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Actually, I thought about it again and realise something else.While I still agree the position I defended, I presented it with the wrong arguments.It's actually the reverse : it's not that Claudia has done more high-fashion and Heidi Klum is commercial but, if you measure fame by worldwide impact, Claudia is more commercial and Heidi is more fashion related.Statistically speaking, over the past twenty years, there's actually a bigger probability that people older than 20 in the world (and by worldly,I mean everywhere from Bangkok to Dubai to Paris or Athens.If you say that the market in fashion is more interested/confined to certain occidental countries, it's true but fashion is constricted, if you want to get commercial, you have to hit a lot more spots) would have cross/browse/buy one of the more than 500 magazines that Claudia has covered many times (let alone the ones she featured in, high fashion or NOT),watch a Fanta or Pepsi commercial featuring her,a L'Oreal tv advert or at least know as a common knowledge that supermodels was a cultural phenomenom of the 90's which she was a part of, THAN to have bought something/seen an advert from Victoria Secret (which is mostly U.S based), watch a 'Project Runway' episode wich gets broadcasted in a few countries (even though there have been many versions abroad, it's not as if anyone would know that Heidi Klum was in the original one abroad), buy something at a Katie's Candies store (which is U.S based), see the Macdonald advert (whose campaign featuring her wasn't released worldwide).What I mean is that, while people know the name of Heidi Klum as a model worldwide, the commercial brands she has represented haven't been exposed worldwide for her to become as famous as Claudia.Meaning that, while you just have to turn the tv on to watch her in the U.S or to go outside to get some of her commercial brands, in the other parts of the world besides U.S/Britain/Germany, you actually have to be into fashion to watch 'Project Runway' online, to know that she featured on some Vogues (German or American) and swimsuit issues of SI (SI isn't sold everywhere a lot).The other commercial brands she represents don't even have that much coverage outside a few countries.
I was thinking about how I know stuff about Heidi Klum while many of my friends who live abroad and aren't into fashion don't and I realised that I know all these infos on her because I am into fashion.Most of my friends who live abroad barely had an opportunity to be exposed to Heidi's commercial products in the past 10 y, there would have been a higher probability for them to have seen a Pepsi/Fanta, l'Oreal adverts or buy a magazine featuring Claudia in the past 20 y many times.
You could say that the U.S/Britain and Germany represent a big part of the market and it's true, but to actually be very famous worldwide and not just commercially successful you would have be exposed everywhere as a commercial brand.You could get very rich without being as famous as other people, you know.
It's only fair that since you live in the U.S, you could assume that everyone outside the U.S knows what you're talking about but for some brands regarding their incidence wolrdwide, it's not the case.
I was thinking about how I know stuff about Heidi Klum while many of my friends who live abroad and aren't into fashion don't and I realised that I know all these infos on her because I am into fashion.Most of my friends who live abroad barely had an opportunity to be exposed to Heidi's commercial products in the past 10 y, there would have been a higher probability for them to have seen a Pepsi/Fanta, l'Oreal adverts or buy a magazine featuring Claudia in the past 20 y many times.
You could say that the U.S/Britain and Germany represent a big part of the market and it's true, but to actually be very famous worldwide and not just commercially successful you would have be exposed everywhere as a commercial brand.You could get very rich without being as famous as other people, you know.
It's only fair that since you live in the U.S, you could assume that everyone outside the U.S knows what you're talking about but for some brands regarding their incidence wolrdwide, it's not the case.
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, if there were more models who had appeal outside of the profession, then these models would not just be top models, but super no? This would fall under recognization because outside of fashion, models, generally have none, most average people think of playboy models as what modeling is lol.
, but what he said, absolutely no.
when I saw these pictures.
Who would have thought. Well, never say never.
