America's Next Top Model 1101/2

Even though I am not ever going to be a Top Model contestant, I still like to quiz myself with the questions Tyra asks. I probably should come to the couch more prepared, as I would have failed.

Name 5 Working Models Today

I would have blanked out on naming 5, but could name Gemma Ward, easy, and Coco Rocha and Agyness Deyn (though probably pronounce it incorrectly).

Gemma's moving into the movie biz. Maybe Dakota Fanning can play a younger version of whatever Gemma's cast in? If you don't believe me, see the latest Dakota poster pic.

Name Favorite Designer

Not true, but the first thing that would have come to mind would be Caroline Herrera. If asked why, I would falter a bit but probably answer that she is edgy but classy. True? Not edgy at all, but that's what I'd say.

Name Favorite Heroine from English Lit

Fanny from Mansfield Park, because she says clever things. How do I know? I watched the movie; didn't read the book, but shhh. What are those clever things she says, why, I can't remember. Her last name? Can't remember (it's Price). But now that I have the internet--or, rather, wikipedia--in front of me, I now know that Fanny from the book was not quite the protagonist she was in the movie, and that naming her as my fave heroine would have required more explanation.

But anyhow, Fanny says (in the movie)--thanks to IMDB:

"I have no talent for certainty."
"I often wonder that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention."
"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."

What to Change About Fashion Industry

Wasn't really a question, but Samantha's motto got me thinking. So did Tyra saying pretty pretty is ugly ugly. While that may be true, ugly ugly is also ugly ugly, and I wish there was less of it (e.g. Marc Jacobs magazine ads). Art in fashion? Is there so little left to do in fashion we have to make art of it? I'd just stick with looking good.