Page 48 - AVN January 2016

by PETERWARREN
The Stars Align
Seven, to be exact, pose for 2017 AVN Show campaign
FEATURE
The biggest week in adult
entertainment calls for a few of
its biggest names to properly
personify the event in the eyes
of the masses. And so AVN recruited
seven such A-listers to grace the
promotional photos that will be seen
by industry professionals and fans
everywhere in the months and days
leading up to and continuing through
the 2017 AVN Adult Entertainment
Expo, aka The AVN Show.
Scantily adorned in red, white
and gold garnishments, Anikka
Albrite, Ana Foxxx, Nina Elle, Dillion
Harper, Tasha Reign, Romi Rain and
Vicki Chase recently gathered in a
Porn Valley photo studio to shoot
the campaign, which launches this
month.
“AVN is definitely the face of
porn,” Elle remarked. “So if you
made it onto a banner or any type of
promo with AVN, it means you’re at
the top of the food chain. It means so
much to me, just because I feel like
I’m getting recognized for my work
throughout the year, and I guess I’m
doing something right. I’m really
blessed.”
Echoed Rain, “If you’re doing the
AVN promo, you’re everywhere. So
for me it was a really big deal and
really flattering [to be chosen as one
of the models] because those are the
photos on billboards and on the side
of the hotel and inside the hotel for
the AVN Show, so people know who
you are at that point. I’m glad that
people care about the work that I’m
doing and think that apparently I’m
good enough at it to be on a big ol’
billboard. Hey!”
For Reign, “It felt really awesome
to be asked ... to be a part of the AVN
campaign,” she said. “It’s an honor. I
love AVN.
“The look of this year’s campaign
is definitely glamorous and beautiful,
and I like it actually more than last
year’s campaign,” Reign added. “We
get to wear red and white and these
fun little accessory glasses. I kind
of just like the makeup and the hair
theme.”
Agreed Chase, “I think it’s hot.
Sexy hot. I love gold, I love red, and
I think together they’re very not
only sexy, but elegant, and that’s
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something that I’d like to think of myself—I mean apart from
filthy and crazy—elegant and sexy.”
Harper, who professed, “I thought it was fucking awesome
when I got the opportunity to participate in this,” offered an
anecdote exemplifying why she was a prime choice for the slot.
“The past AVNs that we just had, I had a huge line all the
way out the front door that I wasn’t even able to get to all my
fans within the signing time that I was scheduled to be there,”
she recalled. “So I felt really bad after hearing from a fan who
waited an hour and a half to see me who didn’t even get to see
me. But I got to run into him and take photos on the side with
him because I felt so bad. Because if I ever had to wait in line
for anything for an hour and a half and I didn’t get to see the
fucking person, I would be really pissed. So I had to help my
fan out.”
Foxxx too spoke about the experience of interacting with the
loyal fans who make the trek to Las Vegas for the AVN Show.
“It’s so exciting to see that so many people watch porn,” she
marveled. “And then the group of people that specifically watch
you, it’s like, ‘Oh! Thank you for watching my vagina!’ It’s
great. It’s really flattering to get to see all the people and meet
up with people and make plans for the new year, so it’s always
a good time. It feels like porno camp.”
As for Albrite, who can’t seem to stop outdoing herself,
what with winning AVN Female Performer of the Year in
2015 and co-hosting the awards this year, being part of the
ad campaign for AVN Show ’17 is just one more feather in
an uncommonly decorated cap. But that doesn’t mean she’s
anything less than gung ho about it.
“I love the look of the campaign. I can just imagine how it’s
going to be so amazing with just the colors and the girls that
you have in the photo shoot,” Albrite expressed. “Everything
turned out so beautiful from last year’s AVN campaign, and
I’m just really excited to see what turns out this year.”
Presented by MyFreeCams.com, the AVN Show takes place
January 18-21, 2017, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las
Vegas. For more information, visit AVNShow.com.
The Girls of 2017 From left, Dillion Harper, Anikka Albrite, Romi Rain, Tasha
Reign, Ana Foxxx, Nina Elle and Vicki Chase. Photo by Chris King/ReelSeduction.com