Speculations have been made but now the real cover is out: Vogue US does The Faces of the Moment in May 2009: (from left to right) Liya Kebede, Natalia Vodianova, Anna Jagodzinska, Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Jourdan Dunn, Raquel Zimmermann, Caroline Trentini, Natasha Poly. So many girls have been forgotten, and the few who stayed [...]
April 13th, 2009 by kpriss — Featured, Magazines
When you want to find I-D on the world wide web, you get to choose between I.D and i-D. Both and each iconic, one is standing for the International Design Magazine and the other stands for a very fashion-significant wink. i-D Magazine is the fashion and style conscious reviewer for over 25 years (29 years [...]
February 20th, 2009 by kpriss — Celebrities, Featured, Magazines
I usually like Pin Up pictures. There’s something playful and superficial but at the same time intangible about pin up girls. The legendary Vogue Calendrier, shot by Terry Richardson looks strange to me. Stranger than the January Issue that’s accompanying. Beautiful girls looking very anonymously. There’s almost nothing in those pictures that brings them a [...]
December 6th, 2008 by kpriss — Magazines
Look who won the Best Model Award!!! A black beautiful girl! Jourdan Dunn was named Best Model of the Year by the Brit Fashion Elite at the British Fashion Awards 2008. If the world needed more confirmation that the catwalks have to spice some color to keep up with the reality, here’s one more! Jourdan, [...]
November 27th, 2008 by kpriss — Trends
Everybody heard that you have to suffer for fashion! Or that you have to suffer for beauty. I don’t argue that, but I have just a little annotation: If I have to suffer for fashion of beauty, let it be not in Alexander McQueen! For Spring Summer 2009 he chose to highlight the corset. Object [...]
October 9th, 2008 by kpriss — Dare to wear
Haven’t they learned anything from Vogue Italy? Even so, let’s say it’s not deliberately a black minority on the cover of November’s British Vogue! Let’s say it’s a pure act of promoting the fresh UK fashion: Jourdan Dunn, Eden Clark, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (photographed by Emma Summerton). The next faces you should look after. But don’t [...]
October 3rd, 2008 by kpriss — Magazines
Naomi Campbell’s retirement is no secret to anyone. She’s made it clear, repeatedly, that she only stayed that long because of the overall white catwalks. She who was supported by her fellow supermodels back in the days, the girls refusing a catwalk appearance unless Naomi came along, is preparing herself for a gracious career as [...]
September 21st, 2008 by kpriss — Designers
The To die For Issue features Jourdan Dunn on the cover. All that Vogue Italia wind surely stirred some waves on the fashion white sea. Either that or fashion is really on a serious black trend. Way to go! She looks so pretty here that I could even forgive her bat-like pose from Pop early [...]
August 7th, 2008 by kpriss — Magazines
