Hedi Slimane shares an extensive preview of his editorial featuring Ash Stymest for Vogue Hommes Japan # 1. Ash Stymest looks gorgeous and the pop colors.... work in a genius way with Slimane's aesthetic.

RED's Callum Turner

HEIGHT 188cm/6'2" CHEST 97cm/38" WAIST 76cm/30" EYES Blue SHOES 44 EU/10 US/9.5 UK
SUIT 96 cm/38"/48 SUIT LENGTH L COLLAR 37cm/14.5" HAIR Light Brown

The Supreme girl this season leaves the stark monochromatic shadows of the Downtown Underground and basks in the pure light of Spring while on her ashram retreat. Think seventies Berkeley undergrad at a commune, think artist’s colony, think organic and green and free spirited and you’re vibrating to the frequency emanated from Supreme’s S/S 09 package. What truly lifts Supreme’s aesthetic to a remarkably visionary place this season is an accompanying hardcover book of original artwork by a selection of artists ranging from Devendra Banhart to Ori Gersht, Milano Chow, Mariah Robertson, Joyce Kim, Alex Kopps, Chris Duncan and Patricia Iglesias. The genius of that is the distinct and personal vision Paul Rowland fosters around his girl is generously embedded in the imagery of this suite of artists, making the models more than models. The models become a part of a greater creative community which is really moving to witness. Generosity is the key word here, given the many passionate individuals from photographers (Chadwick Tyler, Hugh Lippe) to art directors (Common Space) to stylist (Nicholas Grasa). More than just a bunch of throwaway pictures of models, more than just a sales tool, Paul Rowland has given to the industry a kind gift of passion that is a labor of love. It is a remarkable achievement that is also frankly, a historic keepsake.

 

 

Marilyn hits the SS 09 show market with what just might be its best show package ever. A delicate and ethereal suite of original photographs by Glynis Selina Arban, commissioned exclusively for the package, highlights each girl in gorgeously wistful colors. The feeling is painterly, romantic and note perfect for Spring. Best of all, the lush printing renders each girl in as glossy, upscale fashion as possible. It clearly involved a tremendous amount of work and a tremendous amount of organization, but the results are distinctly beautiful. OTM especially loves the triptych imagery on the back of the cards, rendering the range of girls from blue chip stars like La Trentini to this season’s new editorial market leaders Arlenis and Eniko and last season’s paris Show week champion Liu Wen all the more enviable.

The beautiful belles of Ford flower into full bloom this Spring season, an unfolding visually expressed by the super-imposition of flowers onto the black and white images of the girls. The Ford global scouting machine is very powerful so a shrewd casting director would be well advised to call in Ford’s suite of new faces. There could a very major star nestled in here.

Elite Women Spring-Summer 2009 Model Show Package

Elite once loomed as the most glamorous agency in all of modeling with an aesthetic that reveled in beautiful women, heedless luxury and the jet set lifestyle. With Neal Hamil at the helm, that taste-point is back and this is the big message in this beautifully photographed S/S 09 package. Photographer Louis Christopher does an amazing job here in his unique portraits of each of the Elite girls (shot exclusively for the packaging). Models like the must-books (Alice Burdeu, Coco Rocha, Ali Stephens, Daul Kim) seem impossibly drop dead gorgeous and newcomers like Emma Beam and Laura Halm glower with a dynamic presence that burns the girls into your memory. We also love how thought out the card structure is. Gorgeous faces up front and a sell on the fabulous bodies (accent on the legs) on the back. In recent seasons Elite has proved itself to be a kind of champion in the New York breaking faces sweepstakes and already the S/S 09 series of girls has all the right clients on high alert. Here’s to the lusciousness of sheer, pure beauty.

VNY Spring-Summer 2009 Model Show Package

The VNY’s deck of “cards” highlights perfectly their stellar lineup of some of the top editorial/campaign stars working today. Sean O as the King of Spades, how perfect is that? With one of the strongest new faces boards in NYC (according to one top casting director), VNY looks sure to have some bonafide aces in the hole for S/S 09.

This season, clients sifting through the Major cards have the option of booking one of the most wanted girls on those blue chip European runways (Egle), a Vogue Italia cover girl (Sessilee), a breakthrough couture catwalker (Lee) and a much buzzed about first season face (Daniella De Jesus). Just the presence of girls of that caliber means the booking table at this agency will be going into serious overdrive. Add an incoming roster of never-before-seens like Maddi, Kai and Eva Marie and the sum total is an agency that has rocketed to the status of being a must-book shop. The beautifully desaturated black and white images of this package paired with a vintage script font speaks volumes about the class act Major has evolved into being and testifies to the relentless passion they have devoted to their models .

MAJOR's Kerry Degman is featured in the new issue of POP MAGAZINE giving his most expensive look. Its nice to see him outside of that Abercrombie & Fitch aesthetic .... and yes he is naked but its so chic - all very modern.

New images from the Calvin Klein Body ad campaign featuring model Garrett Neff (Click Models) . Photographer Bruce Weber

There is no denying the passion RED pumps behind Wendell Lissimore . The model burns up 16 pages in the current issue of DNA magazine. Lissimore crosses the role of a high fashion model and fitness model nicely.

Karl Lagerfeld has his own teddy bear. “Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them,” Lagerfeld tells W.