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Let's Play Dress Up With Lara

larawedding.jpgLara Stone is getting married, and while we wait with bated breath to see the dress she dons, we thought we’d have a little fun and play stylist for the afternoon.

We’ve picked out a few things we’d love to see her wear down the aisle. Some are practical, but most are not.

In reality, she’ll most likely wear something custom-made, and probably by Karl. Regardless, we can’t wait to see what she does choose.

Click here to see our favorite nuptial numbers.

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Fashionista's Six New Models To Watch

marloesnext2.jpg With Fashion Week just around the corner, we decided to make a list of six models to watch. These girls are some of our favorite new faces, and we’re eager to see what’s next for them.

Meet Marloes Horst, Hannah Holman, Ginta Lapina, Frida Gustavsson, Nimue Smit, and Valerija Kelava.

With some editorial and runway work under their size zero belts, these six models are bound to make it big in 2010.

Click here to read more about our up-and-comers.

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Models on the Masthead?

sasha25.jpg Sasha Knezevic is one of the world’s top male models, who just so happens to be dating another top model — Anja Rubik.

We’ve seen the pretty power couple join forces before — posing for those adorable Gap ads and then again in those Camilla Akrans ads that were too hot for words. But we’ve never seen them take on a project as large as this one.

Last November, the two began work on the already established Viennese magazine, 25. We aren’t very familiar with the publication, but apparently the magazine needed a major revamp, and after being approached by a friend, Sasha agreed to help out. Before he knew it, he was adding a new job title to his resume — joint Editor-in-Chief. He explains, “I convinced Anja to do the fashion part and before we realized, we had our own magazine.”

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Rumors of Lara in a Gaga video? Be still our fashion hearts. Someone make this happen. Thanks.
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Naomi’s Fairy Tale Beginnings

We never tire of seeing old pictures of people when they were kids.

Videos of future supermodels? Even better!

Thanks goes to Julia Frakes for tweeting about this little gem where a young Naomi Campbell shows us that her feisty streak indeed began at a very young age, on 70s television in Britain.

We wouldn’t have her any other way.

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Slashing it Up

erin wasson jewelry.jpgErin Wasson already has a few slashes in her job title: model/designer/jewelry maker.

Now, you may have varying opinions about her abilities and/or creativity at the last two there. But soon, you’ll have something new to critique. In a completely unoriginal move, Ms. Wasson has said she’ll soon be trying her hand at acting.

Hey, maybe that’s good thing and she’s going to be the next Cameron Diaz or Halle Berry. Or maybe she’s going to do a movie like that horrible Cindy Crawford vehicle, Fair Game. We’ll have to just wait and see.

In the meantime, looks like she’ll also be hard at work on the jewelry front, creating a lower priced version of her goods.

Busy lady. Hopefully this will keep her mind off the Phi news.

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Naughty Models

2009 has been the year of new ventures and expanding résumés for some of fashion’s finest. From Valentino’s documentary to The September Issue and Tom Ford’s A Single Man, fashion’s biggest names have taken the film world by storm.

Well, Karl’s jumped outside his short-film-as-commercial box and made a slightly longer feature he’s called Vol de Jour. He directs Lara Stone and Baptiste Giabiconi while they ransack Chanel stores all over Paris and they make out with some great loot! I just wish it didn’t end there. Perhaps we can persuade Karl for a Vol de Jour, parte deux?

After all, where there are robbers, there are cops right? All I can think about is how perfect a jail scene would be — Lara in this and Baptiste in this. Now that’s cell block chic.

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The Tides are Turning

Crystal-Renn-Elle-Canada-January-2010-14.jpgPersonally, I couldn’t be happier to see that the trend of booking plus-size models for major editorials is showing no signs of slowing down, and actually becoming normal instead of novelty.

There were so many times during my tenure as beauty director at YM where we wanted to use non-super skinny girls and there was nary an actual teenage one to book. Until Crystal Renn.

We told you about her upcoming V story. And we just heard that she went super blond for a shoot with Italian Vanity Fair. It’s supposed to be a touch of Anna Nicole in her heyday and word is the advance shots look pretty incredible.

Another once “regular” sized model, Amy Lemons, is shooting 22 pages with Tesh for French Elle over the next couple of days, complete with cover tries.

Here’s to the day where this happens in America and it doesn’t have to be a story on the Today Show.

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A Real Muse

abbey lee muse video.jpgIn what feels like a direct rebuttal to the raunchy sexuality of this Lindsay video at her Muse shoot, Models.com has a quick behind-the-scenes peek at Abbey Lee Kershaw’s Greg Kadel shoot for the magazine.

You know we love Abbey and this is just a little taste of why. It’s elfin, ethereal, quirky and pretty all at the same time. We feel like our palate has been officially cleansed.

(And there’s a little bare breast action, so consider yourself warned if that doesn’t play well at your office.)

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Filming Fashion

It’s always exciting when a new fashion video comes out and we get a behind the scenes peek into the amazing experience that is a photo shoot.

Well Flair Austria took this idea to the next level when they decided to team up with Vision On to create a fashion film editorial. Titled “La Demimondaine”, the film ed stars Austrian supermodel Iris Strubegger as a Marlene Dietrich-inspired clubgoer. Iris sips red wine, smokes a cigarette and looks captivating as she makes her way through NYC’s nightclub The Box. The film is beautiful and anything Iris-related makes me a very happy girl.

So you’re probably still wondering how the film translates to editorial? Here’s how it works: the crew filmed the video with just one camera and then pulled stills from the finished video to create the editorial we see in the magazine. Pretty cool idea, right? It’s like a two for the price of one deal.

Check out the December issue to see which stills made the cut!

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Coco Needs You!

We can never get enough of Coco Rocha.

And now it seems that we will be getting even more. The adorable Irish jig dancing model has decided to launch her own clothing line. And she wants you to suggest names for it.

So what would you name the first line from the House of Rocha?

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You Better Work

natalieportmanVcoverVAModel.jpgOr should we say werq as so many of our fashion boys prefer.

Either way, if you are harboring some serious supermodel fantasies you’re looking to test out, now’s your chance,

V is once again teaming up with Ford Models for V A Model, their search for the next big thing.

It’s totally global and you can submit your photos online here from now until December 23rd to be judged by a group of fashion insiders. The winner gets a contract with Ford and a spread in V, of course.

Do you have the stuff to join the home of Lakshmi, Chanel and last year’s winner, Lea?

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Erin O’Connor, Radio Star

erin oconnor radio beauty.jpgMost models talk about how ugly they felt as kids; they were lanky, skinny, awkward, too tall etc.

Erin O’Connor says she even crossed the street a particular way to guarantee her nose wouldn’t end up profiled against a stationary car. (Also, she double padded her bra.)

So now that she’s one of London’s top supermodels, the founder of London Fashion Week’s model sanctuary and a vice chairman of the British Fashion Council, she’s trying to make sure everyone, model or not, feels good about themselves.

Cue the radio show. She, along with a plastic surgeon and a professor of children’s literature will discuss beauty on BBC radio 4 this Saturday, November 28th from 10:30 am to 11:00 am (London time). As for those of us stuck in America, whoever finds an online recording first (in case we don’t), leave a comment!

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Hyoni's Store

reborn process.jpgHyoni Kang’s adding a slash to her name.

She’s foregoing actress, singer, etc in favor of model/designer/shop-owner.

The Korean born model’s store, Reborn Process, in set to open in Soho right before Christmas. She calls it, “a vintage reform and remake store.”

She and her partners, Aeri, a stylist, J, a photographer and Vogue Korea’s New York editor, will sell vintage pieces found around the country and re-worked in the work space set into the shop. On top of that, they’ll also produce their own line of t-shirts.

Hyoni and Aeri will design the clothes while J handles the business side and, not surprisingly, Hyoni models the clothes online.

Click through for a selection of what they’re working on so far, and if you can’t make it to New York pre-holidays, their website will be up and running by the end of this month.

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Backstage at VS: Breakfast & Bras

doutzen pull vs09.jpg“Everyone just expects me to jump now. I think they just think I jump naturally, like put me in great shoes and I jump,” said Caroline Trentini backstage at the Victoria’s Secret show this afternoon.

“Will you ever not jump?”

“No! I mean, as long as people ask me to jump, I’ll jump!”

Once I got that all-important question out of the way, I ran around the room and asked a handful of our favorite girls two critical questions:

1. What’d you have for breakfast?
2. What are you wearing to tonight’s after party?

Chanel Iman said she ate eggs, bacon, potatoes, cereal and fruit. I would have said, “Don’t lie,” but I wasn’t in the mood to pick a fight with an angel and she followed with, “I think eating is sexy.” She wants to wear the Valli dress she wore down his runway, but if it doesn’t show up, she’s sure she can find something “super sexy to wear with my fabulous boots.”

Julia Stegner’s wearing Herve Leger, surprise! (There were two camps of girls, the ones wearing Herve and the ones specifically not wearing Herve because everyone else is wearing Herve.) She’s not a breakfast person, but “I had pomegranate seeds this morning! Only because I’m on antibiotics and I have to eat something.”

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Lorenzo’s New Gig

lorenzomartonevictoriabeckhamARCNY.jpgWhile people keep asking Lorenzo Martone about his impending nuptials with Marc, we were more interested to read about his new business venture in this morning’s NY Post.

Martone and former Elite marketing director Ryan Brown have created ARC NY, a public relations agency just for models. They told Page Six: “Our goal is to build equity around the girl’s personality.” That means helping them branch out into other projects like acting, singing and product lines.

So far they’ve lined up Lydia Hearst, Alessandra Ambrosio, Fernanda Motta, Julie Henderson, and Jessica White.

We think this sounds like a pretty cool idea. Because it’s always painful to watch a celebrity (model, actress, or singer) stumble into new genres, seemingly without a plan or any guidance whatsoever. And between Lorenzo and Ryan, they’ve got the media savvy backgrounds and serious connections to make some really interest projects happen.

Though we can’t lie and say the possible “singing” careers don’t frighten us just a wee bit. But we’re gonna go ahead and trust in Lorenzo’s good taste on these matters.

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I Don't Care What Heidi Says, I Wanna Be A VS Model

VS contest.jpgThere’s already so much buzz surrounding the Victoria’s Secret fashion show’s return to New York that we kind of feel like we’re prepping for an entire fashion week.

This morning, the press trekked downtown to District (that building Amy Sacco’s done something with) to meet the ten finalists in the Angel competition. After three weeks of Victoria’s Secret boot camp, one will win a spot on the Armory’s runway come November 19th.

America picks the winner; there are, of course, cameras following the wannabe Angels everywhere and their boot camp webisodes will air on both CBS.com and VSAllAccess.com. Voting opens to the public on November 9th.

Now to the important part - the girls. They range in age from 18-year-old Katelyn from Boston who’s never modeled a day in her life and happily confesses to stuffing her bra to 25-year-old Tika from Albania via Detroit who’s been happily married for seven years.

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Natalia Poses for Herself

nataliashootingherself.jpgDear Fashionista,

So here I was just wandering through Soho doing my thing when I happened upon Natalia at the corner of Prince and Greene, snapping shots of herself with a digital camera.

Though I suppose that’s just an average Thursday afternoon in this neighborhood. If it’s not a fashion shoot, it’s Gossip Girl, right?

Anyway I thought you guys would enjoy them! Also, how amazing are those shoes????

xoxo,

A Supermodel-Spotting Reader

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