Archive for July 1st, 2009
YSL’s latest ads are out, and they follow suit with the brand’s supermodel-centric spreads from seasons past. For FW09, Stefano Pilati once again enlisted the help of photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin as well as famous face Christy Turlington. Seeing as in the last few years YSL’s ads have featured the likes of Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, and Claudia Schiffer, it appears the French fashion house has officially been bitten by the supermodel comeback bug. However, rather than feeling dull as a result of the familiarity of the mannequins in question, the pared-down ads are charming as ever. Also still hard at work despite competition continually being staged by younger, fresher faces: Shalom Harlow. The mannequin looks better than ever in a new editorial entitled “This Side of Hollywood” in Vogue Nippon. To her credit, the supermodel even manages to make a sequined robe work while making out with a stone statue.
source: blackbookmag.com
July 1st, 2009
Supermodel Karen Mulder has been arrested for making “threatening” phone calls to a plastic surgeon.
The 39-year-old star was questioned at a Paris police station after calling the medic and reportedly demanding for a previous operation to be reversed.
A detective said: “She was screaming and shouting about the operation and became extremely threatening. There were repeated calls to the female surgeon who was extremely scared. The suspect is being interviewed.”
Karen was arrested at about 10am yesterday (30.06.09) and taken to a station in the fashion district of the French capital city.
Another police source has claimed the model had been “stalking and making repeated violent telephone threats” to the surgeon.
The source added: “Miss Mulder was accompanied to a police station in Paris after a complaint was made against her.
“She is being interviewed by detectives and is expected to be released on bail.
“Her phone records are being checked. It is not yet known if any charges will be brought.”
Karen made her name in the 80s and 90s, and was paid ?10,000 for a day’s work at one point.
She gave up modeling in 1998 after saying she could no longer bear to be photographed.
In 2001, she claimed politicians and policemen had used her and others in her profession as sex slaves. She also falsely alleged she had been raped by Monaco’s Prince Albert.
She had depression and received treatment at a psychiatric hospital, then explained her problems were a result of an addiction to drugs when she was a model.
In 2002, she took an overdose of sleeping pills and was left in a coma.
She appeared on the catwalk in 2007 at a Christian Dior show alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Stella Tennant and Helena Christensen.
source: monstersandcritics.com
July 1st, 2009
