If one goes by the archives, it appears the explosive Suicide Girls website got its start one week before 9/11/01.
The world was changing.
Some things would meet a fiery end.
Others would be born of fire.
The first day that SG was active saw two notable sets:
The adorable Candy Gal by @sasha
and the bodacious Anais with the Hat featuring @anais .
Both of these models would follow up later in the month with significant sets:
@sasha with Roller Girl
and @anais with Anais on the Prowl
For boob-lovers, Anais was the clear choice in the first month.
She was the first busty beauty—a mysterious, buxom, and formidable model.
But she would soon have serious competition.
There were five notable sets in October of 2001:
-Raina-in-a-Coma by @raina
-Punkrawk Lux by @jaime
and
-MSDANGER by @debrajean .
These three laid the groundwork for an epic duel later in the month between the first two truly-important SG sets:
-Just Mary by @mary
and
-Shotgun Wedding by @debrajean
“Just Mary” announced Suicide Girls as a site to be reckoned with.
Watch out, Playboy, the upstart SG was coming for you.
You want titties???
Well, we got titties too!
Mary’s first set is an explosion of excellence. Her set was proof that SG could attract models that even the average American guy would go bonkers for.
But “Shotgun Wedding” was the other side of the coin.
Think you got the market cornered, Hugh Hefner?
Well, fuck you, Jack!
Get a load of Debrajean with a shotgun in her mouth.
Sexy.
Deadly.
Dangerous.
SG was certainly carving out its own niche.
And this set is the early quintessence of the POWER that SG models can have.
Mary has luscious breasts.
Debrajean has hairy pits.
And a crazed, sexy look in her eyes.
But nothing sums up year one of SG for me quite like Movie Night .
It is fun.
Perhaps grunge “porn”?
Pacific Northwest style.
Hipster chic.
But this particular set (credited only to its photographer [the inimitable @missy ]) is really a behind-the-scenes “slice of life”.
It’s refreshing.
Here was a new movement.
Non-traditional models.
The models that Playboy would have shunned.
And perhaps there is nothing more revolutionary than having fun.
It bears mentioning that Missy is the photographer on all these early sets.
She’s like the Sam Phillips here—capturing the raw sensuality of the early SG models as they burst forth on film like rough-hewn Elvises, Jerry Lees, and Johnny Cashes.
Don’t underestimate Missy as a photographer.
And perhaps most of all: don’t underestimate how year one (2001) makes year 21 (2023) possible.
These early models…some were apparently part of the scene for only a brief time.
But their work persists.
And many of these sets LOOK GOOD!
There is a certain style about the early SG sets…and it is certainly something to study.
Why do these sets exude freedom?
Why are they so vulnerable?
Why are they so REAL???
These early pin-ups are ROCK AND ROLL.
Punk as fuck!
No big budgets.
Just an idea.
And a model.
And go for it!
But the quality is really a product of good photography (Missy) and good models.
For me, no set in year one tops Boop by @mary .
What a goddess she is here!
Every indie rocker’s dream.
Something about that see-through bra…
By this point, Mary must have known she was a STAR.
Dig her moxie in this set.
She is full-on unashamed to be the chesty wonder riot grrrl.
But SG had more tricks up its sleeve.
Not long after this year’s best set, a new model (a real traditional beauty) would resonate with subscribers.
The angelic @echo debuted with Against Red .
And she would be back the following month—pulling even harder at the heartstrings of SG readers.
November also saw significant sets by:
@leia [Lolita Leia]
and
@penelope [The Hat]
Soon it was December. And the month would see SG successfully manage its first quarter as a going concern.
For me, there were three significant sets that December:
-Dreamer by the absolutely-gorgeous @echo
-Purrs by boob-tastic @anais
and, last but not least, a masterpiece of camera artistry featuring a ravishing model:
Knee Socks by @angelene .
And, of course, there to capture Angelene’s Modigliani-like beauty was the George Martin of this fab-fornicating website: @missy .
Something unique had been born.
The multi-girl sets were edgy and lusty.
Suicide Girls rolled the dice in a big way in 2001. And what they offered resonated big-time with those around the world who wanted something DIFFERENT from their pictorial erotica.
Even the name was edgy.
Suicide Girls.
Live fast. Die young. Leave a good looking set.
-Pauly Deathwish
