Posts for April 2nd 2012

Kate Moss

When Sarah Burton Lied to Anna Wintour, Analyzing the Modeling Industry, and Kate Moss's 300 Covers

>> Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.



>> Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

  • Sarah Burton looked Anna Wintour straight in the eye and lied to her about her involvement with Kate Middleton's royal wedding dress — not a feat most designers could pull off. According to Hamish Bowles, the editor cornered Burton and asked her point blank whether or not she was designing it, and Burton said no. "Anna was telling everyone, 'Sarah told me she's not doing the dress, so she's not doing the dress,'" Bowles said. [The Cut]

  • A few other pieces of Alexander McQueen's creations are on display as part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's current exhibit, titled British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. Among other items included in the exhibit is "a tattered Anarchy in the U.K. T-shirt designed by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren." [Fashion Etc]

  • The Model Alliance today released an analysis of the modeling industry's working conditions and found that 68 percent of the models surveyed suffered from depression or anxiety, and 77 percent had been exposed to drugs and alcohol on the job. The analysis also revealed that 93 percent of models get their start in the industry before their 20th birthday. [The Fashion Spot]

  • Marissa Mayer is known as much for her position as one of the top female engineers at Google as she is for her penchant for designer clothing. "Oscar de la Renta is an amazing designer who works really well with color and detail which I think is something that's inspiring," she says. "When you want to treat yourself to something that's really beautiful, that really inspires you and captures your imagination, you should buy it." [BuzzFeed Shift]

  • Just how many issues of Vogue has Kate Moss covered? According to a new book, Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon, she's been on over 300 covers of international editions of the magazine, including her recent September 2011 cover of American Vogue. [Stylelist]
Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley Goes Darkly Glamorous For Interview

>> Keira Knightley is Interview magazine's April cover girl, and the photos she took for the magazine are rich, smoky, and complex.
Keira Knightley Interview April 2012 Pictures

>> Keira Knightley is Interview magazine's April cover girl, and the photos she took for the magazine are rich, smoky, and complex.

Shot by photographic duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, the pictures mostly feature Knightley wearing dramatic makeup and dark clothing. There's no shortage of leather jackets, and the shoot is heavy on clothes from French design houses like Celine, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent. However, there's also a dash of Diane von Furstenberg thrown in for good measure.

Perhaps it's the interview that she did with director David Cronenberg that inspired the fancy dominatrix overtones in the shoot. Cronenberg directed Knightley in A Dangerous Method, in which there's a lot of spanking. While she's not exactly toting around a cat-o'-nine-tails, she does look dangerous.

Click through for a look at some of our favorite photos from the shoot, then see more and read the complete interview here.

Anna Wintour

Time Names 100 Greatest Fashion Icons

Coco Chanel in 1920 >> Time magazine today released its list of the 100 greatest fashion icons, a collection of designers, brands, models, muses, photographers, editors, and stylists meant to be the definitive guide to the "visionaries that changed how we think about what we wear, and how we wear it."

Coco Chanel in 1920



>> Time magazine today released its list of the 100 greatest fashion icons, a collection of designers, brands, models, muses, photographers, editors, and stylists meant to be the definitive guide to the "visionaries that changed how we think about what we wear, and how we wear it."

The list includes all of the expected players — Coco Chanel is there, as are Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Wintour, Naomi Campbell, and Steven Meisel — but there are also a few people most wouldn't think of for a list like this. Sarah Blakely, inventor of Spanx, is included because she "has helped shape the modern woman — literally." Jacques Heim and Louis Réard, the men who simultaneously invented what eventually became the bikini are also on the list.

Time only mentions style influencers who made an impact after 1923 — the beginning of Time magazine — which means the list reaches back to people like '20s icon Zelda Fitzgerald and Chanel rival Elsa Schiaparelli. The list doesn't include any notable retailers (Andrew Saks and Ikram Goldman would have been worthy additions), and it's also not very diverse — of the 100 people on the list, only eight are black and two are Asian.

Still, the list is a testament to how vital the creative forces of the fashion industry are to the world at large. Take a look at the whole thing on Time.

Arizona Muse

Arizona Muse on Getting Her Body Back After Having a Child

>> Arizona Muse says having son Nikko three years ago didn't disrupt her modeling career — in fact, she credits motherhood with turning her body into the unstoppable force that it is today.
Arizona Muse

>> Arizona Muse says having son Nikko three years ago didn't disrupt her modeling career — in fact, she credits motherhood with turning her body into the unstoppable force that it is today.

"I remember during my first season feeling really well received as a model and a mother," she recently told The Daily Telegraph. "When people asked me things, they asked about being a mother; they weren't asking me about walking down a catwalk. They were real-life things. It was nice."

Since then, Muse's career has skyrocketed. She's appeared in campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton and has walked runways for everyone from Dior to Prada. Muse said that having Nikko (who has already modeled in a J.Crew catalog) is a big part of her success. The model learned she was pregnant while working in New York, and — thinking her career was over — moved to Los Angeles to give birth to and raise Nikko. Later, she decided to move back to New York, where she says she was able to get bookings again fairly easily.

So how did Muse get back to fighting form so quickly? Click through to find out, and see some of her chicest off-duty looks.