Posts for February 19th 2009

Calvin Klein Embraces Lyndsey Scott, Monika Jagaciak
Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein Embraces Lyndsey Scott, Monika Jagaciak

>>  A few seasons ago, Jourdan Dunn made headlines as the first model of color to walk Prada in ten years; Prada is carefully casted and a coup like that can make a model's career.  The same goes for Calvin Klein, except that since CK is so early on in the season, it sets the tone for the rest of the three Fashion Weeks.  This afternoon, Lyndsey Scott became one of the few models of color to land in the Calvin Klein lineup — Jourdan Dunn has done the honors in recent seasons.  Monika "Jac" Jagaciak bounced back from her fall at Herve Leger to both open and close; Addison Gill, Bojana Reljic, and Louis Maselis round out the chosen ones as exclusives — expect to see much more from all.
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Calvin Klein Embraces Lyndsey Scott, Monika Jagaciak

>>  A few seasons ago, Jourdan Dunn made headlines as the first model of color to walk Prada in ten years; Prada is carefully casted and a coup like that can make a model's career.  The same goes for Calvin Klein, except that since CK is so early on in the season, it sets the tone for the rest of the three Fashion Weeks.  This afternoon, Lyndsey Scott became one of the few models of color to land in the Calvin Klein lineup — Jourdan Dunn has done the honors in recent seasons.  Monika "Jac" Jagaciak bounced back from her fall at Herve Leger to both open and close; Addison Gill, Bojana Reljic, and Louis Maselis round out the chosen ones as exclusives — expect to see much more from all.

Notably, former house face Toni Garrn and current face Anna Selezneva were missing in action, but enough about models — let's not forget Francisco Costa's turn to the darker side — burned out lace patterning and pops of chartreuse keep the collection right where we want it: coveted.
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Lyndsey Scott Addison Gill
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Carine Roitfeld Pulls an Anna Wintour at Calvin Klein
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Carine Roitfeld Pulls an Anna Wintour at Calvin Klein

>> Anna Wintour is legendary for popping her Chanel shades on right as the lights goes dim, but Carine Roitfeld?  Not so much — until this afternoon, when she wore a pair of aviators during the Calvin Klein show.  Peep her looks throughout this Fashion Week, including her favorite pieces — a giant petal-colored muppet coat and a pair of Sigerson Morrison heels, and then enjoy a surprise appearance of her husband, the elusive Christian Restoin, who was in town for their son's photography exhibit.*image: source, source, filmmagic, source
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Carine Roitfeld Pulls an Anna Wintour at Calvin Klein

>> Anna Wintour is legendary for popping her Chanel shades on right as the lights goes dim, but Carine Roitfeld?  Not so much — until this afternoon, when she wore a pair of aviators during the Calvin Klein show.  Peep her looks throughout this Fashion Week, including her favorite pieces — a giant petal-colored muppet coat and a pair of Sigerson Morrison heels, and then enjoy a surprise appearance of her husband, the elusive Christian Restoin, who was in town for their son's photography exhibit.
*image: source, source, filmmagic, source

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Phillip Lim's Model as Muse; Daul Kim's Thoughts on Madonna
Zac Posen

Phillip Lim's Model as Muse; Daul Kim's Thoughts on Madonna

Tao Okamoto just met Phillip Lim two weeks ago and thought he was joking when he told her it would be "so great if all the girls at the show had your hairstyle" — he wasn't, and now she's his muse [Elle News Blog] Backstage at VPL, Daul Kim was given a "face spa air treatment scrub session"; they told her Madonna does the treatment, and her response was: "OK, but I don't want to look like Madge!"
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  • Tao Okamoto just met Phillip Lim two weeks ago and thought he was joking when he told her it would be "so great if all the girls at the show had your hairstyle" — he wasn't, and now she's his muse [Elle News Blog]
  • Backstage at VPL, Daul Kim was given a "face spa air treatment scrub session"; they told her Madonna does the treatment, and her response was: "OK, but I don't want to look like Madge!" [Papermag]
  • Coco Rocha has some dedicated man fans — one creepy man was searching the tents high and low for her, and a photographer at Zac Posen yelled "Now that's a woman" as Coco took her turn [Fashionista, WWD Twitter]

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Katie Grand Debuts Not 'Sex' or 'X' Magazine, But Love
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Katie Grand Debuts Not 'Sex' or 'X' Magazine, But Love

>> Happy Love Day!  Yes, Valentine's Day was a few days ago, but Katie Grand's new endeavor, Love, officially launched today, brand new website and all.  336 pages of glossy, almost half of which are ads, and the reviews seem to be positive; inside, creative directors Lee Swillingham and Stuart Spalding went with a post-war look (left), and if naked pictures of Beth Ditto weren't included, a quick glance might make you think you were flipping through a '50s college yearbook.  In honor of the launch, Katie recently did an interview with a close friend that was published in PonyStep, detailing how she settled on the title Love, why she ended up leaving POP in the first place, and how she feels about it going on without her.
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>> Happy Love Day!  Yes, Valentine's Day was a few days ago, but Katie Grand's new endeavor, Love, officially launched today, brand new website and all.  336 pages of glossy, almost half of which are ads, and the reviews seem to be positive; inside, creative directors Lee Swillingham and Stuart Spalding went with a post-war look (left), and if naked pictures of Beth Ditto weren't included, a quick glance might make you think you were flipping through a '50s college yearbook.  In honor of the launch, Katie recently did an interview with a close friend that was published in PonyStep, detailing how she settled on the title Love, why she ended up leaving POP in the first place, and how she feels about it going on without her.

It wasn't Love at first.

Well I really liked [the name] ‘Fame’, with its Warhol and Bowie connotations. I also liked ‘Plastic’. It was that idea that the name didn’t necessarily mean one thing, that everyone would visualize something different. Anyway, we couldn’t use either. ‘Plastic’ we couldn’t use because of Plastique Magazine and Fame we couldn’t use because of an American magazine of the same name.  It took about five months before we finally came to a decision. Another one we liked for a short while was Legend, and then when the lawyers said we could use it we changed our minds, it sounded wrong. There was also ‘X’ and ‘Sex’ (which rather surprisingly was available). We’d normally send the legal types five possible titles to clear at a time. It was quite a dreary and expensive procedure. ‘Starlet’ was another one we could have used, but when we got confirmation we felt deflated rather than elated so that had to go. Another big favourite was ‘Heroine’, but of course I was told absolutely no way!

Love "was a bit mushy" »

Calvin Klein

>> THE MODELIZER — Calvin Klein starts shortly, so who are those exclusives?  Not Ymre Stiekema — she didn't even come to New York, prompting questions as to whether she's a Prada exclusive again — but V Magazine/Supreme model search winner Addison Gill is one, and a girl from Click opening — a commenter says it's Lyndsey Scott, left, as the first ever black CK exclusive, but we'll just have to see .
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>> THE MODELIZER — Calvin Klein starts shortly, so who are those exclusives?  Not Ymre Stiekema — she didn't even come to New York, prompting questions as to whether she's a Prada exclusive again — but V Magazine/Supreme model search winner Addison Gill is one, and a girl from Click opening — a commenter says it's Lyndsey Scott, left, as the first ever black CK exclusive, but we'll just have to see . . . she's already done Bensoni and Malan Breton this season. [The Imagist]

UPDATE: Supposedly, commenters say, neither former Calvin Klein face Toni Garrn or current face Anna Selezneva are present.

Brian Reyes Fall 2009: Not So Well-Heeled
Manolo Blahnik

Brian Reyes Fall 2009: Not So Well-Heeled

>> "Another barefoot model on the Brian Reyes catwalk.
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>> "Another barefoot model on the Brian Reyes catwalk. And another. What's going on here?"  The Moment twittered this morning.  Apparently, the shoes Brian did in collaboration with Manolo Blahnik weren't too comfortable: viewers lost count of the number of models who toppled, and at least three stopped to take their shoes off.  By the final run of the show — and this never happens — all the models had taken off their shoes and were walking barefoot.  So much for those Manolos, but at least they didn't cause any falls like at Herve Leger earlier this week. 
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