Archive for June, 2006
Supermodel Kate Moss has been spotted leaving a hotel in the wee hours with Dirty Pretty Things guitarist, Anthony Rossomando. The pair met up on Thursday at the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park and were pictured leaving Brown’s Hotel at 5.45am on Thursday morning.
What could they have been up to? A friend said to the Mirror: “One wonders how Kate keeps going.” The pair had met previously through Dirty Pretty Things front man, Carl Barat who founded the Libertines with Moss’ ex, Pete Doherty.
The friend continued: “Carl introduced them and they got on really well, though they didn’t have much time to chat.”
This time round Moss took Rossomando on a tour of London’s most flash hotels, a tour that ended in Browns. When all this modelling lark dries up, maybe she could be a London tour guide?
Meanwhile Kate will star in a campaign to relaunch one of Bulgari’s original scents. The Roman jewelry company will rerelease Bulgari Pour Femme worldwide in August with the aim of repositioning it as Bulgari Parfum’s cornerstone women’s scent. A spokeswoman for Bulgari here said the relaunch is intended to show that the classic fragrance transmits the essence of a luxury jewelry company.
June 24th, 2006
Being eliminated from Canada’s Next Top Model contest took Blenheim’s Heather Dorssers by surprise. “That was my initial response, because I really thought I was doing OK, not great, but OK,” said the 20-year-old former factory worker, axed on an episode that aired Wednesday. “I have nothing negative to say about being on the show. Everything about the experience was positive. Even the criticism I got was constructive.”
Her departure left six contestants to compete for the reality TV show’s cache of prizes. They include a $100,000 beauty contract from Procter & Gamble, a modelling contract with Sutherland Models and a major photo spread in Fashion magazine.
Dorssers admitted being uncomfortable in her last episode, which required her to pose in lingerie with a male model. “It was an awkward photo shoot for me, right from the very beginning.” She prefers to remember her peak moments on the show on the first episode May 31. “I did awesome. I won the very first challenge and Kelly Streit said some nice things about me,” she said, referring to the president of Calgary-based Modemodels International.
Dorssers, whose decision to enter the contest was “a spur-of-the-moment thing,” was selected as one of 10 contestants on the series, which was taped in February and March.
“I think I was picked because they weren’t looking for girls with the same cookie-cutter good looks,” she said. “The show wanted girls who had personality. I guess I became the neutral one who got along with everyone.”
Dorssers recently left her job at Mallory’s Industries, which manufactures car window brushes and squeegees, and plans to move to Toronto and pursue a modelling career. She’s hoping Andrea of Whitby or Natalie from Vancouver will be Canada’s Next Top Model.
“We became very good friends, so I’ll be rooting for them when I watch the show now.” The next episode of the Canadian Citytv series airs at 8 p.m. next Wednesday.
June 23rd, 2006
Just as Kate Moss changes her mind about her tell-all autobiography, Pete Doherty has signed up to write one himself.
Pete has signed a $300,000 deal for the book about his relationship with Kate and is said to have kept detailed diaries from the time to refer to during writing.
A source has revealed that Kate is “petrified” about what Pete might disclose: “She’s still in close contact with Pete and she understands his reasons for signing the deal.”
“He’s not rolling in cash. But she’s cleaned up her act and the last thing she wants is for people to be reminded of what was a very difficult time in her life.”
Pete, meanwhile, has said in a statement that he’s “very happy to have a book coming out.” The book is due to be published next Spring.
June 22nd, 2006
Adriana Lima and Izabel Goulart, two of Victoria Secret’s sexiest Angels, give us the lowdown on “what’s sexy now.” Of course the two models alone could fit in that category, even if they weren’t talking about the lingerie company’s newest products.
Lima, ever the creative one, has an interesting use for the new “What’s Sexy” fragrance- saying with her thick Brazilian accent, “You can use sometime to spray on the pillow of your boyfriend so he can think about you when he’s sleeping.”
The two were also promoting the new “Bare Bronze” self-tanning products which Adriana says “makes you think about the summer, the beach, and you can be healthy and glowing all year long.”
June 22nd, 2006
Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova wants you to love yourself. Asked recently about the secret of supermodel confidence, she said it had to come from within. “Nobody in the world is secure with themselves; even supermodels and actresses get insecure and we know we’re not perfect,” she told the Miami Herald. “But the most important part of gaining your confidence is to truly love who you are and be comfortable with what you do. I think the biggest problem these days is that women do not appreciate themselves enough, and it is so important to respect yourself and love being you. Do not beat yourself up for feeling uncomfortable in a particular outfit or if your hair is not good. No one is perfect and we all have our days. You still have to love your least favourite assets and appreciate them and make it work.”
June 21st, 2006
Gisele Bundchen has taken the highest supermodel placing on the annual Forbes List of the 100 most powerful celebrities. The Brazilian model was number 71st on the list leading supermodels Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks and Adriana Lima. Bundchen has appeared in high profile campaigns for top designers including Victoria Secrets, Louis Vuitton and Dolce and Gabbana. Kate Moss came in at number 77 which proved the 31 year old fashion comeback is complete. Tom Cruise topped the list as the world’s most powerful celebrity which includes rating a stars column inches as well as their fortune.
June 21st, 2006
British supermodel Kate Moss is expected to return to fashion house Chanel, according to the Chanel’s head designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Chanel notably cast off Kate Moss as she was exposed for inhaling cocaine last year.
“I think she will be more successful than ever. Chanel will sign with her. She is born to survive”, sustains designer Karl Lagerfeld, claiming the French couture house are now happy to reunite with the style icon, quoted by Toronto Fashion - Monitor.
Last year, Chanel made known that it was not renewing its contract with Kate Moss, which was set to expire, even though the company said that its pronouncement had nothing to do with the drug scandal.
June 21st, 2006
Supermodel Heidi Klum and her husband, singer Seal, 43, are expecting their third child, a source close to the couple confirms to Us Weekly. The couple also have a son, Henry, 9 months, and a daughter, Leni, 2, from Klum’s previous relationship with race car driver Flavio Briatore.
“You’d never have known if you saw her at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards on June 5,” says the source. “She’s just starting to show.” Klum, 33 — along with her family — are currently in NYC finishing up the latest installment of Project Runway, which debuts July 12 on Bravo.
“She’s in a really good place,” says the source. “She loves her family. She loves being a mom.” A rep for Klum had no comment.
June 20th, 2006
Clare Wight Keller’s first ad campaign for Pringle of Scotland is a radical turnaround for the company that she joined last year. The black-and-white campaign, shot by David Sims, features models Freja Beha Erichsen and Tom Guinness-Taylor wearing Waight Keller’s first full collection for the house.
“We were inspired by David Bailey’s photos from the late Sixties and early Seventies,” she told WWD. “We loved the individual, very British spirit of those photos.” Pringle’s last two high profile campaigns have featured Heidi Klum and Sophie Dahl – so Waight Keller’s plans for her first have been kept as a closely guarded secret until now. “It’s a departure from past campaigns, and it was important for me to make that distinction,” she said.
“My point of view is radically different from past ones at Pringle. I want to make the individuals the focus. Both models look very pulled-together, but there’s a certain sense of rebellion underneath the surface, something a little bit dangerous, a sense of walking on the edge.”
Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein has also given his ads a modernist shot for next season. “When you design a collection, you want to put forth an image that relates to it,” says the man named Womenswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA awards earlier this month. “I wasn’t part o the past campaigns, but it’s naturally how it should go.”
Inspired by Man Ray and Lee Miller for autumn/winter 2006-7, Costa worked with Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott on Thirties-style cinematic black and white images of Natalia Vodianova and Bev Moore.
June 20th, 2006
So what precisely makes a good stylist? How can you spot someone with potential? That question is posed in the latest reality show to tackle the byzantine world of fashion, in which quality is subjective and a charming personality can go a long way to sell an extremely bad idea. “Style Me”, debuts Monday on the WE: Women’s Entertainment channel. A dozen contestants live together in New York while competing in various tasks in hopes of being the last person standing. The winner receives $10,000, a one-year contract with a talent agency and the opportunity to style the show’s host, ex-supermodel Rachel Hunter, for a red carpet event.
In the first episode, their task is to take 45 minutes and $75 to shop a flea market for pieces to accessorize a plain black dress. For sheer amusement, the producers decree that the contestants must haul the dress around on a mannequin as they rampage through the Hell’s Kitchen souk on the west side of Manhattan.
And as is the habit of reality TV, some contestants were selected for their skill at pulling together a fetching ensemble and others seem to have been chosen for their annoying mannerisms, overblown egos or a tendency to start weeping under the staggering pressure of picking out a necklace…. “Style Me” aims to launch the career of one more person looking to stamp out these flickers of harmless amusement. In exchange, the least the show can do is provide more wonderfully inappropriate crying fits.
June 19th, 2006
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