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Jason Wu Expanding Full-Steam Ahead for Spring 2010; Cathy Horyn Unsure About All the Buzz

fashionologie — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:44:05 -0700

>> In January, Jason Wu went from buzzy among the fashion community to internationally known, thanks to one Michelle Obama, and his Spring 2010 reflects the sudden change in pace: he's trying to go a little sexier, and little more modern to have an all-around broader ready-to-wear reach. He added knitwear, outwear, and daywear, launched four styles of sunglasses, and hopes someday soon to get into handbags and accessories.

Ymre Stiekema made her New York Fashion Week debut at the show, and Yulia Kharlaponova slipped and fell on recently-Windexed mirrored runway, but that wasn't the only slip-up in the collection, according to Cathy Horyn, who wrote in her review:

"Have you ever become completely irritated by a box of chocolate? You know the kind: concept chocolate, artfully arranged in a just-so box, flavors exotic and trying. I’m afraid that was my overall reaction to Jason Wu’s collection on Friday at the St. Regis Hotel . . . He should try a little less hard is the answer. Not everything in life is a spotless decorator interior or a magazine spread. He should loosen up a bit. And why the uniformly short hemlines, six inches above the knee? That in itself is the sign of a fairly conformist outlook."

Tasha Tilberg, Ymre Stiekema Go '60s Avedon for Show Package; Irina Lazareanu To Make Runway Return?

fashionologie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:09:41 -0700

>> Spring 2010 show packages with New York Fashion Week just over a week away: Supreme went goth with the help of photographer Hanna Liden, Major Model Management enlisted the help of student artist Rachel Chiu to illustrate their roster, and Irina Lazareanu looks poised to make a runway return - her card is in the mix at Marilyn. But thus far, the most eye-catching rests with One Management - they had icons like Ann Catherine Lacroix, Tasha Tilberg, and Colette Pechekhonova, plus Prada favorite Ymre Stiekema, all done up '60s Richard Avedon-style, complete with helmet from his 1965 Harper's Bazaar cover. Accompanying video here.

fashionologie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:02:55 -0700

>> ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL -The first photo from Prada's Fall 2009 campaign has leaked, and instead of horses involved as previously reported, the setting is four girls - Prada favorite Ymre Stiekema, Katlin Aas, Julia Hafstrom, and Kendra Spears, who is said to be the main focus - in a boat, surrounded by water; this particular image is supposedly one of the "most interesting," according to someone who claims to have seen the full set by Steven Meisel. The Miu Miu Fall 2009 campaign, which has yet to appear, will reportedly have a strong androgynous theme. [TFS, TFS]

fashionologie — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:05:22 -0700

>> ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL -While a horse of Steven Klein's caused Madonna injury over the weekend, another Steven - Steven Meisel - worked with a horse last week for one setting of the "marathon" four day Prada Fall 2009 campaign shoot at Pier 59 Studios in New York. No confirmation on which models were involved, but a number of unconfirmed sources are indicating four girls - Kendra Spears, Anna De Rijk, Katlin Aas, and Miuccia Prada's current favorite, Ymre Stiekema. [Chic Report, TFS, TFS, TFS]

Speculating on Fall 2009 Campaign Season

fashionologie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:15:30 -0700

>> For Spring 2009 more than ever, brands stuck with campaign models who guarantee a sell - supermodels like Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss for Versace or Claudia Schiffer for Yves Saint Laurent, Daria Werbowy for Roberto Cavalli - or the classic blonde hair-blue eye combination that Toni Garrn and Anna Maria Jagodzinska's campaign sweeps represented. Also of note for the season, Prada and Balenciaga's decisions to go with big groups of models - eight and ten, respectively.

With Fall 2009 campaign season under way, it sounds like at least a couple of brands have decided to break from that latter part of last season's formula - Wayne Sterling of The Imagist reports:

"It is too early to say and too tenuous to reveal who's holding/confirming what these days but rest assured it is the striking and the extreme that seem to be filtering into the next phase. Among the buzz I picked up by some art directors is a disenchantment with the 'multiples' ideal, that concept of an army of models rocking as many of the looks from the show as possible while waving as many possible it-bags as can be crammed into a double page. Two VERY big brands have already gone 'Only Girl.'"

The most likely candidate from that description of packing the models in seems to be Prada - so does that mean Prada is one of those already-decided brands, and Miuccia's current favorite exclusive Ymre Stiekema is going to finally get a main season campaign under her belt?

Who else is already being pinpointed? »

Full Video - Carine Roitfeld on CNN: Revealed

fashionologie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:53:42 -0700

>> We've gotten plenty of snippets from the CNN: Revealed profile on Carine Roitfeld already - including her stance on the Vogue replacement rumors - but now, the full show is out on video. Besides discussing the April 2009 cover of Vogue Paris, we get a peek at an upcoming Patrick Demarchelier editorial with Ymre Stiekema in Spring 2009 couture holding animals at an agricultural show ("I didn't know how hard it would be to shoot in this place"), plus a snippet of an interaction between Carine and Anna Wintour, in which Anna cryptically asks, "Did you get my letter? Do you understand?" Without further ado . . .

The full show in three parts! »

Miuccia Prada Brings Out the Fight for Fall 2009

fashionologie — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:09:57 -0800

>> What did Miuccia Prada have in mind for this sober season? Another look at her favorite urban warrior. After the audience crowded onto double-assigned bleacher-style seating, Prada sent out leather gladiator dresses, studded shoes with Trojan helmet-like fringed comb on the back, thigh-high loose fisherman boots held up by garters, and more fur than you could ever want. Plus, according to Suzy Menkes, "the best coats and suits of this Milan season" - even though Miuccia says she hasn't worn a suit herself in six years. Ymre Stiekema finally showed up this season - so it looks like Prada kept her exclusive - but there doesn't look to be any models of color, not even Jourdan Dunn. For the finale, instead of the regular tour, all the models crowded into a group in the center of the boxing ring-type arena setting.
*image: source

fashionologie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:50:42 -0800

>> THE MODELIZER - Calvin Klein starts shortly, so who are those exclusives? Not Ymre Stiekema - she didn't even come to New York, prompting questions as to whether she's a Prada exclusive again - but V Magazine/Supreme model search winner Addison Gill is one, and a girl from Click opening - a commenter says it's Lyndsey Scott, left, as the first ever black CK exclusive, but we'll just have to see . . . she's already done Bensoni and Malan Breton this season. [The Imagist]

UPDATE: Supposedly, commenters say, neither former Calvin Klein face Toni Garrn or current face Anna Selezneva are present.

fashionologie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:25:15 -0700

>> ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL -Lots of people have their bets on Ymre Stiekema for Prada Spring 2009, but the field just got a lot more interesting: Prada is apparently doing a multiple girl campaign for Spring . . . Balenciaga, too. [TI]

fashionologie — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:40:12 -0700

>> ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL -That mystery Prada campaign Ymre Stiekema was talking about shooting? It might have been Resort 2009, because here she is, donning those Prada Resort jewels. Or maybe it was the Spring 2009 campaign, because when she was interviewed less than a month ago - it seems like a quick turnaround for print. Plus, she's building quite the foundation at Prada - opening the Spring 2009 show as an exclusive, the Linea Rossa campaign . . . [TFS]