MIRANDA Kerr warmed winter in Sydney last night as she sizzled on the catwalk at the David Jones Summer 2008 collections campaign.
The former Gunnedah girl turned international modelling success shined in leading Australian designer names in front of an audience of 650 at the Royal Hall of Industries at Moore Park.
From modelling a brilliant pink ruffled cossie from Australian label Jets to open the show, through to making her way down the catwalk in a dazzling champagne coloured beaded Collette Dinnigan mini, she showed a brighter side to summer fashion.
“It’s all very fresh, bright and beautiful,” Miranda said.
It was the first time on the catwalk as the star for Kerr as she took over as fashion ambassador from model turned actor Megan Gale.
“I’ve grown up with these designers and to be coming home and wearing them for David Jones is an honour,” she said.
While her boyfriend actor Orlando Bloom was a no-show, Kerr brought in a support team of 15 family members including parents John and Therese, grandparents and cousins to the event.
“It’s the first big show I’ve seen her in and she’s great,” her father Gunnedah builder John Kerr said.
The Kerr crew had a 5am start from Gunnedah, with just one stop at Maccas at Mudgee on the way to their daughter’s debut as the fashion face of david jones.
She was joined on the catwalk by model Louise van de Vorst, who has had attention since hooking up with Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns.
Celebrity and a seriously sexy show that featured a bold carnival feel were the ingredients that David Jones employed at the show last night which comes at a tough time for fashion retailers.
The latest retail figures, released last week showed clothing sales down 8.8 per cent.
With that forecast big fashion retailers such as David Jones are looking for plenty of wow to drive shoppers in store.
And there were plenty of head turning colours and silhouettes in the summer collection.
Sass & Bide, one of David Jones biggest sellers, sent down the cat walk multi-sequin mini dresses and skin tight black gathered pants.
While Alex Perry showed one of the other key trends for summer, full 50’s style skirts with cinched in waists.
David Jones general manager of womens wear, David Bush, said swimwear featuring bold pattern and colour, sheer dress and full skirts with cinched in waists were the biggest influences in fashion for summer.
“Essentials this summer are the sheer dress, skirts with a bit of volume and the waist makes a big return,” he said.
source: news.com.au
As a top model Heidi Klum has plenty of experience in striking a pose.
But she took part in an all-together different shoot today when she modelled her bikini on the beach for husband Seal.
The loved-up pair looked blissfully happy as they played around with the camera on a family holiday in Sardinia.
Heidi showed off her fantastic figure in a black bikini which belied the fact that she has three children.
Husband Seal also looked in good shape wearing a floral pair of swimming trunks, which revealed his toned physique.
Despite being married for three years the pair still looked besotted each other as they relaxed on the beach.
The notoriously loved-up couple kissed and fooled round in the sun and Heidi even tried her hand at catching a fish in a net.
The whole family were obviously enjoying the break a youngsters Erna, Leni and Johan made sandcastles and played with their toys on the beach.
source: dailymail.co.uk
Miranda Kerr has spoken out against the rumors that she and actor boyfriend Orlando Bloom has split up. The Victoria’s Secret Supermodel is presently working in her home country of Australia, while Orlando is in New York on the set of a new film. “He’s working on a movie,” Miranda stated in the Land Down under, “but hopefully we will be able to co-ordinate our schedules so we can spend some time together.”
Miranda Kerr has spoken out against the rumors that she and actor boyfriend Orlando Bloom has split up. The Victoria’s Secret Supermodel is presently working in her home country of Australia, while Orlando is in New York on the set of a new film. “He’s working on a movie,” Miranda stated in the Land Down under, “but hopefully we will be able to co-ordinate our schedules so we can spend some time together.”
source: postchronicle.com
Supermodel Tyra Banks isback to her attention grabbing tricks, as she is all set to dress up like U.S. presidential candidate Barrack Obama’s wife Michelle Obama for Harper Bazaar’s magazines cover.
People having knowledge about Tyra’s new project call it a publicity stunt.
“You know how Tyra likes to do that stuff, and she’ll get a lot of press off it,” the New York Post quoted a spy as saying.
“It’s a full makeover,” the source added.
Tyra’s representatives were unavailable for comment.
“Kate is keen to have another baby before Lila Grace gets any older. She doesn’t want her to grow up a single child,” one pal told The Mirror. “Lila even calls Sadie Frost’s little girl Iris her sister because she wants one so much, which has made Kate feel guilty. But it has become a real sticking point between her and Jamie.
“She thinks he will be a great dad - but he has been unsure whether he’s ready for such a huge commitment.”
“He agreed to go to Ibiza with her for a break before he goes on tour to see how they get on,” the source added. “No one would be surprised if Kate comes back pregnant.”
source: thebosh.com
More than 20 years after taking the modelling world by storm, Canadian Linda Evangelista has signed up to be the new face of Prada.
Still beautiful at the age of 43, Linda, who once declared she “didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000″, will front the Italian fashion house’s autumn/winter collection.
And the mother-of one is not the only original supermodel still very much in vogue.
Starring in the latest Yves Saint Laurent campaign is British beauty Naomi Campbell, 38, while Christy Turlington, who is one year older, is the most recent face of fashion brand Escada.
Baby of the group is German blonde Claudia Schiffer. At 37, she is modelling for Italian label Salvator Ferragamo.
“Time makes them more interesting,” said Chanel’s iconic designer Karl Lagerfeld. “They are, and stay, irreplaceable.”
source: hellomagazine.com
Having helped to make Agyness Deyn the UK’s next big model, Lancashire-born designer Henry Holland, pictured below with Agyness, is discovering the downside of having a famous friend.
The 24-year-old creator of the House of Holland label is staging his second catwalk show at London Fashion Week next month and is hoping that Agyness, 25, will be modelling his latest collection.
‘Agy has just bought a place in Manhattan and is spending more time there than in London,’ Henry told me at an Audi-hosted lunch at Glorious Goodwood.
‘I really miss her. We’ve known each other since we were 12.
‘Now Agyness is hugely successful and I’m so pleased for her. I just hope I can get her to fly back for my show.’
source: dailymail.co.uk
Love has turned sour for local supermodel Tanya Fourie, who claims that her Italian ex-lover, soccer star Nicola Caricola, stole millions from her Swiss bank account.
Caricola used to play for Turin club Juventus, billed as the most successful team in the history of Italian football.
Fourie, from Durbanville in Cape Town, has graced magazine covers and catwalks around the world.
She was 20 years old when she gave birth to the couple’s first child, Sean, in 1993.
The glamorous pair moved into a converted 17th century stable block in Genoa, Italy, and their second child, Luca, was born eight years later.
But their relationship hit the rocks amid allegations that Caricola was dealing in cocaine.
This week, Fourie filed papers at the Cape High Court in which she accuses Caricola of theft.
In her affidavit, the model, who lives in the luxurious Welgedacht security estate in Cape Town, says Caricola withdrew more than R2-million — in euros — from her bank account between March 2003 and November 2005, without her knowledge or consent. He allegedly made 16 withdrawals.
She is claiming the money, interest and legal costs.
Caricola, who has a home in Tokai, Cape Town, is disputing the claim.
The case will be heard later this month.
source: thetimes.co.za
Kate Moss certainly isn’t pining over the absence of on-off boyfriend Jamie Hince on her holiday in Spain this weekend.
Latest pictures from her holiday in Formentera this weekend show the supermodel frolicking with a group of tanned, topless men aboard a yacht moored just off the Spanish holiday island.
The group were kept entertained as they soaked up the sun with a continuous supply of cigarettes and alcohol.
The break on the Spanish island, which is a stone’s throw from Ibiza follows a break in the party hotspot with friend and colleague Philip Green, where Kate was seen enjoying dinner with the Topshop tycoon and his daughter.
It appears to have been one long holiday for Moss, who preceded her Spanish break with a holiday aboard a $20 million yacht in Sardinia.
It is thought that the break with best friend Davinia Taylor and her husband Dave, was to take the model’s mind off her troubles with Kills rocker Hince.
The couple’s on-off status has been especially rocky of late following a break-up in early July. The pair appeared to have rekindled their romance last week, when they were spotted hand-in-hand during a shopping trip to Selfridges.
source: dailymail.co.uk
Supermodel Karolina Kurkova graces the September 2008 cover of GQ magazine with her fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels.
Pictured from left to right are Adriana Lima, 27, Karolina Kurkova, 24, Heidi Klum, 35, Alessandra Ambrosio, 27, and Izabel Goulart, 24.
Kurkova is looking as fit and fabulous as ever, just two months after Brazilian press bashed her for being “too fat” to walk the runway at the Cia Maritima show during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in June.
When Kurkova strutted the catwalk in a bikini looking like she had gained a couple of pounds, a local newspaper blasted the leggy 5′11″ Czech supermodel for having back fat and cellulite on her butt.
Following the incident, journalists and bloggers around the world went on a rampage, trashing the thought that anyone in their right mind could call Kurkova “fat.” But just as we predicted, she’s back in top form for her latest magazine photoshoot, which also features Sports Illustrated cover girl Marisa Miller, 30 (not pictured).
Karolina, who is one of the highest paid models in the world, kept a low profile following the “fat” attacks and and quietly got back in killer shape. Kurkova is a highly sought-after professional model, and now we know why. When your paycheck fluctuates with your weight, you won’t stay out of shape for long.
source: theimproper.com
MIRANDA Kerr warmed winter in Sydney last night as she sizzled on the catwalk at the David Jones Summer 2008 collections campaign.
