High fashion advertising has a long way to go before it can be considered an equal opportunity space for models. Taking a look at the casting history for high fashion brands makes us wonder if these ads featuring East Asian beauties are a sign of progress or posturing.
Karlie Kloss is at the top of her game: She’s beloved by designers; she’s a Vogue favorite; she holds lucrative deals with consumer giants like Victoria’s Secret; she co-hosts MTV’s House of Style with Joan Smalls; she shills her own vegan Karlie’s Kookies with Momofuku Milk Bar; and her haircut was just christened ‘The Karlie’ by the New York Times.
But there’s still a lot more 20-year-old Kloss hopes to accomplish in her career–and one of those things is going to Harvard.
Casey Legler, the female artist who made news when she was signed to Ford Models men’s board, has scored her first major campaign. And, true to her gender-bending style, Legler wears articles from both the men’s and women’s collections.
“My list [of what I won’t do] compared with any other model’s is insane,” Coco Rocha says of her contract, which includes no nudity, no government or religious artifacts, and no working with other models who are posing in a way that doesn’t jive with Rocha’s values.
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She may have worn wings at last year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show but model Constance Jablonski is no angel–according to her agency, anyway: Marilyn Model Management is suing the stunner for $3.3 million, alleging she violated her three-year contract to work with rival firm DNA Model Management, the Daily News is reporting.
The Victoria’s Secret model on dealing with death threats and fearing the Taylor Swift Twitter wrath that goes along with dating a member of One Direction.
Paging Miuccia Prada: Australian model Gemma Ward may be planning a fashion comeback.
So that report about Naomi Campbell maybe getting attacked in Paris? Turns out that it happened. For real this time. (Well, at least until the next report refuting it comes out.)
Since early December, the Daily Mail and the New York Post have been chronicling Naomi Campbell‘s fabulous holiday celebrations, noting that she’s been hobbling around on crutches (and sometimes wheeling around in a motorized wheel chair) from a torn ligament.
Today two countering reports–from the Post and Mail–shed light on the cause of Campbell’s injury. Bear with us here…
Vogue Italia‘s January 2013 cover isn’t just the first of the year–it’s the first cover in the magazine’s history to feature a Chinese model on her own, according to Models.com.
Looks like fashion may have a new power couple.
Israel’s new law banning too-skinny models from appearing in advertisements went into effect yesterday. Even before Israel’s law passed, both Madrid and Milan banned models with a BMI under 18.5 from their fashion weeks. In New York, however, no such strict restrictions have been issued; and according to CFDA CEO Steven Kolb, none will.
