Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Topless Tuesday: Chrissy, Lily, Nina, 2014

Chrissy had a bit of an umbrella mishap last night.


So she's this week's Topless Tuesday model, along with a couple friends to make her feel better.



Hope you feel better, Chrissy.

Calendar Girls, Revisited: 1990

The very first week of the very first Swimsuit Desk Calendar. Stephanie Seymour, clinging to a rock while wearing that beautiful yellow one-piece thong. I remember it well, which makes it kind of astonishing that Stephanie presided over the birth of Michelle Vawer, a model whose one year in the swimsuit issue was already seven years ago.
But there’s Michelle’s birthday. Wednesday, January 3.


A few weeks later, Elle Macpherson was displayed on desks everywhere as future Rookie of the Year Kelly Rohrbach entered the world on Sunday the 21st.


Rachel Hunter offers Hannah Davis a pinch to grow an inch on Hannah’s birthday, May 5.


The next day, May 6, Ashley Richardson guided Jasmyn Wilkins into the world. You saw a lot more one-piecers in the issues and calendars of the late 80s/early 90s.


SI swimsuit legend Christie Brinkley welcomes SI swimsuit legend Lais Ribeiro on October 5.


And finally, two different girls — Ashley Smith and Chanel Iman — arrived (ironically) during a week with an unattached twin. They were born November 26 and December 1, respectively. According to the caption, that week's model was Yvonne Sylvander, but if it was actually Yvette who would know?

Monday, December 31, 2018

Hailey New Year

I just got my desk calendar/planner/diary or whatever for 2019.


Hailey Clauson is on the cover a second year in a row, making her the fifth girl to have a desk calendar cover-repeat, after Heidi Klum (1999/2000), Marisa Miller (2007/2008/2009), Brooklyn Decker (2010/2011), and Lily Aldridge (2015/2016). I think that list establishes Hailey as one of the elites.

She’s in a polka-dot bikini this year, ending a two-year streak of one-piecers (Hannah Davis wore one in 2017). Before that, there was a 17-year gap between Heidi Klum’s 1999 cover and Hannah’s. Bikinis, it seems, still reign.

I’ve expanded my collection of every desk calendar SI swimsuit has published, bringing the total to 30.


THREE DECADES. I’ve been a fan for a long time.

A few years ago (SEVEN ACTUALLY), I bridged the gap between generations of models by opening some of the earlier calendars to the birthdates of the more recent models. It was a fun and instantly aging thing to do. (Sailor Brinkley Cook, who I believe is the youngest SI swimsuit model currently in existence, was 13 and a half when I posted it.)

Good to have you, Sailor.

As I predicted, there are a lot more girls to do that with today than there were back in 2012. I thought I’d take the next few days to update the list.

And to feel so, so old.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Thumb-Hook Thursday: Genevieve Morton, 2014 and 2015

Genevieve is here to prove that a thumb-hook doesn't have to be applied to the bikini bottom...
...but it's always great if it is.

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

One-Piece Wednesday: Megan Williams

Another Wednesday, another 2016 also-ran. This time, slender Brit model Megan Williams shows us a couple one-piecers for GQ Italy:


...and Agua Bendita swimwear:


...and this, which might be for Guess, but who knows?