tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post989662856684894517..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Death knell of the model phenomenon, as Victoria's Secret ends the Angelsagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-33113344836128420792021-06-24T06:34:22.536-04:002021-06-24T06:34:22.536-04:00Trump guys 2016: We have to shut down Muslim immig...Trump guys 2016: We have to shut down Muslim immigration / Build the wall<br /><br />Trump guys 2020: tfw no MENA baddie / thicc Latina gf<br /><br />NB: Still excludes men. It's strictly a Baddies With Phatties program.<br /><br />Regarding these remarks from Aimee:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1407990603632181250agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-53733030399274120752021-06-20T12:37:04.076-04:002021-06-20T12:37:04.076-04:00It was Patrick Demarchelier who shot the Janet Jac...It was Patrick Demarchelier who shot the Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover! That really proves the point, using the top name in fashion / model photography at the time (or really, ever since), instead of someone known for tour documentaries, photojournalism, advertising, or pornography.<br /><br />That truly was the beginning of the end for models, unless someone can find an earlier instance of such a high-profile image of a non-fashion celeb being shot by a prestigious photographer from the fashion industry.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-58536155575917065662021-06-20T12:27:25.290-04:002021-06-20T12:27:25.290-04:00Trying to remember the last model I was aware of -...Trying to remember the last model I was aware of -- Yamila Diaz-Rahi, an early 2000s model from Argentina (3/4 Spanish, 1/4 Lebanese... some aspects of your tastes never change).<br /><br />Can't remember how I found her, though she did appear in Sports Illustrated's website, and one of the lad mags. Models were not just inspirational figures for women, at least some of them were to get guys horned up as well. I recall Brazilian models Adriana Lima and Ana Beatriz Barros being in lad mags back then. As in the general picture, Gen X was the last gen to be famous models, regardless of their age.<br /><br />I was looking for someone to place in the background of my computer screen at a repetitive summer job, located in a SMALL basement-level room with no windows. I needed something -- someone -- to cheer me up, keep my company, and validate me. One hot chick, coming up.<br /><br />It's just like the pin-up models of older days, or the posters / magazine tear-outs placed on a teenage guy's room. Not strictly for horny stimulation (that was what your own imagination was for, or porn in recent decades). The model was a motivation to keep at your goals, in order to one day win a trophy gf or wife like her.<br /><br />Already by the '90s, the posters of scantily clad babes in Spencer's at the mall began including celebs from non-model backgrounds. I remember my little brother having a gigantic poster of Mariah Carey, from one of her late '90s album covers. Showing skin, looking flirtatious, but nothing pornographic.<br /><br />I think the ground-zero for that was the Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover from 1993 (right as cocooning is starting), where she's topless and an unseen dude behind her is reaching around to cup her booba. Shot in B+W, clearly meant to look like an "artsy fashion shoot," not how singers had been presented before. Later blown up into a poster to buy at Spencer's as well, or maybe you just ripped off the cover of the mag itself and pinned that up.<br /><br />It was not simply "I like her music, and also she's hot -- two reasons to put up her poster". That had always been there, more so for teen girls putting up posters of hot rock dudes. This was shifting things more toward the singer as a replacement of the model, and her music was secondary or irrelevant. I mean, it's Mariah Carey -- I guess her songs are OK, but look how hot she is, what else is there to understand about why I'm putting her poster up on the wall?<br /><br />But unlike the model, who could excite your imagination more because she was more of an unknown quantity, the non-model celeb was more of a cosplay wish fulfillment scenario. You already knew so much about her, it left less room for curiosity and filling in details of the story by yourself.<br /><br />Back to that depressing basement computer room, there was also a stretch where I put up pictures of Penelope Cruz on the screen. Just following the trend of actresses replacing models, although in the early 2000s I was still 50/50 models / celebs.<br /><br />I knew *of* models after that, like the ones who appeared on the early seasons of Project Runway. But they were not big models who everyone knew, who were in major campaigns, and who guys pinned up on their wall -- or computer screen background, at any rate.<br /><br />Then by the 2010s, it was completely over. Emily Ratajkowski as "the hot chick from the Blurred Lines video," I guess, but again that's not an enduring presence in the media / entertainment world. Not like appearing in multiple places, not meant to be a mysterious alluring figure you imagine things about -- more quasi-pornographic (especially in the unedited video).agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com