About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now (2012)

[itsrobert]

It's a documentary on HBO.

Very interesting serious documentary about the history of fashion photography. An excellent discussion of racism and drug use in the industry.

"The women share thoughts about how their personal definitions of beauty have changed as they have aged, but there isn’t enough introspection about their own roles in creating a cult of beauty that has perhaps done more harm than good."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/television/about-face-supermodels-then-and-now-hbo-documentary.html?_r=0


About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now (2012)




About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now

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'About Face' explores beauty and aging through the stories of the original supermodels: women, now between fifty and eighty years old, whose images defined our sense of beauty over the last half-century. Shot in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' intimate portrait style, participants include Isabella Rossellini, Christie Brinkley, Marisa Berenson, China Machado, Beverly Johnson, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Paulina Porizkova, Jerry Hall, and Christy Turlington among others. They discuss the fashion industry, their careers, aging, plastic surgery, botox, and how they have reassessed and redefined their own sense of beauty as they have aged. Designer Calvin Klein says in the film, 'They had something inside that came through...they had character, they had personality. Those qualities never age'.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. It fell flat

I wish there would have been a round table discussion.

But it is interesting to see how beautiful the "supermodel" of the 90's are compared to today.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - got that.

But Suki Waterhouse to me is unique and tall - she doesn't compare to Mulder, Schiffer, Campbell -

Go back farther - think of how healthy and full of life Christie Brinkley was then - and still is. Then compare her to the heroin chics of the mid 1990s and say -Cara Delevigne today.

I subscribe to WWD and Vogue so I know the models by name. Maybe the direction fashion is going towards a less attractive model to draw the eye to the clothes? But 20 years ago again - Cindy Crawford was he healthy, vital woman who made the clothes look better.

Consider these the mad ravings of a clothes horse who loves couture!

[CJCRANE]

2. I think that with reality TV, blogs, social media etc. there is the idea that anyone can be a model

or a pop star in the 21st century.

So, it's more democatic but there is something missing in today's pop culture, it's more recycled, less unique in a way.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Don't forget Auto Tune

Suzanne Vega can sing and play. So can Tori Amos. Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf offered us authentic voices.

I feel bad for the 18 year old woman today.

There's nothing authentic and "real" in her age group to admire in "pop culture".

I remember Jill Goodacre making fun of the heroin chic models and catching hell for it. I also remember her saying "everything is bigger in Texas" in regards to not fitting the mold anymore.

I saw a picture of her on the red carpet with her husband a few months ago. She still looks fabulous, she still looks healthy, her daughter looks healthy and to me - normal -

And she still gets props for bagging Harry Connick Jr,