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Brooklyn in New York

Brooklyn Decker, known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, features in the latest Lucire. We learn more about the North Carolina-raised model
photographed by Jon Moe
styled by Renata Lindlar
hair and make-up by Roz Safdari
assisted by Erin Hawley
Brooklyn Decker appears courtesy of Marilyn Agency

Expanded from issue 21 of Lucire

THIS MONTH’S Lucire features Brooklyn Decker, best known for appearing in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition. Decker was highly recommended by Jon Moe, one of Lucire’s long-time print edition contributors, not only for her earlier SI appearances, but for her rising profile: she may soon grace television screens, having finished shooting a pilot with Leslie Nielsen for 2007 release, in which she plays a villain and principal love interest.

Kettering, Ohio-born Decker was discovered in a shopping mall in Charlotte, NC, and made her SI Swimsuit Edition début in the 2006 issue. Raised in Charlotte, she is a huge supporter of her home state, a fan of the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Carolina Panthers.

The bios that record her as being born in Middletown, Ohio are from Decker’s childhood: her family was, indeed, there, for less than a year during her childhood, and her grandparents currently reside there.

The other story making the rounds on the internet, that she was named after a horse called Brook, is true. Brooklyn is a longer version of Brook—and neither parent, at the time, had been to New York. Her parents both work in the medical field—her father working with pacemakers, and her mother is a nurse—and are reportedly totally supportive of her fast-rising modelling career.

Now based in New York, Moe reached out to Decker and convinced her to appear in Lucire’s issue 21. On this page are images that do not appear in that issue—you’ll have to get the print edition to see the others in our large-format, 235 by 335 mm pages.

Other magazines in which Decker has appeared include Teen Vogue, FHM, Glamour and Cosmopolitan, and in campaigns for the Gap, Victoria’s Secret and J. C. Penney. She has also spent part of her modelling career in Australia. •

See Brooklyn Decker in ‘Temptation in Paradise’ in issue 21 of Lucire.

Main photograph: Bikini set by Hennes & Mauritz. Top: Bikini top by Roxy. Above: Bikini by Stella McCartney for H&M.

Full circle

One of publisher Jack Yan’s first print magazines was done at his high school: his yearbook. The name was a parody of Sports Illustrated, and the lads at Scots College’s Class of 1990 named Elle Macpherson their Woman of the Year.
   That year, as Jack recalled in The Dominion Post earlier this month, saw Macpherson launch her Intimates line for Bendon, with an outdoor advertisement shot by Graham Shearer at James Smith’s department store in Wellington, New Zealand, that repeatedly got stolen. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, he told the Post, was not officially available in New Zealand then, and ‘two copies made it into our classrooms, and Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter were goddesses.’
   Yan says that publishing a shoot featuring a Sports Illustrated model, and the timing of his Post story, gave him ‘a strange feeling: a reminder that there are certain things that guide you in life, and that not that much has changed between 1990 and 2007 when it comes to appealing shoots for magazines.’

Off-site link
Askmen.com: Brooklyn Decker