Supermodel Rie Rasmussen slammed fashion photographer Terry Richardson in front of the Paris fashion crowd earlier this week, calling his work “completely degrading to women,” Page Six reports. Richardson, who recently shot the Pirelli 2010 calendar (NSFW pics at the link), upset Rasmussen by using photos of her in his “Terryworld” book that featured compromising images of underage girls.
Rasmussen said, “He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of. They are too afraid to say no because their agency booked them on the job and are too young to stand up for themselves.”
According to Rasmussen, Richardson didn’t respond to her remarks made at the fashion week party, but instead ran out of the bar and called her modeling agency the next day to complain. She called his actions “the most cowardly thing I have ever seen.”
Richardson’s reps said they didn’t know anything about the situation.
source: huffingtonpost.com
March 13th, 2010
The vodka flowed at a Dazed & Confused party at Paris’ Pavillon Ledoyen on Wednesday night, feting Spike Jonze’s short film collaboration with Absolut, dubbed “I’m Here.” Revelers including Lanvin’s Lucas Ossendrijver, Kris Van Assche, Haider Ackermann, André Saraiva and Olympia Le-Tan played arcade games and scrawled doodles on the walls and people’s outfits using black and glow-in-the-dark markers. Admiring a scrawl by Jonze, Lily Cole, who was still sporting her “Avengers”-style bowler hat from her turn in the Herm?s show earlier, said she’s signed up to star in the “The Moth Diaries” and will possibly play a vampire. So how does she plan to research her role? “Don’t ask dangerous questions,” she mock hissed. Mingling with the smokers in the courtyard, jewelry designer Waris Ahluwalia, of House of Waris, revealed he has a line of cashmere scarves and pashminas in the works. “They’ll all be hand-woven and embroidered in India,” he said. Tricky said he’s been busy working on his next album, due out in June, with singer Francesca Belmonte. “She used to work as a sales girl in Topshop, you know, just trying to pay her bills. She’s 23 and she sounds like she could be 63,” he said.
source: wwd.com
March 13th, 2010
