Celebrating Charleston Fashion Week with George Michael's "Freedom '90"

Indeed, we will get into the spirit of Charleston's Fashion Week with a little music and a handful of the world's hottest models courtesy of our old friend George Michael and his "Freedom '90" video. By old friend George Michael, let's just say we don't go to the bathroom together like a bunch of chicks, but still the old wanker knew how to stock a video full of form and pulchritude with the likes of Naomi Campbell in the body suit at the end of the video and dancing in cowboy boots and lingerie in the beginning of the video, Linda Evangelista as the short-haired blond hottie singing under the sweater, Christy Turlington is the floor crawling brunette with the big brown eyes, Tatjana Patitz is the blond (German) model smoking and Cindy Crawford steaming things up in a bathtub and straddling the chair with her long legs spread harking back to a flash-dance for those who remember. For the ladies, that's Scott Benoit and Todo Segalla as the male models in the video. Enjoy this six minutes and thirty seconds of art and pleasure.

Don't remember the freedom back in the '90's
For you young kids out there that's a dual-cassette-tape deck below the "new" CD player that que's the music and the big music player is a juke-box that explodes at the end of the video, which symbolizes George Michael's new start at music leaving his pop-roots with Whaam! in the past. Naomi Campbell's dancing in the beginning of the video in lingerie and cowboy boots should still be en vogue, if not, we've gone severely off track as a society at large. If you notice, Naomi is dancing with a thick cord attached to her headphones, way before the thin-ear-buds' wires, headphones used to have thick cords and a copper plug to attach to your sound system.

The flying piece of paper flying into the room was something we did as kids called, "making paper airplanes" (unlike regular crashing airplanes, a paper airplane does not make juke-boxes or guitars explode during impact). The metal thing glowing in the corner of the room was a space-heater used to heat rooms. Also, the metal thing whistling at the end of the video was a tea-kettle (used to heat water) on a radiator (a metal device that released heat before central-heating and air). Finally, the dude doing crunches by hanging upside down was the cool thing to do back in the 90's-that is if you had a threshold, a metal bar and ankle straps to clip in with to your metal/chin-up bar. (See Michael Keaton in the Batman movie).
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