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Giselle, Naomi, and Linda Get Twitpic Happy in Vogue Italia

by Leila Brillson on December 7, 2009 at 04:10 PM

Every generation has it: the record being usurped by the portable 8-track; the movie theater replaced by the bootleg DVD; and now, rich film photography surpassed by digital (and then further bastardized by the ubiquitous cell phone camera). Sure, the kids all take winky-eyed pics and post them on their Facebooks, but when Vogue Italia and the photographer of the last 20 years, Steven Meisel, team up to do a Twitpic-themed spread, then you know: the times, they are a-changing.

Under the premise of Mr. Meisel being too sick to come into work ("Feeling a touch of swine flu..."), he asks some of the most sought-after women in the biz to "take their own pictures," and post them on Twitter. Of course, most of us don't snap pics of ourselves all dolled up in Chanel or Gucci, but give Mr. Meisel the credit. He's changing with the times -- asking Linda Evangelista to pose candidly with her daughter, and taking runway maven Abby Lee Kershaw and sticking her in the fridge. The models have humor, with Jack White's wife Karen Elson vamping it up, and Kristen McNemany launching herself and her dog into the air. Even pregnant Giselle posed sexily (covering her baby bump).

Sure, it's a gimmick, but instead of complaining about how Twitter and social networking are ruining media and how the arm-out-in-front-of-the-face pose is ruining, well, posing, perhaps this is just the fashion industry moving forward. We're fine with it -- just as long as Steven remembers that we can only handle so much self-portraiture in front of a mirror. [From: Models.com, via NYMag.com]

Tags: fashion, models, photography, top, TwitPic, twitter, vogue magazine, VogueMagazine

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