This month’s Vogue Italia reminds us that there’s no such thing as a perfect body. How true! Lily Donaldson is lensed by Corrine Day and styled by Karl Plewka for the November 2010 issue.via Fashion Copious

Whenever I see images like these, I think of the Dove 2007 Global Study on Beauty. (See Aging American Women Should Move to France.)

Dove (Campaign for Ideal Beauty) asked the question ‘what is the age of ideal beauty’? By country responses to the answer ‘twenties’ were:

USA 48%; GBR 41%; FRA 11%; ITA 16%; BRA 18%.

Conversely, by country responses to the answer ‘forties” were: