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Lara Stone for Shiseido / Honesty / New Faces Looking For Work
Linda V. for Harper's Bazaar Brazil
Marianne Fassarella Buzz / Mie for Hestehave / Yulianna Sardar test
Camille Rowe in Notre Jour Viendra
New Holman Polaroids / Representing Sveta Lapina / New Face Laura N
Moa IMG Test / Mackenzie Drazan digitals / New Face Ulya Belyaeva
Ellinore Erichsen by Lena Modigh
Interviews
GRAHAM: Makes sense. So… I’m sure you get this question all the time… How has The Paris Review changed since you’ve taken over? I understand that when Philip was the editor, there was a distinct move towards nonfiction and photography that created a bit of controversy, and that you have begun to steer the magazine back in its original purely literary and artistic direction, much like George Plimpton. Can you talk about that a little bit? What is your ultimate goal for the magazine, and where would you like to see it go?
[LORIN] STEIN: It’s true, Philip was interested in publishing pure reportage. And reportage just isn’t something that I know that much about. And I also think that—especially now—even on the web, there’s so much good reportage, that it would be hard for us to distinguish ourselves, I mean Philip could do it, I don’t think I can—and my real love, I mean, I think the thing that needs the most help, is short fiction and poetry. And essays. And by essays, I mean something very…
GRAHAM: Like what John Jeremiah Sullivan [the Southern editor of The Paris Review] writes?
STEIN: Like what John writes. Though he sometimes writes reportage. Some of what he writes wouldn’t be right for the Review. And I guess I think of reportage as things that are tied to matters of real concern in the world, the essays that John writes that we’ve published are more personal essays. I want the Review to be what I think it often has been, which is America’s literary magazine. I want it to be a laboratory for the best new fiction and poetry and this funny thing that you call the essay. And I want it to maintain its integrity of, especially, it seems like choosing the writers—I want it to reflect what we really think is important, not just what’s fashionable or what sells, but the writers who really interest us as writers. And I think that there’s more work for a literary magazine to do now than there used to be.
Pas Un Autre: TOAST OF THE TOWN: LORIN STEIN
My friend Joshua Williams will be hosting a slew of fashion lectures this spring, at FIT. So if you're in NYC and like to attend it's free for all. He kicks things off with Garance Doré, on Monday, Feb 6th, at 4pm.
Location:
FIT, Katie Murphy Amphitheater, D Building on 27th (& 7th)
Time: 4pm
Schedule:
Feb 6 - Garance Dore - blogger
Feb 13 - Mary Amons - founder - Labels for Love (Real Housewives of DC)
Feb 27 - Tamas Locher - founder - LOOKK.com/Garmz
Mar 5 - Daniel Silver & Steven Cox - designers - Duckie Brown
Mar 12 - Howard Kahn - CEO - Kahn Lucas (children's wear)
Mar 19 - Stefania Malmsten - graphic designer - StudioMates
Mar 26 - Will Setliff - VP of Innovation - Target
Apr 9 - New Media panel (Not Just a Label, WonderMode, ShopMyLabel, ShopToko)
Apr 16 - Judith Rifkin - jewelry/accessory designer
Apr 23 - Miguelina - designer
Apr 30 - Yigal Azrouel - designer
May 7 - Gaby Basora - Tucker - designer/CEO
May 14 - Kevin McLaughlin & Steve Siegler - J.McLaughlin - designer/CEO
May 21 - Fashion Service Network panel Andrew Jassin (moderator), Michael Stanley, Steve DeFontes, Jing Yin, Kara Ross (special guest)
By far the most exciting thing I saw last week during the couture in Paris wasn’t couture at all, but a website that launches today: www.honestby.com. The brainchild of Belgian designer Bruno Pieters, late of Hugo Boss, it is the most subversive etail initiative I have seen. I think it has the power to transform the fashion industry. Really. You know I don’t say these things lightly. Indeed, my natural instinct whenever a fashion person tells me they have something “revolutionary” happening is to roll my eyes and grimace. But then, Pieters didn’t tell me this – I thought it up all on my own when I saw his project.
Why?
Because this site, which will sell a collection of 56 pieces for men and women (only 20 items of each style will be made, including different sizes) by Mr Pieters, and then start offering collections by guest designers in three months (he wouldn’t tell me who they were), is transparent, and mostly sustainable. Let me say that again: transparent financially and in terms of manufacturing.
After being signed as a plus-size model as a teenager, Halchishick’s agency told her she could work more if she gained weight–and she obliged (unwittingly) by gaining the freshman 15–or 20 in her case–after starting at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She hit a max of 200 pounds (size 14), and worked the most she ever would as a model, often banking six figures in a year. Then she met her boyfriend, who’s a physical trainer.
Halchishick ended up losing 50 pounds–and subsequently all her modeling clients–when she got down to 145 and a size 8.
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Katie ended up leaving her last agency and started her own about a year ago, called Natural Model Management. Its goal is to promote the mantra “Healthy is the new skinny” and many of the girls who the agency reps are in traditional modeling no-man’s-land: sizes 6-10. Is this a revolutionary idea?
Fashionista: Will an Agency for “Normal Sized” Models Actually Work?
Nicole shared this video of Azealia Banks (who appeared in Karl's party last week, after appearing in Vogue late last year). I think 2012 will put Gaga on the sidelines and concentrate on Azealia & Lana Del Ray.
Speaking of Del Ray, her Album Born to Die hits iTunes today.
Ford Vol. IV Fall 2012 Show Package.
Ford Models Fashion goes behind the scenes to bring viewers the making of Ford Vol. IV, the fourth show package of Paul Rowland's tenure at Ford. Shot over several days in the fall of 2011, this show package makes a bold statement of intent about the coming Fall 2012 runway season.
