This may be the best thing that's ever greeted me in the morning:
Yes, SWINTON. YES. Tyra Banks would drown in her own joyous slobber if one of the
ANTM girls managed an angular, lean, high-fashion pose like that (instead, next cycle, she's picking only a bunch of short girls, presumably so she can then lament that none of them know how to look tall and then cut them for not growing). SWINTON is a skyscraper of a woman, but whatever optical illusion they're using -- a step-stool under the skirt? -- makes her look like a veritable beanstalk. Indeed, I wish this could be the Fug Madness statuette. If we kept an
on-site metal-worker at GFY HQ, that person would be hard at work today as Intern George danced around clapping like a little girl at a
Dora The Explorer festival.
Having said that, of course, it's definitely also a tiny bit freaky. Especially the way it looks like she's the love child of Max Headroom and one of the ashen, ethereal, bloodless Cullens (as described in the hideous
Twilight book, as opposed to as depicted in the possibly even MORE hideous
Twilight movie). But on the other hand, it's exactly the kind of cover styling one should use for SWINTON -- imagine how discordant it would feel if, say, she showed up on the cover of
Redbook in a Talbot's floral smock and pastel lipstick. We'd all look up to make sure the sky wasn't falling, then run to confession just in case.
