Karmen Pedaru‘s (Ford) latest advertising outing for Gucci comes courtesy of the Italian house’s Pre-Fall 2012 campaign by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Just as the spring campaigns had turned overripe Karmen, looking ever resplendent as a redhead, returns for Gucci to enliven appearances and preview a very promising autumn. [Fashion Spot Forums]
This page will more often than not argue its models are islands unto themselves, irreducible, forever without comparison. That is not also to say that others will also follow suit. Refinery 29 certainly hasn’t with an entertaining slide show that identifies which up-and-coming models to watch and likens them to established predecessors. Ford boasts over half the slide show including Charlene Almarvez (Ford), Antonia Wesseloh (Ford), Erjona Ala (Ford), and Karolina Wąż (Ford). Whether or not Erjona is the new Andrej Pejić is debatable a hundred different ways, but that her star is also rising is most certainly not. [Refinery 29]
Damaris Lewis (Ford Women) has been on tour with Prince (yes, the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince) this month in Australia. Part dancer, part muse, Damaris has been in her element performing with the seven times Grammy Award winning artist. Damaris being Damaris means she has also pulled some hijinks. In this final week in Oz Damaris today made an early-AM wake-up call to Prince during a morning radio show in Melbourne. Only Damaris! [Triple M Melbourne]
French director Romain Gavras has returned to the small screen with a new music video for a song by messieurs Z and West titled “No Church in the Wild.” The video continues themes of violence and conflict present in Gavras’s previous commissions for M.I.A. and Justice. For all of the spectacular thunder of “No Church,” the video is unable to match the spectacle of ultraviolence in “Stress.” [Vimeo]
Karmen Pedaru (Ford) for Gucci Pre-Fall 2012 (Photography: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott)
