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Top 5 New Faces NYC S/S 08

2007-09-14T14:35:00.000+02:00

New York fashion week is over again already and, well it was more boring than ever if you ask me. There was not one show to get excited about. Even though the Marc Jacobs show was overhyped as always, I didn't have any feelings for that collection this season whatsoever. But, luckily, there is always a small crop of interesting new girls to hit the New York runways. Some predicted stars didn't prove their warnings right (read: Siri, Meghan, Cicely), so there was enough space for some other girls to take over. As usual, I will give you my five favourites without explanation and when Paris is over, you'll have my list of 10 definite girls with explanation. Oh, and don't expect any Marc Jacobs exclusives on this list...they were ugly anyway. The exlusive-eyes were all on Calvin Klein this time.

Toni Garn

Oxana Pautova

Masha Novoselova

Flo Gennaro

Erin Heatherton

New Model Crush: Masha Novoselova

2007-08-24T20:18:00.000+02:00

It's almost fashion week again and the showcard madness has already started, but even before that this Russian stunner already caught mine and others eyes. Meet Masha Novoselova, one of my latest crushes. She's sure to be a hot cake on the S/S 08 runways and has actually proven right already now. She's graced the Numero 85 cover together with Caroline Trentini. Just like that, out of the blue. Isn't that quite something? But who's to blame? Isn't she gorgeous? She's just in time to ride along on the wave of Catherine McNeil's nouveau-sexy. Red hot, so now, so starquality. I can't wait to see what happens to her come September.

Dale Magazine 16: July 2007

2007-06-29T17:14:00.000+02:00

Oh July, July! The month of couture....and if we may believe the words in the press from these past few weeks it's going to be one of the most exciting couture weeks ever. Valentino celebrates 40 years in the biz and Galliano celebrates 60 years of New Look at the Versailles palace. I can't wait...but alas, tonight I'll go on vacation to Croatia and I doubt I'll have a lot of acces there to the internet. So when I'll get back, I am in for a huge surprise! But even if I am not here, July still needs a cover. So here's one hell of a Power Woman! Elsa Sylvan is celebrating her strong womanhood in a more than cool pose. Enjoy the Summer, people!

Feature: Cruise Should Be About One Thing

2007-06-21T20:37:00.000+02:00

Well, aside from sunglasses, bathing suits and a weird hat or two, the Cruise/Resort collection should all have one thing in common: flirty, breezy, summerdresses which are suitable for a walk on the beach and for a night out. Plus, they should be expensive with a capital E - because, hey, we are talking St. Tropez here! Here are some of my favourite cruisedresses from the shows that have been held thusfar.

Badgley Mischka

Chanel

Christian Dior

Gucci

Oscar dela Renta

Showstoppers: Chanel Cruise 2008

2007-06-04T23:53:00.001+02:00

Check out the video right here http://www.vogue.fr/mode/Chanel_cruise_vidéo-12098-103-art.htm on online French Vogue. I didn't necessarily like what Karl showed clothewise, but it was quite the spectacle as he pulled out two Chanel printed jets in an LAX setting. Hoo-ha location planning!

News: Dior Couture To Show In Versailles

2007-06-01T14:01:00.000+02:00

Here's some wonderful news via wwd:

GALLIANO'S GETTING BUSY JOHN GALLIANO is gearing up for one hell of a party. As Christian Dior prepares for its 60th anniversary this summer, rumour has it the British designer will stage a one-off couture show on July 2, inside Versaille's stunning Orangerie. According to WWD, models have already been booked and instructed to arrive an enormous eight hours before showtime - now that's a lot of hair and make-up. No stranger to fashion, the exact location was chosen for a Dior "Matrix"-themed couture show back in 1999. The palace itself, which hadn't permitted a fashion shoot for over 25 years, also miraculously opened its doors to the American Vogue team last year, for the memorable Kirsten Dunst cover shoot inspired by Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. If you can't make it to France for the show, John will also be making his way to London to throw a Champagne reception with British Vogue, at the V&A, during London Fashion Week on September 18. One of the world's most passionate ambassadors for the survival and genius of Haute Couture, Gallliano will be celebrating the gallery's opening of its aptly named exhibition, The Golden Age of Couture.

(May 30 2007, AM) Louise Roe

Naturally, I cannot wait...how awesome does this sound? Rumor also has it that there will be a fully installed choir and orchestra to do the music. That is said to be the last wish of Steven Robinson - Galliano's partner in crime who recently died - concerning the coming couture show. If Galliano won't go for the obvious, which would be a Marie Antoinette inspired collection, then this couture show (which will by the way mark the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking New Look collection by Monsieur Dior himself) will be absolutely amazing. On the downside, I will be so so late for the party, because on July 2nd I will be on holiday in Croatia, only to return 10 days later. Damn it! I hope there'll be some internetcafes there, because I so cannot miss this!!

Dale Magazine 15: June 2007

2007-06-01T13:52:00.000+02:00

Finally a cover that is posted in time! Anywho, June is one of my favourite months of the year, because it's that month just between Summer and Spring. So it's not too hot, just perfectly warm and nature is at it's greenest. So for June I had to use one of my favourite pictures of the past few weeks for the cover of Dale Mag 15. And that has to be this divine picture of Canadian Alana Zimmer. How perfect can it be? Who knew Mary could be totally fashionable? Well, here's the proof! The only suitable reaction to seeing this pic would be Holy Mother Of Couture!

Highlight: Escorting Jean-Paul Gaultier

2007-05-29T20:11:00.000+02:00

You know that you officially are a muse when you get to escort Jean-Paul Gaultier to the Cannes Filmfestival...twice! So yay for Morgane Dubled. Doesn't she look spectacular with that smile on her. You go girl!

You Fall, You Get Up

2007-05-29T20:00:00.001+02:00

It was quite the scandal when Milana Keller stumbled and fell numerous times only to be escorted of the runway by a bodyguard at the Dior cruise show two weeks ago. Rumours existed that she might've been a tad bit drunk when she entered the runway. I refuse to believe this and think that the impossible shoes are a sufficient explanation. Anyhwho, her fall might've been a sensational one but it's only grown my love for Milana!

Here's the showcard I made for her back when the shows were in February. She was still Milana Bogolepova at all her agencies back then, but she married and the agencies adjusted her name to Keller. I just love this sexy blonde woman who has an awesome runwaywalk and totally aced the Dior couture show in January by the way. Love love love her!

New Model Crush: Genevieve Godbout

2007-05-17T22:29:00.000+02:00

In a new topic you'll see more often I will present to you totally new girls that have caught my eye and made me fall in love with: New Model Crush. First up is Genevieve Godbout. This Montreal native totally worked the Dior cruise show. She looked like such a regal queen and totally stole my heart when I found her sexy pics at her motheragency Folio. In New York she is signed with Marilyn. I hope to see her way more! What a stunner!

Showstoppers: Christian Dior Cruise 2008

2007-05-17T22:15:00.000+02:00

It came totally out of nowhere for me, but it is time for a select ammount of resort/cruise shows again! When Dior did a show last year for the first ever time in cruise history, a trend was set and more brands followed. More will follow each year untill it probably gets it's own calendar in a few years. Galliano through up an amazing sixties show where he went on with the bold colours of his Fall-Winter 2007-2008 show for Dior. It fitted the sixties theme better than the Oriental theme and it looked absolutely amazing as far as I am concerned. Love the wigs and glasses! And who cares if the shoes nearly killed May Anderson and Milana Keller on the runway (one of them was drunk apparantly, my bet is on May) because the shoes look totally cool. Enjoy some of my personal faves:

^Sexy Marta Berzkalna!

Dale Magazine 14: May 2007

2007-05-17T22:10:00.000+02:00

Another quiet month has passed, but I have some posts ready to be placed. Some action is definetly required here, so what better excuse to introduce you all to one of the biggest trends of Spring-Summer, sportswear! Not just sweatpants or Adidas shoes, but innovative, futiristic ways of incorporatong sportswear into your everyday haute look. Let uber-topmodels Caroline Trentini and Hana Soukupova tell you how to take it to an extreme in this month's cover. Be sure to remember Spring's Message: Get Sporty!

Dale Magazine 13: April 2007

2007-04-19T17:22:00.000+02:00

Ya, I know, It's halfway through April already, but I have been caught up in school so my blog and a lot of other online stuff got left behind. But school's died a bit again so it is finally time for the new cover of Dale Mag! Issue 13 marks my first year anniversary of this blog! It went faster than I could imagine and was surprised that it's been a year already when I realised it, so I figured that should be the theme of April's cover. Romina Lanaro makes the perfect face of a disbeliever and I can just hear her say the words "For Real? A Year Already?". Believe it! Because it is true and we are celebrating it!

Showstoppers: Dolce & Gabbana F/W 07.08

2007-03-18T19:26:00.000+01:00

Finally somebody who is really bringing sexy back. Dolce & Gabbana is fast asociated with sex, sex, sex, so to see them kinda going back to their nineties image was a feast for me. The collection consisted of tight, black bustiers, gold, shiny materials, leopard prints, fur overlayed with lace, sequins, whips, Madonna soundtracks and to top it all, Gisele herself opened and closed the show. I love it all! Enjoy my picks:

Feature: Top 10 New Girls F/W 07.08

2007-03-07T21:02:00.000+01:00

It's been a turbulent season in modeling, but F/W 07.08 knew how to deliver us some gorgeous faces anyway. New York had us prepared for the successes of several girls, but alas, some of these successes never came. Or at least, not yet. Some faces survived and some others popped out of nowhere in Europe and started to rule the runways. But what's most the characteristic of this season is that some of the major new girls were in fact not new at all. They've been aroun for some season but never really got to do a lot of bog shows. But this season, some of these girls just started to do major shows with opening and closing priviliges all the time. All in all, this is the result of F/W 07.08 as far as i am concerned.

One of those breakthrough girls who ard finally stealing the limelight after a few seasons of smaller shows is Alyona Osmanova. After her Prada appearance last season, casting directors probably realised that this one is special. And she is! Alyona was everywhere. YSL, Dior, Calvin Klein, she even opened John Galliano with a bang! This girl is up for a more than good future!

Carolina Panoliano is a softer version of Daiane Conterato. And whoever loves Daiane, cannot not love Carolina. She is beautiful and London noticed. She was the bell of the ball in London doing everything, opening everything, closing everything and appearing at Marc by Marc. In Paris, she did Vuitton and Dries van Noten. Plus, Miuccia featured her in both her shows, which is something you want as a model. Go Carolina!

Where should I begin? Catherine McNeil has STAR written all over her. She skipped New York to do some interesting shoots that we'll probably hear about soon. She did Noir in London, which seemed alright and didn't prepare us at all for what was about to open. This Australian sexbomb was suddenly opening and closing every major show in Milan and Paris and setting foot on every other catwalk that mattered. In the recent modeling history there has been no other model with such a high profile success in her first season. So remember her name and watch out!

Diana Moldovan was one of those New York promisses. And luckily for her, she was one of the few to make it true! Diana was embraced in Milan and Paris by fashion houses such as Gucci, Jil Sander, Chanel and Nina Ricci. And who's to blame, because she is gorgeous! Apparantly more people agree on that because overall she has done 74 shows this season, which is amazing! Keep up the good work, girl!

Prada does great wonders. Irina Kulikova is one girl that noticed this. After opening Prada this girl was in demand! But we should have known after her Calvin Klein exclusive in New York. In Paris she opened and closed Antonio Berardi and Undercover. She opened Cacharel and Nina Ricci and she closed Louis Vuitton and YSL. Do you need to hear more? Ok, since you asked: this girl is beautiful! You better watch out!

Fifteen year old Johanna Jonsson made a sure impression on us modelwatchers about a year back when she appeared at Chloe and Yohji Yamamoto F/W 06.07 in Paris. We knew we were in for something good right that moment. Finally, this season it happened. She was a stunner at among others, Dior, Chanel, Galliano, Burberry, Prada and also at her Calvin Klein exclusive. I can't wait for her success to expand even more. Hopefully some nice ads will appear and perhaps Vogue Italia smells the same excitement as I do.

The second fifteen year old and the second Johanna on this list is Johanna Stickland. She showed her face last season as well where she shined on the runways of Christian Dior among others. This season she was back with a blast. A Jil Sander exclusive in Milan, appearing at Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler in New York and re-appearing at Dior and also at Givenchy in Paris ensures great success for this very young but very pretty girl. Probably, with age comes even more success.

Stunning Kasia Struss is one of the most beautiful newcommers of the season as far as I am concerned. Marc by Marc, Calvin Klein, Balenciaga and Dolce & Gabbana must have thought the same. With a total of 70 shows this season, she is right up there with all the established models. But what did you expect? A great walk, a great face and a very fresh beauty need to be seen and the runway is definetly the right place for it. Not to mention magazine and bilboards. Ads galore I tell ya!

Another girl that was around before but started to catch more eyes this season is Kinga Rajzak. She has a unique beauty and an amazing runway presence. If you don't believe me then check out the pictures of shows such as Dolce & Gabbanana, Alexander McQueen, Donna Karan, Lanvin, you just name it! Beautifully cute Kinga is already a runway favourite of mine and hopefully she'll be around for a long time to convince more people of this belief.

Last but not least on this list is Olga Sherer. She had appeared at several Dolce & Gabbana shows already but not untill this New York season it seemed that she had more up her sleeve than we had imagined before. She opened the one and only NYC show Marc Jacobs, so she was just bound to survive after New York. And thus it happened. As a lot of New York success failed misserably in Europe but olga reigned supreme. Appearing once again at Dolce & Gabbana of course, but also at every single other show that matters. Think in the likes of Versace, Prada, Viktor & Rolf, Lanvin and she opened Christian Dior! This flaming redhead is on a roll and this rock will keep on rolling and won't be stopping for a long time, trust me.

Dale Magazine 12: March 2007

2007-03-03T00:07:00.000+01:00

Come March, come a new cover. Finally it is time for Han Hye Jin to take it to the cover of Dale Magazine. It just had to happen, especially since she is ruling the runways at this moment. As mentioned, she isn't missing one major runway show and came out as the runwaycount winner of New York fashion week. Han's teaching us the message of March and coming Spring: Go Strike A Pose! Enjoy your fashion, enjoy the the birth of a new Spring and you better sashay and shantee untill there is no tomorrow. Pose, pose, pose is the message!

Feature: Oh My God, Shoes!

2007-02-25T19:57:00.000+01:00

Let Kelly teach you how to get some shoes! So hilarious!

Highlight: The Prada New Girls

2007-02-21T15:00:00.000+01:00

Every season all the modelwatchers pretty much only have their eyes pointed at the Prada and MiuMiu shows. Miucia Prada always has the most interesting and promising new girls as mostly exlusives for her shows. When you've walked a Prada show, you know that in the near future - it might be next season, or the season after that, or... - you will be making a splash in the modeling world. Think in the likes of Sasha Pivovarova, Tanya Dziahileva, Freja Beha Erichsen and more recently, Suvi Koponen. For F/W 07.08, she presented us with these very lovely ladies, with the first girl being the opening girl (which instantly guarantees you a starcareer next season) Oh and let this also be a look into the fabulous new Prada collection. It's not in your face beauty, but lovely none the less:

Irina Kulikova

Serafima Vakulenko

Eva Arlauskaite

Oxana Pautova

Anabela

Showstoppers: Preen F/W 07.08

2007-02-21T14:52:00.000+01:00

This is how the eighties should be referenced in a 2007 collection. The bold colours, sharp cuts, amazing shapes and shoulders, texture and textiles and let's not forget the supermodel era hair! After last season's let down for me, Preen made a full return in my book! Enjoy my favourite pieces from this collection.

Highlight: Han Reigns Supreme

2007-02-11T18:08:00.000+01:00

With the first week of the Fall-Winter 2007-2008 fashion season fresh behind our backs, it's time to see what models are the winners. And after counting all the shows, it appears that my very own Han Hye Jin is the ultimate runway way champion of New York fashion week with an astonising amount of 32 shows! Congrats Han! Here is her full show list and some highlights:

Anne Klein, Antonio Berardi, Baby Phat, BCBG Max Azria, Carmen Marc Valvo, Chaiken, Charles Nolan, Chris Han, Cynthia Steffe, Dennis Basso, Designers for Darfur, Diesel, Jason Wu, Luca Luca,Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Monique Lhuillier, Nanette Lapore, Peter Som, Phillip Lim, Proenza Schouler, Richard Chai, Rock & Republic, Ruffian, Sari Gueron, Tadashi, Temperley London, Thakoon, Vera Wang, Yeohlee, Yigal Azrouel and Zac Posen.

Marc Jacobs
Michael Kors

Zac Posen

Top 5 New Girls After NY FW 0708

2007-02-11T17:29:00.000+01:00

The first fashion week of the season has finished already and of course, it has delivered us some great new faces. To be honest, there haven't been that many new interesting faces as last season, but of course there are always some. Here's my top 5 after NY fashion week in random order. Wait untill after Paris for my comments on them:

Veronika Antsipava

Ali Michael

Georgia Frost

Jourdan Dunn

Diana Moldovan

Showstoppers: Lanvin S/S 07

2007-02-11T17:19:00.000+01:00

In one of the most fashion forward collections of the Spring-Summer 2007 shows, I found my favourite collection of the season: Lanvin by Alber Albaz. Enjoy some of my favourite looks from the show:

Dale Magazine 11: February 2007

2007-02-11T17:10:00.000+01:00

After some delay it's time for the February issue of Dale Magazine! In a month where all the fashion weeks all busily going on, the time is right to start looking to the future and acting Fashion Forward! Thus Coco Rocha shines in her totally fashion futuristica Balenciaga outfit on the cover the 11th issue of my blog. Enjoy the fashion weeks and enjoy the future!

Dale Mag 10: January 2007

2006-12-31T14:16:00.000+01:00

Happy New Year! That is the message of the January 2007 issue of Dale Magazine. Iekeliene Stange is featured in a colourful splash of joy as we celebrate the arrival of the new year in Dale Mag 10. Hopefully it will be a great fashion year with a lot of fantastic fashion moments. And with the couture shows just around the cornor, the last week of January might just be the first week of the year with such a fashion moment. Or perhaps the Milan and Paris menswear fashion weeks? January brings us a lot of fun stuff to look out for, so this month is a Fashion Festivity: The Colour Issue.

Feature: Fashion Forward

2006-12-30T19:03:00.000+01:00

After the Spring-Summer 2007 fashion weeks ended it was clear that the fashion world was opting for only one thing: the future. The majority of the collections purposed to achieve a fashion forward statement. Be it in the clothes, the accessoiries, their casting, the make-up, you name it, the key word was future. Blown away with geometrical shapes, new fabrics, space armor and out of this world beauties, the fashion lover had to take some rest after the season ended to digest it all. To some up what I feel are the strongest elements of that futuristic fashion that awaits us, here's a small line-up in no particular order.

As far as I am concerned it all started in July, when John Galliano presented us his armored warrior queens for the Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Dior couture collection. As he posed in a space-suit with four of his out-of-this-planet goddesses the chain of events was set in motion. Armor, space, geometrical shapes and the future were the sources to draw inspiration from. And so it happened!

In a dazzling presentation, Hussein Chalayan showed us that technique is also the future in fashion. With hidden wires and motors he presented dresses that changed shape at the spot! With a ticking clock for music, the spectators were amazed when this dress above flipped open, changed pattern and created a superbly futuristic look. In the last look of the show an even more unimaginable event took place as model Leah de Wavrin entered the stage in a beautiful white chiffon dress. Second later the dress was swallowed up by her hat and Leah was buttnaked. How's that for a fashion moment?

Alber Elbaz was most fashion forward when it comes to fabrics. For the house of Lanvin, he let models parade down the runway in technofabrics such as silicone, parachute and vinyl. No good old chiffon or cotton this time. The statement here was to make way for a new generation of fabrics in a new generation of fashion to project fashion forwards like it has never happened before.

Perfectly in line with a desire towards the future is the interstellar beauty of Dutch model Iekeliene Stange. Her never seen before bone structure, cool attitude and amazing photogenic abillity her success screams for a new trend in models. Gone are the aliens and bugs, enter the strong, unique, futuristic models of today and tomorrow.

In a show of extremes the man of extremes Garreth Pugh made men and women transcend into each other, creating a sexless, androginous hodgepodge of geometrical shapes, Star Warsian fabrics and a new silhouette. This collection might be one of extremes, but it is the biggest mirror you can imagine to reflect the desire in fashion to move on from a past full of war and misery into a future with new exciting things.

The icing on the cake, the king of futurism: meet the C3PO's come to life by Nicholas Ghesquire for Balenciaga. Drawing his inspiration from the movie Tron and obviously the above mentioned couture collection, this collection had nothing fashion backwards about it. Only forwards. New shapes in jackets, techniques in dresses, amazing armored legs and tanky shoes were the clear message here. It is time to move on already!