Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Elissa Cannelle
Makeup: Lili Choi
Hair:Martyn Foss Calder
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
French Elle March 19, 2010 cover: Behati Prinsloo, ph: Kayt Jones
French Elle March 19, 2010 cover
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Elissa Cannelle
Makeup: Lili Choi
Hair:Martyn Foss Calder
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Elissa Cannelle
Makeup: Lili Choi
Hair:Martyn Foss Calder
Purple Magazine: Behati Prinsloo + Mark Gonzales, ph: Ari Marcopoulos
Ari Marcopoulos photographed Behati Prinsloo & Mark Gonzales for a Purple Magazine editorial in New York with stylist Heathermary Jackson
Purple Magazine Editorial
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Ari Marcopoulos
Stylist: Heathermary Jackson
Makeup: Romy Soleimani
Hair: Holli Smith
Purple Magazine Editorial
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Ari Marcopoulos
Stylist: Heathermary Jackson
Makeup: Romy Soleimani
Hair: Holli Smith
March 2010 Russian Elle Cover - Anne Vyalitsyna, ph: Joshua Jordan
Joshua Jordan photographed Anne Vyalitsyna for an the March 2010 cover of Russian Elle on December 10, 2009 in New York with stylist Ekaterina Mukhina.
March 2010 Russian Elle Cover
Model: Anne Vyalitsyna
Photographer: Joshua Jordan
Stylist: Ekaterina Mukhina
Makeup: Fabiola
Hair: Fred Vandebunt
March 2010 Russian Elle Cover
Model: Anne Vyalitsyna
Photographer: Joshua Jordan
Stylist: Ekaterina Mukhina
Makeup: Fabiola
Hair: Fred Vandebunt
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Monday, 29 March 2010
Karen Elson in the NY Times
From: The New York Times:
Karen Elson Is Dressing the Part, and Singing It
By MELENA RYZIK
LIFE is unfair and everybody knows it, but should you require a refresher, you need only to watch Karen Elson, the redheaded supermodel, design muse and wife of Jack White of the White Stripes, sing.
There she was Monday night at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village, performing songs from her debut album in a voice that can go from retro-breathy chanteuse to rootsy belter in a few notes. It was the fourth stop in a whirlwind mini-tour that included Nashville, where she and Mr. White live with their two children, and Austin, Tex., where she played at the South by Southwest music festival. The shows were intended to introduce Ms. Elson as more than just a pretty face, or even a pretty voice, but as an artist in her own right.
At each gig she took the stage in a peach-dyed vintage gown and a 1917 Gibson Style O guitar to give a preview of her album, “The Ghost Who Walks,” which was produced by her rock star husband (who plays the drums on it) and is due out May 25.
At the New York show, a homecoming of sorts, the audience was filled with fashion and music folk: the bassist Melissa Auf der Maur; Agyness Deyn, the model and tastemaker; Grace Coddington, the Vogue editor. The latter sat close enough that Ms. Elson could banter with her about her coral suede shoes, a namesake pair — the Karen — made for her by Tabitha Simmons, also of Vogue.
Mr. White was not there — he is touring in Australia with the Dead Weather, some of whose members also moonlight for Ms. Elson. Her bandmates include Mark Watrous (who has also played with the Raconteurs, another of Mr. White’s bands) on fiddle and pedal steel guitar, and Jackson Smith — son of Patti and husband to Meg White — on electric. The video for the album’s title song, in which Ms. Elson alone sings and strums while her band stands around in the shadows, has already racked up more than 54,000 YouTube views.
This is not the way most bands get their start. But far from discounting her modeling career and famous collaborators, Ms. Elson is straightforward about the advantages they confer.
“If I wasn’t a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, ‘I don’t have to work right now, I can sit and make my record,’ ” she said the morning after the Poisson Rouge show, over several coffees at the Breslin in the Ace Hotel. Though she has long been musically minded, “I could never have made this record five years ago,” she said. “This record only could have been made with Jack.” They were married in 2005.
Ms. Elson is hardly the first model to take up with a musician, or to aspire to make the transition from runway to stage. Recording an album is an ambition that stretches back at least as far as Twiggy, more recently attracting catwalk legends like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. (Surely you remember “La La La Love Song”?)
“After Carla Bruni, I expect every model to pick up a guitar,” said Dmitry Komis, a curator and writer who came to the Poisson Rouge show with the designer Zaldy, who styles the Scissor Sisters and who named Ms. Elson as one of his muses. (“She’s so down-to-earthy,” he said.)
Ms. Elson, 31, picked up a guitar — and a four-track — nearly a decade ago when she was living in the East Village, and taught herself to play. Since 2004, she has performed with the Citizens Band, a political cabaret act she helped establish. Before she left her hometown near Manchester, England, to model at 16, she fronted a salsa band.
“I was always singing, as a kid,” she said. “That’s honestly all I’ve ever wanted to do. But really, I doubt I would have ever done it” if not for modeling.
Growing up in “a sleepy, grim, Northern English town,” she said, “there was nothing expected of me. You grew up, you got married, you had kids, and maybe you worked in the supermarket. You didn’t have any aspirations to anything grand.”
Ms. Elson’s fashion career is beyond grand; she has walked or posed for nearly every major designer and photographer, carried campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel, graced countless magazine covers and really no longer needs a last name.
So despite the musical credentials, she must now battle an attitude succinctly summed up by a fan at one of her Austin shows. “She’s great,” he said as Ms. Elson sang in a tiny pop-up shop for Third Man, Mr. White’s record label. “I mean, look at her. Look at her!”
Told of the comment, Ms. Elson shrugged it off. “You know, models, people roll their eyes,” she said. She herself was one of them. “I for years just believed that this had to be a personal project,” she said of her music. She feared ridicule: “like it’s like me trying to get more attention. I was cautious because if there’s something bad out there, it’s doubly as bad because you’re a model. It’s like, oh, stick to the day job.”
Now she is in the position of both being in thrall to her looks — because they’re a big part of what makes people interested in her — and pushing against them.
Her album leans toward dark, spare Americana in instrumentation and themes. Ms. Elson wrote the guitar parts and lyrics, and the band and Mr. White did the rest. Ms. Elson said she listened to Harry Smith’s Smithsonian folk anthology for inspiration. Onstage, eyes closed, she weaves like a 1960s folkie.
The title track comes from a nickname she had as a child — Ms. Elson says she was teased about her appearance — but the story is even more gruesome: it’s about a man who murders his lover. “Have you ever been in a relationship where you see a gleam in the person’s eye you’re with and it’s like, wow, you’re scary, you hate me?” she said. “Pre-Jack, there was a lot of anxiety even the men I was dating had, about me being a model or maybe me earning more money than them.”
She credited living in Nashville with helping her gain perspective. She and Mr. White set up house there five years ago and have two children: Scarlett, 3, and Henry, 2.
She wrote the album largely in her walk-in closet and recorded it with Mr. White and friends in their backyard studio. (Real estate is unfair, too.)
Still, Ms. Elson said, South by Southwest, with all the insiders and hype, was daunting. “Put with all the industry types and like, ‘All right girl, sing’ — it very much felt like that, like, O.K., I’ve got to prove myself,” she said.
Mr. White did not respond to requests for comment. But he has been hands-on in the album’s marketing, said Kris Chen, a vice president at XL Recordings, which is releasing “The Ghost Who Walks” with Mr. White’s label. But the album “was carried by her voice,” Mr. Chen said.
Asked who the audience is for her music, Ms. Elson said, “I have no idea.” Still, she plans to tour, likely without Mr. White. “Getting my sea legs, that’s I how I describe it.”
Ms. Elson doesn’t expect to give up modeling. “I think that would be really pretentious — ‘I’m sorry, I’m now a musician,’ ” she said. “Other than viewing them as the golden handcuffs, I might as well just appreciate it. I only hope I can improve the idea of model-slash-anything. I only hope I can do it justice.”
Karen Elson Is Dressing the Part, and Singing It
By MELENA RYZIK
LIFE is unfair and everybody knows it, but should you require a refresher, you need only to watch Karen Elson, the redheaded supermodel, design muse and wife of Jack White of the White Stripes, sing.
There she was Monday night at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village, performing songs from her debut album in a voice that can go from retro-breathy chanteuse to rootsy belter in a few notes. It was the fourth stop in a whirlwind mini-tour that included Nashville, where she and Mr. White live with their two children, and Austin, Tex., where she played at the South by Southwest music festival. The shows were intended to introduce Ms. Elson as more than just a pretty face, or even a pretty voice, but as an artist in her own right.
At each gig she took the stage in a peach-dyed vintage gown and a 1917 Gibson Style O guitar to give a preview of her album, “The Ghost Who Walks,” which was produced by her rock star husband (who plays the drums on it) and is due out May 25.
At the New York show, a homecoming of sorts, the audience was filled with fashion and music folk: the bassist Melissa Auf der Maur; Agyness Deyn, the model and tastemaker; Grace Coddington, the Vogue editor. The latter sat close enough that Ms. Elson could banter with her about her coral suede shoes, a namesake pair — the Karen — made for her by Tabitha Simmons, also of Vogue.
Mr. White was not there — he is touring in Australia with the Dead Weather, some of whose members also moonlight for Ms. Elson. Her bandmates include Mark Watrous (who has also played with the Raconteurs, another of Mr. White’s bands) on fiddle and pedal steel guitar, and Jackson Smith — son of Patti and husband to Meg White — on electric. The video for the album’s title song, in which Ms. Elson alone sings and strums while her band stands around in the shadows, has already racked up more than 54,000 YouTube views.
This is not the way most bands get their start. But far from discounting her modeling career and famous collaborators, Ms. Elson is straightforward about the advantages they confer.
“If I wasn’t a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, ‘I don’t have to work right now, I can sit and make my record,’ ” she said the morning after the Poisson Rouge show, over several coffees at the Breslin in the Ace Hotel. Though she has long been musically minded, “I could never have made this record five years ago,” she said. “This record only could have been made with Jack.” They were married in 2005.
Ms. Elson is hardly the first model to take up with a musician, or to aspire to make the transition from runway to stage. Recording an album is an ambition that stretches back at least as far as Twiggy, more recently attracting catwalk legends like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. (Surely you remember “La La La Love Song”?)
“After Carla Bruni, I expect every model to pick up a guitar,” said Dmitry Komis, a curator and writer who came to the Poisson Rouge show with the designer Zaldy, who styles the Scissor Sisters and who named Ms. Elson as one of his muses. (“She’s so down-to-earthy,” he said.)
Ms. Elson, 31, picked up a guitar — and a four-track — nearly a decade ago when she was living in the East Village, and taught herself to play. Since 2004, she has performed with the Citizens Band, a political cabaret act she helped establish. Before she left her hometown near Manchester, England, to model at 16, she fronted a salsa band.
“I was always singing, as a kid,” she said. “That’s honestly all I’ve ever wanted to do. But really, I doubt I would have ever done it” if not for modeling.
Growing up in “a sleepy, grim, Northern English town,” she said, “there was nothing expected of me. You grew up, you got married, you had kids, and maybe you worked in the supermarket. You didn’t have any aspirations to anything grand.”
Ms. Elson’s fashion career is beyond grand; she has walked or posed for nearly every major designer and photographer, carried campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel, graced countless magazine covers and really no longer needs a last name.
So despite the musical credentials, she must now battle an attitude succinctly summed up by a fan at one of her Austin shows. “She’s great,” he said as Ms. Elson sang in a tiny pop-up shop for Third Man, Mr. White’s record label. “I mean, look at her. Look at her!”
Told of the comment, Ms. Elson shrugged it off. “You know, models, people roll their eyes,” she said. She herself was one of them. “I for years just believed that this had to be a personal project,” she said of her music. She feared ridicule: “like it’s like me trying to get more attention. I was cautious because if there’s something bad out there, it’s doubly as bad because you’re a model. It’s like, oh, stick to the day job.”
Now she is in the position of both being in thrall to her looks — because they’re a big part of what makes people interested in her — and pushing against them.
Her album leans toward dark, spare Americana in instrumentation and themes. Ms. Elson wrote the guitar parts and lyrics, and the band and Mr. White did the rest. Ms. Elson said she listened to Harry Smith’s Smithsonian folk anthology for inspiration. Onstage, eyes closed, she weaves like a 1960s folkie.
The title track comes from a nickname she had as a child — Ms. Elson says she was teased about her appearance — but the story is even more gruesome: it’s about a man who murders his lover. “Have you ever been in a relationship where you see a gleam in the person’s eye you’re with and it’s like, wow, you’re scary, you hate me?” she said. “Pre-Jack, there was a lot of anxiety even the men I was dating had, about me being a model or maybe me earning more money than them.”
She credited living in Nashville with helping her gain perspective. She and Mr. White set up house there five years ago and have two children: Scarlett, 3, and Henry, 2.
She wrote the album largely in her walk-in closet and recorded it with Mr. White and friends in their backyard studio. (Real estate is unfair, too.)
Still, Ms. Elson said, South by Southwest, with all the insiders and hype, was daunting. “Put with all the industry types and like, ‘All right girl, sing’ — it very much felt like that, like, O.K., I’ve got to prove myself,” she said.
Mr. White did not respond to requests for comment. But he has been hands-on in the album’s marketing, said Kris Chen, a vice president at XL Recordings, which is releasing “The Ghost Who Walks” with Mr. White’s label. But the album “was carried by her voice,” Mr. Chen said.
Asked who the audience is for her music, Ms. Elson said, “I have no idea.” Still, she plans to tour, likely without Mr. White. “Getting my sea legs, that’s I how I describe it.”
Ms. Elson doesn’t expect to give up modeling. “I think that would be really pretentious — ‘I’m sorry, I’m now a musician,’ ” she said. “Other than viewing them as the golden handcuffs, I might as well just appreciate it. I only hope I can improve the idea of model-slash-anything. I only hope I can do it justice.”
Friday, 26 March 2010
Cartie eau de Cartier fragrance campaign: Shannan Click, ph: Matthew Brookes
Matthew Brookes photographed Shannan Click for Cartier eau de Cartier fragrance on September 23, 2009 in Paris.
Cartier eau de Cartier Fragrance
Model: Shannan Click
Photographer: Matthew Brookes
Cartier eau de Cartier Fragrance
Model: Shannan Click
Photographer: Matthew Brookes
Thursday, 25 March 2010
i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Paola Kudacki, stylist: Havana Laffitte
Paola Kudacki photographed Mariacarla Boscono for an i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial on December 6-7, 2009 in New York with stylist Havana Laffitte.
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Paola Kudacki
Stylist: Havana Laffitte
Makeup: Tyron Machhausen
Hair: Peter Gray
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Paola Kudacki
Stylist: Havana Laffitte
Makeup: Tyron Machhausen
Hair: Peter Gray
i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Willy Vanderperre, stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Daniel Jackson photographed Mariacarla Boscono for an i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial on December 1, 2009 in Paris with stylist Olivier Rizzo.
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Willy Vanderperre
Stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Paul Hanlon
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Willy Vanderperre
Stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Paul Hanlon
The Last Magazine spring 2010 Cover: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Daniel Jackson
Daniel Jackson photographed Mariacarla Boscono for The Last Magazine spring 2010 cover on December 5, 2009 in New York with stylist Alastair McKimm .
The Last Magazine Spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Daniel Jackson
Stylist: Alastair McKimm
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Kevin Ryan
The Last Magazine Spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Daniel Jackson
Stylist: Alastair McKimm
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Kevin Ryan
Muse Magazine Spring 2010 cover: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson photographed Mariacarla Boscono for the Muse Magazine spring 2010 Cover on December 4, 2009 in New York with stylist Leslie Lessin.
Muse Magazine spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Stylist: Leslie Lessin
Makeup: Frank B
Hair: Peter Gray
Muse Magazine spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Stylist: Leslie Lessin
Makeup: Frank B
Hair: Peter Gray
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Stolen Roses
This acoustic performance of 'Stolen Roses' was shot in Laurel Canyon, California. It was directed by Maximilla Lukacs and Sarah Sophie Flicker.
Karen Elson at Le Poisson Rouge on March 22, 2010
From LePoissonRouge.com:
Karen Elson's forthcoming album The Ghost Who Walks marks the debut solo release from the singer/songwriter. After finding success as a model at an early age, Karen has kept her musical career on something of a slow burn until now. She's been garnering widespread critical acclaim as a founding member of Manhattan's celebrated political cabaret troupe The Citizens Band for several years, and her beguiling voice has appeared on recordings from Robert Plant and Cat Power, but it wasn't until 2009 that Karen entered the Third Man Studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record 11 of her own songs. With production by Jack White, the forthcoming album is set to be released on Third Man/XL in the summer. Karen Elson's performed at Le Poisson Rouge on March 22, 2010. This was first New York City show as a solo artist.
Songs: a cover of "Milk and Honey" and the title track from her album " The Ghost Who Walks":
Karen Elson's forthcoming album The Ghost Who Walks marks the debut solo release from the singer/songwriter. After finding success as a model at an early age, Karen has kept her musical career on something of a slow burn until now. She's been garnering widespread critical acclaim as a founding member of Manhattan's celebrated political cabaret troupe The Citizens Band for several years, and her beguiling voice has appeared on recordings from Robert Plant and Cat Power, but it wasn't until 2009 that Karen entered the Third Man Studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record 11 of her own songs. With production by Jack White, the forthcoming album is set to be released on Third Man/XL in the summer. Karen Elson's performed at Le Poisson Rouge on March 22, 2010. This was first New York City show as a solo artist.
Songs: a cover of "Milk and Honey" and the title track from her album " The Ghost Who Walks":
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Kylie Bax, Photo: Steven Klein, Stylist: Edward Enninful
i-D Magazine March 1998
Model: Kylie Bax
Photographer: Steven Klein
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Hair: Michael Boadi
Kylie Bax
Wears: Vintage coat, dress and bag
Age: 23
CV: Born in New Zealand. Scouted in a regional beauty contest at 17. Campaigns include Versace, Clinique, Louis Vuitton, DKNY, Anna Sui, Sonia Rykiel
Famous for: Slightly odd androgyny, part David Bowie circa Man Who Fell To Earth and part Madame Gres. Always immaculately turned out
"Personally, I think that all you need to be well dressed is a really good winter coat"
Model: Kylie Bax
Photographer: Steven Klein
Stylist: Edward Enninful
Hair: Michael Boadi
Kylie Bax
Wears: Vintage coat, dress and bag
Age: 23
CV: Born in New Zealand. Scouted in a regional beauty contest at 17. Campaigns include Versace, Clinique, Louis Vuitton, DKNY, Anna Sui, Sonia Rykiel
Famous for: Slightly odd androgyny, part David Bowie circa Man Who Fell To Earth and part Madame Gres. Always immaculately turned out
"Personally, I think that all you need to be well dressed is a really good winter coat"
V Magazine #64 - Iselin Steiro, ph: Inez van Lamsweerde + Vinoodh Matadin, stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin photographed Iselin Steiro for a V Magazine #64 editorial on January 7, 2010 in New York with stylist Panos Yiapanis.
V Magazine spring #64 Editorial
Model: Iselin Steiro
Photographer: Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Hair: Jimmy Paul
Makeup: Peter Philips
V Magazine spring #64 Editorial
Model: Iselin Steiro
Photographer: Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Hair: Jimmy Paul
Makeup: Peter Philips
V Magazine #64: Angela Lindvall, ph: Inez van Lamsweerde + Vinoodh Matadin, stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin photographed Angela Lindvall for a V Magazine #64 editorial on January 7, 2010 in New York with stylist Panos Yiapanis.
V Magazine #64 Editorial
Model: Angela Lindvall
Photographer: Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Hair: Jimmy Paul
Makeup: Peter Philips
V Magazine #64 Editorial
Model: Angela Lindvall
Photographer: Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Panos Yiapanis
Hair: Jimmy Paul
Makeup: Peter Philips
Monday, 22 March 2010
The Kids Are All Right: Planet Awesome Kid/Global Action for Children on style.com
From style.com:
As nice as it was here in New York, plenty of fashion folks with children (David Neville and Gucci Westman, Jenna Lyons, and host Mary Alice Stephenson) spent Saturday afternoon inside at Milk Gallery at a fundraiser held by Planet Awesome Kid. The Web site is one part The Sartorialist for the under-12 set and another part party planner, and the beneficiary of the event was Global Action for Children, a charity whose honorary chair is Angelina Jolie. She and Brad weren’t in attendance, but there were models (like Dorothea Barth Jorgensen, pictured) and A-listers (Brooke Shields included) for moms and dads to ogle, while the kids watched break dancing by Kid Flash and Full Circle Soul, painted alongside the world-famous graffiti artist Aero, or got spotted for a fashion campaign. No word on whether it was coincidence or kismet that a KCD employee casting tots for a Benetton ad took a break from work upstairs to check out the party.
—Nicole Phelps
Photo: Craig Arend
As nice as it was here in New York, plenty of fashion folks with children (David Neville and Gucci Westman, Jenna Lyons, and host Mary Alice Stephenson) spent Saturday afternoon inside at Milk Gallery at a fundraiser held by Planet Awesome Kid. The Web site is one part The Sartorialist for the under-12 set and another part party planner, and the beneficiary of the event was Global Action for Children, a charity whose honorary chair is Angelina Jolie. She and Brad weren’t in attendance, but there were models (like Dorothea Barth Jorgensen, pictured) and A-listers (Brooke Shields included) for moms and dads to ogle, while the kids watched break dancing by Kid Flash and Full Circle Soul, painted alongside the world-famous graffiti artist Aero, or got spotted for a fashion campaign. No word on whether it was coincidence or kismet that a KCD employee casting tots for a Benetton ad took a break from work upstairs to check out the party.
—Nicole Phelps
Photo: Craig Arend
Friday, 19 March 2010
April 2010 French Vogue cover - Natasha Poly, ph: Inez Van Lamsweerde + Vinoodh Matadin, stylist: Emmanuelle Alt
April 2010 French Vogue cover
Model: Natasha Poly
Photographer: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Emmanuelle Alt
Hair: Christiaan
Makeup: Lisa Butler
Model: Natasha Poly
Photographer: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Emmanuelle Alt
Hair: Christiaan
Makeup: Lisa Butler
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Global Action for Children - Saturday March 20 at Milk Gallery
Original artwork by Andy Ness, made of fabric and other materials.
Interview with Betty Sze of models.com and Julia Samersova of Global Action For Children:
We chatted with casting director Julia Samersova about her big Global Action for Children event coming up for Saturday, March 20th. With Angelina Jolie as the honorary chairperson of GAC and the event hosted by Mary Alice Stephenson and Milk Studios, GAC is definitely the charity to keep your eye on. While Angelina won’t be there expect some of the industry’s heavy hitters to come and experience the special events planned for their little ones.
What is Global Action for Children?
Global Action for Children generates awareness, policies and funding so every child has the chance to grow up safe and healthy.
What are your main goals for Saturday’s event?
The main goal is to raise awareness and money for GAC, and to have an amazing time doing it! All of the decor, activities and games have been created to entertain, educate, and inspire the children at a level that can only be describe as AWESOME.
There are quite a few models who are activists (Natalia Vodianova, Liya Kebede, Christy Turlington etc) as well as mothers. Why do you think becoming a mother changes them? Why do think it’s important for these models to become “role” models?
Motherhood puts life into a different perspective and allows you to view and deal with life’s challenges in a brand new way. Patience is the key ingredient in parenthood and in an industry such as fashion, it can certainly come as a refreshing change of pace. These Supermodel Mommies have an amazing platform to speak out on the behalf of a whole range of causes. It’s an amazing position these women are in: very powerful and used properly, very helpful to those who have no voice in this world.
Since becoming a mother a year and a half ago, what has changed about the fashion industry for you?
What has changed is my perception of what is truly an “emergency” versus a “fashion emergency”! It has been amazing to learn to be this “other” person. After a long hard day of work, I am fortunate enough to go home to this little creature and really get my priorities in order. It is a very difficult balance to strike, being a working woman in a demanding industry and a mother and a wife. I have a lot more patience now and that is a good thing
What are your main goals for Saturday’s event?
The main goal is to raise awareness and money for GAC, and to have an amazing time doing it! All of the decor, activities and games have been created to entertain, educate, and inspire the children at a level that can only be describe as AWESOME.
There are quite a few models who are activists (Natalia Vodianova, Liya Kebede, Christy Turlington etc) as well as mothers. Why do you think becoming a mother changes them? Why do think it’s important for these models to become “role” models?
Motherhood puts life into a different perspective and allows you to view and deal with life’s challenges in a brand new way. Patience is the key ingredient in parenthood and in an industry such as fashion, it can certainly come as a refreshing change of pace. These Supermodel Mommies have an amazing platform to speak out on the behalf of a whole range of causes. It’s an amazing position these women are in: very powerful and used properly, very helpful to those who have no voice in this world.
Since becoming a mother a year and a half ago, what has changed about the fashion industry for you?
What has changed is my perception of what is truly an “emergency” versus a “fashion emergency”! It has been amazing to learn to be this “other” person. After a long hard day of work, I am fortunate enough to go home to this little creature and really get my priorities in order. It is a very difficult balance to strike, being a working woman in a demanding industry and a mother and a wife. I have a lot more patience now and that is a good thing
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Love Magazine spring 2010 - Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Angelo Pennetta
Angelo Pennetta photographed Mariacarla Boscono for Love Magazine Spring 2010 editorial on November 6, 2009.
Love Magazine Spring 2010
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Angelo Pennetta
Love Magazine Spring 2010
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Angelo Pennetta
The Gap Spring 2010 campaign - Isabeli Fontana, ph: Craig McDean, stylist: Karl Templer
Craig McDean photographed Isabeli Fontana for The Gap spring 2010 campaign on December 10, 2009 with stylist Karl Templer.
The Gap Spring 2010 campaign
Model: Isabeli Fontana
Photographer: Craig McDean
Stylist: Karl Templer
Hair: Paul Hanlon
Makeup: Mark Carrasquillo
Casting Director: Anita Bitton at The Establishment
The Gap Spring 2010 campaign
Model: Isabeli Fontana
Photographer: Craig McDean
Stylist: Karl Templer
Hair: Paul Hanlon
Makeup: Mark Carrasquillo
Casting Director: Anita Bitton at The Establishment
Monday, 15 March 2010
Daniel Peddle "Backstage" opening reception March 16, 2010
Tuesday March 16
Daniel Peddle “Backstage”
Envoy Enterprises
131 Chrystie Street
Between Delancey and Broome
6-8PM
Interview with Betty Sze: from models.com:
It’s no secret we’re big fans of casting director Daniel Peddle as are some of the biggest clients in the industry. His upcoming show, “Backstage” is reviewed in the latest V Magazine and feature some familiar faces seen in a way not ordinarily viewed. We caught up with Daniel to ask him 3 questions.
MDC: What have you discovered in 8 seasons capturing backstage through this medium?
DP: I started this series in 2006. Backstage is a fascinating ritual to observe, sometimes more so than the fleeting few moments of the actual show. It has been really interesting to try and capture in a painting the role of the model, the center of this flurry of activity.
MDC: Are you ever interested in doing a different medium and if not, why do you prefer watercolors?
It is really not about the paint for me so much as the water!!! We cannot control water, we can only pretend to… I like the challenge of working in such a fluid medium as the work takes on a life of its own. Everything else can be a sticky affair but watercolor is pure to me.
MDC: What are your paints and papers of choice?
Found paper is my favorite! I also like to work off a roll rather than sheets. You have more freedom. As far as the paints go basically I like whatever is on sale in the grab bin!!! For me much of the process of creating art is about embracing accident and chance.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Miu Miu fall 2010 show
Miu Miu Fall 2010 Show
Time: March 10, 2010 at 7:00pm
Designer: Miuccia Prada
Stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Casting Director: Russell Marsh
Kasia Struss
Iselin Steiro
Vlada Roslyakova
Ginta Lapina
Mirte Maas
Time: March 10, 2010 at 7:00pm
Designer: Miuccia Prada
Stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Casting Director: Russell Marsh
Kasia Struss
Iselin Steiro
Vlada Roslyakova
Ginta Lapina
Mirte Maas
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