Monday, December 19, 2011
I wish I could travel to as many interesting places as my jewelry does, but, for now, I’m living vicariously. I finally got a hard copy of November’s inaugural issue of Harper’s Bazaar Brasil, in which supermodel Gisele Bündchen is wearing two of my rings. I think they’re the “3″ from the two-ring emoticon heart set [...]
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Let’s celebrate the first day of summer with this July 1989 Vogue UK cover, featuring model Carre Otis. The photographer was the great Herb Ritts. This picture makes me want to see more beautiful, non-celebrity magazine covers again. It also makes me want to go on vacation!
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I dragged myself out of my sickbed on Saturday to go to a Food & Wine Magazine photo shoot at my designing friend Zang Toi‘s beautiful apartment. The shoot was a big production involving hordes of people and I didn’t want to let them down by being a no-show. After all, someone had to be [...]
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
*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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Monday, May 4, 2009
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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Friday, April 17, 2009
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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Saturday, January 10, 2009
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 [...]
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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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Sunday, November 2, 2008
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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