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Tom Ford on personally test driving his beauty collection: "I put every single thing on -- I don't wear it down the street, but I want to see how it covers, how it works. When you put your name on something, you want people to know you believe in it." Tom Ford on his incredible shyness: "I'm the face of the brand. With Chanel, you feel that Karl Lagerfeld's personality has really melded with Coco's - but not everyone knows yet who I am, so that's why I'm in the pictures. I don't like having my picture taken but it helps people to respond. My real life's not like the fantasy Tom Ford world - with naked girls pouring perfume everywhere. It's more staying in and watching Friends on television." Tom Ford on why he eschews the runway: "The reason I present in a small controlled way is that so much of what makes my clothes special is the cut, the stitching, the lining -- things that would be lost on the catwalk. On the catwalk you have to exaggerate, almost."

Natalia Vodianova on dieting: "The only diet I have ever done is the blood type diet -- I have done it for five years now. The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy - they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can't fake that if you're unhealthy." Natalia Vodianova on negativity: "I think it's really important to say no in this industry actually, it's more important than saying yes. I believe it is very much about saying no, and fighting for what you think you deserve." Eva Herzigova on being a 90s super: "It's a different time now - [the supermodel phenomenon] was a trend," she said. "The woman was much more feminine then, and we took longer to build up our careers. Modelling is very much based on experience."

Jourdan Dunn on healthy body image: "I've learnt to accept my flaws - I hated being skinny and lanky growing up. I think I'm fine so I've decided that no one can tell me otherwise. OK I'm skinny -- what's next, let's move on!"

Diane von Furstenberg on independent women, part 1: "I was on an early flight one morning and I was the only woman on the plane. On the same day, I'd managed to make it onto the cover of the Wall Street Journal -- which I had bought for the journey. There was a man sitting next to me on the plane and he kept staring at my legs and nudging me in the way someone does when they want to talk to you, but don't know what to say. So instead, the first thing he said to me was: 'Why would a girl like you be reading Wall Street Journal?' I looked at him like 'you jerk'. I never said to him, 'look you idiot, I'm on the cover!' Of all the satisfactions I've ever had in my life, that was the biggest." Diane von Furstenberg on independent women, part 2: "I didn't know what I wanted to do, I just knew the sort of woman I wanted to be. I wanted to be independent, I wanted to have my own money and be able to stand on my own - not the type of woman that waits for a man to call."

Stella McCartney and Kate Hudson on Keith Richards: "We met at the VH1 Fashion Awards. I saw her -- she was so cool -- standing in this doorway with Keith Richards." - Kate "I always carry Keith Richards with me in my handbag so I look cool." - Stella Stella McCartney on counterfeiting: "Part of you thinks, 'that's really annoying - we worked really hard on that. But my CEO came in one day so happy and said: 'My mum just saw a fake Falabella Bag in Marbella!' I suppose it does show you've hit kind of a sweet spot if people are copying you. But with the Silhouette Dress and the Polkadot Dress last season, we did have to send a few little letters reminding people that maybe it's not a good idea."

David Bailey on Cecil Beaton: "I mean, I was always a big fan of Cecil - but he was the most terrible middle-class snob." David Bailey on feminism: "I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything."

Stefano Gabbana on Domenico Dolce: "We are in love. It's a different kind of love, but we love each other. It's a difficult word to explain, but there's no real difference in the way we work together. We have a better level of understanding and tolerance maybe since separating romantically. People are jealous of what we have: still being in love and being able to make something interesting - we are strong and that's disturbing to some people. Domenico is like my family - even though we're not a couple any more. I have a brother, a mother, and Domenico... it has been a 20-year love affair." Domenico Dolce on underage models: "People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16 and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion." Stefano Gabbana on shuttering the D&G line: "When we decided to do it, the people [stockholders] called us, going crazy - but we need to do it. Chanel has one label; Gucci; Vuitton - why do we need D&G? The people call Dolce & Gabbana 'D&G' - it is the symbol for Dolce & Gabbana, there's no need for us to have two labels." Stefano Gabbana on Madonna: "We went to see her on the Blond Ambition tour, we were big fans. We were watching the show - she was wearing Jean Paul Gaultier then - and I said to Domenico: 'Imagine if one day she wore Dolce & Gabbana.' Then we picked up the paper and there she was, in one of our dresses...She's beautiful, she's mature, she's a mother - like Isabella Rossellini or Monica Bellucci. She's a real woman."

Rachel Zoe on one of her fave jobs-well-done: "Anne Hathaway at the Venice Film Festival 2008 was a really good one. She wore an Atelier Versace celadon green gown and she looked just like the quintessential movie star. Literally - I gasped for air." Rachel Zoe on avoiding wardrobe malfunctions: "One of the things I'm most militant about is proper undergarments. Dress transparency can be a real issue! I photograph my clients in their dresses from the front, from the back, from the side, inside, outside, under hot lights... it needs to be an outfit that looks good from all angles and where potential disasters are kept to a minimum."

Lancôme's spokesmodel has been heating up Chanel campaigns, Vogue editorials, and apparently Google.

This 38-year-young top model is still demanding top money. This Vogue shot is from 2003, and she was just featured in Tom Ford's campaign.

Stunning runways and covers and everything in between, she also the star of the soon to be released film “Belle du Seigneur.” She's also quite the giver and is involved in charity work, like the one she founded, Naked Heart Foundation which builds parks for kids in Russia.

As famed for her gap tooth smile as she is for being Carine Roitfeld's obsession, the Calvin Klein spokesmodel and current Pirelli calendar star has a distinctly well proportioned body and a face to remember.

This Victoria's Secret angel is one of the top paid in the biz according to Forbes. Shot here by Mario Testino for Italian Vogue, her versatility is stunning.

The face of Christian Dior is an Angel. Having guest starred on Entourage several years back, she got the boys in her breast pocket.

Once proclaimed by Forbes to be the world's first billionaire supermodel, she has captivated every lens she ever stepped before.

The first model I said I would switch teams for is one of the most fiery models on the planet. Maybe it's Maybeline, for which she is the spokemodel, but most likely it's her innate hottness, highlighted with a touch of makeup.

This perfect 10 is in. After the Project Runway host popped on her Angel wings for the Victoria's Secret runway show 6 weeks after popping out a baby, she's been superglued to supermodel legend status.

How do you beat a perfect 10? Be Kate Moss. Her weighty digital imprint does not match the waifish body that made her a star. She has covered more than 40 issues of Vogue and accrued more scandals than her BFF Naomi Campbell and John Galliano combined: she made size 0 the standard. She is the golden standard.

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The campaign was shot by the hardest working M’s in the business, Mert and Marcus in a topiary garden at a private Oxfordshire home. I think I just got all kinds of classy just from writing that.

While the ad will make its way to print in the September issues of Interview,Vogue (US and UK) and Harper’s Bazaar, McCartney wants to draw you to her new sassed up site for a sneak peek. There you’ll also find a slew of special functions for customers such as “Private Wardrobing” — again, classy — and a “Reserve in Store” option for customers too impatient to wait for a delivery.

The new Stella iPad app features a “behind-the-scenes” of her Team GB ad campaign, backstage footage from her fall 2011 show in Paris, a preview of the 2012 resort collection and a “making of” video of the dresses the designer created for the Met Gala.

Sounds like a hoot and a half, but I think I’ll skip that “making of” video unless I want to fall asleep. [WWD]

Riccardo Tisci’s muse Mariacarla Boscono joins an all-stars cast of models including Naomi Campbell, Kristen McMenamy and Natalia Vodianova in this fierce fall 2011 campaign for Givenchy shot by Mert & Marcus. The upside to that many supermodels at one photoshoot is that you don’t have to spend any of the budget on the catering.

- These are no doubt the ugliest pants ever created. Shame on you Roberto Cavalli. [Refinery29]

- Kate Moss‘ 13-year-old sister, Lottie, is Pippa Middleton-ing the Moss-Hince wedding by capturing the hearts and imaginations of model scouts. [The Cut]

- French designer Roland Mouret is Robert Clergerie‘s new creative director. [WWD]

- Bulgari continues its naked actress with lion theme, this time nabbing Oscar winner Rachel Weisz. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

Knightley is just one of two cover stars, the other being James Thíerrée, a French performer who counts Charlie Chaplin and Eugene O’Neil as antecedents. The current  issue — well, really the only issue since the last Egoiste with a naked Natalia Vodianova on the cover came out 5 years ago — also features a wide range of interviews and collaborations from Roman Polanski, Beth Ditto, Diane von Furstenberg, Yoko Ono and others.

Besides coming out when it damn well feels like it, Egoïste is different from other mags in that all of the ads therein are the brainchild of its kooky editor, Wisniak, who now works from her own bed in her Parisian apartment.

To wit, the ad for Louis Vuitton sounds better than whatever they’re planning with Angelina Jolie:

The Louis Vuitton ad took Wisniak and her deputy, Eleonore Therond, a full year to create. It features a lost polar bear on an adventure with a monogrammed Louis Vuitton trunk. He embarks through the tundra with it; clings to it like a buoy in frigid waters, eventually finds shelter on a boat bound for civilization—and then, trunk in hand, crashes onto the stage of a lecture given by Al Gore on the perils of global warming.

A true rarity in fashion, in publishing and just in the pace of the modern world, Egoïste has become a collector’s item with the December 1977 issue featuring Mick Jagger recently selling on eBay for $1,100. And appropriately, you won’t find Egoïste hanging around on a shelf at Barnes and Noble; the only retailer in America that carries the mag is New York’s Rizzoli Bookstore.

Perhaps one day Keira Knightely’s cover will fetch a similar price tag. The actress and occasional Chanel cyclist may seem an odd choice considering the iconoclastic cover stars before her, but for Wisniak, it’s not about being current or on trend: “It’s about lasting. It’s like a bet to see who will still be interesting in 10 years.”  [Daily Beast]

According to the mag, the top 10 female models earned a combined $112 million this year, 30% more than they did last year (a measly $86.5 M). Newer girls, however, aren’t seeing the same Super paydays ever since the recession. Which explains why Gisele made nearly half of that $112 M.

1. Gisele $45 mil

2. Heidi Klum $20 mil

3. Kate Moss $13.5 mil

4. Adriana Lima $8 mil

5. Alessandra Ambrosio $5 mil

6. Daria Werbowy $4.5 mil

7. Lara Stone $4.5 mil

8. Carolyn Murphy $4.3 mil

9. Natalia Vodianova $4 mil

10. Candice Swanepoel $3 mil

I guess Forbes doesn’t take into consideration the sizable profits from smuggling blood diamonds, hence Naomi Campbell‘s exclusion from the list. [Forbes]

As France’s finest ambassador, Christian Dior assembled 120 couture dream gowns alongside paintings and photographs that have inspired the house’s designers throughout the years. Artists that have ignited beauty at Dior include Matisse, Cezanne, Shirin Neshat, Malevich, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Man Ray, Gustav Klimt, and other sensations.

With a room dedicated solely to Dior perfumes and their campaign posters, another to recreating the feel of Monsieur Dior’s atelier and the grand hall featured suspended dresses in giant glass tubes. The curators did not shy away from John Galliano‘s greatest work despite, well, you know, as his Mitzah gown from spring ’97 sprawled its pink ruffles onto the museum floor and his sheer angelic winged cloud-like gown. Yves Saint Laurent‘s short tulle evening gown from fall ’59 lit up the exhibit.

Model Natalia Vodianova an 330 other guests took the magnitude of Dior in with awe. It was an exhibit as only could be executed with the help of Bernard Arnault and an army of 100 fashion-art dedicated workers. It left a deep impression on the fashion elite and oil tycoons alike.

If you’re in Russia, this exhibit will be open at the Pushkin Museum through July 24th. If you have no Russian adventures in your future, bask in the glory of these images.

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- Vogue UK is, expectedly, going all out for the Royal Wedding with a trifecta of bridal-themed covers. Lara Stone,  Natalia Vodianova and Freja give Terrified Bride Realness for the May issue, which takes a gander at British Vogue‘s 95-year history of covering royal weddings. 95 years of thinly-masked indifference and heavily-veiled brides; where does the time go? [Fashin]

- Though she allegedly told guests at a Topshop dinner that John Galliano would be designing her wedding dress, Kate Moss‘s fiance, Jamie Hince, says that that is “unfounded entirely.” The future Mr. Kate Moss also offered some surprisingly thoughtful insights on the shamed Dior designer: ”You can judge them on the stupid words they said – which I think were stupid, I hope that goes without saying – or you can dig a bit deeper and you can try and find out what the problem is. And I think it’s obvious that it’s alcohol. People are trying to say those are his politics. ‘I love Hitler’ – that’s not political, that’s somebody in trouble.” I must admit I wasn’t too keen on Moss marrying this Hince character, but he seems to b a step up from Pete Doherty. Then again, it’s hard to take a step down from Pete Doherty. [Vogue UK]

The clothes are classic Tom Ford: a glittery mix of sophisticated sex appeal and high-voltage glamor. But who can look at the clothes when the women modeling them are just as stunning?

Julianne Moore, Natalia Vodianova, Carolyn Murphy, Lauren Hutton, Karlie Kloss, Chanel Iman, Daphne Guinness, Rinko Kikuchi, Lakshmi Menon, Daria Werbowy, Rita Wilson, Stella Tennant, Lou Doillon, Amber Valletta, Liya Kebede, Du Juan, Anja Rubik, Abby Lee Kershaw, Edita Vilkeviciute, Joan Smalls, Liu Wen, Freja Beha Erichsen, Julia Reston-Roitfeld, Jac Jagaciak, and the Queen of World, Beyoncé all stomped and vamped their way down the runway, flanked by the Anna Wintours of the world to the tune of fellow hoofer Karen Elson‘s “Pretty Babies.”

Needless to say, it requires multiple viewings.

Racked‘s “very well-placed” sources, claim:

[T]he magazine’s parent company was unhappy with all the bad press surrounding Roitfeld’s alleged pay-for-play scandals…demanding huge sums of money for extracurricular consulting gigs and the enormous, public embarrassment of being banned from Balenciaga last season for abusing her position at Vogue. In the latter case, Roitfeld allegedly borrowed Balenciaga preview pieces and sent them to her client, Max Mara, to copy…”

Then there’s that other scandal with ANDAM winner Hakaan:

“An angry anonymous letter, which was circulated among French media this week, asked “how a Turkish designer out of nowhere books Natalia Vodianova, Maria Carla Boscono, Lara Stone or Natasha Poly for his show—models asking €15.000 min per show, and who aren’t really famous for their charity!”

Roitfeld also made an unprecedented move by showing up to Hakaan’s first show with Kate Moss in tow. And then there’s that other scandal involving LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, who “allegedly threatened Conde Nast International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse with the removal of all LVMH ads from the next issue of” French Vogue after the last issue (edited by Tom Ford) apparently didn’t contain enough LVMH ad credits and exercised “poor taste” in this editorial.

As for rumors that Carine will be working with Ford on his new womenswear line, Ford recently told the New York Times Cathy Horyn:

“Carine and I have no plans to work together at the moment, and it is nothing that we have even discussed, but of course I think she is brilliant and we are close friends so who knows about the future.”

Well, I guess Heidi Klum‘s been right all along. In fashion one day you’re Anna Wintour and the next, you’re …Carine Roitfeld. It will be interesting to see how this story unfolds, who will succeed Carine (Emmanuelle Alt is apparently not an option) and where Carine lands, besides inevitably on her stilettoed feet.

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This gold dress, originally worn by Anja Rubik in Balmain’s fall 2010 show, has landed six major covers–and it’s graced some more fabulous supermodel bodies. Claudia Schiffer dons it for Zeit‘s 40th anniversary issue, Natalia Vodianova gets her turn on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK for December, Cindy Crawford takes it to Vogue India October 2010…then Abbey Lee for German Vogue in August, Toni Garrn on Spanish Vogue‘s November cover, and it finally lands on Anna Dello Russo for the new fall issue of 10. (Not a model, but hey, she’s got the bod.)

Either we’ve got déjà vu, or this Balmain sparkler is theeee dress of choice for those blessed with supermodel height and a tiny waist. So which of these hot, skinny broads rocked it best?

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Natalia Vodianova give us our first Disney-esque look at the new Stella McCartney campaign.

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This the outfit she wore to the Valentino couture show.

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Natalia Vodianova has the looks it takes to shatter glass and she proves it in this spread by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia. Check out all the photos only on ENVY.

Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova is the new face of (Bugaboo) RED, an off shoot of the popular Product RED campaign which covers the cost of  providing medication to almost 18,000 pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child. Read her quotes on being social responsible after the jump…

“These days, if you don’t take a socially responsible position, you’re out of the club,” said Vodianova, who runs her own charity, the Naked Heart Foundation. “If you’re going to have a multi-million pound party, you should have a very good reason to do it, attach it to a charity; give back to the community.”

Couldn’t agree with you more, Natalia.

A vintage spread with a nude Natalia Vodianova featured in the February 2005 edition of Vogue Paris.More images on Fashion Gone Rogue

Natalia Vodianova once again is stunning for this “Dancer in the Dream” photoshoot for the Vogue China, I will always love her childish face!

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Models seem to be taking over Hollywood…last week a video surfaced of Natalia Vodianova in role as villainess Medusa in the new Clash of the Titans movie. Now, rumors are circulating that model/DJ/now actress Aggy Deyn will also have an acting role in the flick.

LINK LOVE: Fashionologie

Paolo Roversi shot all three of  i-D magazine’s Spring covers, featuring models Natalia Vodianova, Sasha Pivovarova and Freja Beha Erichsen.

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Natalia Vodianova can add Titan to her list of accomplishments. The Calvin Klein model is the demigod Medusa, the snake-haired woman who can turn any man into rubble with a mere stare. We’ve got an exclusive clip of Natalia’s sinister form from Clash of the Titans after the jump.

Natalia Vodianova hosted the Love Ball for her own foundation, The Naked Heart Fundation, which helps children with cancer. She helped design a necklace with De Beers in order to raise money for her cause.

Natalia dressed in Louis Vuitton and looked amazing. Peaches Geldof was also really cute, but Alice Dellal looked awful wearing some sort of rags. Also in attendance, Donna Karen and Leona Lewis.

Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova appears in the fall/winter 2009 edition of Zoo photographed by Bryan Adams. Check out the rest of the images on Fashion Gone Rogue.

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.

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The S/S 2010 campaign stars Lucky the Dalmation (shot by Linda McCartney in 1976) and Natalia Vodianova (shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott). “I love the way it’s very graphic and soft at the same time, due to its double exposure,” said McCartney of her mother’s photo, which is entitled ‘Lucky, Sussex, 1976.’

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The latest ads from the very green house of Stella McCartney have hit the web. They feature Natalia Vodianova, were shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by McCartney herself. The oddest part is the background which is actually Stella deceased Dalmatian, Lucky, which was shot by Linda McCartney in 1976.

McCartney told WWD: “I have known Marcus since I was a teenager and Mert from when they first met, but we never had the chance to work together. I wanted to capture their high-glamour approach over my mum’s low-maintenance way of working.”

She said the campaign images are “fashion meets reportage, mixing color, and black-and-white. A family animal with an outside atmosphere meets studio lights, camera, action! Opposites meeting in one image, illustrating the masculine and feminine sides of the Stella McCartney brand,” she said.

LINK LOVE: Stella McCartney Spring Ad Campaign

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?

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A beautifully pink Natalia stars in the Spring/Summer campaign for Guerlain, shot by Paolo Roversi.

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Etam Spring Campaign 2010.  Natalia models the French brands lingerie, ready to wear and daywear collections.

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A lot of controversy is happening around this spread started by commentors of FashionGoneRogue, many have said that Diddy looks emotionless, that there is no chemistry between the two ‘models,’ others think that this was the point of the spread. What do you guys think?

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Natalia Vodianova & Mariacarla Boscono and tribal prints all in one campaign!? Does it get any better than this!? No. No, it does not.

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Although this spread is more photoshop than anything else, we still applaud Vogue UK for attempting to bring innovation to traditional fashion editorials, but next time, they should pass on the weird graphic branches.  We can see that poor Natalia is trying very hard to make them work.

Models Kasia Struss, Lara Stone, Natalia Vodianova, Christy Turlington, and Gisele Bundchen photographed themselves for Vogue Italia’s December 2009 Twitter Cover Story.

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Hedi Slimane shoots a young Natalia Vodianova.

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1. Daisy Lowe at Chanel in London
2. Carine Roitfeld, Karl Lagerfeld and Emmanuelle Alt
3. Alexis Roche, Estelle Lefebure, Serge Brunschwig
4. Letizia Moratti and Donatella at the Versace store in Via Montenapoleone, Milan
5. Richard Nicoll and Yasmin Sewell at Liberty
6. Vogue presentation at Topshop
7. Philip Green at Topshop
8. Jasmine Guinness at Burberry
9. Pixie Geldof and Daisy Lowe
10. Justin Portman and Natalia Vodianova
11. Mario Testino and Marie Helvin at Burberry
12. Lara Stone and Anja Rubik at Burberry
13. Claudia Schiffer and Jacquetta Wheeler
14. Alexandra Shulman and Christopher Bailey at Burberry
15. Bay Garnett at Burberry
16. W. Brown at Gap in London
17. India Hicks at Burberry
18. Laura Bailey at Burberry
19. W. Brown performing at the Gap in London
20. Carine Roitfeld and Marisa Berenson at Dior
21. Mob Scene at Dior
22. Emma de Caunes at Armani
23. Candy at Manoush
24. In front of Manoush
25. Buying at Vuitton
26. Eva Cavalli at the Roberto Cavalli store in Milan
27. Outside Dirk Bikkernberg’s store in Via Mazoni
28. Outisde the Tods store in Via Della Spiga
29. Customers at the Missoni store in Via Sant’Andrea
30. Outside the Versace store
31. In front of the Chantecler store in Milan
32. Angela Missoni at the Missoni store
33. Bartenders at the Giorgio Armani Store
34. Roberta Armani, Letizia Moratti, Giorgio Armani, Franca Sozzani and Eva Herzigova
35. Shopping at Hermes in Berlin
36. Designer Gabriele Strehle at Strenesse in Quartier 206 in Berlin
37. A smoky spread at Boss in Berlin
38. DJ Hell’s Angel at YSL in Berlin
39. Waiting to get into Galeries Lafayette in Berlin
40. Vogue Germany’s Christine Arp, Berlin mayor Klaus Wowreitt and KaDeWe’s manager Ursula Vierkotter
41. KaDeWe’s luxury Blvd. in Berlin
42. Sahling at Galeries Lafayette in Berlin
43. Provocation’s agent at Galeries Lafayette in Berlin
44. Berliner Luft at KaDeWe

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Natalia Vodianova is all over September issues this year (Harper’s Bazaar UK). The first spread from Vogue’s September issue has been leaked (sorry Anna). Vodianova plays ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, she looks like a dream in Nina Ricci and John Galliano. Hurry up, September!

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Is it just me? Or is Harper’s Bazaar killing it all over the world for the September issue? Move over Vogue..

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Makeup company Guerlain has long featured Natalia Vodianova as their very own sort of cover girl. But when creative directors were looking for some inspiration in their newest colour collection, they had to look no further than right beyond the camera. Natalia served as quite the guiding light for Guerlain’s newest “Russian Beauty” collection which hit select stores in the beginning of August. Go check it out!

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The Louis Vuitton hairpieces worn by Natalia Vodianova in Vogue Russia give this shoot a vintage Playboy/oldschool Madonna feel.  I love her dark eye makeup and these bunny-like bows.  

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Finally a break from celebrity cover girls, the June 2009 issues include an impressive list of cover models, such as Lily Donaldson, Liu Wen, Liz Hurley, Anna Vyalitsyna, and Natalia Vodianova.

Doutzen Kroes made the cover of Vogue España, shot by Alex Cayley, and Gisele Bundchen and Sasha Pivovarova appeared on Australia and Russia Harper’s Bazaar.  Bummer: The Bundchen cover is a copy of U.S. Harper’s Bazaar April ’09

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“My agency thought that I might never do shows, because I was a bit shorter and not skinny enough,” Vodianova revealed of her early career. “But what happened was; when I gave birth to my first son I was 19, so I lost a lot of weight. I guess the stress on the body was extreme and I suddenly just turned into this stick — just the way designers love models — and after Lucas was born that’s when my career took off. I opened a lot of shows on the runway and that’s where stars are made in my industry.”

LINKAGE: Fashion Copious via UK Vogue

I have few qualms here. Anja Rubik showed some major leg. Daria Werbowy braved the infamous Balmain shoulders. Erin Wasson rocked the androgynous look. Sasha Pivovarova went simple on the dress and crazy on the feathers. But Natalia Vodianova…she looked like an innocent Princess Peach. This is the Met Gala, not a Super Mario convention.

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1) A naked Natalia Vodianova by Mario Testino for Vogue UK June
2) Isabeli Fontana on the cover of L’Officiel Brazil May
3) Dutch Elle features Bette Frank in denim

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