Farrah Fawcett personified the glowing smile of the '70s. A Europeon Vogue cover in the early 1970s featured a model whose tanned face was still wet from a swim. The "healthy-is-beautiful" trend started some two decades ago, when the pale lips and heavily made-up eyes - the rebellious, Left Bank of Paris look of the 1960s - gave way to a natural, healthy image enhanced by good food, workout gyms and Jane Fonda. This is the look today's women try to achieve."Īs Scavullo explains of the models he photographs: "Their facial contours are perfect, they have big, intelligent eyes, and a mane of hair.
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"Even a model's skin tone implies she leads a healthy life. "What all beautiful women today have in common is an obvious look of health," says Andrea Robinson, beauty editor of Vogue. For most people, a key feature of beauty today is the good-health look. Today a segment of youth disenchanted with society is distinguished by the whitened faces, pastel hair and blackened eyes reminiscent of the German cabarets of the 1930s.īut the punk look is clearly a minority standard. This, says Norton, created an atmosphere that could easily foster the androgynous face of Twiggy. And then in the 1960s there was more concern with social protest and idealism than with feminine decorations. "Sweet enough to be edible," quips Kobal. The post-war optimism of the 1950s, for example, produced Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds.
Norton, political science professor at American University, says: "What is considered a beautiful face is often influenced by what is going on in society." Yet it is the link between fashion and politics that seems to determine beauty standards.Īs Bruce F. "Faces go in and out of fashion," says Diana Vreeland, special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. But what actually constitutes beauty in any given era is very complex. Most everyone agrees that certain women - Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman - are truly beautiful. History shows that standards of beauty are constantly changing. And Victorians, who thought tiny rosebud lips were beauty's quintessential element, would be aghast at the full, sensuous mouths admired today. The double chins on the women of Rubens would offend the lenses of present-day fashion photographers.
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They would not have prized the quirky beauty of a modern movie star such as Meryl Streep or Sissy Spacek. The ancient Greeks believed perfect proportions were the key to a woman's beautiful face. "We all seem to know the look of a classically beautiful face," says Scavullo. "Frederika," says Francesco Scavullo, fashion photographer, referring to the highly paid model. "Unique individuals like Rita Hayworth and Debra Winger," adds Kobal. "Linda Evans and Kathleen Turner," says Tony Shepherd, director of talent for Aaron Spelling productions. But it's her vitality, her personality that makes her funny and that makes her desirable and beautiful." "Bette Midler," says John Kobal, author and founder of the Kobal Collection of the History of Cinema. WHERE IS THE FACE THAT would launch a thousand ships today?
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