Daphne Groeneveld

Louis Vuitton Chooses 16-Year-Olds Over Supermodels for Fall 2011 Ad Campaign
Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton Chooses 16-Year-Olds Over Supermodels for Fall 2011 Ad Campaign

>> Louis Vuitton populated its Fall 2011 runway with supermodels like Kate Moss, Amber Valletta, Carolyn Murphy, and Naomi Campbell, but you wouldn't guess it based on the collection's campaign.
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>> Louis Vuitton populated its Fall 2011 runway with supermodels like Kate Moss, Amber Valletta, Carolyn Murphy, and Naomi Campbell, but you wouldn't guess it based on the collection's campaign. Instead of its usual top model or actress seasonal face, the brand went with a cast of young upstarts — very young, in some cases: 16-year-old Zuzanna Bijoch, 15-year-old Daphne Groeneveld, 20-year-old Gertrud Hegelund, 16-year-old Nyasha Matonhodze, 20-year-old Anais Pouliot, and Fei Fei Sun, who was born in 1989.

Matonhodze, for her part, said of the moment she found out she was chosen: "My eyes filled up with tears and I thought 'Lord, you are lucky!'" The campaign was shot by Steven Meisel in a vintage car at a disused Brooklyn aerodrome; Matonhodze added of her experience: "It didn't actually hit me until I was sat in a Rolls Royce sitting eye-to-eye with Mr. Meisel. He is a wonder to work with, he and Marc [Jacobs] made me feel beautiful." Jacobs added of the set: “Who wouldn’t want to be this gorgeous young woman in the back seat of this beautiful car?”

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Will Kate Moss Be in Louis Vuitton's Fall 2011 Ad Campaign? Plus, More Casting Rumors
Kate Moss

Will Kate Moss Be in Louis Vuitton's Fall 2011 Ad Campaign? Plus, More Casting Rumors

>> The latest Fall 2011 campaign scuttlebutt: Isabeli Fontana is taking the early lead, with campaigns for Escada and Donna Karan booked, and a rumored appearance for Bottega Veneta as well.
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>> The latest Fall 2011 campaign scuttlebutt: Isabeli Fontana is taking the early lead, with campaigns for Escada and Donna Karan booked, and a rumored appearance for Bottega Veneta as well. Karan's campaign, which was captured by Patrick Demarchelier the past three seasons, was snapped by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Fall 2011.

Meanwhile, Steven Meisel shot (and Karl Templer styled) the Fall 2011 Louis Vuitton campaign in New York yesterday — but there will reportedly be no Kate Moss appearance as there was on the runway. In fact, no supermodels will be featured at all: Instead, the six models chosen are said to be from the current generation — "Top 50-ish, a bit new. Nothing from the Icon list." Daphne Groeneveld and Fei Fei Sun are rumored to be among them.

Kate Moss has reportedly been cast for another Fall 2011 campaign for Mango; however, it will be shot by Terry Richardson and is today, making lots of appearances on his blog.

Versace, like Donna Karan, is also switching up photographers — after going with Mario Testino for the past eight seasons, Donatella Versace has chosen Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott to do the Fall 2011 honors (with styling by Joe McKenna). Originally, the Versace campaign, like Vuitton, was reportedly supposed to feature six models, including Candice Swanepoel and Groeneveld, but the photographers are rumored to have settled instead on one girl with "short dark hair" who is a "cover star." Some are thinking that might indicate Saskia de Brauw as Versace's new girl.

To round out the Fall 2011 campaign placements so far, Juergen Teller shot Irina Kulikova yesterday for Moschino at Turin's Ristorante del Cambio, Ralph Lauren has reportedly cast its runway opener Sui He, and Liu Wen is rumored to be in the upcoming Dolce & Gabbana campaign.

A few images from the various shoots in the gallery.

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Fall 2011 New York Fashion Week: Jason Wu
New York Fashion Week

What's Black and White, Gold, and Lacy? Jason Wu's Fall 2011 Collection

>> Karlie Kloss, Jason Wu's usual runway opener, was at his show as usual .
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Fall 2011 New York Fashion Week: Jason Wu

>> Karlie Kloss, Jason Wu's usual runway opener, was at his show as usual . . . but this time, she walked second to last — Daphne Groeneveld opened, and Kloss's best friend Jourdan Dunn closed. But that wasn't the only big change Wu made for this season — though known for his use of color, Wu's Fall 2011 collection — "baroque American sportswear," as he called it — is primarily black and white.

Gold was also on the designer's mind, thanks to his inspiration — the restoration of Versailles. He had the models walk on a slippery runway of gilded antique mirrors, some with gold paint in their hair, in gold-dipped stiletto heels. Lace, too, played a major role — a number of models wore structured lace Maison Michel masks, and Wu incorporated more than 15 different types of lace, specially woven in France, into the collection.

It was the end of an intense marathon for Wu — he said backstage that he slept only two hours last night, and hadn't eaten in two days.

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A Video Preview of Chanel's Spring 2011 Couture Collection, Debuting Tomorrow
Chanel

A Video Preview of Chanel's Spring 2011 Couture Collection, Debuting Tomorrow

>> Hilary Alexander interviewed Karl Lagerfeld on video in the Chanel atelier, and as they discuss why Lagerfeld is perpetually late and why he prefers to wear navy on camera, there are glimpses of Daphne Groeneveld, Magdalena Frackowiak, and Siri Tollerod having their fittings for tomorrow's showing of Chanel's Spring 2011 Couture collection.
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>> Hilary Alexander interviewed Karl Lagerfeld on video in the Chanel atelier, and as they discuss why Lagerfeld is perpetually late and why he prefers to wear navy on camera, there are glimpses of Daphne Groeneveld, Magdalena Frackowiak, and Siri Tollerod having their fittings for tomorrow's showing of Chanel's Spring 2011 Couture collection. It looks like black chokers and black patent flats are Lagerfeld's preferred accessories for the collection.

A Look at Givenchy's Spring 2011 Campaign Featuring an Albino Model; David Lauren and Lauren Bush Are Engaged
Marc Jacobs

A Look at Givenchy's Spring 2011 Campaign Featuring an Albino Model; David Lauren and Lauren Bush Are Engaged

Riccardo Tisci is following up his Fall 2010 campaign featuring the transsexual model Lea T.
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  • Riccardo Tisci is following up his Fall 2010 campaign featuring the transsexual model Lea T. with a Spring 2011 ad campaign featuring albino model Stephen Thompson, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in black and white alongside Mariacarla Boscono, Daphne Groeneveld and Iris Strubegger; the idea came from a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of an alabaster Roman bust juxtaposed against leopard print fabric [WWD]
  • 39-year-old David Lauren and 26-year-old Lauren Bush, who met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala six years ago, got engaged Friday at the museum; she Tweeted today: "Thanks for everyone's warm wishes about our engagement! I am so happy, and really enjoying every minute of it! I am truly a lucky lady!" [NY Post, @LaurenBushTweet]
  • Conde Nast looks to be in shopping mode: its parent company just raised $500 million for mergers and acquisitions [All Things Digital]
  • Karolina Kurkova posted a teaser photo of her and androgynous model Andrej Pejic on the set of Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring 2011 ad campaign [Frockwriter]
  • Before The Sartorialist's Scott Schuman stops someone to ask to take their picture, he says, "I pretty much know where I'm going to stand, where I'm going to place them in relationship to the light, where in the street . . . so as soon as they say, 'Okay,' I'm pretty much ready to go." He continues: "I'm not much of a people person, I don't push to find out that much more [about his subjects]. I want to shoot them the way that I see them; as opposed to really creating a true essence of who they are, it's my idea of who they are." [NY Times]
  • Christian Louboutin, on how extremes have changed in his twenty years in the business: "When I started, I remember people saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t walk in that!’ It was like, three inches — they look like kitten heels now. The low cleavage I was doing was considered too sexy, but now what I call a low cleavage is much lower. It’s really very much a mental shift. I remember doing very pointy lasts. People would say, ‘I like the shoe, but it’s too pointy.’ And then the year after, it’s fine." [Style File]
  • Marc Jacobs may bring his legendary holiday costume party — which hasn't happened since 2007 — back next year [The Cut]
  • Anna Dello Russo is evasive on how she affords her two apartments and thousands' worth of designer clothing; her only response: "Of course, I am journalist! Then I have discount, I am privileged!" [Guardian UK]
  • Peep Zac Posen's Pre-Fall 2011 lookbook, featuring "Zac-ettes" — his words (“They’re all women who have been significant for me this year”) — Hilary Rhoda, Crystal Renn, Anna Cleveland, and Leigh Lezark [Vogue]
  • Reiss is planning on reissuing the dress Kate Middleton wore in her engagement photos as part of their Spring 2011 collection [The Cut]
  • Former WWD Eye editor Emily Holt has been named fashion news editor at Vogue; she started last Monday [DFR]
  • Leighton Meester is rumored to be the new face of Missoni [InTouch]
  • Christian Lacroix is art directing and selecting the 150 Middle Eastern pieces to be featured in the Musee du Quai Branly's "The Orient of Women" exhibition, opening Feb. 8 [WWD]

 

Nina Garcia Welcomes Second Son; Juergen Teller Shoots Anna Dello Russo's Perfume Ad; Plus, More Spring 2011 Campaign Rumors
Louis Vuitton

Nina Garcia Welcomes Second Son; Juergen Teller Shoots Anna Dello Russo's Perfume Ad; Plus, More Spring 2011 Campaign Rumors

Anna Dello Russo now has a perfume ad, shot by Juergen Teller, to go along with her promotional video [ADR, ADR] Nina Garcia welcomed her second son over the weekend, she announced over Twitter: "Delighted to announce that over the wknd we welcomed 8lb13oz Alexander David Conrod into our home!
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  • Anna Dello Russo now has a perfume ad, shot by Juergen Teller, to go along with her promotional video [ADR, ADR]

  • Nina Garcia welcomed her second son over the weekend, she announced over Twitter: "Delighted to announce that over the wknd we welcomed 8lb13oz Alexander David Conrod into our home! Baby is doing great & Lucas [her oldest son] is thrilled!" [@ninagarcia]
  • Stella McCartney also reportedly welcomed her fourth child just before Thanksgiving last week; she just relaunched her website, with behind-the-scenes photos and videos, as well [The Cut, Style File]
  • 40 percent of Vogue Italia's readers come from the United States, but Anna Wintour calls Franca Sozzani "magnificent" [WashPo]
  • Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott shot Laetitia Casta in London for the Spring 2011 Roberto Cavalli campaign [Laetita Casta]
  • More Spring 2011 campaign rumors: Iselin Steiro is said to be the face of Lanvin; Gisele Bundchen of Isabel Marant (by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin); Raquel Zimmermann of Louis Vuitton (by Steven Meisel); and Givenchy's group is said to be Daphne Groeneveld, Iris Strubegger, Mariacarla Boscono, and Natasha Poly [HoM, HoM, TFS]
  • Prada, which saw its profits triple in the last nine months, is now eyeing an initial public offering in 2011 rather than 2012 [WWD]
Natasha Poly in Givenchy Spring 2011 Hair on Vogue Paris November 2010 Cover
Givenchy

Givenchy's Spring 2011 Hair Made Its Way Onto Vogue Paris's November 2010 Cover

>> Newcomer Daphne Groeneveld was widely reported by a number of reputable sources to have scored Vogue Paris's November 2010 cover, but it seems that Carine Roitfeld changed her mind.
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>> Newcomer Daphne Groeneveld was widely reported by a number of reputable sources to have scored Vogue Paris's November 2010 cover, but it seems that Carine Roitfeld changed her mind. Givenchy has long been a favorite at the magazine, so much so that Natasha Poly, who opened Tisci's Spring 2011 lineup, is back in the show's bleached eyebrows and tightly-braided minipigtails on the Vogue Paris November 2010 cover, as captured by Mario Sorrenti. The shoot went down earlier this month — we wonder if it happened right after the show? [Women Management]

A Preview of Vogue Paris's 90th Anniversary Issue for October 2010, With Lara Stone on the Cover
Carine Roitfeld

Lara Stone's Cups Runneth Over on Vogue Paris's 90th Anniversary Issue

>> Carine Roitfeld pulled out all the stops for Vogue Paris's 90th anniversary October issue.
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>> Carine Roitfeld pulled out all the stops for Vogue Paris's 90th anniversary October issue. The cover features Lara Stone — eyes obscured, breasts not so much. "Vogue Paris has always played the card of audacity," said Roitfeld, adding, "We couldn't do a lukewarm issue."

The issue is 622 pages, 276 of which are ads, and 104 are well wishes from designers around the world. Inspired by the historic nature of Vogue Paris's 75th anniversary issue, Roitfeld mixed together new editorials (shot by Mario Sorrenti, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Steven Klein, Hedi Slimane, who used Ines de la Fressange's 11-year-old daughter as his model, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin) with snippets from the Vogue archives, like a 1962 interview with actress Romy Schneider shot by Helmut Newton. Those who pick up the issue in France will be gifted a portfolio of oversize photographs from the nine decades, and Roitfeld plans to celebrate the magazine's 90 years with a costume ball in Paris on Sept. 30. A preview of the issue, below. And speaking of Vogue Paris, newcomer Daphne Groeneveld is rumored to be on the Nov. 2010 cover.

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Miu Miu

>> Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima for Loewe Fall 2010 Campaign?
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>> Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima for Loewe Fall 2010 Campaign? Plus, A Couple of New Faces for Miu Miu —Both Loewe and Miu Miu are reportedly going with multi-girl casts for their Fall 2010 campaigns: the former is said to have scored at least two Victoria's Secret faces — Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio — and the latter will feature Ginta Lapina and Daphne Groenveld shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott — in addition to a rumored, but unnamed, additional model or two. [@AngelAlessandra, TFS, TFS, TFUC, TFS]

The Fresh Faces You Will Likely See Walking for Marc Jacobs Fall 2010
Fall 2010

The Fresh Faces You Will Likely See Walking for Marc Jacobs Fall 2010

>> Next week brings Paris couture and New York Fashion Week is not far behind, which means casting directors are gathering intel on as many fresh faces as possible.  KCD casting director Michelle Lee — who's responsible for picking which models walk the coveted Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs runways — shared with LOVE her top choices for breakout stars of the Fall 2010 shows.  Among them, models from the Dominican Republic to China, a few with previous runway experience, and a couple who even have a Topshop or BCBG campaign under their belt.  Her choices, below.
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>> Next week brings Paris couture and New York Fashion Week is not far behind, which means casting directors are gathering intel on as many fresh faces as possible.  KCD casting director Michelle Lee — who's responsible for picking which models walk the coveted Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs runways — shared with LOVE her top choices for breakout stars of the Fall 2010 shows.  Among them, models from the Dominican Republic to China, a few with previous runway experience, and a couple who even have a Topshop or BCBG campaign under their belt.  Her choices, below.

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