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SI Swimsuit issue opinions

The web is talking about Elsa.
Okay, I don't know if Elsa Benitez has had work done (you know where). Don't care, if really.
It certainly looks like it! All a person has to do is look at her latest stuff, like SI, and some
past stuff, like the Pirelli Calendar (photos not hard to find over the net).
I was more commentating on, since I do believe she has had the surgery, that SI using her
doesn't help the stereotype on American men's magazine and what they care about - Big Breasts!
Though I'm sure SI isn't concern on "message". And why should it be? Honest! Not everything
has to be about activism. Things are allowed to be about just fun. There is WAY TOO MUCH
activism in fashion/fashion model used in men's magazines, anyway (and that's more than the
truth). Just I thought, for myself, Elsa looked just fine before the surgery (or puberty or stylist,
or whatever excuse one wants to say. I call it denial. I doubt it's puberty, at her age, or a
stylist's handiwork).
Years back, the web was all a buzz over Elsa. She was seen as the next big thing.
It never happened. Not to the degree people of that time were predicting.
So for her (Elsa) and those who invested their time in following her career, the Pirelli shoot
must of been good, and now this SI shoot and cover must be nice for them to see (and Elsa).
But in my eyes, it wasn't Elsa but her breasts (or American PC politics) that got her the cover.
I just think she's undeserving of it. You'd think it's like a kick in teeth for the other models and
maybe even the photographers, and assistants.

Here's an observation I'll ask you. Is Michelle Behennah wearing a bikini that looks exactly like
one she wore (painted on) in last year's SI? Sneaky, if so (Someone let me know).

But seriously, and honestly. Congratulations to all the models in this year's SI.

+ McQueen goes back to childhood
thisislondon - McQueen goes macabre
+ Fall 2001: Sublime, perverse McQueen
TradeWeave - McQueen's Fall 2001, w/ photos
+ Spiral of the grotesque winds up fashion stakes
Guardian Unlimited - Investors want results for their hard earned invested $, £, ¥, €
+ Very Prada, very Miu Miu' - restyle for Scout uniform thrills fashionistas
Guardian Unlimited - New Scouts uniforms
+ Behind the scenes at the museum
Guardian Unlimited - A day through the eyes of model Vivien Solari
+ Fashion or Theater? London's Designer Debate
Yahoo! - Clothes you can wear vs. clothes for show. (London's identity crisis?)
+ Fashion victims
Guardian Unlimited - Naomi was banned from Voyage store.
+ Dressing for the downturn
economist - As America's economy slows, business casual is proving rather too casual.
+ Green mini predicted for Milan
thisislondon - Milan's fashion week predictions: Micro-mini, 'bum-freezer' skirts.
+ Cindy Crawford pregnant
peoplenews - model to have second child.
+ Meet Karl's heir
TradeWeave - Jeremy Scott's future at Chanel?
+ Live from New York - A Brawl!
pagesix - Calvin's daughter Marci Klein can be very rude.
+ It's a Clothes Call On Fashion Winners
NY Daily News - A review on outfits worn in the Grammy.

SI Swimsuit issue opinions

Just flipped through the SI 2001 issue. Pretty good! Better photos than the website ones.

Here are some of your comments:

(1 ) On Elsa having the cover
"I agree with you about the implants - don't like 'em myself, but don't be too hard
on Elsa - she's really pretty, don't ya think? And she seems to be a really nice girl, too".

(2) Reaction to SI online, by a photographer
" I think Terry Richardson should have shot them all. Robert Erdmann's pictures for
this issue are pretty boring. None of the photographers is anywhere near what Terry
Richardson is doing currently and that with such simple equipment. Fernanda Tavares
is great again and Yamilia RULES! She's a god example of a good model. You (the photographer)
just cannot shoot a bad picture of that girl. Amy Wesson is a great model, I like her D&G ads
and her commitment to modeling, but I don't think this shoot is her best one. I regret the
breastjob of Elsa Benitez. She was a very promising model and now she just one of the
rest, or maybe even less".

(3) On Amy Wesson
"I've never seen Amy Wesson in any photo where I though she was attractive.
But these photos are hot! I wouldn't call it a comeback, more of a coming out.

(4) SI online thoughts, by a fellow site webmaster
"Good to see the Ralph Klein banner up at your site :)"
"As for the issue, I think its just plain boring. Lifeless models with blank stares.
"Just look and see how few photos actually show the model with a nice smile (I want
to see some *teeth* dammit!). When I think back to the glory days of SI you had the
SI-only models. They had curves and a personality. They were the type of model who
you'd never find in some drab ad for Yves Saint Laurent. Heidi Klum is a SI model,
Amy Wesson is not. Most men upon seeing Amy will undoubtedly ask what drug
she's on, and they're probably not far from the truth. I won't even get into idea that men
buy this magazine to see half-naked models, *not* swimsuits, staircases, church bells,
or whatever else the photographer thinks is more important (or 'artistic') than sexy babes.
Anyway, I guess someone likes that crap!"

(4b) later, same person, after seeing the issue
"I saw the SI issue today. Some much better stuff in there including
Kim Lemanton looking fine. This might just change my mind about the issue"

SI Swimsuit issue opinions

Cover: Don't like. The fact a model who has had a breast job I think it a
real slap in the face on women. Also helps stereotype USA men's taste in
women, silicon over style or substance

Magazine overall (from judging from the online version of it):
Not too bad. Might buy the issue? Interesting how the trend is less
"American model" and more "world-wide Vogue model". Amy Wesson
and Fernanda have the best shoot, I thought.

Model shoots (out of 3 stars)

Amy Wesson *** (a great comeback!)
Aurelie Claudel *1/2 (pretty, but doesn't suite SI)
Daniela Pestova *1/4
Elsa Benitez *1/2
Fernanda Tavares ***
Heidi Klum **
Josie Maran *1/2
Lujan Fernandez 3/4*
Michelle Behennah **
Molly Sims *
Noemie Lenoir **1/4
Shakara Ledard *1/2
Shirley Mallman **1/4
Veronica Verekova **
Yamila Diaz-Rahi *3/4

+ Fall 2001: Matthew Williamson's true fashion victims?
TradeWeave - Watch your head. It's the Matthew Williamson show
+ The Pace of Beauty
FWD - At an Arena mag shoot
+ Models Are Smarter Than Actresses
Slate - It's all about magazine covers
+ Tansky Appointed CEO of Neiman Marcus Group
pagsix/FWD - Burton Tansky now CEO of The Neiman Marcus Group
+ Bad Boys Always Win: McQueen Named British Designer of the Year
pagesix/FWD - McQueen, British Designer of the Year
+ Hugo Boss Profits Skyrocket 93 Percent
pagesix/FWD - Huge profits!
+ Shark Nearly Feast on Vogue Beauty
pagesix - Carmen Kass gets to close to some sharks at a photo shoot
+ What Katie did next
UK Telegraph - Britain's top stylist. Pop's 2nd issue inspired by a New Order album cover
+ Elizabeth's a model daughter
thisislondon - London Fashion Week: Mick and Jerry Hall's kid
+ Macdonald delivers the glitz
thisislondon - London Fashion Week: Macdonald
+ One glamorous fashionable night
thisislondon - Versace's bash
+ The wild ones
UK Telegraph - Shock valur tailoring, conceptual modernist, vintage couture,
cutting edge, shape and structure, king of salvage - London Fashion Week
+ Mia: Wild Child
pagesix - Plus size model, Mia Tyler (Aerosmith, Steven Tyler's other daughter),
poses nude for Nerve magazine
+ NewYork - anything goes as designers find the past perfect
UK Telegraph - More on this past NY Fashion Week
+ Claudia: Midget Magnet
pagesix - Nude midget takes a ride to Claudia's place (now that's just weird)

SI Swimsuit 2001
Covergirl is Elsa Benitez!

+ Fall 2001 London Fashion Week (photos)
style.com - Photos ongoing this week
+ more Fall 2001 London Fashion Week (photos)
Yahoo! - Photos ongoing this week
+ Eye candy - runway video from New York (video)
TradeWeave - Videos of NYC's Fall 2001 runway shows
+ To the Bax: Kylie Bax talks about being NAKED (real audio, ms media)
Eyada - The Big Show interviews Kylie Bax (February 15th's show)

• Tepp scans
° Sierra - Paciotti Ad - scan here

• BWGreyscale scans
° Lida Egorova - Italian Elle 10/00 - scan here

• CanSen scans
° Adriana Lima - Tear Sheet 2-3/01 - scan here
° Nina Brosh & Michelle Behennah - French Photo - scan here

+ Modelle's fashion editorials - New look
+ Celebritynet - Updated - Galleries, Patsy Kensit
+ Rushen Girlz - Updated - Pavlova sisters, Audrey Thcekhova, Colette Pechekhonova
+ Winds from the Far East - Updated: Covers, Erin Wasson, May Andesen, and more
+ Nina Moric Tribute - New site
+ Faces Café - Updated + new look - Angela Lindval, Ana Claudia

* Don't forget to let Fashist! know about your fashion sites. (Sites to be mention are subject
to approval. In other words, no site that are more Celeb/Porn/Crummy/non-fashion mag models)

SI Swimsuit 2001

Girls I know of in it so far,
Kim Lemanto, Heidi Klum, Aurelie Claudel
+ Photos of Heidi Klum, Aurelie Claudel
ET - Greece photoshoot

• 7Models scans
° Veronica Blume - Elle, Spanish 11/00 - scan here
° Magali Amadei - Elle, Spanish 11/00 - scan here

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° Michelle Ferrara - The Fashion No.1 (Aut/Win 00) - scan here

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° Gisele, Carmen Kass, Frankie Rayder- Bazaar, USA 9/00 - scan here
° Karolina Kurkova - Chocolate, SS 1/01 - scan here
° Ana Claudia Mitchels - Versace eyewear 2000 - scan here
° Gisele Bundchen, Carmen Kass - Vidcaps - scan here

Magazine Reviews by me, hsb

· Playboy, March 2001 (Kylie Bax) 1/2* - review here
· Stockholm New number 10 ***3/4 - review here
· US Vogue, February 2001 **3/4 - review here
· W, February 2001 ** - review here

+ Kylie Bax in Playboy (photo, cover, video)
playboy.com - Kylie Bax's Playboy issue is out.
A photo, a video, her own cover, and she talks about how much she likes having sex

(Carmen Kass might of won VH-1 and Vogue's award for model of the year.
But Fashist! picked its comeback model of 2000 as its overall winner. Karen Elson)

+ The 'freak', c'est chic
UK Telegraph - Once thought as the ugly model. Beautiful Karen Elson talks about her
life and her career so far. She's at the top of the modeling world and she quit smoking too
+ The chic freak (March 1998)
UK Telegraph - 'Too fat' for Milan, Karen Elson earns £10,000 a day
+ Model is too fat for Milan (March 1998)
UK Telegraph - Is Karen Elson's career over?
+ From teenage 'freak' to Chanel girl (July 1997)
UK Telegraph - Introducing Karen Elson