To leave school after one of the most stressful days of my entire educational career, what a nice surprise it was to find this new editorial! Daria is featured in the new issue of Glamour Italy, in a beautiful photoshoot showcasing her NYC apartment.
Maybe it's comes with the age but doesn't this girl constantly surprise you? One minute she's nowhere to be seen, enjoying her privacy and living in seclusion (for a top model at least), only to pop up on occasion at random art galleries. Now with it being 2008, Daria's sixth year in the business, and Daria moving into her 25th year I supppose she's ready to show
more of her intimate self.
Of course we all saw a lot of Daria's intimate self with her Vogue Hommes editorial with Andres Valensco (remember the explosion over that?!) and now she's posing nonchalantly in her bed sheets. Quite demure compared to that recent beach shoot! The best part of this editorial is seeing Daria at work, and not her modeling but her artwork. Daria has mentioned on occasion that she loves to sketch and art is her medium. Fun fact: she even went to an arts oriented highschool!
I can't go long without talking about her style. Ahh, the apartment, the furniture, the clothes, the closet. In short, it's everything I would imagine my New York apartment to be. I think it's articles like this that show us a clear image of the girl who looks so different in her Versace ads and magazine covers - a really normal person ... albeit gorgeous with an awesome million dollar apartment.
Is this really Daria! There is no way... this girl is way to mysterious.
ReplyDeletealthough i love seeing more of her this is quite a surprise. but im not complaining :)
maybe it does come with age. you are right. the vogue hommes editorial was such a big step up from her. she did barely any nude work up until now! shes much more mature now. also to say shes much more ready to take off the clothes!
i like clothed boyish daria though. ill leave the nakedness to lara :P
she has immaculate taste. quite different from mine but very her
I dont know if maturity comes with taking off the clothes, but yes she does seem much more open now
ReplyDeletei agree though - boyish daria is my favourite!
It's all a guess from me: maybe she's more comfortable with her own body right now, mentally and physically. Within her artistic aesthetics, no matter how simple that is, nudity is not something prohibitive. Curious to say, I think a clothed Daria has little left to offer at this stage of her
ReplyDeletemodeling career. My point is until some photographer and stylist take a new good look at Daria and utilize her in a way that brings out her best features or even challenges her to her ultimate potential, Daria is going to be called up and do endless boring studio shoots. Daria would just select some standard poses from her pose-template (which is quite impressive), and as long as you don't put weird makeup on her or mess up her hair, everything would be gorgeous. But there's NO challenge.
BTW, I'm glad she's not taking the route of emaciating herself, unlike so many other models, and she should be proud of that. Boyish or womanly, clothed or naked, she's fabulous.
well, she's done nudity before, 'in love' was certainly her most extreme thing, it was the first time she showed her bottom totally, but for instance last year she did that editorial with carmen kass by lindbergh that was very strong.
ReplyDeleteanonymous - i'll reply a bit later! right now im off to work!
ReplyDeleteOMG, DARIA'S BACK IS SHOWING! TELL THE MEDIA AND LET'S GO CRAZY (MILEY STYLE)!
ReplyDeleteDaria's showing her home?! That's awesome. I love looking into people's lives. Showing off the homes or what's inside their bags, fridge...it's awesome.
Cool closet.
to the anonymous: i think you said something very interesting (which i will use!). the latest us vogue editorial is a further demonstration.
ReplyDeletethe question is: which kind of nudity? personally i think that the direction of the 'air libre' editorial by lindbergh (vogue paris june 2007) would be much more interesting, cos it's much more gender daring.
anonymous:
ReplyDeleteit is true. clothed daria has left little to the imagination because weve seen her do almost everything.
of course it always (almost always) works because she is such a beautiful girl who knows how to model so the end result is always "daria looks beautifuL"
"until some photographer and stylist take a new good look at Daria and utilize her in a way that brings out her best features or even challenges her to her ultimate potential, Daria is going to be called up and do endless boring studio shoots"
I agree with what you said here - most of the work weve seen is studio shots (apart from in love... and some others :P). they're pretty but forgettable - i want to see more challenge too!
and yes, she is beautiful - no emaciation or starving necessary!
"the question is: which kind of nudity? personally i think that the direction of the 'air libre' editorial by lindbergh (vogue paris june 2007) would be much more interesting, cos it's much more gender daring."
ReplyDeleteagreed - you have a good point eword. if i had to pick between the inlove nudity and the air libre nudity id definetly go for libre. her nudity wasnt really contrived in that ed, just there. it's actually one of my favourite editorials of hers
oh ps.
ReplyDeleteshe did some nudity in her W jewellery ed - i think it was 03/04?