Showing posts with label Brooke Shields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooke Shields. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Too Hot to Handle

Today I discovered an incredibly exciting modelling prospect in the guise of Silent Model's newest recruit Zoi Mantakanis. Hailing from Karlskrona in Sweden, seventeen year old Mantzakanis owes her extraordinary dark, brooding looks to her Greek and Swedish lineage. Standing at 175 cm, Mantzakanis' angelic face and voluptuous pout conjures up images of iconic models Brooke Shields and Gia Carangi. The lethal combination of Mantakanis' va-va-voom physique and her pretty baby face is simply mesmerising and marketable. I am particularly enthused about Mantzakanis because even though her face looks vaguely familiar, her looks are distinctly individual and unlike any other model that I have seen in recent times. It will be interesting to see if casting directors will be transfixed by Mantzakanis in the lead up to the Spring/Summer collections in September.

The Heat is On
Photographer - Nican Robinson
Source - fashiongonerogue.com

Photographer - Nican Robinson
Source - fashiongonerogue.com

Photographer - Nican Robinson
Source - fashiongonerouge.com

Photographer - Unknown
Source - silentmodels.com

Photographer - Michael Schwartz
Source - thefashionspot.com

Photographer - Michael Schwartz
Source - thefashionspot.com

Photographer - Unknown
Source - thefashionspot.com

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Scavullo's Cosmo Girl

The late Francesco Scavullo's name is synonymous with the seductive, head to toe all out glamour that was represented by the quintessential Cosmo girl. Over a thirty year period beginning in 1965, Scavullo captured the essence of the Cosmo girl as a sensuous, confident and sexually liberated woman. During this period, Scavullo together with his long time companion and stylist Sean M. Byrnes, was responsible for the selection of the model, the cleavage revealing outfits, make up and hairstyles that would eventually appear on the cover. Every model wanted to be a Cosmo girl and the Cosmopolitan cover was accompanied by a model profile and interview which provided  an insight into the personality and life of the cover model. Scavullo's stable of beauties included Lauren Hutton, Naomi Sims, Brooke Shields, Gia Carangi, Janice Dickinson and Christie Brinkley. I have many Cosmopolitan covers in my collection and the following selection is a chronicle of some of the most influential models of our time.  


Gia Carangi
Cosmopolitan April 1979

Christie Brinkley
Cosmopolitan June 1977

Brooke Shields
Cosmopolitan February 1981

Kim Alexis
Cosmopolitan June 1980

Janice Dickinson
Cosmopolitan June 1981

Carol Alt
Cosmopolitan September 1980

Patti Hansen
Cosmopolitan February 1979

Beverly Johnson
Cosmopolitan February 1976

Kelly Emberg
Cosmopolitan December 1980

Naomi Sims
Cosmopolitan August 1973

Paulina Porizkova
Cosmopolitan March 1987

Cindy Crawford
Cosmopolitan March 1988

Claudia Schiffer
Cosmopolitan September 1992

Naomi Campbell
Cosmopolitan February 1990

Christy Turlington
Cosmopolitan April 1990

Elle Macpherson
Cosmopolitan August 1985

Stephanie Seymour
Cosmopolitan July 1989

Renee Simonsen
Cosmopolitan April 1988

Rachel Hunter
Cosmopolitan May 1988

Tatjana Patitz
Cosmpolitan August 1989