Note | Nudity We have a taste of what's coming in V Magazine's Sports Issue hitting newsstands Thursday March 1 with Sebastian Faena's scuba-diva shots of Ms Stephanie Seymour. Anticipation runs high for 'Sea More Stephanie'.
Having been a key player in the first two Victoria's Secret fashion shows, I've written that the show really has become a spectacle of questionable substance. I love VS but the show leaves me empty.
But THIS film 'Girl Panic' -- relying on talent not glitter -- is awesome. Note there's plenty of sparkle in Jonas Akerlund's nearly 10-minute feature. Campbell plays frontmanSimon Le Bon and was responsible for organizing this incredible ode to Rock 'n Roll. The remaining women are Helena Christensen (Roger Taylor), Eva Herzigova (Nick Rhodes), Cindy Crawford (John Taylor) and Yasmin Le Bon who is keen to point out "I am NOT a member of DuranDuran".
I can't watch these women without thinking of both the phenomenal, totally-empowering supers and their roles at VS. Naomi opened the second VS fashion show in drop-dead black and red drama, part of a group compliments of my work with ChantalThomass.
For the first time, I've found one image of the collection online. Bear with me while we search for more.
That day -- VSFS #2 -- Stephanie Seymour's close the show outfit was a big disappointment, coming from a friend of a VS exec. 24 hours before the show I called a seamstress in Columbus who jumped on an airplane with her portable sewing machine at 6am. We set up shop in Les Wexner's office on Madison, with tulle covering the floor.
Naomi Campbell wants to be here . . . publicity hound that she is. But you must be 40 to join this "too fabulous" club.
It's a great week for older women: Halle Berry, Stephanie Seymour and Madonna are three fab women with a commanding hold on our babe-tuned vision. All three are practicing Yummy Mummys, too.
Now all I need in my life is a Victoria's Secret/Stephanie Seymour reunion, and I just might forgive them for asking me on three different occasions, if I was buying their lingerie for my daughter. How tasteless! Three stores, three associates. It was no accident, I assure you.
Stephanie, Halle, and Madona remind us that there's more to being female, than the training wheels girls. Try women.
There is a difference between the two groups, as I keep reminding all the younger men chasing me around the globe. You think I'm kidding, but I just might surprise you big time. We'll see if I have the nerve.
Halle Berry
Give a round of applause to the Esquire guys who made new Yummy Mummy (baby less than six months ago) Halle Berry Esquire's 2008 Sexiest Woman Alive. Her acceptance speech should be posted on every woman's refrigerator.