At 36,  some models look to be a bit more discreet but Heidi is holding nothing back.  Here are a few pictures from Allure magazine’s April edition.  Enjoy….

Whipped Cream

Heidi wears something "light".

Heidi goes for something snug.

Heidi's not afraid to throw her weight around.

American Apparel wants you to buy this....

There is no mistaking American Apparel advertising with anyone else. (Unless of course impersonation is the goal). It  creates and prints its own advertisements with an obvious provocative edge.  Their image  is inspired by the company CEO Dov Charney.

Their print campaign is  considered to be some of the best in the retail industry and also the most  sexually charged.  The models often go without make-up and a minimal amount of clothes except for the item being sold. …like panties or a workout leotard.  Their blemishes, imperfections and often waife-like body types are what distinguish American Apparels ads from the rest.  Concern that the company is “sexualizing” under age models have led to a few bans.

Many of the models in American Apparel’s overtly sexual advertising are recruited by Charney and his marketing department.  Plucked from the street, the adult film industry or literally working in the company’s stores, the models are immortalized in grainy, poorly lit photo spreads  Some critics have labeled their models as “cocaine-chic”, and “pre-pubescent” (though Charney and American Apparel confirm that all their models are consenting adults just looking to sell a few tee-shirts).

The Daily Helping would like to provide a closer look at American Apparel’s ad style and offer two venues. One is the year old compilation put together by the website StyleCrave.com. They offer up what was at that point, the 50 Sluttiest American Apparel ads to have graced magazine, billboards or bus kiosks.

American Apparel has also provided an online archive for their models, both male and female and so if you’re a true fan of the company, you may have found yourself a personal favorite.  Valaria, for example may have wowed you with her “printed tank thong bodysuit” but her photo spread with the “Oversized Raglan cycle shorts” may come as a wonderful surprise.

It would have been a shame to have to throw the shirt away!

A pitch for a horror movie may be something like…”Part Omen, part Jaws, part Bull Durham.”  The producer and studio will then sit back and digest the combination and see if it sounds marketable.

“It’s part Rambo, part The Sting!” A combination that sounds like money.

The Daily Helping loves a good pitch as much as the next blog, but there are certain pitches that sound too good to be true.  We think we found one that sounds pretty darn good.

“Middle Men” is an independent film that just found a home at Paramount following  lots of buzz at the recent Santa Barbara Film Festival.  What’s the pitch on “Middle Men”?  According to Variety’s Todd McCarthy, it’s “Boogie Nights” meets “Goodfellas”.

That sounds pretty good.

It has a fantastic cast.  Luke Wilson (“Royal Tenenbaums”, “Old School”), James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht. In what is called the “true story” of  Jack Harris, a husband and father who helps re-organize struggling but potentially lucrative businesses. He goes to work on a company that launches one of the very first view for pay porn sites.  His clients (Ribisi and Macht) are geniuses who are suddenly flush with money, and up to their eyes in  women and drugs.  Harris (Wilson) must try to keep the business on the rails (not those kind of rails) and in doing so, becomes entangled with the Russian mob, a porn star, and the FBI.

Now that the movie has a distributor, a trailer has finally emerged. Take a look and see if this excites you as much as it does us.  It’s an extended trailer and we’re pleased to say, Not Safe For Work. (Look for great cameos by Kelsey Grammer (Frazier) and the great Kevin Pollack (Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men). Don’t ask when it’s going to be released because you won’t like the answer: Fall of next year.

Click on this picture of Carmen for more of her Winter Games.

Angelique is a  popular Latin American television actress who found quite a following by being on a number of popular soap operas.

Click on this picture to see the entire pictorial from Brazil’s Vogue magazine.