I haven’t read all of your comments, they’re too much and I don’t have all this time So I’m just going to give some personal considerations about this year’s show, I’m sorry in advance if some of the following has been already said by someone else.
Favorite Segments: Dangerous Liasons, Calendar, Silver Screen Angels
Least Favorite Segments: Circus, Pink
Your standout models:
-Doutzen, you perfect thing. She had a great body, she made her first outfit something acceptable, and for me this is her best show since 2005.
-Barbara P: make her an angel immediately. It’s sad that they decided to cover her so much with that outfit (which is a very nice outfit, btw) but she was great anyway. I hope they don’t do with her the same mistake they did with Bianca Balti: she was the perfect angel, but from 2005 she keeps doing the castings, and they keep not casting her. They deserve a girl like Barbara.
-Alessandra: a pregnancy actually makes a woman way more beautiful. Apart from having a great body, in shape but with natural curves due to the pregnancy, she was radiant, beautiful, and it was clear that she was happy to be there (if you know what I mean).
-Elsa: gorgeous. So elegant although it was “just” Pink. She absolutely deserves the main line, even if I think that Pink is a good point of start. In short, she’s on the right way.
-Behati: I’m glad she got 3 outfits (yeah, I know that they were two initially), she opened a good segment, and especially she was not in Pink. Look at the latest commercial! I LOVED her there. Now it’s time to make Elsa the new Pink Queen and use Behati for bigger things.
-Shanina: make her an angel ASAP.
-Hilary: wow! She’s always been a hit and miss for me, but I really loved her in this show! She has to be one of the new regulars, definitely.
-Jacquelyn: damn, her legs are longer than me (Aside note: I saw her in Milan in September after Dolce & Gabbana show, she was going away with Ginta, I was a couple of meters away from them. I am 5’7 1/2, but I felt so short compared to them both). Anyway, she knows how to rock that runway. I could see her better in Dangerous Liasons than in Pink, hope they understand that she can be much more than a simple Pink model.
-Lily A: is just me, or her walk has improved a lot? Not the best, but not as bad as previous years! And she was so gorgeous, that make up definitely suits on her (or, as Ale, her pregnancy made her better too).
-Lindsay: she really stood out this year! Two great outfits, she has never been my fav, but she was really really good.
-Other angels: liked them all.
Meh! could of been better:
-Magdalena: I was glad that she was cast again, but after see her...it seems that she was trying to sell herself, absolutely wrong way to approach that runway. This is sad, she was good in 2010.
-Jourdan: girl, you’re beautiful, why you have to ruin everything with that robot? I got that you represent a robot, but…
Models that made you o.O:
-Dorothea: seriously I don’t know what to think.
-Maud: she seemed so out of place, please let her in her HF world.
Aside note for Adriana: I truly believe this was the last one of Adriana. She gave birth less than two months before the show, and she chose to do it anyway, knowing that is incredibly dangerous go on a diet while a woman is still breast feeding (a diet compromises the quality of the milk), yes she said that she had the nutritionist, but after 3 weeks was way too early. She did it, accepting no wings and one not so good outfit (the one in Circus was good), and without being in perfect shape. Probably they let her open to thank her, in some way, for the long time work she has done for them. If it wasn’t the last one, she would have skipped this year.
In general: yes, we have a lot of HF models, too skinny, they should cast real women with curves, etc. Ok, I agree with you when you say this, 'cause one thinks: I'd never buy a bra sponsored by a girl with less than zero boobs. This is true, but I think that the whole concept of the show has changed: it's no more "see the products and then go to the stores to buy them", it's simply a television show, and this means that the requirements for a model have changed too, now they need a great walk, personality, ability to interact with singers and audience and other girls, and if there are boobs and ass too, better. She's incredibly skinny but she has the first three requirements? She's cast, 'cause she can add a lot to the show (notice, I'm talking about the show, not the fashion show, which I consider two different things). Now a woman already knows the brand without the fashion show, and a man doesn't care about bras, he only wants to see the girls. This is true for outfits too: a lot of them cover too much the lingerie, but we don't watch the show for the lingerie, we watch it for the girls and the music and the show itself: so who cares?
(I'm not talking about us in this group, but about the customers' world out there, which I suppose doesn't talk about this show as much as we do.)
And as I think it's time to think about new angels, I would definitely say Barbara P, Lais (it just has to be officialized, I suppose), Bregje and Shanina.
Favorite Outfits:
Least Favorite Outfits:
Optional Segment Breakdown:
Circus: very good. Although it was, together with Pink, my least favourite, it was a good opening.
Silver Screen: I have to admit, I had chills during this. So elegant and classy, and with that slower version of Young Girls, I really felt like I was in an old movie. I suppose this was one of the effects they wanted.
Dangerous Liaisons: nothing to say, I just loved it.
Calender Girls: so pretty! Funny, with a good rithm, a good song, and I really liked the idea of the band instead of the dancers, it was something different. (And she shoes here! Gosh, I could hear well my girl-obsessed-with-shoes part that was trying to go out)
Pink: I don’t know, maybe the presence of Bieber keeps me from saying something good about it, probably without him I would have liked it much more. In general it wasn’t as bad as I expected.
Angels in Bloom: nice idea “transform” the girls in giant flowers, and close with that big poppy was good (big big wings, a bright color, it’s something you don’t forget, whether you like or not the outfit), but I think that now they’re done with these themes. The only problem here was the music: I mean, great rithm for walk, but simply it wasn’t good for the segment. They should have chosen another song, even “we found love” or a mix of her bigger hits would have been better (like Katy did two years ago, for instance).
Music: the fact that they chose 5 live performances it's, for me, because of the rights of the songs. Now, I don't know how much they've paid Rihanna and Bruno and Justin, and how much for using the first song. But I think that, if they chose this solution, they've saved some money. I once read someone who misses the great mixes of past years: me too, but they would have paid a looot more for using 8-10 songs (I had a class about this stuff last year, and pay for use a single song can sometimes be incredibly expensive).
-Rihanna and Bruno have been great: I've always liked them, so powerful voices and great interpretations. Rihanna can easily be a model, she knows how to rock that runway.
-Justin: I really expected worse! From the preview videos I really didn't like him, but now I can't say that I liked him, but he wasn't so bad, I still think he is not a real singer. The problem here was the choice itself: I don't know, maybe their new goal for next months is to do bras for 8 y.o. girls?
Scenography: great. One of the best things this year. I loved in particular the very large runway, and it was really nice the idea in Pink, of the runway as a giant pinball, but in general it was just incredible.
Final considerations:
-In general it was very good, better than last years, but at the end it left me that something that you can never explain.
-This leads to the second point: I suppose the wrong thing has been shots and cameras movements. They stayed too much on performers and less on models. It's difficult for me speak that much about models 'cause I almost couldn't see them! For almost every girl, I couldn't see her whole runway, that means walk-pose-walk back. When they were posing, there was the cut and the camera siddenly was framing the singer. Yes, what I said previously is true for this point too, but in this way it was way too exaggerated. At the end, i said "star of this show: Rihanna". But in a not very good meaning.
-FB to Doutzen next year please.
-I'm really really sad fo Erin, pour girl. Basically they couldn't put her hat on in time, they left the clips in her hair, but she had to walk with badly placed clips (which can be painful, as a girl I can say it), right? Damn, you had one segment and half! These are the things that CAN NEVER HAPPEN. I hope it was something prepared just for the "show".
-Someone said that singers interact too much with girls: same for models and outfits, this interaction makes the show more funny.
-VS people please don't forget Maryna, Flavia and Sara next year! Maybe it will be helpful write their names on a post-it somewhere.
-Oh, and don't forget to study American History! I live in the other part of the world, but I knew from the beginning that Karlie's outfit was the biggest mistake they did in a long time. But the cut they did on her was technically very very good, I almost couldn't see the cut. (To edwie: that outfit was completely wrong, VS seemed to celebrate the massacre of native Americans with it, and obviously actual native Americans got mad. Cannot blame them).
-As every year, OMG so great things, and OMG what the hell is that.
-An advice: just enjoy it without complaining too much