Viv Westwood Thinks You’re Ugly, Top Model Thinks It’s British and Stella McC Thinks She’s an Episode of “Glee”

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- ”People have never looked so ugly… We are so conformist, nobody is thinking. I’m a fashion designer and people think ‘what do I know?’ but I’m talking about all this disposable crap. So I’m saying buy less, choose well, make it last.” — delightful harridan Vivienne Westwood. [Guardian]

- Speaking of delightful harridans, these paper dolls of Dame Maggie Smith‘s sublime Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey are everything. Ever. [Vulture]

- America’s Next Top Model is still happening. Now in its 18th cycle, this time around it’s a “British Invasion” with seven British models versus seven American models. Sort of like a 21st century Revolutionary War with bikinis and smizing. [The Cut]

Amber Valletta Is Literally 120 Years Old

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

With the aid of some expert make-up and prosthetics, supermodel Amber Valletta gets buried in the sands of time, aging 100 years — and looking impossibly chic along the way — in Steven Klein‘s brilliant editorial for W, “One for the Ages.”

Hans Feurer back in VOGUE Paris

Edited by Benjamin Kanarek

by: Frédérique Renaut of Benjamin Kanarek Blog

Between the Spreads: Amber Valletta Is a Woman on the Verge of a Vogue Breakdown

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Amber Valletta graces two Vogue editorials this month, one for Anna‘s American edition and another for Franca‘s Italian. For both, Amber plays what seems a woman barely able to cope with all this damn beauty — something with which I can certainly sympathize.

Finally! Video of Tom Ford’s SS 2011 Women’s Collection

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Tom Ford‘s Spring/Summer 2011 Women’s Collection was the most exclusive and buzzed about show last Fashion Week and now we can see what all the hubbub was about. Video after the JUMP!

Paris Fashion Week: Balenciaga Spring 2011

Edited by lookbooks

Some designers prefer the models to blend into the collection as human extensions of the clothes, using sensational hair and makeup to mask the models and project the designer’s particular vision. Not so at the Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2011 show in Paris , where designer Nicolas Ghesquiere found inspiration in…

BEHIND THE SCENES: Shrink to Fit for Vogue Italia by Steven Meisel

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

VIDEO: http://www.theyenvy.us/video/behind-the-scenes-shrink-to

Watch Angela Lindvall, Freja Beha Erichsen, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Amber Valletta, Lara Stone, Joan Smalls, and Giedre Dukauskaite pose for the Shrink to Fit editorial.

SPREAD: “Shrink to Fit” Vogue Italia April 2010

Edited by Kirby Marzec

Should we be surprised that the fashion industry’s top models look stunning, even with their hair greased, knotted, matted and tangled? Photographed by Steven Meisel, models Amber Valletta, Freja Beha Erichsen, Lara Stone, Monika Jagaciak, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Angela Lindvall, Joan Smalls, Giedre Dukauskaite and Gwen Loos look stunning in Voge Italia’s April 2010 issue.

NSFW SPREAD: The Fashion Icons Inside Love Magazine

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Eight models (Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Krsiten Stewart, Amber Valletta, Natalia Vodianova, Daria Werbowy, Jeneil Williams and Lara Stone) were featured on the cover of Love Magazine’s Issue #3. Check out the NSFW photos from the shoot by Mert and Marcus after the jump.

COVER: Love Puts Eight Naked Models On Current Cover

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

First there was two, now there are eight. Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy, Lara Stone, Janeil Williams, Natalia Vodianova, Kristen McMenamy, and Amber Valletta are the naked girls featured on the cover of the latest issue of Love Magazine. Apparently, this was done to prove a point: that all these girls have very different bodies, which is why they also printed their measurements. First of all, comparing Lara Stone’s body to that of 40 year old Naomi Campbell just seems unfair. Second, these ladies are models for a reason, they are all similar in proportions, tall, slender, long legged, with smaller breasts. Third, I might need to get my eyes checked, but in the above covers the girls seem very similar in shape…

What do you guys think?

Click here to see all eight.