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.
Name: Shu Pei
Occupation: Model
What’s your most comfortable pair of shoes? These Roger Vivier boots.
What’s your favorite food? Chinese Food!
A new high-street clothing brand is on its way to the U.S. and you’re going to want to know about it. It’s called Mo&Co and you’ve probably never heard of it unless you live in or frequently visit China, where it’s based, sold and coveted. The french-inspired brand has been around since 2004 and is extremely successful in China, where it has nearly 100 stores. With locations set to open in New York and Paris next year, Mo&Co hopes to gain more international fans, beginning with the premiere of Momentum, a super chic Barnaby Roper-shot video starring Liu Wen and Shu Pei that recently debuted on W‘s blog; and by casting one of our faves, Freja Beha, as the star of its look books.
Mo&Co has just introduced a more high-end series called edit10n, which we are kind of dying over. Mo & Co. gave us a first look at the summer 2011 look book, which you can peruse below, along with the 3-D version of Momentum, which is exclusive to Fashionista. Grab your 3-D glasses and enjoy! Then, feel sad that you’d have to go all the way to China to buy this collection–though we’re pretty confident that whatever ends up stateside next year will be just as drool-worthy. Click through to watch the video.
Gareth Pugh’s BF Poses In Nothing But His Boots for Nick Knight: Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio released this stunning portrait of Gareth Pugh and his boyfriend Carson McColl today. {SHOWstudio}
Michael Kors’ Dream Collab: In Booth Moore’s recent Michael Kors profile Kors told her, “I want a deal with In-N-Out Burger — to do a special sauce or a wrapper. I’m horseradish-obsessed!” Fair enough. Horseradish is delicious. {LA Times}
The Man Repeller Does Kimberly Taylor’s Fall Look Book: Last season Andrew Mukamal styled Kimberly Taylor’s spring look book. This season, Taylor’s enlisted the Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine to style and star in her fall 2011 look book in two parts: “Man Getting” and “Man Repelling.” Medine will also host Taylor’s presentation during fashion week. {Refinery 29}
I don’t like to do a lot of end of year reflecting about anything, except maybe all the shoes I wish I had bought but didn’t (a girl can dream, right?), but 2010 has seen some major model mayhem.
2010 saw more diversity in the typically cookie-cutter world of modeling. Was it perfect? Of course not, but the modeling industry may be taking much needed steps into the right direction. The top models of 2010 came in all body types, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations, proving that there’s a lot more to being a successful model than a symmetrical face and a size zero frame.
Click though to see our list of the models that made made it big in 2010.
