Elite contest in Nice: future top models

Two Dutch young women, Rianne Ten Haken and Femke Lakenman as well as a Chilean, Renata Ruiz, on the podium this modelling “Miss World”. A contest on the world Net.

If “top models” represent beauty ideals on a specified time, the young participants of the international Elite Model Look contest, in Nice, will represent the reference points of the most current female beauty. The Cindy Crawford, Karen Mulder, Ines Sastre, Laetitia Casta, Claudia Schiffer of tomorrow. We will discover pictures of them in magazines and on posters. They will be the dream of a generation and they will keep the world collective imagination alive.Each one of these sixty young women between 15 and 18 years old, gathered in Nice since the beginning of September, had been selected in a different country for this international final, a kind of “Miss World” model contest. The laureates ? They have been revealed on Saturday night during a great ceremony on the Ruhl’s beach. Web surfers could watch live this ceremony on the site www.elitemodellook.com, a website which will remain open until late December.The happy winner, the one who is already sure of having contracts, is the Dutch Rianne Ten Haken. The Chilean Renata Ruiz ranks second. And the Dutch Femke Lakenman ranks third, which shows the overwhelming supremacy of Holland this year.On Elite’s website and MSN European sites we will find videos, reports on the contest backstage and many news (see article Nice and its models on the world Net which shows how the event has been exploited on a very large scale on Internet). As well on this site, we can watch books of each candidates, continent by continent. European, Asian, North or South American beauties: some of the most beautiful girls in the world at the beginning of this 21st century and a little idea beauty references according to big geographical zones.