Gothic Couture Issue 21-2

Many civilians, and by that I mean people who don’t breathe the hothouse air of the fashion industrial complex daily, have been struck of late by the rather odd looks — big noses, large foreheads, awkwardly coltish legs or squished mouths — of many of the current top models walking the runway and appearing in magazines such as this, and in its advertisements. The glamazon supermodels of yesteryear (Christy, Linda, Naomi), and today’s Sports Illustrated or Victoria’s Secret models (Gisele Bündchen, Kate Upton), are much easier to understand, more obvious in their beauty (especially to the average straight guy). Those girls are air-brushed-seeming goddesses of human perfection, while the new models are fairly unconventional, far more individual.