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Fei Fei Sun’s Guide to Shanghai and Designers to Watch

Jessica Lapidos — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:00:19 +0000

About three years ago, Fei Fei Sun was just a gal about China, hangin’ with her boyfriend in Shanghai. Several Paris Fashion Week video viewings later, and she’s got the bug to wear it all; to be there in it. Fortunately her razor sharp jawline and chameleon abilities have allowed just that and she skyrocketed her to the fashion stratosphere.. Her first season out, she walked 30 shows without knowing a lick of English. Which I suppose proves the point that you can get by on just your good looks (and in this case, polite, intuitive silence and a fearsome smize). If you turn the tables and find yourself in Shanghai without knowing a damn word in Chinese, check what Fei Fei Sun advises you eat, see and shop in her city.

[i-D Magazine, Fall 2011]

Like a mix between the Highline in NY and the Catre Siene in Paris, The Bund is a waterfront walk that has been transformed from an industrial working ground to a beautiful pathway for runners in the morning, lovers in the evening.

That building that looks like a shake weight is actually one of the tallest buildings in Shanghai. Its panoramic view of the city makes it the tourist vantage point, and also the reason worth checking out. We say shake weight, the chief of the building's board says it reminds him of Pipa Song by Bai Juyi about the "wonderful sprinkling sound of a pipa instrument, like pearls, big and small falling on a jade plate."

When in Shanghai, order a steaming basket of xiolongbao. The word literally means steaming basket, because the dumplings within the broth are cooked right in it. When Fei Fei eats, she eats this.

The most lavish Chinese Gardens in Shanghai are well worth a stroll.

This shopping road winds in the French (naturally) Concession area of Shanghai. It is teeming with little craft stores, trendy shops, art studios and gems waiting to be discovered.

Off the tourist path, we meet Fei Fei Sun's favorite designers from Shanghai. Nominated by WGSN as "Breakthrough Designer of the Year" and named by Forbes as one of 25 most important Chinese fashion people, Fei Fei Sun is right to say this is a designer we should watch. It helps that we can see his designs in Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel...

Also on the WGSN "Breakthrough Designer of the Year" list, her whimsical unravelling of the feminine form has garnered the attention of Vogue and the biggies. Fei Fei is looking in the direction for design stars on the rise.

Ooh-La-Lara Stone Dominates Fall Magazine Covers

Samantha Lim — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:41:06 +0000

Fresh into her roles as the face of Calvin Klein and Tom Ford Beauty, Lara Stone is the model of the moment. She is looking fierce on the cover of not one, but 5 fall fashion magazines. Check out the gallery below for her wildly imaginative, uber seductive looks.

I’m Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. Testino: The 10 Most Editorial Actresses

Lester Brathwaite — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:06 +0000

Anna Wintour has been credited/blamed/lauded/criticized for the current proliferation of celebrity-driven magazine covers of the past 15 years or so. Love it or hate it, a model has a better chance winning a Pulitzer than landing a U.S. Vogue cover — with a few notable exceptions. While stars are rightfully and contractually beautiful, however, not all of them can cut the couture mustard. Then there are those ladies who love the camera and the camera is kind of obsessed with them. Here, the 10 actresses who give the best editorial — and give models a run for their money — are given the countdown treatment.

Tilda givin’ a little twist in Another by Craig McDean.

1. Tilda Swinton

One of the most striking women in film, on the red carpet and in fashion spreads, look no further for Swinton’s editorial excellence than this month’s W.

Masculin/feminin by Tim Walker.

i-D Magazine Paints the Town

Megan Turley — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:35:11 +0000

Harry Goodwins (Ford), Matthew Hitt (Wilhelmina), and Patrick O’Donnell (Models 1) mug playfully for this fantastically colorful spread for i-D Magazine, shot by Haruki Horikawa. The boys were styled by Mervyn Boriwondo, with makeup by Yoshitaka Miyazaki and hair by Gosia Byliniak.

Paint fight at the office later? I’m in.

Hans Feurer back in VOGUE Paris

Benjamin Kanarek — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:31:15 +0000

by: Frédérique Renaut of Benjamin Kanarek Blog

Emmanuelle Alt © Garance Doré

Emmanuelle Alt is writing her own ticket for VOGUE Paris. I was not expecting a fundamental change in the Editorial Direction being that she has been the Fashion Director of the magazine for over ten years and collaborating with Carine Roitfeld. Thus the assumption that there would be little change from the status quo. However, the April 2011 issue of VOGUE Paris gives a clear new direction; bye bye porno chic, provocation, unjustified nudity, welcome softness, lifestyle, casual clothing. Emmanuelle’s approach is more consensual and obviously more commercial, which the fashion customer might find more accessible.

I want to show in French Vogue more and more a lot of clothes … It’s a different point of view, but nobody gave me a mission to change it or make it more commercial. she stressed in her WWD’s interview

Her vision of fashion is also conditioned by the choice of photographer she has decided to collaborate with and thus don’t expect any radical changes in those she has already worked with.

I want to keep the quality, the photographers we work with—David Sims, Mert and Marcus, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber. I don’t think there should be radical changes. The magazine should still be chic and sophisticated. VOGUE.com interview

There has been one huge surprise however… The Return of Hans Feurer in VOGUE Paris is great news and a welcome change.

Hans Feurer ©DR

Hans Feurer’s style is easily recognizable:

Outdoor shoots, long lenses, grainy film aspect, blurred background, sharp on the model (bokeh effect), sunrise or sunset light and often with the introduction of back light and flare.

This style was in “VOGUE” in the 70′s and 80′s and has come back in to fashion since certain internet bloggers started to photograph street fashion a few years ago. The styling often associated with his photography is ethnic, tribal in wildly natural spaces. However, he can express himself in a more urban environment as he did recently in French VOGUE with Supermodel Anja Rubik.

Anja Rubik by Hans Feurer for VOGUE Paris - April 2011

Feurer, a highly renowned fashion photographer in the 70s and 80s, is Swiss born and studied photography in London. In the ’60s, he became a photographer for British Vogue, Vogue Paris, US Vogue, Marie Claire, French Elle… He photographed most of the major supermodels from Claudia Schiffer to Laetitia Casta with Yasmeen Ghauri, Christy Turlington… He launched Amber Valletta in French Elle Magazine.

Who do you dream to photograph?

- I had the chance to work with the most beautiful women in the world from Pat Cleveland, Christy Turlington to Stephanie Seymour… Kate Moss is the only one that I haven’t photographed. Excerpt of his interview in the Contributor Section of French VOGUE April 2011.

I would add “so Far”… , but I have the feeling that with his statement in the Contributor Section of the magazine, this omission will be repaired quickly enough.

Some of his archives

In the early 60′s, he was assisted by French Photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Hans Feurer is also renowned for his collaboration with Kenzo for several of their Ad Campaigns in the 70′s and 80′s and was well known for his shooting of lingerie and swimsuits in a beach environment. In 1974, he directed the famous Pirelli Calendar.

Over the past few years Hans Feurer is back on track with magazines the likes of Numéro, I-D and VOGUE China, etc…

I really appreciate the fact that Emmanuelle Alt went for the original “Real Deal” photographer rather than one of the numerous copies amongst the younger fashion photographers emulating his and Eddy Kohli‘s style.

DIM Advertising © Eddy Kohli

Watch more photos from Hans Feurer in VOGUE Paris – April 2011

Here is the video of the 2005 edition of the International Fashion Photography Festival in Cannes, France with interviews of Hans Feurer, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Benjamin Kanarek, amongst others.

What do Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears have to do with Fashion and the Big Celebrity Boom?

Benjamin Kanarek — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:14:36 +0000

From Benjamin Kanarek Blog

: Lindsay Lohan © Marie Claire USA

Celebrities and Fashion have always been synonymous. However, today more than ever, fashion magazines are featuring more celebrities than immigrants trying to get into the USA for their Green Card. In many cases these highly regarded magazines are using celebrities more often than Super Models for their covers. There are many reasons for this and in my opinion some of those decisions have more to do with the Politics of Fashion than the notoriety of the Celebrity.

Why is it that some of the Biggy Fashion Mags don’t feature Super Models, but do feature Celebrities from all sectors of the Entertainment Industry? I believe that it is because they can’t get the Super Models for their magazines. In fact their are very few magazines that can get Super Models and find it a lot easier to get Celebrities to adorn the covers of their ELLE’s, Marie Claire’s etc…

It is true that Celebs sell and can attract a large audience, but when it comes to the giants vying for THAT Top Model, that is where only a few of the Biggies like VOGUE, Harper’s BAZAAR, ELLE and a few other more obscure, but none the less important magazines like Numéro, V and perhaps L’Officiel can get on occasion.

: A Fashion Cover with Super Model Constance Jablonski for Harper’s Bazaar Spain – April 2011 © Nico

Of course many would argue that the reason that this or that fashion magazine are shooting Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears or Paris Hilton is because they sell magazines. That may be true, but I am quite sure that if all of the major and lesser influential fashion magazines attempted to compete for the creme de la creme of the modelling industry and could only get models and not celebrities, that the King of the heap would surface really quickly. You would see immediately by the standard of the models acquired who really rules the game.

Thus again the reason why Celebs act as a great draw that diverts the attention from the obvious omission from the covers of “Fashion” Magazines of Top Models. Why would a major fashion magazine want to be judged by their peers and the public based on the fact that so and so was on this magazines cover but not on theirs? Celebs are a kind of “Hey we have Paris on our cover wearing Gucci” and not “Hey we could only get so and so and so and so competitor Fashion magazine knows that we could only get so and so because of you know why…”

I am not saying that celebrities should not be on magazine covers. I am saying that a Fashion magazine should be a Fashion Magazine and not a people magazine. Models are part of the Fashion landscape and I am hoping that we can get back to the epoch where fashion magazines did what they did and did it well and leave the people’s magazines to People Magazine.

There are only very few mags that can pick and choose who they put on the cover and for the right reasons! As a caveat, there are some trendy press magazines that can get top models like Muse, Dazed and Confused, Self Service, I-D and a few others, but that has more to do with other issues that could easily take up at least 3 major blog posts. The business is like a humongous Spanish onion, with more layers of complexity than Einsteins theory of relativity.

And lastly, celebrities seem to be more accessible than agents representing those models most of the fashion magazines would love to get on their covers but won’t. They and their PR people understand that the exposure they garner being seen on the cover of Redbook could aid in them getting their next big part in that 2012 blockbuster “Calender’s End”*

So the next time you see the cover of a magazine with a celeb on the cover, you may want to ask yourself, “Did they because they wanted to, or because so and so didn’t want to”.

* (I made that up)

by:Benjamin Kanarek

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fierce

Lester Brathwaite — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:28:35 +0000

Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss, or Jourlie as they’re apparently known…somewhere, tag team a sexy photoshoot for i-D‘s “Exhibitionist Issue,” shot by Kayt Jones.

Edward Enninful‘s styling takes backseat to Jourlie’s (okay, it’s cute and I’m on board) lithe, lovely and leggy frames, but they reveal more than just their bodies in an interview with the mag.

Turns out Jourdan wants to start a line of jeans and Karlie wants to ~~ruin her life~~ have five kids, all boys. How…sweet.

Photos: Fashion Bomb Daily / Link Love: Modelina

Look Be a Lady

Lester Brathwaite — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:55:24 +0000

Lady Gaga winks, hunches and uncovers for an editorial in i-D, styled by none other than Nicola Formichetti and lensed by Mariano Vivanco. The trio continue to generally shut shit down, creating arresting images, buzzworthy collections (Gags is wearing Mugler of course) and colossal dance-pop anthems. Theirs is a partnership that harkens back to the days of Yves Saint Laurent and Iman, or Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick or Keith Haring and Grace Jones: artist and muse becoming inseparable in the public conscious and almost interchangeable in their roles. For Mariano, Nicola and Stephanie Germanotta, the whole is greater than sum of its parts.

Photos: Image Amplified

i-D Goes Gaga

Lester Brathwaite — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:20:35 +0000

Who better to be one of i-D‘s “Exhibitionist Issue” cover girls than the premier exhibitionist of our times, Lady Gaga. Wearing a latex Mugler coat, the Mother of all Monsters was snapped by Mariano Vivanco and styled by BFF Nicola Formichetti.

Photo: YVY Mag

Anja Gets Pierced for i-D

Lester Brathwaite — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:39:09 +0000

Anja Rubik is virtually unrecognizable on the cover of i-D’s “Exhibitionist Issue.” Topless, brunetted and nose-ringed, Rubik was shot by Emma Summerton for one of the issue’s four covers featuring three other gals giving the traditional wink.

Photo: Models.com

NSFW SPREAD: “The Snow White Princess” i-D Spring 2010

Kirby Marzec — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Mariacarla Boscono is i-D Magazine’s snow white princess in their Spring 2010 issue! Photographed by Willy Vanderperre.

Find more photos like this on ENVY

LINK LOVE: Fashion Copious

COVER: Rihanna for i-D ‘The Lover of Life Issue’

Rebecca Alexander — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:28:24 +0000

Rihanna lands the cover of i-D’s next issue, which is all about Love, Sex, & Magic.

LINK LOVE: Fashion Copious

INTERVIEW: Fred Butler, Designer

Rebecca Alexander — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:10:29 +0000

Fred Butler’s accessories have been seen in publications such as Dazed and Confused, i-D and Vogue. as well as the music world with special commissions for Patrick Wolf, Skin, Lady GaGa, Bishi, Little Boots, Beth Ditto and La Roux.

LINK LOVE: Fred Butler’s Paper Folds

SPREAD: “Eco-Warrior” i-D Fall 2009

Kirby Marzec — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:07:25 +0000

Photographer: Richard Bush

Model: Anna Selezneva

Find more photos like this on CULT

Thanks Fashion Copious!

FASHION PORN: Evan Rachel Wood For i-D

Hillary Frazier — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:05:30 +0000

Yawn. Trying too hard…she’s got a nice body, at least.

SOURCE: Livejournal

SPREAD UM: “My Pretty Seahorse,” i-D August 2009

Andy Wass — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:25:54 +0000

Laetitia Negre shot Natasa Vojnovic for “My Pretty Seahorse” in the August 2009 issue of i-D. Natasa, photographed with closed eyes, seems to be sleepwalking through this dreamy, vintagey spread.

GALLERY: “My Pretty Seahorse,” i-D August 2009.

SPREAD UM: Inside i-D 300th Anniversary Issue

Rebecca Alexander — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:58:41 +0000

Alasdair McLellan shot Sigrid Agren for the pages of i-Ds 300th Anniversary issue.

SOURCE: newyorkmodelsblog

John-Paul Thurlow Goes Back To The Drawing Board

Kirby Marzec — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:42:37 +0000

John-Paul Thurlow, artist and magazine cover graphic designer, is recasting his favorite covers with a bit of paper and a pencil. It’s images like these that make me wish I could draw. Sigh.

GALLERY: John-Paul Thurlow Goes Back To The Drawing Board

Thanks Cyana Trend Land and Pipeline!

SPREAD UM: I-D Magazine, April 2009 Shot by Daniel Jackson

Saynt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:50:44 +0000

I adore black and white photography, but it can get boring at times. Who wants to challenge that? Me. And you should too. If you submit any non-traditional black and white photography on NEXT, we’ll feature it on FashionIndie.com.

LINKAGE: off with head / dance till dead

MAG HAG: Chanel Iman for i-D May 2009

Andy Wass — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:49:02 +0000

Chanel Iman does her best close-up for the May 2009 cover of i-D magazine.

Shot by Kayt Jones, Chanel puts a glittery spin on the magazine’s trademark wink. Love the feathers; Chanel looks like she’s on the hunt!

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the Scenes of the i-D Mag “Best of British” Shoot

Saynt — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:02:31 +0000

We’ve got an exclusive, behind the scenes look at i-D mags recent cover shoot featuring some of Britain’s top new faces and talents. Yeah, we just j’d in our p’s just thinking about it.

MAG HAG: i-D March 2009

Andy Wass — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:00:51 +0000

For the March issue of i-D you’ll have your choice of 12 cover girls, all English models: Kate Moss, Yasmin Le Bon, Alice Delllal, Lily Donaldson, Naomi Campbell, Eliza Cummings, Twiggy, Susie Bick, Daisy Lowe, Jourdan Dunn, Agyness Deyn, Stella Tennant.

Working with stylist Edward Enninful, Solve Sundsbo photographed each model completely differently (but all with the trademark wink), and each girl has her own cover quote.

From Fashion Copious.

On The Cover: i-D Magazine, February 2009

Kirby Marzec — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:30:58 +0000

Models Anne Vyalitsyna of Women Managment and Boyd Holbrook of Wilhelmina NY snagged the cover of i-D’s February 2009 issue. The cover, shot by photographer Matt Jones is anything but impressive. If you ask me, it looks like a test shot and really isn’t groundbreaking enough for the cover of a magazine. Holbrook wears both suit and shirt from the Calvin Klein collection. Vyalitsyna, on the other hand, wears her birthday suit.

For more about the cover and the issue, check out i-D here!

TrendSpark: Tattooed, Punk-Rock, Barely Legal Male Models

Kirby Marzec — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:50:20 +0000

Cole Mohr

Ash Stymest

Tyler Riggs

Josh Beech

Dan Felton

I was flipping through old issues of i-D, Dazed and Confused and Men’s Vogue while I was home in Buffalo over the holiday weekend. I knew I spotted a trend among male models, but it didn’t hit me until I saw Cole Mohr on the Marc by Marc Jacobs billboard in SoHo one last time…

The Trend: baby-faced, skinny, tattooed, pierced, punk rocking models who look like they just got kicked out of the high school homecoming dance for reeking of cheap beer. Bingo.

Punk boys have been all over the editorials and up and down the runways recently. I absolutely love the awkward, but adorable, high school dropout look…and It looks like I’m not the only one! With Marc Jacobs and Hedi Slimane as avid fans of this look, it seems that the baby-faced punks will be scoring high fashion editorials and shows for years to come. But sorry ladies, just because you look like a prepubescent rocker doesn’t mean your gauged ears and inked arms are fully acceptable in the high fashion industry. It’s unfair, I know…but that’s just the way it is.

Thanks for the photos Models.com!

August Magazine Round-up

Lauren Garroni — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:15:42 +0000

If you’re a mag-o-phile (one who likes magazines) like myself then this post is for you. Here is a round-up of the magazines that will be on your newsstands shortly:

US Harper’s Bazaar August 2008 : Jessica Biel by Peter Lindbergh

Allure August 2008 : Victoria Beckham by Michael Thompson

US Elle August 2008 : Mariah Carey

US InStyle August 2008 : by Robert Erdmann

Lucky August 2008 : Leighton Meester

US Marie Claire August 2008 : Maggie Gyllenhaal

US Glamour August 2008 : Christina Aguilera

Interview August 2008 : Eva Mendes by Mikael Jansson

US Cosmopolitan August 2008 : Scarlett Johansson

Vanity Fair August 2008 : Hollywood’s Next Wave by Mark Seliger

Vogue China August 2008 : Maggie Cheung by Mario Sorrenti

i-D August 2008 : Naomi Campbell & Stefano Pilati by Inez & Vinoodh