Last week we told you about the new documentary About Face, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and featuring models of a certain age–including Jerry Hall, Isabella Rosellini, Marisa Berenson, Carmen Dell-Orefice and Paulina Porizkova–speaking frankly about the industry and what it’s like getting older. We finally got to see the trailer–it’s short but is making us Read more →
Modeling has always been a profession that elicits curiosity and courts controversy. A new documentary, called About Face, is going to give us a glimpse into the experiences of a group of supermodels from the 70s and 80s, and it sure doesn’t sound like it’s going to be pretty.
The film, which premieres at Sundance in January, will be available to the masses on HBO in the summer, WWD is reporting. The movie is definitely not a shiny, happy portrayal of modeling. Vanity Fair photog Timothy Greeenfield-Sanders shot the film to take a look at the “models as survivors, blessed with beauty, yet condemned by society’s less-than-tolerant view of aging and its relentless celebration of youth.”
We’re sure that when cavemen banged out rhythms on old animal skulls, all the most gorgeous cave girls immediately came running. While musicians have never had a hard time picking up women, it’s safe to say MTV made it easier for them. The era of the model/musician relationship bloomed during the MTV era–models and musicians were frequently thrown together during video shoots, which was a job that hadn’t existed for models before.
MTV just turned 30, and to honor the music channel which helped to give musicians faces and personalities, here’s our roundup of the 30 best (and strangest) model/musician pairings through the years.
“[T]he one guarantee that you will never make it as a model is to go on [America's Next Top Model],” Paulina Porizkova, former ANTM judge, dishes to the NY Post on how Tyra Banks’ long-running model reality show does not a super model make. (Of course, she’s right though, none of the ANTM winners have Read more →
This model roundtable, hosted by Sally Singer, beats Vogue‘s actual model issue by a longshot. The magazine filled a Minetta Tavern table with Lauren Hutton, Karlie Kloss, Caroline Trentini, Iman, Paulina Porizkova, Naomi Campbell and Hilary Rhoda for a discussion on modeling past and present. Yes, it should be about five hours longer, but in Read more →
