For those of you who have seen a lot of models in person, who would you say was the most striking and who the least?
Certain models look to me like they just wear makeup really well (without it they wouldn't be so special), while others I can tell probably look great in person but aren't exceptionally photogenic.
Uhmmm, I'd say it depends a little on what kind of striking you're referring to. I must say I found a lot of models rather better looking in person (I mean more often better looking, than worse looking) and I found really many incredibly charismatic. Aymeline Valade comes to my mind here, she's got such a strong presence (I once even saw her just walking down the street), and, this summer, Steffy Argelich whom I hadn't really had on my radar until then. Aymeline also IMO looks kind of softer in real life, if that makes sense. And I never got Arizona Muse until I saw her in person. Also Diana Moldovan looks really beautiful, while in pictures you might overlook her sometimes, I'd say.
Then a lot of those Paris high fashion models have those extremely rare proportions (I'M not just refering to what we're not allowed to talk about, but also literally "proportions") and very strong facial features. THis does not sound very surprising, but I actually found it a lot more remarkable when I saw them in perseon. And they are often still wearing the make-up after the show, and have all attention focused on them, which makes them really striking, even if many people on the street may not find them very pretty.
This makes me think of another thing: those tourists (often German-speaking...) who happen to bump into a fashion week crowd really love to stop and complain how stupid all that was and how "ugly" all the girls looked, but I occasionally heard them say something like "ok, this one for a change looks really gorgeous" and I remember it was the case with Larissa Hofmann, Melissa Tammerijn and that red-haired girl named Anastasia (I can't think of her last name right now). Also I saw Grace Bol leave a show and I was kind of speechless because she looked so gorgeous and then someone next to me was like "OMG you look beautiful!".
Don't know if this belongs to this question but when I saw Lily Donaldson for the first time I was a little surprised because her face looked really - well - special. I somehow had thought she was more "conventionally" beautiful, IMO she's a mix of beautiful and a little elfish-strange (which is a good mix
).
The least striking..., I think I was never "disappointed" by someone I had liked from pictures, but during last year I did not care that much for many of the very young girls, but it's probably due to their age. I don't know if it's fair to say names here, but when you see them in person you notice how young they really are, which makes me feel a little awkward. Also a celebrity-model comes to my mind (not Kendall) but I had never found her that good looking in pictures and moreover think she's not quite that kind of girl that people would describe as "oh so beautiful".
