Gisele Bundchen shows us what’s what on French Vogue
What better way to launch your health initiative than with a photograph of Gisele Bundchen’s butt cheeks? If that’s not body inspiration, I don’t know what is . . .
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Michaela Kocianova covers Elle Czech June 2012
This is one of the best magazine covers I’ve seen in a long time – I may not speak the language but, Elle Czech, I would totally buy you. Image via Fashion Copious.
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Competition: win a €100 voucher for Jervis with Jervis’s Top Model search
Jervis Shopping Centre is currently running a model search, in association with 1st Option Models, to find Ireland’s next top model – every day until May 16th, contestants can enter between 12pm and 5pm in the centre by recording a video audition.The top 10, as voted for by the public on Jervis’s Facebook page, will strut their stuff in a catwalk show in Jervis on May 19th and the winner will be chosen by Brendan Courtney.
To celebrate the launch of the competition, which offers as its prize a contract with 1st Option, a €300 shopping spree in Jervis and a double-page spread in U magazine, Jervis is offering one lucky Fash Mob reader a €100 voucher for the shopping centre!
To enter, leave a comment below! But first, make sure you like Fash Mob on Facebook, Jervis on Facebook and either share or tweet about the competition – easy! This competition will close on Wednesday, May 16th at midnight.
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Mango A/W 2012
Mango has produced its A/W 2012 lookbook, starring Anna Selezneva and looking really quite brilliant – I’d have pegged this for an editorial in Glamour or Elle if I hadn’t seen it headlined as a Mango lookbook. My only problem with it – and yes, I’m being picky – is that I feel like the items are a little too current. Will I still want beige flared jeans in autumn? Who knows; my heart is as fickle as the fashion calendar.
I find myself, of late, with several questions playing on my mind. (I was going to say “conundrums” because I really like the word “conundrum” but then I thought: is it “conundrums” or “conundra?” Answers on a postcard.) Reproducing fashion shoots has become almost moot; with Pinterest, I can merely pin the photographs I like and direct other people to explore them more fully via the link created by the pin (I know, head spinning …). So I find myself pinning far more often than I save images – whereas, in the past, I used to frequently save images and reproduce entire shoots.
But what do you, my loyal readers, want? Do you want shoots? Do you want news? Do you want lookbooks, such as this one? (Although it will surely have been forgotten by the time autumn/winter rolls around and I will have to do a Mango refresher course.) Are you on Pinterest? Or Twitter? Or Facebook? Would you rather have one place for everything (I’m hoping that, if you say yes, you mean this blog)?
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Vogue makes commitment to health in beauty
I suppose you’ve heard about the announcement – that Vogue (all 19 editions of it) has pledged not to use underage, that is, girls under 16, models, nor to use models they believe to have an eating disorder, in an attempt to address the links between fashion and eating disorders.
The Guardian has the full news story here. Though I acknowledge that this is, by and large, a positive step, once again I can’t help but question this “ownership” of women’s bodies . . . but that is a broader question and perhaps not one that can be answered in the context of fashion magazines. I would like to know how they judge which models “appear” to have an eating disorder. Abbey Lee Kershaw, for example? Or what about Sasha Pivovarova? Or even their beloved Karlie Kloss?
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Sugar High by Mario Ardi for Design Scene
I love this sweeter-than-candy shoot. There’s something so 1990s Just Seventeen magazine about it, from the perfect pink lips to the straight brows and the just perfect hair! I love that her hair doesn’t look real; it looks as if it’s been coated in candy floss. Amazing shoot for Design Scene.
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Coco Rocha slams Elle Brazil for making her look naked
As a high fashion model I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photo shoots. For my recent Elle Brazil cover shoot I wore a body suit under a sheer dress which I now find was photoshopped out to give the impression of me showing much more skin than I was, or am comfortable with. This was specifically against my expressed verbal and written direction to the entire team that they not do so. I’m extremely disappointed that my wishes and contract was ignored. I strongly believe very model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented. - Coco Rocha
What do you think about Coco Rocha’s nudity manifesto? Though I personally find it surprising that a high fashion model has such a clause – and would appreciate it if Kate Moss would consider the same – I find it appalling that her wishes were ignored in such a manner. Why not just use another model, if this was the look they were going for? If they wanted Coco Rocha, they should have taken Coco Rocha – as much or as little as she wanted to give them. Thoughts, please.
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Finally! I love having curly hair!
But really, I’m sure it’ll be short-lived. Via Fashion Gone Rogue.
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Is this high fashion?
This pic of Hanne Gaby Odiele has done the rounds in a serious way since fashion week – apparently we’re meant to admire Hanne’s “killer” personal style and her “enviable” pins, and ignore the fact that she looks like a child dressed up in her mother’s sportswear.
I could write platitudes about how fashion needs to take some steps to show women who are women – and, in saying that, I’m not attempting to bash women who are naturally skinny – and stop promoting a body image that is, for 99 per cent of us, unattainable, not to mention harmful in and of itself. But I shall resist the urge and open it up to the floor: do these pictures say “fashion” to you? What do they say?
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Terry Richardson shoots H&M’s Conscious collection
You can’t swing a cat these days without bumping into Terry Richardson – now the man with the devillish plan has turned his hand to H&M‘s Conscious collection, starring Constance Jablonski, Edita Villeviciute, Toni Garrn and Karmen Pedarru. See the rest of the shots here.
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