Models: The Real Skinny
May. 19th, 2003 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeThis was a documentary on A& E recently that I taped and watched over the weekend.
Very interesting. It focused on four models: two established, two up-and-comers. The two established were Karolina Kurkova whom I found completely generic and unappealing, and Liya Kebede, a black model who's been signed to an upcoming Estee Lauder campaign whom I thought was stunning. She had this bony, angled face that was so elegant-looking; I simply didn't get why everyone was agog for Karolina who looked like another Nikki Taylor with her too-big teeth and her cheesy smile. Ick. I sound harsh I suppose, but I couldn't stand the whole "I'm popular and I'm entitled" attitude I sensed in her--she really didn't seem that humble, especially when she got notification that she was the VH1 Model of the Year.
I found the whole objective discussion of beauty as a business, a commodity fascinating, because of course it interlaps with a lot of things that aren't so cut and dry, like the fact that no matter how they can try to be objective, the fact is a model is going to take it personally when they're rejected; and that no matter how you quantify it, beauty is subjective and transcendent.
Very interesting. It focused on four models: two established, two up-and-comers. The two established were Karolina Kurkova whom I found completely generic and unappealing, and Liya Kebede, a black model who's been signed to an upcoming Estee Lauder campaign whom I thought was stunning. She had this bony, angled face that was so elegant-looking; I simply didn't get why everyone was agog for Karolina who looked like another Nikki Taylor with her too-big teeth and her cheesy smile. Ick. I sound harsh I suppose, but I couldn't stand the whole "I'm popular and I'm entitled" attitude I sensed in her--she really didn't seem that humble, especially when she got notification that she was the VH1 Model of the Year.
I found the whole objective discussion of beauty as a business, a commodity fascinating, because of course it interlaps with a lot of things that aren't so cut and dry, like the fact that no matter how they can try to be objective, the fact is a model is going to take it personally when they're rejected; and that no matter how you quantify it, beauty is subjective and transcendent.
