I recently got myself a copy of
Heaven, the collection of Walter Iooss swimsuit photography.
It’s a beautiful book, and one I’d like to get into more deeply at another time. But one thing it has brought to my attention is the existence of a model named Apollonia van Ravenstein.
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With a name like that, you have to become a model or a supervillain. She opted for the former, appearing in the 1979 issue with her wavy brown tresses and massageable curves.
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Apparently she was pretty big in the 70s, and her friends called her “Apples.”