I’ve been waiting for these images to come in for whatever reason. I guess I always enjoy looking at Gisele Bundchen editorials. Gisele covers the November issue of Vogue Paris, in an editorial shot by Inez & Vinoodh. I’m not really crazy about Inez & Vinoodh in general – I think they’re pretty overrated as fashion photographers. It’s like they come from the Mario Testino School of Fashion Photography, which is to say “obvious,” bordering on boring. I have to admit, I do like these photos. They’re giving me a late ‘80s, early 90s supermodel vibe. Gisele is always good at that – think whatever you want about her, but her look and her profile as a model does mean that she’s a throwback to the golden age of supermodels.

Gisele is also becoming something of a real estate mogul, jointly with her husband Tom Brady. Tom and Gisele just completed their massive “green” mansion in LA and they’re still working on their Massachusetts home, and now Page Six reports this morning that they’re picking up a luxury Manhattan apartment:

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are splurging $14 million on an apartment in the storied One Madison Park glass tower, Page Six can exclusively reveal. The Patriots’ quarterback and the top-earning supermodel have gone into contract on a three-bedroom, full-floor condominium on the 47th floor, we’re told. A source said: “They went for the model apartment, which is a full-floor private residence with amazing city and river-to-river plus park views.”

A previous listing said the apartment boasts breathtaking views north and west, including a vista directly up Madison Avenue.

“It will allow Tom Brady to look down on Gotham like Batman,” another source quipped — which will surely unnerve many Jets and Giants fans.

The interior of the dazzling duo’s apartment, crafted by Danish designer Thomas Juul-Hansen, boasts solid quarter-sawn white oak plank floors and oversized doors, a master bedroom with his and hers closets and a master bath with a soaking tub and custom double vanities, perfect for the world’s most beautiful couple.

The glistening tower on East 22nd Street ran into financial woes after it hit the market in 2007. After a succession of foreclosures and lawsuits, the nearly empty tower was rescued by Related Companies, which attracted prospective buyers including Leonardo DiCaprio and fashion mogul Vera Wang, who looked at the $50 million triplex penthouse on the 58th to 60th floors.

Bündchen, the world’s highest-paid model, who earned $42 million last year, according to Forbes (while hubby Brady made $48.3 million), previously owned a triplex penthouse on West 11th Street, which she unloaded for $4.4 million. He had a condo at Time Warner Center, which he sold for $17.5 million.

They also have a sprawling, 14,000-square-foot mansion in LA they built from the ground, and are currently building a similar-size manse in Brookline, near Boston. A rep for Brady said, “He doesn’t comment on his private life,” while reps for Bündchen and Related didn’t get back to us.

[From Page Six]

I love talking about/thinking about real estate. If you had Gisele-and-Tom money, would you spend that cash building mansions from the ground up? Or would you buy already-existing properties and fix them up with your unlimited budget? The idea of building from the ground up scares the hell out of me, so I would probably buy existing properties and fix them up and renovate them to my (luxury!) needs. Also: is there really a need to have huge properties in LA, NY and Massachusetts? I get that they spend half the year (or more) in Massachusetts, so that home is needed. But NYC and LA? Ugh. Maybe they’re just investment properties.

Photos courtesy of Vogue Paris.