Oh HEY friends-- welcome back! Hope your spring break was epic in the best way possible, and that you're psyched to be back: only basically two more months left in the semester, crazzzy.
Over break I managed to get my hands on a copy of LOVE magazine (the one I kept on yabbing on about), and besides the fact it weighs a ton, it's quite a fun read. The first half of the issue is set up as an A to Z, filled with clothes, designers, models, artists, and actors, and the second half has more fleshed out articles about everyone from Iggy Pop, Lily Allen, Kelly Brook and Angelica Huston, to articles on Courtney Love, up and coming singers, and a photoshoot of Kate Moss' boobs (well, not quite, but basically. Katie Grand obviously loves the ta-tas, becuase there's a good amount of them throughout the mag). It's interesting in that a lot of the people featured aren't necessarily new "it" celebs, quite a few of them have been around for a while. It's obvious that everyone involved had a lot of fun putting the issue together, it comes through in the playful and upbeat content and layout. While I might not be head over heels in love with it, I'm definitely quite smitten.
Here are a couple of things I LOVEd:
- The use of Page Three girls for a photo entry on t-shirts
-The silver Hogan bag ... that I can only seem to find a photo of in gold:
-The photos: they're big, they're glossy, they're lush, and they just look so good. ex:
-Glenn Obrien (editorial director of Interview magazine): "If you love someone set them free. And if they don't come back, hunt them down and kill them."
-Kelly Brook: from pin-up model, to West End actress. She was considered too curvy to be a high-end fashion model, but she definitely rocks the voluptuous sexy:
-The fact that Marc Jacob's favourite love song is "You Are My Sunshine."
-Model Oluchi Onweagba, who I wasn't familiar with before-- she's gorgeous:
... and the list could go on... but this is starting to get a bit out of control.
images via www.thefashioncult.com, models.com,
Photos by: Zan Schmidt, Caroline Mills, Kristina Duffy, Madeleine Little, Katie Johnson, Eushavia Bogan and Nikola Turner.
Photos by Zan Shmidt, Nikki Turner, Eushavia Bogan, Katie Johnson, Caroline Mills
just for giggles...
Agyness Deyn has been hired to be the face of Jil Sander's line for Uniqlo, the photos above are previews that will be used in select magazines in the US and UK. I actually don't love the clothes but the pictures themselves are nice, and Deyn looks great. The campaign will feature Deyn alongside Halle Berry's boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry. 
I guess in this picture they figured that the clothes aren't that cute and they might as well take the "Abercrombie and Fitch" method of advertising and use nude, attractive, suggestive model. Is that seriously a pink terry cloth short sleeved zip up they are trying to sell? I think I owned that same item, but I was 11. And clearly had great taste. I also shopped at Abercrombie... Maybe they actually are trying to appeal to that audience?
They also already posted a slideshow of pictures from the event. Both Ciara and Ashley Olsen were rocking backless black and white floor length gowns:
Whose do you like better?
The much anticipated May 09 issue of Vogue US is here. Shot by Steven Meisel it features models: Liya Kebede, Natalia Vodianova, Anna Jagodzinska, Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Jourdan Dunn, Raquel Zimmermann, Caroline Trentini and Natasha Poly. Can we talk for a second about how unbelievably stunning Jourdan Dunn is? I mean, she is surrounded by all of these beautiful models and my eye goes directly to her. This is what Tyra is always talking about on ANTM, standing out in a crowd, smiling with your eyes. The english model has walked for Chanel, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and Jean Paul Gaultier couture shows in Paris as well as appeared alongside Naomi Campbell and Iman in Vogue Italia's all black issue.
