North America : Canada

Jessica Stam

Coco Rocha

Shalom Harlow

Linda Evangelista

- Lindsay Lohan continues to be employable, if only by German fashion houses you’ve never heard of/care about. This can’t go well, particularly considering the first sentence of the press release announcing Lilo’s participation in Philipp Plein‘s spring campaign: “Lindsay is a beautiful, highly acclaimed actress and model.” Who are we lying to Philipp Plein? [Styleite]

- Frida Gustavsson is GORGEOUS on Paolo Roversi‘s cover of Vogue Italia‘s Couture Supplement, giving us a little flapper chic and some serious face. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

- Designer Alice Temperley thinks London Fashion Week is better than New York Fashion Week and should be longer. Meanwhile, preaching to the choir, girlfriend. [Telegraph]

- Girls fall on the runway every season and, honestly, it’s always a highlight. But turns out taking a catwalk misstep could land a girl face down in unemployment. [Daily Mail]

- Which is why they should take a cue from the pros, like Liu Wen and Jourdan Dunn, who reveal how they traveresed the trricky runways of Jason Wu and Alexander Wang, respectively. [The Cut]

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

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THE BLACKALLURE: VOGUE ITALIA / MODELS.COM BACKSTAGE EXCLUSIVE from models.com on Vimeo.

And head on over to Vogue.it for a moody editorial featuring Nina Simone and the girls putting a spell on us.

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Italian Vogue‘s EIC, Franca Sozzani addressed the issue of discrimination in the fashion industry on her amazing blog last week, asking “Is skin color still an issue?”:

“We continue to give it [diversity] more space in the magazine and website. The truth is that real beauty doesn’t care for skin color or nationality.”

For Sozzani there is no issue of race, no issue of discrimination and she wonders why readers think it’s “such an issue to choose black models?”

Well, the answer is simple. For so long, beauty was defined by a specific type of girl; designers and magazines only chose skinny, non-distinct Eastern European girls which became the industry standard.

The trend is slowly shifting, but it’s difficult to change the perception of fashion being particularly racist when the industry itself is responsible for the proliferation of that perception.

So in reaction to this homogeneity, any time there is an editorial exclusively featuring black models the inevitable debate begins anew:  is this a matter of progress or exploitation?

I’d like to think it’s progress. It’s incredibly important and inspiring to see beauty represented in all forms and all colors, for society and for the fashion industry. Everyone needs to see themselves reflected in ads and editorials in order to feel beautiful and to feel that they too are respected consumers.

And furthermore, after looking at pale, emaciated human hangers for all those seasons, I think we could all use an injection of, dare I say, color.

Check out the rest of the editorial — a jazz-inspired romp through the Harlem Renaissance — shot by Emma Summerton and styled by Edward Enninful at Lookbooks!

Photos: Vogue.it / Link Love: Style House Files

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Wow, I totally predicted this about six months ago when I first heard she was pregnant but everyone in the office called me racist and I was all like, that’s not racist, he’s probably some fucking Jay Z wanna be drug dealer, who else would manage to get a 19 year old pregnant, and people were like you can’t say that though, and I was all like fuck that, I do what I want, and their all like Saynt you sound like a ghetto hoodrat, and I did a triple snap in their faces and was all like AND WHAT?!?

Anyway, her baby daddy is off to jail for 3 years for coke dealing, big surprise…

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After giving birth to a baby boy in Dec, Jourdan Dunn makes a return to the runway at London Fashion Week for Aquascutum.

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Radiant Chanel Iman and prego Jourdan Dunn, in matching makeup, cover the November issue of Teen Vogue. So is Teen Vogue now advocating teenage pregnancy?

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If anyone was wondering where six month prego Jourdan Dunn was/is for fashion week…well, she was spotted front row at Topshop Unique and Issa.

NY Mag via FWD

Photographer: Paolo Roversi

Models: Ymre Stiekema, Darya Kurovska, Sigrid Agren, Imogen Morris Clarke, Constance Jablonski, Heidi Mount, Toni Garrn, Jourdan Dunn and Rose Cordero

GALLERY: SPREAD UM: “A Dream Of A Dress” Vogue Italia September 2009

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Thanks NY Mag!

This gorgeous group pulls the signature i-D winky face, highlighting their colorful 80′s make-up. Similar to the looks from our For The Love of Marc Party, no?

SOURCE: The Fashion Time

Joining Karolina Kurkova on the knocked-up models list is 18-year-old beauty Jourdan Dunn. Confirmed by Vogue UK, Dunn is almost six months pregnant with her boyfriend of several years’ baby. Despite the claims that Dunn will continue modeling after giving birth, I’ve got a feeling that this barely legal lady’s career is over. Sorry Dunn, but swollen boobs and post-pregnancy chub don’t quite cut it in the modeling world. But hey, if you can somehow manage to regain your beautiful physique in a healthy way, all the power to you!

Thanks Fashionologie!

Jason Kibbler shot Jourdan Dunn for Vogue Russia, who displays her versatility in these shots.  From beginning to end, Dunn goes from high society (in Dior), to high jumping (and her legs look gorgeous, I might add).  The only thing I’m not crazy about in this jump is her left wrist…I think the America’s Next Top Model judges would probably agree.

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A smash of style indeed! Craig McDean’s most recent spread for Vogue Italia is certainly turning mixed and matched styles around, making them more glamorized than their typical fashion faux pas status. Models Magdalena Frackowiak, Eniko Mihalik, Jourdan Dunn, Evelina Mambetova, and Suzie Bird totally rock out the conglomerate of studded boots, ballerina skirts, layered chains, bows, lace gloves, corsets, fur pelts and sun hats, as well as their furled hair and caked on makeup. Loving the creepy stares and natural, somewhat masculine body language too. All in all, the styling is impeccable and Vogue Italia is finally starting to break the safe, conservative mold. 

GALLERY: SPREAD UM: “The Now Smash of Style” Vogue Italia May 2009

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Remember when Jourdan Dunn was just a fresh faced teenager? Now the English beauty is a big name in fashion.

Titled “It Will Be Ready, When It’s Ready” from i-D November 2008, Jourdan stared in the above spread shot by Alasdair McLellan for a story on Azzedine Alaïa’s designs.

GALLERY: Jourdan Dunn for i-D

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The May 2009 issue of Vogue is the Steven Meisel-shot “Model Issue,” and features a pull-out cover with “The Faces of the Moment.” (Is it just me, or is Natalia Vodianova having the longest moment ever?!)

It’s great, of course, to see models on a US cover (especially since not one of them is American!) but so many of these names are established already.  

The cover features Liya Kebede, Natalia Vodianova, Anna Jagodzinska, Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Jourdan Dunn, Raquel Zimmermann, Caroline Trentini and Natasha Poly.

GALLERY: Vogue May 2009.

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.

Earlier this month the blogs were buzzing with rumors that Luella Bartley was planning to dip her toes into the publishing world.

Now the plans seem more solid.  The debut issue of Luella (that was easy!) features Jourdan Dunn as covergirl, and is set to hit newsstands in spring.

Luella has been rumored to be working with a lot of youngsters in New York, and maybe some familiar names.

While I love Luella’s designs and don’t doubt she’s in touch with the trendsetters and tastemakers of the world (and did you know she started out as a journalist and fashion editor?) I can’t help but wonder why she’d get into the magazine world now, when so many are folding.

Even Daniel Saynt knows that.

Image and info from Catwalk Queen.

There is noting more stunning than December British Vogue’s editorial titled “Unbelievable Fashion.” Leave it up to Nick Knight to capture Lily Donaldson and Jourdan Dunn in an imaginative, dream like pictorial poetry spread. This is an editorial for fashion lovers, dreamers and visionaries. Despite the anything but ready to wear fashions and amazing styling, this editorial seems so natural and effortless. Kudos Vogue, this is brilliant. 

Thanks I Love Lily Donaldson!

Fashion forward magazine, Pop, has created six amazing Fall issue covers.  Also similar to Italian Vogue, Pop features women of color. Each cover features a different iconic model: Jourdan Dunn, Naomi Campbell, Agyness Deyn, Oluchi Onweagba, Natalia Vodianova and Amber Valletta grace the covers, in Prada. The issue pays homage to the 80′s era and moreover the fabulousness of 80′s fashion culture. The culmination of stunning supermodels and love for Studio 54 should make this issue it’s best yet! Pick up a copy!    

Thanks to NY Mag for the pictures!

Don’t be surprised if you see these two women plastered on the walls in SoHo. These two leading ladies, Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss, have been chosen to appear in the add campaign for Topshop. The shoots have been taking place on tube trains as well as London buses; the placement of the shoots relate back to Topshop’s firm roots. The theme that these women play out in the adds is “Topshop on the move”. The girls sport bold makeup with a statement. They wanted the adds to speak to the viewers. The company has a voice and a certain style; they want it seen and heard.

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