Danny Schwarz *drool* is in the new Colcci campaign alongside supermodel Gisele Bundschen. This is the first major shoot that Gisele has done since giving birth to her baby boy back in December. Danny's career in 2010 continues to get better and better. First he shot his first magazine cover for OUT's swimsuit issue and now he's booked campaign alongside the most famous model in the world.

Heres an exclusive sneak peak at the spring summer 2010 look book shots  from BFC/Vogue fashion fund nominee, Angel Jackson. They are gorgeous!! They were photographed by Tung Walsh  whose work has been featured in I-D, Pop, Dazed and Confused and 032c.

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The UK  has only  ever won the Ford Supermodel of the World  competition once but I think that  another victory might be just around the corner. Sadie Phelps was recently  selected as the UK Winner of the Ford Supermodel competition and I am seeing shades of Karen Elson and Agyness Deyn. Sadie has a very high fashion look. The Ford Supermodel Contest has helped launched the careers of  the likes of Adriana Lima, Charo Ronquillo, Gemma Ward and Kendra Spears and after the final in January, I think we will be able to add Sadie Phelps to the list of supermodels who started out  on this contest.

  1. Tell us a little about yourself – (where you grew up, your life- anything you wish to tell)

I was up London once in Covent Garden with my boyfriend and a friend of mine, when a man came running out from this salon (Essensuals Toni & Guy) asking if i would like to be his model for a hair competition, at the time i was 16 and all i cared about was standing out from the crowd, rebelling as one would say! So i really didnt care what happened with my hair, i was more than happy to model for him, my hair went from long to SHORT over night! We ended up winning the competition and i think i could put that down as being one of my first 'shows'.

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Beverely Knight is the queen of British Soul, she has dominated  the british charts  for over  a decade.  Now Beverley is  following in the footsteps of Iman as she launches a line of cosmetics for women with darker skin tones. The makeup collection is called K by Beverley Knight. The line  has 15 products in a  78 different shades.

"Like the majority of black and dark skinned women I found there wasn't any range that provided the…colours I needed. I was so excited to be offered a chance to work on my own…products, introducing a home-grown brand which caters to all tones of Black and Asian skin" – Beverley Knight

The collection launches on September 17th at Selfridges and Beverley herself will make an appearance at Selfridges to celebrate the launch.

source : graziadaily.co.uk

Kate Moss's 1st and 28th British Vogue covers

Recently I posted about Kate Moss' 28th British Vogue cover. In the past 16 years she's had more than 2 years worth of covers. In 2000 she was on the cover of 4 British Vogues 12 covers. I cant think of any other  model that has had more covers of a particular magazine than her. In fact the only person to cover a magazine more than her is Oprah Winfrey. However , its okay for Oprah Winfrey to cover every issue of O Magazine because she owns it.

One reader of this blog,  got  especially peeved by Kate Moss' appearance on the cover of British Vogue's September 2009 issue. Benedict left the following comment on that blog posts.

Although, I dont agree with everything Benedict is saying he does make me raise the question.  Has British Vogue jumped the shark by placing Kate Moss on 28 covers? It is quite excessive , its not like there is a shortage of Supermodels.

  Apparently baby's are the new model accessory of 2009. Gisele Bundchen, Karolina Kurkova, Adriana Lima and Heidi Klum are all pregnant. Now Vogue has revealed that British Model of the Year, Jourdan Dunn is also pregnant.

Vogue posted an artcle titled "Expecting In Style: What The Pregnant Jourdan Should wear this fall?" thus announcing Jourdan's pregnancy to the world. Apparently the 19 year old is expecting her baby in December.

The whole fashion world seems to be Emma Watson obsessed. Shes recently covered Flare, Crash, Teen Vogue and shot a campaign for Burberry.  Now shes adding the cover of Elle UK to her resume. The out fit is very  fierce but that frizzy hair  looks dreadful.  Thumbs up to the stylist , thumbs down to the hair stylist.

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Here are the preview images of the  new Christopher Kane for Topshop collection . Its like a modern interpretation of the little black dress. Via: Nitrolicious

These images are from Neil Barrett's  Spring Summer 2010 collection. The show confirmed  a trend that I had noticed in the menswear hows in Milan.
Sleeves are so passe in Spring Summer 2010.
I swear in every menswear show i see  lots of sleeveless shirts. It seems arms are the big trend of 2010 menswear. It might be too late to get  nice toned set of guns for this Summer but there is still enough time to beef up by 2010. So before it gets too late I so need to hire a personal trainer!!!

As well as featuring lots of sleeveless shirts the Neil Barrett S/S 2010  collection had a very masculine feel with long shirts. Black white and earth tones were the main colours in the collection. The whole collection seems inspired by fencing from the cuts of the jackets to the knee  length pants. They are reminescent of fencing breeches and jackets.

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When I went to the River Island Press day I asked them to define the River Island man. They told me that River Island caters to various men and that they try to cater to the personal style of all men so they couldn't define the ir customers as conforming to a specific style aesthetic.  If I had to describe a River Island man in one word I would say 'dapper'. Looking at this lookbook  its easy to forget that River Island is a high street store. Definitely my favourite High street menswear collection  for Autumn Winter 2009.

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Life must be good  for Mischa Barton. Shes got a new show and now she is releasing a new line of bags.  Kpriss over at StyleFrizz definitely isn't a fan of the Mischa's new handbags

I actually think her bag collection is okay and its much better than her line of (overpriced) headbands. I really love the black bag with the fringing and I think the black and white animal print bag is also great. However I really don't like the  colourful embroidered bag as it looks really dated. Overall though the handbags are ok and the campaign for the bags is good.

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Last month I posted images from the River Island Autumn Winter 2009 lookbook. River Island is bang on trend this season. From the faux fur to the  fringing, River Island has ticked all of the right boxes . The outfit above even reminds me of Balmain. Overall its definitely a thumbs up for River Island

 British actor, Max Irons is the new face of Mango's HE Emerito Homini Autumn/Winter 2009/2010  menswear line.  He has previously modelled for Burberry but now he is headlining the Spanish retail giant. The campaign was photographed by  photographer, Francesco Carrozzi and the collection is in keeping with the current trend of military influenced menswear.

Check out the video below for a preview of the Mango menswear and womenswear fashion show for  Autumn/Winter 2009 

Once again Bruno has hi-jacked the cover of a major fashion magazine. This month he is on the cover of GQ and Marie Claire. On Marie Claire he shared the cover ith supermodel Alessandro Ambrossio.  Well on his GQ cover he opted to go it alone! He also opted to forego wearing clothes as he is completely nude on the cover. Brunomania is totally wild!!! What is next a cover Vogue??….ok that will never happen

H&M obviously has a thing for British  designers. They have previously collaborated with  Matthew Williamson and Stella McCartney . Today they announced they'll be collaborating with British accessories label Jimmy Choo.

The collection is due out on November 14th and omg it will probably be chaos. Jimmy Choo shoes usually start about £400 and fans  of the label will storm the stores to get Jimmy Choo at H&M's prices. It'll  be like Christmas in November.

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It's finally warm in London, so I thought I'd keep up the heat with some steamy pictures of British Model, Jamie Dorman and  Eva Mendes in the latest Calvin Klein ads. Last year she was the brand ambassador for  Calvin Klein's Secret Obsession fragrance, In the US it was deemed too sexy for TV viewers and censors banned the ad. However, here in London the ad ran as per normal. Probably has something to do with us Brits being more open (read open as pervy) about sex on tv.

British model Emma Heming and her hubby Bruce WIllis are on the cover of W Magazine. They are also featured in a sexy editorial inside.  Bruce is shirtless in most of the photos and wears  underwear and red  gloves while his wife Emma sports a very dominatrix-like look.

Emma Heming is no stranger to sexy photo shoots, you should recognize Emma from her days as Victoria Secret model and from the Fall/Winter 08 ad campaign she did for La Senza.

Images from the shoot are below.

More shots of the steamy photo shoot are after the jump.

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