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LenoreX, you are awesome.   :heythere:

Candice is my favorite VS swim model, bar none, and these are great shots.  Some new poses and angles, including that very first shot--dynamite!--and the white bikini with her leg hanging over the rock's edge...OUTSTANDING.  But my favorite in both sets?  The pic in the little blue number, where she's smiling off to the side.  Playful, relaxed, almost like it isn't staged.  Thanks.  Candy lighting up the beach.   :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

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Finally, I’ve been waiting patiently for this.  The greatest swimsuit model and one of the greatest models, period, of all time only gets better  :clap:

 

Candice, you are a goddess, keep it up babygirl.

 

Thanks, as always LenoreX  :thumbsup:

 

I know we don't agree on everything, but that is one thing we do.

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Nice article about Candice on Vogue
 
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/03/12/candice-swanepoel-modelling-bottletop-charity-collection 
 
And another one from the Telegraph from a couple of weeks ago. Sorry if they are reposts
 
If you could bottle Candice Swanepoel's star quality, it would sell at the rate of knots. Warm, open and, of course, beautiful, it's little surprise that Bottletop, the altruistic accessories brand, was keen to get her on board as an ambassador.


The partnership started about a year ago, and when Swanepoel was first approached it didn't take long for her to realise that it was a partnership she wanted to be involved in.

"I felt that it was the perfect fit for me because I'm from Africa originally but I grew up partly in Brazil as well, I went there when I was 17 years old," she explains. "They have education programmes both in Africa and Brazil, so for me to be able to tie it all together and travel to both places, both cultures really inspired me."
IN PICTURES: The fashionable rise of Candice Swanepoel
Bottletop, in its most basic form, was founded in 2002 by Cameron Saul, son of Mulberry founder Roger Saul, through a collaboration with his father's brand. A handbag design made in Africa of recycled bottle tops but lined with Mulberry leather quickly sold out and the proceeds of the sales went to fund grass roots education in Africa. Co-director Oliver Wayman later came on board, bringing along a bag he'd discovered in Brazil that was made form upcycled ring pulls. They discovered their own technique of recreating the aesthetic and the rest, as they say, is history.
All of the Bottletop designs are created by hand in the company's Salvador, Brazil atelier by women from local favelas, teaching them vital skills and allowing them to form a sense of community. The profits from all of the sales are then used to fund The Bottletop Foundation, which uses contemporary art and music to raise funds and awareness for education projects that tackle teenage health issues in Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Brazil and the UK.
Candice is in London, on Valentine's Day, to highlight the brand's new collaboration with designer Narciso Rodriguez - 100 per cent of proceeds from which will go to fund delicate, complicated issues in the brand's uniquely creative way. The partnership sees two new designs, 'The Candice' handbag, named after Swanepoel, and 'The Jessica' clutch, which is named after the actress Jessica Alba as a thank you for her part in introducing Bottletop to Rodriguez. At £1,250 and £595 respectively, the bags pitch Bottletop as a "sustainable luxury brand that is creating beautifully crafted accessories and using those as the vehicles to drive this sort of empowerment," explains Saul.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02823/candice-swap2_2823407a.jpg

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Candice with the Jessica clutch
Swanepoel's knowledge of the areas in which Bottletop operates has, perhaps surprisingly, been key. Having grown up in South Africa and Brazil (she has been with her Brazilian boyfriend, fellow model Hermann Nicoli, for seven years, has a house there and is fluent in Portugese) she's all too aware of the problems that parts of both countries face.
"AIDs, single-mother pregnancies, drug abuse, domestic abuse, the fact that there are a lot of cultural things that the tribes learn in Africa that are not healthy for them in the end," she says. "There are just so many problems and something like this, making money to go and educate these people of simple facts, to teach those kinds of things, that can save people."
Of the women who work in the atelier, Swanepeol comments: "Now they have a reason to wake up, go and learn a skill, and it's a proper profession for them to learn such beautiful artwork."
But Candices's involvement isn't strictly selfless. "It's helping these people but it's helping me too," she confesses. How? At 25, she's been in the fashion industry for 10 years and has successfully straddled both high-fashion and the more commercial side of the business, particularly in her role as a Victoria's Secret Angel (last year she ranked in Forbes's list of the top 10 highest-paid models) - but such success has, it seems, brought with it a healthy dose of disillusionment.
"It's a problem that I deal with everyday," she admits. "The business is extremely superficial and that's why I crave to find things that are more real and make me feel better about it."
"I love my job, I'm so lucky to have the life I have, and I have worked hard for it, but I do see a big problem in what people value - people have lost the real reason for life," she continues. Lately, she tells me, she's been returning to her New York apartment and getting the urge to "throw everything away", purge herself of 'bought happiness' as if she's once and for all realised that 'things' don't bring you happiness.
READ: Candice Swanepoel pulls a pose for Bottletop
As such, she finds solace in the work she does with Bottletop and in Brazil, her spiritual home - it reminds her of the farm she grew up on in South Africa and it's clear to assume it's where she pictures herself settling down. It's this that seems to set her apart from her contemporaries.
"What inspires me in my work and gives me a different look in the eye is learning and experiencing these things. I feel like a lot of my fans see something different in my eyes - I grew up differently, I value different things to a lot of other models," she says.
As such, she doesn't consciously aspire to make herself into a 'brand' like some other equally-as-successful models have. "It's funny, I have two sides - I'm quite ambitious, I like to work but then I have another side of me that really doesn't need that much," she says.
For her, right now at least, it's about "feeding her soul, being a bit more quiet and doing smaller projects that I'm inspired by rather than building a brand."
"I would just love to enjoy my life and have a simple house on the beach and teach my [future] children what I value in life and what I've learnt from growing up in Africa with those values - going out into the world, seeing what I don't like, what I think is wrong and teaching them that," she says, crediting her boyfriend and their private life together with keeping her very much grounded.
What - you may wonder - would one of the world's most beautiful women rather be doing on the international day of love? "I'm not much of a Valentine's Day girl," she says matter of factly. "It's a nice excuse to be romantic but it's a fine line for me because I don't like anything false and forced, so I'm a difficult one!"
And with that, Swanepoel's image as a fluffy pink Victoria's Secret airhead is well and truly abolished.
 
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG10636652/Candice-Swanepoel-the-supermodel-saying-no-to-superficiality.html 

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A real source of inspiration, beautiful inside and outside, I find it so ... perfect, yes it is. I love the simplicity that emerges, she doesn't take the head and not looking to start a brand as she says and I find it beautiful.

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