These images were not art. They were evidence. Evidence that the beautiful people were actually miserable, vindictive, and broke. That was the "exotica"—the beautiful freak show.
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This was the antithesis of the "heroin chic" grunge movement happening simultaneously in high fashion. This was vitality. This was health weaponized as sex appeal. It was the era of the "Pirelli Calendar" aesthetic—women who looked like they drank champagne for breakfast and tanned on the deck of a billionaire’s boat by noon. These images were not art