Arizona Muse. No, that’s not a trendy new perfume or clothing label, it’s the name of the biggest up-and-coming model in high fashion right now, and she’s not what you expect in looks, attitude, or back-story. I’m a bit in love with her, to be honest. When you imagine a SUPERMODEL don’t well kind of picture long, impossibly glossy hair that’s kind of wavy in that “I didn’t do anything but wake up” perfection way I can never achieve, a flawless face, waifer thin body, and legs that reach from here to Tennessee? Well, this young lady is changing up the “face” of fashion, and she was born in Tucson, grew up camping all over AZ and is not at all the Parisian perfection we’re very used to seeing in magazine ads–all reasons why I love her so much, and I think we should all take note of her because: she isn’t a cookie cutter image of a model, she’s herself, and she’s fabulous!
Incredibly gorgeous, incredibly different than the supermodel norm
Arizona has short, curly hair. She has ridiculously thick eyebrows. She is 22 and has a daughter. She has teeth that are a bit “funny”. Isn’t this great news? The model all the designers are now jumping to book, and bending over backwards for, isn’t a symmetrical masterpiece by heavenly hands that is impossible to relate to, it’s a girl who is beautiful without long hair, bold features, and a life story that is real, and very different most of the girls in her field. She isn’t Gisele Bundchen, who breezed in from South America with all her incredible perfection and sex appeal. She isn’t Claudia Schiffer who looks so blondely angelic that I could cry looking at her pictures. She isn’t Heidi Klum who can only be called a Glamazon and doesn’t even seem quite human in her flawlessness. Nope, the girl they all want, the girl gracing Vogue right now, is an Arizona girl with non-traditional features and, quite frankly, really bushy eyebrows. And you know what? She’s gorgeous!
Claudia, Gisele, Heidi–I love you, you are perfect, but it’s time for some variety!
I know I am always going on about the beauty in differences, the beauty in being yourself, and the beauty in what’s YOU, but it’s nice to be backed up by those gods over at Prada, Gucci, and anywhere there’s a runway in Milan. I love that they’re choosing a woman like this, as the new direction of high fashion. No, they’re not suddenly sporting curvier women down the Zac Posen runway, and no, they’re not making the ethnic quotients even in their ads, but this is a step! Arizona Muse is not your typical runway queen, and she’s being called the New Face of Fashion. That’s a big deal. Anything that starts on those runways trickles down to our world, so let’s hope this means unruly-haired, imperfect smiled, or even just different looking women start popping up on the walls of Old Navy and Target. There’s nothing more boring than monotony, I like to see a new face, and I really like it to have “funny” teeth.
Lovely, unique and just lovely
Don’t straighten your hair today. Say you’re going “Muse” with it. Liberating!
xoxoxoxo
by kimberlyjarman