XPost: alt.showbiz.gossip, alt.fashion   
   From: alphakittenx@netscape.net   
      
   m~elizabeth wrote:   
      
   > I guess we are in a minority.  Oh well.  I still love getting my fashion   
   > magazines and seeing models, model.  Perhaps SI was making a statement of,   
   > "We wanted someone with a healthy BI and doesn't look emaciated".   
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   I suspect it has more to do with sales and press. The issue used to get   
   a great deal of attention, but I can't recall more than a couple of   
   covers from the past 8 years or so. Beyonce guarantees more buzz than   
   any model could deliver, I understand why they're experimenting.   
      
   In terms of regular fashion mags, I think the biggest problem is that   
   the field is dominated by two groups (the Brazilians and the Eastern   
   Europeans), and that the members of each group are pretty much all the   
   exact same type.   
      
   Christy, Cindy, Linda, Naomi, Claudia, Helena, Kate etc, none of those   
   women looked a thing alike, they all had different appeals. Aside from   
   Gisele, there seem to be very few truly distinctive yet commercially   
   viable girls around these days.   
      
      
      
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