*UPDATED MARCH 2010: THIS POST HAS BEEN REWRITTEN BECAUSE THE FRANCIS BLOG THAT IS MENTIONED IN THE FIRST SENTENCE IS NOW DEFUNCT. Drop everything you’re doing and run to my other blog to check out the Francis Spring 2010 look book! As I said yesterday, gorgeous blogger Jennine from The Coveted was part of the [...]
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To me, the most interesting thing about tonight’s Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is designer Azzedine Alaia’s pisstacular reaction to being left out of the “Model as Muse” exhibit: after fitting seven models for dresses, he asked the ladies not to wear them. As a result, Alaia fans Naomi Campbell and [...]
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Gala Mitchell was one of designer Ossie Clark‘s favorite models. I’m not sure it’s accurate to describe her as his muse — or one of his muses — but she’s definitely striking the right pose in this great picture. Ossie Clark fits a dress on Gala Mitchell.Click to enlarge. Gala’s hair and eyebrows make her [...]
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Elle.com reports that architect-artist dude Ron Arad and Notify artistic director Maurice Ohayon joined together to create a space-age handbag for my favorite model, LindaE. LindaE, Ohayon and the battery-powered “Flash Bag”Photo from Notify via Elle.com The bag doesn’t interest me nearly as much as the “four-hand” factoid from the story: “What happens when supermodel [...]
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Coco Rocha has a blog, E-I-E-I-O.And on that blog she has this picture, E-I-E-I-O.With a misspelling here,A dropped apostrophe there,Here an oops, there an oops, everywhere an oops-oops.Coco Rocha has a blog, E-I-E-I-O. From Oh So Coco She sure is pretty though! UPDATED TO NOTE: There’s a link to the blog on Coco’s flash-rific official [...]
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I loved Carre Otis’s biker-girl Calvin Klein ads in the early ’90s. Speaking of models, I’m excited that the spring exhibit at the Costume Institute at the Met is going to be “The Model as Muse.” I hope my beloved Linda Evangelista is prominently featured. UPDATED TO ADD: Carre and Mickey Rourke divorced in 1998. [...]
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The kink-a-licious Asudem Latex of Doll’s Realm tipped me off to this vintage Thierry Mugler PVC catsuit on eBay. Check out the collar and cuffs! If you bid, don’t forget to snipe Thinking of Thierry Mugler made me scramble for my (autographed!) copy of photographer Arthur Elgort’s Models Manual. There’s a photo of models Karen [...]
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Anyone who is a fan of the ’90s supermodels (or, as I think of them, the ONLY supermodels) needs to check out September’s Vanity Fair. Scan from Fashion Week Daily And if you’re too young to remember a time in fashion before actresses dominated magazine covers while wan, bug-eyed teenagers drifted down the runways — [...]
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Today was all about Ossie Clark. Ossie obsessives like gorgeous blogger Sharon Rose know that the late designer, who was never good with money, sold his financially troubled line to clothing manufacturer Al Radley in the ’70s. (A large percentage of the vintage Ossies floating around nowadays are from the Ossie Clark for Radley line.) [...]
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I can’t wait to see the new Prada ads, starring my beloved LindaE, in their full glory. Linda Evangelista You KNOW I have my eye on those shoes. UPDATED TO ADD: After I wrote this, but before I posted it, Martirio’s Way posted some more Linda here. Share and Enjoy:
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