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Full Look: Steven Meisel Spoofs Twitter for Vogue Italia December 2009 with "Meiselpic"

fashionologie — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:35:02 PST

>> Steven Meisel co-opted the Twitter phenomenon for the last Vogue Italia issue of the decade - December 2009 - and rechristened Twitpic "Meiselpic" for his purposes. Inside the issue he wrote to his 20 model "followers" under a blurred portrait of himself - surprising, as the photographer is reclusive and does not like to be photographed himself -"Feeling a touch swine flu . . . so not coming to work today. I'm sending you some clothes . . . wear what you like, Meiselpic it back to me. xxSteven." What comes next - and is featured on the cover - are twenty pages of model self-portraits in the style of Twitpic. Lara Stone took the below picture of herself and "Twittered" underneath: "I love my new boobs. Werk!!" A pregnant Gisele snaps herself in lingerie, covering up her bump, and "Tweets": "Privacy is beautiful!" And Freja Beha Erichsen, who's not known to be a Meisel favorite, makes a surprise appearance, as well.

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fashionologie — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:34:52 PDT

>> 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]

Costello Tagliapietra Spring 2009: Anchored in Lady, With a Touch of Butch

fashionologie — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:24:01 PDT

>> The third time was the charm for Costello Tagliapietra yesterday - after starting and stopping the runway music two times, the second of which included dimming the lights, the show finally got under way for the third and final time an hour after its scheduled start. Lucky for Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra, their designs made it worth the wait.

Their tailored lady got some edge, courtesy of Philip Crangi's black leather accessories and an airbrushed-on tattoo . Each girl sported a blue anchor with her initials under it, Miu Miu Fall 2008-style, to match the designers' own anchor and initial tattoos, and Christina Kruse got to show off the big cobra tattooed on her arm. An unconventional fabric choice - ultrasuede - gave a matte contrast to all the shiny charmeuse, and unexpected color combinations gave a real zing to the lineup. The only major problem came from the shoes, made by Giuseppe Zanotti for the show - a lot of girls had trouble navigating them, and Georgina Stojilkovic came close to falling.

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fashionologie — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:50:57 PDT

>> BLOWING THE COVER —With the exception of the July 2008 issue, Vogue Italia's cover stories have been very staid and buttoned up in the past few months — Linda Evangelista's turn as a duchess in June, the funereal tribute to Yves Saint Laurent in August — and so far, Viktoriya Sasonkina's September 2008 cover is no exception. Miuccia Prada's prim Fall 2008 collection must have really set Steven Meisel's mood for the past few months . . . [Women Management]

Alberta Ferretti Fall 2008 Gives Girls the Subway Slump

fashionologie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:20:03 PDT

>> If you're going to spend a lot of time bored on the subway, why not do it for pay, and look fabulous while you're at it? That must have been stylist Edward Enninful's concept for the Fall 2008 Alberta Ferretti campaign, which features Anna Maria Jagodzinska and new talent Magdalena Frackowiak, Siri Tollerod, and Viktoriya Sasonkina juxtaposed in jewel tones with jaded expressions affixed on their faces. The best shot Steven Meisel captured has to be of Siri, slumped over in plastic chair.
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Balenciaga, Miu Miu, Prada Go With Gaggles of Girls for Spring 2009 Ads

fashionologie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:29:28 PST

>> For Fall 2008, three of the big campaigns that every model wants to catch - Prada, Balenciaga, and Miu Miu - all went with one big name - Linda Evangelista, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Vanessa Paradis, respectively.

Come Spring 2009, all three labels have decided to switch things up by using a large number of new faces - Prada is using eight models (Anna Jagodzinska, Giedre Dukauskaite, Katrin Thormann, Nimue Smit, Sigrid Agren, Toni Garrn, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Ymre Stiekema); Miu Miu is using eight models as "accessories" to campaign star Katie Holmes (Darya Kurovska, Elena Lomkova, Imogen Morris-Clarke, Katie Fogarty, Myf Shepherd, Sophie Srej, Tilda Lindstam, Yulia Leontieva); and Balenciaga is going with ten models (Amanda Laine, Anabela Belikova, Anna Jagodzinska, Anya Kazakova, Diana Farkhullina, Elsa Sylvan, Hanne-Gaby Odiele, Iris Strubegger, Katie Fogarty, Kinga Rajzak).

Surprisingly, there are only two girls overlapping between the campaigns: Anna Jagodzinska in Balenciaga and Prada and Katie Fogarty in Miu Miu and Balenciaga, and especially in Miu Miu's cast, some girls - Tilda Lindstam, Yulia Leontieva - are very new faces. Although some are skeptical, especially in the case of Miu Miu, that all the models cast will make it into the final shots, it's notable that all three labels, which usually go with one face, have all decided that power comes in numbers this season. Get to know the chosen faces in the gallery below.
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Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Actrice?

fashionologie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:22:45 PDT

»Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Karen Elson, and Sarah Sophie Flicker act in a short film for Wren that debuts next Thursday [Style File]

»Which new models are creating the most casting buzz? [TI]

»Instead of farming out its production to cheap foreign labor, Mulberry is made by a young British "iPod-listening" workforce [Racked]

»Wilhemina Models is going public — marking the first agency to ever do such a thing [Forbes]

»Michael Kors's Project Runway fame has translated into five percent of his company's gross [NY Times]

»Style.com is launching a runway-to-iPhone application for fashion week [The Pipeline]

»Why has Erin Fetherston partnered with a cookie company? [Fashionista]

»Viktoriya Sasonkina's September 2008 Vogue Italia cover was inspired by Bette Davis [Women Management Blog]

»Chloe Sevigny, Agyness Deyn to host Christie's art preview; Andre Leon Talley is feting Jennifer Hudson [FWD, FWD]

»A peek into the home of Teen Vogue senior fashion editor Aya Kanai [The Selby]