"I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.", - Kate Moss Options

[misoshiru]

no wonder I couldn't find her in any shows. it's like RIRI walking for...was it dolce&gabbana this season? i don't remember.

[Djlunatix]

Nice to see a topic of favorite models that DIDN'T come from America's Next Top Model.

Some of my favorites are:

Kasia Struss :


Elyse Taylor:


and Anna Mikhaylik:


I don't think modeling is all about beauty. Its the presence you bring to the run way that makes you well known.

[misoshiru]

ANTM doesn't produce any models

[Gigi]

^ The only successful ANTM model I can think of is Elyse from season 1. At least she gets print work without the help of CoverGirl or Tyra. She works almost entirely in Asia, though. Hong Kong, to be exact.

Also: Petra is overrated. Hello? Girl got caught in a hurricane. It's horrible and all, I know, but when did that become a prerequisite to be a successful model?

[*Steven*]

My favorite model is the mirror

[misoshiru]

I love Elyse. Okay, correct that, 99% of the time, ANTM does not produce models.

[misoshiru]

babump.


I wanted to post this. Style.com's Top 10 S/S 08 Collections.


Balenciaga
Another master class in extreme cutting and exaggerated silhouettes—pronounced shoulders, tiny waists, abbreviated hems—from Nicolas Ghesquière, this time in lush, gorgeous florals. Wearable? Yes, for the brave. Others have only to wait a season or two until the designer's ideas trickle down, as they inevitably do.


Dolce & Gabbana
After last season's S&M romp, Dolce & Gabbana worked out the kinks, whipping up frothy, fifties-style tulle dresses hand-painted with abstract flowers. A fresh, sweet, and utterly covetable collection from the longtime practitioners of in-your-face sex appeal.


Dries van Noten
Dries Van Noten pushed his arty aesthetic a step further, layering as many as five different prints, mostly florals, onto one dress, jacket, or of-the-moment pajama pant. It made for a vibrant, Technicolor lineup, and one of his most accomplished collections ever.


Lanvin
In a season in which wearability often came second to fantasy or fetishism, Alber Elbaz turned out one light, easy, billowy reimagined goddess dress after another, and in polyester, no less. The tuxedos weren't too shabby, either. These were real-life clothes made really chic.


Marc Jacobs
Transparency, boudoir dressing, surrealism, footballers' wives—Marc Jacobs used those tropes and more in a collection that for all its kooky eclecticism was essentially about sex. And like his subject matter, it got everyone talking.
imo: I hated Marc Jacobs and also what he did to Louis Vuitton.


Marios Shwab
This on-the-rise London designer turned out a collection that united two of the season's top trends: watercolor florals and sculptural silhouettes. But it takes a unique mind to dream up those viscerally beautiful body-heat-generated prints.


Narcisco Rodriguez
With a multimillion-dollar cash influx from Liz Claiborne at his disposal, Narciso Rodriguez was back on his game, infusing his precision seaming and exacting cuts with a fresh sportiness on the one hand—think "ninja" jackets—and a new sense of luxury on the other. Top marks for the violet finale dress scattered with caviar beading.


Prada
Miuccia Prada's collection of fairy-dusted pajama sets was one part Art Nouveau, another part seventies-era Ossie Clark and Biba, and an utter surprise after last season's strange treatise on the natural/man-made divide. But, then, that's what makes hers such an important, influential voice.


Ralph Lauren
Followed by a grand fête in Central Park's Conservatory Garden, Ralph Lauren's 40th anniversary collection touched upon many of his famous signatures without ever feeling like a rehash. It was full of bold colors, timely floral prints, and red-carpet numbers galore for his A-list fans.


Rodarte
With their reputation for breathtakingly romantic and exquisitely rendered evening dresses well established, Kate and Laura Mulleavy have started venturing into new territory. Their cobwebby sweaters and Coco-esque suits looked new, yet never strayed too far from their imaginative, utterly original aesthetic.

[angelrevelation]

Sometimes I think they just give designers a top 10 because they're popular. They are, in the end, clothes. I really don't like fashion as mainly art and expression, although I do see the meaning of it.

My favorites were Nina Ricci and Alberta Ferretti.

[misoshiru]

I agree. I could not stand Marc Jacobs. And I can't believe that he butchered Louis Vuitton.

[Gigi]

I loved Lanvin. The colours! Oh, the colours...

[misoshiru]

i cannot stand snejana. D:


and have you guys seen how weird sasha's thighs have looked lately?



not to mention that the skin of so many models was so bad this season.

[Gigi]

^ That is pretty weird. Maybe that girl has been working out?

Eh, I'm okay with Snejana, but she's definitely not one of my favs.

God, I looked back on my Lanvin post, and I'm drooling over the purple dress.

[misoshiru]

and i don't see the appeal for Kat McNeill. I mean I think she's gorgeous, but she's...whatsthatword? i can't remember the word.

[babecakes]

nothing can compare to how horrible chanel was. karl lagerfeld has done some amazing things to chanel, chloe and fendi but this collection, just what the fuck was he thinking. it made me want to cry just looking at it.

[misoshiru]

OVERRATED THAT'S THE WORD.

[angelrevelation]

I know, what was with all that denim?? I think two of the worst shows were Chanel and Marc Jacobs.

[misoshiru]

i needed to post this picture up again. posh at marc jacobs:



when will marc jacobs understand that he cannot design LV the way he designs for his own line?!

[madgamer]

wow children are SO cute












when i was their age, i was still playing with barbies and running barefoot in dirt. but then again i wasn't a very good looking child

awwwwww

[Gigi]

Cute! Although...at the same time, slightly unsettling.

God, I wish I was that stylish when I was a kid.

[jammylise]

^ Haha me too!, the things my mother dressed me in.
Oh lord!

[misoshiru]

i wish that i was dressed like that as a little kid

[angelrevelation]

I would totally buy that brocade jacket if it fit me

[arcanum]

i wish that i was dressed like that as a little kid

Me too :( Those kids are really cute.

[Gigi]

I know, what was with all that denim?? I think two of the worst shows were Chanel and Marc Jacobs.

I actually was quite impressed with how Karl Lagerfeld made one particular denim outfit look pretty elegant:



If it wasn't for that colour, I would've never thought it was denim.

[misoshiru]

i think gemma looks gorgeous lately. the fact that she's gained weight has given her boobs.



natalia please stop walking now.

look at the Posh shoes by Giambattisti Valli.

makes me droooool