Re: MISS UNIVERSE 2012 COVERAGE - AFTER THE PRELIMINARIES (The Heat is On!)

**Capri** Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:36 pm

Milka wrote:
Is 2012 the year Kosovo will win?
Have they found the right winner in Diana?

Laa laa laa laa laaaaaaaaa, I'm saying no more

I didn't mind Riyo - she wasn't my winner (Ly Jonaitis is still my favorite Miss Venezuela of all times!), but she was in my TOP5 - and I wouldn't mind Diana. She can be styled to become a dashing MU. Just hope this will be The Golden Handshake for Fadil, because his MU photos (not MUSA ones, the ones this year were amazing) are getting less and less inspired by a year, and there is an obvious conflict of interest anyway.

**Milka** Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:50 pm

Capri wrote:
Milka wrote:
Is 2012 the year Kosovo will win?
Have they found the right winner in Diana?

Laa laa laa laa laaaaaaaaa, I'm saying no more

Just hope this will be The Golden Handshake for Fadil, because his MU photos (not MUSA ones, the ones this year were amazing) are getting less and less inspired by a year, and there is an obvious conflict of interest anyway.

Really, I disagree. I think that he has stepped up.
Like in 2009 they just went to the beach. Didn't like it. 2010 was probably the worst Fadil's eveeeeeeeeeeeeer. Shocked

I loved this Victoria's secret style this year cheers

**Capri** Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:22 pm

Milka wrote:
I loved this Victoria's secret style this year

I wouldn't call copying the single most famous underwear brand concept exactly a brilliantly original idea. Laughing

I loved his Goddess Shoot for MUSA, by the way, they were probably his best photos for MUO ever. Maybe his contract was in line, and he felt he had to play his good card there? But I was thinking, how many years it is now that he has been doing Miss Universe? Since 2006 at least - I wasn't following MU that closely at all 1998-2005 due to being in/living in a country where MU is largely ignored during the pageant season. Maybe it's just me, but I really would like to see some renewal, either esthetic or thematic here.

**Milka** Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:27 pm

Capri wrote:
Milka wrote:
I loved this Victoria's secret style this year

I wouldn't call copying the single most famous underwear brand concept exactly a brilliantly original idea.

Did I claim it was a brilliantly original idea? NO

I said I LOVED this years Victoria's secret style.

**Capri** Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:38 pm

And I mentioned Fadil's photos were less and less inspired by a year. Not that they are necessarily bad. He has obviously worked on them, definitely more than in 2010 when some girls did get preferential treatment, others next to nothing. Wink

Just that someone new, giving their all, and not 70-80 per cent, could probably come up with something more interesting, which would give a boost to the whole contest. This is how it usually works, for brands and companies. I don't see how it wouldn't be this way for a Beauty Contest, too.

**Milka** Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:44 pm

Capri wrote:And I mentioned Fadil's photos were less and less inspired by a year. Not that they are necessarily bad. He has obviously worked on them, definitely more than in 2010 when some girls did get preferential treatment, others next to nothing. Just that someone new, giving their all, and not 70-80 per cent, could probably come up with something more interesting, which would give a boost to the whole contest. This is how it usually works, for brands and companies. I don't see how it wouldn't be this way for a Beauty Contest, too.

But maybe, just like in a certain other country, the MUO is not that interesting anymore.
Maybe it's hard for them to find new partnerships

wich is why they have sticked to Sherri Hill and Fadil Berisha for this long.

And whatever we might think,
I know that there's a lot of young girls in pageantworld who can't wait to meet Fadil and Sherri. Wink

They know their MU pageants and that is why they..... you know.... can't wait. Wink

**Milka** Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:21 pm

Oh, a picture. A PICTURE, PICTURE..... Blurry, but just look at Sara
Hallelujah and amen Smile

With Denmark
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**Canuck1986** Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:28 pm

Capri wrote:
Milka wrote:
I loved this Victoria's secret style this year

I wouldn't call copying the single most famous underwear brand concept exactly a brilliantly original idea. I loved his Goddess Shoot for MUSA, by the way, they were probably his best photos for MUO ever. Maybe his contract was in line, and he felt he had to play his good card there? But I was thinking, how many years it is now that he has been doing Miss Universe? Since 2006 at least - I wasn't following MU that closely at all 1998-2005 due to being in/living in a country where MU is largely ignored during the pageant season. Maybe it's just me, but I really would like to see some renewal, either esthetic or thematic here.

I think Fadil has been working with the MUO since 2004.

**Milka** Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:28 pm

Oh Miss Denmark, how I thank you.... cheers

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**Wojtek** Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:57 pm

**Milka** Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:59 pm

Hey, it's Christmas Laughing

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**Wojtek** Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:14 am

All the Xmas "cards"

**Del** Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:04 am

**ovidius** Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:32 am

**Cyly** Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:47 am

ovidius wrote:

I love xmas cards Smile

Girls look great Smile

Greece, Ukraine and Mexico belong to my favourite!

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Only one I realy dont like is this one ---

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**neverland** Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:03 am

Cyly wrote:
ovidius wrote:

I love xmas cards Girls look great

Greece, Ukraine and Mexico belong to my favourite!

Only one I realy dont like is this one ---

I WOULD LIKE THOSE GIRLS TO BE IN TOP 15!

**kleftokotou** Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:58 am

**Capri** Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:49 am

Del wrote:

Ok, after seeing this interview, I actually think she will be one of the underrated Europeans surprising everybody by getting a call! She is very pretty and articulate (hello, she's an actress!). It doesn't hurt that every time I hear a young lady speaking English with a German accent nowadays, I think of Heidi Klum in Project Runway. Laughing

She will completely nail her interview in the prelims, with all those Hollywood professionals attending.