Kate Upton | Sunday Times Magazine | The Sexy New Pin-Up

Eric Guillemain captures Kate Upton for the latest edition of The Sunday Times Style. London looks are styled by Lester Garcia in Kate's sultry studio images storied as 'The Sexy New Pin-Up'.

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Kate Upton Should Walk Victoria's Secret 2012 Fashion Show

Image credit: GettyKate Upton raised her post-Sporting Illustrated profile with editorials in Esquire and Vogue Spain and a hot topic piece in American Vogue.

Above Kate celebrated her GQ spread, shot by Terry Richardson, wearing a studded Versace dress to an outdoor BBQ party June 25. The evening anchored the menswear shows at Milan Fashion Week.

For her Vogue feature the 20-year-old is swathed in Michael Kors and Altuzzura. London's Daily Mail writes that there's not a hint of cleavage in sight in Kate Upton's Sebastian Kim images for the July issue.

It seems that Vogue is aligned with my view that Kate has high potential as a model. What that haughty Victoria's Secret fashion show stylist Sophia Neophitou doesn't understand is that her comments about Kate's face and look hit many of us in the kisser.

Fashion, Flogging & Too Blonde Women

Because I cover women's lives from fashion to flogging, Neophitou's comments hit me as sounding like they were coming out of the Vatican. Reading them, it was clear that she would say the same about me -- in her condescending, superficial, judgmental attitude about how women should look as models and as standards of beauty.

My hair also is "too-blond" and my face is also one that "anyone with enough money can go out and buy." Presumably, I also look like "a footballer's wife". As a former executive with Victoria's Secret who made more money for the company than Neophitou can ever imagine, let me remind her that the vast majority of Victoria's Secret executives are "too blonde". Her insults were thrown at most top members of the VS executive organization.

At least in America, we are full up to our eyeballs in transvaginals probes of our private parts as the Republican party tries to take over our bodies decades after women were granted the right to birth control. Victoria's Secret is an American brand and a key leader in how women express our sexuality. I've criticized the brand more than once for not taking a stronger leadership position on critical topics surrounding female sexuality.

Kate Upton Should Be In 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Quite frankly, I think Victoria's Secret should seriously commit to using Kate Upton in the 2012 fashion show because she clearly has the body, and a strong American following. Reading the comments about Kate's Vogue pics over at Fashion Spot, it was the clear-headed ones who said "You wouldn't even know she was Kate Upton without the info. That woman looks great as a model."

The majority of Victoria's Secret customers won't boycott the brand if they use Kate Upton. Also, December is the one time of year, save V-Day in February -- when men heavily ring the VS cash registers. Can I be any clearer?

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Kate Upton | Miguel Reveriego | Vogue Spain July 2012 | 'Fuego En El Cuerpo'

There's a reason why Miguel Reveriego resides on the Anne of Carversville Private Studio sidebar as a truly sensual photographer, while Terry Richardson does not.  We have two editorials of Kate Upton this week. Richardson makes her hamburger for the July issue of GQ, while Reveriego makes a sensual goddess of epic proportions -- filet mignon -- for the July issue of Vogue Spain.

As a woman who has begged for a return to the model stature of the '90s Supermodel Glamazons, I will just kiss off Victoria's Secret fashion show stylist Sophia Neophitou and say "damn, damn, damn!" I don't care if Kate Hudson's hair is too blonde or she looks like "a footballer's wife", to quote the haute fashionista.

Kate Upton is inspiring for women totally under assault in America. Reveriego makes her an Ionian Sea Goddess, a stunning inspiration to female sensuality. Belen Antolin styles Kate in one-piece swimsuits only for this modern art editorial. /Hair by John Ruggiero; makeup by Ozzy Salvatierra.

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Kate Upton | Terry Richardson | GQ US July 2012

Kate Upton and Terry Richardson together are just plain double trouble. Upton share's the story about losing the entire top of her one-piece bathing suit during the July 2012 GQ photo shoot. The entire Bonnie & Clyde snap the sexy bombshell crew got kicked off the Santa Monica Pier.

If Kate Upton hasn't convinced us that she's in full charge of her career and how to position herself, surely sucking suggestively on a red, white and blue popsicle in her star-spangled bikini will be the nail in the coffin.

Kate plays every guy fantasy to perfection with her damn the conservative coalition gunboats: ready, aim, fire. Like us, Kate knows the finger waggers will be oggling her gorgeous physique even more than Wall Street bankers.

Love or or hate her, Kate is managing her career on Upton terms, and we respect her for having the skills to get what she wants. ~ Anne

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Kate Upton & Kellan Lutz | Yu Tsai | Abbot and Main’s Fall 2012 Campaigns

Take Kate Upton; add actor Kellan Lutz; hit Venice Beach with photographer Yu Tsai, retro wheels and motorbike in tow. Result?  Abbot and Main’s fall 2012 ad campaign, effortless California style and youthful appeal.

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YouTube Lets Kate Upton's 'Cat Daddy' Stand As Social Conservatives Protest

Kate Upton by Alexander Tamargo/Getty ImagesX-posted on AOC Body

BigDaddy YouTube Reinstates Kate Upton Video

Today's NY Daily News features Alexander Tamargo's image of Kate Upton -- much better imho than Terry Richardson's -- to update us on status of Kate's 'Cat Daddy' video on YouTube. Kate's rather salacious new video, released a couple days ago, was abruptly taken down on YouTube Wednesday morning for violating the website's rules on nudity and sexual content.

I can attest to Kate's assertion that there are many more videos on YouTube with much more salacious content. As is always the case with the demands by social conservatives that content is pornographic, their condemnation will drive video views higher.

YouTube officials eventually reached the same conclusion, writes NY Daily News.

“With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call,” said a spokeswoman for the site.

“When it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it.”

BigDaddy YouTube Took Down Flogging Video, Too

My own experience with YouTube acting as the morality police is more serious. They consistently pulled down a terrible video of a woman being flogged in Sudan, because the floggers demanded it.  Coincidentally, I just reposted this video after the April 28 Unite Against the War on Women national march. Read Republican Sue Helm Circled PA Unite Against the War on Women, Says Sudanese Activist Watching Her Hummer.

The video files were next smuggled out of Sudan to women's rights bloggers like myself. Posting the horrific video under the Anne of Carversville name on Vimeo, I knew it would stand. Then I contacted Bloomberg News as others reached out to CNN and the BBC.

Only after the major media let the flogging video stand on their websites, did YouTube relent on their own decision to ban it.

Fashion's Rarified Elite Judge Kate Unfit to Walk Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

There's no doubt that Kate is shakin' boobs and booty in 'Cat Daddy'. She seems to be managing her career just fine, catching Rick Santorum's eye at the White House Correspondent's Dinner last weekend.

Who are we to judge her? And let me say that many bloggers picked up the wrong image of what Kate Upton wore to the WHCD. In reality, she dressed impeccably.

Although Sophia Neophitou asserts that Kate will never walk in a Victoria's Secret fashion show, I'm not so sure.

“We would never use” Ms. Upton for a Victoria’s Secret show, Ms. Neophitou said by telephone last week from London.

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Memo to VS | Sophia Neophitou on Kate Upton Nastygram Gaining Traction

We have no word if Victoria's Secret Fashion Show casting director Sophia Neophitou got off her snooty woman perch in London to attend any Oscar parties last night. But Kate Upton was there, looking particularly fabulous.

VS has always believed that there's no such thing as bad publicity -- and of course they know best. Our page reads on my delayed response to Neophitou's negative comments that Victoria's Secret would never use Kate Upton in the annual fashion show because she looks like a Page 3 (The Sun in London) footballer's wife are through the roof.

Readers caused me to respond again this morning to the insult as part of a larger fashion industry woman hate issue. Misogyny expresses itself in many forms and women like Sophia Neophitou perpetuate it, right along with Karl Lagerfeld.

I love Kate's response that Gisele is a footballer's wife, which puts her in good company. The Kaiser's most recent flap focused on his first response to questions about Adele's talent, saying she's too fat. Like Kate Upton, Adele told her fashion monasticism critic where to stuff his commentary about her weight.

If the executives at Victoria's Secret assume that the insults cast Kate's way will die down, they are probably right. But today the whole story is gaining major momentum and yesterday it was the biggest story in the history of Anne of Carversville.

My thoughts this morning on Sophia Neophitou's unbelievably haughty and nasty remarks about Upton:

I’ve connected the dots between fashion and flogging since 2007. Top fashion industry stylists like Sophia Neophitou make moral judgement calls on women, just like the Catholic bishops. The whole damn world is fighting over women’s bodies and many of us have just “had it” with fashion monasticism and woman hate from fashion designers like Karl Lagerfeld to stylists like Neophitou to social conservative investors in nonprofit skin care companies.

American women are fighting for our rights to birth control in this country, and Victoria’s Secret is condemning Kate Upton as not their kind of girl. On this subject, I will have to check in with Marilyn, because she fought the same fight, being judged by elitists like Neophitou and condemned by the clergy

Victoria’s Secret may have unintentionally started a rumble here, as even they are condemned indirectly by Republican candidates for president. VS is a leader in what Santorum calls the corruption and secularism of American culture. The candidate literally damned the word 'sensuality'.  I am proud of my 10-year involvement in Victoria’s Secret, in the glory days of building the brand.

Kate Upton @ Muse Magazine, Says Gisele Is Footballer's Wife AOC Body

If Sophia Neophitou thinks the ideal VS woman is Anja Rubik, this woman Anne says "no way".  Read my thoughts on the stylist's comments to the New York Times in:

VS Stylist Says Kate Upton Is Too Fat; Anja Is Perfect? AOC Body

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