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As the 90's die however, a new pack of fashion kids are forging a new aesthetic. It requires spitting out gorgeous images and then having the security to leave them lying there without soliciting anybody's approval. In other words the New Cool is about projecting beauty without bitter, insecure attitude and the cool yet sultry, detached but ambitious, innocent but assured model named Teresa is its poster girl.
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"Teresa?" French fashion icon Jean Paul Gaultier is babbling after his magnificent couture show in his tricky Franglaise "I love this girl because she is what the modern society is about. She's multiple you know. She looks Latin but she isn't. She's a very sexy girl but so dignified. I think she's got an amazing career ahead of her especially when people learn not to use her to be so classical. She is like the next Christy Turlington. Y'know, somebody with lasting calibre". |
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Early success with its constant praise can affect a young model in one of two ways: it can create a brat, because the girl before she is even adult is sucked into an adult world where clothes, car and drivers, parties and instant friends exist at her disposal. Or it can create a girl who just assumes her role in a world of five figure checks, Concorde flights and endless adoration with a kind of quiet grace. Teresa, in a photograph or on the runway speaks of that. |
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A few weeks after the shoot when I glimpse her gliding back and forth at the Calvin Klein, head high, back straight, hair lilting to the rhythm of her drifting dress I realize that she is the testament to the truth that the best models are born not made. - Wayne Sterling
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