Archive for May 25th, 2008
It’s a prospect to strike fear into the hearts of airport staff and personal assistants everywhere: Naomi Campbell, but 30ft tall – more than twice the height of a double-decker bus.
The hot-tempered Campbell is to be immortalised in a series of sculptures that will create a lasting, if controversial, monument to her status. She has been posing for the photographer Nick Knight, who is using three-dimensional scanners to create the sculptures.
Campbell ranks among a handful of supermodels who can be identified purely by their first names. But in her case, a reputation for intemperate behaviour tends to overshadow her work on the catwalk. She was arrested on a plane last month after her complaints at the loss of her luggage during the Heathrow terminal 5 fiasco were deemed too vociferous. She was also ordered to attend anger-management classes by a US court after admitting throwing a mobile phone at her housekeeper in a fit of temper.
Despite this, Campbell has remained one of the most popular British models of her generation, with perhaps only Kate Moss exceeding her fame. Knight said he wanted to create a unique sculpture of “one of the most famous and beautiful women in the world”.
He said: “Photography is changing completely, and one of the things that’s doing this is 3-D scanning. You get a 360-degree view of her, and because it’s all digital, that data can be used to output real objects. You can lay one image over another and create sculptures that would never have been conceived if you were chipping away at marble.”
He scanned Campbell “straddling the barrel of a large tank” which will form one sculpture. Another will be a “circle of three Naomis, like The Three Graces”, but designed to be viewed from within the circle and in a darkened room.
Mr Knight is still to decide what material to use for the sculptures, with alabaster and glass fibre both possible. “When you are modelling one of the most beautiful women in the world, the choice of materials is important,” he said.
He hopes to have the sculpture ready by the end of the year but is still considering how it will be unveiled. When asked if it could be installed at the entrance to Terminal 5, as a symbol of the nation’s rage over lost baggage and delayed flights, he simply laughed.
May 25th, 2008
Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio, 27, and boyfriend Jamie Mazur attended the 50th birthday party of Christian Audigier on Friday, May 23rd in Los Angeles, CA. The couple expect their first child in late summer/early fall.
May 25th, 2008
Janice Dickinson is in talks to get another show. And this time, it’s a talk show! Do we really need to hear that woman talk more???
She’s been pitching her idea around to major networks. Janice says she wants to help women to just be themselves.
Um, someone tell Janice there’s already a talk show host trying to do that and failing miserably at….Tyra! We don’t need anymore!
May 25th, 2008
CBS Television will air this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show from the newly renovated Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach.
The show will air later this year and feature super-models such as Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller, and Miranda Kerr in a holiday theme infused lingerie show.
Previous editions of the show featured red carpet coverage, model profiles and musical guest performances intermingled with the the runway fashion show which presents Victoria’s Secret’s latest lingerie designs.
Last year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show aired in December and drew 7.5 million viewers. The show’s featured musical guests were the Spice Girls and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas who covered for Kanye West due to his mother’s death.
The Fontainebleau hotel spans nearly 10 city blocks of Miami Beach ocean-front with its 1504 rooms, 2 new all-suite luxury towers; 11 restaurants and lounges and a 40,000-square-foot spa. The Fontainebleau’s dramatic oceanfront poolscape features a free-form pool in the shape of the hotel’s signature bow-tie design created by the Fontainebleau’s original architect, Morris Lapidus.
May 25th, 2008
Agyness Deyn is the queen of IT models, she walks the catwalks, shoots campaigns, founded a band, and recently started acting.
It seems that lately the catwalks is the last thing that crosses model Agyness Deyn’s mind. After she sang the song Five O’Clock Heroes with the band Who, she founded her own band called Gene Jacket, and set off with her acting career. Aggy, in fact, will star in a short film by her friend Alanna Masterson, sister of the actor Danny Masterson.
- It’s the first time I’ve actually had to speak! I kind of feel like fish out of water, and I’m finding a big pond to swim in – Agness said.
Aggy will play the role of the imaginary friend of the main character, James, a teenager who grieves the death of his sister. The script was written by Alanna as her thesis for the New York Film Academy. Along with Aggy the film stars Danny Masterson and Dustin Hoffman’s son. According to Agyness, the film called The Right Side of My Exultant Brain creates a relaxing atmosphere for studying, considering that she studied drama, catwalkqueen reports.
May 25th, 2008
Eva Herzigova’s baby son George is home with grandma (her mother) while the supermodel is in Cannes, but she’s busy planning his first birthday June 1.
“I have lots of friends who have one-year-olds so I’ve been asking them all: Should I get animals or clowns or what?” the Czech model, 35, told PEOPLE. George is her son with Italian businessman Gregorio Marsiaj.
“But they’re like, ‘Well, don’t do too much because he’s still not old enough to really enjoy it,” Herzigova said. “So probably some friends and some balloons. Definitely balloons.”
Herzigova – sporting a bracelet with “George” spelled out in diamonds – proudly revealed her son’s first word.
“He says, ‘mama, mama,’” she said at the AmfAR fundraiser at Cannes. “I speak to him in my language [Czech] but that word is international. He says grandma, too.”
“This is a long time to be away from him,” Herzigova said, playing with the George bracelet on her left wrist. “I miss him.”
May 25th, 2008