Here's the story of a brave new world of beauty - or is it a flash in the bit bucket. I can only imagine where this concept is going.
MILAN: A Chilean soap-opera star, a beauty from Ancient Pompeii and a freckled tomboy hardly make an average beauty pageant line-up.
"Virtual models are not the anti-real, they are a different representation of reality," said Franz Cerami, the organiser of Miss Digital World.
"Pompea" was the digital reconstruction of a young woman killed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
"She was a slave, but also a rich man's lover. When her body was discovered, archaeologists found many jewels and a bangle with the inscription 'dominus ancillae suae' (from the master to his servant girl)" said Genny Tortora, a professor at the University of Salerno who led Pompea's creative team.
Other contestants included Kaya, the most realistic model with digital freckles, pouty lips and upturned nose.
Now, Cerami's dream is to manage an agency of virtual pin-ups, touting them for calendars, games, ads, and movies. One is even reported to be heading for Playboy's front page.
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