bunny BISOUS

As Requested: the Wardrobe Credits from SPUR and GINZA Magazine Self-Styled Features [in English]

SPUR Magazine:


details/style credits:
 
dress: Fendi by Karl Lagerfeld
flapper cameo pin: vintage Leah Stein
Eiffel Tower heels: Yves Saint Laurent
prescription eyeglasses: Tom Ford
bunny bracelets: Stella McCartney
vintage purse: Chanel
keychain: Hello Kitty (disguised as a cow)


dress: Sari Gueron
seahorse, pirate ship, and dried flower necklaces: vintage from Screaming Mimi's
cherry clutch: Stella McCartney
floral scarf (worn as bonnet): Missoni
pin: Charles Anastase
shoes: vintage Salvatore Ferragamo
floral bracelets: vintage
beige bracelet: Hermès


Scottish crest: vintage
fish necklace: vintage from Screaming Mimi's
dress, sweater, shoes and clutch: all Stella McCartney

GINZA Magazine:

[upper-left]
dress: Chimala from Pas de Deux
Oxford shirt: Boy by Band of Outsiders
prescription eyeglasses: Persol
espadrille wedges: Prada
[lower-right]
dress: Proenza Schouler
vegan patchwork sac: vintage Chanel
cherry heels: Stella McCartney
denim jacket: Charles Anastase
necklace: vintage

details/style credits:

dress: vintage See by Chloé
seahorse necklace: from Screaming Mimi's
shoes: vintage Stella McCartney
hat: Rag & Bone
canvas tote: Chanel
cardigan: Rachel Comey


dress: Peter Pilotto
vest: Boy by Band of Outsiders
hairpiece: bespoke from Screaming Mimi's
necklace: vintage from New Laundry, Scranton PA
cat in bucket pin: vintage from Fabulous Fanny's
shoes: Stella McCartney


dress: Rag & Bone
hat: Maison Michel
prescription eyeglasses: vintage from Fabulous Fanny's
bumblebee pin, purse, necklace: all vintage from Screaming Mimi's


tribal skirt: Suno from Opening Ceremony
shirt: Comme des Garçons
fish necklace: vintage from Screaming Mimi's
sailing-boat heels: Stella McCartney
hat: Rag & Bone
handmade teddy bear and elephant: Judy Geagley

Related:

• Fresh Talk: Julia Frakes by Jenna Fain [The Supermelon]

• About Last Night... Berlin Book Signing with Julian Schnabel & Lou Reed at Steven Kasher Gallery [PAPERMAG Fashion Schmashion]

Field Trip! Bunny Hop to PAPERMAG for My Ongoing Fashion Week Down-Low

 My Quick, Mid-Casting Chit-Chat with Katie Fogarty [PAPERMAG]

photo via Supreme Beings at Paul Rowland's Transformations exhibition
My Quick Pre-Show Chit-Chat with Designer Jeremy Laing [PAPERMAG]

Douglas Pernet's Quick Chit-Chat with Some Cool Cats – somehow your bunny snuck in there – at Transformations [Confessions of a Casting Director]

  My Quick, Mid-Castings Chit-Chat with Constance Jablonski [PAPERMAG]

Vlada Débuts her New Red Hue [PAPERMAG]

  My Quick, Backstage Chit-Chat with Burberry It-Girl Alexina Graham [PAPERMAG]

Related:

• Julia Frakes is Cool, Calm, and Collected at threeASFOUR [Teen Vogue]
  

• Once Perennially Late, Now Always on Time – Jacobs Makes a Statement (a.k.a. I have the funniest editor ever, Mickey Boardman) [The Cut]

• First Glimpse: Jeremy Laing Fall '09 [Fashionista]

• Bloggers Unite! Teen Voguers, Fashionista and bunny BISOUS Cover Costello Tagliapietra [Teen Vogue]

• At the Tents: Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist) Spots a Bunny at the Ready-to-Wear Shows [Style.com]

• 6119 Ilana Sunderland's Designs Make You Look Red Hot and Feel Naked! [Refinery 29]

bunny BISOUS,
ox jules

Field Trip! Bunny Hop to PAPERMAG for My Tête-à-Têtes with Myf, Lisa of Lulu Frost, Kaiser Karl and Stephanie Carta

"... I prefer to smell like my natural self. Naturally, I smell like roses though!"
– Myf Shepherd

A Quick Post-Haute Couture Chit-Chat with Model Myf Shepherd [PAPERMAG]

Fake Karl Lagerfeld Discusses his Haute Couture Collection [PAPERMAG]

A Quick Chit-Chat with Lulu Frost Jewelry Designer Lisa Salzer [PAPERMAG]

A Quick Haute Couture Chit-Chat with Aussie Model (and Cobrasnake favorite) Stephanie Carta [PAPERMAG]

bunny BISOUS for Bryanboy!

On the other side of the coin...

• Julia Frakes: Teen Vogue's Favorite Fashion Bloggers (as featured in the Taylor Swift-fronted March 2009 issue: scans tenderly sent to me by my love, Bryanboy) [Teen Vogue]

• My Informal Interview with JUSTJR apropos the Summer Collections [BLOG de MODE]

• Label to Watch: TV (Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner's cult line) [PAPERMAG]

• Teen Vogue's Elana Fishman (my stunning, hard-working, talented and warmhearted roommate) [altamira]

bB,
ox jf

Une Ode à La Mariée | A Crowning Moment: Backstage Princess Bride Diaries

Legendary hairstylist Odile Gilbert crowns Lacroix's "La Mariée" Vlada at the Centre Pompidou

Subsequent to Pascal – my ultra-altruistic "chauffeur extraordinaire" (he surprised me at Charles de Gaulle with the most delightful Parisian cat book and later Ladurée macaroons to tote home for my roommate Elana) – proffering my super warmhearted and loyal Norweigan mate Siri Tollerød and the always ebullient Aussie Skye Stracke an entertaining lift from the Chanel presentation on rue Cambon to the Christian Lacroix show at the Centre Pompidou, I tarried backstage with some familiar faces and old friends. 

After catching up with Heidi Mount and Ellen von Unwerth, I settled at "coiffure" with the brilliant and witty Odile Gilbert, where I chatted with the lovely Tanya Dziahileva (snug as a bunny in the most charming striped Sonia Rykiel cardigan... more on our adventures later) and Lacroix's third-time bride-to-be Vlada Roslyakova. 

Vlada – who attained the throne as Lacroix's "La Mariée" when fellow doll-faced belle Lily Cole bowed out of Couture runway in July 2007 – revealed that she was keen on how the strawberry blonde rinse applied for an upcoming Christian Lacroix video campaign (details originally reported at PAPERMAG, thanks to Women Management's James Tinnelly's kind missives) began to fade into the most fetching reddish-flaxen. Just as the backstage photographers and video cameramen had vacated the scene and made their way to the wardrobe chambre, I suddenly beheld "the crowning moment" [above]. 

Originally assuming that I was in sooth a model awaiting maquillage (flatteringly jesting that "Kate Moss was short too, you know"), Odile apprised to me that the gleaming wedding tiara was akin to her antique Russian coronet collection. She promptly added that her assemblage is predominantly composed of costume-jeweled crowns – "or else I wouldn't be here toiling away backstage" she quipped. I would have to beg otherwise considering that just three hours later at Colette I spotted Odile's eponymous in-demand line of sleek hairpins when I hastily snapped up a grey Lanvin ribbon motif pearl necklace and a straw Maison Michel hat [video] with Liberty print ditzy floral trim [photo].

As the industry's chicest coiffeuse (scope out her portrait here lensed by Karl Lagerfeld), Odile's gravity-defying 'dos include Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette and the notoriously innovative hairstyles at Rodarte, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Bottega Veneta, and Nina Ricci: so it's only fitting that the French Minister of Culture and Communications recently bestowed Odile with the medallion of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. 

But for the love of transformative coifs... please don't stray from the backstage! 

bunny BISOUS,

ox jf

• Related: The History of Model Bags Explained: Backstage at Haute Couture Week [PAPERMAG] 

• Related: Top Fashion Hairstylist Odile Gilbert [Teen Vogue]   

• Related: Fêting Odile's fellow recipient of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, The New York Times' Bill Cunningham at Bergdorf Goodman [Guest of a Guest]

• Link: Check out photos that I snapped at the intimate Chanel HC presentation at Pavillon Cambon Capucines (and noticable lack of quality compared to Mark's handiwork) after running into Patti Wilson and Rose Apodaca [The Cobrasnake]

A Quick, 2009 Post-Holiday Chit-Chat with European Mannequins Sara Blomqvist, Inna Pilipenko and Lyoka Tyagnereva

It's a wrap: the final portion of the 2008-2009 annual "International Holiday Chit-Chats" is live at long last! 

Bunny hop on over to PAPERMAG to find out who finds humour in her mother's zany socks, who is midway through Helena P. Blavatsky's magnum opus The Secret Doctrine (1888), and who spent New Years freezing her tuchas off dancing in Oslo!

• Link: A Quick Post-Holiday Chit-Chat with European Mannequins Sara Blomqvist, Inna Pilipenko & Lyoka Tyagnereva [PAPERMAG]

• Related: A Quick Pre-Holiday Chit-Chat with America's Sweethearts Ali Michael & Karlie Kloss [bunny BISOUS]

• Related: A Quick Pre-Holiday Chit-Chat with "Planet Earth's (self pro-claimed) Favourite Third World Fag" Bryan Boy [PAPERMAG]

• Related: A Quick Pre-Holiday Chit-Chat with Canadian Amours Amanda Laine, Kate Somers & Simona McIntyre [PAPERMAG] 

Inna Pilipenko's Supreme Management screen test with Kathy Lo

bunny BISOUS,

ox julia

PS: Stay with bB for a flurry of upcoming (as of now "hush hush") spokesbunny duties, charitable organization partnerships, fashion week coverage, designer/label alliances, several magazine photoshoots/interviews, styling collaborations, and super kawaii fun in Japan! I'll be able to share further details soon... LOVE in '09!

A Quick, Pre-Holiday Chit-Chat with America's Sweethearts Ali Michael & Karlie Kloss

After a few twee Christmasy tête-à-têtes over at PAPERMAG with Canada's Amours (top models Amanda Laine, Kate Somers, and Simona McIntyre) and "Planet Earth's [self-proclaimed] Favorite Third World Fag" – recently announced COACD Top Face – Bryanboy, I had the pleasure of catching up with all-American beauties Ali Michael and Karlie Kloss to dish on their kooky family traditions, nostalgia for the Nineties, and how they're giving back... not just throughout the holiday season. 

How long did you believe in Santa Claus? 

Ali Michael: I believed in Santa probably until I was about eight years old or so. Santa used to leave me a typed letter every Christmas morning. One day when I was looking through my mom's computer to find something for school, I accidently opened the folder that held the exact letters that Santa had left me. It was kind of devastating. 

Karlie Kloss: [chuckles] What are you talking about... I will always believe in Santa Claus!

Does your family have any quirky holiday traditions? 

Karlie Kloss: Well my poor dad was born on Christmas Day [December 25], so he has to "split his birthday" with Christmas: we always spend the entire first part of the day opening presents and enjoying Christmas morning, then at night all of the family comes over to celebrate his birthday! It's quite a day...

Ali Michael: We really don't do too much for Christmas – except get together with family – which is what it's really all about. 

Favorite holiday desert: 

Karlie Kloss: Definitely my gram's gingersnap cookies. 

Ali Michael: I can't imagine that any of my family members will go near any vegan treat that I attempt to make; but I'm loving warm raw cacao-coconut-almond milk at the moment! I want to try to make a raw vegan cheesecake or recreate Souen's carob brownies with pine nuts.

Favorite holiday film: 

Ali Michael: I grew up watching the original version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and always have gotten a kick out of Tim Allen's The Santa Clause (1994). I feel like I'm back in the good old 1990's when I watch either of them. 

Karlie Kloss: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): it's a tie! 

Favorite charitable organization: 

Karlie Kloss: There are potentially too many incrediable charities to list... but one of my favorites is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation because my mom survived breast cancer. 

Ali Michael: While it's not exactly a charitable organization, I just signed up as a volunteer for an organization called New York Cares. It's a really great placement program that connects people with a wide range of volunteer opportunities all throughout the city. When in Texas, I volunteer at a therapeutic horseback riding stable where I work with kids with mental and physical disabilities.

How do you plan to spend your holiday this year? 

Ali Michael: I'm spending my holiday with family in Texas. While it would be nice to see a "White Christmas" for once, I'm not complaining about having a break from the freezing New York weather. It's supposed to be sixty-five degrees [Fahrenheit] here on Christmas! 

Karlie Kloss: Enjoying time with family... and of course catching up on sleep!

a very merry everything,

bB jf

• Related: A Quick Pre-Holiday Chit-Chat with Bryan Boy [PAPERMAG]

• Related: A Quick Pre-Holiday Chit-Chat with Canadian Models Amanda Laine, Kate Somers & Simona McIntyre [PAPERMAG]

The internet at Paper is down – stay tuned for the "European edition" set to be published by the end of the week!

Tod's to Tap Lam for Couture Endeavor?

Rumor has it that Gwyneth-fronted Italian leather goods and shoe label Tod's is laying the groundwork for a potential couture accessories and footwear launch to coincide with the upcoming Paris Haute Couture Week in January 2009. As for whether or not Derek Lam – Tod's creative mastermind and all-around cutie (he was such a gent at his intimate Parisian cocktail party [pictured, above] to fête his eponymous collection that debuted during New York's Spring/Summer 2009 Fashion Week) – is set to design the professed ultra-luxe pieces is still nebulous... though distinctly foreseeable according to industry insiders.

 

After a long day of Paris showhopping, I headed to the Derek Lam cocktail presentation with brazilliant stylists Patti Wilson and Christine de Lassus where we had a nosh and reunited with Mr. Mickey. After catching up with a few lovely model amies, meeting the super fun Elle Japon team – speaking of which, your bunny truly makes a wee style cameo in this December's issue with a full-blown feature interview and spread (shot at my apartment) to come this Spring – as well as with my idols, Marylou Luther of the Fashion Group and Bill Cunningham of The New York Times just prior to their decoration ceremony: Marylou was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre National des Arts et Lettres and Bill the Officier dans l'Ordre National des Arts et Lettres. 

More of my snapshots here.

bunny BISOUS,

ox jules

If Bianca Jagger Was In the Bloomsbury Group...

...it may look something like this:

magazine: Vogue Nippon

issue: December 2008

editorial: A Matter of Elegance

photographer: Matt Irwin 

model: Iekeliene Stange

stylist: Aurora Sansone 

bB, xx jf

Stray Musing on Vogue Paris | Emmanuelle Alt Digs Anna Selez... and Bowie... and Bleached Jeans

Emmanuelle Alt styled Anna Selezneva (who – many mazel's abound – will be the lone model in the upcoming S/S 2009 Calvin Klein campaign) in the same Dolce & Gabbana David Bowie t-shirt in August's "Reality Show" and November's "Trente ans versus dix-sept ans" V.P. editorials.

snapped! Emmanuelle scoping out Anna S. at the Alt-style Isabelle Marrant show last month

Meanwhile bunny hop on over to Paper to get the lowdown on...

Paolo Roversi & Natalia Vodianova Bring Shalimar Back: October 23

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen Have an "Aha! Moment" with Oprah: October 23

Modelize This! Meet Brit Sensation Emma MacLaren: October 22

DKNY Cruise Campaign Sells Vlada: October 22

bunny BISOUS

ox jules

PS: The server was down so the past few days worth of blogs haven't been uploaded at papermag...

PPS: You really need to see this. Read this. Watch this. Smell this. 

Getting Schooled in Pigalle: Jeremy Scott Model Rehearsal at the Elysée Montmartre

Jeremy Kost may have caught the models exiting the catwalk of one of my absolute favorite human beings on planet – the uncommonly kindhearrted and devilishly talented Jeremy Scott [video above]; but your bunny met up with the crew before the S/S 2009 extravaganza for a pre-show (plain clothes) run-through:

[related] to see more photos of... 

• Jeremy's actual (fantastical) runway presentation: Jeremy Scott S/S 2009
• my last meeting with Jeremy celebrating his March Paper covershoot: Paper / LiLo Lunchipoo
• my first rendezvous at the Elysée Montmartre during July Couture Week: Longchamp Anniversary with the Kills

bunny BISOUS,

ox jules

Den peneste fe: Siri Tollerød turer på hver rullebane!

Siri's Parisian highlights*

Just before the mad rush of NY Fashion Week, I caught up with bunny amie Siri Tollerød at my BFF Simona McIntyre's 19th birthday fête at raw vegan haven Pure Food & Wine near the Gramercy Park Hotel. 

Not only did the fairest Norwegian nymph walk an astounding sixty-three shows – especially remarkable considering that she shot a preeminent job in Paris in lieu of hitting any of the London catwalks – she also graced a record three editorials in this September's Vogue Italia.

I first learned of her most recent photographic collaboration with the Kaiser while waiting for the others to arrive (since Siri and I were the first to make it at the Irving Place townhouse). I finally had the opportunity to peruse the October issue of Vogue Germany on an unanticipated (and admittedly unglamorous) post-Parisian jaunt from NYC to Pennsylvania and have been completely bewitched ever since!

"Senator Biden" lovingly describes my hometown above... it's funny 'cause it's true!

The stirring Lagerfeld-lensed spread – while likely shot across the pond – conjures analogous allegorical imagery to the Puritanical New England milieu hauntingly typified in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown. Siri and German phenom Toni Garrn brilliantly portray a Faith Brown-esque personae in this unearthly editorial:

Eerily emotive! Stunningly elegiac! Wistfully nostalgic! LOVE IT!

Unfortunately we were both super duper busy in Paris and only had quick chance meetings during Jeremy Scott's rehearsal [below] and at the Carousel de Louvre between the Ungaro and Costume National presentations.

I did however manage a few quick snaps of snaps of Siri fluttering along the rullebane while in Paris:

last season backstage with Fashion TV Model Talks

Congrats Siribean on another killer season! Mazel tov! Gratulerer!!

bunny BISOUS,

oxo jules

*first image left-right [top row] Nina Ricci, Chanel, Lanvin, Chloé, Valentino, Wunderkind, Yohji Yamamoto; [bottom row] Emanuel Ungaro, Kenzo, Antonio Berardi, Valentino, Balenciaga, Karl Lagerfeld, Louis Vuitton, Lanvin >> other Paris pursuits not shown include Alexander McQueen, Ann Demeulemeester, Celine, Costume National, Giambattista Valli, Jeremy Scott, John Galliano, Miu Miu, Paul & Joe, Rue du Mail, Sonia Rykiel, and Wunderkind

Gareth Pugh Deserves a Sonnet

If Karlie, Kamila, Lily, Jourdan, Olga, and Magdalena emerged from a UFO... in Stratford-upon-Avon... circa 1603... it may have looked something like WonderBrit Gareth Pugh's Parisian début (made possible with the prize wherewithal garnered from winning the illustrous ANDAM award for new talent). 

Before the admittedly lackluster Kris van Assche presentation, I pressed Diane Pernet (fresh from a pre-Pugh preview) about the purported prêt-à-portability of Gareth's new collection, as divulged in Friday's WWD interview. She promised it was still thoroughly "Pugh" (think mind-blowingly moody, stirringly sculptural) without the slightest absence of his signature hair-raising drama. 

Nevertheless in propria prosona the collection marked a progressive career maturation and presented itself as assiduously wearable: relatively speaking, of course! Katie Shillingford's brill styling alloted for – with a simple nix of an Elizabethian collar here or a bit of defeathering there – a definite, more pragmatic proficiency and an assuredly more business-savvy concatenation... without losing an ounce of his genius artistry or deft craftsmanship.

While the keenly evolutionary collection may have not been a massive surprise – it was, however, massively spine-tingling – beholding the "Vogue Paris trifecta" (conducted by Carine) in uniform, less-than-riveting black FLATS was staggeringly unforeseen. Perhaps we really are in the midst of another Depression? Quelle horreur!

bunny BISOUS

xx jf

Something's Fishy: Prada Presentation Proves an Impediment-Ridden Regression

Miuccia Prada's Spring 2009 season had all the precursors of a massive success: a dazzling sporty, maharaja jewel-laden Resort 2009 showing; the creative juices that surely surged throughout this year – the fifteenth anniversary of PradaMilanoarte; the 2008-minted, now eponymous title as "The Patronness" partnered with all the prestige and pressure that such an epithet elicits (no word yet what The Kaiser thinks); and the well-deserved distinction of being crowned as one half of the art world's "royal couple" alongside husband Patrizio Bertelli. 

In fact Michael Kimmelman is so smitten that he even chronicled her as "a cross between a matron and a naughty schoolgirl... a notorious workaholic, she is courtly, almost flirtatious, likable, at least when she chooses to be, and serious" in March after said "Patroness" proclamation. No pressure.

via Jonathan S. Paul of The Moment Blog | New York Times

Ebullient off the fashion high note of Spring 2008's "Trembled Blossoms" sell-out 'trippy faerie' accessories in stunning succession with Fall 2009's "Fallen Shadows" highly-covetable lace, Miuccia Prada faced the international press today with an 'organical' stripped-down answer to our frightening fiscal times. 

While there are undoubtedly still pieces to ogle (the topsy turvy fetishy heels, the bemusedly brothely bags, and the lustrously flaxen robes de la saison) this Spring 2009 presentation was admittedly a madhat mid-decade regression for Miuccia – and not in her wonted, endearing sort of way. 

... And that's coming from perhaps the most diehard of Prada devotees! 

Meanwhile on the fresh face front: sixteen-year-old Groningen, Netherlands native Ymre Stiekema opened the school of oiled-up models that tumbled their way atop a slippery runway aptly festooned with a school of fish. 

Industry insiders are abuzz over the Prada team's puzzling directional one-eighty of opening with an uncharacteristically classic, decidedly "unawkward" beauty and exactly how that will precipitate in their sweeping post-Sasha Pivovarova vision. 

Ymre – already boasting a Steven Meisel-lensed Prada Linea Rossa Fall 2009 campaign under her trench – has a Prada exclusive this season and will likely also walk (let's leave it to the necklines to plunge this time, hm?) at Miu Miu next week in Paris. 

Fellow sweet sixteener Sigrid Agren of Martinique, France managed to gracefully close the calamitous show (hallelujah!). While the blonde hair blue-eyed beaut may not have nabbed the prized Prada exclusive, Sigrid's future bodes well considering her professional contact list comprised  entirely of Spring 2009 clients – including, but not limited to: Calvin Klein, Donna Karen, doo.Ri, Gap, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, Ports 1961, Rad Hourani, Ralph Lauren, Rodarte, and Y-3. 

A nonpareil potpourri indeed considering that this is only Sigrid's initiatory season! Plus not having to deal with the possibility of "wobbling under contract" may mitigate some pressure off Sigrid's peds during her Miu Miu debut! 

Hopefully Prada's Parisian escapade will go over more swimmingly... or rather, less? 

bB

Olga Doesn't Do Aspartame

Spotted: Olga Sherer daintily sipping a Pepsi on Mulberry Street between Kenmare & Spring après Rad Hourani S/S 2009. And it wasn't diet. 

backstage last season with Fashion TV First Face Talks

bB

Fashion Week S/S '09, Behind the Scenes Part 2: Simona's Birthday at Pure Food & Wine

Last night Mr. Mickey and I event-hopped for Paper to cover the Vogue/IMG Model.Live event at Gemma in the Bowery Hotel, the Hermès/Josef Albers exhibit fêting their scarf collaboration at the Madison Avenue flagship, and the Cole Haan/Paper party downtown at The Box with an outrageous performance by The Citizens' Band toasting to Cole Haan's 80th Anniversary and reintroduction of their signature penny loafers featuring Bing Bang's Anna Sheffield iconic "penny" jewelry.

Just before the mayhem that is NYC fashion week, my dear friend (and fellow raw vegan) Simona McIntyre celebrated her 19th birthday with an intimate dinner of close friends at the crème de la crème (well, you know) of haute raw food dining, Pure Food & Wine. 

Simona rocks the Marni / Siri Tollerød dons the Ferré

your bunny hops in her favorite F/W Alexander Wang "boyfriend" blazer and vegan Marc tote

Kate Boch, Edythe Hughes, Danielle Hamm, Simona, Georgia Frost, and the cool cats at Marilyn

Kate, Edythe, and Danielle

What a pleasure to sit next to the lovley Siri and ascertain her unique perspective on the industry!

Georgia Frost!

two bunnies and a birdie

On the docket for today? Why my first day of school! 

Then I'll be zipping uptown to the office to meet Mickey and then off to:

Barneys for the launch of Andre 3000's Benjamin Bixby, the Erin Wasson X RVCA event downtown, Sue Stemp's Spring 2009 presentation, the Christie's party with Chloë Sevigny & Agyness Deyn, the FIT Opening, Christie's dinner at Indochine, and finally Chiara Clemente's birthday party at the Beatrice. 

... then back to my cat where I belong!

bunny BISOUS

xx Jules

PS: The industry is absolutely smitten with Simona's mature "new look" accentuated by her blonder, shorter new 'do! Check out these radiant, ethereal, positively angelic new polaroids snapped by Kwok to be sent over to Europe: 

courtesy Blonde over Blue

... breathtaking, right?

A Supreme in Stereoscopic | Amanda Laine for Jeremy Laing F/W 2008 Campaign

Jeremy Laing's fall collection -- heavily influenced by Josef Albers' (Bauhaus era abstract painter, designer, photographer, theorist, typographer, poet, and printmaker) Homage to the Square -- came alive this week with a freshly released 3-D campaign. 

Photographer Graydon Sheppard continued to explore Laing's initial F/W inspiration via a stereoscopic three-dimensional camera, an apt instrument considering that the designer does not run print advertisements. Albers' work catalyzed conceptual and Op artists to further explore his fascination with perception. 

Laing selected his fellow Canadian (and bunny amie) Amanda Laine of Supreme to realize the main objective of the Bauhaus movement: unifying art, craft, and technology. The Albers effect came to full fruition with Claire Edmondson's appositely sparse styling. Schön! Leuchtend!

Looking forward to his Spring/Summer 2009 presentation at Bumble and bumble! Stay tuned...

bunny BISOUS

xx jules

a special danke to Portia Holt at Company Agenda and Frank Griggs at Jeremy Laing

Meisel is Once Again Enchanted by "The Sasonkina Stare"

Steven Meisel's muse du jour Viktoriya Sasonkina commends her best Bette Davis glare on the breathtaking 1940's throwback cover of this September's Vogue Italia.

Meisel must have fallen under the Ukranian stunner's spell sometime between photographing her for the Alberta Ferretti and Calvin Klein Jeans Fall/Winter 2008-2009 Campaigns. Who could blame him?  Viktoriya's bewitching eyes speak volumes! 

Perhaps it's just the position, however judging from the cover shot [below] Viktoriya's eyes are in fact yin sanpaku. Although I do not wholeheartedly subscribe to that theory myself... it is interesting nonetheless! What do you think?

photographer: Steven Meisel | hairdresser: Guido Palau

makeup artist: Pat McGrath | stylist: Andrew Richardson

bunny BISOUS

xx jf

source: Women Management

Happy Birthday, Siri!

Tomorrow (August 18) is bunny amie Siri Tollerød's twentieth birthday! 

Fresh from her über-kawaii television advertising campaign for Gwen's Harajuku Lovers fragrance -- moonwalking with a cartoon panda to boot -- Fashion TV caught fashion's prettiest pixie (and Karl's muse du jour) backstage during the Fall/Winter 2008-2009 collections for a record ten minute "Model Talk" session:

Trump's Norwegian fairy backstage with Fashion TV | Fall/Winter 2008-2009

When klikk.no solicited the current Lula coverstar about her beauty secrets, she eagerly replied "no smoking, lots of water, and smiling!" A tip-top, wholesome response indeed! 

Best wishes Siribean!

bunny BISOUS,

oox jules

We Are Living In A Material World and I Am a Material Girl... Or Mädchen, I Suppose

issue #3 [above] hits newstands August 19*

Material Girl, a quarterly German fashion and jewelry periodical from the publishers of INDIE Magazine, may just be the most underrated international glossy in the industry. While it will incontrovertibly draw the inevitable comparisons to Lula Magazine (a.k.a. the epitome of whimsy), Material Girl valiantly attempts to one-up Lula with sweeping runway reviews (the Spring issue features a brilliant editorial analogizing Wunderkind vs. Paul Smith) and a few darker, more esoteric editorials thrown in for good measure (highlighted by Amanda Bruns' spread When Zuzka Discovered Black starring a starkly maquillaged Zuzka, Trump Model Management's rising star). 

While the INDIE proprietors may not supersede the quintessence of quirk that is Lula, their delightful styling and consummate flair for a pronounced -- and much appreciated -- unmainstream girlish charm nonetheless flourishes as a no doubt fantastical stand-in until the fresh issue of Lula hits newstands.

magazine: Material Girl Germany Issue #2

model: Zuzana Jahicova

photographer: Astrid Salomon

stylist: Ingo Nahrwold

magazine: Material Girl Germany Issue #2

model: Laura Kaeding

photographer: Dirk Merten

stylist: Solveig Viola

Fancy a little more of the Material Girl? Peruse the bunny BISOUS Flickr for even more editorials including "When Anja was reminded of something Bruce had said about horses", "When Eva thought a cheap blonde wig might be a good disguise", and "When Julia fell in love with 36 pieces of jewelry at once". 

bB,

ox jf

*Issue #3 Fall 2008 will be dropped on August 11 in Austria and will be procurable in Germany, Switzerland, London, Milan, Paris, New York, and Tokyo around August 19

A 'Big Shot' Note from Your Bunny's Friends à Teen Vogue

(yes, that's me) snapped outside 'sNICE by Kathrin Leist 

of German institution Otto's famed fashion blog, Two for Fashion

Teen Vogue online editor Naomi Nevitt (remember this?) just e-mailed me an exclusive tidbit for all you stylish bunny readers hopping about. The following is the official press release; get snapping! 

"Big Shot 

Lights, camera, contest! 

Go online for your chance to be in Teen Vogue. We’re searching for a girl with great style to photograph for the magazine. If you think you have what it takes, go to teenvogue.com/contests and upload a head-to-toe picture of yourself in your most fashion-forward outfit. We’ll pick our favorites and then let readers vote for the lucky winner, whom we’ll fly to New York City, provide with a full glam-squad—hair, makeup, the works!—and shoot for a future issue. And as if appearing in Teen Vogue weren’t enough, you could also win one of 50 Jill Stuart handbags just by entering the contest! Plus, those voted into our top ten will receive a $500 gift certificate to ultrachic shopping site shopbop.com. So what are you waiting for? Snap to it!"

bunny BISOUS

oox jules

**Update**

Good golly Miss Molly! I just posted this like two hours ago and I've already received a flurry of sweet e-mails asking "who are you wearing?" ...wow: and I just thought I was going to get some tea and avocado salad! Holy guacamole -- I'm totally flattered!

Anywho, without further ado... here's a petite anatomy of what I was donning:

bra top: VPL by Victoria Bartlett "Beckham bra"

wood + gold necklace: scoped out at little boutique in Pennsylvania

dress: vintage

vegan bag: Lanvin featuring illustrations by Alber Elbaz

knee-high nylon socks: Eley Kishimoto from Creatures of Comfort

(pre-vegan) shoes: Chanel

Tibetan red bead bracelet: from ABC Carpet & Home