domingo, 8 de mayo de 2011

Models: Karlie Kloss

Kloss was born in Chicago, Illionis, and her family moved to suburban St. Louis, Missouri in 1992. She was named the best model by People magazine in 2008. She began studying at Caston's Ballet Academy in 2002. She soon became very talented at dance, and was in a number of performances such as the Nutcracker.
When Kloss was 13, she was discovered at a charity fashion show in St. Louis. She was encouraged and inspired to model by one of her teachers in Webster Groves High School. In 2007, she signed with Elite Model Management before controversially moving to NEXT Model Management in January 2008.
She has been in advertisements for Donna Karan, Nina Ricci, Chloé, Lacoste, Sportmax,Alexander McQueen, Gap, Bergdorf Goodman, Pringle of Scotland, Dior, Hermes, Oscar de la Renta, Sonia Rykiel, Aquascutum, Topshop, Eryn Brinie,Uniqlo, Omnia Jade, Lord & Taylor, Barneys New York, and American Eagle. Kloss is the face of the Marc Jacobs fragrance Lola. She has walked for numerous designers in New York, London, Milan and Paris, including Shiatzy Chen, Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Givenchy, Gucci, Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Versace, and appeared in editorials for American and Korean W, American Elle Allure I-D, French and Japanese Numero Vanity Fair, and American, Australian, Italian, French, British, Korean, German, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese, Teen, and Latin American Vogue magazines. Her covers include Italian Vogue in October 2009 and January 2010, Vogue Turkey, Vogue Portugal,Vogue China in February, August, and November in 2010, Vogue Korea and American Teen Vogue, alongside Chanel Iman and Ali Michael in February 2008 and by herself in May 2010. She has ventured into TV when she appeared in Season Four Episode 2 of Gossip Girl as herself. She has become a muse for fashion designer John Galliano and has appeared in Dior and John Galliano campaigns and opened both shows, Christian Dior Haute Couture and Dior resort shows from spring summer 2010. In the Spring/Summer 2011 Season, she opened 10 shows and closed 8.

Since Spring 2010, Karlie has consecutively opened the show and become the face of Christian Dior.
In 2011 Kloss renewed her contract with Christian Dior for the third season in a row.

domingo, 1 de mayo de 2011

McQueen

Del 4 de mayo al 31 de julio se podrá disfrutar de una exposición en el Metropolitan de Nueva York del difunto genio que recogerá más de 100 piezas que fueron diseñadas a lo largo de toda su carrera.Aquí tenéis un adelanto: