Needless to say we are loving the athletic feel of these looks as worn by the  lovely Laksmi Menon and Ieva Laguna. In a way you can see what it would be like if athletic brands took more creative leaps to more stylized silhouettes and colors. See credits and more images on the next page. Via Asianmodels.

The Dazed and Confused’s April 2009 issue , titled Divine Power , features the very lovely Lakshmi Menon, wearing an insane amount of  accessories. Photographed by Josh Olins, styled by Nicholas Formichetti. Luv  the mayan godess inspiration!

More beautiful images courtesy of Dazed on the next page.

I have always been heavily into fashion Magazines…any careful observation one can see that when it comes to fashion everything has to do with trends even when it comes to models, at one time it was the mega uber females like the Evangelistas,Campbells, Turlingtons,ect…then the androgynous nymph-like waifs,to the brazilian explosion,to the fair scandics and eastern europeans ,as if all women cannot get equal representation…

                                                              The rise to mainstream of Laskshmi Menon , pictured above in the Givenchy ad,from Bangalore India really makes me happy!

 For years I have wanted to see indian women in the mainstream media, (granted Givenchy and Hermes are european comanies)not that it’s necessary,I do not believe that a woman should have to see herself represented in the media to feel beautiful, but if we pride ourselves on being a country where equality is the norm than the recognition of beauty coming from different ethnicites or shades should also not  be an event…

It should be a common everyday thing…

don’t you think? 

Enjoy

-SgP