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+ (new) US Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 *** by Mary
+ (new) US Harper's Bazaar 12/2001 **1/2 by HSB (alt. review)
+ (new) US Elle 12/2001 *** by Lumon
+ Brazil Vogue 11/2001 **** by Lumon
+ Russian Vogue 11/2001 ** by Olga
+ W 12/2001 *** by MirBoris
+ Portugal Elle 11/2001 ** by Zyanna
+ Stockholm New no.11 2001 *** by hsb

(more reviews at bottom and side of this page)

+ January issue of Fashion magazine of Japan reviews
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by Takayu
+ French Vogue December
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by Xav (with scan)
+ Citizen K International review
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by Koka
+ Interview December review
Fashist!Forum - Reviewed by bULL

+ The Web Fashion magazine Awards 2001
bULL/various webboards - A magazine award by a fan for fans
+ The 2001 La Perla (picts)
Lookonline - Photos from the latest La Perla show held in NYC
+ Swiss fashion (photos)
Fashionshow.ch - Images from Gwand, Transvision
+ Model of the Week: Shalom Harlow
AskMen -Shalom, overall 77 out of 100
+ Brazilian fashion and models news
Modelito - Lots of new news
+ Victoria Secrets fashion show review
Zob - Zob of Supermodels in the House, reviews VS
(Heard on TV, CTV Newsnet, that half of the complaints on the VS shows by "certain groups", were made Before the actual show. This definetly smells like the work of the PTC. If you enjoy fashion and don't want special interest to prejudge and get banned fashion of any sort on American television. You really should write a polite letter to the PTC and tell them you won't stand by and let them take away something you might enjoy. This special interest group has been succesful in its censorship.)

+ ABC, Victoria's Secret Cross the Line
PTC - A social conservative group which WILL take away your rights if you let them.
( You might want to write a polite letter to ABC and let them know that you did enjoy the VS show, if you did. Or let ABC know that you enjoyed them branching out into showing a fashion show, and maybe you want to tell them that they can be less conservative in the format)

+ Josie Maran's winter 2001 Sisley magazine photos (scans)
JosieMaran.co.uk - Terry Richardson photos
+ Gisele poses nude (picts)
Globo - Scans from December's W (she's nude but not naked)
+ Michael Zeppetello Photography (photos)
Zeppetello.com - Various photos, I think I see Kyle Bax
+ Swiss fashion (photos)
Fashionshow.ch - Images from Gwand (Design schools)

+ Victoria's Secrets special doesn't make Top 20 shows
Zap2it.com - According to Zap2it, who get their ratings from Neilsen, the VS special failed to make it into the top twenty shows watched last week. The Michael Jackson special was the third most watched show in the US.

+ UK Marie Claire 11, 2000 review
FMD - Reviewed by Paolo, with pictures
+ Italian Vogue 11, 2001 & Italian Glamour 11, 2001 reviews
Models et Mags - go to Reviews, reviewed by Cendres, with pictures

You picked a good day to check out fashion model sites. Good stuff

+ Wind from Far East - Updated, Clare Durkin, Kristina Tsirekenze, Missy Rayder, ads and covers, including the Karolina Kurkova Photo cover
+ Models et Mags - Updated, Vicky Andren
+ X-scans - New URL, updated recently, Aurelie & Maggie Rizer
+ Talytha Pugliesi and more - Catwalk and Karolina Kurkova picts
+ Modelle's - Updated daily, Natasha Vojnovic, Karolina Kurkova, more
+ Supermodels.it - Updated, Natasha Vojnovic, Fernanda Tavares
+ Estellaweb: Estella Warren - Updated
+ Colette Pechekhonova in The House - Updated
+ Supermodels in The House - Updated, Michelle Behennah, Marisa Miller
+ Rushen Girlz - Updated, Natalia Semanova
+ JosieMaran.co.uk - New site. Maybe the best Josie site I've seen

+ Gisele Bundchen in W (picts & article)
Style.com - See the photos from this month's W of Gisele
(Who's Gisele kidding. She's the poster child for cosmetic surgeries. As MP4 added to me: "I don't beleive what Gisele eat like a pig. I think it's lie since all Gisele sisters and mother aren't very skinny, so she doesn't have very skinny genes for sure." Yeah, why doesn't her twin have the same miricle genes then, hmmm? But enjoy the picts.)
+ Victoria's Secret - Fashion Show (picts & photos)
VictoriaSecrets.com - If you didn't waste your time to watch it, see what you didn't miss
+ Model of the Week: Ingrid Seynhaeve
AskMen - Ingrid Seynhaeve, overall 81 out of 100

The Walt Disney owned American TV network, ABC; which last night had a fashion model themed night, with models on the trivia gameshow, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and the Victoria Secrets show. Came in its usual 3rd place on Thursday nights. Millionaire got a 8.2, while the Victoria Secrets show got a 8.3.

* correction: Earlier I wrote Monday Night Football was the show ABC usually showed in the timeslot that VS was on. Obviously that's wrong. Monday is Monday, while Thursday is not. My fault, I was thinking of two things while writing this earlier. I guess the VS show took some viewership off UPN's Smackdown (pro-wrestling), near the end of its hour. Monday Football and WWF Raw are competitors on Moday nights for young males demographics 18-30. So I was thinking of that while typing the other. On regular Thursday nights. Millionaire is an hour later then when it was this week, and a low cost produced comedy show is on at the 9 pm hour usually, Who's Line Is It Anyways? I don't know what the usual rating is for the regular ABC Thursday night line-up at the moment, but it is 3rd place. Hence why its shows are low cost on that night.

To give you an idea to what ABC may of been hoping for (though I'm just guessing here). The Michael Jackson special the CBS network showed earlier this week, it got a 14.4 share, and won it's night. WWF Smackdown on Thursday got around a 4.5, which is on the low-end average for that show. So if ABC was hoping for a nice 3rd place, then I'd call it a success. Thursday night was won by NBC's Friends, it was on during Millionaire, got a 16.2. CBS' CSI won the hour the VS show was on with a 15.7.

I doubt the VS show cost much to produce. I hope the marketing of it wasn't expensive. This month being sweeps month. A month networks need high ratings for, to get higher ad revenue. I doubt the VS will crack the top 20 for the week, compared to last week's 20th most watched show (football) which had a 9.8 rating. The regular ABC Thursday night shows don't appear to crack the Top 20 shows of a week.

There are an estimated 102.2 million television households in the USA. A single ratings point represents 1%, or 1,022,000 households. Share is the percentage of television sets in use tuned to a specific program.
Source for ratings: Zap2it.com

I notced Tasha Tilberg is on the cover of Canada Elle., but not inside. Canadian magazines would be taken more seriously if THEY (the magazines themselves) took their editorials more seriously. Then Fashion in Canada might be taken seriously.

+ Victoria's Secret 2001 Fashion Show (photos)
Lookonline - Photos from the Victoria's Secret Show
+ The 7th Annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (picts)
WireImage - Picts from the show

+ Carmen Kass (photos)
dNet: Patrick Demarchelier Studio - "The Black Dress" from November Harper's Bazaar
+ Gwyneth Paltrow (photo)
dNet: Patrick Demarchelier Studio - November Harper's Bazaar cover with Gwyneth Paltrow
+ Bridget Fonda in H&M's 2001 lingerie shoot
Lucire - Bridget Fonda in H&M's 2001 lingerie shoot, photographed by Mario Testino

+ Modelito: Anna Hickman spotlight! Brazil bikinis & more
Modelito - Updated. Website currently having some DNS troubles. Use this URL ( http://63.111.23.91/ ) if you can't connect to its usual address.
+ Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2001 (photos)
Yahoo!/AP - To be broadcast tomorrow on American TV for the first time
+ Victoria's Secret fashion show preview (photos)
fashionfotos.com - Preview pictures
(Yeah as I suspected. Karen looks pretty good in VS, not sure what to make of the new hairstyle yet. Omahyra looks out of place. Why didn't they use Ana Claudia? Or Jeisa! She'd been perfect. Malgosia, Rayder sisters would of been nice choices too. Great color contrast with Alek. Knew she'd draw attention wearing it.)
+ Victoria's Secret's New Catalog (photos+video)
Extra - Heidi Klum and the rest in a preview

+ LVMH Sales Dropped 5% in October
NY Times (sign in) - LVMH says its sales in October fell by 5% from a year ago. Operating profits for the full year might be 15% lower than forecast.
(5% for October is minor considering everything. The 15% is thin ice. LVMH might want to save money by creating a Models Salary Cap, like they have in professional sports. That's a start in saving money. Cutting the usual pay for runway and ad champaigns by 20% would save too. Perhaps using up and coming photographers could save a euro too? I would NOT punish the team. The hard working employees who've put in their 9 to 5 plus overtime, every day. Don't slash the staff. But be pickier on the designers they buy out.)
+ The ex-directory: Maharishi
UK Telegraph - Camouflage chic
(If this camouflage look is a new trend in the UK, then I believe it originated in Japan. I remember hearing a story a month ago about how the Afganistan war has inspired a new trend in Japan. Camouflage pants and head scarfs. It's actually a non-political message. It's just a trend. No politics. Though unfortunely I could see some designers out there try to start a anti-American/Capitalism message in future designers. We'll see if any head scarf begin appearing in the near future)
+ Into the blue
UK Telegraph - A denim coat is this winter's hottest look. (w/ picts)
+ Christmas shopping without the crush
UK Telegraph - Want a department store all to yourself? Shop for bargains at Fenwick. Where the sales are (with photos)
+ Three stripes and you're in
The Age - Yohji Yamamoto
+ McQueen, Stella shop up New York
Pagesix - Both McQueen and Stella opening stores in New York
+ Get me Kate Moss!
Thisislondon - Article on Kate and her Rimmel contract
(What oh what will British fashion do when Kate Moss is gone? They shouldn't wait to find out. Time to drop her and move on. I'd suggest Liisa Winkler. Yay, I know, not British. Still, she has a look I think teenage girls would go for, without a unrealistic background that no little girl can live up too. Enough with the bluebloods.)
+ Victoria's Secret show going primetime
Pagesix - North American TV gets VS, story on it
+ La febbre del Moulin Rouge (Italian)
L'espresso - he fever of the Moulin Rouge
+ Pirelli has it covered
The Times - Pirelli calendar
+ French polish your hair
UK Telegraph - A French hair-painting method is taking Hollywood by storm

Tuesday's Victoria's Secret show line up.Also my rating for each one.

· Anouck Lepere. B, I'm sure she'll look fine in lingerie. I'm more than sure of that. Just I'm not sure if she was one of the better choices out there.
· Adriana Lima. A+, Adriana will look incredible.
· Alek Wek. B, Alek doesn't do anything for me, but she should draw enough attention to the underwear, in a good way
· Alessandra Ambrosio. A-, She's cute. Probably be more of a favorite with guys then with women.
· Audrey Marnay. C+, I realize she wants to show off her belly after having a kid. But unless her body has morphed. Audrey doesn't have a good lingerie or swimsuit body.
· Aurelie Claudel. A-, she'll look fine in it. Maybe even be a stand out?
· Bridget Hall. A-, Bridget is one of those women who looks better with underwear on to help lift and tuck away. She has more guy like hips. Fat seems to build up in those areas on her when she does gain some. Yet her legs remain skinny as always.
· Caroline Ribeiro. A-, I'm not a fan of her's, but she does have a nice body and is recognizable. So a good choice.
· Daniela Pestova. B+, she looks fine, but can she stand out anymore?
· Diana Meszaros. B+, should grab some attention
· Eva Herzigova. A+, Eva was made for lingerie.
· Fernanda Tavares. A, beautiful girl, made to model lingerie.
· Gisele Bundchen. A, say what you will of her but Gisele makes a good lingerie model. Some might argue she looks like a 14 year old boy with fake breasts and long hair. But she looks good in underwear.
· Heidi Klum. A, always a good choice with swimsuits or lingerie
· Ines Rivero. A, good safe choice.
· Karen Elson. A, some might be surprise with this choice. Not me. Have you ever seen Karen in some of her past Dutch and Numero editorials? She is cute in these sort of moments, you'll see.
· Karolina Kurkova. A, interesting choice. I think she's up to it.
· Maggie Rizer. C+, bad choice.
· Mini Anden. B+, breasts might be too small, but she'll probably do something about that. Even if she doesn't, she has a nice body and face.
· Molly Sims. B-, getting too old.
· Omahyra Moto. D, what an awful choice. VS branching out to transvestites? If they wanted a model who tends to be just as popular with girls as with guys, why not Malgosia Bela?
· Rhea Durham. A, I think she'll either go unnoticed or turn some heads (depends on how much time she gets and the lingerie she wears)
· Rie Rasmussen. B, not too familiar with her, but she should do fine.
· Trish Goff. A-, I think Trish will be a sleeper hit. Guys who've never seen her before will be asking who's that girl?
· Tyra Banks. A, no surprise with her. I guess it's the only way to get Oprah to buy some.

Wonder why they went with some of the more manly looking models. Omahyra Moto? VS hoping to break into the militant lesbian demographics? It's hosted by Rupert Everett. I sure hope he isn't in lingerie!

+ UK Elle November 2001 review (with picts)
FM board - Reviewed by Paolo
+ Harper's Bazaar November 2001 review
FMM board - Reviewed by bULL

+ ModelMania November'01
hintmag - New faces
(Not a good choice this month, but there's been worst ones. I'll go with Ryan Christi, of Elite, even though her nose is a tad big)
+ Model of the Week: Caroline Ribeiro
AskMen - Caroline Ribeiro, overall 86 out of 100
+ Spirit of lace (picts)
UK Sunday Times - Take a revealing look at a fantasy made flesh
+ Pirelli calendar 2002 (picts)
calendari-pirelli.it - Photos from the new waste of paper
+ Swiss fashion (picts)
Fashionshow.ch - Brazilian designer, Rodrigo Soares, Parisian couturier, Olivier Lapidus

It's here. Pirelli Calendar 2002: Beyond Nudity
It sucks. (My full comments at the end of today's update)

The 2002 Pirelli Calendar: Ode to Hollywood
by Peter Lindbergh

Models:
Cover - Lauren Bush
January - Erika Christensen
February - Amy Smart
March - Bridget Moynahan
April - James King
May - Shannyn Sossamon
June - Selma Blair
July - Kiera Chaplin
August - Brittany Murphy
September - Monet Mazur
October - Rachael Leigh Cook
November - Mena Suvari
December - Julia Stiles

+ Chic Happens: Fashion News and Gossip
Hintmag - November 7, BIG payday for Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole. and much more

+ Jennifer's butt is no bum deal
Thisislondon - Jennifer Lopez's bottom has started a booming industry in silicone buttock implants in the US.
+ JK Rowling wears G-strings! Bless
Thisislondon - Harry Potter author, JK Rowling visits Agent Provocateur
(I mention this story so I could just say: Who cares! Who cares what she wears under her clothes. I'm sure Mr.Rowling doesn't mind where she's been shopping.)
+ Robbie's bum deal
UK Vogue - Calvin Klein denies tabloid reports that UK pop musician Robbie Williams could be its next posterboy
+ Pure magic
Pagesix - Naomi Campbell and David Blaine
+ We hear... Frederique Van Der Wal
Pagesix - The "New York Central" show has a new correspondent
+ Hand-me-downs
Pagesix - Stylist Philip Bloch sets up a celebrity auction for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
+ Ego is back
Pagesix - Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter and Tina Brown

Pirelli Calendar 2002 comments: It sucks.

Peter Lindbergh says about the Calendar: "This is a little different from the previous Calendars. This time for Pirelli it's about the personalities of a carefully selected group of young Hollywood actresses and it's a lot of fun!

Pirelli: The main novelty elements for this year edition are represented by the choice of actresses instead of models who in true Pirelli style are tastefully clothed, giving the calendar a subtle and transparent elegance. Secondly, keeping up with current contemporary trends, Pirelli has also abandoned total nudity, no longer fashionable, to celebrate the beauty, personality, sophistication and aura, to create a masterpiece that will remain timeless.

As a friend commented to me on that:
Guess they haven't been watching American film...

Now if a magazine like Italian Vogue had said the above I really couldn't say what I'm going to say. Since after reading it a person could just roll their eyes and think "Typical guy.."

But since the Pirelli calendar was a calendar, a pin-up calendar, for guys. As its primary audience, or at least we were.

I want models! I don't want a bunch of actresses or model turn actresses. Especially if they're not willing to do A Real Pirelli calendar! If they are not willing to follow tradition. Then tradition is dead. The Pirelli calendar is just another calendar then. Nothing special. Oh wow, it has what's her face in a dress standing outside (zzzz). Oh wait, it's her in both a colour photo and a black and white photo, standing outside in a dress (zzzzz). You just know there's a rich British Lord, or Greek Count, or German Baron, out there working on his car. He was hoping for a real pin-up calendar to hang up on his garage wall, with hot models nude, yes nude inside. Now he's stuck with the Walt Disney pirelli calendar. Probably hung up beside his left-over dinner from two nights ago; in the trash can!

I thought certain European designers were alienating men with their stupid men's fashion ideas like the male lingerie. That idea is stupid. This calendar is an insult.

To my woman visitors. Would you like it if Playboy models ran around topless in Vogue? I bet the same percentage that said "No" is the same percentage of guys who are agreeing with me about this stupid calendar. We guys don't ask for much. Just the Pirelli Calendar, Victoria's Secrets catalogue and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. We ask that they're produced for us. Us guys who like to look at women (cause women are awesome!). I don't think that's too much to be asking for?

I'm sure someone will point out Pirelli is probably just kissing up to President Bush. Wanting him to hang their calendar on the wall, since it has his neice in it. I doubt Bush would fancy seeing his neice with her top off. If that's the case. Then maybe 2003 we'll get a real Pirelli calendar. Personally I don't care anymore. They've had too many sub-par, dumb themes, stupid ideas, crummy photographer with no vision, in a row.

I don't know know about you, but I've always prefer Goodyear tires. Or Bridgestone, Michelin, Yokohama. Maybe one of them is interested in doing a calendar?

Your comments on it?

I still have troubles believing that UK Rich list. How could Kristy Hume be the top model? I hardly saw her in anything. I kept reading stuff on Kate Moss. I saw Karen Elson in plenty of things. Where did Kristy get £3.65 million? Did she auction her hair on E-bay and some dork with a hair fetish buy it? Did she start up an oil rig on the coast of Norway? If she was the highest paid model in the UK, then I guess she was. I just wonder: How?

And my apologies to New York. I was so busy I didn't know there was a mayor election going on. At least the right guy won. Montreal's mayor's race... does it matter? It's obvious Toronto is the new fashion capital in Canada.

British Fashion folks' income from The Sunday Times Pay List
· Stella McCartney, #355, £15m - £1.5m in cash and the rest in shares (She sold to Gucci), with a £500,000 salary
· Alexander McQueen, #102, £50m in cash and shares and earnings of £5.75m

Nine fashion models earned more than £1.5m - the threshold for inclusion in this year's list.

· Kirsty Hume, #184, £3.65m
· Vivien Solari, #220, £3.16m
· Karen Elson, #240th, £2.75m
· Erin O'Connor, #251, £2.6m
· Lisa Ratliffe, #258, £2.55m
· Alek Wek, #286th, £2.4m
· Kate Moss, #435, £1.75m
· Jacquetta Wheeler, #458 (daughter of #37, Stuart Wheeler, the 66 year old founder of the IG Index spread-betting company, £11.1m), more than £1.5m
· Naomi Campbell, #480, £1.55m

· Elizabeth Hurley, who does cosmetic ads, #170, £3.94m
· The Spice Girls, except Posh Spice, were off the list

£1 = US$1.46, C$2.32, A$2.87, €1.61

Question: Are there ANY British models who don't happen to have a ultra-wealthy or famous parent, ancestor, or are blue blood??

+ Kylie Minogue strips down to her Agent Provocateur (picts)
UK Sunday Times - Kylie Minogue strips down to her Agent Provocateur for a new cinema ad, and photos of some of its current collection
+ Madonna and Beckham top the pay chart
UK Sunday Times - UK Pay list
+ Fashion's Rich list
UK Vogue - UK Pay list
+ Turlington Talks About Quitting
Yahoo!/AP - Christy Turlington talks about quitting smoking
+ Chosen one
Pagesix - Mark Wahlberg's romance with Rhea Durham probably over. Bebe girl Julia Ordon connection
+ Mick's Chicks
Pagesix - Was Sophie Dahl only a one night thing?
+ Iman slams fashion
UK Vogue - Iman's new autobiography. Calls modelling "inherently racist", even though it gave her a pretty good life
+ Planet Fashion: Gossip
UK Sunday Times - various gossip, not so interesting or old news