Miss France has published the traditional photos of its candidates in swimsuits. And this year, they show much more than usual about each of the contenders…
It’s a must-have, as much awaited by some as it is criticized by others. The Miss France Committee unveiled this week the traditional swimsuit photos of the candidates, with a view to the 2024 competition which will be held on December 14, at Futuroscope in Poitiers. As tradition dictates, the 30 contenders for the title of Miss France 2025 carried out the famous swimsuit shoot during their preparation trip, which took them this year to Ivory Coast. It was therefore on a magnificent Ivorian beach that the regional misses posed in bikinis, with the aim of taking the famous shot which reveals the most about their anatomy. Always a delicate exercise.
This year, the photo shoot of the misses in swimsuits was even more sensitive. Several candidates were indeed victims of mishaps on this occasion. Miss Roussillon, for example, suffered from cramps behind her calf from holding the pose. More seriously affected, Miss Réunion injured her foot… while stepping on a fish bone buried in the sand! She had to be pushed in a wheelchair to rest her arch and wait on the sidelines, waiting to be able to join her comrades at the last moment. But we won’t see this in the photos, unlike another very subtle detail.
Because these swimsuit photos reveal much more about each of the Misses competing this year, compared to previous editions. The 30 candidates were in fact instructed to bring their own one or two-piece swimsuit in their luggage for Ivory Coast. A very personal aesthetic choice and therefore fraught with consequences for the election, which remains above all a beauty and plastic contest. The photos will also be broadcast on TF1 during the big evening, helping viewers to choose their favorite.
This request from the Miss France Committee was motivated by a concern to limit the ecological impact of the trip and more generally to reduce the environmental footprint of the competition. The general idea: rather than buying 30 swimsuits, some of which will only be worn for a few minutes, the Committee preferred that the candidates bring a model that they already owned “and in which they feel good”.
Paris Match also indicates that Frédéric Gilbert, the president of Miss France, “asked to reduce the volume of boxes which accompany the candidates” in Ivory Coast for the same reasons, the preparation trip carrying a lot of equipment each year, with a multitude of outfits of all sizes, to enhance beauty queens. A waste of textiles and kerosene that has become difficult to sustain. Other measures such as limiting air travel or reducing paper printing have also been put in place.