Last Post of the Year:Supermodels in lingerie and Prussian Generals

About two years ago I was walking in Kifissia with a beautiful and very elegant friend of mine. At some point we stopped to admire a shop window that had Victoria's Secret lingerie on display. To be quite honest, I didn't hear her comments because I had performed a complete shut-down, picturing her in Victoria's Secret undergarments (and later, off them).

(Karolina Kurkova at the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show,©MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved)

I do remember making a clumsy attempt at a compliment along the lines of "Let's go now, if I saw anyone escorting a lady as beautiful as you checking out Victoria's Secret lingerie, I would kill him out of pure jealousy".

(Marisa Miler at 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Photoshoot, ©MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved)

Anyway, the fact is that as each year reaches its end there are two things that I am particularly looking forward to: Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the beginning of December and the Neujahrskonzert of the Musikverein at the beginning of the following year.

(The Body II: Heidi Klum, at 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Photoshoot, ©MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved)

The thing that makes lingerie modelling so special is that, although perfect measurements may be enough for a modelling career, they are not nearly enough for lingerie.

You see, a lingerie top model embodies perfection itself (in a very literal sense, if I may say so).

(Alessandra Ambrosio at 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, ©MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved)

She has to be very pretty (forget about Gaultier's aliens on the catwalk) and she has to have a KILLER body (not a flat ironing board).
And since Victoria's Secret employs the best of the best, well...they see to it that each year has a more than magnificent sendoff.

(An angel on Earth, Adriana Lima at 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, ©MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved)

Since this is the last post for this year, let me just wish that the next year brings Lots of Sex, Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men.

Until then let's just be glad that they did not use a nuclear warhead on Benazir Bhutto, right after they shot and blasted her, just to make sure...

PS: On 30 December 1812,Generalleutnant Hans David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, commander of the Prussian expeditionary force angainst the Russians and General Hans Karl von Diebitsh of the Imperial Russian Army signed a truce, known as the Convention of Tauroggen. It was a political gamble by Yorck, based on the strong anti-french sentiment. This effectively ended the Prussian alliance (enforced by the Treaty of Tilsit) with that bastard Napoleon, opening the way for Prussia to ally with the Brittish and kick some french butt.

(Graf Yorck von Wartenburg)