Feature Story: Double Vision

The Colorist celebrates classic and offbeat beauty.

by Jeryl E. Spear

While selecting models with John Simpson and Dimitrios Tsioumas, we were willingly inserted into the controversy surrounding reed-like beauty versus the new "real woman" phenom. Tsioumas, who stands in the classic camp, adores statuesque, thin-as-a-rail models, while Simpson is passionate about finding beauty in the everyday woman. So, we pondered, "Should we go matchy-matchy by forcing one of our stylists to realize the other's vision, or use this opportunity to celebrate leggy sylphs and curvaceous sirens?" The answer was a no-brainer: Double Vision is a work of diversity that echoes the age-old adage, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

View a pdf of the complete Double Vision article.