H&M has its eye on India: The retailer is reportedly planning to spend about $130 million on an initial 50 stores in the country. {The Business of Fashion}
Naomi Campbell goes blonde on the cover of Vogue Brazil. {Fashion Gone Rogue}
Here’s a first look at Alber Elbaz’s debut makeup collection with Lancôme. Unsurprisingly, it looks pretty adorable. {WWD, Subscription required.}
Karlie, Natasha, Jourdan, and 10 of the biggest names in modeling snag 10 different covers of the upcoming Times Style Magazine in honor of the mag’s–you guessed it–tenth birthday. {HuffPost}
Mayle’s back! And you can get it at Club Monaco. Hopefully this is a sign of much, much more Mayle to come. {Refinery29}
Emma Watson and the Perks of Being a Wallflower cast are just too freaking cute in this interview with Nylon Magazine. {NylonMagazine}
The always hilarious Joan Rivers likens fashion week to a Charlie Sheen rager. She’s not far off from the truth there. {BuzzFeed}
Can you tell that we’re seriously, unabashedly obsessed with the Olympics here at Fashionista? Well, we are. It’s difficult not to be–what with Ryan Lochte running swimming around all shirtless and Gabby Douglas being generally adorable, it’s a major exercise (ha!) in our willpower to focus on anything else. And we aren’t alone! In addition Read more →
It looks like Vogue China isn’t the only magazine taking a few limb-liberties lately. Check out the August cover of Vogue Russia starring a beautiful and armless Natasha Poly. Or, if there is a right arm present, we certainly can’t find it and it’s making our eyes cross. Either Natasha has a rather unusual growth Read more →
Summer’s here! Well, kind of. Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of the hot and humid season we all fantasize about through winter, and we’re just a little bit excited. If for some reason you need some convincing, we put together an inspo gallery of some of our favorite beach editorials to get you Read more →
Nowadays, you needn’t be a model to experience all the glitz, glamour (and, okay, uncomfortable shoes) of fashion month. All you need is a good internet connection, a steady roster of model Twitter accounts bookmarked in your browser and some free time.
From hanging with A-list stars (ahem, Kanye West) to goofing off backstage with model besties, find out what Coco Rocha, Karlie Kloss, Jourdan Dunn, Anja Rubik and more, were up to during fashion week–straight from the source.
Click through for the best tweets and pictures from some of our favorite models this fashion month.
We’re still trying to wrap our heads around this one: Some kind of brawl involving ‘eff yous,’ fisticuffs, big time models (former Victoria’s secret model Jessica Hart, Natasha Poly, and Anja Rubik), royalty (Monaco Prince Pierre Casiraghi) and other assorted fancy rich people (shipping heir and Paris Hilton ex Stavros Niarchos and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld) broke out early Saturday morning outside NYC club Double Seven, the New York Post is reporting.
Here’s what went down, according to the tab:
We loved it on the runway, and we loved it in the print ads–and now we love it all over again in the campaign video, shot by Steven Meisel. Yep, Prada’s Spring 2012 ’50s Americana-inspired collection is the gift that keeps on giving. Watch as models Meghan Collison, Natasha Poly, Elise Crombez, Ymre Stiekema and Read more →
Natasha Poly gives some good back in the Proneza Schouler Spring 2012 ad campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre at MILK Studios. We like the minimalist set (and the variety of ’50s chairs and stools), which really highlights the stand out collection (that’s the whole point, right?), plus the raffia background is a subtle nod to Read more →
Prada’s campaigns are easily among the most anticipated each season. They make stars of new models and cement the success of established ones. For spring, Steven Meisel shot a cast of six models (Kati Nescher, Meghan Collison, Natasha Poly, Elise Crombez, Ymre Stiekema and Kathryn Kruger) as blond bombshells or femmes noirs at an idealized Read more →
When Anna Wintour referred to relatively little-known model Arizona Muse in her last February’s editor’s letter as a “gorgeous, smart, grown-up” and compared her to the likes of modeling giants Linda Evangelista and Natalia Vodianova, we knew the modeling world was in for something big. It’s been quite the landmark year for Muse. Top campaigns, extensive runway presence, big covers, and now another feather in her cap — the number one model in Vogue.
Hundreds of models are cast every year in the pages of international editions of Vogue, and when we tallied the results of their work it quickly became obvious who came out on top in 2011. Quantity and quality must be accounted for to make the top 10. Not only must a models’ appearances be plentiful, but the quality of those appearances must be stellar as well. This includes factors like only-girl editorials, the caliber of photographers they work with and editions they’re in, and their number of overall pages. Arizona’s scoresheet was predictably well-rounded. She worked with the best photographers, scored the most solo editorials and graced enough pages to fill an entire August issue all on her own (that’s about 220 for those of you keeping track). She started the year with a bang by starring in only-girl editorials for Vogue China, Italia, Paris, UK and US, and that was in just one month!
It’s an unusual feat for a model to skyrocket to the extent Arizona has since she hit the international scene last year, and while we’re thrilled for her success, we wonder if it’ll stick. While Muse has the novelty (and sometimes the curse) of it-girl status, it remains to be seen whether she’ll be blessed with longevity, the true mark of a great and successful model. We are looking forward to what the new year will bring for her.
For now, click through for the rest of the top 10.
The Pirelli calendar–otherwise known as the classiest pin-up girly calendar ever–is an annual tradition for those lucky few VIPs who find it in their mailboxes. It’s traditionally shot by world-renowned fashion photographers (Karl Lagerfeld last year, Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Terry Richardson…the list goes on and on) and features A-list models and actresses. This morning we attended a press conference to preview the 2012 Pirelli calendar, and it left us feeling very warm and um, tingly.
First of all, the calendar was shot in Corsica by Mario Sorrenti, who was in attendance and who is exceptionally easy on the eyes (he’s a former model). Second of all, every single model in the calendar is as naked as the day she was born, and we were treated to a 20-minute long behind-the-scenes video documenting the shoots of all 12 models. Suffice it to say there was a lot of glistening flesh (in almost every scene an assistant is seen spritzing down the models), and a lot of come-hither looks. Here are the ladies who the lucky recipients will get to ogle in 2012: Isabeli Fontana, Natasha Poly, Saskia de Brauw, Lara Stone, Joan Smalls, Guinevere Van Seenus, Malgosia, Edita Vilkevicute, Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, Margareth Made, and Rinko Kikuchi.
