Lil' Blonde Darling: Nadja Auermann!

Blonde Beauty Icon Nadja Auermann

....aaaaaand the award for my "favorite 90's supermodel" goes to.....Nadja Auermann! I mean, who wouldn't want to look like this stunning German glamazon? She was discovered at a Berlin cafe and was quickly signed to Elite in 1991. She was working steady for a few years but her career really skyrocketed in 1993 when she decided to bleach her hair platinum blonde. Her resemblance to Marlene Dietrich (which was pointed out by fashion designer Valentino) conveniently coincided with fashion's return to old school Hollywood glamour during the mid-90's, which further escalated her to "supermodel" status. She was also one of the few models to grace the cover of two fashion magazines at the same time, Sept. 1994's US Vogue and US Harper's Bazaar. Get. Into. It.

I'm wet from this much glaMOUR.

HAIR

Disco Slut

Smokey

spaghetti strap

The only makeup to EVER be worn.

Vogue.

90's Jean

I only want to be in photo shoots with myself

Cinderella glaMOUR

metal medley

Dead. Done.

....aaaaaand MOVE!

Bleach them brows!

Is it time for some 1994 blue vinyl pants?

Need I say more?

Crippled

Justify My Love

Lil' Blonde Darling: Angelyne!

Blonde Beauty Icon Angelyne

This is definitely what you would call an "LA Blonde"! Behold the epic blonde glaMOUR of Angelyne! An "actress" and "model", she's been an LA fixture since the early 80's, when a series of handbills baring her photo started to appear around the city. She soon transitioned to huge billboards, paid by, in her words "investors" which became a Hollywood pop culture landmark. She can often be spotted around Hollywood, driving in her pink Corvette with vanity license plates reading "ANGLYNE",  and toting around her pink Maltese dog, Buddah. She even ran for California Governor in 2003!! Her slogan during the campaign was "We’ve had Gray (Gov. Gray Davis), we’ve had Brown (Gov. Jerry Brown), now it’s time for some blond and pink." Calling herself a real-life Barbie doll, she is usually only seen wearing shades of pink, something that was lampooned for the character Vylette, in the 1999 film Jawbreaker. Yes, she is over the top BUT you have to admire her complete and total commitment to her look. She is never seen not "done"....and of course I have to applaud her on the shameless self promotion! Shwerk!

I mean?!

Pose!

 subtle

Definitely a vintage Frederick's Lucite marabou mule!

 I ONLY want a pink dog.

 At the gas station!

Vanity!

Hood ornament!

SHOCKING!

At the post office!

I'm a Barbie girl!

The obvious choice!

At the mini-mart!

BOOM!

At the drug store!

Lil' Blonde Darling: Teri Toye!

Blonde Beauty Icon Teri Toye

 Behold a NYC legend, kids! Teri Toye was a fashion model, an "it-girl", a downtown nightlife personality and a muse to pop art designer Stephen Sprouse. She also happened to be transgendered! She moved to NYC to study art and fashion but quickly became a fixture on the early 80's downtown club scene and happened into a modeling career by chance. After befriending Stephen Sprouse and walking in his show, she caused a sensation in the fashion world, signed with CLICK Models and walked for everyone from Chanel to Thierry Mugler to Jean Paul Gaultier. By 1987 she suddenly vanished from the NYC scene, with her surprising disappearance becoming somewhat of an urban legend. She only recently resurfaced for the 2009 launch of the retrospective coffee table book, The Stephen Sprouse Book. Teri is quite the pioneer, as very few transgendered women have found any sort of fame or success in mainstream culture. She was able to achieve what Candy Darling had wanted to achieve a mere 10 years earlier: to have a legitimate and respected career. It's no small feat, even today.

POP!

FACE

I ♥ chartreuse almost as much as I ♥ NY

Beat it!

FOIL!

YES! Why would you want to wear anything else?!

with photographer Steven Meisel

I love an unacceptable cut out.

le CLICK

I hope she saved all her clothes

with Janice Dickinson

pout

Woman in Red

with Debbie Harry at The Stephen Sprouse Book launch party, 2009