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This runway here seems a bit unsafe and that model, really looks unhappy. Sarah Welch is the model that falls into the hole that is right above a swimming pool.
Here’s another in slow motion, I think I already posted this one somewhere on here, but this one is kind of classic. Talk about uncomfortable shoes, these seem plain hazardous.
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under models.
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Here are some crazy fashion looks on some top models
Check out Lui Wen sport this very safe outfit. If you are gonna take a fall, you better hope you are wering something like this to give you lots of padding… built in air bags?
More crazy Margiela runway fashion from the 2008 show, Anna Tokarska for Margiela
Margiela, Eugienia is the model
Laura Kading on the runway for Margiela
Posted: July 11th, 2008 under Anna Tokarska, Designers, Laura Kading, Lui Wen, crazy fashion, models.
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Check out these great female models courtesy of ExploreTalent.com and the models in the Exploretalent modeling community. This modeling video was made from the online modeling portfolios that the models use for promotion on the site. Explore Talent is the largest modeling community on the web and getting your own portfolio is free.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Model Portfolio, models.
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Surfing around, I found this interview with model Adina Forizs on models.com
Everyone can agree, Adina is a stunning girl and one to watch for sure. At 20, she is a student at Budapest University. Adina is one of these girls who has been naturally blessed all around, stunning looks and a stunning mind to match.
She is majoring in engineering and hopes to become a civil engineer when the modeling
world tires of her, which may not be for a very long time to come. Adina is ahead of the game for sure not only planning out her career in fashion modeling but also her career afterwards.
WS: Dear Adina, Could you tell our readers a little bit about yourself.
AF: So my name is Adina. I’m from Hungary. My mother agency is Icon in Hungary. I’m twenty year old I started modeling a year before but I have been at university studying so I wasn’t full time. Now I have a break.
WS: What was your field of study ?
AF:If I finish I will be a civil engineer.
WS: You must be brilliant at Mathematics.
AF:I should be but I failed my exams. (laughs)
WS: What does a civil engineer construct? Is it more like buildings as in architecture…or structual things like bridges?
AF: There are two types . The first one is the people who think about the buildings … how the buildings should look and I am really more the other type who actually makes the building.
WS: How did the idea of modeling enter your life in the first place?
AF: A lot of times when I was walking on the street people would ask me if I am a model and I told them no…no…no. But then I was very curious as to why everybody was saying that I should be a model. So I decided to give it a try.
WS:Tell us about your going to Milan for the Prada.
AF:I was in Milan for three weeks and every day I went to Prada to do the looks. Then somebody told me that I was going to get the show and I was very happy about this but I didn’t know I will open. They told me five minutes before the show “You will open”.
WS: Now that was a well kept secret. Since it was so last minute, did the news make you more nervous about walking your first show?
AF: I was nervous but it was really fun. After I opened, I came back from the runway very happy.
WS:I imagined you learned a lot about the behind-the-scenes of how a show is put together
AF: Yes it was very interesting because I could see how the designer works. It was really interesting. They were working a lot when I first went there . When I went back they really put a lot of effort into everything that they were doing. They were so energetic you never saw that they were tired.
WS: I guess there was a lot of passion at Prada. Coming from such a scientific background, did this world of high fashion surprise you or overwhelm you?
AF: I don’ t know exactly what I expected really of it but I thought that this way is the normal way . I spoke to a lot of people …other girls. This was my first season but I spoke to those girls who were doing this for a longer time. It was another girl for instance who told me the Prada was very very good to do.
WS; Ah, so you did your research going in! Are you looking forward to photographing campaigns and editorials now?
AF: I hope so
WS: Oh we fully suspect you’ll be doing every major editorial in sight. Have you shot any editorials before ?
AF: No, only the test things in my book.
WS: Which makes it an even more amazing start then. Is there a particular kind of music you listen to ?
AF: No. I listen to everything depending on how I feel. I don’t have a special choice. I like the music when I go onto the runway . The music at the shows I did in Milan and in Paris was amazing. It really was like party music
WS: How about your current reading. Which authors do you like?
AF: I like the books of Paulo Coelho. I think he is my favorite author . I like books which provoke thinking
WS:Like philosophical works?
AF: Not exactly philosophy but I don’t like books with just stories… where people just act. I’ve been reading “The Fifth Mountain” and recently I read “The Alchemist” in English
WS: How many languages do you speak ?
AF: I speak Hungarian, English and German
WS: Is that because in Hungary you speak both the native tongue and German?
AF:No I studied in school, German for the past 8 years.
WS:And now I imagine you’re learning some French?
AF:No. Its a very beautiful language but the pronunciation is so difficult for me . I think its easier in German because there are rules and you just follow them
WS: I’m really impressed by your academic prowess. Do you see yourself going back to school soon to get that engineering degree?
AH:Now I would like to focus on this, the modeling though I never know what will happen now . I have a good start so I’m going to try to let it go for as long as possible
WS: Fantastic answer Adina. We know you’re going to be a great model and a very smart and inspiring one at that. Thank you so much for spending time with us!
AH: Thank you!
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Adina Forizs, Model Interviews, Top Models, models.
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I saw an article published last week about a young teen model who learned at the age of 18, just a few years into her career, that she may be killing herself. In recent years a few models have died from starvation and being too thin.
When she started modeling, she was 5′ 9″ and 130 lbs. That is by no means overweight, that is actually thin. As her career took off and she found herself traveling for fashion shows, designers kept asking her to lose a few pounds. A few pounds for this show, a few more for that one and on and on. Finally, she realized she was 102 lbs. and losing her hair at 18.
“My kind of wake-up call was I was on a plane from Paris to Texas, which is where I’m from,” Michael told TODAY’s Ann Curry Wednesday in New York. “I ran my fingers through my hair and when I took my hand away, there was a dry, brittle clump of hair in my hand.”
I know many shows and some designers have taken a stand against anorexia but many others still are under the impression that the only way their clothing will look good is if it displayed on a walking hanger so that there is no possibility that a small curve in the body may cause an unflattering crease in the clothing.
The problem arises when regular teen girls buy those clothes and realize it does not look the same on them as it does on the fashion model and begin a string of diets so they too can have that just hung-on, crease less look.
Alexandra decided that death is too high a price to pay for her career in high fashion. She stopped dieting and gained a few pounds. Now weighing 109 lbs (which, BTW is a size 0 for 5′4″, much less 5′9″), she went back to work in Paris and found that again, she was called too fat and had a difficult time getting any work unless she lost weight.
Luckily, every decade seems to have its own look, the glamorous 20’s, the curvy voluptuous 50’s, skinny twiggy times followed and later the fitness craze of the 80’s hit the runway. Today’s look can be called “Heroin Chic”, as the MSNBC article does, or maybe even “meth makeover”. OK, maybe “meth makeover” doesn’t work because they still have the teeth even though the hair may be going. Either way, it’s definately the wrong message to send to the wide eyed teen girls who see that look as the standard of beauty.
Alexandra also said “From my personal experience, it has to change,” she said. “We’re sending a message, and the fashion industry affects everybody — anybody who opens a magazine, anybody who watches TV.”
The average American woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 163 pounds.
The average supermodel is between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-11 and weighs no more than 125 pounds.
United States spends $33 billion a year on diets and health professionals warn that the general population is getting fatter and fatter, the models get skinnier and skinnier. Isn’t there a middle ground anywhere?
“I don’t think that people realize that there are lifelong consequences,” Michael said. “Anorexia and bulimia can cause heart failure and osteoporosis and infertility. It’s a serious problem, and I think that it really needs to change.”
the MSNBC article
I wonder if these High fashion models look better in the bikini than say the fit sports illustrated swimsuit models.
Now Here are the Sports Illustrated Models, Serena Williams and Beyonce. I bet we can all agree that curvier may work a bit better when more skin is shown.
“Heroin Chic”
Posted: May 22nd, 2008 under Alexandra Michaels, Model News, models.
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