Archive for June 20th, 2008
With an army of ad campaigns behind her, including top designers Chanel and Hermes, Lily Cole has become something of a fashion icon.
But the supermodel has been lagging in the style stakes recently, and this outfit will ensure she goes straight to the back of the fashion queue.
The 20-year-old left London hotspot Cipriani last night, looking worse for wear, sporting a see-through lace top and leggings combo, with a navy blue jacket velvet.
As it that wasn’t bad enough, she finished off the car-crash couture outfit with a pair of clashing ruby red shoes.
Lily’s appearance comes soon after she was pictured in an another unflattering outfit, a voluminous patterned kaftan in New York last week.
But Lily’s fashion faux-pas did nothing to harm her popularity as she partied the night away with the A-listers including Gwyneth Paltrow at a charity event later in the evening.
The redhead sang a spectacular duet of Let’s Stick Together with singer Brian Ferry in front of an audience of 300.
source: dailymail.co.uk
June 20th, 2008
Brazillian supermodel Giselle Bündchen insists that she is not as rich as reports have suggested. Reporters have suggested in the past that the hottie worth upwards of $35 million. She even topped a recent poll in Forbes magazine as the top earning supermodel. But the info all seems to be false. The model spoke to New York magazine.
“Do you think that’s important to me? Look, this is my job. I take pictures. There is no big deal.
“I would like to know who this reporter is finding out all of these amounts. And I would like him to talk to my accountant and figure out where is the cash that’s missing. Because I haven’t seen it.” She said.
source: thehollywoodnews.com
June 20th, 2008
Alarmed by the lack of ethnic models on the catwalk, Vogue Italia will feature black models almost exclusively in the July issue of what’s often called the most influential fashion magazine in the world.
“This idea came about as a reaction to the models of today,” Franca Sozzani, Vogue Italia’s editor, said in a phone interview. “I go to a fashion show and every girl is blond and blue-eyed and they all walk the same and look the same.
“I thought we needed to break away from this type of thing,” she said. “There are so many beautiful black women not being used.”
Sozzani said the time also seemed right for an all-black issue now that Barack Obama will soon become the first black nominee for president of the United States.
The July issue, which comes out next week, will feature a wide range of women of all ages and will include actors, models and singers such as Naomi Campbell, Tina Turner, Jody Watley and Iman.
Sozzani said the fashion industry was different in the 1980s and 1990s, when models had distinctive, individual looks.
“Then models did their own interpretations of the fashions they were wearing, but now the girls all look alike,” she said.
Sozzani said that some editors might argue that black faces don’t sell at the newsstand.
“But we sell the same amount if we have Naomi Campbell on the cover,” she said.
The lack of ethnic models in magazines and on catwalks has long sparked international criticism.
After hundreds of white models strutted their stuff at London Fashion Week earlier this year — and only a few black models were included in the show — the British press asked whether racism was stalking the catwalk.
British designer Vivienne Westwood went so far as to demand a quota system so that fashion magazines would be forced to use more black models.
David Wolfe, creative director at Doneger Group, a New York fashion industry consultant, said that though there is a very small indication that more Asian models are being used in fashion shows, black models are still rare.
“Today Caucasian models — especially Russians and middle Europeans — are in the greatest demand, echoing the nationalistic preferences for Scandinavian models in the mid-century,” he said. “Of course there are a few stellar exceptions, but models like Naomi Campbell are certainly the exception and not the rule.”
Wolfe said that Vogue Italia’s July issue is important because it is considered a magazine of great influence by taste-makers and trend-setters within the fashion industry.
One of Britain’s leading model agents, Carole White, co-founder of Premier Model Management, has spoken out repeatedly against color prejudices in the fashion industry.
She said that one reason for the decline in the use of black models might be the collapse of former Eastern-bloc countries, which led to a new “waif” look fuelled by an influx of white, bland and very skinny girls.
She said another problem is that photographers still don’t always know how to correctly light the skin of black models.
White called Vogue Italia’s move “fantastic” and said the magazine was “making the changes happen that are so necessary.”
source: statesman.com
June 20th, 2008
THE last time we got a flash of flesh from stunning Australian supermodel and former Brisbane babe Miranda Kerr it was purely accidental.
Miranda was wearing a plunging black evening gown at a fundraiser earlier in June and was snapped standing at just the right angle to maximise the view of her cleavage.
But this time around, Kerr, who recently took Megan’s Gale’s crown as the face and body for David Jones, is baring it all for Men’s Style Magazine.
She will appear on the cover of the mag, pictured, which is out on Monday, wearing nothing but a tiny pair of black shorts and a top hat.
But it’s not just a blatant flesh fest.
Among other things, Miranda talks about her new supermodel status, and her famous beau Orlando Bloom.
“He’s just a guy. He happens to be an actor,” she tells the mag.
As for her supermodel title, Miranda thinks it’s funny.
“That’s what they’re calling me, but I don’t really consider myself a supermodel,” she says.
“I mean, what is a supermodel? Is it like a superhero? I think it’s funny. I don’t take myself too seriously. I just go along with it.”
source: news.com.au
June 20th, 2008