Behati Prinsloo by Kayt Jones

Kayt Jones photographed Behati Prinsloo & Jamie Strachan for the i-D Magazine on February 18, 2010 in LA with stylist Pippa Vosper.

i-D Magazine
Model: Behati Prinsloo & Jamie Strachan
Photographer: Kayt Jones
Stylist: Pippa Vosper
Hair: John Ten
Makeup: Kate Lee
Film "The Corner" directed by Jay Rodan & Kayt Jones

Video can be seen here on thecorner.com:

Heather Marks Italian Vogue interview video

The video interview can be seen here on Vogue.it:



The face of an angel that doesn't hide her determination to be always true to herself.
Famous for big blue eyes and a cheeky, elf-like look. She's known in the fashion world for being one of the doll-like models.

Personal style
"Pretty much you just have to be yourself! Every girl has their own style, and that's what clients like. They like to see variety. I wouldn't really say that I adjust my style to match those of designers etc, I dress to be comfortable."

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Born in Calgary to British parents, at 11 she won a local beauty pageant. She immediately started working in advertising for brands like Calvin Klein and Karl Lagerfeld.

"Starting at the age of 14, you're thrown into such a crazy industry. You're working with girls double the age of you, I found I was always the youngest girl out there. I find you have to mature in this business, it's almost like you're forced to; personality and maturity is about 80 percent of the business."

One of her first modelling jobs took her, at 15, to Zanzibar for a photo shoot. "The whole experience was absolutely amazing, taking a two-seater plane over the ocean, seeing monkeys in the forest, and the children there are absolutely amazing!"

She's a volunteer for NewYorkcares, she looks after the animals that the association rescues. But when she's at home she takes care of her English bulldog, Otis. She has a tongue piercing and a tattoo on her left ankle.

Like all Canadians, she loves sport: soccer, snowboarding and wakeboarding.

Never leaves home without
Her BlackBerry and her chapstick.

In public
Totally casual.

In private
"I wear tracksuit trousers when I'm at home."

Shoes and bags
"My favourite bag is the Brenda by Alexander Wang. As for shoes, I usually wear ballerina pumps. But my favourites among high-heels are Christian Louboutin booties."

Jewellery
"I currently prefer to mix delicate jewellery with rather more chunky pieces."

Hair
"I cut my own hair, I'm used to it. My best look is when I've just washed it, very natural."

Fashion tip
"Be yourself, don't be afraid of saying who you are. Don't follow the latest trends just because it's easy."

Good habits
Kickboxing, running and cycling.

Bad habits
Biscuits.

She loves
"My dog Otis".

She hates
Mice.

Obsessed with
Mac's Nars Laguna Bronzer.

Favourite designers
Isabel Marant, Alexander Wang and Rodarte.

Favourite music
"I'm Canadian, I can't be anything but a country girl."

Favourite food
Sushi.

Favourite drink
Coconut water. "Sometimes I'll have a white wine, more like when I'm away in Mexico. I enjoy a light Pinot Grigio."

Favourite movie
Now and Then by Marlene King.

Favourite book
"The books my mother used to read to me when I was little."

Motto
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." [Napoleon Hill]

First thing in morning
"I put something on."

Last thing before bed
"I brush my teeth."

Twitter
@h_marks

ADDRESS BOOK
Restaurant
Souen, New York.
Angelica Kitchen, New York.

Cooffe Break
B Cup Cafè, New York.
7A Cafè, East Village, New York.

Clubs
Cowboys, a Calgary, my hometown.

Hotels
Park Hyatt, Istanbul.

Shops
Aritzia in Canada.
The Reformation, Lower East Side, New York.

Hairstylists
Laurie Foley @ L'atelier de Laurie, New York.

Spas
Great Jones Spa, New York.
Russian and Turkish Baths, New York.

Galleries
Clic Gallery, New York.

Bookshops
"My Kindle".

Furniture shops
Antique shops in Woodstock, New York.

Other personal addresses
"The best escape: Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada. I've got a cabin in those part"

Edited by: Marika Surace

Yves Saint Laurent Cosmetics behind the scenes - Ginta Lapina

Vice Magazine May 2010: Jenny Shimzu, ph: Richard Kern

Richard Kern photographed Jenny Shimizu + Susi Kenna for Vice Magazine on March 17, 2010 in NYC.

Vice Magazine May 2010
Model: Jenny Shimizu + Susi Kenna
Photographer: Richard Kern

032c preview: Natasa Vojnovic, ph: Danko Steiner

As seen on the New York Times:


photo of the magazine by Patricia Wall, original photo by Danko Steiner

Celebrating the New World, Bravely

By CATHY HORYN

Scarlett Johansson is a very good actress, but since we don’t need any more articles about the brand kitten’s style, let’s enjoy a big gulp of the contemporary culture provided by 032c, the Berlin-based magazine that is published twice a year. The latest issue, the 19th, is just out.
I adore 032c. Many of us are feeling a little discouraged by the bombardment of stuff on the Web that doesn’t inform or surprise, and 032c is an antidote for that. It sort of destroys the notion that printed journals don’t have the quickness or relevance of blogs. No, they just have to be serious about what they do.

The magazine is operated by Joerg Koch, its editor, and Sandra von Mayer-Myrtenhain, its managing editor, and many of the big fashion brands — Dior, Prada, Tom Ford, YSL — advertise there.

The lineup for the current issue includes a look at the impact of a 1960 article about Cy Twombly, with photos by Horst, that ran in American Vogue and that was rediscovered in 2003 by the interiors magazine Nest. As Mr. Koch wrote, it’s a “story on the story on the story.” Despite Vogue’s solid name and Horst’s gorgeous images of Mr. Twombly’s house in Rome, the original article, “Roman Classic Surprise,” may have compromised the artist’s career. At that time artists were not supposed to be part of a chichi world. The 032c piece is an unusual way to consider views from the past in the context of current assumptions.

There is also a group of articles and photographs about the American writer William T. Vollmann — or, I should say, a rare published dialogue with him (based on a correspondence by mail) and extracts from his books. The standard of the choices of ideas and images, which include a fair amount from the fashion front, always feel a bit higher at 032c. Anyway, I plan to dig in this weekend between the mowing and mulching in the garden.

Of the new issue, Mr. Koch wrote: “In a time such as ours, when all forms of cultural expression seem to occur simultaneously — as if ‘contemporary’ were essentially just a byline for the past, present and future combined — stories like these become rough blueprints for the new creative aesthetic proposed within the pages of 032c.”

Givenchy fall 2010 campaign preview:Mariacarla Boscono, Photo: Mert Alas + Marcus Piggott

Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott photographed Mariacarla Boscono for the fall 2010 Givenchy campaign on April 6, 20010 in Paris.

Givenchy Fall 2010 Campaign
Model: Mariacarla Boscono
Photographer: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Designer: Riccardo Tisci
Source: WWD

Hijau by Angela Lindvall

From Elle.com, By Anne Slowey all photos by Douglas Friedman


Reviewing jewelry in the factory


Angela Lindvall on Mount Batur


Angela Lindvall and Guy Bedarida in Bedarida’s design studio

Angela Lindvall in UNESCO-protected rice fields

John Hardy's Eco Paradise

On the remote island of Bali, John Hardy creative director Guy Bedarida has created an eco-paradise. Anne Slowey made the trek to find that you really can change the world one bracelet at a time

By Anne Slowey

Myths abound about the paradisial beauty of Bali, Indonesia. But truth be told, on the beaten tracks of Kuta, Legian, or Seminyak, it’s a bit of a treasure hunt trying to find a spot that’s not overrun with doughy tourists in skimpy bathing suits, whooping it up to beach-house club beats. Getting to the island’s heart, Mount Batur, or to Ubud, the soul of its artistic community, often requires navigating bumper-to-bumper traffic, with locals piled three to a scooter. As Noël Coward might’ve said after visiting the place in the 1930s, “There’s far too much Bali in Bali” to get any rest.

Yet near the lush, inland jungles of Ubud lies an oasis of creative calm and pristine beauty that makes it easy to understand why the Canadian artist John Hardy moved here in 1975 to study Balinese jewelrymaking, his teacher an artisan whose ancestors had been goldsmiths to the island’s former royal court. By 1989, Hardy believed he’d mastered enough of the traditional forms to start his own brand—large, silver hammered, woven, and filigree-embellished jewelry of a kind that one rarely saw outside of antiques shops and history books. Hardy not only commercialized the look—at a price—but popularized it at a time when tribal and ethnic-inspired jewelry was becoming all the rage.

Less than a decade later, he began building what the company’s employees now call “the compound”: a series of sublimely beautiful open-air bamboo structures, where workers—mostly Balinese, both Muslim and Hindu, with a smattering of expats—shuffle about in printed sarongs and sandals. The compound includes separate dining halls for Hindus and Muslims, in deference to the two religions’ dietary restrictions. And surrounding the cluster of bamboo buildings are the company’s rice fields, dotted with century-old temples. It is indeed a slice of Balinese heaven if you’re lucky enough to make it here.

But perhaps more important is how this multimillion-dollar company has set the bar for eco-consciousness in luxury goods, prompting the Financial Times to name it one of the top 100 green businesses in the world. While John Hardy inspired his eponymous company’s eco-spirit, he sold the business several years ago, and its new owners, CEO Damien Dernoncourt and designer Guy Bedarida, are, shall we say, the engines behind the recent green push.

The Bali compound is not only completely self-sustaining (thanks to water-purification leach fields, a recycling program, and environmentally friendly production methods), but the company also has launched a project to offset the amount of CO2 it produces each year by planting bamboo trees on Nusa Penida, an island off the southeast coast of Bali. And this month, it’s expanding its eco-efforts further with Hijau, a line of jewelry to be launched at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City that includes a piece designed by earthy beauty Angela Lindvall.

The 31-year-old model and mother of two is known for her environmental advocacy—her Collage Foundation promotes sustainability to young people and supports a biodynamic farm in New York State—and last August, she visited Hardy’s Bali headquarters on a scouting trip for Alter Eco, the Planet Green channel’s lifestyle and makeover show. After four days of exploring the rivers of Ubud, helping plant the next season’s rice harvest, and watching the sunrise from atop Mount Batur, Lindvall says she fell in love with Bali’s natural wonders and with what the company and the Wear Bamboo, Plant Bamboo project were doing to preserve it. “The way Damien and Guy are raising the standard in the industry really resonated with me,” she says.

Collaborating with Lindvall for Hijau was a no-brainer for Bedarida, who came to John Hardy after long tenures at Van Cleef & Arpels and Boucheron. “She is a mother, she works. She is very real,” he says. “She’s the kind of woman who is my muse.” The Hijau line includes bamboo-inspired stackable rings and bracelets, topaz-studded hoops and drop earrings, a pendant, a sizable cuff, priced from $295 to $3,000, and woven organic cotton cord bracelets in green, brown, or pink with a topaz-encrusted silver clasp, which will retail for $95. The latter was the work of Lindvall, and Dernoncourt says he plans to donate the proceeds from the bracelets—and 10 percent of the profit from the rest of the collection—to ForestEthics, a group that fights the exploitation of forests in North America.

Perhaps one reason Dernoncourt and Bedarida can be generous is that, unlike much of the fashion industry, their company is thriving. “We tripled our sales in the past five years,” says Dernoncourt, who speaks as enthusiastically about his employees’ well-being as he does about bottom lines. He tells me proudly that since many of John Hardy’s jewelrymakers are women with families, they’re allowed to work at home, meaning that much of the chain-weaving is done off-site. The company has also sponsored four orphan girls in an apprenticeship program in which they study English and information technology as well as Hardy’s craft.

As for Bedarida, he’s an energetic Balinese dreamer type who relishes the challenge of his company’s dedication to the environment as much as its intricate craftsmanship. “Everything we do here is made by hand, so we can create unique pieces that no one else could imagine,” he says. Pointing to a Japanese painting of a tiger that’s inspiring his next collection, he adds, “I live in a world full of possibilities—it’s really unbelievable.”