a gigantic loser in his 30s who chases after underage models in need).

(how's that for lazy Sunday gossip? ☕️).