Nobody can be
indifferent to the new phenomenon of pin-up girls or models, extremely popular in
the English-speaking countries and somehow also penetrating in the Latin ones. Pin-
up models...as "pinned-up" on the wall!
Who wants to escape from a dream like being a cover
girl of a trendy magazines, having magazine
spreads, calendars, posters, a centerfold in Billboards and
commercial advertisements even only for one day in nowadays culture of image?
For me, all began when
I popped for my first time at my arrival in London into a tattoo beauty parlor run by a
close Italian friend of mine living there. After troubled teenage years, constrained in a
chauvinist mentality overwhelming all around me, that brought me far away from the caring education
cherished by my beloved aunties, that I remember, when I was a child, pulling
vintage, especially art déco, bric-a-brac and garments from trucks and precious
boxes, leaving me mellowly astonished and with my eyes full of dreams, three
rounded cheesecake pin-up pics hung in his studio’s wall gets me personally and
artistically inspired. What started out as a sign of destiny that would have changed my life.
I rediscovered my love
for this style and had my first sexy vintage photoshoots in Mayfair, Milan and
Rome, posing for friends and professional photographers, working for many
companies, having my lessons of burlesque and basic pole dance, even hoping to try some competitions but I was not so athletic, maybe I didn't have much time to dedicate myself in training my body as a soldier and I've always been reluctant to strict techniques in the expression of my body...so I started to act, to pose, to mock inside with a bit of austerity, to have my catwalks and above all to write on it...
Armed with a tube of
red lipstick, snug pencil skirt, devastatingly high heels, I found to have a
mission: to give my contribution in bringing glamour and sex-appeal to the
world! Full luscious lips, voluminous red hair reflecting all of my personality
like anything else and the perfect curves…for me all is concerning Pin-up
girls, vintage and burlesque is about emotions and glamour! I can’t never
get enough of it!
I slowly moved also into
freelancing with photographers which led me back in front of the camera.
Modeling has been one of my greatest passions and I keep on loving pictures.
I simply adore
this style that embodies my ideal of femininity: slender with slight ample bosom, skinny hips
and little tender bottom (size 3-6 years), with torso shape tighten in wasp-waist corsets, changing and playing with my hairstyle, making photographic portraits as in pen-and-ink Gibson style, whose main
symbol was a sophisticated Camilla Antoinette Clifford, or as in the cheesecake
photography.
I started to dream about about these clad, sexually
attractive women wearing girdles in refined clothes as Dior, shopping in Fifth
Avenue, or portrayed by Vargas, in all their declination of style leading to
bombshells, that brought somehow comfort to troops involved into the WWII with their
stylish poses and seductive glances. They were for the first time considered
symbols of an open sexuality with their corseted narrow wasp waists in the era
of the Hays code.
Moreover, it has become an incredible fashion: people like me are more and more attracted by this kind of TV shows, go to cinema, theatres and dance halls to watch these performances... they read out books about it, they blog about it
and meet up in special places listening to rockabilly music just
to enjoy the revival of golden age Hollywood stars and one century ago covering
myths!
I managed to be a self-trained pin-up photographer, vintage hair guru, an
improbable make-up artist, painter, artworker... I've found my personality was up
for anything and ready for new transforming experiences! Nevertheless, although being also a photographer myself, I have
found have much more fun on the other side of the camera!
I stuck in my mind an
unavoidable to do list!
I started grooming myself like I was going on my honeymoon, shaving, waxing,
tweezing, trimming anything was needed, painting my nails, wearing garter belts
and stockings, even restyling and building a proper “pin up personality” in a different key than in the past, practising flattering poses and generating pleasure...even when the quality of the image could suck,
retouching photos could be a good expedient, always remembering that Photoshop is a tool, not a miracle provider!
If you can't do it by yourself, carefully choose and pretend to trust your personal photographer! He can help you by the use of technologies to get the result we want, including cameras, special
effects and filters, if he can't catch the perfect emotion of the moment!
Furthermore, opening up my wardrobe and fill it with anything lacks or it's proper to my day mood, making my personal make-up, never forgetting eyelashes and to look sexually alluring with a slight vein of innocent and coquettish charm... 60 minutes photo session for approximately 75 shoots for a perfect style for me it's too much...2 minutes and I get it!
A set of modelling pics are often the basis for pin-up paintings! The depth of these portraits comes from somewhere ancient in you, and these photos
totally tell the story behind them, snapping the movements, the facial expressions mixing originality with fantasy!
This is the kind of process I like to get inspired by when I paint colours, textures, sceneries and personification of what is in my mind with pencils, brushes or digitally, although technology sometimes restrains
the creativity flow, not always working well!
This pin-up obsession’s brought me to stay on
network with other models and photographers and “talking to people that are into the culture”, also participating in
online groups, being generally involved in burlesque, or rockabilly, past re-enactments as important elements of pin-up fashion.
I don’t certainly
expect this to be a magical short-cut to a life of glamour and marabou-trimmed
negligees or an escape from a boring life (...you might get paid for photoshoots,
but it couldn't be enough to pay your expenses) but the exaltation of feminine sensuality
and a reboosting of the personality in a, sometimes, dehumanizing society. It’s nothing
about really being a celebrity for other people but above all for yourself!
Words are out… the
fruits of this labor is definitely an healthier diet and a strong dedication to the refinement of
my look!!!
I feel it could be a blessing experience for every woman and I think
the whole matter is cool!
Perhaps, it will never make of you a billionaire but for sure it stimulates your
creativity, make you leave more space to feed your dreams and continually reinvent your sensuality!
