Model of the Week: Carmen Kass

Carmen Kass is by  far one of my favorites. I’ve been watching her for over a decade. She’s blossomed into one of the greats, one for the ages. Kass was born in Tallinn, Estonia. She is one of the first supermodels from that corner of the world. She’s set a precedent for other Eastern European beauties, and she defines the modern, global blonde. She’s deceptively willowy, with tiny pointy  features and a steely gaze, instantly recognizable as not an American girl. American girls have that corn-fed vacant stare (not all of them, of course, but it is kind of their calling card). What I like about Carmen is her particularly Slavic reserve, the impression of wheels turning. The lights are very definitely on. She’s shown herself to be a person of substance indeed off the runway. She’s politically active in Estonia and her passion for chess has earned her the post of  president of the Estonian National Chess League. See more here.

(w/Angela Lindvall, Maggie Rizer & Frankie Rayder, Nov 2000)

(w/Ana Claudia Michels, Frankie Rayder, Angela Lindvall & Malgosia Bela)

Cloudy

Whose bright idea was it to superimpose time-lapse cloud footage over the disembodied heads of Simon & Garfunkel singing Cloudy? Whoever it was deserves an award for brilliant thinking. I think it might even be a real video made for some television programme. So I suspect. Videos – how not to make them.