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David Walliams’ fiance Lara Stone shows here just how tough life can be for a top model.
The poor 26-year-old Dutch beauty had to join a host of unfortunate colleagues in the Caribbean to shoot an advert for the new swimwear collection from high street store H&M.
She slipped her enbiable figure into one of their new bikinis and splashed around in the St Barts surf.
Stone shot the campaign with fellow models Daria Werbowy, Julia Stegner, Erin Wasson and Sasha Pivovarova.
And being the only blonde in the group, she stood out from the others, her womanly curves proving why she is a refreshing change from the usual size zero models.
The ad campaign for the collection, which launched this week and is inspired by a ‘glamorous, jet-set style’, was shot by acclaimed photographer Patrick Demarchelier.
And to run alongside the campaign, all five girls shared with the Swedish clothing company their perfect summer memories.
Daria said she remembered night-time surfing in Ireland, while Sasha added: ‘The perfect beach is an empty beach.’
But Lara said her best beach memory was her last summer holiday in Mexico with fiance Walliams.
She said: ‘We just had such an amazing time. It was so relaxing and beautiful and gorgeous and we were so in love, it was great.’
Then, bursting into a fit of giggles, she added: ‘I didn’t go to the beach much when I was a child because my dad’s obsessed with Eastern Europe.’
But she her perfect beach would be ‘beautiful white sand, I like sand. Clear blue sea, lots of sunshine, palm trees.
‘I like to just sit on my a*** and be lazy when I go to the beach.’
Last night, Lara and Walliams escaped the election fever gripping the nation as they enjoyed a cosy dinner together at the Ivy.
The couple got engaged to in January after a whirlwind four-month romance.
Walliams, 36, is understood to have proposed to Stone in Los Angeles with a vintage diamond engagement ring, after her parents gave their blessing to the relationship.
They are believed to be getting married in London next weekend at the luxury five-star Mayfair hotel Claridges, and are said to have drawn up a star-studded guest list for their special day.
Lara, who last month was named as the new face of Giorgio Armani Cosmetics, opened up at the end of April about her battle with alcoholism.
In a frank interview with to U.S. fashion magazine, Interview, Lara, who has been sober for 11 months after a stint in rehab, admitted that her life spiralled out of control.
She said: ”The drinking was getting way out of control. I just didn’t recognise myself any more. I didn’t know what I was doing or where I was.
‘I always had to have some drinks with me in my bag. Just waking up shaking and then having Bloody Marys on your own, first thing in the morning – I started to feel really pathetic about it’
Read more: dailymail.co.uk
May 7th, 2010
It used to be Hollywood’s aspiring actresses who carried the infamous ’slash’ job titles (and mostly the ‘actress/waitress’ one) but recently, top models of a new generation have turned into the new mistresses of the slash. Most recent examples: Agyness Deyn, Jessica Stam, Kate Moss, and Brooklyn Decker.
British model Agyness Deyn, who has been very selective with her modeling jobs recently, has just released pictures of her clothing line for Barneys Japan. Called I am Agyness Deyn for Barneys Green, the eco-friendly line consists of dresses, leggings, and knit tops, and will go on sale in Tokyo at Barneys Shinjuku on March 13.
Meanwhile, Jessica Stam has a capsule collection with US designer Rachel Roy in the works, which will be introduced during the next fashion week in New York.
Appearing in movies is just as popular among models as designing, and this week, it was announced that Kate Moss will star alongside the Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who played Carrie Bradshaw’s boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky in Sex and the City) in a short movie. Yes, she will also be dancing ballet, and yes, this will probably look different from her previous dancing for the White Stripes’ music video.
In other model/actress news, Sports Illustrated cover star Brooklyn Decker will feature in the upcoming Just Go With It, alongside Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, and Nicole Kidman.
Earlier this year, Coco Rocha – who is also the face of the new Rimmel London campaign and just got engaged to her interior designer boyfriend, James Conran – premiered her clothing line Rococo.
She joins a long list of designing models including Kate Moss, who just launched a handbag collection for Longchamp; Heidi Klum, who’s designed maternity lines for A Pea in the Pod; Amber Valletta, who released her first line of sportswear with Swedish brand Monrow last year, and Erin Wasson, who works on collections for surf and skate brand RVCA.
Claudia Schiffer told the IHT Luxury Conference in Berlin last year that she, too, is working on her first own fashion range, a collection of cashmere.
source. independent.co.uk
March 7th, 2010
Last night Erin Wasson presented her latest collection for RVCA to a packed house of fans. In attendance were Jared Leto, Ke$ha, Genvieve Jones and Chad Curry. Even fashion heavy weights made made the trek downtown, including Belgian designer Maria Intsher, Lynn Yaeger and Joe Zee – who was seen earlier in the day shooting an episode of The City in the front row of the Ports 1961runway show.
This is the second runway show for her Erin Wasson x RVCA line; last season the model turned designer made waves when she booked the main Bryant Park Tent – which seats upwards of 2000 people. This season Wasson went decidedly smaller, showing her F/W10 designs at ABC Carpet’s showroom in Union Square.
While Wasson may have downsized when it came to space, she most certainly did not do so when it came to the models: Frida Gustavsson, Lakshmi Menon and Eniko Mihalik all walked the runway.
source: guestofaguest.com
February 12th, 2010
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
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