Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Marcus Schenkenberg may have been the first male supermodel, but the catwalk isn’t just a girl’s club anymore. For Male Model Humpday, here is an oldie but a goodie, reduxed: the 12 Greatest Male Supermodels.
Edited by McArthur Joseph
From the looks of what Karl Lagerfeld created for Fall 2011 Fendi campaign perhaps there a chance that a family man lies inside the soulless old man fashion powerhouse.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
As a supplement to The 25 Greatest Supermodels of the Past 50 Years, Male Model Humpday celebrates the 10 gorgeous men who have risen to the top of the chiseled cheekbone heap to become that rarest of rare birds: the male supermodel. In reality, there only has been one true male supermodel and that’s Marcus Scheknenberg, who was discovered rollerskating on the beach by photographer Barry King in 1989 and has been the male model of the past 20-plus years. And most impressively, he survived a season on VH1′s hit (?) reality show, The Surreal Life and an affair with Pamela Anderson. If that’s not superhuman, I don’t know what is.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Brad Kroenig’s son will wear a suit designed by Karl Lagerfeld to tomorrow’s Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week.
Edited by Saynt
This recent shoot for Harper’s Bazaar Spain reminds me of that one scene in Gia where Angelina Jolie makes out with that chick after her photoshoot. Actually chain-link fences always remind me of Jolie naked, but that’s just me. More photos after the jump.
Edited by Saynt
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Remember the good old days when you could by a gallon of milk for a nickel, when horse-drawn carriages were still a better transportation choice than those god-fangled Model T’s, when you could slap your kids around and not get caught. No, well Karl Lagerfeld does.
He’s trying to bring back the silent movie. He’s creating a ten-minute movie based on Coco Chanel’s early years. Karl decided to skip out on booking real actors and decided to fill the movie with a couple of his own friends — muse Amanda Harlech and daughter Tallulah Ormsby-Gore as customer and model, Brad Kroenig as Chanel lover Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and bodyguard Sebastien Jondeau as a Russian general. Coco Chanel’s role was filled by Lithuanian model Edita Vilkeviciute.
I’m trying to feign interest in this 10 minute commercial slightly disguised as a movie, but I’m not supporting any designer films until Tom Ford gets his movie on the big screen. Plus, black and white silent films are just a bit to 1920′s for my millennial ass. I was more impressed when Chanel came out with an iPhone App.
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
In Metamorphoses of an American, Karl Lagerfeld documents the physical and emotional development of Brad Kroenig, the world’s most sought-after male model, ranked number one at models.com at the time of this printing. Lagerfeld discovered Kroenig in 2003, making his first photographs of the young man in Biarritz; since then, he has diligently observed Kroenig through the photographic lens, month by month.
Since the time of this first Lagerfeld photo shoot, Kroenig has been featured in almost every major designer’s advertising campaign and/or fashion shows–including Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Justin Cavalli, Perry Ellis and Fendi–and on almost every fashion magazine cover.
In this volume, through hundreds of photographs taken inside and outside the world of fashion, Lagerfeld explores Kroenig’s evolution from a young “All-American Boy” into a professional model, a man conscious of the subtleties of facial and corporeal expression. However, these photographs are not simply documentation; rather, Lagerfeld and Kroenig always work together to create a new persona, one which Kroenig projects without losing a sense of his own self.
Lagerfeld selects a spectrum of literary and cultural references for Kroenig to interpret: we see him as James Dean, as Rudolph Valentino, as a Gatsby-like figure from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and as Lieutenant Pinkerton from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Throughout these transformations, one never has the sense that Kroenig is merely acting; instead he presents newly discovered aspects of himself through the guises of other characters.
Available June 2008, $85.00
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