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Showing posts with label CR Fashion Book. Show all posts




THE FRESH FACE: SAM ROLLINSON


The latest segment in CR’s ongoing series profiling fashion’s rising stars


Photography Anthony Maule

Above: Sam Rollinson wears Top, pants, and fur shoes Céline



For her debut season, Sam Rollinson earned a coveted spot as a Balenciaga Spring 2013 runway exclusive (which also happened to be the last collection by Nicolas Ghesquière). For Fall 2013, things only got better. “Doing so many shows last season was very unexpected,” says Rollinson. It was one for the books, indeed. The catwalker from Yorkshire appeared in 64 Fall 2013 shows, including Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Saint Laurent, and Valentino. When she’s not on the runway or shooting ad campaigns (she’s currently starring in the Balenciaga Spring campaign), the Brit (known for her razor sharp cheekbones and chic ‘do ) likes to hone her culinary talents. “I really like baking,” she admits. Here, Rollinson gives us a taste of her world.



FIRST LOOK “My first memory of fashion? Wearing cute party dresses when I was little.”



CATWALK DEBUT “Bora Aksu. I opened the show and I was pretty nervous!”



SPRING PICKS “I want to buy a new pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, perfect for wearing on a sunny day.”



ROLE MODELS “I admire all successful models as role models, ones that have been on the scene for a while and are still brilliant and in-demand.”



TOP TIP “On catwalk strutting: Don’t think about it too much. It’s easy to over complicate something as simple as walking when you know hundreds of people will be watching you.”



BEAUTY BAG “I wouldn’t call it a trick, but I put lip balm on religiously.”



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THE FRESH FACE: SOO JOO


The latest segment in CR’s ongoing series profiling fashion’s rising stars


Photography Brigitte Niedermair

Soo Joo wears Dress Theyskens’ Theory

Socks Kimono House



“I enjoy creating things—interesting, beautiful, and memorable,” Soo Joo tells CR. “Before I became a model, I wanted to do something that involves fashion or art, and I guess that’s what drew me to modeling in the first place.” Prior to that, the striking catwalker (who appeared on the runways at major shows including Rick Owens, Chanel, and Lanvin) was flexing her artistic muscles as an architecture student at UC Berkeley. By her last year in school, however, she knew she was destined for a different path. “It [architecture] can be seen as solving a problem, a design problem, and I really enjoyed approaching it with a conceptual eye, but in real life, there are many limitations in exercising in that way,” she says. Here, she talks about her foray into modeling, her beauty secrets, and her signature blonde hair.



FASHION DREAMS “Growing up, no one in my family was particularly interested in fashion and I didn’t know where to look for it. So, in seventh grade, I saved up and bought myself a one-year subscription to Vogue through my school’s magazine drive. Flipping through the pages, it was such a contrast to my life in a little town…it seemed so unreal, like a real life fairytale book.”



CATWALK DEBUT “I can’t remember exactly, but the first show I walked in was something local in San Francisco, which is where I was first scouted. I was probably really nervous and hoping I didn’t fall out of my shoes. I still get nervous, but I’ve come a long way since then.”



ROLE MODELS “I admire Yoko Ono, David Bowie, and Rem Koolhaas for their iconic images and talent.”



BEAUTY SECRET “I always have one of those face masks from Korean drugstores containing stem cells and snail extract in my carry-on bag for long flights. They’re inexpensive but leave my skin hydrated and soft.”



BLONDE AMBITIION “My agents and I were talking about trying something very different with my look. I’ve always wanted to bleach my hair, so I thought, why not?”



SPRING PICKS “I just purchased the crinkled silk bra top from Miu Miu and picked up a pencil skirt from Zero + Maria Cornejo with abstract print of the de Young museum in San Francisco (one of my favorite buildings). This is going to be my summer uniform!”



Click to see Soo Joo’s fashion week diaries for CR from Paris , Milan , London , and New York .







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SILVER LININGS


Must-have metallic shoes from Cesare Paciotti


Stash away those boots and put some spring in your step with these new chrome, studded sandals by Cesare Paciotti .



Shoes Cesare Paciotti

Socks Kimono House



Photography Alexa Karolinski

Photo assistant Natascha Goldenberg

Editor Michaela Dosamantes







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SQUARED AWAY


Hairstylist Akki Shirakawa weighs in on the haircut of the season, the carré, inspired by Linda Evangelista’s famous crop


To me, the look is like the high fashion leaders in Tokyo in the late 80s and early 90s. These people were wearing Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Issey Miyake, etc., and they had graphic haircuts and wore pinstripe suits, long skirts, dark eye shadow, and dark nails.



To get the look, you should not go to the hair salon—this is important. Instead, ask one of your fashionable friends to do, almost so it looks like a mistake. It should be like someone chopped off some length and cut bangs in five minutes.



Make it fresh right with color. If you have originally lighter hair color, it can go almost pitch black, if you have black hair it can be bleached blonde. Some color would help to make the haircut create cool unbalance of beauty face and hair. –Akki



Above: Photography Steven Meisel / Courtesy Max Mara

Linda Evangelista wears Max Mara



imagePhotography Anthony Maule

Sam Rollinson wears Fur stole, bra, skirt Prada

Shoes Manolo Blahnik



imagePhotography Maurizio Bavutti

Ashleigh Good (in red) wears Dress and shoes Gucci



imagePhotography Paul Maffi

Wang Xiao (center) wears Clothing and shoes Giorgio Armani







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MODEL DIARIES: SOO JOO’S PFW


Fashion month in review


Photography Soo Joo



We asked the top model to give us an insider’s look at fashion month as it happened. Here, her Paris recap. Click to check out her snaps from New York , London , and Milan .



Above: Showing off my accessory moments before Lanvin!



imageWalking the Lanvin runway at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, which was especially exciting for me, because I had learned about it while studying architecture in during my collegiate years. And then I got to walk through it, wearing Lanvin! Life is surreal.


imageWho wore it best? Here I am at Tom Ford’s boutique opening party in Paris. It took me a little time to pick out my outfit, but I think I might have won this one, because my accessories are way more fierce.


imageThere was a shoe station backstage at Loewe for last-minute footwear fixes. The heels were sharp, thin-strapped sandals with a horsehair mohawk down the heel…very kooky and sexy.


imageThe beautiful stage for Chanel is set. The models walked around a giant rotating globe centerpiece pinned with little Chanel flags.


imageCara stretching out her back during downtime at Chanel backstage.


imageRehearsal time!






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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: TROY SCHUMACHER


Meet the New York City Ballet dancer and founder of BalletCollective who stars in Issue 2


Photography Paul Maffi

Words Sarah Fones



Prior to embarking on a career in ballet, a young Troy Schumacher found himself besotted with another form of dance. “One day had the idea that I wanted to drum with my feet,” recalls the Atlanta-reared New York City Ballet company member. Pleas to take formal tap classes went ignored for a period, during which Schumacher improvised. “I spent all this time inventing what I thought tap dancing was going to be,” the 26-year-old explains. “And I’m sure it annoyed the hell out of my parents because I was just tap dancing, or quote-unquote, ‘tap dancing,’ all the time.” Schumacher’s skills had markedly improved by the age of 12, when he tried out for the Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker, nabbing the plum part of Nicholas. Years later, the boy-who-would-tap appeared in the very same George Balanchine classic with the NYCB.



Covetable company roles, including Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, followed. Turns for younger, influential choreographers like Benjamin Millepied and Christopher Wheeldon did, too. Still, Schumacher’s desire to carve out his own niche remained. He learned to read music and taught himself piano, and began dabbling in choreography. In 2010, Schumacher founded BalletCollective, a rotating consortium of NYCB dancers, poets, musicians and visual artists. “We talk about contexts that are interesting to us. And then we try to create a well-rounded work where each art form is equal,” Schumacher says. Works might begin with a poem based on a conversation amongst the group, he explains, taking into account a word’s emotional impact or certain linguistic structures. Dancers then communicate the group’s language silently, with their bodies, while musicians express it audibly.



In August, BalletCollective will perform a 25-minute piece with contributions from longtime New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin and composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone at New York’s Joyce Theater. More recently, Schumacher and members of BalletCollective teamed up with lensman Paul Maffi for a short film for CR Fashion Book. “I tried to think about what would film very well, what sort of intimate moments could be exposed nicely on camera,” Schumacher says. “And then I also had this interesting variable of fashion.” At times, the effect is quite visceral. A dancer thwack-thwacks the wall to break in her pointe shoes, later dusting their toes with chalk. Movements, from the more mundane stretch to the elegant plié, are tailored to showcase the clothing, which comes from Givenchy, Comme des Garçons, and Rick Owens. The result is personal, honest, and characterized by a refined, vigorous athleticism. “One thing about ballet, it’s beautiful, and it is a self-sufficient art form. But it requires so much to be possible,” Schumacher remarks, ticking off a familiar list. His goal is to imbue a traditional dance medium with modern, collaborative savoir-faire. “Every time you put together a ballet, there are all of these elements,” he adds. “So why not make them all new, make them current and fresh?”







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ROCK STAR EQUIPMENT


Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart of the Kills show off the brand’s Spring silhouettes


Hince and Mosshart are the new faces of Equipment’s Spring 2013 ad campaign. Here, the duo performs “Superstition” wearing some of the label’s latest looks.



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