Some illustrator with a hard on had a little to much dick time on his hands. He decided to reimagine a bunch of Disney princes as Calvin Klein underwear models. The result: creepy.

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Anand Jon Alexander, the Indian fashion designer with a tasting for 14 year old models, was sentenced to 59 years in prison. Guess we know who will be designing the gowns for this years Rikers Island Ball.

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OakNYC.com is looking for BOYS! They are holding an open casting call for guys to model online. Think you look like OAK? Come along. This thursday 29th august @ oak hq between 11am – 2pm 37 greenpoint avenue 4th floor (use entrance on west street)

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Hadley Freeman, head fashion editor at The Guardian, had this sarcastic statement to say about why models oftentimes pose awkwardly. Brilliance: 

 ”Of course it is fashionable to look fey and feeble, because this suggests you do not eat much, which suggests you are thin, which suggests you can fit into Chanel sample-size clothes, which is the most important thing in the universe. And even if you can’t achieve this state of nirvana, if you pose in a manner that suggests feebleness — such as, say, folding your body in a pose that insinuates your bones have crumbled due to osteoporosis — you can fool onlookers into believing you are on the cusp of collapse. Malnutrition? Oh my God, like, such a good look.”

Thanks NY Mag!

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We might always relate models like Helena Christensen, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell to the definition of “beauty”, tall, skinny, long hair and angelic conditions.

You can definitely find pretty girls anywhere in town, from Bondi Beach to small alleys of Paris, but only a few in the world resemble real beauty, which is often as its best removed from glamour and adornment.

Beauty is more than just one type and that it comes in different shapes and sizes as well. “Many might find pretty is the same as beauty” quoted by Alexandra Shulman, Editor of British Vogue who recently wrote in ‘Beauty British Now”, “but actually their enemies, as the blandness and acceptability of pretty cancels out the greatness of beauty.”.

Emma Pei

Most people will define Chinese top-model Du Juan’s round face, creamy flawless skin, and gorgeous bone structure as the “real” beauty of China, less would look at rising star Emma Pei’s alien-like quality and immediately comes to mind that she is strikingly beautiful.

What majority thinks is beautiful is always the right answer, which is wrong! Embracing individuality is the real beauty as people like Kate Moss have challenged and created a whole new beauty aesthetic. She was the very few in the early 1990’s who were different, oppose to Linda, Christy and Naomi who had the bodies and polished stance.

Kate defined a new type of beauty that is recognized and accepted now in this generation. She defines beauty, as beauty demands a kind of originality that makes you pause and admire. Beauty is not being perfect, as the strange and peculiar quality makes beauties what they are.

Since then, there have been models who have epitomised a moment, like Lily Cole who almost didn’t make the list, as bookers find her over dolly. Models and people like her depict a more fragile, bizarre, unusual specimen of beauty, the technical term – ‘Alien Beauty’.

Sudanese goddess Alek Wek immediately broke the Western beauty standards and blew the fashion industry away, as she dominates the runway from Galliano to Calvin Klein. Polley Fey is an icon in defining Alien Beauty, as she conquers the fashion stage without sacrificing a bit of her individuality. In the 90’s Fey was one of the biggest models in the fetish scene, as she appears frequently on Torture Garden fliers.

Sasha Vs Gemma

The fashion industry have mistaken model Sasha Pivovarova as Australian gem Gemma Ward. Sasha started off in the industry with just negative feedback, no one liked her. She is more than just a Gemma-clone; the fact that the crowd sees them alike is so ironic.

I have found indie model/music agency label very interesting to interview, as they only represent 20 models and a couple fellow musicians oppose to larger agencies who casts more commercial girls who could earn the cash for the company. As I interviewed their Model Manager, Lance Labreche, we both discuss about how the fashion industry have adapt the notion of ‘beauty’ in the last years. As he comments that “The standards of beauty tend to swing back-and-forth like a pendulum along a certain amount of seemingly already agreed upon parameters”.

Part of Lance’s job as a model manager is to balance what consumer wants and how to introduce new forms of beauty that as he says “can increase a particular demographics size and scope for the fashion entertainment and scope we service”.

Away from the fashion industry and yet, in general women and even men still gage themselves against an image of impossible perfection. Nothing is really going to change unless people accept that “flaws make you beautiful”, and that there is more than one type of beauty in the world.

Not being blonde and blue eyed, five foot tall, slender with perfect silky skin would not put you in the category of being ugly. ‘Ugly’ is a terminology used for those who don’t accept diversity. Some people might be more beautiful than others, but no one is truly ugly. Brutality, cruelness and war is real ugly.

Our eyes have always blindfolded our hearts, as we always look at the physical beauty but not necessarily see the beauty quality of a person through their personality or accept another kind of beauty.

True beauty should be more widely recognized by those shallow people out there who just go for looks, former top model Cheryl Tiegs also recognises that “true beauty really does have to do with an inner light that does shine”. Even though looks might play an important part of where you stand in the community, without a positive and genuine personality, a person will not go far.

Even though I may not be a fan of Cate Blanchett , I admire her message ‘you don’t need plastic surgery even though you are 39 years old that starts to gain wrinkles’. Cate does not intend to alter her natural beauty, as she felt that “one could not run away from the passing of time, which leaves its marks inevitably, even if one’s skin or one’s mind”.

No offence but Mrs. Playboy a.k.a. Pamela Anderson used to be beautiful and had striking features before she had plastic surgery. Her cheeks are bulbous, her lips are insanely puffy and her skin waxen and shiny. We should not blame her actions, as this world can be quite crucial to you. But people should consider and try to be who they are. They should not change because of other people, even though if someone told you that you look disgusting, if you find yourself beautiful, that’s the most important.

Not long time ago, I was the kid who read fairytales. Most of the books describe heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. Since then, I believed that one of the qualifications to be a great person is to be “beautiful”. Time to time, as a teenager, I will look at the mirror, comparing myself to the models from Fashion TV and say “why am I so fat?” or “why am I ugly and they aren’t?”

Labreche reckons that “Ugliness tends to come from the same thought process as beauty”, as I question him if he feels ugly or not and when? He responds with a big yes, “I would have to say, yes, there are times when I feel ugly. I would even go a step further and admit that there are times when ugliness becomes an active choice or impulse”.

At 17 and half years old, writing this article right now, I am fully confident to tell everyone that I have realized outer beauty was not so important to make someone good. Though I somehow understand why people could be so materialistic and depthless. Shouldn’t we accept who we are as an individual, isn’t our natural “beauty” enough to fulfill ourselves?

If others can be confident, why can’t you. The beauty looked at with the eyes doesn’t last forever. Or should I say, you should now try to accept the new generation of beauty.

Nine Daughters and a Stereo are created by Eva Gödel the Art Director of the model agency, and Kira Bunse prominent freelance fashion photographer who runs the company together. Agency named after a David Bowie/Iggy Pop song lyric and originally conceived as a thesis project, now becomes one of the most interesting and successful agency based in Germany. They’re casting methods are different than other fellow competitors, they don’t walk around shopping malls and find the next “it” girl, but they target to a niche of poor, young and pale youngster, mainly guys who dwell the streets of Germany.

From my own observations and from the response of Bunse and Gödel, we discovered that Europe in particular embraces diversity. Diversity of humans, got more open, both of them said that “There is a bigger variety of looks and styles and personality got more important”. Girls don’t find macho jocks in high school that attractive anymore; ever since Adam Brody introduced Nerd Chic and made girls go crazy about their nerdy boyfriends.

Gödel have made a really simple yet powerful statement that “Beauty is relative. It is a subjective experience – Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Time changed and passed and like Europe and other parts of the world we should embrace who we are and openness guarantees a long term beauty.

SOURCE: Ugly Beauty (our perspective in 09)

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On September 2nd. At 6:00PM. We will be hosting a fashion show ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.

We’re seeking ten models to be a part of this monumental event.

Contact us immediately at saynt@fashionindie.com.

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Fashionista has just reported that London Fashion Week has changed their mind. Last week, LFW rescinded its pledge to reject Size Zero models from its catwalks after Milan, Paris, and New York refused to do the same.

It’s sad that we have not made progress since all the public deaths due to eating disorders, and that the fashion industry still does not understand the effects of overly skinny models on the runways, or as their spokesmodels. Another year, and more self induced anorexics.

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It’s certainly not news to anyone that models found stomping their pumps on the runway have been getting increasingly more frail. Though people love to point fingers in various directions, for speculations of the cause, it really would be nearly impossible to blame any one source. All in all, it’s an epidemic that has been getting completely beyond a well-grasped control. Of course there were the runway shows in Madrid, which banned super-skinny models from getting their time in the limelight for all to observe their near skeletal figures, but did catalogs stop featuring super-skinny models? No. Did high fashion models have a major change in figure size? absolutely not.

Recently, not only have spectators been watching these models as they sit wide eyed with mouths hung open, people have been taking action and making the move toward a healthier model, and people are certainly taking notice. In a recent Anthropology catalog, a featured model caught glowing eyes with a healthy ensemble. Is this the start of a new movement? We sure do hope so. With advertisements like these, maybe we’re steering away from the ideal of a size zero or double zero model.

Recently even those more characteristically in the public eye have made the move to rear from super-thin. As Rachel Zoe tried on dresses for a Bazaar photoshoot, she expressed her sincere gratification that touch ups were made to take her from a frail 0 to a healthy 8. Zoe says of the positively changing scene, “I don’t have one client right now who is a size 0. All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.” Let’s hope we can keep it up. It’s going to be one tough battle, but if everyone pulls through you better believe it’s possible.

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“For me, models are just pieces of wood that I carve to make clothes look beautiful, there are thousands of models like all other models. Naomi Campbell is the same way.”

Some call them hangers, some apparently refer to them as pieces of wood, whatever the description, designers are worse than Jewish mothers. There are ways of going around the traditional catwalk, so how can someone like Cavalli, who has been in the industry for so long, have absolutely no respect for the woman that make his clothes look good down a runway?

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Brazilian Vogue apparently learned nothing from Italian Vogue and featured five Caucasian models on this months front cover. Not only are all the models white, they also look as though they could all be twins, same facial structure, hair, and body type. Come on Brazil, get with the times….

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I am pretty much of the mind that every other version of Vogue (French, British) is better than American Vogue. And Korean Vogue is no different. Here different models take on iconic female roles in different American films.

As Madonna in ‘Truth or Dare

As Edie Sedgwick in ‘Factory Girl’

As Velma Kelley in ‘Chicago

Recreation of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’

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