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Black Models: Teen Vogue Goes Where Vogue Will Not
The new December/January issue of Teen Vogue has Twilight's Kristen Stewart on the cover, and inside, a "Night Shift" photo shoot with not one but two black models. Big sister Vogue includes two black models — and Indian model Lakshmi Menon — in a jewelry story this month, and there are black models scattered through the magazine. But everyone knows that the big "get" for a model is a multiple-page fashion spread. Plus, Vogue has a way of making everyone look haughty and bored. In Teen Vogue, the two young ladies in the "Night Shift" are psyched! Alive! Happy! For some reason, even though I can barely afford anything they're wearing, I love them. Images after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': "You Really Have To Give Up Stuff"
Cato Van Ee has had the best season of the three models IMG picked to follow for this series. The agency must have known it had a surefire smash hit in Cato; coming off high-profile exclusives for Prada and Miu Miu the previous season, plus a cover of L'Officiel, it would take spectacular bungling on the part of either agent or model for her to not have had a stellar season. What's been served up is a kind of very managed portrait of an emergent supermodel—what the head of the IMG development board, David Cunningham, terms "A confirmed new star on the market—but, you know, I say 'star' in small letters." Clip above, and full recap of what's new with the Dutch beauty after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': "I Feel Like My Confidence, More And More. This Is My Place."
Where do the models go after fashion week? Model.Live, the never-ending web documentary, stays with its subjects to the bitter end. Austria, the beautiful Dominican who was 14 (until she signed with IMG!) has had a tough show season. The overt racism of the industry, her comically unhelpful mother agent/chaperone, Socrates McKinney, and the relentless travel schedule left her looking worn out and strangely sad at castings that rarely led to jobs. At home in Santo Domingo for its fashion week, Austria is aglow with happiness. Until she remembers she has to go back to New York and get to work again. Clip above, and recap, after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': "Shows Don't Even Pay. At All. Nothing. Zero. Zip."
I never know how I'm going to feel about "Model.Live." Some episodes, it tries so hard and achieves so little of interest, and then other weeks it's like they more or less just let the camera roll and the footage is effortlessly compelling. This time they find the sweet spot. Madeline, after a really tough show season, returns to New York to chase the elusive campaign dollar. She's joined by her Aussie boyfriend, Jimmy, to reflect on the mountain of debt she's racked up on her world tour. But they're young and in love and it's still warm out, so even the jeremiad has a jokey quality. They pass a mattress on the sidewalk, and Madeline calls out, "Hey, there's a mattress! We need a mattress." Then she books two days of work that she says pay better than the previous month of shows. Clip above, and recap after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': "Don't Change, Just Improve."
The new Model.Live is sort of a wrap-up of the show season that has just passed — and upon watching it, I realized this entire series has contained no surprises. We've witnessed the ascent of Cato Van Ee, which was foretold in her Prada/Miu Miu exclusive of six months ago. We've seen Madeline Kragh, who works successfully in secondary markets like Australia, sputter in the upper echelons like thousands of others (put yours truly in that group, too). We've seen Austria Alcantara, who looks so young and acts so shy, passed over for work on that basis, plus the equally predictable basis of her skin color. So, what, then, is there left to say at the not-quite-end of it all? Cato seizes an opportunity to make fun of herself and a scout/manager talking head spouts some mystical gibberish in the clip above and recap after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': "Everybody's So Sorry, And They Love Me, But Everybody Wants Cato."
This week on Model.Live, Cato, Austria, and Madeline reach Paris. And in the City of Lights, things go topsy-turvy. (Except for Cato. Cato still books everything. And gets reunited with Simon. Awww.) Austria gets a belated lecture on castings etiquette from her booker (the scene captures the essence of the peculiar mix of by-golly-just-be-confident boosterism and I-can't-believe-I-have-to-tell-you-this undermining that every booker seems to revel in). Madeline? Has this season's first genuine, extended, Why Do I Do This, Again? rant. Clip of her freak-out above and recap of the full episode after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': "Maybe The Clients Call You, Maybe They Don't. It's Just Like A Guy."
Fashion week — which really should be called fashion month, or fashion six weeks, or fashion long-enough-to-get-blisters-and-your-period — finally hit the Continent, and Vogue's Model.Live was there to bring you the highlights as experienced by three young models named Madeline, Cato, and Austria. And at last the series seems to be settling into a groove. After the jump, a recap of all the riveting modeling action, plus a clip above, which includes Cato's almost touchingly un-self-aware utterance of the line, "If I don't get it this time, you know, I already did Prada once." More » -
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Vogue's 'Model.Live': Crap Instructions From A Casting Agent
Another week, another fashion extravaganza to rush headlong into. London, the littlest fashion week, is in full swing as I type this, and Austria and Cato are here to show us how walking more than a dozen shows in six days is done. (Blister Band-Aids, your own eye makeup remover, and a big bottle of cheap conditioner plus the richest overpriced salon hair mask you can find — for combing out and repair, respectively.) Madeline? Never makes it onto British soil. Dum dum dum! Clip above, and recap after the jump. More » -
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Vogue's Model.Live Sets New Online Series Record For Time Taken To Jump The Shark
The latest episode of Model.Live could not have been a greater disappointment. After teasing us with promises of uncensored, unguarded behind-the-scenes dish, Vogue's reality series finally reaches New York Fashion Week — and dissolves into a simpering collection of jump-cuts and runway footage and generically exciting music. If there was ever a time I'd be willing to tolerate jaunty, more or less harmless fashion boosterism, now would be it; but I'm unhappy to be left contemplating empty-headed B-roll of the city that looks spliced from Project Runway and not much else of substance. More »
1:40 PM on Fri Sep 12 2008
By TatianaTheAnonymousModel
2,156 views, 7 commentsMost discussed bansaiiiiii: Did anyone else count four cabs rolling by behind that model? more »
