Red Dog--I thought of this even before I reread the thread. I forgot to THANK YOU for posting the link to these photos. I love some of them and many people love all of them. It's clear you didn't post the link to start a rumble
Kathy--Welcome to GS!
Mathman--So whaddya think? Do we have the potential for another 12-page Sasha thread?
BTW, Galaxina was a part the murdered Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratton, ie "Star 80," played in the movie of the same name. I would have said Barbarella, but Jane Fonda never wore silver lamé, plus I didn't know if people would remember it. Now Dorothy Stratton at 18, fresh from working at a Dairy Queen in Canada, could turn on every sexual come-hither look and pose in the book for the camera. On her it looked honest and natural. For example the six-inch black heels, bend-over photo would've suited Dorothy Stratton to her sexual self T. IMO, on Sasha it did not look sexy. As I said before, to me it looked contrived. JMO.
Peach--Provocative! THAT'S the word I was looking for! And of course you're right that high fashion photo shoots are not about anything anybody would actually wear. Thanks.
Zanzibar--Thank you for clearing up the misinformation about Zakarian being Sasha's agent. I feel better now. Also when I said Zakarian was young, I should have said "relatively inexperience agent." I know he's been around the skating biz for about 10-15 years. I saw him skate his comedy routine with COI back in the mid-90s. Still didn't like the way he handled the SC "pushing" problem.
Idle--Those photos come close to what I was talking about, except I'd put Sasha in a natural setting--the ocean, her being a SoCal girl--have her get all giddy with the boyfriend but keep him out of the photo, and then try to capture Sasha's sexuality once the pheromones were going strong.
Registered--On some things, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Though I think if you read my post again, I think we agree on several things. You make excellent points that there is no "child beauty pageant" look or overdone hair and make up. And as I said before I like well-done "hot babe" photos if they're right for the person being photographed. My point was that some of the photos seemed to be trying to force a kind of contrived sexuality on Sasha that is not natural to her, at least not yet. Sasha just turned 19 and has been focusing very hard on skating. Maybe in a year or so, with more maturity (it can come fast and furious in a young woman's early 20s) and especially if she is on the podium at Worlds, photos such as the six-inch black heels, bent over shot may indeed reveal a part of Sasha's true sexuality.
IMO, photographer tried to tell the story of an athlete, who's toned body shows how hard she's working out. We can see her warming up at the bar, going to a ballet class, obviously. And then, she skates. Have anyone noticed, she's wearing skates in some of the pictures? Clothes Sasha wears in the photo spread really look more like a practice, warm up clothes, it's definitely not something wearable.
Although I see elements of a skater's story as in the things you mentioned, such as warming up, going to ballet class, skating (of course we noticed she was wearing skates in a couple of the photos--jeez, Registered
). But I've known a lot of athletes and having been a dancer, I don't know anybody whose athletic day included warming up in six-inch black pumps in a pose I can't describe the way I'd really like to, at least not on the forum. Maybe if the first photo had been at the end, as in "personal time for the athlete on a day off" I'd buy the "story of the athlete" thing--which is not to say you and others might not be right. I just don't see it that way at all.
As for the "Lolita-chic" reference, I agree that there is nothing wrong with someone looking younger than their years expressing feelings commensurate with her true age. What I was trying to say is that I felt the photographer saw Sasha's face and size, which could pass for 14 or 15, and used it to imply an adolescent expressing sexuality beyond her years in SOME, not all of the photos. The thing I didn't like is that it didn't seem to me to convey an honest sexuality.
Just to be clear, I'm not criticizing Sasha in any way. She had a gig to do a photo shoot, she obvously worked hard and complied with everthing the photographer asked her to do, and of the dozen photos, more or less, we saw, she probably posed for a hundred. As a dancer we did photo shoots and holding those poses, trying to "give" something interesting to the camera, and all the rest of it is exhausting. Not that it's a brutal job, relatively speaking, but it's still hard. I was more sore after photo shoots or posing for art classes than I was after dancing.
Finally, if you read my post again, I think you'll see that I have absolutely nothing against Sasha modeling. I never even brought it up. I'm having fun writing this post, but all that matters to those reading it is what I say and how well I say it. The problem I had was with some of the photos. As you'll see, I liked most of them and loved two of them. I just think the photographer failed in getting a sense of Sasha's true sexuality in the couple of photos where it was clear that's what he was going for. I think he fell back on clichés like the "hurt me, baby, hurt me" shoes and poses. I think of Richard Avedon's photo of Nastassia Kinski with the boa snake draped around her nude reclined body and how he got the shot just as the boa darted its tongue out as if to kiss her neck as being a great example of an exotic yet honest expression of the subject's sexuality--meaning Kinski, though perhaps the snake too
No breasts or genitalia show and Kinski's expression seems almost bored. But to me it had truth. I didn't see truth in the sexual photos of Sasha here and that's what I didn't like.
Granted, these distinctions are completely subjective and may seem subtle, but here we're discussing art, not sport. If Sorrenti had captured something that made me go, "Wow! Sasha, we never knew!" I'd be impressed. The photos emphasizing her musculature, her determination, her skating, all those were beautiful--even the dent in her stomach could be to many the "flaw" that makes the photo fascinating. However, as a whole, to me the photos were not exceptional. Also, I didn't like the way a lot of the photos were cropped, as in just below the knee in several of the skating shots, though maybe that was limited by magazine space. So my problem was with Sorrenti's choices as a photographer, not with Sasha's modelling. BTW, I'm not talking about Sasha liking modelling or having fun. I'm talking about the finished product, the photos, and whether or not they either reveal something about Sasha's "soul" for lack of better word or else deepen the mystery about her. Same standard I'd hold for similar photos of any athlete. IMO only two of these photos did showed something of Sasha's depth or increased her mystery.
I'd like to see Sasha do more photo shoots--as long as she enjoys doing them--but I think she has yet to be paired with the right photographer--ME
Just kidding--no doubt the top of her head woud be cut off in every shot.
Rgirl
it's not like I took the pictures or anything, I just wanted to share them with the group! However I also realize I didn't give my own impressions...I forgot. 
If I didn't know who Sasha was, I'd guess she was 12 at the *most*. Also, it looks like her hair is falling out from being pulled back so severely so much.
