Announcements: Slowly(!!) catching up on updates..

November 30, 2002

Hi everyone.
Just an update to let you know what's up with the lack of updates.

I've been swamped still with various things. Its prevented me to find the time to do updates. Here's hoping December won't be the same. Though I'm thinking of changing this site's appearance? It's something I've thought of doing for some time. If so, then the archives for awhile would be in the old format.

Overall things on the web seem to be about the same, fashion wise. Usual sites updating, etc. The Fashist!Forums, as always a great source for magazine updates, occasional scans, and fashion news and thoughts from the buyer of magazines (consensus seems to be a tiring of allot of the stuff being thrown out. Magazines seem to be out of touch. Hoping one "cool" cover or use of a well known model can cover it up. (I think handing out some pink slips and looking for new people for a new direction is in order). Lucire is celebrating its 5th year.

On Usenet (easynews) bit more to say.

alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels - lots of scans, current ones from 3-4 scanners can be found just about every week. alt.binaries.pictures.victoria.secret has VS scans and a couple movies of the recent CBS Victoria's Secrets TV show special, in it.

The Victoria's Secret Fashion show, on CBS, tied for 44th place, with a 7.2 (10.5 million viewers in North America). The US TV trend has certainly change. November here in North America is a "sweeps" month. That's month when TV networks throw out the big stuff to get the highest ratings. Then with the ratings from sweep months, they go to advertisers and ask for more money. The trend once was that specials, like the VS show, brought in bigger ratings. Not anymore. Viewers seem to just want to watch the shows they normally enjoy. The VS show came in 3rd place, after the other networks' usual shows. The Bachelor's finale (ABC) and Westwing (NBC) beat it conveniently, with a 16.3 and a 10.2, respectively. CBS' news show, 60 Minutes 2, from a week before, even got a higher viewership than the VS special. But got half the viewership the same week as the VS show (60 Mins 2 was on before the VS show). CBS is spinning it, saying the show got a big "young males" audience. Which I doubt! Yes guys love to watch pretty girls in little bits of clothes, but... it's VS and on American television! I'm sure if a 13 year old boy wanted a "skin" fix that night, then he was surfing the web...

I realize it's just filler for CBS. So I don't blaime them. I can only guess VS is hoping for bragging rights. "We were on America's #1 TV network!". Too bad there target audience was elsewhere. Too bad for the sucker advertisers! You got played... (hey, to the advertisers of the VS show. If you want to toss away money. Why not not toss some my way. I'll at least reach your target audience ;-) ).

I'm still swamped with non-Fashist stuff. I hope to finally not be soon! In the meantime, visit the Forums :-)

• Fashist!Forum: Discussion
• Fashist!Forum: Information

- Articles and news on the Victoria's Secret
- articles on Gisele Bundchen

• The Victoria Secret's show, on CBS November 20th
(They should of saved this for the Spring, during re-run season. Current US TV trends show "November Sweeps Special" shows aren't as welcomed as familiar favourite shows. CBS has too many top shows on Thursday night to waste its viewer's time on some edited PG-rated lingerie show... though someone on my forum mentioned a anti-fur crazy idiot jumped the stage with anti-Gisele signs... what a loser peta is. Hopefully they won't edit it out. Now if only Russel Crowe could of been in the crowd to start a fight. Then it'd be a MUST SEE show. Girls in underwear and a drunk Kiwi beating up anti-fur crazies.... sounds like an Emmy award winner to me)

+ Photos from the Victoria's Secret fashion show (photos)
Yahoo! - It's VS lingerie, Brazilian models, and Anti-fur nazis all on the stage
+ Victoria Secrets slideshow (photos)
Yahoo! - It's VS lingerie, Brazilian models

• Pirelli 2003
MSN.fr - This year's Pirelli has abandon its "new" direction from last year of no nudity. Emphasis is back on sexy (then why are they using Sophie Dahl?)
+ Discussion at F!Fd

photographer: Bruce Weber
models: Heidi Klum, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Bridget Hall, Filippa Hamilton, Sienna Rose Miller, Lisa Seiffert, Jessica Miller, Natalia Vodianova, Isabeli Fontana, Yamila Diaz- Rahi, Maria Carla Boscono, Sophie Dahl and Enrico Lo Verso, Tomasino Ganesh, Stephan Ferrara, Ajay Lamas, Marcelo Boldrini, Rania Raslan, Alessandro Gassman, Jak Krauszer