Be the Last Intern: Magnus Berger and Tenzin Wild’s The Last Magazine needs design and production interns. You need experience and three to five days free to work. {Starworks}
Break It Down: Peter Brant spends $500,000 a month on his polo ponies. He doesn’t understand why his soon to be ex, Stephanie Seymour, spends $50,000 a month on clothes when she could just fly to Paris and take them from Alaia’s studio. And that’s just the tip of their divorce iceberg. {Jezebel}
Sex on Fire Sells: The Kings of Leon have partnered with Surface to Air to make clothes. The Tennessee kids whipped up some flannel, denim and a leather jacket of course that’ll only be available at Copenhagen’s Paris Texas. {Blackbook}
Birthdays & More: Gemma Ward shares her big day with Anna Wintour, though almost forty years later. She was out and about in New York looking almost unrecognizable. {BryanBoy}
Divorce, Supermodel Style: Peter Brant’s security folks allegedly got a little hands-y with Stephanie Seymour this weekend. It’s all very War of the Roses. But are the only ones secretly hoping this leads to a reunion with Axl? {E!}
Even More Drama: Peter Brant is not having a good week. Things aren’t going so well with Glenn O’Brien over at Interview either. {WWD}
My Girl Wants to Party All the Time: Steven Meisel gets up in the club, ’80s style for Vogue Italia. {Models}
Going Swimmingly: Giles Deacon is launching swim. He researched the collection by hanging out poolside at the Chateau Marmont. Somehow he forgot to invite us to come along. {Vogue UK}
Guess Who?: Gucci’s finally cracking down on Guess for their interlocking ‘G’ logo. Wonder what took them so long? {Bloomberg}
That’s What He Said: Olivier Theyskens likes fashion parties , but he’d rather smoke cheap cigars and pee in the Seine. We’ll see him at the former, thanks. {Hint}
Broken Brants: Stephanie Seymour just filed for divorce from her husband of sixteen years/owner of Interview Peter Brant. Poor thing’s sleeping in the maid’s quarters, probably surrounded by Alaia. {NYMag}
“Designers always say, ‘Gray is the new black,” and the next season say, ‘I can’t do one more gray piece.’ Where does it go? How come the loyalty vanishes? Why don’t you love gray every season?” —Stephanie Seymour interviews Alber Elbaz in the new Interview.
The 90’s pop tart’s launching both her Candie’s campaign and her new world tour which means she’s back to being a girl after being a Rodarte-wearing woman for a moment.
We’re drawing a twisted parallel to Interview - one of our favorite magazines that just can’t make up its mind. Its inner turmoil is awfully public and its readers are awfully confused. When Fabien Baron and Karl Templer took control last summer, they bled fashion into the magazine with a heavy dose of rock n’ roll edge. Kate Moss landed the inaugural cover, Stephanie Seymour was named Fashion Contributor and there were models in Margiela all over the place.
But now, with Baron and Templer out and Paris-based creative team M/M in, they told The Daily they’re going for “model-lite editorials” and a more retro design - not so interested in being on the cutting edge of the fashion world, apparently, which is strange since we’re pretty sure those who inhabit it are the ones who read Interview.
How much can a magazine drastically change its appearance, content and focus before seriously alienating its readers? More importantly, while all the controversy and behind-the-scenes drama has garnered Interview loads of press this past year, at some point, might it not be best to handle the changes and transitions quietly and let readers learn for themselves what is changing, instead of publicly and loudly declaring a new mission every eight months?
I have to make my way through a rabid pack of people who are not paparazzi. I’m not sure what they’re doing, or why they’re banded together, or why they’re all young girls.
Suddenly, I realize they’ve descended upon Lily Cole, not you know who, and they’re asking for her autograph.
If, or when, you meet your favorite model, or any model for that matter - would you ask for his or her autograph? We’ve never really understood the concept of an autograph anyway, but it seems all the stranger when applied to models. No one in the office would ever ask anyone to sign a piece of paper, though Natalie can understand asking someone like Kate Moss, who’s more rock star than model anyway and Carson (our new intern!) would just want to talk. When I met Kate, I kind of whimpered hello, and when I saw Doutzen I just gaped - they’re my favorites and yet I never thought about asking for their signature.
So if you’ve got anyone from Stephanie Seymour to Ali Michael in front of you, what do you do?
We’re kind of indifferent to colors and fonts, but we’re enthralled with their new “Welcome to the World of Beautiful People” video.
Before, one was greeted with an almost perfect trifecta - Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy and Gemma Ward - now you get more, but one less.
The black and white slideshow gives screen time to Naomi, Hilary Rhoda, Stephanie Seymour (in that ridiculous POP come-back shoot), Heidi Mount, Lara Stone and Angela Lindvall, but where oh where did Gemma go?
Just because she’s disappeared from life and runways and campaigns and everything but The Black Balloon doesn’t mean she’s lost her modeling spot.
“It’s very embarrassing when you meet, like, a Russian prostitute, and she says she’s a supermodel. And you’re like, “Hey, me too!” - Stephanie Seymour to Vanity Fair on the misuse of the ubiquitous term.
A supermodel loving reader sent us this fun video of Stephanie Seymour’s engagement party from 1994.
We haven’t seen this many supers in one place since an Issac runway way back when. Spotted are Naomi, Claudia, Kate, Stephanie, Helena and Christy all living it up on a roof-top terrace.
Highlights:
- Janice Dickinson’s narration and praise of Naomi’s awesomeness.
- Naomi speaking Italian and French sporadically, even though no one else is.
- The stuffed animal that Naomi calls her best friend and her lover, we’re wondering if he’s still around.
- The phrase “vodka…straight up” coming from Kate when asked what she’s drinking.
Aside form her usual supermodel duties and raising four kids, the perfect body is about to debut as expert fashion contributor of the all new Interview Magazine in their much anticipated September re-launch.
So while we’re busy waiting for her sartorial guidance, we’ll be plastering the Chantelle lookbook on our office walls for figure guidance.
It arrived in our mailboxes this afternoon. We can’t stop staring at her and it’s only fair we share it with you.
The black and white, NYC centic images might be simple - but she makes us want to spend $100 on a pair of underwear.
And after all, isn’t that what makes a supermodel?
We’ve always loved Interview - it might not be chock full of fashion but it’s oh so fun to read and it’s about to get even better.
While the masthead’s been morphing and the fashion’s increased, the official “new” Interview, complete with Contributing Fashion Editor Stephanie Seymour, won’t debut until September. In the meantime, we’ve already noticed better, more revealing interviews and an increasing amount of actual writers contributing to the magazine.
The new editorial staff has serious access and we’re looking forward to watching them milk it.
If you’ve already read the latest issue cover to cover and still aren’t satiated, Glenn O’Brien, Peter Brant, Stephanie Seymour and Marc Jacobs will all be on Charlie Rose tonight to talk about Andy Warhol and hopefully the relationship between art and fashion (PBS, 11pm).
Today’s WWD had a long article on what they’re calling the ‘return of the supermodel”.
We’ve sensed for a while that there’s definitely been a shift back to the unique women of the 90’s rather than models that we can sometimes barely tell apart.
But the article brings up something of note: that the design houses giving these women (“girls” just doesn’t seem quite right here) are mostly European with the exception (so far) of DSquared, which is designed by two brothers from Canada.
Do we have a problem with older women in America?
Try not to laugh at that.
(For an extra dose of fun, click through to see some of the upcoming ads for Fall, and a full list of which supe is posing for which brand.)
First, she was named the face of the French lingerie brand Chantelle, then she did an amazing spread for V followed by an entire issue of Pop that was literally too steamy for our front page, then she was named contributing fashion editor at Interview (we are anxiously awaiting for her interview with Alaia - you know it has to happen), and then she shot a Gap campaign alongside Shalom.
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