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Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Kate Moss's Motto on Life...

Kate Moss

I ♥ Kate Moss' style.

I ♥ Kate Moss because she makes Croydon ~~cool~~ hmmmm, lets not exaggerate..credible *Yay!*

I ♥ the mystique that surrounds Kate, like the fact she RARELY gives interviews.

But that is where my love affair with Kate ends - and yours will too when you read this.

It is well known that Kate NEVER, HARDLY EVER, VERY RARELY gives interviews to the media. She has a very strong PR team that monitors and closely advises her every move. This strategic plan has worked thus so far. According to "industry experts" (whoever the heck that is!) Kate is worth up to £25 million. Even when she was branded "Cocaine Kate" after THOSE awful pictures of her emerged of her "allegedly" snorting cocaine, that didn't stop her earning power and appeal as the most fashionable model in the world.

Kate Moss in Topshop Campaign

So in an interview for fashion bible mag WWD, she was asked by it's beauty website section her motto on life.

Simple question right? Should be a simple answer.

Nope - not for her.

Georgous Kate at a YSL shoot - one of my fave pics

of her.. ♥ her hair and outfit

Ms. Moss decides to open her big mouth. The very mouth her PR team have tried so desperately to keep shut because of fear she will..well open her big mouth and act like a dumb model. She said:-

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, that's one of them."

- Kate Moss, WWD website.

Thank you Kate for re-inforcing all those stereotypes about the fashion industry promoting unhealty and underweight models.

Thank you Kate for promoting that skinny is cool and any girl that is over a size 12 should feel like a freak and there is something wrong with them.

Thank you Kate for feeding (no pun intended) those Pro-anna sufferers (Pro-annorexics) with your pathetic statement that skinny is a good look...because it isn't.

Perhaps she really, truly, is a Croydonian girl at heart - a stupid chav. Her answer really does make me wonder - are models really as dumb as they look?

Anyway I found this video of Kate Moss getting a telling off from Dizzee Rascal at the GQ Awards earlier this year. Not only did she rudely interrupt his interview but she also came back "pretending" to find her lipstick - ermmmmm SURELY Kate earn's more than enough to buy a whole shop full of lipsticks!?!

Anyway watch the clip below for yourself...frigging hilarious!

Toodles! :-)

Monday, 5 October 2009

Teen Vogue Cover Black Teen Models

Jourdan Dunn and Chanel Iman grace US Teen Vogue cover

Leading fashion magazine Teen Vogue have featured American model Chanel Iman and British model Jourdan Dunn as front cover models for November's issue.

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, this is the first double cover for the two models. Jourdan was discovered in Primark store in 2006 by a Storm agent and signed with the major modelling agency soon afterwards. British Vogue named her as a "new star" and iIn 2008, she was the first black model to walk a Prada runway in over a decade. She has modelled in shows for Marc Jacobs and Polo Ralph Lauren and modelled for Gap, Topshop, Benetton and H&M to name just a few.

(l-r) Jourdan and Chanel

Both Chanel and Jourdan have taken the model industry by storm. Not only because they are so young (both 19) but because they are both Black models. Chanel took part and won third place in Ford Model's Supermodel of the World in 2006 and signed up with the agency. She has modelled in shows for DKNY, Dolce and Gabbana, Diane von Fustenberg, Vera Wang, Stella McCartney and many more. At Milan Fashion Week Spring 2010 (held in September 2009) Chanel was booked for 9 major shows including big names such as Gucci and Versace with fashion critics calling it a resurgance of black models featured in Italian shows.

(l-r) Chanel and Jourdan

Here are some extracts from their interview...

Jourdan on Chanel "It's competition. There aren't a lot of us, but instead of sticking together, we're pitted against each other. People will say things in Chanel's ear like, 'Jourdan is taking your spot,' and then they'll say to me, 'Don't trust Chanel.'"

Chanel, on Jourdan :

"I could sit here and tell you, 'I love Jourdan! We've always been the best of friends! But we haven't. Until recently, we barely even spoke. We went from being superclose in the beginning to dead silence if we saw each other backstage at a show. If we did say hi, it was hi, and that's it."

Jourdan , on the harsh realities of the industry:
"I remember last season I was about to go into a casting, and my agent phoned and said, 'Turn back. They decided they don't want any black models.' I was like, 'They're actually telling you that's the reason? Are you serious?!'"

Jourdan, on her unplanned pregnancy: "It was really hard. "All I could think about was what my mom was going to say, my agency, my boyfriend. When I told my mom, she started crying and blaming herself. She got pregnant with me at the same age, and she said, 'I don't want you to have to go through what I did.'"

Chanel, ON MOTHERHOOD: "No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog."

Chanel, on the future:"I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality. Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big. I think the best. Maybe I think too large."

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

London Fashion Week Parties

September is coming to an end, so that only means one thing - London Fashion Week! London Fashion Week hosts the best of British designers and their striking new styles presented on the British catwalk.

All week all photographer's lens' have been on the front rows of each fashion show catching the celebrities. Yet let us not forget the after parties...where would London Fashion Week be without the parties that follow it...