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The uber-babe from the Barbados. The R&B pop princess. The glam-rock style icon. The dusky fashion jewel. What more is there to say? In fact, not much at all, since I've just said it all. So let the pictures paint a thousand more words, if need be. I'm happy just to gaze and fantasize ... and replay. "Drive, she said," and I'm happy to take the wheel.

Here's the rest of her, in all her curvaceous, doey-eyed beauty, the one-and-only, Robyn Rihanna (pronounced Ree-yah-na) Fenty:

I love the black and white pic of her with the ripped jeans, I love the curved body with the blinds in the background, and I love the pic with the succulent behind her. But my favourite favourite is the one above with the toothpick in the mouth, the blonde fringe, and that cum-hither-but-you-can't-none look. That just gets my motor runnin'!

So it seems Robyn likes the odd piercing

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Susan Coffey

May 20th 2010 04:22

I love the mélange of glamour and fashion on an art bent, innocence and knowing, playing coy with mischievousness. Young American model Susan Coffey has it in spades. She’s the darling of the lens, the wardrobe mistress, every big model’s elusive envy. Damn she photographs well!

Susan Coffey is a 20-year-old student, and part-time model, although she aspires to modeling full-time, and I’m pretty sure she’ll be ubiquitous soon enough. She lives in Metuchen, New Jersey. It is her visage that is her calling card, those bewitchingly beautiful green eyes, and that fiery red hair (although she scrubs up gloriously as a blonde bombshell!).

It’s that New York sensibility that exudes through much of her modeling work that appeals so much to me; the girl next door, who just happens to be an angel with dirty wings. I’d love to see her in movies, although the track record for models that turn to acting and actually make it big is not that great. But hey, I’d be happy with a few indie appearances. I just wanna hear her sexy New Jersey drawl.

In the short time she’s been modeling she’s got an impressive portfolio, huge, in fact. I’ve selected my favourites, the ones that capture the most artistic aesthetic, or ones that show off those striking features so well. Mind you, it must be said, she’s got a very svelte figure that looks great in a black brassiere and black stockings!

Here she is, the fashion world’s newest modeling sensation: Susan Coffey!

Pretty young thing, ain't she? My arty favourite's are the autumn leaf, crossing the street, and on the subway train. My other favourites are the blonde in black underwear, the come hither in the bath, and the black and white striped top with the headlights on. This is one Big Apple girl I'd love to take a bite of.

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Miss Universe 2009 alternate finalists

August 28th 2009 04:14

I grew up watching Miss Universe with my father. He’d be illustrating away on his easel and I’d be glued to the television my adolescent hormones coursing through my lions. I remember Miss Venezuela winning in 1981. They’ve won the competition six times (the second highest after USA with seven wins). Puerto Rico has won five times, and Sweden three times. Miss Venezuela won last year and, setting a precedent, won again this year. Must be something in the water they drink.

I have a predilection toward the darker complexion and brunette hair colour. My lover is olive-skinned and a brunette. As they say, the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice. I’d agree with that. Although they also say blondes have more fun, and as a blond myself, I’d have to agree, but my eye will wander in the direction of a dusky jewel more often than a creamy strawberry or platinum bombshell.

I’ve decided to post my personal selection of finalists for this year’s Miss Universe, as they differ quite significantly from the official place winners, which were Fourth Runner-Up: Miss Puerto Rico - Mayra Matos Perez, Third Runner-Up: Miss Australia - Rachel Finch, Second Runner-Up: Miss Kosovo – Gona Dragusha, First Runner-Up: Miss Dominican Republic – Ada Aimee De la Cruz, and Miss Universe 2009: Miss Venezuela – Stefania Fernandez.

It’s rather curious how many Latin-esque darker beauties have dominated the finals in recent years. Even the countries that that are more famous for pure-bred blondes (ie some of the Scandanavian and Bavarian contestants) are parading mixed dark heritage. All good with me. My own selection certainly reflects this (with one very close crossover). I've also taken the liberty of including photos taken from their modeling careers. So without further adieu here they are:

4TH RUNNER-UP:
MISS EGYPT - ELHAM WAGDI

3RD RUNNER-UP:
MISS SWITZERLAND - WHITNEY TOYLOY

2ND RUNNER-UP:
MISS ECUADOR - SANDRA VINCES

1ST RUNNER-UP:
MISS NICARAGUA - INDIANA SANCHEZ

MISS UNIVERSE 2009:
MISS PUERTO RICO - MAYRA MATOS PEREZ

It was a tough call between Indiana and Mayra, but the island girl came out on top. Ms. Perez is one svelte foh-ox! So, my favourite pics would have to be; Whitney on the yacht, Mayra in her black swimsuit, Elham in her bikini, Indiana in her evening gown, and Mayra's emerald close-up. Go the mochachino flavour!

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Gia Carangi - session two

May 11th 2009 00:31

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Gia Carangi - session one

May 8th 2009 05:05

“Life & Death/energy & Peace/if I stoped today/it was fun” --- Gia (in her own words)

Gia Carangi was the first supermodel. She was also very likely the first female celebrity to die of AIDS. She was drop dead gorgeous, pun unintended. She enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame and success. She was a charismatic pansexual figure on the New York underground disco circuit and featured on the covers of all the influential fashion magazines. She was the darling of numerous respected fashion and art photographers. She died tragically in 1986 after becoming infected with HIV through her reckless use of intravenous drug-taking. She was 26-years-old.

Gia Marie Carangi was of Italian, Irish, and Welsh heritage. She began modeling at the age of 17 after moving from Philadelphia to New York City. She quickly rose to prominence and became popular among the eminent fashion photographers such as Francesco Scavullo, Arthur Elgort, Richard Avedon, and Chris von Wangenheim. She was the first model to make a name for herslef presenting unusual poses, facial expressions and gestures. She was credited by many at the upper echelons of fashion to have created a new style of modeling, emulated by models since then to the present. By 1978 she was fast becoming the hottest model in the world.

In October 1978, Gia did her first major shoot with top fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim. Wangenheim had her pose nude behind a chain-link fence with makeup assistant Sandy Linter. Gia immediately became infatuated with Linter. They were lovers, but the relationship was never stable enough to last.

Gia was a regular at Studio 54 and the Mudd Club. She usually only used cocaine in clubs, but later began to develop a heroin addiction. This drug abuse was compounded after Gia's agent, Wilhelmina Cooper, died of lung cancer. Gia was devastated. Scavullo recalled a fashion shoot in the Caribbean when "She was crying, she couldn't find her drugs. I literally had to lay her down on her bed until she fell asleep."

By 1980 Gia began having violent temper tantrums, walking out of photo shoots, and even falling asleep in front of the camera. In the November 1980 issue of Vogue, Gia's track marks from heroin can be easily seen. For three weeks, she was signed with Eileen Ford, but the fashion house mogul soon dropped her.

In 1981, Carangi enrolled in a 21-day detox program, and started dating a college student, Elyssa Golden. The Carangi family, along with her mother, had suspected that Golden had a drug problem. Carangi soon began using again. She moved out of her mother's house and in with some friends, once again entering a detox program, but her attempt to quit drugs was shattered when she received news that her close friend, fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim, had died in a car accident.

Curiously, early in her modeling career Cindy Crawford was nicknamed “Baby Gia” due to her resemblance.

The resemblence Cindy Crawford had to Gia is quite apparent. Her European heritage served her very well in the fashion industry. But her reckless disregard to her body and soul destroyed her. It is difficult to select my favourite pictures, but stand-outs are the red one-piece swimming costume, the patterned singlet, and the two with her in a black dress; one leaning to her left against a green railing (and hanging loose), the other to her right against a glass balcony wall, smoking the cigarette, and that close-up visage, thirteen down from the top of the main selection. It was considered by many that she had the best tits in the industry. Yup.

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Monica Bellucci - sofisticata signora

September 30th 2008 05:35

Monica Bellucci is one of the most sensational-looking women on the planet. In fact she never looks less than stunning. She's the epitome of elegance and poise, sultryness and sassiness. The camera adores her. She embraces fashion with the savvy and sensibility of a designer. She is style personified.

"Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited."
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models

October 22nd 2007 05:19

Of course this post is all about the visual aesthetics. That’s why they’re models. To be alluring, so that the viewer becomes hypnotised and the next thing they know they’ve bought the clothing because they want to look like the model, or has the hairstyle to look like the model, or buys the accessory to feel like the model.

There are actors who model, then there are models who try to act, there are strictly fashion models and there are adult models (models who bare it all), and then there are the super-models

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footwear

October 19th 2007 02:11

They say the shoe makes the man or woman. Certainly it defines a person’s look, probably more so than hats, or shades, or even jewelry. Footwear comes in so many shapes and sizes, colours, textures and price-tags. Women can spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on shoes. And they do.

In fact women with money (and some with not so much money) tend to have wardrobes set aside just for shoes; shoe closets, they call them. It’s a kind of status thing, they more shoes they have the more powerful they feel, which reminds me of an American television commercial from around the late 70s, early 80s. It was an ad for Hush Puppies, a brand of shoe for men and women. “How many pairs of shoes do you own?” asked an off-camera voice to a well-to do lady, “Ten, eleven, twelve pairs of shoes,” the woman replies smugly to the camera, “But I live in Hush Puppies,” she adds with a sly smirk

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sunglasses

October 17th 2007 01:10

“Put ‘em on your face!”, that was the tag which sunglasses manufacturer Bolle insisted on. Fair enough, although I’ve never been a fan of Bolle’s designs. I prefer the old school wares, like the Raybans’ warefarer design, made famous in the movie Less Than Zero.

The Aviator design, also by Raybans, has been a fixture for decades, made famous in the movie Top Gun, but pilots have been wearing them since the 1920s. Personally I prefer the less ostentatious look of the classic black 1950s look which Italian actor Marcello Mastrioanni wore in Fellini’s 8-and-a-half. If I could find a piar like that I’d be a happy man

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hats

October 14th 2007 23:12

Hats are a curious thing. The can look exceptionally cool, or down right silly. I’m hat fussy. I’m also hat intolerant. I really only dig certain hats. On the whole I think of them as masks for people to hide an element of insecurity behind, in an unconscious kind of way, I might even proclaim a shy kind of vanity.

I can’t wear hats on the whole. My head is too big. That sounds conceited, but it’s simply that I have a large girth. My head, that is. Ahem. Most hats don’t fit me. And when I do find one that fits, it just looks wrong, because as I said, I’m hat fussy

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bikinis

September 6th 2007 02:37

The history of the bikini begins far before the official introduction of the bikini swimsuit in the summer of 1946. Some historians believe that the bikini may have been one of the first public swimming costumes in existence. Drawing evidence from 300 A.D. Roman mosaics, historians point to the bikini as the swimsuit of choice for ancient Roman women. However Minoan wall paintings from approximately 1600 B.C. also depict women wearing the seemingly quite popular two-piece bathing costume!

The official history of the bikini, under that name, begins in the summer of 1946, just one year after the end of World War II. During that summer two French designers almost simultaneously created and marketed the bikini swimsuit. Barely leading the charge, Jacques Heim, a fashion designer and beach shop owner in the French resort town of Cannes, introduced his swimsuit creation, the “Atome,” early in the summer of 1946. The swimsuit was named the Atome because of its miniscule size (as compared to the then smallest known particle of matter, the atom). Heim sent skywriters high above the Cannes sky, with the simple, yet striking message “the world’s smallest bathing suit

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