Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Elissa Cannelle
Makeup: Lili Choi
Hair:Martyn Foss Calder
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
French Elle March 19, 2010 cover: Behati Prinsloo, ph: Kayt Jones
French Elle March 19, 2010 cover
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Elissa Cannelle
Makeup: Lili Choi
Hair:Martyn Foss Calder
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Elissa Cannelle
Makeup: Lili Choi
Hair:Martyn Foss Calder
Purple Magazine: Behati Prinsloo + Mark Gonzales, ph: Ari Marcopoulos
Ari Marcopoulos photographed Behati Prinsloo & Mark Gonzales for a Purple Magazine editorial in New York with stylist Heathermary Jackson
Purple Magazine Editorial
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Ari Marcopoulos
Stylist: Heathermary Jackson
Makeup: Romy Soleimani
Hair: Holli Smith
Purple Magazine Editorial
Model: Behati Prinsloo
Photographer: Ari Marcopoulos
Stylist: Heathermary Jackson
Makeup: Romy Soleimani
Hair: Holli Smith
March 2010 Russian Elle Cover - Anne Vyalitsyna, ph: Joshua Jordan
Joshua Jordan photographed Anne Vyalitsyna for an the March 2010 cover of Russian Elle on December 10, 2009 in New York with stylist Ekaterina Mukhina.
March 2010 Russian Elle Cover
Model: Anne Vyalitsyna
Photographer: Joshua Jordan
Stylist: Ekaterina Mukhina
Makeup: Fabiola
Hair: Fred Vandebunt
March 2010 Russian Elle Cover
Model: Anne Vyalitsyna
Photographer: Joshua Jordan
Stylist: Ekaterina Mukhina
Makeup: Fabiola
Hair: Fred Vandebunt
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Easter Cake Wreck.
I actually don't agree that all of them are cake wrecks, but this one is terrifying and awesomely cake wrecky.
Cake Wrecks: Easter? Is That You?
Cake Wrecks: Easter? Is That You?
Monday, March 29, 2010
Karen Elson in the NY Times
From: The New York Times:
Karen Elson Is Dressing the Part, and Singing It
By MELENA RYZIK
LIFE is unfair and everybody knows it, but should you require a refresher, you need only to watch Karen Elson, the redheaded supermodel, design muse and wife of Jack White of the White Stripes, sing.
There she was Monday night at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village, performing songs from her debut album in a voice that can go from retro-breathy chanteuse to rootsy belter in a few notes. It was the fourth stop in a whirlwind mini-tour that included Nashville, where she and Mr. White live with their two children, and Austin, Tex., where she played at the South by Southwest music festival. The shows were intended to introduce Ms. Elson as more than just a pretty face, or even a pretty voice, but as an artist in her own right.
At each gig she took the stage in a peach-dyed vintage gown and a 1917 Gibson Style O guitar to give a preview of her album, “The Ghost Who Walks,” which was produced by her rock star husband (who plays the drums on it) and is due out May 25.
At the New York show, a homecoming of sorts, the audience was filled with fashion and music folk: the bassist Melissa Auf der Maur; Agyness Deyn, the model and tastemaker; Grace Coddington, the Vogue editor. The latter sat close enough that Ms. Elson could banter with her about her coral suede shoes, a namesake pair — the Karen — made for her by Tabitha Simmons, also of Vogue.
Mr. White was not there — he is touring in Australia with the Dead Weather, some of whose members also moonlight for Ms. Elson. Her bandmates include Mark Watrous (who has also played with the Raconteurs, another of Mr. White’s bands) on fiddle and pedal steel guitar, and Jackson Smith — son of Patti and husband to Meg White — on electric. The video for the album’s title song, in which Ms. Elson alone sings and strums while her band stands around in the shadows, has already racked up more than 54,000 YouTube views.
This is not the way most bands get their start. But far from discounting her modeling career and famous collaborators, Ms. Elson is straightforward about the advantages they confer.
“If I wasn’t a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, ‘I don’t have to work right now, I can sit and make my record,’ ” she said the morning after the Poisson Rouge show, over several coffees at the Breslin in the Ace Hotel. Though she has long been musically minded, “I could never have made this record five years ago,” she said. “This record only could have been made with Jack.” They were married in 2005.
Ms. Elson is hardly the first model to take up with a musician, or to aspire to make the transition from runway to stage. Recording an album is an ambition that stretches back at least as far as Twiggy, more recently attracting catwalk legends like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. (Surely you remember “La La La Love Song”?)
“After Carla Bruni, I expect every model to pick up a guitar,” said Dmitry Komis, a curator and writer who came to the Poisson Rouge show with the designer Zaldy, who styles the Scissor Sisters and who named Ms. Elson as one of his muses. (“She’s so down-to-earthy,” he said.)
Ms. Elson, 31, picked up a guitar — and a four-track — nearly a decade ago when she was living in the East Village, and taught herself to play. Since 2004, she has performed with the Citizens Band, a political cabaret act she helped establish. Before she left her hometown near Manchester, England, to model at 16, she fronted a salsa band.
“I was always singing, as a kid,” she said. “That’s honestly all I’ve ever wanted to do. But really, I doubt I would have ever done it” if not for modeling.
Growing up in “a sleepy, grim, Northern English town,” she said, “there was nothing expected of me. You grew up, you got married, you had kids, and maybe you worked in the supermarket. You didn’t have any aspirations to anything grand.”
Ms. Elson’s fashion career is beyond grand; she has walked or posed for nearly every major designer and photographer, carried campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel, graced countless magazine covers and really no longer needs a last name.
So despite the musical credentials, she must now battle an attitude succinctly summed up by a fan at one of her Austin shows. “She’s great,” he said as Ms. Elson sang in a tiny pop-up shop for Third Man, Mr. White’s record label. “I mean, look at her. Look at her!”
Told of the comment, Ms. Elson shrugged it off. “You know, models, people roll their eyes,” she said. She herself was one of them. “I for years just believed that this had to be a personal project,” she said of her music. She feared ridicule: “like it’s like me trying to get more attention. I was cautious because if there’s something bad out there, it’s doubly as bad because you’re a model. It’s like, oh, stick to the day job.”
Now she is in the position of both being in thrall to her looks — because they’re a big part of what makes people interested in her — and pushing against them.
Her album leans toward dark, spare Americana in instrumentation and themes. Ms. Elson wrote the guitar parts and lyrics, and the band and Mr. White did the rest. Ms. Elson said she listened to Harry Smith’s Smithsonian folk anthology for inspiration. Onstage, eyes closed, she weaves like a 1960s folkie.
The title track comes from a nickname she had as a child — Ms. Elson says she was teased about her appearance — but the story is even more gruesome: it’s about a man who murders his lover. “Have you ever been in a relationship where you see a gleam in the person’s eye you’re with and it’s like, wow, you’re scary, you hate me?” she said. “Pre-Jack, there was a lot of anxiety even the men I was dating had, about me being a model or maybe me earning more money than them.”
She credited living in Nashville with helping her gain perspective. She and Mr. White set up house there five years ago and have two children: Scarlett, 3, and Henry, 2.
She wrote the album largely in her walk-in closet and recorded it with Mr. White and friends in their backyard studio. (Real estate is unfair, too.)
Still, Ms. Elson said, South by Southwest, with all the insiders and hype, was daunting. “Put with all the industry types and like, ‘All right girl, sing’ — it very much felt like that, like, O.K., I’ve got to prove myself,” she said.
Mr. White did not respond to requests for comment. But he has been hands-on in the album’s marketing, said Kris Chen, a vice president at XL Recordings, which is releasing “The Ghost Who Walks” with Mr. White’s label. But the album “was carried by her voice,” Mr. Chen said.
Asked who the audience is for her music, Ms. Elson said, “I have no idea.” Still, she plans to tour, likely without Mr. White. “Getting my sea legs, that’s I how I describe it.”
Ms. Elson doesn’t expect to give up modeling. “I think that would be really pretentious — ‘I’m sorry, I’m now a musician,’ ” she said. “Other than viewing them as the golden handcuffs, I might as well just appreciate it. I only hope I can improve the idea of model-slash-anything. I only hope I can do it justice.”
Karen Elson Is Dressing the Part, and Singing It
By MELENA RYZIK
LIFE is unfair and everybody knows it, but should you require a refresher, you need only to watch Karen Elson, the redheaded supermodel, design muse and wife of Jack White of the White Stripes, sing.
There she was Monday night at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village, performing songs from her debut album in a voice that can go from retro-breathy chanteuse to rootsy belter in a few notes. It was the fourth stop in a whirlwind mini-tour that included Nashville, where she and Mr. White live with their two children, and Austin, Tex., where she played at the South by Southwest music festival. The shows were intended to introduce Ms. Elson as more than just a pretty face, or even a pretty voice, but as an artist in her own right.
At each gig she took the stage in a peach-dyed vintage gown and a 1917 Gibson Style O guitar to give a preview of her album, “The Ghost Who Walks,” which was produced by her rock star husband (who plays the drums on it) and is due out May 25.
At the New York show, a homecoming of sorts, the audience was filled with fashion and music folk: the bassist Melissa Auf der Maur; Agyness Deyn, the model and tastemaker; Grace Coddington, the Vogue editor. The latter sat close enough that Ms. Elson could banter with her about her coral suede shoes, a namesake pair — the Karen — made for her by Tabitha Simmons, also of Vogue.
Mr. White was not there — he is touring in Australia with the Dead Weather, some of whose members also moonlight for Ms. Elson. Her bandmates include Mark Watrous (who has also played with the Raconteurs, another of Mr. White’s bands) on fiddle and pedal steel guitar, and Jackson Smith — son of Patti and husband to Meg White — on electric. The video for the album’s title song, in which Ms. Elson alone sings and strums while her band stands around in the shadows, has already racked up more than 54,000 YouTube views.
This is not the way most bands get their start. But far from discounting her modeling career and famous collaborators, Ms. Elson is straightforward about the advantages they confer.
“If I wasn’t a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, ‘I don’t have to work right now, I can sit and make my record,’ ” she said the morning after the Poisson Rouge show, over several coffees at the Breslin in the Ace Hotel. Though she has long been musically minded, “I could never have made this record five years ago,” she said. “This record only could have been made with Jack.” They were married in 2005.
Ms. Elson is hardly the first model to take up with a musician, or to aspire to make the transition from runway to stage. Recording an album is an ambition that stretches back at least as far as Twiggy, more recently attracting catwalk legends like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. (Surely you remember “La La La Love Song”?)
“After Carla Bruni, I expect every model to pick up a guitar,” said Dmitry Komis, a curator and writer who came to the Poisson Rouge show with the designer Zaldy, who styles the Scissor Sisters and who named Ms. Elson as one of his muses. (“She’s so down-to-earthy,” he said.)
Ms. Elson, 31, picked up a guitar — and a four-track — nearly a decade ago when she was living in the East Village, and taught herself to play. Since 2004, she has performed with the Citizens Band, a political cabaret act she helped establish. Before she left her hometown near Manchester, England, to model at 16, she fronted a salsa band.
“I was always singing, as a kid,” she said. “That’s honestly all I’ve ever wanted to do. But really, I doubt I would have ever done it” if not for modeling.
Growing up in “a sleepy, grim, Northern English town,” she said, “there was nothing expected of me. You grew up, you got married, you had kids, and maybe you worked in the supermarket. You didn’t have any aspirations to anything grand.”
Ms. Elson’s fashion career is beyond grand; she has walked or posed for nearly every major designer and photographer, carried campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel, graced countless magazine covers and really no longer needs a last name.
So despite the musical credentials, she must now battle an attitude succinctly summed up by a fan at one of her Austin shows. “She’s great,” he said as Ms. Elson sang in a tiny pop-up shop for Third Man, Mr. White’s record label. “I mean, look at her. Look at her!”
Told of the comment, Ms. Elson shrugged it off. “You know, models, people roll their eyes,” she said. She herself was one of them. “I for years just believed that this had to be a personal project,” she said of her music. She feared ridicule: “like it’s like me trying to get more attention. I was cautious because if there’s something bad out there, it’s doubly as bad because you’re a model. It’s like, oh, stick to the day job.”
Now she is in the position of both being in thrall to her looks — because they’re a big part of what makes people interested in her — and pushing against them.
Her album leans toward dark, spare Americana in instrumentation and themes. Ms. Elson wrote the guitar parts and lyrics, and the band and Mr. White did the rest. Ms. Elson said she listened to Harry Smith’s Smithsonian folk anthology for inspiration. Onstage, eyes closed, she weaves like a 1960s folkie.
The title track comes from a nickname she had as a child — Ms. Elson says she was teased about her appearance — but the story is even more gruesome: it’s about a man who murders his lover. “Have you ever been in a relationship where you see a gleam in the person’s eye you’re with and it’s like, wow, you’re scary, you hate me?” she said. “Pre-Jack, there was a lot of anxiety even the men I was dating had, about me being a model or maybe me earning more money than them.”
She credited living in Nashville with helping her gain perspective. She and Mr. White set up house there five years ago and have two children: Scarlett, 3, and Henry, 2.
She wrote the album largely in her walk-in closet and recorded it with Mr. White and friends in their backyard studio. (Real estate is unfair, too.)
Still, Ms. Elson said, South by Southwest, with all the insiders and hype, was daunting. “Put with all the industry types and like, ‘All right girl, sing’ — it very much felt like that, like, O.K., I’ve got to prove myself,” she said.
Mr. White did not respond to requests for comment. But he has been hands-on in the album’s marketing, said Kris Chen, a vice president at XL Recordings, which is releasing “The Ghost Who Walks” with Mr. White’s label. But the album “was carried by her voice,” Mr. Chen said.
Asked who the audience is for her music, Ms. Elson said, “I have no idea.” Still, she plans to tour, likely without Mr. White. “Getting my sea legs, that’s I how I describe it.”
Ms. Elson doesn’t expect to give up modeling. “I think that would be really pretentious — ‘I’m sorry, I’m now a musician,’ ” she said. “Other than viewing them as the golden handcuffs, I might as well just appreciate it. I only hope I can improve the idea of model-slash-anything. I only hope I can do it justice.”
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Workshop Photos
Last weekend I had the special treat of a quick trip to Washington DC and Annapolis. I visited with my college friend and fellow photographer, Jan Graves, and together we attended a workshop led by my favorite wedding photographer, Susan Stripling. If you're unfamiliar with Susan's work and her amazing use of light, check it out here. Meanwhile, here is a sampling of some photos from our shooting session.Friday, March 26, 2010
Fauxhemian (a.k.a. Hipster) hair for girls.
Speaking of infographics, this one made me laugh.
And now for a non-newsy PSA: Hipster hair for girls requires the 50% bangs to 50% ratio, as seen on Zooey Deschanel above. The more you know — cue shooting star graphic.
Flavorwire :: Hipster Headlines: Fauxhemian, Big Bangs and Health Care
And now for a non-newsy PSA: Hipster hair for girls requires the 50% bangs to 50% ratio, as seen on Zooey Deschanel above. The more you know — cue shooting star graphic.
Flavorwire :: Hipster Headlines: Fauxhemian, Big Bangs and Health Care
Cartie eau de Cartier fragrance campaign: Shannan Click, ph: Matthew Brookes
Matthew Brookes photographed Shannan Click for Cartier eau de Cartier fragrance on September 23, 2009 in Paris.
Cartier eau de Cartier Fragrance
Model: Shannan Click
Photographer: Matthew Brookes
Cartier eau de Cartier Fragrance
Model: Shannan Click
Photographer: Matthew Brookes
What I'm Reading
A Glimpse of the Eternal
a sparrow lighted
on a pine bough
right outside
my bedroom window
and a puff of yellow pollen
flew away.
After Years
Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
fell in the Cumberlands, holding only
a handful of leaves, and an old woman
scattering corn to her chickens looked up
for an instant. At the other side
of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times
the size of our own sun exploded
and vanished, leaving a small green spot
on the astronomer's retina
as he stood in the great open dome
of my heart with no one to tell.
From the delightful collection of poetry by US Poet Laureate - Ted Kooser
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Ms. Ward wallpaper.
Quite possibly the weirdest wallpaper I've ever seen, but read about it below. So cool.
Mary Ward (1827-1869) was encouraged to nurture her love of nature from a young age. Born into to a renowned scientific family in Co. Offaly, Ireland, she was educated at home with her sisters and by the age of three had developed a penchant for collecting bugs.
These insects became the subject of study for Mary, and with the help of a magnifying glass she began meticulously drawing and reproducing their details. By a stroke of luck, astronomer James South discovered the drawings, and was so impressed with her talent that he persuaded her father to invest in a microscope.
This opportunity was a turning point in Mary's life. Owning her own microscope allowed her to transform her love of insects into full-blown, self-taught microscopy. She spent her time reading everything she could get her hands on regarding the subject, and became so skilled that her knowledge surpassed that of most experts. Over the years she wrote a series of books, of which A World of Wonders Revealed by the Microscope (1858) was reprinted eight times. It became a go-to student text in the field of microscopy, which considering her sex, is truly representative of her talent.
Further distinctions include her work as an illustrator for scientific publications, and her significant status as one of just three female recipients of the Royal Astronomical Society's newsletter (of the other two women, one was Queen Victoria).
True to her love of scale, this pattern blends late-Georgian silhouettes with over-sized insects; an entomologist's dream.
collection - grow house grow! a story for every storey
(via design*sponge)
Mary Ward (1827-1869) was encouraged to nurture her love of nature from a young age. Born into to a renowned scientific family in Co. Offaly, Ireland, she was educated at home with her sisters and by the age of three had developed a penchant for collecting bugs.
These insects became the subject of study for Mary, and with the help of a magnifying glass she began meticulously drawing and reproducing their details. By a stroke of luck, astronomer James South discovered the drawings, and was so impressed with her talent that he persuaded her father to invest in a microscope.
This opportunity was a turning point in Mary's life. Owning her own microscope allowed her to transform her love of insects into full-blown, self-taught microscopy. She spent her time reading everything she could get her hands on regarding the subject, and became so skilled that her knowledge surpassed that of most experts. Over the years she wrote a series of books, of which A World of Wonders Revealed by the Microscope (1858) was reprinted eight times. It became a go-to student text in the field of microscopy, which considering her sex, is truly representative of her talent.
Further distinctions include her work as an illustrator for scientific publications, and her significant status as one of just three female recipients of the Royal Astronomical Society's newsletter (of the other two women, one was Queen Victoria).
True to her love of scale, this pattern blends late-Georgian silhouettes with over-sized insects; an entomologist's dream.
collection - grow house grow! a story for every storey
(via design*sponge)
i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Paola Kudacki, stylist: Havana Laffitte
Paola Kudacki photographed Mariacarla Boscono for an i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial on December 6-7, 2009 in New York with stylist Havana Laffitte.
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Paola Kudacki
Stylist: Havana Laffitte
Makeup: Tyron Machhausen
Hair: Peter Gray
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Paola Kudacki
Stylist: Havana Laffitte
Makeup: Tyron Machhausen
Hair: Peter Gray
French Connection Kick-Ass T-Shirt.
The design's a little tired, but the quote made me laugh, and almost nothing about FCUK makes me laugh. Nicely done, French Connection.
FRENCH CONNECTION - Kick-Ass The Movie T-Shirts
FRENCH CONNECTION - Kick-Ass The Movie T-Shirts
i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Willy Vanderperre, stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Daniel Jackson photographed Mariacarla Boscono for an i-D Magazine spring 2010 editorial on December 1, 2009 in Paris with stylist Olivier Rizzo.
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Willy Vanderperre
Stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Paul Hanlon
i-D Magazine Spring 2010 Editorial
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Willy Vanderperre
Stylist: Olivier Rizzo
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Paul Hanlon
The Last Magazine spring 2010 Cover: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Daniel Jackson
Daniel Jackson photographed Mariacarla Boscono for The Last Magazine spring 2010 cover on December 5, 2009 in New York with stylist Alastair McKimm .
The Last Magazine Spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Daniel Jackson
Stylist: Alastair McKimm
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Kevin Ryan
The Last Magazine Spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Daniel Jackson
Stylist: Alastair McKimm
Makeup: Sally Branka
Hair: Kevin Ryan
Muse Magazine Spring 2010 cover: Mariacarla Boscono, ph: Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson photographed Mariacarla Boscono for the Muse Magazine spring 2010 Cover on December 4, 2009 in New York with stylist Leslie Lessin.
Muse Magazine spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Stylist: Leslie Lessin
Makeup: Frank B
Hair: Peter Gray
Muse Magazine spring 2010 Cover
Model:Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Stylist: Leslie Lessin
Makeup: Frank B
Hair: Peter Gray
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Thank You Bag.
I love the bag itself, but I love the product description even more. I wish more products had a rationale.
Thank You Bag
by Ina Weise
I’m not crazy about telling everyone not to use plastic bags. I know they can be very useful. But since I’ve been living in the US it is very hard to ignore the mass amounts of plastic bags everywhere. Everyone keeps them stuffed into one that hangs from the pantry door. They line trash bins. They carry food even if it is just a single pack of gum. They flutter from trees. They float in the breeze. They clog roadside drains. There are so many everywhere that no one really treats them as if they’re worth anything.
Give your shopping bag a little meaning, make it worth something. That’s why I made these. They are hand sewn from white bottomweight fabric and the red “thank you” screen print actually means “Thank You”. Thank you for using this bag instead of a thousand plastic bags, thank you for washing it and reusing it.
The bags are made to order and available in black also!
The Post Family Store
Thank You Bag
by Ina Weise
I’m not crazy about telling everyone not to use plastic bags. I know they can be very useful. But since I’ve been living in the US it is very hard to ignore the mass amounts of plastic bags everywhere. Everyone keeps them stuffed into one that hangs from the pantry door. They line trash bins. They carry food even if it is just a single pack of gum. They flutter from trees. They float in the breeze. They clog roadside drains. There are so many everywhere that no one really treats them as if they’re worth anything.
Give your shopping bag a little meaning, make it worth something. That’s why I made these. They are hand sewn from white bottomweight fabric and the red “thank you” screen print actually means “Thank You”. Thank you for using this bag instead of a thousand plastic bags, thank you for washing it and reusing it.
The bags are made to order and available in black also!
The Post Family Store
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