Top Fashion Models As Writers?
posted by Giusepphine at
8/19/2008 | 1 Comments 
Last month, we featured our most popular and iconic supermodels as businesswoman. Today we are going to see them not as entrepreneurs but as literary figures. Yes, some of our top models are also accomplished writers.
Top models as writers? It simply means that even though fashion models are not priced for their brains but for their legs, there are also outstanding beauties who are equally intelligent as they are gorgeous. Beauty and brain all together, these top fashion models managed to make good in their literary pursuits with tell-alls, novels, and self-help books.
Popular models who were able to publish their books include Janice Dickinson and the book on her controversial love affairs, Iman and Cindy Crawford with their makeup guides, and Christy Turlington who published a book on yoga.
Then there are three more fashion models who join the rank of our celebrated model-writers.
Top print and runway model Carol Ann Alt wrote the “This Year’s Model,” fictional roman a clef for teens and neophyte models about breaking into the rough-and-tumble modeling world. Asked what lessons can be learned from reading her book, the model replied, “Avoid photographers looking to 'build their book' and geriatric Italian playboys bearing diamond tennis bracelets. Oh, and stop eating.”
“One of the top male models of all time” Bruce Hulse wrote “Sex, Love and Fashion,” tell-all memoir which narrates the models love affairs. Bruce Hulse was known for bedding the famous supermodels. Asked why he wrote the book, the male model answered, “To talk about my life in the wild and exciting fashion world and also to explore my journey to find true love and happiness.”
“Model” was a masterpiece of teenage fashion model Cheryl Diamond. The book tells the “triumphant rise, disastrous fall and comeback” of the teen model herself. Written for teens, the book describes Cheryl Diamond as “one of a million worker-bee models earning her keep working hair trade shows, catalog jobs and small-time advertising gigs.” She added she wrote the book because she finds the modeling world really bizarre.
It's no doubt that these fashion models also have talent in writing, enabling them to organize their experiences and ideas into the books that represent them (unless they secretly had someone write their books for them.) But what is amazing is the fact that they are able to expand their creativity from the catwalk down to the pen. And why couldn't they when they are born to be creative? For these top fashion models to be writers, its truly “a la mode.”
Dying for more fashion models' books? Check out the self-help books of our very own Hilary now!
Top models as writers? It simply means that even though fashion models are not priced for their brains but for their legs, there are also outstanding beauties who are equally intelligent as they are gorgeous. Beauty and brain all together, these top fashion models managed to make good in their literary pursuits with tell-alls, novels, and self-help books.
Popular models who were able to publish their books include Janice Dickinson and the book on her controversial love affairs, Iman and Cindy Crawford with their makeup guides, and Christy Turlington who published a book on yoga.
Then there are three more fashion models who join the rank of our celebrated model-writers.
Top print and runway model Carol Ann Alt wrote the “This Year’s Model,” fictional roman a clef for teens and neophyte models about breaking into the rough-and-tumble modeling world. Asked what lessons can be learned from reading her book, the model replied, “Avoid photographers looking to 'build their book' and geriatric Italian playboys bearing diamond tennis bracelets. Oh, and stop eating.”
“One of the top male models of all time” Bruce Hulse wrote “Sex, Love and Fashion,” tell-all memoir which narrates the models love affairs. Bruce Hulse was known for bedding the famous supermodels. Asked why he wrote the book, the male model answered, “To talk about my life in the wild and exciting fashion world and also to explore my journey to find true love and happiness.”
“Model” was a masterpiece of teenage fashion model Cheryl Diamond. The book tells the “triumphant rise, disastrous fall and comeback” of the teen model herself. Written for teens, the book describes Cheryl Diamond as “one of a million worker-bee models earning her keep working hair trade shows, catalog jobs and small-time advertising gigs.” She added she wrote the book because she finds the modeling world really bizarre.
It's no doubt that these fashion models also have talent in writing, enabling them to organize their experiences and ideas into the books that represent them (unless they secretly had someone write their books for them.) But what is amazing is the fact that they are able to expand their creativity from the catwalk down to the pen. And why couldn't they when they are born to be creative? For these top fashion models to be writers, its truly “a la mode.”
Dying for more fashion models' books? Check out the self-help books of our very own Hilary now!
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