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See the Full, Supermodel-Filled Duran Duran Girl Panic! Music Video

fashionologie — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:16:06 PST

>> We've been behind the scenes; now, the original supermodel-filled Duran Duran "Girl Panic!" music video is finally out in full.

Directed by Jonas Akerlund - who also did Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" and "Telephone" music videos - the nearly 10-minute video features Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Yasmin Le Bon, Cindy Crawford, and Eva Herzigova playing different Duran Duran band members, with Campbell as frontman Simon Le Bon. Footage of the supers partying, doing a Harper's Bazaar UK magazine shoot, and talking with reporters fills the film, which also has cameos from Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.

Behind-the-Scenes Snaps (and a Short Film!) From the Upcoming Supermodel-Filled Duran Duran Music Video Shoot

fashionologie — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:00:51 PDT

>> Five of the original supermodels - Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Yasmin Le Bon, Cindy Crawford, and Eva Herzigova - teamed up with Duran Duran in June to shoot the music video for the band's upcoming single, "Girl Panic!" . . . and the December 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar UK has a first look.

As Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes explained of the project, "Harper's had approached us about collaborating with the magazine on something really special when the new album came out. I’d had this crazy idea for a video for the song 'Girl Panic!', that looked fantastic on paper, but that I thought in reality would be impossible to pull off. The idea was to re-create a day in the life of the band, with five of the world’s greatest supermodels playing all of us. Lucy [Yeomans, editor of Harper's Bazaar UK] loved the idea of doing a cover shoot within the video itself - and so it all began."

On the cover, the five supers wear black Dolce & Gabbana corsets - designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were also on set for the shoot - and then inside, transform into Duran Duran band members, with Campbell playing lead singer Simon Le Bon.

The "Girl Panic!" video, which was directed by Jonas Ackerlund - who also did Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" and "Telephone" music videos - is expected to be serialized virally online before premiering in whole later this year. See the first, below.

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Behind-the-Scenes Snaps from Duran Duran's Upcoming Supermodel-Heavy Music Video (Updated)

fashionologie — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:37:30 PDT

>> On Monday, supermodels Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova, and Helena Christensen flew in to join Yasmin Le Bon on the two-day shoot of Duran Duran's upcoming music video for "Girl Panic." Directed by Jonas Ackerlund (who did Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" video and the recent Kate Moss Dior Addict commercial), the video was filmed in central London "at a posh hotel," with Crawford riding in the back of a Rolls Royce and the supermodels performing as the band.

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were also on the set, which doubled as a cover shoot for Harper's Bazaar UK. The magazine's editor Lucy Yeomans Tweeted: "Longest, latest Bazaar shoot in history. Didn't start on cover til 1am & got home at 4, but utterly worth it. One more day to go..." And later: "This has to have been one of the most extraordinary days of my life. A little bit of fashion history made!" The video is expected to be serialized virally online before premiering in whole later this year.

Photos from the set, as snapped by Gabbana and Duran Duran, in the gallery.

UPDATE: Images from the set removed upon request.

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Eva Herzigova, Partner Expecting Second Child

fashionologie — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:03:43 PDT

>> Eva Herzigova and her 3-year-old son, George, appear on Vogue Niños España's Fall/Winter 2010 cover - with an accompanying editorial by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello inside (left) - but Herzigova revealed today that next time she does a family editorial, there will be not one, but two children featured. The 37-year-old model is four months pregnant with her second child by partner Gregorio Marsiaj. "Gregorio and I are thrilled with the wonderful news," she says. "Our son George is being really sweet, asking all different questions about the baby and talking to my belly."

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Roberto Cavalli Admits He's Not the Party Animal He Used to Be at His $2 Million 40th Anniversary Bash

fashionologie — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:54:27 PDT

>> Roberto Cavalli reportedly spent about $2 million on his 40th anniversary bash held last night at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris - and that doesn't include the budget allotted to bringing Natalia Vodianova (and perhaps some of the other 1,200 attendees) to the party. As the New York Times's Eric Wilson wrote: "It was one of those fashion parties that felt like another era, when it was possible to enjoy such extravagance without wondering how a designer could possibly be selling enough animal-printed evening gowns and exuberantly distressed denim to afford it all."

Kylie Minogue performed, the walls were lined with Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott's images of models in Cavalli, and Heidi Klum introduced the designer as a four-tier, 10-foot birthday cake covered in sparklers was wheeled onto the stage. But even through all that, Cavalli, almost 70, admitted he's not the party animal he used to be: “Don’t say it, don’t say it, please, because the people should still dream with me,” he said. “The young should think that, instead of sparkling water, I drink Krug, or that I still smoke 10 Cuban cigars every day.”

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Fashion in 50 Seconds 04/07/10 Missoni For Converse, Eva Herzigova's New Clothing Line

coutorture — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:33:11 PDT

Eva Herzigova is the latest model-turned-designer, launching a collection for the fast-fashion chain 1.2.3 in Paris this Thursday.

Angela Missoni collaborates with Converse on zigzagged Chuck Taylor All-Stars.

Cast a vote for your favorite American designer in the CFDA Fashion Awards Popular Vote category and enter to win two tickets to New York Fashion Week.

"I think so long as your face looks all right everything else can be Photoshopped. I don't think anybody minds being slimmed down a bit or taking off the odd spot."-Elizabeth Hurley's secret to modeling at 44.

Gia Coppola filmed The Like in Zac Posen's Go International Target collection. The L.A. band will also perform during Posen's 24-hour pop-up shop in New York next week.

Hearst names Stephen Drucker new editor of Town & Country, and after eight years at Elle group, Carol Smith is moving to Conde Nast where she will be vice president and publishing director of Bon Appetit and Gourmet.

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Spills and Thrills at the 2009 British Fashion Awards

fashionologie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:27:13 PST

>> Last night's British Fashion Awards provided a forum for all kinds of announcements - Christopher Bailey, who accepted both BFC Designer Brand of the Year for Burberry and BFC Designer of the Year, confirmed that Burberry will show in London again for Fall 2010; and Victoria Beckham said she's planning to take an active role in the BFC that in which she would mentor young designers or serve as an ambassador.

Christopher Kane was awarded BFC British Collection of the Year, Kate Moss won the publicly-voted London 25 Award, Peter Pilotto nabbed the Swarovski Emerging Talent Award for Ready-to-wear, and Georgia May Jagger took the BFC Model of the Year award - "Thank you so much to the BFC for picking me. I'd just like to say [fellow nominees] Daisy [Lowe] and Rosie [Huntington-Whiteley] are amazing girls and amazing models. Thanks to my mum for being the biggest inspiration."

But the model who really stole the night was Karen Elson, who, when onstage to present Grace Coddington with the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator, walked straight into the orchestra pit and fell four feet out of sight. She emerged minutes later, ”I am the clumsiest person on this earth. I cannot believe I just did that. That is the worst fall I have ever had. I might have broken a rib, but I’m fine.” After presenting, she took to the emergency room to see about her injuries - including a sprained thumb.

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H&M Launches Sonia Rykiel Lingerie Collection with Paris Parade Blowout

fashionologie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:44:35 PST

>> Last night, shortly before the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show aired on television, another mass retailer was holding its own lingerie fashion show - live - in Paris. Jean Paul Gaultier, Nadja Auermann, Ellen von Unwerth, Eva Herzigova, and Marie-Ange Casta (younger sister of Laetitia) gathered at the Grand Palais last night for the Sonia Rykiel for H&M launch party, complete with an eleven-story high Eiffel Towel replica and models dancing, swinging, and even biking on the extravagant parade floats that puttered down the runway in front of the 2,000-odd guests. Surveying the extravaganza - which included fireworks set off inside - Haider Ackermann put it best: "So much for a crisis.”

The lingerie portion of the collection is in stores this Saturday, Dec. 5, and the parade provided the first glimpse of the knitwear portion, out Feb. 20.

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Fashion in 50 Seconds 11/19/09 Supes in the Buff on i-D Cover

coutorture — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:49:10 PST

Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen and Claudia Schiffer naked and winking on the winter cover of i-D magazine.

Doutzen Kroes-MissDK-is tweeting from backstage at the Victoria's Secret fashion show.

Cheap Monday introduces geek chic eyewear.

Stella McCartney and Jil Sander will create second (spring) collections for GapKids and Uniqlo, respectively.

Thanks to the monetary prize for winning the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, Sophie Theallet can now afford to finish her knitwear line for fall 2010.

Fashion's Night Out is rescheduled for one day later.

Michael Stipe and Maison Martin Margiela collaborate on a multifunctional microcassette tape made of sterling silver.

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Kate Moss Caught Between Entertainment Ventures, Now That Simon Fuller Has Acquired Her Modeling Agency Storm

fashionologie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:42:40 PDT

>> Any hope that Sir Phillip Green and Simon Cowell may have had for Kate Moss to act as a judge on one of their shows in development may have just gone down the tubes: Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol, which helped Cowell rise to fame, just took a majority stake of 51 percent in Moss's model agency, Storm.

Fuller has been in talks with Storm's founders, Sarah Doukas and her brother Simon Chambers, for the past year and aims to “help create new joint entertainment platforms for its talent, as well as developing the Storm brand in new and exciting directions.” Doukas hopes the partnership "will provide Storm with the opportunity to work competitively, creatively and on an international level," and Fuller elaborated that the deal will allow them to “push the boundaries, blur the lines and redefine what a model agency should be in this fast moving world, where fashion is playing an increasingly important role in setting and reflecting cultures and tastes.”

So who will Kate go with? »