Tue, 07/21/09 — 02:26:38 PM
>> Raf Simons is sticking to the same team as Spring 2009 for his Fall 2009 Jil Sander campaign — stylist Olivier Rizzo, photographer Willy Vanderperre, model Natasha Poly — and the images, shot May 1 in Paris, are very similar to Spring 2009 — Natasha Poly standing in profile, but instead of a high contrast white background, she's bathed in black. Another thing that's similar in these two ads — Natasha Poly's face doesn't seem to change.
Wed, 07/01/09 — 12:31:44 PM
>> Iris Strubegger is finding traction more traction than ever — Fall 2009 Givenchy and Valentino ads, an entire article in July 2009 Vogue dedicated to her cropped cut making her career. She told the magazine: "My hair makes me look more interesting, and it has given me more confidence." The confidence comes across in her new editorial in the upcoming July/August 2009 V#60, "A Touch of Class." The magazine isn't out until July 7, but a preview of the editorial, styled by Olivier Rizzo and photographed by Willy Vanderperre, shows Iris working the usual designer duds with a twist: a pair of fishnets worn on top. The V#60 cover features Cameron Diaz by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and inside are portraits by David Sims and a shoot with Lady Gaga.
So where is Iris's newfound confidence taking her next? She told Vogue she plans on spending her summer vacation camping in Croatia with Wolfgang, her boyfriend of seven years and a financier from her hometown in Austria.
Thu, 02/12/09 — 12:20:13 AM
>> Out of all the Fashion Week players — designers, models, makeup artists, hairstylists — it's thought that stylists may be hit the hardest, because they are viewed as the most dispensable. "I’ve seen three to four of my designers that worked with stylists last year drop the stylist altogether because they think they can do it themselves, whereas they can’t DJ or model themselves," show producer Kelly Cutrone of People's Revolution noted. Leave it to Prada to pick up the slack — or maybe not — they've enlisted four major stylists who are likely doing just fine on their own for a new project dubbed "The Iconoclasts."
The top image-makers have been asked to make over a Prada boutique and interpret the brand's cropped and crinkled Spring 2009 collection in each of the four major fashion cities — New York, London, Milan, and Paris — as the city holds its Fashion Week. W's fashion director Alex White kicks off the project in the Soho boutique Friday, followed by Love's Katie Grand working the Old Bond Street boutique in London the same day, Olivier Rizzo shaping Milan’s Via Montenapoleone store on Feb. 25, and Carine Roitfeld finishing out the set on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris March 5. Good news for those not making the Fashion Month haul — the whole thing will be documented on Prada.com for all to see.
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Tue, 02/10/09 — 04:30:42 PM
>> The longtime Jil Sander campaign team of photographer Willy Vanderperre and stylist Olivier Rizzo have done it again — this time with Natasha Poly going solo. The Spring 2009 campaign captures the essence of the brand — all minimalism, all the time — with its stark, high contrast take on black and white and shadows. It's quite the departure from their more commercial image turn for the Fall 2008 season, and highlights all the best parts of the Spring 2009 collection — the shape of the shoe, the silhouette of the fringe, the slice of the earring.
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