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Happy 35th, Kate Moss!

fashionologie — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:16:00 -0800

>> Last year, Kate Moss tried to ring in 34 by partying one hour for every year since her birth - she only made it 18, but she did it in starry Chanel, no less. This year it's all about the big 3-5, which marks twenty years since her first modeling job for The Face; Kate's supposed to celebrate all weekend, with the big house party tonight involving a pig on a spit, but we're celebrating with a look back at old-school Kate - think the glorious '90s.
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Naomi Campbell's Aboreal Ode to Kate Moss, New Lizard Dance

fashionologie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:57:12 -0700

»Naomi Campbell named a tree at her father's home in Jamaica "Kate Moss," will be debuting a new SoBe Life Water commercial to "Black Magic Woman" nationwide tomorrow [FabSugar UK, Chic Report, CBS News]

»An art gallery employee got fired after not recognizing Marc Jacobs and kicking him out for looking "scruffy and homeless" [Page Six]

»Dolce & Gabbana may have stolen Claudia Schiffer from Chanel for their Resort 2009 campaign [Fashionista]

»Anna Wintour will be speaking to the Conde Nast interns on Wednesday [The Fashioneo]

»Kate Moss cruised through Sardinia over the weekend [PopSugar]

»Malgosia Bela wrote a 100-page thesis on Richard Avedon to earn a graduate degree in Cultural Anthropology [The Imagist]

»Heather Marks goes dark [TFS]

»Alexander McQueen: Now with e-commerce [Alexander McQueen]

»A peek at Karen Walker's Resort 2009 collection [Refinery29]

The Picture of Dorian Leigh

fashionologie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:51:15 -0700

>> If a five foot, five inch woman tried to be a model these days, she'd hardly be taken seriously. Sixty-odd years ago, it was a different story . . . at least for Dorian Leigh, it was.

Ms. Leigh, who passed away earlier this week at 91 after battling Alzheimer's, was widely considered one of the world's first supermodels. In fact, her life was full of firsts: she was one of the first models to be known by name, and after her own modeling career, she opened what is called the first modeling agency in Paris.

Though Dorian started her career late — when she was 27 in 1944, she met with Diana Vreeland, told her she was 19, and landed a Harper's Bazaar cover right then and there — she appeared on seven Vogue covers in the 1940s, and claimed to be earning a whopping $300,000 a year.

She played muse to numerous bold name photographers: Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn — the last of whom she had an affair with, and may have been the inspiration for Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. But she didn't take her job too seriously, declaring in 1953: "I'd rather have a baby than a mink coat."
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