FASHION Magazine

Welcome to Model Minute–a quick chat with an up-and-coming model we love.

Name: Elyse Saunders

Agency: Ford Models

Where you’ve seen her: She has appeared on the cover of L’Officiel and walked the runway for designers like Luca Luca, Ruffian, Jeremy Laing, Erin Fetherston and Trovata.

For once it’s not Britney! Model Kendra Spears and her agency Next are in a legal fray with Ford, the agency who discovered her. [fashionologie.com] The latest on the Jack McCollough/Kiefer Sutherland headbutt scandal: the actor turns himself in. [cityfile.com] Check out the looks from H&M’s Divided Exclusive collection for Fall 2009: studs, leather… and […]

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Happy Chanel Day! Watch the new Audrey Tautou commercial to celebrate. [Via Now Smell This]

Alternately, you could celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Stylewise, it’s really either/or. [Refinery 29]

Oh, and the Met Costume Institute Ball was last night. We couldn’t go, so New York had to pinch hit for us. Thanks guys. [The Cut]

Welcome to Model Minute–a quick chat with an up-and-coming model we love.

Name: Kate Somers

Agency: Ford Models

Where you’ve seen her: Kate has walked the runways for top designers like Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen and Sonia Rykiel. She has appeared in Teen Vogue and on the cover of Dazed & Confused and in campaigns for Lord & Taylor and Lacoste.

Welcome to Model Minute–a quick chat with an up-and-coming model we love.

Name: Kim M.
Agency: Elite
Where you’ve seen her: Kim has appeared in Mixte and Numéro and on the cover of L’Officiel. She has walked the Spring ’09 runways for Nicole Miller and Tuleh and is currently starring in ads for streetwear label Lady Dutch.

Welcome to Model Minute–a quick chat with an up-and-coming model we love.

Name: Addison Gill
Agency: Sutherland Models
Where You’ve Seen Her: Addison has appeared in V Magazine (after winning their model search last year) and walked the Fall 2009 runways for the likes of Calvin Klein, Aquilano.Rimondi and Giambattista Valli.

Welcome to Model Minute–a quick chat with an up-and-coming model we love.

Name: Emmanuelle (but she goes by Emma)

Agency: Sutherland Models

What’s the craziest thing that has happened to you at a shoot?
I was shooting with Sev Seven in rapids and I had to lie upside down on inclined rocks, hair in the water. It was pretty intense!

Hurrah! Opening Ceremony opens online so you can get these Nikes. [Fashionista, Gifted]

Michelle Obama, and possibly the recession, seems to be inspiring more grown-up looks on the catwalk. What’s the term for that? A bildungsrunway?  [WSJ]

Coco Rocha is having more fun than you, blondie. [NYMag]

First: New York Fashion Week starts today. Our own Sarah Casselman hops on a plane tomorrow. She’ll be filing daily updates from the shows so tune in at fashionmagazine.com/attheshows.

In what may be the least outrageous interview Karl Lagerfeld has ever given, the luxury designer says he is not a fan of luxury shopping on the Internet. [WWD, via NYMag]

How does one keep up? Models are changing their hair left right and centre: Ali Stephens and Coco have both gone short and now Ikeliene Stange has gone blonde. At least we can still count on Agyness Deyn. [Modelinia, Oh So Coco, Hint]

For Chanel’s exclusive spring accessories catalogue, Karl Lagerfeld was inspired by Léa de Lonval (a Mrs. Robinson-esque character from Colette’s Chéri). The star? The intimable Jerry Hall wooing an inappropriately young Turk. We’ve got more shots after the jump.

For our money, Natasha Poly has the best legs going. Don’t believe us? Check out these shots from the Jil Sander spring campaign. [Fashiononlogie]

On the opposite end: Jane Birkin progeny and girl-about-Paris, Lou Doillon, looks dreamy for Vanessa Bruno. [Refinery 29]

Want to see Michelle Obama on the cover of Vogue? Of course you do. [WSJ]

It’s wasn’t hard to imagine at least one of the tall, leggy girls standing in line at Toronto’s Fairview Mall to audition for Canada’s Next Top Model as the latest Daria, Stam or Coco. And thankfully Elmer Olsen was there to guide the producers, potential models and us, through who might be the lucky winner […]

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