THE BLONDE ISSUE Issue #44 August 2017
MAC FASHION HOUSE
6
Justine Wittkop : John Martinotti
SWAMP SISTERS
18
Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Emily Hoover
LEGALLY BLONDE
26
Taylor Lunde
BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN 38 Mikayla McCoy
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES 46 Chantel Petit Sage Karst Sadie Clemenson
MODERNIST COOKS
68
Amanda Ann Hillmann
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Blondes have more fun! Do blondes really have more fun? For the most part they are the butt of jokes. But is there truth that gentlemen prefer blondes?
Photographer Brenda Cook with her model Chantel Petit captures the sultriness of the spirit of Marilyn Monroe in her black and white renditioned version.
The reality is that blondes do get a ton more attention. But where did the notion that blondes have more fun come from?
Meanwhile, stylist Don Poling put together a team from Seattle to showcase our cover model Justine Wittkop with fashionable outfits from Seattle-based designer Carlisia Minis of MAC Fashion House and expertly lensed by Seattle photographer John Martinotti with hair and make up artistry by Tim Peirson to produce our main feature.
In 1955, Shirley Polkoff was working for an ad agency and she took over the Clairol account. For the clueless, Clairol is a personal care product division of Procter and Gamble specializing in hair coloring and hair care. Polkoff ‘s tag line “Does she...or doesn’t she?” helped Clairol achieve 50% market share and along with another ad campaign which asked the question, pop culture embraced the notion that blondes do have more fun. It’s hard to imagine that mere hair color would have an impact on people’s perception of whether someone is more fun or not. When you hear the movie title “Gentlemen prefer blondes” mentioned, who do you remember best from its cast of two female characters? Jane Russell or Marilyn Monroe? Why Marilyn of course! Marilyn Monroe may have been the quintessential blonde bombshell and the epitome of the term “blondes have more fun”. Perhaps, 100% of the time when you think of an example of the blonde bombshell, the image of a smiling Marilyn Monroe with her skirt flying in the air fills your mind in an instant.
Summer heat is still in full swing so we took a trip to a body of water that is not a lake or a river and ended up wading in chest deep water to get to our shoot location. We had to fight off mosquito bites and brave the cold but refreshing waters with models Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal and Emily Hoover for a refreshing shoot surrounded by the beauty of nature. This is of course the Blonde Issue so there’s a fair amount of blondes in these pages. Taylor Lunde with her blonde locks and sea blue eyes is a favorite as well as Mikayla McCoy, Sadie Clemenson and Sage Karst. In the final analysis, does it reall matter what color your hair is? Will you be treated any differently if you are blonde, blue-eyed, and tall? You be the judge! After all, you may very well find out that the jokes on you!!!
MAC Fashion House Designer: Carlisia Minis – MAC Fashion House Model: Justine Wittkop MUA: Tim Peirson Photographer: John Martinotti Stylist: Don Poling
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” --Coco Chanel
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.� --Coco Chanel
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance --Coco Chanel
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. --Coco Chanel
Model: Justine Wittkop Photographer: John Martinotti
Swamp Sisters
Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro
Lega Blo
Model: Model: Taylor BrookeLunde McCormick Photographer: Photographer: Eric Eric Barro Barro
ally onde
Model:Brooke TaylorMcCormick Lunde Model: Photographer: EricBarro Barro Photographer: Eric
Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Rene Guerrero
Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Rene Guerrero
Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Rene Guerrero
Model: Taylor Lunde Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Rene Photographer: EricGuerrero Barro
Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Rene Guerrero
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Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro
Blondes have more fun!
People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I’m blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun. --Kelly Clarkson
Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro
“.. its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them� --Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro
Gentlemen prefer Blondes “The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.� --Marilyn Monroe
Model: Chantel Petit Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Chantel Petit Photographer: Brenda Cook
“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.” --Marilyn Monroe
“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up.” --Marilyn Monroe
Model: Chantel Petit Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Chantel Petit Photographer: Brenda Cook
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.” --Marilyn Monroe
“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” --Marilyn Monroe
Model: Chantel Petit Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Sage Karst Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Sage Karst Photographer: Brenda Cook
In Europe, 17-year-old Brigitte Bardot wore scanty bikinis (by contemporary standards) in the French film Manina, la fille sans voiles (“Manina, the girl unveiled�). The promotion for the film, released in France in March 1953, drew more attention to Bardot’s bikinis than to the film itself. By the time the film was released in the United States in 1958 it was re-titled Manina, the Girl in the Bikini. Bardot was also photographed wearing a bikini on the beach during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Working with her husband and agent Roger Vadim she garnered significant attention with photographs of her wearing a bikini on every beach in the south of France. Source: Wikipedia
Model: Sage Caitlyn Karst Houlihan Photographer: Brenda Eric Barro Cook
Model: Sage Karst Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Sage Karst Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Leigh Ann Davis Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Sage Karst Photographer: Brenda Cook
Model: Sadie Clemenson Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Sadie Clemenson Photographer: Eric Barro
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