♥ GIRL FRIDAY ♥ DRESS TO KILL EDITORIAL (TOTALLY HITCHCOCK) ♥

I had intended on posting another something today, but I think I'll leave that for tomorrow now....because I just saw this editorial and I love it so much that I had to get it up and share it with you. I know the writer says it's very desperate housewife or something, but I think it's actually very Hitchcock...or Valley of the Dolls (which I love, too). I love the styling...esp the hair and makeup...sup-erb! I love when they mix it up and don't always try to make the girls have perfect long hair. This looks like something that Cody Young could have done, too, but the model here () does a good job, too. If you want to see more shots from the shoot, click here. See you tomorrow! (Credits are below.)♥

MODEL Dajana Antic
PHOTOGRAPHER Richard Bernardin
STYLIST Randy Smith.
HAIR AND MAKEUP Sabrina Rinaldi (amazing)



more girl friday ♥ supermodel yasmin le bon

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ CHARLOTTE TILBURY'S PEACOCK EYE ♥

Remember a while back when I had the photo below in the post on Yasmin Le Bon?

 

Well, the lovely Charlotte Tilbury has just uploaded a new makeup tutorial that looks very similar to this...PERFECT for the holidays, dinner parties, glamorous cocktail get-togethers and of course...

New Year's Eve!♡

more girl friday ♥ lottie moss

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ SUPERMODEL YASMIN LE BON

When I was still in elementary school, one of my favorite models and biggest role models was super model YASMIN LE BON (wow...how many times can I say the word model in one sentence!). (Her maiden name is Parvaneh, which means butterfly in Persian.) Not only was she gorgeous and part of the super models that reigned back then, but she was Persian and dating Simon Le Bon (from Duran Duran). My family was obsessed with fashion and models...I think to some extent they still are. We loved most of the models, but we especially loved her because she represented US. When was the last time you heard of a Persian super model? Or a regular Persian model on the catwalks in Paris? Even though there are some gorgeous Persian girls out there. She is the epitome of class and beauty. One hot lady. And she aged amazingly. See her photos below and see why I loved her so much as a young girl and teen!♡

i think she's older here, but look how gorgeous she is!

so hot in that french cut bottom!

more girl friday ♥ the belle stars

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ VINTAGE COSMO COVERS 2

I was actually really surprised at how popular the post I did a while ago on vintage Cosmopolitan magazine covers from mostly the 80s and early 90s was with the readers. I didn't realize everyone else would be as interested in these gorgeous magazine covers featuring gorgeous REAL models (and sexy models at that) mostly shot by Scavullo. So I thought I'd do another one because there are really a ton of hot magazine covers during this era for this magazine. I also really love the headlines. I wish my mother never gave away her massive magazine collection (which included a ton of these as well as Vogue and Mademoiselle...a magazine I'll do a post on at some point because it's so sad how they shut it down). Anyway...here are some more covers just because they're so hot.♡

a 1979 cover featuring PATTI HANSEN...who married the Stones' Keith Richards. Theadora and Alexandra Richards are her daughters. she's pretty damn hot.

model Beverly Johnson

a 1985 cover featuring one of our favorite 80s/90s super models RENEE SIMONSEN who used to date John Taylor of Duran Duran back then.

another MAJOR cover girl from the 80s and 90s, model FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL...i am pretty sure she was one of the first Victoria Secret catalog girls, too. this is from 1986. when do you see cover girls who look like this anymore? they're all 12 year olds.

another GIA cover from 1980...hiding her track marks.

i believe this is KIM ALEXIS from 1980

aaah...ESTELLE from 1988. i had forgotten about so many of these models. she was also a VS model.

ELLE MCPHERSON from 1985. she looks pretty good right now even though she's been around a while.

i think i remember this cover with model RACHEL WILLIAMS from 1991.

CINDY CRAWFORD 1991

CHRISTY TURLINGTON (now Mrs. Ed Burns) 1991

LINDA EVANGELISTA from 1991...looks like a very Versace dress to me. she was recently in the news. her ex is Salma Hayek's man (one of the richest men in the world) and she was in court duking it out for child support. she still looks amazing.

PAULINA PORIZKOVA 1991...she married Ric Ocarsick (jk! Ric Ocasek from The Cars)

CINDY CRAWFORD 1997???

CLAUDIA SCHIFFER from 1991. see how they used to have a little meat on their bones?

RENEE RUSSO (the actress but back then model) 1979

GORGEOUS CAROL ALT 1980

NAOMI CAMPBELL 1990

another FREDERIQUE cover from 1988

more girl friday ♥ model yasmin warsame

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ HOT COSMOPOLITAN COVERS

When I was growing up, I had a couple of very teenage uncles from London who had posters all over their rooms....not only of rock stars and British pop stars, the closet doors were covered with all these amazing hot hot hot Cosmopolitan covers featuring hot mostly-iconic models and imagery. I miss those old Cosmo covers, or the way magazines used to have gloriously glamorous covers that were all about style....not appeasing advertisers and selling MORE MORE MORE. I think they had so much style and sexiness to them. There are hardly any female-targeted publications with covers like these anymore. (Well, not mainstream publications like Cosmo.) Scavullo shot most or all of these...I think you can easily see a style pattern, a vision from a visionary, when you scroll through them all. They're chic, sexy, subtle, intense. I think even at a tiny age, I knew these covers were sexy and strong.

Sometime in the 90s, everything changed. There was no more iconic Helen Gurley Brown running the show (she wrote Sex and the Single Girl, by the way and, for me, really spelled out what feminism was...again, for me....which meant you can really own your femininity and still be strong and independent). And there was no more Scavullo shooting the covers. And replacing gorgeous interesting models were/are the lackluster, boring, cereal-box celebrities. Ick. I'll take these old covers over any of the new ones ANYTIME and EVERY TIME. If you print these all out and pin them up side-by-side on a wall, you'll see how amazing the entire body of work is. I'll do a proper post on Scavullo and his women in the future. But I've been wanting to do this Cosmo vintage cover post for eons because these were some of my biggest fashion influences growing up. Just so so gorgeous.

PS I am writing this August 2012...I am going to definitely do a Gia post soon. Just look at her covers. I just think there was something really different going on then with the models. Her face especially says so much is going on in her head. I think this era of supermodels was really magical. I think it's so strange how they're all so 12-year-old looking now.♡

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY 1978

(I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS) GIA 1980

ANOTHER GIA COVER...THE FAMOUS ONE FROM 1982 WHERE SHE'S HIDING HER TRACK MARKS (FROM DRUGS).

ANOTHER CHRISTIE BRINKLEY COVER FROM 1983

GORGEOUS KIM ALEXIS 1987

THAT LOOKS LIKE RENEE RUSSO 1978

THE JANICE DICKENSON 1978

KELLY LEBROCK 1981

CAROL ALT 1980

STEPHANIE SEYMOUR 1994...STILL LOOKS HOT IN THE EARLY 90'S.

CINDY CRAWFORD 1991 (VERY LIKE A VIRGIN OUTFIT)

BROOKE SHIELDS 1981 GORGEOUS.

PAULINA PORIZCOVA 1987

YASMIN LE BON (BEFORE SHE WAS MARRIED TO SIMON) 1990. LOVE HER.

CHRISTY TURLINGTON 1987 (IN A VERY STEPHEN SPROUSE LOOKING DRESS)

JILL GOODACRE (ONE OF MY FAVE MODELS WHEN I WAS A KID) 1986. I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS COVER.

I DON'T KNOW THE MODEL, BUT THE COVER IS SO PRETTY. AND SEXY. 1979
(SO A FEW COMMENTS ARE BELOW FROM SOME READERS AND THEY SAY THEY THINK THIS MODEL TO ALSO BE JANICE DICKENSON. I CANT REALLY TELL. IF IT IS HER, AND SEEMS THAT IT IS, THEN IT'S A GREAT COVER...I LOVE IT!)

PAULINA PORIZKOVA FOLD-OUT COVER. CAN'T SEE THE DATE. SOMETIME IN THE 80'S.

ANOTHER JILL GOODACRE COVER. 1988

ANOTHER STUNNING GIA COVER FROM 1979. AGAIN, INSIDE ARM TRACKS COVERED.

ANOTHER PAULINA PORIZKOVA GORGEOUS COVER 1988

NAOMI SIMS...PROBABLY THE FIRST OFFICIAL BLACK SUPER MODEL 1975

AND EQUALLY GORGEOUS BEVERLY JOHNSON COVER 1976 (I THINK IT SAYS THAT)

HERE IS A POST THAT FOLLOWED THIS ONE:
more cosmopolitan ♥ vintage cosmo covers 2

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images from www.modelinia.com, www.jhu.edu, www.judgmentofparis.com ( a great site),  thegossipwrapup.com, inoubliablemodelarmy.blogspot.com, http://ladichic.blogspot.com