Results tagged “Riley Keough” (3)
Donatella Versace, POP, Riley Keough, Roberto Cavalli, Stella McCartney
We hear from a model agent that Karlie Kloss is making the move from Elite to Next, effective pretty much immediately.
“They offered her family a lot of money to switch,” says the source, “And they couldn’t turn it down.”
Next represents some incredible talent (Petra Nemcova, Anja Rubik, Catherine McNeil, Joy Bryant), and adding Karlie to their stable will undoubtedly make their women’s board even stronger.
But Elite’s recently gained a reputation for nurturing new talent, with Coco Rocha skyrocketing from nowhere under the tutelage of her Elite managers, Ali Stephens booking the new Chloe campaign, and Darla Baker morphing into indie fashion’s go-to poster girl.
We love Next; we love Elite; we love Karlie; we can’t wait for Fashion Week.
But we’re also smitten with this extra bit of news:
Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, former face of Dior, and now-legal bombshell, is at Elite’s New York agency… and what’s more, she’s in their show package.
Riley on the runways for Fashion Week?! It’s too good…
The fashion world is used to underage girls representing its brands: At fifteen, Gemma did Prada and Riley Keough did Dior, and whether Tanya D was fourteen or younger when she shot YSL is often discussed.
So Versace’s new teen face shouldn’t be shocking - except that it’s a sixteen year old boy.
As pegged by Paris Vogue, their new poster child is Tuki Brando, the grandson of Marlon and the son of Tarita Cheyenne Brando, a former model who committed suicide when Tuki was five. He was raised in Tahiti by his grandmother, and lived there until recently, when he flew to Paris for a L’Uomo Vogue shoot with Bruce Weber.
No doubt the new boy will be fun eye candy in magazines - but will he entice grown men to buy into the Versace brand?
And isn’t it odd that Versace’s men’s collections have gotten way more grown-up on the runways, thanks in large part to Cloak’s Alexander Plohkov, only to be faced by someone born in the ’90s?





