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February 2, 2012 12:39 pm
Many people did a double take when Prabal Gurung’s Spring ‘12 campaign, featuring a barely recognizable Candice Swanepoel, made the rounds earlier this week. Gurung’s go-to team, stylist Tiina Laakkonen and makeup artist Hannah Murray, transformed the South African model for the sensual shoot with photographer Daniel Jackson, showing off the designer’s Nobuyoshi Araki-inspired collection. Here, an exclusive Style.com behind-the-scenes look at how it happened.
tags: Candice Swanepoel, Daniel Jackson, Hannah Murray, Nobuyoshi Araki, Prabal Gurung, Tiina Laakkone
Sea, Sex, And Sun—And YSL
February 1, 2012 6:11 pm
The Resort season found YSL’s Stefano Pilati in a nautical mood. So when the label commissioned Maciek Kobielski to shoot an atmospheric video for the collection, the coast is just where he went. Kobielski shot Eniko Mihalik in Cannes for the sultry new spot, debuting exclusively on Style.com.
tags: Eniko Mihalik, Maciek Kobielski, Stefano Pilati, YSL
Hot-Rodding With Prada
February 1, 2012 2:00 pm
Steven Meisel shot the Spring ‘12 Prada ad campaign in the most sensible place for the hot-rodding, fins-and-taillights collection: a gas station. Now here’s your first look at the accompanying video campaign, with Natasha Poly, Elise Crombez, Guinevere Van Seenus, Meghan Collison, Ymre Stiekema, and newcomer Katryn Kruger all strutting their stuff. Baby, you can drive my car.
tags: Elise Crombez, Guinevere Van Seenus, Katryn Kruger, Meghan Collison, Natasha Poly, Prada, Spring '12, Steven Meisel, Ymre Stiekema
20-Year-Old Newcomer Matthew Terry Raises The Bar—In His Underwear, Naturally
January 31, 2012 4:05 pm
Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw aren’t the only models playing gymnast these days—the male models for Calvin Klein Bold mounted the parallel bars in just their underwear for the brand’s new Steven Klein-lensed campaign.
“I have always liked gymnastics and I give the people that do it a lot of credit because they make it look so easy, but it’s actually really hard,” Matthew Terry, the label’s 20-year-old new underwear model, tells Style.com. “It was one heck of a workout doing some of the poses they wanted.”
Here, catch Terry and his sexy cohorts, Arran Sly, Chris Garavaglia, and Myles Crosby, in action in these exclusive behind-the-scenes photos from the Joshua Tree shoot. An unreleased image of Terry from the campaign is below.
tags: Arran Sly, Calvin Klein Underwear Bold, Chris Garavaglia, Matthew Terry, Myles Crosby, Steven Klein
Lane’s Trifecta
January 31, 2012 11:36 am
For its latest Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed campaign, Lane Crawford cast another group of Asian models. This time around, the retailer tapped a Chinese trio: actress Li Bingbing, Chinese It girl Chen Ran, and model Sui He, to show off the latest pieces from brands like Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, and Balenciaga. The campaign, styled by Panos Yiapanis (who has done editorials for the likes of Another Man and VMan and worked with photographers like Nick Knight and Steven Klein), was shot in London back in November. Here’s a Style.com exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the shoot.
tags: Chen Ran, Lane Crawford, Li Bingbing, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Nick Knight, Sui He
Prepping A New Class Of Models For Their Runway Debuts
January 27, 2012 4:49 pm
As a new model, how do you prepare for your first-ever New York fashion week? For those eager, lanky teenagers just recently thrown into the fashion vortex, no piece of advice falls on deaf ears. On Wednesday afternoon, New York Model Management, which represents notables like Melissa Tammerijn, Sui He, and Lisanne de Jong, held an orientation for its crop of fresh faces to answer questions about what they should expect in the coming weeks. Panelists including the CFDA’s Steven Kolb, top casting director John Pfeiffer, and street-style photographer Phil Oh commented on everything from the CFDA’s updated health guidelines to ways to stand out using your personal style.
“Who am I? Some 50-year-old coming to talk to all these pretty girls?” Steven Kolb laughed. “But I know about it. Fashion is very seductive, but at its core, it’s a very warmhearted industry. And you should never apologize for being thin or in shape.” Pfieffer, who casts shows like Victoria’s Secret, Michael Kors, and Prabal Gurung, added, “Always walk around as much as possible. People are looking at you all the time. You never know what casting director or blogger will be around, so you always have to look the part.”
Some of these pointers may sound obvious, but even the non-freshman catawalkers, like 19-year-old Marihenny Rivera-Pasible, found the tips helpful. “I think these types of open conversations are pointing us in the right direction,” said 16-year-old runway novice Amira Ahmed, who just moved from London in time to shoot the new Gap campaign. Keep an eye out for her this season, on the runway and on the street—as the panelists pointed out, she already seems to have personal style figured out and has been popping up on street-style blogs frequently.
Of course, not every girl makes it big on her first outing, à la Daphne Groeneveld. “If it doesn’t work out this season, just keep trying,” Pfeiffer encouraged. “There are so many girls who didn’t make it their first or second season. Or fourth—Daria Werbowy. Or even fifth—Lara Stone.”
tags: Amira Ahmed, Daphne Groeneveld, John Pfeiffer, Marihenny Rivera Pasible, Steven Kolb
Givenchy’s Girls
January 20, 2012 6:37 pm
The runway at Givenchy’s menswear show is rarely a boys-only affair. Riccardo Tisci’s show today was no different—underneath those crystal septum nose rings, we spotted Joan Smalls, Lakshmi Menon, and Ana Claudia Michels strutting top-and-skirt versions of the men’s outfits.
tags: Ana Claudia Michels, Givenchy, Joan Smalls, Lakshmi Menon, Riccardo Tisci
Miranda Kerr For Bally Spring ‘12
January 12, 2012 3:42 pm
Miranda Kerr and puppies: Who could resist either of those? Not Bally—the label enlisted the Victoria’s Secret Angel, along with Julia Stegner, Cedric Bihr, Robert Konjic, and a pack of adorable pups, to star in its Spring ‘12 ad campaign, shot by Norman Jean Roy. The photos, taken at Gstaad Palace Hotel in Switzerland’s Bernese heartland, tout Michael Herz and Graeme Fidler’s leather shoes, handbags, and ready-to-wear pieces, many of them inspired by the label’s rich archives. Here, a new behind-the-scenes video taken during the shoot.
tags: Bally, Cedric Bihr, Julia Stegner, Miranda Kerr, Norman Jean Roy, Robert Konjic
Natasha Poly And Daria Strokous For Jil Sander Spring ‘12
January 6, 2012 2:18 pm
Natasha Poly is on a roll with Spring campaigns. The Russian-born model scored a coveted spot in Steven Meisel’s Prada ad and is the star of this season’s Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed Dsquared² campaign. She’s also the face of Proenza Schouler’s just-released Spring ‘12 campaign, featuring their forties-inspired collection. Now, add Jil Sander to the growing list. Raf Simons enlisted Poly and Daria Strokous (who also appears in Louis Vuitton’s candy-coated campaign) for the brand’s new Willy Vanderperre-shot images (pictured). Here, the two look like they are in a horror film, but it’s a very stylish one, to say the least.
tags: Daria Strokous, Jil Sander, Natasha Poly, Prada, Proenza Schouler, Raf Simons, Spring '12, Willy Vanderperre
Gisele Glow
January 4, 2012 11:30 am
A few photos of Gisele Bündchen’s Salvatore Ferragamo Spring ‘12 ad campaign debuted at the end of December, but this morning the label released more images with the Brazilian beauty standing alongside model Noah Mills. (”I couldn’t see any other man standing by Gisele’s side, equaling her force and sensuality and maintaining her unaltered elegance,” Ferragamo creative director Massimiliano Giornetti said in a statement released by the label today.) The two, photographed by Mikael Jansson, are pictured basking in the endless summer sun at Golden Eye Resort in Jamaica. Equally as radiant as their glowing tans are the vibrant colors Giornetti used for the Spring collection. Here, a few of the latest images.
tags: Gisele Bundchen, Massimiliano Giornetti, Mikael Jansson, Noah Mills, Salvatore Ferragamo
