TheBaronOfFratton

^Is it wrong to find those moustaches mildly arousing?!! I do believe they were posted 'back in the day' - but that was a long ways ago. They are charming... (Love those backstage NYFW shots too, Opaline. Cute.)

And let's go here on our holidays... LA ISLA DE LA MUÑECAS The Island of dolls is situated in Mexico and as the name suggests, one expects to see a beautiful world which will leave an everlasting impression. The reality is exactly opposite - when one discovers the thousands of mutilated ugly dolls hanging from every tree on the island. Don Julian Santana, a hermit who renounced the world and his family to inhabit this island, dedicated his last fifty years of his life to the make the La Isla de la Muñecas. It is believed that, he did this to please the spirit of a little girl who had drowned in the canal. Whatever may be the reason, he managed to turn this island into a bizarre, scary place where eerie eyes of mutilated dolls haunt your every move. Don Julian is said to have led an isolated life, except when he ventured to collect old dolls that he either scavenged from dumps or bought in exchange for his homegrown fruits and vegetables. One is made to believe that he obviously did not like intrusion and tried to scare off inquisitive onlookers by hanging scary doll faces. In 2001, Don Julian was discovered drowned to his death in the same canal surrounding his home... WILL YOU BE MY MUMMY NOW?!!

^You should visit more often Joe. Patronage from one such as yourself might make keep this thread a bit more lively! ^Really? Out of all those 'Sex Toy Factory' pictures - THIS was the one ImageShack got all prissy about???

Maybe not such a great dancer...

Some hitherto hidden(!) shots, 'revealed' in the new 'Winter Casual 2010' VS catalogue:

^Nice cover! These are screenshots from the upcoming Hercules magazine (issue 9) promotional video by Mariano Vivanco - from Models.com. I hope this means an imminent editorial: (I know Opaline posted the video here, via YouTube, yesterday - but has withdraw it. It is full of nudity - as is it's 'embed' image... You can find it under 'Hercules 9, Mariano Vivanco' there.)

New VS, thanks to my lurking friend at large Evie...

Style.it HQ's:

WPB No.42:

^Jaja - I was about 4 minutes behind you with that earlier! And Chanel too - good news! Given the show was about 9 hours ago, pictures have been hard to come by. But they're finally being eked out... This is via Zimbio:

From that Alexander Wang after-party last month, via thecobrasnake:

No.06 (or maybe 'Miss June'?) in Young Gangan's list of 2010:

^Nice! (Y) Been missing some Song Jina...

^Whoah - nice additions, Theron and suki_... (Y) I found some more form Carlos Cass. She really does have the most amazing eyes: And the rest is pretty healthy too!

From this weekend's LA Times magazine:

Outside of the NYFW shows (Anna Sui & Z Spoke). These are both from the blog of Bonae L'amour:

^Cool scans, thank you...I'd had these (↓) two images of that "leopard skin" dress for a while, but had no idea where they came from - problem solved!

More PINK too...

Looks like a nice hip flare... So, 3.

Well, there's going to be some VS on this page anyways!

^ (Y) I think that Anna Sui show really suited her look... ^Yes, that was his Paris debut. I found a couple more shots. She reminds me a lot of Anouck Lepere here, who was (coincidentally) an earlier model crush!

And lo, it came to pass - they sang the news from the fetid ports on the Onyx seas to the majestic silver cities of northern Falstag - "The Queen is dead, long live the Queen!" For Klum was gone, and a new dawn had arrived. It was time for the Adriana Empire... Some say she was ruthless - that she dabbled in dark arts; others that she earned it through determination and her keen blade. Either way nobody dared question her position. For to do so was foolish. She is, and always was, the best - and this was only a matter of time. Aloft, atop the mages tower - the grand vizier Razek had decreed that Lima was the one that would bring harmony to the world. But it was clear, much earlier, that this was not true. Yes, the people - thousands of them - flocked to hear her every word, but not everyone rejoiced. And maybe Razek was too jaded, too bloated on his own success to see this discrepancy - but it was there. These people could stick their fingers in their ears, but eventually they would have to listen. There was unrest afoot. For Lima though, this was of little consequence. For she had vanquished Klum, and left her splayed upon the marble floors of the Reichstag. She had banished the sly pretender, Ambrosio, to the windy streets of Catwalkia. The Kroes and the Kerr were cursed with inner demons. That barbarian from the western lands, Marisa, had gotten close - uncomfortably so; but Lima had called upon the fates and sent her unto the wilderness of the beaches. Hah, even that old crone Tyra could not touch her now... But she remained alert, her faithful sword close at her side - for a golden child had risen from the southlands. They say that she shines, and that everybody loves her - but Lima remembers how they said that of her. And she knows such placations are untrue. And so she stays guarded. But for now she wears the crown of Angelus. She will open all festivities as that is her right - and what Razek says we all want. She will be adorned with the whitest diamonds to cradle her bosom. And, perhaps, she will even sing. For she can do everything now. None will blight her majesty. So, let us not question. Or even bother with conjecture. For this is the price of peace. Lima is our Queen. And we bow at her blade...

LAMENT! FOR THERE SHALL BE NO MORE OF THIS: AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE OF THIS: For our favourite pensioner is retiring as 'Head Angel'... Heidi Klum is QUITTING Victoria's Secret: (Courtesy of Savanna on that 'other' thread - possibly abridged elsewhere... )I'd always presumed she'd only exit via a coffin. But that shall not come to pass... For now though - let's enjoy her final appearance for the lingerie behemoth once more: WE SALUTE YOU, MRS. SEAL

^ HQ (from Style.it):

Parable Time Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today." They had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant. "Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the first man who touched his leg. "Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the second man who touched the tail. "Oh, no! it is like a snake," said the third man who touched the trunk of the elephant. "It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant. "It is like a huge wall," said the fifth man who touched the belly of the elephant. "It is like a spear," Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant. They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said." "Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight. They felt happy that they were all right. Not really - it was a fucked up, scrambling, blind men bloodbath... (+ For rounds 11 & 12: 2.5's are on me!!!)