It is all about Chloe Sevigny. From Liquid Sky to Louis Vuitton, to her MAC Viva Glam ads, She is my style icon for life. I loved her Mario Sorrentti ed in the Oct. Vogue Italia. I am curious about the collaboration between Mert & Marcus and Chloe. I am glad they stuck to their guns and rejected the prancing, Tina Turner rip-off/Christian mintrel show known as Beyonce Knowles. Ain't it cool?
from WWD:
THE NEW MATH: “The more the merrier” seems to be the new motto at Louis Vuitton. After showcasing six supermodels in its current spring advertising, the French luxury firm is said to be banking on a gaggle of hot young actresses for its upcoming fall campaign. According to sources, Scarlett Johansson, Chloë Sevigny and Christina Ricci are among those slated to pose for photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, who famously lensed Jennifer Lopez for Vuitton last year. Vuitton officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Don't mess with Texas.
from:http://www.angelfire.com/scary/sphadoigal/antierin.html:
"The Devil Incarnate
During the tender ages of child development in my life, I encountered the supreme epitome of evil. Erin Wasson be thy name. In case you are unaware, Erin Wasson is a not so super model. She has graced the pages of just about every fashion magazine on the planet and is currently a Maybelline model. You may have even seen her on tv and on the displays in the cosmetic section of the supermarket. She's modeled for famous designers such as Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, and companies like the GAP. Putting her stardom aside, I hate her. Because she's a model? No. Because she's filthy fucking rich? No. Because she has everything she could ever want? Not even. I hate her because she tormented me and everyone else we went to school with from kindergarten all the way up to the present day. She is evil, she is malevolent, she is vile, immoral, and deserves a stake thru her still, black heart.
You are looking into the eyes of evil...
In first grade, Erin and I were playing on the playground during recess. She had made a point earlier that day to tell everyone she wasn't wearing shorts underneath her jumper (we wore uniforms and girls usually wore shorts underneath them to save time changing for P.E.). We were crawling through this jungle of tractor tires and when we crawled out, she stopped and I bumped into her. She tripped, he skirt went up exposing her days of the week undies. She then goes and tells our teacher that I had purposefully lifted up the back of her skirt, which of course I hadn't. Obviously the teacher believed her over me becuase Erin was a kiss-ass, so I get into deep shit for something I never did."
Here is a link to the official Vogue Italia website, where you can view an image of Lydia Hearst's Cover:
http://abbonamenti.vogueitalia.it/vogueitalia/
here is a listing of the editorials in the April Vogue Italia:
Numero: 644
Mese: Aprile
Moda
LISA E LYDIA.
Foto di Steven Meisel.
Fashion editor Brana Wolf.
A FLUTTER OF GAUZY COLORS TO DANCE IN.
Foto di Stéphane Sednaoui.
Fashion editor Victoria Bartlett.
PSYCHO.
Foto di Peter Lindbergh.
Fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro.
PRINTS IN POWER.
Foto di David Sims.
Fashion editor Joe McKenna.
DOMESTIC GODDESS.
Foto di Miles Aldridge.
Fashion editor Joanne Blades.
OR SHORT OR SMALL OR TINY.
Foto di Paolo Roversi.
Fashion editor Alice Gentilucci.
FITTED SHAPES.
Foto di Vincent Peters.
Fashion editor Alice Gentilucci.
&
Beauty & fitness
BEAUTY CAMEOS.
Foto di Greg Lotus.
Fashion editor Patti Wilson.
Testo di Sandra Bardin.
I found a link to this article on another blogspot. I have no problem acknowledging the sources for the info on my blog. Only my opinions are truly my own.
From The Copenhagen Post Online:
"Eccentric inheritance case comes to a close
31-1-2003
A battle of silver spoons: six years after the beginning of one of the most bitterly bizarre inheritance lawsuits in Danish and Swedish history, daily newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported that a banished heir has won his rightful settlement.
The story of Michael Palmstierna Hamilton, a dapper Swede with the ruddy complexion of a born aristocrat, begins, in Copenhagen, with an eccentric heiress whose life story is parlayed in repeat broadcasts of the popular 1996 DR documentary 'The Countess on the Third Floor.'
Erna Hamilton was a flame-haired socialite and relic of Copenhagen's bygone upper crust. The daughter of a capital city industrial scion, a surprisingly robust 96-year-old Erna Hamilton shared with interviewers the story of her charmed early life in an extravagant Copenhagen palais. Though she died the same year the documentary originally aired, television audiences couldn't get enough of the eccentric Erna, with French affectations, recalling her laissez-faire attitude to the Great Depression, her long life on the purse-strings of well-to-do parents, and her three marriages, all on a steady diet of morning martinis and canned caviar served by a working-class butler. Despite her obvious eccentricities, totally out of step with the benevolent socialism many of us have grown up with, Countess Hamilton's place in 20th century Danish cultural history is undeniable. Erna was once the wealthiest woman in Denmark, heiress to the Simonsen industrial fortune, onetime lover of the nation's most famous stage actor Johannes Poulsen, and mistress of the extravagant manse known as Little Amalienborg, which still stands on Dag Hammerskjold's Allé (the estate was seized from the Simonsens by Nazi occupiers during World War II).
Erna was mother to a son from her first, doomed marriage to British-Swedish Count J. Douglas Hamilton. Her mysterious son, Ulph, born in 1920, later immigrated to Sweden, and did little to credit the family reputation. He joined the Waffen SS during World War II, and after revelations of his Nazi past emerged with charges of embezzlement, he committed suicide in 1967. But Ulph Hamilton had another skeleton in his closet. Though married to a well-to-do Swedish woman in 1959, Ulph died apparently childless. Shortly after his death, however, reports emerged of a poor Swedish commoner named Margaretha Palmstierna, who bore a son, Michael, after a one-night stand with Ulph Hamilton at a Stockholm masquerade ball on New Year's Eve 1955. Despite the passing resemblance to the ginger-haired Simonsen clan, Sweden's Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that there was not sufficient proof for Palmstierna's paternity claim.
Meanwhile, Erna Hamilton - who later married Denmark's General Consul to the Dominican Republic - declared that she had no living heirs, and willed a sizable portion of her father's estate to a charitable foundation, the Erna Hamilton Scholarship for Science and the Arts. Despite limited liquid assets, the financial anchor of the foundation has remained its lucrative real estate holdings, worth an estimated DKK 150 million.
Shortly after the 1996 documentary, DR produced an independent documentary on Palmstierna. 'A True Hamilton?' followed Michael's demand to legitimize his identity. In 1999, Sweden's Supreme Court made the shocking decision to re-open the Hamilton paternity case, after DNA evidence provided by Ulph Hamilton's half-brother revealed a more than 99 percent certainty that he and Palmstierna were related. Palmstierna won the right to bear the Hamilton name, and was recognized as one of Sweden's 601 nobles. Even Ulph's surviving widow, Ulla Birgitta Hamilton, spoke publicly of her support for Michael's claim.
But Erna Hamilton refused to acknowledge Michael's existence even to her death. Today, Michael Palmstierna - who lives and works in Biarritz, France - admits he could have handled the case better.
'I just showed up one day. Today I realize that older people need time to accept things,' Palmstierna Hamilton told DR.
Palmstierna's shameless appeals to the press were also promptly exploited. After vowing that no price was too high to pay for the Gerda Wegener portrait of Ulph Hamilton as a bonny two-year-old, under auction from the Hamilton estate, auction-goers queued up to outbid him, inflating the price from it's appraised DKK 15,000 value to a whopping DKK 146,000.
After this week, however, that's small change to the new Count Palmstierna Hamilton. Under Danish law, children cannot be denied the inheritance of their parents. Regardless of the terms of a will and testament, half of any estate must devolve to surviving children. Ekstra Bladet reported this week that the born-again count was granted DKK 7 million of the Hamilton foundation's assets."
Now that is what I call drama. Filippa was on an Italian Marie Clair cover in spring 2001-her big break was spring 2002, when she did a Paris Vogue cover, Ralph Lauren Collection, Romance fragrance, and was one of the Balenciaga girls (with Maggie, Missy, Isabeli, Diane Heid/Krueger, Jayne Windsor and others). There was so much info in that article I am still trying to untangle it. If anyone understands it better than I feel free to email me at anclaudia_michels@yahoo.com.
Filippa is the shortest model working today, and only does Ralph Lauren runway shows.
Lydia Hearst
IS on the cover of the April Vogue Italia. To see the image copyt and paste this link:
http://www.b2g3.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1080911388&user=fashistinfo
Isn't it nice when pretty girls finish 1st?
