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Minka Kelly Evan Rachel Wood Jessica Lowndes Clemence Poesy

Rie x5

Julie is about as plain as Bar was... or Brooklyn. What do those other two blonds have in common? Oh right, they got the cover. Generally speaking they shoot maybe 2-5 girls at the beach, and most of the covers for the swimsuit edition are featured where? Oh right, the beach. Last 10 covers were, 2010 Brooklyn on the beach 2009 Bar on the beach 2008 Marisa on the beach 2007 Beyonce on the beach 2006 All Stars on the beach 2005 Carolyn on the beach 2004 Veronica on the beach 2003 Petra on the beach 2002 Yamila on the beach 2001 Elsa questionable, but most likely the beach 2000 Veronica on the beach 1999 Rebecca on the beach 1998 Heidi on the beach 1997 Tyra on the beach 1996 Tyra and Valerie on the beach 1995 Veronica on the beach And it keeps going, all beaches.

A5 Alina Vacariu A6 Josie Maran B5 Mona Johannesson B6 Petra Nemcova C5 Christy Turlington C6 Kim Cloutier D5 Olga Kurylenko D6 Valentina Zelyaeva E5 Emily DiDonato E6 Nicole Trunfio F5 Yamila Diaz F6 Jessica Stam G5 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley G6 Rebecca Romijn H5 Candice Boucher H6 Esti Ginzburg

Hey Miss Penny, you know that thing called msn? That you sporadically pop on and yet never respond to... DO IT!

It usually gets moved over once they make a subtopic for the year it applies to.

Erin is more esthetically pleasing whereas Lindsay as a slightly edgier, weird look with her big eyes. Could be part of the reason they're pushing Erin more.

2. Cinderella (1) 3. Aurora [sleeping Beauty] (3) 4. Ariel (6) 5. Belle (4) 6. Jasmine (6) 7. Pocahantas (6) 8. Mulan (7) 10. Alice (5)

Silvia Dimitrova

There was some contention that the reason they were pushing Lindsay and Erin at the same time, (the two girls that so many people commonly mistook for each other) was to see who would appeal to their target demographics more. Perhaps they came to realize that Erin has more mass market appeal and thus put Lindsay on the back burner?

My only point was that I personally don't get the appeal of the new trend for weird, awkward looking girls. I understand why the fashion industry has picked them up, and I realize that this is the new 'it' thing for the decade, I'm just truly hoping that they go back to healthy looking body types and beauty that while may not be completely conventional at least gives girls something to relate to. What is interesting is if you look in the competitions section, and for the most part any worldwide polls done it's those girls that are classically 'pretty' that are still garnering the most interest and still appealing to the mass media/average joe the most. I'm not saying discount the unique/strange girls, just don't inundate us with them as much as they are. Have a nice healthy balance of up and comers who have a strange looking beauty and those that have a classical beauty. Commercial is the home of the classic, why can't high fashion be as well? It should be all about exaggeration. Personal conjecture aside I realize that most of high fashion isn't about the model it's about the clothes, but can't they at least have pretty coat racks stomping down the runway instead of weird looking ones?

A3 Josie Maran A4 Bianca Balti B3 Petra Nemcova B4 Mona Johannesson C3 Kim Cloutier C4 Christy Turlington D3 Olga Kurylenko D4 Valentina Zelyaeva E3 Nicole Trunfio E4 Alessandra Ambrosio vs Edita Vilkeviciute F3 Yamila Diaz F4 Jessica Stam G3 Natasha Poly vs Isabeli Fontana G4 Rebecca Romijn H3 Esti Ginzburg H4 Catrinel Menghia vs Andi Muise

It's ok you don't have to take any of your own nominations away, just surprised that it filled up that fast, normally nominations take about a week... I was at work when the nominations started and just getting off by the time they were done

I hate to say this but 9/10 of these girls I just can't wrap my head around. Maybe I'm not a high fashion connoisseur but I don't get the appeal of the girls who look strange or odd. I adore Gemma Ward, but even now I still have trouble considering her truly beautiful. These girls may be unique and strange looking, but perhaps that's why so much of fashion is losing itself in translation to the average person on the street. 10+ years ago you had 'normal' people taking somewhat of an interest in fashion, be it high or commercial now... I guess to each their own, but I just don't get the appeal of looking at 12-16 year old girls in bikini's or lingerie. You know as an adult if you were found going to the beach to look at skimpily clad underage girls in bikini's you'd get in trouble, and yet here we are on a fashion forum and in the name of fashion we're doing exactly that. Whatever happened to the beautiful girls that we could all idolize and wish we could be more like. That tangible goddess that while we might not ever quite reach their heights of beauty they were still within reach? Now you have a bunch of girls who 'Time' aptly named the rise of the Alien Model. When Gemma Ward starts to look normal compared to the up and coming crop of new models there are problems. I truly wish we could go back to healthy body types, where girls didn't feel the need to crash diet and guys looked like guys. A little bit of androgyny is fine but I still want to know what I am looking at :|

Are there any nomination spots left open?

0.5 Do you all remember those oil painting kits that you could buy with each little section numbered with a corresponding color that we had to paint in that block? The ones where we could all pretend that we were painters even though in the back of our minds we knew that we were nothing more then frauds? That's what this picture reminds me of.

Adriana x4 Karolina x1

KK x5

^I am happy simply because whimsical seems to be back in the VS vocabulary.. Christmas, Fantasy, Whimsical, thus I am happy

E1 Nicole Trunfio E2 Emily DiDonato F1 Candice Swanepoel vs Claudia Schiffer F2 Jessica Stam G1 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley G2 Rebecca Romijn H1 Esti Ginzburg H2 Andi Muise vs Candice Boucher

... o.0 She looks like an amputee. 0.1

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They need to stop gearing towards something practical and more towards something fantastical. Let's be honest two of the highest ranked bras according to popular opinion were 2004 and 2005, worn prospectively by Heidi and Gisele. They weren't practical, (taking aside the fact that they were encrusted in gems) the bra itself was not practical to wear outside of a fantasy. VS needs to stop using an actual bra template, (generally the one they're trying to hawk for the year) and start going back to something we can have whimsical thoughts about. The bra truly reminds me of something we might see in the pink section, with sparkles added on, (the cheap variety, not the expensive kind). Something that would appeal to a 13 year old getting their very first bra, taking aside the cut, (which no self respecting parent would allow a 13 year old to wear). It gives cleavage to girls who have never even heard of concept of it.