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Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Spotting the latest in fashion
Magazines feature freckle-faced models
New York Times News Service
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'Freckles give you a personality without you ever having to say a word.'
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When it comes to skin tone, solids are out, and dots are in.
Open any women's magazine these days and freckled models preen and pout in ads - for Calvin Klein's new perfume Truth, for lipstick by Lancome, for Guess jeans and eyewear. Fashion and beauty editorials in magazines like this month's Allure, InStyle and Bazaar feature women whose gorgeous faces beg for a game of connect-the-dots.
In part, the trend can be traced to Maggie Rizer, a fully speckled model with a blond pageboy and Clara Bow lips who has done for us freckle-faces what Lauren Hutton once did for the gap-toothed gal. Other top models, like the Brazilian bombshell Gisele Bundchen and Devon Aoki, are also showing their spots.
Why this infatuation? "Freckles are a sign of individuality and character," said Katie Ford, chief executive of Ford Models. "They're very natural and fresh, which is the look right now."
Garen Tolkin, a makeup artist in Los Angeles, said she had recently applied faux freckles to a model using a taupe eyebrow pencil. "If there's such a thing as a complexion zeitgeist," Tolkin said, "freckles are it at the moment."
Good luck. Freckles don't exactly fit into the Hollywood aesthetic. Even with the new fad, actresses like Nicole Kidman and Lara Flynn Boyle seem to favor an alabaster hue. Take a peek at Boyle in "The Preppie Murder" in 1989: she is as spotted as a Dalmatian. That goes for Kidman in the "Dead Calm," of the same year.
One freckled celebrity who refuses to have her pigmentation camouflaged is Lucy Liu, a star of the recent film version of "Charlie's Angels." "Freckles give you a personality without you ever having to say a word," she said. "People automatically think you're fun and have a very open nature, which is a great way to be perceived."
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