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this blog is a queer homage to daria werbowy, in my view a peculiar BODY ARTIST more than a topmodel.
GENDER ROMANCE means that i explore how daria’s body language is stronger than fashion stereotypes and marketing constraints. that’s what i consider HER POETICS as a model: modeling as a performance, body as a representation of conflicts. and that’s also why i consider her as MY MUSE: she embodies a perfect refined meeting of feminine and masculine, melancholic and ironic, physical and intellectual, my ideal of beauty and erotism.
this site is focused only on daria’s works, not on her private life.
while we are still waiting for vogue paris summer profusion links from switzerland (thanks to gina), from france and from england through dwg (daria werbowy gallery).
mm6789 also found a missing pic from the us vogue editorial… we want a proper scan now, cos the pic looks quite good!
just a little funny personal thing… my father bought a new car and, guess, the first 2 letters of the plate are… DW!!! hehehe! i can’t escape my destiny!
despite blah blah blancome, i definitely prefer this commercial to the original hypnose (not to mention the second one, really too plastic). so i can go to bed in a reconciliated mood! you know, i’m a humble lesbian with simple desires… just leave the sensual message adressee undefined and you’ll make me happy!!
and we also have the 4th video of the silent making of the making of…
“hypnose senses, true mix of feminity, seduction and french charme is embodied by dw, a young woman in the spirit of her time. [...] dw perfectly expresses the Hypnose Senses Woman, this kind of witty, free hair, wearing only little make-up and sublime woman who will send the most sensual message to the man she loves“… oh my, let me go vomit and come back! meanwhile i’ll post the pic… (thanks to ada looo at tfs)
aaww, done… :ppp okay, as we say in italian: nothing new under the sun. we all know what the ideology of cosmetic industry is: a woman must be beautiful to be liked by men. as an italian citizen i can add: she must be beautiful to be liked by men who have the power and can give her a career. we have a dubious minister for equal oppurtunities (mara carfagna) with a dubious relationship with our grotesque premier to show it. but that’s not what i want to talk about today, even if certainly my reactions are deeply affected by the peculiar grotesque scandal about our… our?! their premier!
what i’m more interested in is how this ideology… or maybe i should call it rhetorics, since ideology is a too refined concept and needs a reflection that is beyond the reasons and aims of marketing. so, i’m more interested in how this rhetorics of women-aimed-to-men’s beauty affects daria’s modeling. of course i’m not talking about daria as a person, even if i would be certainly curious to know how this steady compromise between being and appearing, between real personality and public role affects her. i can see something kind of *schizofrenic* in it, but maybe that is just the first step to modeling: only if you accept it – or at least tolerate it -, you can go on and make money with your job. or maybe it’s just me, with my old fashioned humanist approach to life – but i must confess i’m everything but an ideologic purist!! anyway, i wonder if after a while, the more you, model with a brain, grow up, the more it is hard to tolerate, the more you look for a balancement between job and yourself, money and intimacy.
again, that’s not what i want to talk about! what interests me is the relationship between a sentence like “a woman [...] who will send the most sensual message to the man she loves” and airbrushing. of course airbrushing is not for daria only, it’s everywhere, but i think that sentence is the best reply to the discussion at the previous post. this picture isn’t the worst, but certainly it makes hers a flawless feminine face. which means – in my opinion – to remove daria’s peculiarity as a model: her gender daring body language, which makes everything much more evident than for other models. if you want her to represent a message like that, you have to totally delete signs of ambiguity and imperfection. so you’ll have a delicate yet incisive conception of woman whose effort to be beautiful is exclusively aimed at men’s pleasure. sometimes i think that the difference between cosmetics advertisments and the victoria’s secret parade of bottoms and boobs is a degree of honesty, like in the end v’s is just the degree zero, with no hypocrisy, of the mainstream conception of woman nowadays – or since the beginning of humankind?!?!
anyways, after this maximum question, enjoy the hypnoses sense videos at the lancome site (link posted by ada looo), that are a pleasure for everybody’s eyes! the making of is now available at youtube too:
while you girls are drooling at this divine pic found by tinsley who also explains which blog she took it from at her daria files, news of the moment is that daria will be the only model in the august issue of vogue france shot by inez & vinoodh only… so, after lara stone in february, it’s time to save money for carine and emmanuelle booking our girl for an entire issue. at least i hope we get a good range of variations of darialogism!! i also wonder if we’ll get some nudity for the first time in this 2009 that has been very demure and sober… is someone jealous??!!
it’s with a deep emotion that i’m here announcing thawintour-testino latest production in american vogue featuring daria werbowy – and caroline trentini – has a narrative plot. yes, this time we don’t have just a bunch of pictures or mere hints at a concept. we have a proper story: a girl arriving from the country in ny with a goal in her life: to become a star. it’s a story of sacrifice, friendship, courage… a very original and complex story indeed!
see the route from poor roots to success here.
finally a sign of life on the fw09 ads side! i was wondering if our girl had been a bit too lazy recently!! :p
me, i didn’t even know a brand called ‘longchamp’ existed, but better than nothing! and in general i like her working along with kate moss cos there’s always a genuine erotic vibe between them (do you remember yurman 08 vid?!?! a cult!!). the pic is rather small so it’s difficult to distinguish details, it looks like a typical m&m pic, i don’t know if the sailors row thing is visionary or just pure fashion demential, i’ll have to think about it when i see hq images, certainly daria looks a bit weird with no eyebrows, but that may be a part of fiction, so i don’t mind about it, it’s only a matter of good or bad fiction. certainly i like the pose, there’s an androgyne vibe that i certainly prefer – just to make an example – to any lancome hyperfeminine fiction. so let’s wait for better pics. i must confess i would like to get a pic where it’s our girl to be dressed like a sailor and hold waif moss in her arms… talking about camp vibes…
i must have posted this entry while i was sleeping last night…
anyways, a vid featuring daria shooting indian summer is available at vogue.co.uk. too bad i can’t manage to watch it! so pls download it and re-upload it at youtube!!! i feel frustrated that i can’t still watch it, cos i suppose it’s more interesting than the lancome shooting.
vid was found a by mm6789, the owner of a new blog on daria! new blog address is: daria gallery.
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another video featuring daria is the one about the stoke on spring event. she isn’t speaking, you can only see her following a guy’s speech for about 1 minute from 2′15″. very natural daria. link was provided by a nice collaborative anon who always suggests nice links.
and i know that i’m slower than ever in updating news and editorials and stuff, but this month i have deadlines until the 23rd, so please just content yourselves with a few posts! and i think you have read everywehere she’s 8th in the forbes chart of richest models in the world (fortunately she seems to have a very low position in the poshest ones), that she’s the face of lancome senses, new evolution of hypnose, and that we know nothing about fw 09 campaigns yet.
and please find a way to make me see the uk vogue vid!! uuuufff!!!
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update! i finally watched the vid. nice, after all. she looked rather relaxed. and she must be an elephants expert now!
so you girls and few guys want me to work even when i’m in vacation! fortunately it hasn’t been such a exhausting work since links were provided by kind commenter phairness. in this vid you have 1 minute and 19 seconds of allusive semitopless posing for the new lancome campaign (a fragance called hypnose senses?). it’s always interesting to compare fictional daria to the real one, cos you can fully appreciate her transformism. that being said, it’s always the same conflict: admiration for beauty and talent, sadness for the use of women’s body in cosmetics and fashion industries. the easy rhetorics of gorgeous nudity is sold and sells, we live in a material world and we are material rich exploited girls!
more pics here. i must also say that, apart from anticapitalistic (!!) considerations, i still find it opinable that ppl define daria as body perfection. we all agree that she’s gorgeous, but just watching these images and this vid one fully realises how unperfectly beautiful she is! she’s everything but flawless!
