Look Forward to Mornings With Invigorating Organic Surge

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Organic Surge wants to be your body’s best friend. Rather than harm you with harsh chemicals, they care about giving your skin naturally derived, body-loving ingredients and organic essential oils. As someone always looking for the newest, best natural products on the market, I was thrilled to try Organic Surge Citrus Mint Shower Gel.

Reed Krakoff Steps Away From the Curve for Pre-Fall 2011 [25 Images]

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Channeling the straight silhouette of a very chic 1920s woman, Reed Krakoff added splashes of blues and oranges to an otherwise neutral palette for his pre-fall 2011 collection.

The Ports 1961 Pre-Fall Collection Is Oh-So Blue [28 Images]

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Cool and incredibly gorgeous, the Ports 1961 pre-fall collection is the answer to a dull wardrobe and “I have nothing to wear” woes.

STATUS Q: Polandia Day 2

Edited by Rachel Khona, Q Model Booker

Yo yo yo I’m here reporting from Poznan after three sparkly days of scouting in Warsaw. I have to admit I was slightly weepy at the thought of leaving Warsaw. It seems like just yesterday I arrived here all in a tizzy because I left my Dior Show mascara at home. In order to avoid having a nervous breakdown I hightailed over to Sephora where I found my beloved…. for $50 USD!!!! WTF? It’s only $25 in NYC! I love my eyelashes but not that much. So I left Sephora (but not before applying lots of mascara and eyeliner) and headed back to the Hotel La Regina to refresh in the sauna. After all I had several hard days of scouting ahead of me.

Or so I thought. I saw so many amazing new faces I thought I was going to die! Sometimes scouting is like looking for a needle in a haystack. This was more like looking for hay in a haystack. Between Elite, 23, Rebel, New Age, Orange, Choco, Joy Starsystem and Network, I found loads of guys and girls that would kick ass in NYC.

For reals take a look! I’m not even exaggerating! Hot, hotter, and more hot!

Of course I love meeting the models, but meeting the agents pulling the strings is my favorite part of the job. Agents are the backbone of a model’s career but long after a model decided to hang up her eyelash curler, the agents and agencies will still be there. Which means it’s tres important to maintain those relationships. So I was happy to have Lisa Marie from Elite/Mango as my dinner date on Monday. Not only did I enjoy some seriously delish sushi, I also got my own personal tour of some of Warsaw’s most famous monuments.

The next night I got to hang out with Tomek of 23 and his lovely wife Mari. 23 Management is relatively new, but Tomek has been in the biz foreves! Between scouting around the world and being an agent in Tokyo, Tomek knows his shiz. And he speaks fluent Japanese! And English too of course. So far all I have is French and some seriously broken pig-Latin. (And Hindi when I’m tipsy).

Anyway I gotta go to bed, tomorrow I have three agencies to see and another flight to catch. In the meantime, holla back at me. What do you think of the faces I found so far? Hot or Not? (And btw if you pick “not”, you’re wrong).

RUNWAY RUNDOWN: Orange Spring 2010

Edited by Kirby Marzec

Angela Chen’s Spring 2010 Orange collection looks like it could land among the edgy designers sold at Oak. A whole lot of draping and a whole lot of dropping comprise the small, but mighty, collection. For being such a new and young designer, Chen lands among the stars of downtown fashion.

GALLERY: RUNWAY RUNDOWN: Orange Spring 2010

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RUNWAY RUNDOWN: Orange, S/S 09

Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student

Looking at the Orange Spring/Summer ’09 collection, it’s clear that the creations draw upon a softer side of femininity. Don’t be fooled though, there are those select pieces, which bring out a subtle and untainted sense of edge. The new collection features dresses, skirts, shirts, and pants, all with a fairly bold yet simplistic color palette to choose from.

GALLERY: Orange, S/S 09

Designer: Angela Chen

Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student

Angela Chen has hit the streets and not without making a mark. Angela’s collection, titled “Orange”, is an impressive line of hand-knitted dresses that sparkle. The collection has inspirational roots from Angela’s past in Taiwan. The rain in Taiwan made a lasting impression on Angela and is the central idea in creating the extensive collection. Angela says of her collection, “[it] mimics the many temperaments of rain—its degrees in texture, rhythm and the ability to imbue a richer tone to everything it kisses”. Angela is a designer who loves to experiment with a purpose; all attempts to create a line reflective of its inspiration are successful due to experimentation with texture. The various dresses never fail to propose a statement; that statement being their undeniable purpose.