Model of the Week: Anne Vyalitsyna

Anne Vyalitsyna – Anne V. for short – has become known as a new generation pinup. She got the kind of high-fashion sex-bomb career once enjoyed by the likes of Heidi Klum. She’s definitely known as a body. Not The Body - that nickname’s retired – but still an outstanding body. It’s not that she’s got a substantially better physique than other models, but she’s so exuberantly, vividly athletic, just so darn healthy that she makes everyone else look wan. But she not just in the bikini business – serious fashion loves her too. She can really swing it from high to low and back again.

 

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This is funny. Well, not in and of itself, but in context, somehow. The fact that the song is a tale of seduction, from what I can gather, coupled with, when you watch the video, Donald Fagen’s looks equals hilarity. Fagen looks like a bus stop stalker and to hear him invite a presumable girl to kick her shoes off and party is a wee bit creepy. And a lot of Steely Dan songs are tales of seduction, Hey Nineteen being particularly skeevy. In fairness, Fagen hasn’t always looked like something that washed up on the side of the highway, yet nor was he ever exactly kitty-bait, if you catch my meaning. Songs definitely can gather an unintended layer of context based on what the performer happens to look like. This one for sure would be less creepily amusing coming from the mouth of someone handsome.