The modeler can use this visualization to better understand differences among models, and to create new models from their combination.
Among models made by the same automaker, though, handling will differ little because they share the same chassis.
For Ms. de Vasconcelos, the desire among models to go back to their origins is natural: "The circumstances of my birth never left me," she says.
As with other aspects of fashion, the preferred look among models is subject to influences as fluky as the economy, politics and editorial diktat.
The action takes place among models who are roommates in Miami's South Beach, following them and their Faye Dunaway-like agents through their glitzy, empty lives.
"I've never seen a successful lounge in Miami," he said, standing among models and club kids in the V.I.P. area.
Despite perennial complaints that models are too thin, there is a new sense of concern that designers are contributing to unhealthy and potentially life-threatening behavior among models vying to appear in their shows.
The six-point pact, which is published in June editions of the title, will put forward a new initiative to discourage ill-health among models, and also, one would imagine, among readers.
The new avatar among models is Nadja Auermann, a skyscraper blond White Goddess Nazi Valkyrie with nyloned legs up to her shoulders, struck-by-lightning hair, painted nails, and red lips that scare me.
Among models that emphasize style, Mr. Smith recommended the 1958-60 Ford Thunderbird, 1959 Chevrolet Impala hardtop, 1961-63 Ford Thunderbird, 1966-67 Oldsmobile Toronado and the 1967-70 Cadillac Eldorado.
And when she comments obliquely on prostitution among models and hints at the dubious preferences of an agent, the stench of human trafficking is impossible to ignore.
