Hasse Nielsen

>> V A Model Winner Lea Groesland Debuts First Major Spread —Last month, 15-year-old Norwegian Lea Groesland followed in the footsteps of Amanda Laine and Addison Gill as this year's V A Model Winner.  She debuts her first major spread — which she told Models.com was one of her first shoots ever — in the upcoming V #61 issue, out Sept. 1, with Lady Gaga on the cover.  She was photographed by Hasse Nielsen and is wearing no other than Alexander Wang, who helped chose her out of the competition's 6,000-plus contestants; will we see her on his Spring 2010 runway?

>> Amanda Laine Seems to Have Disappeared from Modeldom? —Just recently, 15 year old Norwegian Lea Groesland was named winner of V Magazine's V A Model Search contest — she's since completed one of her first shoots ever with Hasse Nielsen for the magazine.  More pressing today, however, is the supposed "disappearance" of the original V A Model winner Amanda Laine, who helped pave the way for future winners to find industry success; she hasn't had much work pop up lately, and now she's been taken off both her agency Supreme's website and Models.com's Top 50 list. [MDC, Fashin]