Hilobrow pinups (2)
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April 2, 2009
Some of our ideas about hilobrow found their first expression elsewhere. Here’s an item that was published — in a slightly different version — at the blog Brainiac on 10/24/06.
The October issue of Elle Magazine was an eye-opener.
From a feature on “New York’s Loveliest New Locals,” we learn that model Marie Steiss, 20, most recently seen in Givenchy’s “Ange ou Demon” perfume ads, is not only a former finance major, and a skateboarder (!), but “the doe-eyed daughter of politically beleaguered French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin” (!!).
20-year-old hilobrows interested in chatting up Marie, take note: She tells Elle that she browses New York’s Strand Bookstore for 18th-century poetry, and skates at parks in Brooklyn and at Chelsea Piers.
Elsewhere in the same story, we read that Italian knitwear heiress/fashion ambassador Margherita Missoni, 23, now a budding actress in New York, “started out pursuing something far more serious: philosophy.” It seems that Margherita was a philosophy major at the University of Milan until her mother, Angela, the force behind the Missoni label, persuaded her to quit and go to acting school instead.
Do you know what branch of philosophy MM was studying? Please drop us a line! We want to study up, in case we ever meet her.