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That is NOT her real twitter, absolutely. I posted the real one a couple pages back. She has soooooo many fakers and this is one of them, definitely. AND, the facebook you are referring to, is a really good faker....really good. :jimmy: :jimmy: And,JenniferLima, why are you SURE she is not in the VSFS? Hey, SnL! Thanks for being the neighborhood watch person on these pages. :knives: :jimmy: :lullaby: :capt: :persuazn: :voodoo: So much untrustworthy internet intel coming so fast! I hereby commission you--without power of commissioner--Five Star General of Interpol (in this case Tori's Internet Police)! Looking forward to your upcoming vero moda posts. You have done so much posting of new Tori material, I think I can speak for all of us who appreciate your work!

Ooooh la la, Jenniferlima! Thanks for the great photos of Tori. SnL is right: she is sexy, sexy!

When this Gorsuch pic came into my inbox this morning, I could only see one and a half of Tori's eyes until I scrolled down, but that was enough to ID her amazingness and all wrapped up cozily in Shearling, too . Hope peeps are adjusting to Day Light Savings time.

Hope Devil's :evil: or Mischief Night damage tonight is kept to a minimum if your home area has a history of it! Hope Tori, Danny and her fans get more treats :hell yea!: than tricks :no: on All Hallow's Eve, and, I hope on All Saint's Day, 1 NOV, the saints who come out, in some Christian traditions, to clean up after the previous night's revelry of witches, ghosts and goblins give you time to sleep in on Sunday ! Last, I hope it's not too dark after the clocks are turned back on 1 NOV at 0200 Eastern Daylight Time!

High-Altitude Hottie ! I just received my Gorsuch catalogue (Winter 2010 edition). Tori was on virtually every page. She looked soooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuute in some and patrician in others and downright sultry in still more! She looked sultry in some outfits that by themselves might not be associated with sultry. There are a number of refreshers that have been posted on these here pages, and the clothes at Gorsuch are tres magnifique! Go to www.gorsuch.com to order a copy. A printed image often looks better than an electronic image even in a mass-produced catalogue.

Thanks sooooooo much, Prettyphile, for posting these. I saw this SI edition the other day, but I think it was shrinkwrapped or something so I didn't know if Tori were pictured inside. Thanks for confirming! Whether Tori re-appears in SI 2011, I have no idea. <_< She looks great in whatever she wears and in whichever publication she appears! Hope you and all of Tori's fans have a great start to the week!

Fashion and Function Friday Trivia: This was on my daily trivia calendar about an item we may use at least once every day and take for granted. Fashion designers and magazines, not inventors or marketing, convinced people to use them in every-day clothing.* Q: Which famous high-fashion designer was the first to make use of the the zipper? A: Italian-born Elsa Schiaparelli, in the mid-30's. She made both functional and decorative use of colorful, plastic zippers. Inventor of most-modern version: Swedish-born Gideon Sundbeck. Name History: Now a generic name (like xerox and kleenex, a branding blessing and curse), "zipper" was originally a brand name for rubber overshoes with zip-up closure made by BF Goodrich (tire and rubber), founded in Akron, OH (also birth place/hometown of still-fab fashionista Angie Everhart). Largest Manufacturer: YKK (founded in 1934 by Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) in Japan. First Uses: Boots, tobacco pouches, trouser fly (1937), money belts (WWI and another military sartorial firsts: Trenchcoat invented by Acquascutum in 1850 (contract: Bundchen, etc.) AND invented by Burberry in 1901 (contracts: Moss, Herzegova, etc.). *There is a thorough zipper history in Wikipedia. Have a great weekend! North Berkshire County, Massachusetts Fall Foliage for those who cannot see it or haven't seen it: Tori in Fall Flora, well, because these pages are dedicated to her not to useless trivia:

Here's the latest "Profile" or Tori from Gorsuch: It is exciting to have new such new fans as aimiieduckiie on board as SnL said! And also such veteran fans as Babylola refreshing our collective memories as to what Tori has done. I am still amazed, as I say over and over, about some of the early stuff. Tori really is a natch who hit the ground running!

Just looking back over the past few pages (actually glad my babble was "cleaned"!!), I see a lot of "new comers" to Tori's pages. Welcome on behalf of Tori fans and hope you keep coming back! On those same pages, I also see the new and fun intel and pics and positive vibes from regulars and BZ visitors. Thanks again to all for the news and images of Tori and good wishes for her!

Hey, SnL! I guess that the powers that be didn't like my well-intentioned but-as-usually-babbly response (or it didn't fit into their equally well-intentioned rules) to the unjustified remarks against Tori. Oh well! I got my opinion out for a short time anyway, and they did as you said, a good job of monitoring! It is good to know someone is out there watching over this and other models' pages. Anyhoo, that is cool that you saw a note stating Tori will be back in SI the following year. I can totally see her being so busy, and it's sooooo awesome. Something's gotta give, and as I said, it can be SI for now for something different. It will always be there as I am sure she is a good, relationship-building business person with all of her photographers, editors, IMG, etc. and would never alienate anybody. Hope you are having a good weekend!

oooh, boy! Fingers and toes and limbs crossed! A little luck never hurt anyone, even Tori! thanks for the intel SnL!

I hope winter holds off quite a bit longer, but if it looks like this. . . . . . I'm ready! Boy, that down jacket looks cozy!

how awsome would that be ?? =) some pics from her twitter dont think there reposts Whoa! Just got a closer look at Tori's photographs in HAWAII magazine (Dirty's Post #1520 on page 76)! Amazing in B/W! Light and Dark skin look awesome. As people probably already said her looks/poses look so amazing and the clothing (eg the thigh-high platform heels) show once again Tori makes the clothes, regardless of what they are!

From Couture above to CUUTE, CUUTE in jeans below! Gorsuch Tee: The multi-faceted fashionista Tori Praver: TO RUSSIA (Vogue) WITH LOVE to Aspen Angel Ascending! Thanks to Georgianna for the BIG posts from Russian Vogue and for all the comments and posts on this page! Seven is lucky number so 77 has to be twice as nice for Tori's pages

Whoa! From Hilary Rhoda wearing one of Tori's suits to Tori in amazing black and white's with a cirque-de-soleil-built model to the huge posts from Gorsuch to the possibility of her being in VS, I'd say the weekend started off great without my babble! Thanks so much to all the latest posters with more pix than verbiage! In Border's, I walked right past the SI 2010 calendar--surprised it was already new-calendar season--but walked right back and was surprised when I looked at the back and did not see Tori. Is this old news? Was I seeing things?

Well, I know no one is sick of Tori. But, if you tire of these Gorsuch posts as they come in my inbox and then get posted here, let me know . More important, if you tire of unsolicited babble, PUH-lease let me know or I won't know to stop . Or should cut it down to be polite or avoid getting thrown off Tori's pages ! Let each pic speak a 1,000 words about Tori!

I really don't think these are reposts, Francy. A few pictures have elements such as the beret and the pink pj's from last time but the poses are all different and poses are getting better and better!!! Ditto, SnL and Francy Italy, the more I looked at the pics as I babbled, they have to be new save for the ones you mentioned above! Take the one in the top left corner in which Tori is wearing a black n white nunber, just one of my fave in that post, the date (f/w 09) and the materials to match the brrrrr season. So, recently, old sites (IMG in an earlier post and Golden Pointe) have brought new treasures! SnL, Thanks for the kind words about my logorrhea (Latin for verbal diarrhea). First, it's my only way of making up for lack of pix postage that really brings everybody here to see Tori in the first place and to read her fans' comments. I try to tie it into something related to anything Tori by the end. And definitely try to be detached, objective, balanced even with Tori comments. As far as range of knowledge, goes, I primarily do not want to go off topic or be patronizing. If I can censor it with those two filters first, I keep going, trying to fit a lot in but hopefully keeping it simple assuming people can scroll to another post if bored by the babble. But, as in the case, of cashmeriage, I thought just maybe some Tori fan might be helped with simply the fact that there are 2ply, 3ply versions or hand-stiched (fully fashioned) shoulders/neck for strength/fit v. machine stitched when actually buying a sweater/shawl/sweater, etc.; so they go into the "clothier" somewhat educated and don't have to let the salesperson sell them a piece o' over-priced cr-p from a separate-but-unequal brand. Salespeople (comissioned or not), as many people know, can be a pushy lot and can even pressure a shopper into something he or she doesn't even want--especially if he/she doesn't know what he/she (we need a gender-neutral pronoun!) wants. It may not be like buying a car, but clothes do have plenty o' features/factors and can be a personal choice/statement for a punk or a prep just as a car or its bumper/rear window stickers really make a personal statement. In the end, no group is original any more, just a reinvention of the fashion wheel from a decade or a century ago. Look at J. Crew: all styles and even brands have come back from the '80s. Sperry Topsiders, the original boat shoe, etc. Pendleton, Rayban, Timex. Adidas Trefoil (retro) v. Equipment logos. Military styles that inspired much of fashion from the original Burberry/Acquascutum trenchcoats that bears the royal (British) seal to Clark's of England Desert Boots used in British campaigns in N. Africa. Ralph Lauren "borrowed" directly from Brooks Brothers--where he once worked--(the most brilliant copy/marketing plan in fashion history given our penchant for things Anglophile and Britain's class system in our supposedly classless society--sincerely and admiringly meant of Lauren's insight and vision) from Oxford/Cambridge university styles. You have heard of Oxford cloth shirts. But there used to be Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale cloths, too, but died out. Lauren's latest venture, Rugby, named after a UK boarding school and sport is Lauren's latest example of: if it reeks of British tradition, people will buy it. But, unfortunately or fortunately, it all comes down to class (yes, aforementioned univeristy cloths included): the European ruling classes, especially the French aristocracy, started a fashion or manners trend and the masses followed--whether it be clothing or ettiqutte (tipping a soup bowl away and spooning away is both functional--no spilling on self) and the "correct" way. It's no different in these here United States where upper-middle class preppy styles can be used by any group. Lacoste, named after French tennis great Rene Lacoste, whose nick name was "Le Crocodile" and part of the French greats of the 1920's and on, The Four Musketeers, was once only worn only by the white, country club set. Now, I see everything with the alligator logo from hats to sneakers on people from every socio-economic strata and in the country clubs and on the sidewalk. So while fashion can start fights in high schools, it can be an attempt to blur class lines and help people make a statement even if it has been done before. Maybe school uniforms are a good idea. Quite often, fashion starts simply from function. Men's shirts used to have buttons on the left as women's do today, but in the days of swordfighting duels, if a righthander (everybody was righty even into the late 20th century because of its association with the devil: sinister in Latin means left/devil--famous sports stars started lefty but parents/coaches forced the change, partly due to limited lefty equipment, not simply the diablo) drew his sword and caught his hand on the shirt placket buttoned right over left, it meant death or deadly wound; deaths caused the buttons to be switched. LIFESAVING FASHION FUNCTION! Men's vests/jackets are usually unbuttoned at the bottom, a practice started by the King (of England) Edward VII whose portly build forced him to unbutton them, and his subjects followed "suit." Guys do it to this day and most designers do not design vests or blazers or suit jackets to be buttoned when seated thanks to King Ed. Cuffs on trousers were initially used for catching cigar ash (don't try it at home!). Pocket watch pockets and change pockets on jeans and khakis. Corsets. OUCH! Nuff said. Before Lacoste designed, the FIRST short-sleeved tennis shirt in the 1930's, people wore, LONG, white (wool FLANNEL) trousers and Brooks Brothers "tennis collar" (without buttons, the kind supposed to be worn with suits, not with collar buttons that are too casual.) shirts to run around a hot court. INSANE! Too bad the women folk weren't so lucky with their long skirts on the tennis court. The button-down collar, invented by Brooks for Polo players (upper class sport!) to keep collars from flapping up and hitting players in the face, of course, is now the standard for a formal shirt even though it was literally a sport shirt. The label inside the collar still says The Original Polo Shirt. Mr. Lauren came around and imitated Mr. Lacoste's shirt and threw the famous polo player on it and now has ENLARGED it. The generic term for the short-sleeve, tennis shirt with longer tail in back for FUNCTION of keeping it tucked it in, went from Lacoste to polo (now generically lowercased) when the original polo shirt is a long-sleeved, buttoned-down shirt WITH functional button-down shirt. Even in the store, Brooks sales folks lead you to the POLO shirt section, sort of ironic since they invented the original one that is long-sleeved and has a button down collar. The functional tennis shirt has become a generic word like kleenex or xerox, a brand name's dream and nightmare at once: Where can I buy a Nike, Adidas, or Under Armour polo shirt? Or POLO polo shirt? It becomes redundant, too, like . . . chai tea. UGH! SORRY! As an avid lover of useless trivia of all kinds, I can let Tori's "folks" (the most over-used word in the last few years) on her pages know these tid bits as they apply. For example, as winter clothing purchases arrive, people may not know that corduroy (means literally cord du roi or cord of the king--of France) and was royal garb at one time and the "ribs" are called wales and come on various widths (narrow to wide, numbered accordingly: 3 or low being wide, etc.). But really, it comes down to look and feel, I guess, and all the "knowledge" useless and should be thrown out. So, again, I figure if someone doesn't like the trivia attached, he/she can scroll to the next post. In SHORT, SnL, my kinda knowledge is that of a dilletante (dang, too many French words, but they really began fashion as we know it and formal ettiquette, too): little knowledge about a lot. Good for babble at parties, cocktail or with red, plastic cups or otherwise and not much else . If knowledge is power as the cliche goes, then I have little of the former or latter, but maybe someone can be a more empowered shopper. And YOU are patient enough to read at least some of it! Speaking of your shawl wish, SnL, for what my opinon is worth, I think they are soooooo elegant, the simplest blend of form and function. The women (from college to corporate folks) I see on the train or going to and from work on foot look so effortlessly stylish with a simple wrap of the shoulders. And you don't have to have Tori's shoulders (and a possible resulting inferiority complex) to wear them well. Of course, Tori's shawl is fun because the fringe brings two materials together, not easy even when bringing together a cotton button-down shirt and polyester seam thread because different materials wear/wash/dryclean at different rates. But the fringe brings a certain je ne sais quoi (dang! mo' French) from Native American (dare I say Pocohantas) or American West fashion touches and textures/colors to a traditional shawl in the Central and South Asian sense. If anything has brought cultures together, it is fashion, food, and pop culture (music, movies, blue jeans specifically, etc)--not self-interested politicians of ANY party or country! Unlike people and their prejudices, pop culture--that includes--fashion moves freely in a world without nations and without borders. Internet shopping has, of course facilitated that multi-directional flow. Hope whatever wiles you use, SnL, you snag that there shawl and keep your shoulders and upper body snug and stylin' simultaneously ! Hope everyone has a great weekend, and thanks again, Francy Italy! If a pic holds one's gaze for a bit whether it be a landscape or portrait/painting or photograph, it's gotta be good and yours were GREAT! Well, Tori, helped hold my gaze, too!

Date: 1 OCT 09 Time: 0700 Boston Temp: 34F Kids bundled for school bus. Precious. Autumn leaves bright and falling. Scary. Tom and Katie Cruise running through city's clogged sidewalks and taking 1-hour inherently dangerous and environmentally incorrect helicopter rides. Attention getting and unnecessary. Cameron Diaz staying low key in Boston. Nice. Seeing Tori in Cozy, Warm Gorsuch Poncho: Priceless. FYI/Amusement or fast deletion: WOOL, SPARKLING WINE, TEA by ANY OTHER NAME: Cashmere (British changed spelling from Kashmir) originally came from the underbelly of goats in the Kashmir Mountains between India and Pakistan, the reason for its strength, softness, and difficulty in shearing and therefore expense. It is available in 2ply, 3ply, etc. that impacts quality and price. Any conflict in the region (ie centuries old between India and Pakistan or Taliban and US) may drive cashmere prices up. Of course, China now produces the most and other countries including the US and Australia produce it. While only sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France can be called Champagne, any wool from the underbelly of a goat can be labeled Cashmere. Just as Persian (Iranian) rugs are the benchmark for "oriental" rugs, Cashmere products from Kashmir are the original (the climate that produces the outer, rough protective and inner soft hairs cannot be matched anywhere else). Similarly, Pashmina wool is redundant because Pashmina comes from the word for wool in Urdu (the Arabic language of Muslims from the former Persia to India). It's like saying Chai tea. Chai is generic for tea in Hindi, the language of much of Hindu North India. Pashmina, too, originated in Persia, and the quality cannot be matched anywhere. The paisely design on many woolens and silks (from shawls to ties) worldwide also originated from this area but was named after Paisley in Scotland where woolen mills could be found aplenty in the early 19th century. So much orginally moves from East to West, but credit is not given where credit is due. Again, the quality--partly determined by the number of colors in the pattern--could never be matched outside of its original region, Central and South Asia. The Paisley symbol itself has many meanings in those regions but is likened to such vegetables as the kidney, etc. and has significant cultural meanings as well. Though I am a cool/cold weather lover, as the temps drops and days shorten, and when returning to my old babble form on fabrics/design this time on the Middle East and South Asia, I would rather think of warm-weather clothing from India : Madras cloth, seersucker, etc.! Hopefully, the next time you take off/put on your cashmere scarf to begin/end yoga class with "namaste," you will know you are bringing two long-warring cultures together sartorially, aesthetically, functionally, and most important, peacefully. Phew! But Tori looking cozy and cute in cashmere is making fall more appealing!

OH M' GAWD, FRANCY ITALY! APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED! SOME OF THESE MAY BE REPOSTS, BUT I'D RATHER REVISE LANGUAGE AND USE "REFRESHERS" INSTEAD OF RE-POSTS. IT'S SORT OF LIKE USING PRE-OWNED CAR INSTEAD OF USED, I GUESS. MARKETING, WORDSMITHING, PR, SPIN DOCTORING, ETC. THEY "REFRESH" BECAUSE THEY BRING TORI'S GOLDENPOINTE PHOTOS TO THE FOREFRONTS OF HER FANS' MINDS JUST AS RE-READING AN AWESOME NOVEL OR SEEING A GREAT MOVIE AGAIN BRINGS THEM TO LIFE ONE MORE TIME! AND IN THE CASE OF THIS SMALL MIND, YOUR REFRESHERS HAVE CREATED SENSORY OVERLOAD OF SO MANY ASPECTS OF TORI'S LOOKS AND WHAT SHE CAN WEAR SO BEAUTIFULLY THANKS TO HER "WIDE" SHOULDERS, "NON-WAIST"/STRONG CORE, AND LONG, STRONG LEGS AND EVEN SOME GLIMPSES OF HER FLAWLESS SKIN! PHEW! AS IMPORTANT, THANKS, AGAIN, FOR TAKING THE TIME TO POST ALL THOSE REFRESHERS! HERE'S TORI LOOKING STRIDENT FROM GORSUCH'S ALMOST-DAILY EMAILS:

Thanks, SnL! I definitely see the Catherine Deneuve thang going! Yours and Babylola's posts show Tori in such different looks and presented one after the other the differences are so easy to see!

Oh baby, oh baby, OH BABYLOLA! Thanks soooooooo much for all those pix! Her lips are always to die for! A little gloss doesn't hurt, either!

I have seen Tori's photos "re-freshed" on GUESS? bags and the like. This GUESS? watch add was posted here along with another one on 10 NOV 06 (BZ page 5, post #88). I'm glad it has also been "re-freshed," and the text in Russian proves she is literally a cosmopolitan (ie wordly) Cosmo cover girl and a multi-faceted model despite initially being labeled as capable of looking only all-American (an industry death knell?) and wearing only swimsuits. Yet, Tori has transcended all those initial naysayers. Those early GUESS?/Ellen Von Unwerth and Yamamay shoots and those afteward show that Tori is timeless, really, and would fit right in any decade in any century wearing anything. TIMELESS TORI; KEEP WATCHing FOR HER: (BZ page 5, post #88).

Euro or All-American, Tori's cover on Russian Vogue will be noticed by Ms. Anna Wintour's perfectionist eye and oversight of all things in her en vogue empire. Tori will be her IT girl going forward and take her rightful place among the best of the best in the fashionista world. Tori's photographs since 2006 have shown she has belonged there for some time. Congratulations, again, to Tori for her Russian Vogue cover and her ability to catch the eyes of her BZ fans and those of the fashion industry while wearing a bathing suit or haute couture and everything in between regardless of how she wears her hair, "all-american" or "Euro." PS, SnL, I hear you on the Mme. Catherine Deneuve resemblence mixed with . . .

Thanks, FRANCY ITALY, both the drink and Tori look deeeeeeelish!

Whoa, Hollander! Thanks for a great surprise as the week ends! I love it, yet another awesome look for Tori. Another cover under her belt and maybe the Vogue and other covers will move West from Russia to these here United States. It's all good for Tori and her fans! Thanks again for your keen eye! And your A/X sig in full action. . . Amazing!