Archive for May 14th, 2008
Heather Arrick, who went by the name “Heather Stohler” in her professional life, was killed Sunday morning after a fire swept through the upstairs apartment she shared with her boyfriend.
Arrick, 29, grew up in Frankton before moving to Florida. She went on to a modeling career that took her to the runways of Europe, got her into photo shoots with Kate Moss for Calvin Klein and landed her on the cover of major fashion magazines.
“I’ve known her since I was 12,” said Travis May, 30, who met Arrick while both were attending Frankton Junior High School. “She was great, very thoughtful. She never forgot the little things, like your birthday.”
The Vincennes Fire Department was notified at 8:48 a.m. Sunday of a fire at 604 Broadway St. by another tenant of the building.
“Upon arrival, flames were visible,” Vincennes Fire Chief Mike Lankford told the Sun-Commercial. “About three-fourths of the apartment was a total loss, and the estimated damage amount is over $15,000.”
Arrick and her live-in boyfriend, 26-year-old Daniel Risley, were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. Risley was transferred to Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, but was pronounced dead around 1 a.m. Tuesday. Lankford said Risley suffered burns over a “substantial” portion of his body.
Knox County Coroner Dan Halter told fire officials Arrick died of smoke inhalation. Fire officials ruled the fire that consumed the apartment was accidental, but no exact cause has been released.
Arrick was born Nov. 29, 1978. May said she was raised by her adoptive parents, Ron and Jackie Arrick, in Frankton. After graduating from Frankton High School, she moved to Riverview, Fla., to join her biological mother, Angela Edwards.
It was in Florida that Arrick discovered her modeling potential.
“It was one of those modeling things at the local mall,” May said. “She tried out, and she was just a natural, so she ran with it.”
Arrick had the kind of strong bone structure models are known for, yet possessed a softness in her face. She had deep-set eyes that convey a sense of mystery in many of her photos. At 5-feet-9, she was ideal for modeling.
She joined the Elite Model Management and Ford Models agencies and was later represented by Donald Trump Management. Arrick modeled clothing for Calvin Klein, appeared in ads with Kate Moss and graced the cover of Marie Claire’s German edition and Vogue’s Italian edition.
“She was a model for close to 10 years,” May said. “She was on the cover of Vogue nine times. She did shows in Paris, Milan, New York. She lived in London for five years and had an apartment in Manhattan for four or five years.”
May said he spoke to Arrick by phone less than a year ago, at which time she was living in Florida. Tim Allen, Arrick’s cousin, told the Sun-Commercial that Arrick left the modeling world a few years ago and speculated that Risley had family in the Vincennes area, though none has come forward.
May 14th, 2008
Supermodel Cindy Crawforddances on table tops for her husband and his friends.
Crawford admits she often performs a routine for Rande Gerber and his pals, although she doesn’t take her clothes off.
She said: “I can be wild. I’ll sometimes dance on a table for my husband and his friends. But not naked.”
The mother-of-two - who was previously married to Hollywood heartthrob Richard Gere - also wishes she had been raunchier when she was growing up.
She is quoted as saying: “I regret that I wasn’t wilder. I was working and I was nervous. I was the one in the corner with the book, being responsible.”
Last year, Cindy angered Peta by appearing on the cover of Russian Vogue magazine wearing a fur coat.
The 41-year-old beauty - who infuriated the animal rights group in 2004 when she agreed to be a spokesperson for their anti-fur campaign before modelling for exclusive mink clothing range Blackglama - sparked further controversy by gracing the cover of the well-respected fashion magazine sporting fur.
May 14th, 2008
She’s the picture of longevity in the modeling industry, and Kate Moss is still one of the most recognizable faces in the fashion industry today.
The British babe was spotted striking a pose or two during a photo shoot in East London yesterday. And she looked stellar in a khaki trench coat with tousled locks and her trademark “don’t mess with me” persona.
She’s the picture of longevity in the modeling industry, and Kate Moss is still one of the most recognizable faces in the fashion industry today.
The British babe was spotted striking a pose or two during a photo shoot in East London yesterday. And she looked stellar in a khaki trench coat with tousled locks and her trademark “don’t mess with me” persona.
May 14th, 2008
Sex, according to the current edition of German Vogue, is retired supermodel Claudia Schiffer - pictured topless for an issue dedicated to fashion photographer Mario Testino’s depiction of eroticism.
Schiffer, 37, a veteran of more than 500 magazine covers, wears a glossy black cat mask and covers her breasts with her hands on the magazine’s cover above the word “sex” in giant red letters.
Inside in a photo essay titled “Claudia Schiffer: Revealed,” the magazine juxtaposes a few sparse quotations about sex - such as “Eroticism means a force of attraction and results in a transfer of unbelievable energy” - with Testino’s pictures of Schiffer cuddling a white Persian cat and coquetting on an office chair. In one shot she is draped in a wrap that appears to be made entirely of whole white rats.
The supermodel, known for her business sense and wholesome Teutonic beauty, said in a statement this week that Testino is “one of the few people I can completely trust - there are no boundaries at all when I’m shooting with him.”
Click here for the full Vogue cover featuring Claudia.
But despite a famous Citroën commercial in which she appeared naked - and was reportedly paid ?3 million (€3.8 million) - in 1998, Schiffer has been reluctant in the past to appear nude in photo shoots.
She declined offers to pose in Playboy and is quoted on Vogue’s website as saying, “It’s not that I’m against nudity. I’m German, I’m very open, in Germany they lie in the park naked. It’s just the principle.”
She was widely quoted this week as telling Vanity Fair that she was a late bloomer: “Because I never read Bravo, I was 17 years old before I could even imagine sex.”
Schiffer rose to prominence in the 1990s after being discovered in a disco in the northern German city of Düsseldorf at 17 years old. Her reign lasted through the decade, and she dabbled in acting before marrying film producer Matthew Vaughn in 2002. The couple has two children, born in 2003 and 2004.
One of a mid-1990s cadre of supermodels - including Elle MacPherson, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford - who transcended their profession to become celebrities in their own right, Schiffer was known for cool management of her business empire. Forbes magazine reported that she made $9 million (€5.8 million) in 2001.
“Claudia goes out on the streets of Paris and something electrifying happens,” Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld told The New York Times in 1996, at the height of Schiffer’s career as a supermodel. “But that doesn’t explain her business success. Underneath she is all work, very serious, essentially a smooth-running German business machine.”
May 14th, 2008
Men’s magazine Maxim recently released its annual list of the 100 hottest females, which included list veterans and a few surprise newcomers.
Model Marisa Miller tops this year’s list, and Maxim says the blonde beauty “embodies the official return of the all-American supermodel.” Miller was also featured on the cover of this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
May 14th, 2008
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO’s model girlfriend BAR REFAELI is desperate for children and hopes to raise them in her native Israel.
The 22-year-old supermodel wants “at least three” children and would like them to experience a similar childhood to her own, reports the New York Daily News.
She says, “I had a very beautiful childhood and I hope that my kids will be able to experience the same thing.” But DiCaprio - who is currently filming a Martin Scorsese movie - was unable to comment on his girlfriend’s wish. A spokesman for the star says, “I can’t get him off the set to ask him.”
May 14th, 2008