The Lost Generation: models

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Lindsay Lohan goes 90's Kate Moss?

In the latest issue of Italian magazine MUSE, Lohan did a spread in spirit of the late/ great realationship between Kate Moss and Johnny Depp that ended in 98'. I love Lindsay despite the hated backlash, who really cares what she does away from her "job". The spread is pretty racy, and insinuates a 3 some? what what? Well I think it's pretty hot, but really could they have used any more ciggarettes? I'm really becoming disturbed with the over-use of that theme in fashion spreads, but touche ! I guess I dont read all those trendy mags anyways.

...Lindsay & friends

Photographer Yu Tsai told Page Six: “I was always fascinated by Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, and when I asked Lindsay to do a shoot, she jumped at the chance. It was all about her being sexy, channeling Kate from the ’90s. When I suggested adding another girl, Lindsay invited Sofia.

“The three of them were very sensual and provocative, but Lindsay understands this piece was created not for any sensational value other than artistic integrity,” Tsai said. “There was never a discussion about pushing the boundaries. She was totally comfortable with the nudity as long as it had artistic integrity. "

“When you see her nipple, it just happened in the moment. She was playing the role of Kate Moss — you’re at a party and you are with a guy you really love and another girl.

“She is stunning and radiates in the pictures. Lindsay is incredibly focused where it comes to her career and fashion is her passion. It’s raw, it’s exposed, this is her at her best. She told me: ‘I want to make this iconic.”

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Nylons ,stockings, Suggestive ads, Sex has always been in Style.

::Classy vintage pin ups to the sexually exuberant fashion scene of today.::

Many pin ups were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols.
One of the most popular early pin-up girls was Betty Grable.

Here she is in the famous shot of her in a bathing suit, this was most likey to be caught "pinned" up on the wall of any soilder in WWII.

Her legs, were famously insured for 1,000,000$ (at the time that was a lot of money. )

A vintage pin up girl was a woman whose pulchritude would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall.The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented as going back at least to the 1890s.

30s and 40s pin up style art work.

An Alberto Vargas.

He was a famously noted artist back in the 1930s-40s era. depicting images of lovely pin up models.

Of course, I had to include here the beautiful Bettie Page, probably the most imitated and adored pin up from the 50's. Stockings, smiles and S & M remind me of Bettie Page, too bad she became a nun not too long after her she became one if not the first pin up/fetish queen.

Bettie Page, wound up and gaged? Yes please.

1950's

Wonder who these women were inspired from? Lets see not as cunning or controversial

but well adored, I give you the Gibson girl, this girl your grandfather could tell you a few things about.

The Gibson Girl was the creation of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson at the turn of the 20th Century. The Gibson Girl personified the ideal woman of the 19th and early 20th century. She was tall, slender, and big bosomed.

Marilyn Monroe.

And the 60's.?

Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll (how many times have you heard that phrase?)

During this period most of the female sex icons were in film , few models in the 60's were projected as sex symbols.

Elke Sommer

The gorgeous film star was also one of the most popular pin-up girls of the sixties, and posed twice for Playboy.

"The red scarf"

circa 1970's

Kate Moss, a clip from a fashion magazine

The 90's brought us Kate Moss, and Calvin Klein Ads..and oh yeah... a culture (slightly recovered) from the free-love and drug fests of the 60's-- Still, sex in fashion advertising, started being exercised more than ever.

Now, we are typically considered the generation of the world wide web. Contray to earlier times, sex in fashion has not always been so prominent as today, whether it is slightly suggestive or up in your face.