Model of the Moment (female): Karlie Kloss!

Who: Karlie Kloss

Age: 17

Nationality: American

Agency: NEXT

Why: BECAUSE SHES ON THE COVER OF (AMERICAN) FASHION MAGAZINE!! Its soo nice to see models make to the covers in the US. This is her second Teen Vogue COVER!! Love Karlie Kloss.

Model of the Moment (female): Jessica Stam

Who: Jessica Stam

Age: 23

Nationality: Canadian

Agencies: IMG (NY) Why Not (Milan)

Why: For being on the FIRST cover of Turkish Vogue!! Looking better than ever!

Model of the Moment (female): Mirte Maas

Who: Mirte Maas

Agency: Women NY

Nationality: Dutch

Why: Opened Alexander Wang SHOW (above)!; most talked about model of the moment.

Model of the Moment (female): Lara Stone!! Why WE all LOVE HER!

Who: Lara Stone

Nationality: Dutch

Age: 25

Agency: IMG (International)

Why: Because she's size 6, out spoken, on August US W magazine cover (take that celebs), muse of many designers, and FUCKING AMAZING!

Interview with W:

Like most so-called overnight successes, Lara Stone is a fashion darling many years in the making. And as is typical of the stories behind suddenly white-hot commodities, Stone’s narrative contains a moment when she almost chucked it all. She was living in Paris, the city where at 15, during a family vacation from her small Dutch hometown, she was discovered in the metro by a model agent’s wife. “Three and a half years ago, I was really ready to quit,” says Stone, now 25 and curled up in a loose black T-shirt and leggings on a leather bench at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, where she is about to slip into decidedly sexier garb and channel a naughty schoolmistress alongside a gaggle of male models for a shoot with photographer Steven Klein. Her voice is low and soft, and she speaks carefully, as if she might disturb someone lurking nearby. Throughout her late teens, Stone recalls, she worked regularly, doing mostly regional print in places like Tokyo and Barcelona. But those jobs tapered off—hence the moment of despair. In a last-ditch effort at career resuscitation and at the urging of an old boyfriend, she switched agents; the new team, at IMG, aggressively sent her out as a “fresh face”—even though, Stone says, “everybody in Paris knew me, because I’d been there for so long and I’d been doing castings all the time.”

The strategy worked. This new yet precisely the same as before Stone—whose feline features, languid gap-toothed smile and voluptuous frame had previously scored her plenty of European catalog work but no major runway work or editorials—caught the eye of Riccardo Tisci, who was casting his fall 2006 Givenchy couture show. “When I [first] saw Lara, I was coming out of my studio to go into another room, and I crossed Lara in the corridor, and I took her straightaway,” says Tisci. “She was supershy. I asked her a few questions, I took a Polaroid and I looked at the agent and said, ‘I want Lara exclusively.’ I fell in love.”

The fashion pendulum had swung in Stone’s favor, and soon she was all over the place: kohl-eyed and poured into a slightly sheer, button-down cardie at the spring 2008 Prada show; lying supine on a bed, her bare chest obscured by a furry handbag for a Juergen Teller photo shoot. At Isabel Marant, for whom Stone has walked in the last three shows and who calls Stone “a kind of alien—she’s a mix of a warrior and Brigitte Bardot,” she appeared fresh-scrubbed and dressed in a snappy henley shirtdress, proving a chameleon-like adeptness at morphing into whatever particular image a designer wants to project during a given season.

There is nothing girlish about Stone. Nor is there anything boyish; Klein calls her “the girl with the X-rated lips.” She’s neither coquette nor vamp; her seduction lies in her womanliness—the breasts, the hips—and perhaps also in the palpable ambivalence Stone feels toward the industry that she finds herself at the top of at the moment. She lives in London now and avoids fashion parties, though she visibly shudders when asked what she might want to do after the klieg lights shut down. “When I think about my job now, it’s so easy. Because you get so much free time, you get to travel everywhere,” she says. “The people are nice and fun and easy and relaxed. You get to smoke at work. You make lots of money.” Stone pauses. “Where are you ever going to find another job where you don’t have a boss or responsibilities, really, except to get on an airplane and just show up? It’s a bit worrying.”

The other thing that has Stone fretting is her body, an irony given how many photographers and designers see in her a refreshing aesthetic shift away from the prepubescent boy figure that has lately dominated fashion. Bruce Weber, who has worked with Stone several times since her Givenchy re-debut, says, “To me, Lara is part Marlon Brando, part Thelonious Monk and part Robert Mitchum. She’s big, bad and beautiful.”

“She had this sexual awareness,” the photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott recall via e-mail of meeting Stone two years ago, on a shoot for this magazine. “Normally when we are shooting, we are looking to create a character, and the great thing about Lara is that she is naturally already such a strong character herself [that] she inspires us to take a better picture.” But Stone has struggled with the role of healthy poster girl (she is, it should be noted, a very lithe five feet ten). “A lot of people say it’s nice to see someone who won’t break in half when you touch them,” she says with a sigh, rolling a pack of cigarettes around in her hands. “But I am still a woman and a person, and if you’re compared and confronted with your colleagues, and they’re all half your size, you think, F---, I’m really fat! And then on other days, I’m like, Oh, I’m not that bad.” Coming to terms with her charmingly gapped front teeth has been an easier journey, however, despite the suggestion from a certain editor in chief that she might get them fixed. “She was just wondering what we were going to do about my teeth,” Stone says, laughing, “and I thought she was talking about the fact that they are so yellow, so I told her I would quit smoking, which I still haven’t done.” Now, Stone adds, “I quite like them. It makes me different.”

In many of Stone’s photographs and in her runway work—about which she has anxiety too, though mostly because her size-7 feet make walking in the size-8 and -9 samples more of a clomp than a strut—the notable quality is a lack of emotion: Unlike her contemporaries, such as Sasha Pivovarova, who often has the look of a lost nymph in the forest, or even Gisele, who has become her own universally recognized brand, Stone works like a blank canvas, a grown-up who is content to let her collaborators paint their fantasies upon her. It is a role that seems to suit her just fine. Asked if she likes fashion, Stone glances up, shows a flash of those famous teeth, and says, “I like my job.”

LOVE LOVE LOVE LARA!

Model Of the Moment (male): Travis Davenport

Who: Travis Davenport

Agency: Major (NY), Nous (LA), Premier (London), Banana (Paris)

Nationality: American

Why: Beside being muse of POLO and Ralph Lauren he is staring in Chanel 5 Commercial!

Model of the moment (female): Alexandra Tomlinson

Who: Alexandra Tomlinson

Agency: IMG

Age: 23

Nationality: American

Why: Because she just appeared on FIRST EVER AD from ZAC POSEN! And KILLED IT! The world is talking about the girl!! And who ever said falling on the runway kills the model's career? She has fellen (click here), and look at her now! Better than ever!

Model of the Moment (female): Lakshmi Menon

Who: Lakshmi Menon

Age: 27

Nationality: Indian

Agency: Ford

Why: For rocking the cover of Dazed & Confused, April 2009 Issue. Their BEST issue!! I love Lakshmi Menon's artistic looks. She is unstoppable!

Model of the Moment (male): Baptiste Giabiconi

Who: Baptiste Giabiconi

Agency: DNA

Why: He is the new muse for KARL LAGERFELD!! He banked big campaigns this season. He is the new face of Chanel (Designer: KARL LAGERFELD) The new face for well..KARL LAGERFELD brand and the new face of Fendi which was photographed by who else? KARL LAGERFELD!! hey if Karl loves him and we all love him. Click here for his Fendi ad.

Model of the Moment (female): Ali Stephens

Who: Ali Stephens

Agency: Elite NY

Nationality: American

Why: Because I love her look, had great fashion week in NY and Milan, she looks speechless in NO magazine editorial (above).

Models of the Moment (male): Doug Jewell + Matt Gordon

Who: Doug Jewell and Matt Gordon

Agencies: Both with DNA NY

Why: Doug is the new muse for Jil Sander and Matt Gordon is for Tommy Hilfiger and also looks perfect for Missoni

Model of the Moment (Female): Edita Vilkeviciute

Who: Edita Vilkeviciute

Nationality: Lithuanian

Agencies: DNA (NY), WHY NOT (Milan), ViVa (Paris)

Why: Because she's a MEGA CAMPAIGN GIRL. Just look above, from Dior Beauty Cosmetics to Calvin Jeans sexy ad and from Armani to Karl lagerfeld Ad! She also the face of Versace perfume and will be renewing that contract. PLUS after appearing in her first VS fashion show, it seems that she is a favorite at Victoria's Secret!!

Model of the Moment (Male): Lasse Pedersen

Who: Lasse Pedersen

Agency: Left Public Image Worldwide to DNA in NY...yes, another one to drop Public Image...

Why: Lesse walked the most of the shows in Paris and Milan!

Model Of the Moment (female): Chanel Iman

Chanel Iman on Page Six magazine, featured in NY POST Newspaper



Confession of a black top model: In Page Six Magazine interview, Chanel speaks her mind about what's it like to be a top black model. Her response:

"“It’s not just black girls. It’s ethnic girls in general: Brazilian girls, Hispanic. You really don’t see a lot of Asians either. A lot of designers think that if every girl on the runway looks exactly alike, then people will come to the shows and buy the clothes because they won’t be focusing on the models….It’s not even just runway either… us ethnic girls should be getting a lot of the covers too! I would love to be on half of the campaigns these [white] girls are booking, all looking exactly alike. It’s not right. It’s not fair.”

I agree with her! I do believe designers use all look alike models so the customers don't focus on models and also S/S09 ad season so far, there are only a few (2-3) black models, something has to be done.



In the AD above, can you spot out Toni? Nimue? Victoriya?, Ymre? Katrin? right away?? They all look alike in some sense! Don't get me wrong I love all these girls and like the AD but i would love to see some color woman in it. Please leave your comment on this issue. I would love to know what yours opinion. Thank you!

Model Of the Moment (female): Lara Stone

Who: LARA STONE

AGENCY: IMG (INTERNATIONAL)

Why: Because its LARA STONE!, Having Vogue Italia dedicated to her, and becuase we love her

Model Of the Moment (Male): Taylor Fuchs

Who: Taylor Fuchs

Agency: Why Not Model

Why: Because he just turned 22 on the Jan 17th, walked the hottest runways and still walking on runways as we speak in Milan and Paris (all pictures above are from this season's look), and most importantly cuz He's TAYLOR FUCHS! Love this kid!

Model Of the Moment (female): K K

WHO: Karlie Kloss

Agency: NEXT

WHY: Snagging the Dolce and Gabbana S/S09