The series, which airs fall 2013, is an ongoing family drama about what happens when love becomes a vendetta and desire is obsessive. A place where when there is murder there is love, where families collide and money corrupts. Set in the powerful international world of art, downtown Los Angeles shines like a jewel in this ever-growing city. Directed by Eric Scott.

More info on Lane’s Full length Feature Film and Short film click here.

“Today’s release of the single “Get Higher” by our vocal heroes, Palaye Royale, forecasts that this summer’s must-have accessory is the ability to let your personal style flag fly. Bandmates Sebastian, Emerson and Remington not only hatched the concept for the accompanying video (also out today), they designed the set and styled the models, including Ford LA new faces Peyton Alexander and Miriam Harvey.

The mesmerizing short, inspired by the subversive style of films like “Enter The Void” and “Tree Of Life”, showcases exceptionally well-curated vintage clothes, a classic Cafe Racer bike, and a gothic Mad Hatter’s playhouse doubling as the fashionable revolutionaries’ lair.

If you’ve ever wanted to torch a dollhouse out of sheer frustration with the current state of the world, there is a bonus in this one for you.” [PR] Download the free single by clicking the album cover below:

Watch Sebastian, Emerson and Remington at work in this ongoing video documentary about a day in the life of “Palaye Royale.”

Glamorous? Yes. Cultured? Definitely. But despite her ongoing travel, Redman has only journeyed sans modeling commitment twice in 14 years; Once to San Francisco, another time to Dubai.

She decided it was time to totally engross herself in another culture, to give back and to truly see the country she is in, which is how Redman became involved with The Komera Project, a charity organization she will soon travel to Rwanda with.

Redman talks to Ford about travel, Rwanda, and why she chose to be involved with The Komera Project.

Why The Komera Project?

I love their vision and what they stand for. It started with a woman, Margaret Butler, who decided it was time to make a difference. She had been to Rwanda and noticed that after a certain age, girls no longer attended school as they couldn’t afford it.  Margaret wanted to give the girls an opportunity for higher education, which is how The Komera Project began.

I love that one woman had an idea to help strangers and made that happen. I want to help her. Education is the best gift anyone can receive.

This will be your first time in Rwanda. What are your expectations?

Colorful clothes, dirt roads, slow, if any, Internet, friendly people, green lush forest, and scooters everywhere.

When you travel for work, do you feel you really get to see and know the country you are in?

Rarely. I’ve been to Cape Town at least 10 times and the last time I was there I finally was able to hike Lions Head and make it to the top of Table Mountain. But, that’s only because I had a few days between modeling jobs. Normally when I am working, the call times are early and we shoot until the sun sets so there isn’t much time to explore.

So you really don’t get to see much?

What I see normally is where we are shooting, which is pretty cool. When I shot in Brazil, the location was at a Samba school with all the dancers all dressed up in their headdresses and completely sequined outfits. That is rare though.

What do you hope to receive from this trip?

I’m going to have fun, meet my scholar, see the schools, and really immerse myself in the culture. Being on the go nonstop can make you feel disconnected.  I’m working nonstop which I absolutely love but the focus is always on the job.  Working with The Komera Project has given me a chance to focus on other people. I’ve been working on raising money for the girls and it feels so good to help someone else out.

Any more info?

Besides meeting the girls and visiting the schools, we are doing a global run which will be on June 19^th .  We encourage people from all over the world to run (or walk or participate in any activity such as yoga, biking, kickboxing, etc.) for The Komera Project on this day.

More info can be found here. Remember, any little bit helps! It all adds up and we appreciate any and all donations. As little as $30 can provide pens and notebooks to two girls for an entire year.

Interview and story by Ford’s Talia Fabrizio 

In the wake of making headlines after appearing in the H&M summer 2013 beachwear campaign followed by an open letter, published on BBC News, encouraging the end of body size obsession, Jennie Runk appeared on Good Morning America. Watch here.

Photographed by Hannah Sider. Styled by Kim Weber and Elyse Saunders.

“I had no idea that my H&M beachwear campaign would receive so much publicity. I’m the quiet type who reads books, plays video games, and might be a little too obsessed with her cat.

So, suddenly having a large amount of publicity was an awkward surprise at first. I found it strange that people made such a fuss about how my body looks in a bikini, since I don’t usually give it much thought.

When my Facebook fan page gained about 2,000 new likes in 24 hours, I decided to use the attention as an opportunity to make the world a little nicer by promoting confidence. I’ve since been receiving lots of messages from fans, expressing gratitude.

Some even told me that my confidence has inspired them to try on a bikini for the first time in years. This is exactly the kind of thing I’ve always wanted to accomplish, showing women that it’s OK to be confident even if you’re not the popular notion of “perfect”.

This message is especially important for teenage girls. Being a teenage girl is incredibly difficult. They need all the help and support they can get.

When our bodies change and we all start to look totally different, we simultaneously begin feeling pressured to look exactly the same. This is an impossible goal to achieve and I wish I had known that when I was 13. At 5ft 9in and a US size eight (usually either a UK 10 or 12), I envied the girls whose boyfriends could pick them up and carry them on their shoulders.

Gym class was a nightmare. While the thin girls were wearing shorts, I was wearing sweat pants because my thighs were the size of their waists, and those pants were embarrassingly short because I was taller than the average adult, but still shopped at (pre-teen clothing store) Limited Too.

I also had thick, curly hair that only drew more attention to me, hiding behind my braces and beige, wire-rimmed glasses. On top of all this I’ve always been rather clumsy, so to say that my adolescence was awkward is an understatement.

Having finally survived it, I feel compelled to show girls who are going through the same thing that it’s acceptable to be different. You will grow out of this awkwardness fabulously. Just focus on being the best possible version of yourself and quit worrying about your thighs, there’s nothing wrong with them.

After all, I never thought of myself as model material but then I was discovered at a Petsmart, while volunteering in my too-short sweat pants no less.

I was given the option to lose weight and try to maintain a size four (a UK six or eight), or to gain a little – maintain a size 10 (a UK 12 or 14) – and start a career as a plus-size model. I knew my body was never meant to be a size four, so I went with plus.

People assume “plus” equates to fat, which in turn equates to ugly. This is completely absurd because many women who are considered plus-sized are actually in line with the American national average, or a US size 12/14 (somewhere between a UK size 14-18).

I can’t argue that some styles look better on one size than another.

While the idea of separating women into size categories seems stigmatising, clothing companies do this in order to offer their customers exactly what they’re looking for, making it easier for people of all sizes to find clothes that fit their bodies as well as their own unique stylistic expression.

The only problem is the negative connotations that remain stubbornly attached to the term “plus-size”. There shouldn’t be anything negative about being the same size as the average American woman, or even being a little bigger. Some women are perfectly healthy at a size 16 (a UK 18 or 20).

There are also negative connotations associated with thinness. Just as bigger women get called fat or chunky, thin women get called gangly or bony.

There’s no need to glamorise one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.”

]]> http://www.fordmodelsblog.com/daily-news/through-our-lens-simone/feed/ 0 http://www.fordmodelsblog.com/editorials/more-from-team-ford-citizen-k-sport-homme/ http://www.fordmodelsblog.com/editorials/more-from-team-ford-citizen-k-sport-homme/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 18:00:54 +0000 talia fabrizio http://www.fordmodelsblog.com/?p=83000 Continue reading →]]> Couldn’t get enough of Austin, Bart G, Ben Hunter, Benj Lee, Brad Fisher, Clint Mauro, Chris Mosier, and Sam Saffman in the editorial “The Coach” for Citizen K Sport Homme?  Neither could we, which is why we made a photo collage if you will, of some of the editorial images alongside some unpublished shots all by Richard Phibbs. Take a look.

Go behind the scenes with Ezra Patchett and Greg Griner of Ford Artists in this video as they prep for the Jenna Leigh Lingerie photo shoot.

Also featured in “Once Upon A Time” are Brad Kroenig, Hudson Kroenig and Jake Davies.