Three years ago, photographer Sara Melotti was working as a fashion photographer — shooting tall, waifish model after tall, waifish model.
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Over the years, concerns moved further south, toward Barbie's waifish little waist.
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The cast was multiethnic, and sported diverse body-types, from waifish to hulking.
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Alex is handsome, wealthy, muscular, and refined; Danny is waifish, poor, and emotionally fragile.
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This waifish yet surprisingly loud-voiced woman, it seemed, was refusing to learn her place.
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I felt justifiably so superior to these privileged dog owners and their waifish, terrible dogs.
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The band Haim — three waifish sisters from Los Angeles — closed the evening with a performance.
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There were comparisons to previous girlfriends, all of whom had been waifish blue-blooded blondes.
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The new kind of idealized body—no longer the flat-chested broad shouldered swimmers—was waifish.
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Truman'—a waifish mix of similar size—'was absolutely terrified of everything when we got him.
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Indeed, she looked like a waifish version of Kirsten Larson, the 1860s pioneer American Girl Doll.
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Also, it was the '90s — the ideal body type was wan and waifish, not taut and toned.
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But he was otherwise a model bohemian, uncouth and turbulent while, at least in photographs, appealingly waifish.
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The waifish woman has had her storefront for 30 years, and has been selling street food for almost 50.
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That's right, the "waifish weirdo art kid" can teach anyone to be a photographer just by playing the game.
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Ms. Kravitz herself advanced this tender theme with a gamine look that brought to mind a waifish Mia Farrow.
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Cruz is an interesting success story in the beauty vlogging world: Unlike most of her colleagues, she's not a waifish white woman.
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Best known for playing the waifish Eponine in the movie musical "Les Misérables," Ms. Barks is clearly a talented singer and actress.
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At a truck stop Krass meets Johnny, a waifish, boyish-looking hash-slinger played by Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg's wife at the time.
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He cuts a waifish figure, but heads one of Nepal's most innovative metal bands, Underside, who combine old-school thrash with retro rock.
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Eva, a waifish daughter of a well-off peripatetic family, came to London as a child, and turned to drugs as a teenager.
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Yet, fertilizers can push this waifish modern tree to grow about 50 full-size apples, compared to as many as 300 or so on the old-style trees.
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"She kept crumpling the paper and said she couldn't do it," recalled Ms. Favel, on whose living room wall hangs a painting of Tina, waifish with big brown eyes.
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Not far away, a waifish young woman sculpted spidery 2180D figures in midair with a hot glue gun, sucking on her lip piercing with a look of deep concentration.
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In the 1980s, Calvin Klein owned a house in the Pines on Fire Island, which became a summer retreat for waifish models, bronzed adonises and fashion machers on the rise.
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Prompto -- the waifish weirdo art kid whose selfie-snapping good cheer made him a fan favorite and a cornerstone of the game's UX design -- is even further from that norm.
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The dietary situation has improved, in part because the athletic nature of the sport now suits muscular bodies more than waifish ones, but gymnasts are still expected to stay trim.
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With his waifish persona and tales of teenage prostitution, abuse, heroin addiction and H.I.V., JT LeRoy became a media darling after his therapist supposedly encouraged him to write about his life.
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This Tim Burton-directed biopic tells the story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), the American painter famous in the 1960s for her Pop art portraits of waifish children with big Bambi eyes.
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Coutard also captured the turbulent romance between Jean-Luc Godard and actress (and then wife) Anna Karina—her waifish figure and doe eyes caught in the headlights of his intimate camera work.
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Six paintings by Hernan Bas hung in his downtown Miami gallery — striking portraits of waifish young men in states of tropical repose — and the reaction was immediate from the invitation-only crowd.
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With her slight 5'7″ frame, waifish figure, and super wide-set eyes, she single-handedly changed the face of the industry and ushered in a new dominating, if seriously controversial, aesthetic for models.
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This artist is the one who comes after the waifish early years of her creative apex, an ex-folksinger trying to make her way through the '703s, getting narcissistic and angry and broke.
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In the last week of January, Ben Whishaw, the waifish and intense star of "London Spy" and the 2008 remake of "Brideshead Revisited," arrived in New York from London for a six-month stay.
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This informal police force was thick — four heavyset bruisers, all dressed in black — and mostly polite in carrying out orders, which apparently included telling one waifish young man that he couldn't wear a baseball cap.
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Following a bare-knuckles brawl with her waifish rival, Arya infiltrates an acting troupe whose specialty seems to be a play-within-the-play that is basically a recap, as farce, of the first two seasons.
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It left me afraid for every person dealing with an ED who had thought nothing of tuning into a '90s B-list comedy, only to be ambushed by a portrayal of a tragically waifish eating disorder patient.
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With his waifish persona and tales of teenage prostitution, abuse, heroin addiction and H.I.V., J T LeRoy became a literary darling whose books earned their author critical acclaim and the attention of Courtney Love and Winona Ryder.
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So it seems perverse, and maybe misguided, that contemporary filmgoers are more likely to focus on the heroine's breakaway style, an amalgam of worldliness and waifish nonchalance that has embedded itself in the consciousness of successive generations.
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Even people who haven't read The Doubtful Guest or The Gashlycrumb Tinies will likely recognize Gorey's elegant, fastidiously crosshatched pen-and-ink drawings of waifish orphans and bald-headed, bearded men in long fur coats and tennis shoes.
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Somewhere backstage—we could optimistically imagine between a collapsed Donald Duck and Goofy grinding his two buck-teeth into oblivion—Glaswegian DJ Stuart MacMillan, part of double-act Slam, is talking to a pair of waifish, conspicuous French teenagers.
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Former volunteer coordinator Hayley Pogue felt that because she didn't fit Belove's physical ideal of a sexually attractive woman — several sources described the executive's preference as "waifish," and one person described his type as "Sharon Tate" — he treated her differently.
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Death also takes anthropomorphic shape in the Norwegian "Life and I: A Story About Death," but here the Grim One bears peculiar resemblance to a waifish European model, clad in a stylish teal unitard with hoodie decorations straight from Gustav Klimt.
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It did not end that way because Ware, then a waifish junior without a true position, took off from the far hash, five yards behind the action, and ran the down the running on the other side of the field.
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Ulrike Seitz was just a 15-year-old waifish German girl clearing beer bottles at a hofbrau by the Rhine River when my father, a 23-year-old U.S. Army private stationed in Würzburg, essentially asked an adolescent girl out on a date.
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" (Thus the image of Jesus as waifish, devoid of pride.) Later, when bodybuilding emerges as a vocation in the 20th century, Kunitz discusses the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and his idea that "the trend toward bodybuilding is itself an expression of the spirit of capitalism, . . .
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Kevin O'Rourke gives a powerful and nuanced performance as the central character, Tommy, who has mundanely gone out for a bag of chips when he encounters the bloodied Aimee, nicely played by a waifish Molly Carden (though she is a bit too fresh-faced for the role).
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and LA To be sure, it's oppressive for any woman to be force-fed clots of repetitive images: the same waifish body, milk-white skin, glinting, silken hair — but in this context, white women's discomfort is born not entirely from garden-variety concerns of inadequacy.
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Spring Street (Downtown LA) All the waifish fashion bloggers with pastel hair keep posting pics from the boutiques that are popping up on this street, so I'm going to go ahead and recommend you get some clothes here from stores like Clade, Noblita, and Deandri before they quintuple their prices or close for good.
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Spring Street (Downtown LA) All the waifish fashion bloggers with pastel hair keep posting pics from the boutiques that are popping up on this street, so I'm going to go ahead and recommend you get some clothes here from stores like Clade, Noblita, and Deandri before they quintuple their prices or close for good.
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The killers are all a bunch of waifish young women, their hideout is a dilapidated Western movie set called Spahn Ranch, and Tarantino can score all the bloody scenes with incongruous pop tunes if Sony or whoever owns the Beatles catalog this week gives him the OK. The only way the thing could go even more Tarantino is if he decides to go all Basterds with it and shoot a revisionist history third act where Manson actually incites Helter Skelter and the whole world erupts in an apocalyptic race war.
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Janet Maslin for the New York Times remarked that Morton "embodies the role with furious intensity and with a raw yet waifish presence" and James Berardinelli wrote that the actress "forces us to accept Iris as a living, breathing individual". She won the Best Actress accolade at the 1998 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards and was nominated for the BIFA Award for Best Female Performance in a British Independent Film.
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Simplicity is true elegance".The Times Luxx, 26 November 2011. Dockery added that, when wearing long dresses, she tried not to look "too Downton Abbey" ... I like to make it a little bit more edgy". Around the same time, another British actress Karen Gillan, best known as Amy Pond in the BBC's science-fiction series Doctor Who, defined the look of 1960s model Jean Shrimpton, whom she greatly admired and had just portrayed in a filmed drama for television, as "messy, waifish, bony".
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TimeOut described it as "uplifting". Billboard wrote "the romantic At The Beginning solidly ushers in the soundtrack to Anastasia, with Lewis and Marx proving to be a surprisingly chemical pair. Her waifish voice gracefully flutters around his rock edged grit, while producer Trevor Horn provides a reliably grand and dramatic musical environment. Although this oh- so-charming recording deserves widespread pop play, it will likely begin its radio life at AC, where programmers are often quicker to appreciate such a lushly arranged power ballad".
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The fashion industry pushed her image further with the 'Heroin chic' look, which dominated the catwalks during that time.: waifish appearances, bony structures, thin limbs, and an androgynous figure. Although this extreme period was short-lived, the 2000s saw the rise of the Victoria's Secret models, who altered beauty norms to include slim but healthy figures, with large breasts and bottoms, flat and visible abs, and prominent thigh gaps. More women pursued cosmetic surgery practices, on top of diets and exercise regimes, to attain the perfect appearance.
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This waifish, emaciated look was the basis of the 1993 advertising campaign of Calvin Klein for his perfume Obsession featuring Kate Moss. Film director and actor Vincent Gallo contributed to the development of the image through his Calvin Klein fashion shoots.Calvin Klein special on the Biography channel The trend eventually faded, in part due to the drug-related death of prominent fashion photographer Davide Sorrenti in 1997. In 1999 Vogue dubbed Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen "The Return of the Sexy Model" and the beginning of a new era.
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Eventually he was won over by Schumacher's vision and his promise to allow the cast a lot of "creative input" in making the film. According to Kiefer Sutherland, Patric "was really instrumental" in adapting the script with Schumacher and shaping the film. Schumacher envisioned the character of Star as being a waifish blonde, similar to Meg Ryan, but he was convinced by Jason Patric to consider Jami Gertz, who had just worked with Patric in Solarbabies (1986). Schumacher was impressed, but only at Patric's insistence did he finally cast Gertz.
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Marta Heflin (March 29, 1945 – September 18, 2013) was an American actress who appeared in several Robert Altman films, including Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and A Perfect Couple.Marta Heflin, Actor, Dies at 68; Waif Seen in Altman Films, The New York Times Known for her waifish appearance, Heflin also acted in various New York stage musicals prior to her film career, such as Fiddler on the Roof, Hair, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Marta was the daughter of American theatre producer and journalist Julia Heflin and public relations executive Martin Heflin. She was the niece of Oscar-winning actor Van Heflin and actress Frances Heflin.
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Dallas (Casper Van Dien) is not a very discriminating vampire. Years ago, in an effort to save the life of Hans, the crippled son of famed Viennese vampire hunter Doctor Frederick Van Helsing, he turned him into a vampire, without permission from The Count (Robert Pastorelli). It's later revealed that he turned young and waifish Nico (Natasha Gregson Wagner), who has since been on a killing spree across Los Angeles earning her the nickname "Hollywood Slasher", which infuriates The Count, who orders her immediate death. Even with both Van Helsing and The Count on his tail and after 20 years in exile, Dallas can't resist returning to L.A. to pay a visit to his dearest friends — beautiful Ulrike (Kim Cattrall), urbane Vincent (Udo Kier), artist Richard (Craig Ferguson) and Richard's ever-pregnant wife Panthia (Natasha Andrejchenko).
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When the rule-enforcing camp director at Camp Bleeding Dove gets struck by lightning, the counselors find themselves in sole charge of their campers, and themselves. Among them are the brooding and intellectual Wichita; Wendy, who is guileless and unabashedly religious; Talia, an outcast and former college friend of Wichita's; Pixel, a waifish hippie who bathes in the camp lake; Jasper, an openly gay man; the brutish Adam; and Donald, a nerdy and unconfident virgin. Wichita, who initially finds himself repulsed by Wendy who is his polar opposite, begins to find himself attracted to her, and the two begin to court one another while the rest of the campers and counselors look on. An atheist, Wichita begins to question his belief in God after he finds a photo of himself as a child in the background of one of Wendy's family photos at Mount Rushmore; however, he does not tell her about it.
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