Vogue has spoken, and the word is this: It was the Brazilians, then it was the Eastern Europeans, and now it is the Dutch. They are officially the It Girls of the fashion world.You’ll have to take my word for it, or check this bootleg scan, since Anna Wintour won’t release her precious magazine pages online.
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one obsessed with the Dutch. I enjoyed this blurb from an earlier Vogue.com blog post (amusing enough that it almost makes up for the tired headline on the piece):
“If you approach a girl in Amsterdam these days,” says Sarah Keller, who founded the Paparazzi model agency here in 1996, “she’ll tell you, ‘I was already scouted two times today!’ ” Keller gets about 150 E-mails and calls per week from model hopefuls. Since the girls search out Keller, instead of the other way around, I decide to just visit Keller at her offices to learn about the Dutch phenomenon.
So hooray for the Dutch, the modeling world’s new phenomenon. Maybe, as the Brazilian models coincided with the (in my mind, unfortunate) global trend of the Brazilian, these Dutch lovelies can help bring about a more bike lanes, sensible and accessible health care, and a widened, open-minded world view. (It could totally happen, butterfly-effect-style.)
And I do agree. I think Lara Stone is beautiful (if, maybe, not savvy enough to say no to this unbelievably unfortunate photo shoot). I thought this photo from W magazine a few months ago was arresting:
It also made me want to go buy that crisp white shirt (but not the top hat).
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