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Jourdan Dunn Interview (from tFs)

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A BUDDING SUPERMODEL

Jourdan Dunn's career is set to skyrocket

Article excerpted from modelsblog.info

She may be taking the fashion world by storm, and being invited to the most glamorous parties, but 17-year-old model Jourdan Dunn is taking it all in stride.

What the British teenager most looks forward to after a day’s catwalk shows is home cooking, lounging in front of the television, and her bed.

Dunn, from West London, was shopping for sunglasses when she was spotted last year by a scout for Storm, the agency that famously discovered Kate Moss.

Hailed as a supermodel-in-the making, she is one of a handful of internationally successful black models and has been taken under the wing of supermodel Naomi Campbell.

“The first time I met Naomi was backstage at a show and she said ‘Oh Jourdan… we definitely have to lunch some time’, Dunn told Reuters in an interview, admitting that she still gets star struck. “I was just smiling like a complete idiot.”

She said London Fashion Week is her favourite, as she gets to stay at home, eat home-cooked food and watch the British soap opera “East Enders”.

“I hate staying in models’ apartments… Most of (the models) are used to their mums running around after them and looking after them, so the house is a complete mess. I’m a clean person so it’s hard to cope with other people’s dirty habits. In fact, they’re so dirty, it attracts rodents,” Dunn said, adding that she discovered a mouse in the New York flat she shared with eight other models.

Although still a teenager, Dunn doesn’t do modelling just for fun — she is a career woman with a gruelling schedule.
With three five a.m. starts during London Fashion Week, she squeezed this interview in between her last catwalk show in London and her flight to Milan for the next round of shows.

Landing at eight p.m., she said she may even have a casting upon arrival. With New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks following one after another, it's always a non-stop round of castings, auditions and catwalk shows. After that whirlwind comes to an end, she does shoots for magazines and campaigns and models in one-off shows.

Dunn laughed at the idea that models may be ferried by taxi from one venue to another during fashion week - she said that instead they hop on the underground and hope navigation skills won’t fail them.

With fashion shows more often than not running late, it is a mad rush to get the models’ hair and makeup styled before the show.

“It’s crazy backstage, with hair and makeup, especially because my hair is different than most other models - sometimes it’s really difficult for them to do it,” she said.

“They are always putting different products on your hair… and it is always damaged at the end of the season,” said Dunn, who relies on her hairstylist cousin rather than expensive beauty salons to treat her dark brown mane.

In fact, she has changed few lifestyle habits since starting modeling; she still shops on the high street, wears trainers rather than high heels, and eats junk food.

“I am one of those lucky people who can eat anything and not put on weight,” Dunn said, steering clear of the size zero debate about ultra skinny models that has recently overshadowed the fashion industry.

Discussing the challenges posed by modelling, Dunn bemoaned the tiny shoes that have sometimes brought tears to her eyes, and laughed about the skimpy clothes.

“Maybe a few times my boobs have popped out of an outfit — but that happens.”

She also commented on the omnipresence of cameramen and photographers, who rush backstage before the show to witness the preparations, and afterwards to interview the designer while the models are getting changed.

“You will be getting your hair done, feeling really tired, closing your eyes — and then there is the flash and two photographers are in your face.”

On the plus side, the models often come away from shows with freebies such as designer bags, fragrances, clothes and even shoes.

“When I was in New York I had to buy an extra suitcase for freebies,” said Dunn, giggling.

Although Dunn may be living in the limelight at the moment, she doesn’t let success go to her head, and says she still hangs out with the same friends back home rather than other models.

As for the glamorous after-parties, they are all full of old people, aren’t they?

“I’m not really into after parties, I am only 17 and I feel like I’ll be with a bunch of people not my age.”

http://www.thefashionspot.com/front-row/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-budding-supermodel-1804

Is singing uh-oh on a Friday night...

Can I go home yet?

It's rainy here in the city... and I just want to curl up in my warm bed...

Zach's Style Spoof!

style icons with manuel schnatter from Zach Phillips on Vimeo.

This is really hilarious!! My friend Zach shot, cut and produced it... it's a pretty accurate account of people taking fashion (and themselves) a little too seriously!

Here's Zach info if you are interested in any film/production work...

zach phillips

315.396.7487

producer—scherzi studios
5818 e molloy rd.syracuse.ny.13211

adjunct professor—syracuse university
advertising design.viscom.the warehouse

creative director—the syracuse film company
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S.T.A.M.

Jessica Stam, who has been on the scene for awhile, is now becoming one of my favorite models - would love to see more of her personal style - and who's she's partying with... dating... etc... the usual fun stuff. Read below for her bio from Wikipedia:

Jessica Stam (born April 23, 1986), also known simply as Stam, is a Canadian model.

Stam was born in Kincardine, Ontario and grew up on a farm alongside her six brothers. She came from a religious family and attended Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton, Ontario. Her original intention was to become a dentist.

Stam was discovered in a local Tim Hortons coffee shop by Michèle Miller (an agent at the International Model Management agency in Barrie, Ontario) who found Stam on the way back from Canada's Wonderland (a theme park just outside Toronto).

Stam won the Los Angeles Model Look Search in 2002. Photographer Steven Meisel jump started her career and soon after cast her in every advertisement campaign of his.^{[citation needed]} "I guess I'm his muse", she has said. She has appeared on the cover of UK & German Vogue and in advertisements for Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Giorgio Armani, Vera Wang, Valentino, Miu Miu, Gucci, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace and Holt Renfrew, Dior, BCBG Max Azria, Lanvin, Roberto Cavalli, Bulgari, H&M and DKNY. In 2004, Stam appeared in the short film Agent Orange.

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs created The Marc Jacobs Stam, a bag inspired by and named after her. For the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2006 she opened the fourth runway theme "Pink". The appearance also included a featurette showing a Victoria's Secret commercial shoot and what a model sees when walking the runway. In the January 2006, she appeared in the Rochas ad campaign, shot and directed by Bruno Aveillan.

For Spring 2006 Ready-to-Wear, Stam walked a total of 64 shows combined during the New York, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks. During Paris's Spring/Summer 2007 Haute Couture fashion week she walked for Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and Jean Paul Gaultier. She currently stands at number four on the "Top 50 Models" rating at models.com. In the May 2007 issue of American Vogue she was featured on the cover with fellow models: Doutzen Kroes, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha, Hilary Rhoda, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of supermodels.

In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $1.5 million in the past 12 months, Forbes named her fifteenth in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels. Currently she stars in campaigns for Bulgari, Dior, Lanvin and Escada. She also appears in the F/W 2007 Christian Dior, DKNY, Miss Sixty, Loewe and Roberto Cavalli ad campaign. Last year in 2007 she had modelled for The Victoria's Secret runway show. For F/W 08 Stam can be seen in ads for Giorgio Armani "Onde" fragrance, Dolce & Gabbana and Bulgari.

In 2009 She returns as the face of Bulgari and in March she appears on the cover of Tokyo Numéro.

Stam is known for her trademark eyes, which are ice blue/gray. She is known for her casual cool type of walk. She has been in the group of models considered the "doll faces", alongside fellow models Gemma Ward, Vlada Roslyakova, Lily Cole, Caroline Trentini, Lisa Cant, Devon Aoki, and Heather Marks. She has a tattoo on her foot with Chinese writing, and also is known for her personality and for being a private person backstage.

Stam has had some public relationships with Harrison Ford's son Malcolm, Anthony Kiedis (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Adam Goldstein. In January 2006 she was photographed topless while frolicking with Kiedis on the Caribbean island of St. Barts. On January 12, 2006 she was photographed with him during a Los Angeles Lakers/Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They soon after broke up and shortly after she was seen dating Adam Goldstein for a short while in 2007.

She recently moved up in NYC and her new apartment has been said to be worth several million.

She has said the Paris runways are her favorite to walk: "It's the most beautiful city and I have friends who live here. Plus, by this point all the models have been together for a month so we're all pretty close. And of course, there's a glimpse of the end!"

She is currently working on getting her Pilot's license.

Spring trends and pieces to watch (and buy!)

Top of my list:
Nudes
Denim
Rompers
80's pieces
Vibrant-colored dresses

What's on your list?

My fav Gossip Girl: Leighton Meester

Here are some pics of Leighton (she plays "Blair" on Gossip Girl)... she's def my fav and I love her off-screen fashion... I've also posted a behind-the-scenes vid of their Rolling Stones cover shoot by my fav, Terry Richardson. Enjoy!!

Watch my episode on Winners The Series!!

Episode 3: Miley Cyrus from Wasted Potential on Vimeo.

This is a very guys-guys show! Very funny... let me know what you think!!!

http://www.winnerstheseries.com/

Spring forward.

I'm really into the nudes paired with denim with spring... you?