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fashionologie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:59:23 -0700

>> Three Models Supposedly Skipping Fashion Month for Studies, A Fourth May Also Be Taking a Break -Although it's possible that they still may pop up in Paris or Milan, three top models: Sigrid Agren, Toni Garrn, and Georgina Stojiljkovic are all supposedly skipping out this season to focus on their studies. And Gucci face Myf Shepherd - who surprisingly only walked eight relatively low-profile shows (except 3.1 Phillip Lim) in New York and so far none in London - has apparently said that she's thinking of taking a break, as well. [Styledotcom Twitter, TFS, Frockwriter]

fashionologie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:20:50 -0700

>> Models Missing from the New York Runways: An Update -With only one more day of New York Fashion Week to go, a number of top models still haven't set foot on a catwalk. Anja Rubik finally appeared at Michael Kors this morning - so did Carmen Kass and Jacquetta Wheeler - but Catherine McNeil - who is supposedly booked all through the New York shows on another job - Toni Garrn, Lara Stone, Anna Maria Jagodzinska, Sigrid Agren - who's rumored not to be doing any shows this season - Tanya Dziahileva, Raquel Zimmermann, and Georgina Stojiljkovic are all totally MIA. In other modeling news, Jessica Stam joined the increasingly large number of models bleaching their hair - she debuted the new hue today at Anna Sui. [Fashin]

fashionologie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:38:29 -0700

>> Jourdan Dunn Not Walking, Sigrid Agren May Not Be Either; Daul Kim Switches Up Hair -Despite rumors otherwise spurred by the appearance of her show card, Jourdan Dunn's agency Women has confirmed she will not walk this season. Now, word is another model may be sitting out as well: Sigrid Agren. Daul Kim, who is walking, just switched her long bleach blonde hair for a shorter cut and more natural color. [The Cut, TFS, Next Models Blog]

Stella McCartney Finds a Place for Bambi and Friends in Her Fall 2009 Ad Campaign

fashionologie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:22:39 -0700

>> Stella McCartney has never been secretive about her love for animals, but in her Fall 2009 campaign, she's making the message pretty clear: Sigrid Agren, who was photographed by Ryan McGinley (putting in his second season for the label) in the woods of Worcestershire, England, is surrounded by a live dear or fox, plus an overlay of Disney's Bambi and friends.

“I’m a huge Bambi fan, and the film reminds me of my mum,” said McCartney explained. “And we wanted to have some fun. The clothes in the campaign are looking quite fierce, and we wanted to contrast them with the innocence of Bambi.” The campaign was styled by Jane How and the art direction was done by McCartney's in-house team team and Partner and Partner in London instead of M/M Paris, who she's used in the past.

Hannah MacGibbon Trades in Flax for Wheat with Chloe's Fall 2009 Campaign

fashionologie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:01:29 -0700

>> Hannah MacGibbon has a serious fan of her work in Chloe Sevigny, who has been spotted at a number of events in different shades of the same scalloped Chloe shorts suit, but when it comes to her ad campaigns, she sticks with photographer Mikael Jansson. For her second major season campaign, instead of flaxen-haired Anna Maria Jagodzinska and Toni Garrn, MacGibbon went with the darker-haired Kasia Struss, Sigrid Agren, and Karlie Kloss, who contrast against the Spanish fields they were captured against in April, as styled by Marie Amelie Sauve.

Jourdan Dunn, Edita Vilkeviciute, and Jac Are All Fall 2009 Calvin Klein Girls

fashionologie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:46:50 -0700

>> While Calvin Klein is sticking to Eva Mendes for their Fall 2009 Underwear ads - and giving her the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign as well - they're switching it up for the rest of the cadre. Jourdan Dunn and Sigrid Agren paired up for the CK Calvin Klein set by Craig McDean, who also photographed the Calvin Klein campaign with Jamie Dornan and Edita Vilkeviciute. And the Calvin Klein Collection set was done by David Sims with brand exclusive Monica "Jac" Jagaciak, who opened and closed the brand's Fall 2009 show. Get used to these images - they're appearing on 1,080 pages globally.

fashionologie — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:34:52 -0700

>> IN THE LOOKING GLASS -The upcoming June 2009 issue of W features a 30-page editorial: a portfolio of the season's best new faces, as chosen by Craig McDean, with Karlie Kloss and Sigrid Agren heavy on rotation; appropriately, Sigrid is said to have her first major cover out this week. Four girls are rumored not to have made the final cut, but Ranya Mordanova, Rose Cordero, Madisyn Ritland, Bara Holotova, Jourdan Dunn, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Karlie Kloss, Amanda Laine, Imogen Morris-Clarke, Dorothea Barth Jorgensen, and Nimue Smit all did - Models.com has a trio of previews. [Models.com, Models.com, Models.com, NY Model Management]

Karl Lagerfeld Details Why Supermodel Status Requires a Unique Face

fashionologie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:28 -0700

>> The things we learn when Karl Lagerfeld gives interviews - like he tends to hit his hand on a table for emphasis and the impetus for wearing his hair in a ponytail. During a Paris Fashion Week fitting this past March, he submitted to questions from Sigrid Agren - who apparently already has at least three major Fall 2009 campaigns in the bag - for Interview. The highlights:

Agren: Okay. How do you look when you wake up?

Lagerfeld: That’s why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that’s why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! But I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It’s just like right before I’m going out. When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

He then gives advice on attaining supermodel status. »

Trippy Shoes: Models Fear Next Step at Alexander McQueen, Tatjana Patitz Wobbles at Hermes

fashionologie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:35:15 -0700

>> No one fainted this time around at Alexander McQueen, but the show could win this season's Prada award for torturous shoes - even over Nina Ricci. Numerous inches were added to the festishistic heels, and the girls took every step with care - some even broke their runway stare to glance down momentarily, and Sigrid Agren looked around like she's frightened of the next step. Karlie Kloss, below, had to stop and fix her dress to keep from tripping over it. Suzy Menkes was discomfited by the display: "the models were tortured into dresses that hobbled their feet, making each runway step treacherous and giving a discomforting misogynist feel to the show."

Meanwhile, this morning at Hermes, another painful scene: supermodel Tatjana Patitz seemed to be out of practice on the runway. She almost tripped and fell three times, including when she closed the show. When Jean Paul Gaultier came out for his bow, he gave her a hug, and apparently she looked like she was about to cry.
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Rag & Bone Fall 2009: Packed to the Gills, With Goodness

fashionologie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:24:13 -0800

>> Rag & Bone always attracts the legions - last season there was enough trouble filing in when the show space was the vast Pier 94; this season, the crowd had to push and shove their way through the two small double doors of Cedar Lake Ballet Theater, and a number of people who were supposed to have seats were forced to stand. While the rest of us were bumped and budged, immobile, Julia Restoin Roitfeld knew how to conquer the immovable best - just after she waved hello to Genevieve Jones, a tall, modelesque man parted the crowd with an "Excuse me, I'm late for the show." Presumably, everyone assumed he was a model trying to get backstage fifteen minutes after the show was scheduled to start. Julia saw him and latched onto his elbow with a "Hey, Zack, I'm going to use you as an excuse to get through." And with that, she was in - the rest of us still in the same place. Turns out, the guy wasn't even in the show.

But Edita Vilkeviciute was, and Isabeli Fontana - who closed - Diana Farkhullina and Sigrid Agren - all new faces, in addition to Rag & Bone perennial favorites like Coco Rocha, Lily Donaldson, Sasha Pivovarova, Jessica Stam, and Julia Stegner. The label's usual palette of navy, black, and gray was in place, with some unexpected pops of red in a flower brooch here, in an obi belt there. Marcus Wainwright and David Neville worked with a different stylist this season - Tabitha Simmons - and she helped them take it to a new level - the chain mail detailing on a hem or peeking out under a jacket was an especially unique touch.
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