3 thoughts on “Missy Rayder in Vogue Ukraine, 2014”
A) I call that “looking like a normal high-fashion model”
A) Miss Rayder looks like an attractive young woman, but she has a thousand-yard stare here and the general air of just having survived an artillery barrage that is a tad off-putting. Perhaps that’s just me.
B) They use American-style landlines telephones in the Ukraine?
C) The idea of a “Vogue Ukraine” seems a bit odd, but perhaps it was not so strange in 2014. I forget how long there has been a war there.
I have been overseas a few times in the past 8 years, and if my memory is right, they have the same crappy-looking landline telephones in every hotel room everywhere.
But those are touch-tone phones. In contrast, this particular one …
(1) is an old-fashioned rotary phone. Those may or may not work in any given system, but a quick Google search shows that they were still available in Ukraine as of December, 2013, including one that looks like this one.
(2) does not appear to have a cord. It is probably not a functional element, but rather a decor element. I guess it’s sort of a clunky effort at the Ukrainian version of art deco.
A) I call that “looking like a normal high-fashion model”
A) Miss Rayder looks like an attractive young woman, but she has a thousand-yard stare here and the general air of just having survived an artillery barrage that is a tad off-putting. Perhaps that’s just me.
B) They use American-style landlines telephones in the Ukraine?
C) The idea of a “Vogue Ukraine” seems a bit odd, but perhaps it was not so strange in 2014. I forget how long there has been a war there.
I have been overseas a few times in the past 8 years, and if my memory is right, they have the same crappy-looking landline telephones in every hotel room everywhere.
But those are touch-tone phones. In contrast, this particular one …
(1) is an old-fashioned rotary phone. Those may or may not work in any given system, but a quick Google search shows that they were still available in Ukraine as of December, 2013, including one that looks like this one.
(2) does not appear to have a cord. It is probably not a functional element, but rather a decor element. I guess it’s sort of a clunky effort at the Ukrainian version of art deco.