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Showing off her slender physique, Erin Wasson was spotted frolicking about the beach in St Barts on Tuesday afternoon (February 2).
Joined by fellow model Daria Werbowy for the Caribbean trip, Miss Wasson was enjoying a break from work duties – as she’s currently shooting H&M’s high summer collection ad campaign.
During the course of the day, Erin sported a ruffle-detailed button down vest top and pale grey harem pants – which she joyously stripped off as she entered the crystal clear waters.
Branching out in the fashion business, the 28-year-old is also launching a womenswear collection – Erin Wasson x RVCA – in collaboration with surf and skate lifestyle brand RVCA.
more pictures: celebrity-gossip.net
February 4th, 2010
To answer Fashion Week Daily’s question — “is it just nous, or is Erin Wasson partout these days?” — that would be yes. The supermodel-turned-stylist-turned-fashion and jewelry designer is in fact pretty much everywhere you look. She threw a monster of a fashion show at New York Fashion Week this season, complete with a live performance from Gang Gang Dance and an appearance from Bruce Willis. (Unfortunately, the fashions themselves weren’t as apt to grab headlines.) And it looks like she’s showing no signs of stopping or slowing down, according to FWD’s recent interview.
Her jewelry line is still going strong: “In the past, I had only done high-end pieces, and so this time around I decided to do costume jewelry,” she says. And, Wasson’s second time (see her first here) moonlighting as a stylist at Elle magazine will be showcased in the magazine’s October issue, for whom she outfitted James King. But if Wasson could really have her way, she’d add groupie to her resume. Specifically, she’d go on tour with the late, great Jimi Hendrix: “Going on tour with Jimi Hendrix would be by ultimate. It would be balls to the wall. There would be no boundaries.” As for what she misses most about her hometown in Texas: “I miss the true southern hospitality. Every guy opens a car door for you. I miss the yes ma’am, no ma’am.” Wonder if Jimi would have approved …
source: blackbookmag.com
September 25th, 2009
Wasson launches RVCA at Selfridges, London, the touted embodiment of the supermodel’s signature eclectic style and the label’s own roots in sports.
‘Another model designing clothing?’ I hear you cry but Erin’s vision has proved surprisingly accessible.
We spoke to her as she touched down in the capital ahead of today’s launch, where she will be on hand at 6pm to advise and style lucky shoppers.
What’s RVCA all about? RVCA is a California-based skate company. Pat, the guy who owns it – we crashed ideas against each other. He’s really creative and open to collaboration.
Are you drawing designs or just dragging stuff out of the closet and saying: ‘I want something that looks like that?’
It’s a combination. Seeing a great thing but knowing you want to interpret it differently, exploring shapes, textures and ideas. The design team at RVCA help me get the ideas out.
It’s about the perfect T-shirt, the perfect pair of cut-off denims, but adding a twist.
You’d look good in a sack. Will they look good on the average person? They are very simple and basic.
I’m not asking you to put on something you need instructions to get into.
Every piece will go into anyone’s wardrobe. Erin is wearing: floral dress, ?150; Hish short, ?185; Hard Nation blazer, ?200; Unknown Legend waistcoat, ?200; all by RVCA.
source: metro.co.uk
February 26th, 2009
Even if you’re not modelling on the world’s hottest catwalks, you can follow the lead of the genetically blessed by adopting their hobbies.
1 Ditch the car and sport some real wheels
Take a leaf out of English model Agyness Deyn’s book and opt to cycle your way through town. The pixie-faced punk whose unique androgynous looks have scored her contracts with labels such as Burberry, Mulberry and Vivienne Westwood told Britain’s Sunday Mirror her transport of choice is “an old Pashley Princess Classic, an old-fashioned black-framed bike with a straw basket”.
“I ride everywhere and when I am on the bike and see a good shop I can jump off and go in and have a look around.”
Erin Wasson, who worked as a Victoria’s Secret model in 2007 and played the object of Justin Timberlake’s affection in his debut clothing line’s advertising campaign, prefers to hit the road on her skateboard.
“I’ve built a treehouse in my backyard and I’ve got a half-pipe there also, so every summer I bring all the kids from the neighbourhood over and I teach them how to skate,” she told Vero Moda magazine.
2 Get creative on paper
Russian model Sasha Pivovarova says you don’t need to paint like Picasso to tap into your creativity.
“I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I’m drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums,” she told V magazine recently.
She is said to carry her art tools with her between catwalk shows and has even converted part of her New York apartment into a private studio.
3 Channel your inner Grandma
How does a model pass the time backstage before a catwalk show? By knitting scarves and woolly jumpers, of course.
US model Amber Valletta and Scottish colleague Stella Tennant have both been spotted knitting on various occasions while backstage hair and make-up types fuss over them. Quite clever, really, as knitting is a sure-fire way to ensure your wardrobe won’t mirror anybody else’s. You can pick up myriad wool textures and colours at Lincraft.
source: smh.com.au
November 25th, 2008
The in-demand model teams with surf/skate brand RVCA in an unlikely partnership to introduce her own line.
HEIDI AND Tyra, make room for Erin — as in Erin Wasson, the next top model to be having a pop-culture moment. Wasson appeared as the down South Bonnie to Justin Timberlake’s Clyde in the first-ever ad campaign for his William Rast label this fall, and she’s been modeling for Victoria’s Secret, H&M and Maybelline cosmetics, designing jewelry and negotiating an upcoming reality series with MTV.
Now the 26-year-old bicoastal beatnik beauty is kicking off Fashion Week here by rolling out her first capsule collection of Erin Wasson X RVCA clothing — the first beat of a three-year collaboration with surf-skate brand RVCA. At first blush, that teaming seems like a fashion mismatch, but it’s the opposite.
And that’s the point
“It’s a real yin-yang thing, which is RVCA’s whole mantra,” Wasson said Thursday, hours before her debut as a designer.
Costa Mesa-based RVCA (pronounced “ROO-kah”) represents the avant-garde of the action sports arena, and is known for its support of athletes and artists from outside the mainstream. But until now its bread and butter has been in the board sport basics — shorts and graphic Ts. And that makes the upscale collaboration with Wasson a major departure.
“It’s like all these divine interventions have followed me around,” she says, sitting in an overstuffed chair in the funky Lower East Side apartment that serves as her New York live-work space. She is barefoot with her legs crossed, wearing a pair of silver lamé cutoffs and a blousy black top with tiny lightning bolts, both from the new line.
Wasson calls Santa Monica home, but grew up in Dallas and spends much of her time working in New York. Her personal style, East Coast-meets-West Coast hippie grunge, has had far-reaching influence of late — the cutoff shorts, the men’s vests, even the slouchy boyfriend jeans that are making their way back into fashion are all Wasson signatures.
Her first “divine intervention” was meeting up-and-coming designer Alexander Wang, who lives just three floors below her in New York. She credits her experience styling his last two runway shows, with their distinctive menswear-hits-the-street look, with giving her the skills she used at RVCA.
Wasson met RVCA founder and creative director Pat Tenore’s 15-year-old son during a Huntington Beach on-location shoot for French Vogue, which led to a meeting with Tenore and an invitation to work on a line.
That was a year ago.
“He wanted to meet and I literally walked in with a box of vintage clothes and all these ideas, and Pat said, ‘Wow, you know exactly what you want to do.’ ” Wasson gets inspired, like so many designers, from vintage shopping — at the flea market off Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, Catwalk on Fairfax Avenue.
The 16-piece capsule collection hitting stores in January (the only confirmed boutique to date is Opening Ceremony in New York and L.A.) is a modern take on stoner chic — dark denim shorts with the word “LOVER” spelled out on the waistband in studs mimicking a belt; a blue-and-white striped romper; distressed, rolled-cuff boyfriend jeans; and a black-and-white color-blocked jacket with a zipper up the back that’s like the center vent on a men’s jacket. Prices range from $50 for a tank top to $115 for a dress and $230 for denim cutoffs.
Her favorite piece is the lightning-bolt print top she’s wearing. It’s called the Zeppelin, “as in the band.”
Her path to California
Wasson started modeling at age 16 after winning a local contest in Dallas. She went to New York the next year, and was being shot for Vogue by Mario Testino “within three weeks.”
In 2003, about five years in, she got burned out and tired of the drama. A road trip brought her to California.
These days, she says, she likes balancing the pace of New York life with the simplicity of, say, riding her bike to the farmers market in Santa Monica. But now that she’s got a TV show in the works with MTV about being a stylist (she’s reluctant to discuss it because the “ink isn’t dry yet”), it sounds as if her life is only going to get more chaotic.
“I just tell myself, ‘Never get too cheesy,’ you know what I mean? I think celebrities become complacent, and say, ‘Oh, OK, you guys want me to be your puppet, I’ll be your puppet.’ ”
She sees her MTV project as more approachable than “Project Runway” and “America’s Next Top Model” because the model-hosts of those shows, Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks, are “inaccessible girls. I’m looking at the show to be an opportunity to be a mentor to these kids. . . . I think that hopefully I can be a voice for youth culture that’s just not on TV right now. Maybe something that’s a little more blunt, a little less edited, a little less cookie cutter. I want to say how it really is.”
She’s especially interested in communicating “the spiritual and emotional terror you have to deal with every day” as a model.
“There are a lot of egos involved and you have to swallow your pride a lot, and know when it is a good time to speak up. . . . It’s lonely and it’s an emotional roller coaster, there is no preparation.”
She should know. “I didn’t know how to deal with it in the beginning. I had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder. There was so much expected of me and I kind of resented it. Then I got a reality check and realized I was the luckiest girl in the world.”
source: latimes.com
September 7th, 2008
NEXT up on the roster of catwalkers turning to other careers is Erin Wasson, the model-stylist-skating enthusiast. Wasson, pictured, has now added clothing designer to her resume, hammering out a three-year deal to design Erin Wasson for Rvca. The spring 2009 collection has already been snapped up by Opening Ceremony, the trendy Manhattan boutique.
It was, fittingly, at the beach that Wasson first came onto the radar of Pat “PM” Tenore, Rvca founder and pooh-bah of all things Orange County. Two years ago, Tenore’s teenage son was participating in a shoot for Australian Vogue at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, where Wasson was the hired model and the main attraction. “He came home and said, ‘Dad, I met the raddest girl!’” said Tenore, who founded the surf- and skate-inspired clothing company out of his California garage. “I had met her at Rvca parties, so I called her up to see what she was working on and she had all these amazing ideas.”
Amid fashion circles, beyond gracing campaigns from H&M to Balenciaga, Wasson, 26, is perhaps best known for her collaboration with Alexander Wang, whose last two shows she styled and for whom she has served as a sort of in-house muse. “Tomboy chic” is what Wasson deems their shared aesthetic, which includes scrawny tanks and lots of denim. “We have the same thought about what a girl should look like,” she says, describing them as “strong girls who are really confident.”
Wasson’s jewelry line, Low Luv, was also featured in Wang’s fall 2008 show, though she recently came under fire in the blogosphere for the line’s similarities to designer Bliss Lau’s body chains. “I have the utmost respect for Bliss Lau,” says Wasson. “I admire and appreciate what she has done for the jewelry industry.”
source: shanghaidaily.com
August 24th, 2008
Twenty-six-year-old supermodel Erin Wasson turned clothing designer. The edgy Maybelline beauty is to design her namesake beach-inspired women’s apparel line, Erin Wasson for Rvca, is scheduled for sale in stores starting in the spring of 2009. Wasson’s collection has already been snapped up by super-hip Manhattan boutique Opening Ceremony.
Wasson, who ran numerous campaigns, for H&M to Balenciaga, is perhaps best known for her collaboration with Alexander Wang, whose last two shows she styled and for whom she has served as a sort of in-house muse. The two met when Wang moved into an apartment two floors below hers in Manhattan’s East Village.
Her collection for Rvca reflects who she is: not girly, surfer, skater and sexy. Cotton tank tops, denim cutoffs, a wool miniskirt, a jaunty blazer with zipper up the back. No pinks and blues, lots of blacks, grays and whites.
Meanwhile, the model-turned-designer will still be seen on the runways. “You don’t bite the hand that feeds you” She told WWD.
source: fashionunited.com
August 8th, 2008
Earlier this year, model and muse to Alexander Wang Erin Wasson launched her own jewelry line called Low Luv. The pieces consist of chains that wrap around the body and cost upwards of $1,000. Wang thought they were so cool, he even used them in his fall ‘08 runway show in February, right before Wasson’s line launched. However jewelry designer Bliss Lau, who has been making similar body chains since 2007, claims Wasson’s line is a ripoff of her Bliss line. According to Fashionista, Lau alledges that the pieces worn at Wang’s show were Bliss pieces that Wasson merely recast. Scandal!
But the alleged awfulness gets worse: Lau claims that Wasson actually wore an original Bliss piece in the Nylon magazine article about her Low Luv line. And — if Lau’s allegations are true — is that the body chains weren’t just some of Wang’s best accessories, but some of his best inspiration for his fall collection. He says in a Nylon video shot just before February Fashion Week, “A lot of this collection was inspired by holes and chains, mainly because I’m working with Erin, who’s designing her own jewelry line starting with this season, and it’s going to be introduced in the show. And kind of the idea of it was a lot of body chains and things that wrapped around the body.” In other words, the exact concept of Lau’s jewelry collection.
We’ve contacted Wasson’s reps and are awaiting comment; in the meantime we’ll be cringing.
source: nymag.com
August 2nd, 2008
Justin Timberlake “never really wanted” to be the face of his clothing line, William Rast, according to WWD. But the label’s higher-ups managed to talk him into starring in the latest campaign for its first full collection:
“We came up with this idea for him to play a role as this guy named William Rast,” [creative director] Johan Lindeberg said. “So it isn’t meant to be Justin, it’s Justin playing a role, as an actor. When we explained the idea, he instantly loved it and got really into building the profile of this character.”
In fact, Justin plays this William Rast character in a series of short Internet movies called “My Name Is William Rast” debuting at williamrastmovie.com later this month. In them William Rast is a rebel who runs from the police with Birdie, his lady friend, played by model Erin Wasson. The couple wears head-to-toe William Rast and apparently have committed some mysterious crime. As they flee the police they stop from time to time for “steamy make-out sessions,” eventually dashing into the forest together as gunshots go off in the background.
Hm. It sounds like the injury Wasson suffered shooting this campaign just might have been worth it.
source: nymag.com
July 15th, 2008
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