Jean Campbell
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She really is the definition of 'bland' for me. Unless you put her in a picture that specifically requires a little bland blonde girl, she looks like a big boring bland blank in the scene.
by Theo Wenner for The Last Magazine Fall 2016
Seems like the definition of Lolita...and I hate that book.
Creeps me the fuck out
Sorry to bump her super-old thread but I don't know where else to go with it.
From her insta:
I am not an active social media person at all, so maybe I'm just dumb. But please explain it to me. So many posts like this make me ask the same question, so I am asking my SG squad.
If the angle is an innocent "omg summer's fun I love ice cream YAY" then why hold it up next to your face and gape your mouth open like a whore? And if you actually ARE going for sexy/thirst trap, then, maybe, TRY TO LOOK SEXY?
I see awkward posts like this so much, where at first I doubt myself and think I'm overanalyzing and/or being too dirty-minded myself, but then I think she must be going for one or the other? But so many girls seem to try to do something sexy but their expression is more like they're at the dentist's office. Sorry, I'm in a very weird mood today. I had pretty much this exact conversation with one of my models a few weeks ago and haven't gotten it out of my mind.
From her insta:
I am not an active social media person at all, so maybe I'm just dumb. But please explain it to me. So many posts like this make me ask the same question, so I am asking my SG squad.
If the angle is an innocent "omg summer's fun I love ice cream YAY" then why hold it up next to your face and gape your mouth open like a whore? And if you actually ARE going for sexy/thirst trap, then, maybe, TRY TO LOOK SEXY?
I see awkward posts like this so much, where at first I doubt myself and think I'm overanalyzing and/or being too dirty-minded myself, but then I think she must be going for one or the other? But so many girls seem to try to do something sexy but their expression is more like they're at the dentist's office. Sorry, I'm in a very weird mood today. I had pretty much this exact conversation with one of my models a few weeks ago and haven't gotten it out of my mind.
BTW OMFG, so much irony in SG history, sometimes I forget and then I'll be reading an old thread and see something perfect like this.
I'm getting more of a "my friend took this candid photo of me being silly & licking my ice cream" vibe.
If you're not familiar a "candid", it's a photo where the subject isn't aware they're being photographed. So when people post "candids" of themself, it's trying to look like they were photographed spontaneously without their knowledge, so, the photos aren't supposed to look like glamor shots.The way a lot of gen z girls post is either 1) trying to make the photo look like a "candid"/spontaneous photo or 2) It actually is a spontaneous photo and they're posting it for the vibe it brings, not because they necessarily think its's super flattering or that it sends a certain message. A lot of girls will also make weird/scrunched/"ugly" faces so they don't come across like they're trying too hard to look hot.
Basically, looking like you're trying too hard to look good is increasingly considered "cringe", so people try to make "non-curated" and "real" content to make everything look spontaneous and like you're just naturally perfect, but it's actually super fake and posed. It sounds insane but it's true.
I'm getting more of a "my friend took this candid photo of me being silly & licking my ice cream" vibe.
Girl I've been in this industry half my life, I know what candid means. It didn't suddenly come along with social media.Right bc nothing says "I'm not aware I'm being photographed" like super awkward eye contact with the camera.
That makes total sense and is definitely true. The world I'm in of NY/EU fashion though is a different more uptight world. Still full of old money and very traditional views. My models aren't coming to me for social media "strategy" but I do tell them what the agency expects or doesn't for vibe/reputation. I've also been known to make girls take things down. Fashion houses are very sensitive about models socials now. They didn't give a shit a few years ago. But I get it, my models post normal real life unposed/unrehearsed things all the time and that's good.
I don't even remember what I meant about Jean's pic now, other than it seemed like EITHER a cringe attempt at sexy (and that is still 100% what I think it was) OR a clumsy attempt at bring fun/cute. There's a lot of ways to look silly/cute with ice cream without the innuendo. But if you ARE going for the innuendo, do it right.
Sorry if I sound like a bitch toward you @emilywaldorf, you know I like you! I did ask for explanations and you were trying to explain, but the first part was super condescending. I'm on holiday weekend though with my family so maybe it's just bc my nerves are already at 99% capacity.
OMG I’m so sorry, I’m fucking stupid. I interpreted you asking for an explanation literally. Sometimes I’m not sure if things are common slang or just gen z slang from tiktok or whatever, I did not mean to sound condescending whatsoever.
Oh my god I find this even more brutal in how it's not even phrased as a polemical insult it's just an ice cold description.
& for me your question read more as a politeness in at least leaving open the possibility that it might be something more than being too braindead and confused in what they want to actually commit one way or the other — and then no surprise that they don't develop a skillset in either. (If you're going to be a skank at least commit!)
Thought of when sometimes people take too literally the social statement that I'm 'confused' by something without actually weighing the social context of the situation and making it awkward. Like okay well if you're going to force me to specify uncouthly I was being polite because I just wanted to get away from this mess kthx byeeee