Showing posts with label Kelly Emberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kelly Emberg. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Craig’s List

Two more additions to Ashley Richardson’s web of influence were hiding in plain sight on my blog.

The photo I shared here, in my exposé on SI’s Kenya obsession, puts Charissa Craig with Carol Alt in 1982.



Carol posed with Kelly Emberg in 1983.


Kelly posed with Kathy Ireland in 1989.


Kathy posed with Rachel Hunter on the cover in 1994.


And of course Rachel ran on the beach with Ashley in 1990.


This gives Charissa an “Ashley Number” of 5. She’s the only model with that number of steps.

I also already posted this 1990 photo of Sabrina Barnett back in 2015, when Swim Daily posted its first (and only) entry in their “It Takes Two” series.


This photo with Rachel gives Sabrina an Ashley Number of 2.

These two girls, along with Frankie Rayder from 2005, bring the number of Ashley-connected models to 43.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Christie and the Brinklettes

A few years ago, I spared a thought for Christie Brinkley’s (then-)teenage son, and how awkward it must be to have a mom who’s ubiquitous in sexy swimsuit photos.


Well guess what, Jack…


This just got three times as weird for you.

We may not get the Gigi/Bella sister photoshoot we’d like, but we did get a couple sisters this year: Alexis and Sailor fill out their bikinis rather nicely.

Sailor does indeed resemble her mom a bit. They both have that California girl radiance.

Whaddaya think? Are they related?

You know what would have been great? If they had Sailor recreate some of her mom’s poses. They’ve been so focused on historical recreations lately, with one model impersonating an earlier one. Wouldn’t it have been great to see Sailor doing some old-school Christie shots?


Or her three consecutive covers? That’s something I’d love to have seen.


Heck, get Sailor and Alexis together to pay homage to Christie and Maria Joao.


There were some homages this year. At least one intentional… Kate Bock here is clearly invoking Farrah Fawcett.


(Of course, Heidi beat her to it.)


Lais here reminds me of Talisa Soto.


And of course Hannah Ferguson waited only one year to pay tribute to Gigi Hadid.


And lovely tennis star Genie Bouchard casts an eye toward Rachel Hunter...


...and Kelly Emberg.


Yes, these are all quite a stretch. I'm okay making them though.