Paulina Porizkova…
I really loved working with Paulina. Besides her amazing beauty she has this crazy sense of humour… always joking around in the dressing room making like a vampire. She doesn’t take herself too seriously and this quality makes her more beautiful and a real pleasure to work with. In the early days Paulina never smiled in her photo’s. She had funny little teeth with spaces, and being the rebel that she is she refused to have them fixed. She jokingly would say; “It’s my one flaw”…I know she turned down an exclusive contract with COTY cosmetics because of this. It took her movie debut in ANNA to get her to fix her teeth and only then because it was part of the story line. After that she did sign a contract with ESTEE LAUDER for million’s. She smiles all the time now.
This is one of my favorite photo’s from the ELITE MODELS promotional calendar we worked on together in 1986 with photographer DOUGLAS DUBLER. I wanted to represent the month of December with a concept I called “Fire and Ice” which featured Paulina frozen in a block of ice just starting to melt. We hired an ice sculptor to carve out a shape in a block of ice for Paulina to stand against and then a fire bar was set up behind her so the flames would show through the ice. Paulina said it was the strangest feeling to be freezing while leaning on the ice in front while at the same time feeling the heat from the flames behind her. We had professional firemen standing by just in case…I was afraid the wig would catch fire!
When you think of ice you think of diamonds, nes’pa? Well HARRY WINSTON JEWELERS didn’t disappoint…and I still say diamonds are a girls best friend.
The Look: To portray the frozen effect I used white body makeup from KRYOLAN from head to toe. Then I made up her eye’s in several shades of lavender eyeshadow with false lashes to match all from SHU UEMURA. MAC’s Lustreglass lip gloss in Morning Glory over a mauve MAC lip pencil and a SWAROVSKI crystal beauty mark finish the look. Adding a long white wig from PIZAZZ completes the icy transformation.
