Archive for June 17th, 2008
Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson’s bedroom secrets are about to be revealed in a new tell-all book, according to a report in the US.
Macpherson, nicknamed The Body, is not the only focus of the steamy memoir.
Sex stories about other supermodels, including Paulina Porizkova, Andie MacDowell and Tatjana Patitz, will also be featured in the book.
So, who is the love rat spilling the beans?
According to the New York Post, former Calvin Klein male model Bruce Hulse is writing the kiss and tell book about his sexual exploits with some of the world’s most beautiful women.
Silver fox Hulse, now 55, is married with two children, but that has not stopped him from penning the book Sex, Love and Fashion about his former bed-hopping days.
Macpherson, he wrote, “stripped down in front of me”.
However, Hulse said he was depressed over a recent bust-up and lost his sex drive.
“She was so understanding … ‘No worries, Bruce … Let’s just be friends, then’,” Hulse wrote.
But apparently Hulse wrote he overcame his problem and he and the Australian beauty hooked up for a one-nighter under his parents’ roof, the Post reported today.
The book is due to go on sale in August.
In other excerpts leaked to the Post, Hulse tells of a night of passion with Porizkova.
“I arrived at Paulina’s hotel room … only to find her wearing next to nothing,” he wrote.
“I was doomed.
“Within seconds we were all over each other.
“We completely tore up the hotel room.”
Hulse’s alleged liaison with MacDowell was hot in more ways than one.
He wrote a table lamp in MacDowell’s room “was way too bright for us both, so I gallantly took off my T-shirt and threw it over the top”.
“Just as we began to kiss again, the smell of something burning broke the spell,” he wrote.
“My shirt was on fire!”
Hulse also tells how he did not mind ratting out another man to seduce German supermodel Patitz.
He wrote Patitz was “confused” because she had feelings for another model.
“I crossed a boundary and did something I had never done to another male model before,” Hulse wrote.
“I ratted (him) out. (He) had told me about another model he’d had amazing sex with, so I told Tatjana.
“I felt guilty for stooping to such a level, but I was crazy about Tatjana.”
source: smh.com.au
June 17th, 2008
We hear it all the time: Thin is in. What 18-year-old model Alexandra “Ali” Michael kept hearing from within the fashion industry was much more damaging: Thinnest is best.
Last February, at castings during Paris Fashion Week, the lithe teen got the rudest awakening for a young model. She was called the “F” word: fat. Some casting directors told her she had “fat legs” and “huge ankles.” One even said, “You’re turning into a woman, and your body is changing. You need to learn to control that.”
After landing coveted spots on the European runways for fashion giants such as Chanel and Lanvin the previous season, the Colleyville resident was confident that she would have another stellar season in Paris. When agents told her that some clients thought she had gained too much weight, she was taken aback.
“I had an epiphany and realized it wasn’t worth it,” Ms. Michael says. “I told them that I was fine leaving on the next plane home in the morning.” Some didn’t realize that the vulnerable young model was silently recovering from multiple eating disorders.
Over a recent lunch at Cosmic Cafe in Dallas, the once-shy teen could hardly stay quiet, discussing her battles with food over a steaming plate of tofu stir-fry. It’s a welcome, healthy change from what she used to eat. She chronicles her struggles in the June issue of Teen Vogue, revealing that, at one point, she survived on an extreme diet of oatmeal, lettuce, grapes and occasionally fish.
Her seemingly fabulous lifestyle and success came at a heavy price: She succumbed to anorexia and bulimia and started to lose her hair, her period and herself.
“I used to think of being skinny as a job requirement. I felt a pressure to be emaciated,” Ms. Michael says. “It’s not even just a pressure to be thin. It’s a pressure to be skeletal. The girls with the smallest legs get the smallest dresses.”
Some blame designers. Some blame agents. Some blame it on differing standards in the various fashion capitals.
source: dallasnews.com
“It is important to realize that the European shows are a very particular part of the industry,” says Lisa Dawson, director of the Kim Dawson Agency, which represents Ms. Michael in Dallas. “The designers there are looking for a very extreme body type. The girls have gotten much thinner, and I think the look is shocking to anyone outside of that small community.”
Former Dallasite Andrew Weir, president of A-List Projects and ACW Worldwide, casts models for New York and European shows. He has cast Ms. Michael (who is 5-foot-9) in the past and points out that the standards in Paris can be a challenge for some models, extending to extreme height, too. “Of all the cities, that’s the city where they want the tallest girls,” at least 5-foot-10 or 5-foot-11, he says. “Ms. Michael may be a little bit shorter than some, but she is very special, and if she’s right for our clients, then we do book her.”
MaryAnn Michael, who travels extensively with her daughter, noticed Ms. Michael’s weight loss and confronted her about it.
“I’m a nurse, and we have a large support system of friends, family and agents, but there is nothing that says one is immune to eating disorders,” she says. “I was completely blindsided when I found out.” She promptly took her daughter to a doctor and a nutritionist.
Mother and daughter also had a long heart-to-heart discussion after one trying day of castings. They tearfully mapped out a plan to talk openly about the weight issue and her eating disorders.
“I am a mother who will carry this guilt every single day,” MaryAnn Michael says, “and I will be hypervigilant for a very long time. The monsters are still there, but I think they are down to a dull roar, and I pray for the day that they are silenced forever.”
No longer hiding her problem, Ms. Michael’s recovery process includes meetings with doctors, eating balanced meals, doing yoga and working out. Sharing her story helped her heal, she says. In addition to speaking out in Teen Vogue, she appeared on the Today show in May to discuss her struggles with Ann Curry alongside Teen Vogue editor Amy Astley.
“I want to keep modeling, as long as I can maintain a healthy lifestyle,” Ms. Michael says. Her dreams extend beyond strutting and posing and include college. “My ultimate goal would be to work for the United Nations or the World Health Organization one day and make a difference,” she says.
For now, she’s basking in a healthy glow of triumphs. She graduated from Grapevine High School earlier this month. And in New York, DNA Models, the agency that represents Ms. Michael, promoted her from its new faces division to the powerful women’s board.
Trudi Tapscott, the agency’s women’s director, says: “It takes one brave person to stand up. The only motivation she has to speak out is to help out other young women. We’re still getting plenty of options and requests about her.”
June 17th, 2008
Naomi Campbell was at her diva best last night, showing that she can’t even leave a restaurant without causing a scene.
She was enjoying a night at Cipriani in Mayfair with a group of friends when the drama unfolded.
The supermodel, whose receding hairline was clearly visible as she brushed her hair back, was happy to pose for pictures as she left after dinner.
But, in a flash, she started shouting and ran back inside where she waited for a couple of minutes.
She then re-emerged with her friends shielding her, reportedly shouting and screaming at them before she got into her waiting car, where she soon slumped sideways.
source: dailymail.co.uk
June 17th, 2008
Italian designer Roberto Cavalli has chosen four top models to replace Kate Moss in his new Fall/Winter 2008-09 ad campaign. The campaign, to be shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, is inspired by one of our favorite movies, Luchino Visconti’s 1963 Il Gattopardo (”The Leopard), based on the book by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa.
The movie, set in Sicily in the 1860s, stars Burt Lancaster as an Italian prince struggling to maintain a dying aristocracy, Alain Delon as his dashing nephew, and the beautiful Claudia Cardinale as Angelica, daughter of a rich former peasant who represents the new social order. Cavalli has chosen models Isabeli Fontana, Angela Lindvall, Raquel Zimmerman and Frankie Rayder to play the parts of Cardinale and the movie’s other beauties in the ads.
“I’ve always been aesthetically fascinated by this film,” Cavalli tells Women’s Wear Daily. “I also find Il Gattopardo, a story that’s based on the idea that ‘the more it changes, the more it stays the same,’ a good metaphor for fashion. In the campaign, the heroine - a sort of new Angelica - dances in the wilderness while a fire rages in the background; she represents the force of everything that is new, yet in the end she dresses like a romantic debutante.” We think Fontana for one is perfectly cast as she bears an uncanny resemblance to Cardinale.
source: luxist.com
June 17th, 2008