Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show Video

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location: Farmiloe Building, 34-36 St. John Street
Stylist: Katie Grand
Casting Director: Michelle Lee/KCD
Models: Agyness Deyn, Cameron Russell, Mirte Maas, Natasa Vojnovic, Jessica Hart, Dorothea Barth Jorgensen, Kristy Kaurova, Behati Prinsloo, Madisyn Ritland, Anne Vyalitsyna, Vlada Roslyakova, Snejana Onopka, Rianne ten Haken, Kasia Struss, and Veruschka.

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show Video

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location: Farmiloe Building, 34-36 St. John Street
Stylist: Katie Grand
Casting Director: Michelle Lee/KCD
Models: Agyness Deyn, Cameron Russell, Mirte Maas, Natasa Vojnovic, Jessica Hart, Dorothea Barth Jorgensen, Kristy Kaurova, Behati Prinsloo, Madisyn Ritland, Anne Vyalitsyna, Vlada Roslyakova, Snejana Onopka, Rianne ten Haken, Kasia Struss, and Veruschka.

Veruschka von Lehndorff Is London’s Top Model

From New York Magazine:

London's runways are typically a launch pad for newbies. In seasons past, Kirsi Pyrhonen, Julia Nobis, and Tati Cotliar all made their catwalk breakthrough via the Big Smoke's innovative shows. This season proved to be another story.

New Jersey's Kirby Kenny had a strong showing, opening for Erdem and House of Holland and closing for Sass & Bide. Runway fixture Lisanne de Jong hit it big this week when she opened for Burberry, while Burberry Beauty face Nina Porter closed out the show in the most memorable way possible. Good ol' Aggy opened for Giles, but it was the show's closer, the legendary 71-year-old Veruschka von Lehndorff, who takes the crown. Giles Deacon has a habit of dragging out some of fashion's most iconic faces for his shows, but booking Veruschka was easily his most impressive casting coup to date.

Veruschka von Lehndorff Is London’s Top Model

From New York Magazine:

London's runways are typically a launch pad for newbies. In seasons past, Kirsi Pyrhonen, Julia Nobis, and Tati Cotliar all made their catwalk breakthrough via the Big Smoke's innovative shows. This season proved to be another story.

New Jersey's Kirby Kenny had a strong showing, opening for Erdem and House of Holland and closing for Sass & Bide. Runway fixture Lisanne de Jong hit it big this week when she opened for Burberry, while Burberry Beauty face Nina Porter closed out the show in the most memorable way possible. Good ol' Aggy opened for Giles, but it was the show's closer, the legendary 71-year-old Veruschka von Lehndorff, who takes the crown. Giles Deacon has a habit of dragging out some of fashion's most iconic faces for his shows, but booking Veruschka was easily his most impressive casting coup to date.

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location: Farmiloe Building, 34-36 St. John Street
Stylist: Katie Grand
Casting Director: Michelle Lee/KCD

Agyness Deyn


Cameron Russell


Mirte Maas


Natasa Vojnovic

Jessica Hart

Dorothea Barth Jorgensen

Kristy Kaurova

Behati Prinsloo

Madisyn Ritland

Anne Vyalitsyna

Vlada Roslyakova

Snejana Onopka

Rianne ten Haken

Kasia Struss

Veruschka

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show

Giles Deacon Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location: Farmiloe Building, 34-36 St. John Street
Stylist: Katie Grand
Casting Director: Michelle Lee/KCD

Agyness Deyn


Cameron Russell


Mirte Maas


Natasa Vojnovic

Jessica Hart

Dorothea Barth Jorgensen

Kristy Kaurova

Behati Prinsloo

Madisyn Ritland

Anne Vyalitsyna

Vlada Roslyakova

Snejana Onopka

Rianne ten Haken

Kasia Struss

Veruschka

The days can't be like the nights

My vacation starts tonight....

I plan on spending as much time as possible in the water: Tobay Beach, Jones Beach, Cedar Beach, and Ocean Beach Maryland.

Will be back on Monday, August 24th.

Until then, I won't have regular access to a computer, but will do my best to keep in touch.

Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Veruschka, American Vogue:

Bill Blass to Close

Verushka, wearing Bill Blass, photographed by Richard Avedon, January 1967

By Eric Wilson

Nearly a decade after Bill Blass retired from Seventh Avenue, the company that bears his name is closing, with many of its remaining staff expected to leave this week. According to current and former designers who have carried on the collection in recent years, the company will close its showroom at 550 Seventh Avenue and eliminate about 30 remaining jobs there as early as Friday.

Craig Hoffman, the president of Bill Blass, declined to comment on Wednesday.

Michael Vollbracht, who designed the line from 2003 to 2007, said that several of his former colleagues had informed him of the company’s plans to close, given the economic climate. The label was put up for sale earlier this year by its parent company, NexCen Brands Inc., which announced in May that it was facing a severe cash squeeze. Bill Blass has since canceled its spring collection, and its latest designer, Peter Som, left the company in October and has not been replaced.

According to executives and designers still at the company, NexCen is still trying to sell the Bill Blass name with the hope that another company will later revive the runway collection.

This week, the company has been selling samples from Mr. Blass’s collections, along with boxes of Manolo Blahnik shoes that were used in runway shows, at discounts of 90 percent, but the broader archives appear to be headed to Indiana University in Bloomington, where a retrospective of Mr. Blass’s work was held shortly after he died in 2002.

“The demise of Bill Blass is not just saddening,” Mr. Vollbracht said.
“It’s another rude awakening to this industry, I think.”

I believe the children are our future.

I believe the children are our are future.
Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier.
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.
Everybodys searching for a hero.

Teri Toye, ph: Steven Meisel for Lei


Wayne Sterling of The Imagist opened my eyes to an amazing interview in the new V Magazine:

In 1984, Teri Toye, a striking transgendered fashion student and fixture of the New York nightlife scene, became an instant modeling sensation when she opened her friend Stephen Sprouse’s runway show. Soon she was walking for Gaultier, Comme des Garçons, and Chanel, and posing on the pages of German Vogue; Steven Meisel, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong all considered her a muse. But as quickly as she became a star, she disappeared from the fashion world, returning home to Des Moines, Iowa, where she still lives and works in historic preservation and real estate. Here, the equally illustrious fashion designer and stylist André Walker (along with friends Carlos Taylor and Pierre Francillon) talk to their old pal about the glory days.

ANDRÉ WALKER Hi, Teri Toye. How are you?

TERI TOYE Well, I’m good. How are you?

AW I was thinking, My God, I have to confess. I really feel like there are so many other people who could have done this interview.

TT I was shocked that they wanted to have me as a Hero in the magazine. They sent me some issues and everyone is so famous. But obviously, I’m honored to be considered someone’s hero, so of course I had to do it.

AW That’s the whole excitement behind this, Teri. When you look back on the things that you did, and your story, it serves as a template. Nobody knew exactly how the transgendered operation would work itself out in society. Now we have it, we know that it’s a look. People are human. You did a lot of things in your time. Basically, how did you feel about yourself before you actually started modeling? What was your goal when you left the house and walked down the street?

TT I just wanted to enjoy my life. I moved to New York to study at Parsons and hopefully to work in the fashion business. Of course, then I transitioned. I did work in the fashion business as a model, which was an amazing kind of gift and just an incredible validation. It means more to me now than it did then. I was just happy to travel and meet and work with people whose work I enjoyed. I worked with all the designers I loved. I was more interested in personal relationships than business.

AW I can totally understand that, because at the time, things weren’t as strategic as they are now. Basically, you would go out to a nightclub and end up making a connection and getting a job, which would lead to another. How did you feel about the nightclub scene?

TT I immediately found the nightclubs and Studio 54 much more fun than class at Parsons.

AW You went to Studio 54? I am destroyed! That’s an era I missed out on. I had to live Studio 54 through WWD. Luckily my mom had a subscription. What was Studio 54 like? Were you doing drugs? What was up?

TT I was dancing.

AW You were dancing! Were you floating? Did you have a model agency?

TT I had Click in New York and City in Paris.

AW How chic! How did you see yourself? Was it just a fun thing for you to do, or did you think to yourself, Oh my God, I’m going to take this and really milk it?

TT I never thought that. It was never a goal of mine to become a model. I was asked to do it, and of course I did, and I was enjoying it, and that’s it. But at the time, I liked everything else about modeling—the traveling, the parties, the social life, my friends—but the modeling I wasn’t that interested in. It was very intimidating to do those shows, and I was never crazy about the pictures. If I knew then how good I looked, I would have been a bigger bitch.

AW What were some of the high and low points of this modeling career-slash-muse-slash-icon deal?

TT Well, I can’t think of any low points, but there were plenty of high points. Obviously, the Stephen Sprouse show at the Ritz, which was my first fashion show, was exciting.

AW So cool, I was there too! I think I was sitting in Polly Mellen’s lap. She cradled me… Was the first outfit that Day-Glo green? Was it green? Yellow-green? Lime-green? I can’t remember.

TT I think it was a black fur coat and hat. Fake fur.

AW That kind of Dr. Seuss hat! So cool…

TT Another high point: I walked with Jean-Michel [Basquiat] in Comme des Garçons when they did a show in New York. He’s been dead twenty years this year. I walked with Veruschka in a Thierry Mugler show in Paris. That was a high. I did a lot of shows for Thierry Mugler.

AW We’ll get on our little search engines now. That’s hot.

TT Obviously, doing the Chanel show was a high.

AW Yes, I remember the Chanel show. It was all glamour. You have to do something for my new magazine.

TT You have a new magazine?

AW Yeah, totally—it’s sick. When and why did you leave New York City?

TT I left in 1987, because the city was changing and my personal relationships were changing. A lot of people were dying, and I just wasn’t happy anymore.

AW What relationships are you referring to?

TT With dear friends like Way Bandy dying…the list goes on and on.

AW In 1986, after no one paid attention to my collection, I fled to Barcelona and hid out in London for two years, and came back in 1988. I guess a lot of people were leaving New York at the time.

TT It was heartbreaking, you know, and people would call me and would give me anxiety. I felt like I was missing everything. And then for a while, people called periodically to tell me about someone who’d just died. Eventually then I just lost touch with most of the people I know who still live there. I still have a couple of close friends I keep in touch with.

AW What about Jean-Paul Gaultier? What was your relationship like with him? I mean as far as I can see, Jean-Paul was responding to something that was already taking place when he chose you to model in his show. You’d already done Stephen Sprouse and had been on the scene in New York, so it was only normal for Jean-Paul to ask you to participate.

TT Well, I love Jean-Paul. I first did his show when he came to New York and did a show there, and then I would always do his shows in Paris. We would also get together socially when I was in town. I think he was just being supportive, and he liked what was happening everywhere in fashion.

AW What about Stephen Sprouse? In my mind, Teri Toye and Stephen Sprouse are like synonymous. What was your relationship with him?

TT We were friends and had been for years before he launched his first collection. You probably associate the Teri Toye look with him because everyone wore Teri Toye wigs in the show.

AW Exactly! What about Steven Meisel?

TT We also had a personal relationship. We had been friends for years before Steven became a photographer, when he was a fashion illustrator. Actually, one of the first times I ever modeled was for Steven in a fashion illustration class he taught at Parsons.

AW Stop, that is so sweet. So you were like a life-drawing model?

TT Only a couple of times. Once for Steven’s class, and then for Antonio [Lopez]. AW At the time, were you androgynous or were you a boy?

TT No, I was Teri Toye.

AW Oh, you were Teri Toye? Work it out. This is the first chance I’ve had to talk to you since we knew each other back in the day. We both had our own worlds around us.

TT I think the last time I saw you, you skated off.

AW Into the sunset!

TT It was on Canal Street, in Manhattan. It must have been the ’80s. You used to rollerskate on the street.

AW I was always on skates. It was shocking.

TT You looked amazing on them too.

AW Did Nan Goldin ever take portraits of you?

TT Nan Goldin always had a camera in her hand and was always trying to take everyone’s picture. If ever you would get in a compromising situation, she’d be right there. We were friends, and I used to hang out with Nan in her loft while she put together her slideshows. We would sit together all night and watch her slides.

AW That’s amazing.

TT It would’ve been more amazing if we’d had glow-in-the-dark extension cords.

AW What about David Armstrong?

TT I love David Armstrong.

AW What about Richard Hell and the Voidoids? Did you know Richard?

TT Yeah, I knew Richard, but not well. I mean, everybody knew everybody. It was like a small town.

AW What about Max’s Kansas City? Did you ever hang out?

TT No, that’s just a little before my time, I’m happy to say.

AW Really, how can you not have gone to Max’s Kansas City when you went to Studio 54?

TT I guess I’m just not as old as you think. How old do you think I am?

AW I really have no idea. I’m 42. Hold on, Pierre wants to ask questions now.

PIERRE FRANCILLON Hello, Teri Toye. How are you doing?

TT I’m good. How are you, Pierre?

PF I was really honored when André suggested I ask you a few questions.

TT I haven’t seen you in a hundred years.

PF Yeah, but a hundred years is a minute, baby.

TT Whenever I see people I haven’t seen for twenty, twenty-five years, I always think that if I’ve aged as much as they have I’m going to kill myself.

PF Oh, really? I haven’t aged at all. I don’t know if you have this recollection, but one day you were wearing a Gaultier green pantsuit, walking down Houston Street, coming from the East Side, going to Soho, and you were listening to Dionne Warwick. It was such a great look. Are you still connected to fashion? Do you still find inspiration in fashion?

TT Well of course. Doesn’t everyone?

PF Which designers are you feeling? If you were to walk in somebody’s show, who would you walk for?

TT I like all the same ones, and then there are a lot of new ones.

PF Who are the new ones?

TT I love Alexander McQueen.

PF We have all hailed to the queen.

AW What was your experience like with Karl Lagerfeld?

TT That was amazing, and Karl was lovely. After the show, he told me I was the toast of Paris. It wouldn’t have meant so much if anyone else had said it.

AW Are you still in contact with him?

TT No, I’m not. I’m not in contact with anyone.

AW That’s chic. That’s a full answer to my question. So what are you doing now? What’s life like in Iowa?

TT Well, I have a house and dogs and a family.

AW Family? Husband? New husband?

TT No, I’m happily divorced. I have a mother, a sister, and her four children.

AW Is Tammy out there? I don’t know who Tammy is, but Carlos is asking about her.

TT Tammy’s my sister, and yes, she lives next door to me. Family is family.

AW You are outrageous. Is Tammy a girl too?

TT Yes.

AW Will you guys shut up and let me ask my few questions? We just wanted to make it fun for you. Carlos was asking what kind of looks you’re wearing this fall. Do you watch that show America’s Next Top Model?

TT I watch it once in a while.

AW Do you know this transgendered model called Isis on the show? Have you seen her? What do you think about that on national television?

TT Go, Tyra. I think that Isis must be very brave to put herself through that.

AW Work it out. I always wanted to ask you, Teri. You are basically transgender royalty, fashion royalty. When you stopped, who took over? Who do you feel carried the torch?

TT Well, I kept the torch.

To do this weekend

1. Veruschka in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up at the Museum of Modern Art(11 West 53 Street, between Fifth Ave x Sixth Ave, ph: (212) 708-9400).; tonight at 7pm, & Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:00 p.m.
   
   


2. Ridley Scott's Alien at the IFC Centre 323 6th ave (at 3rd street), (212)924-7771, Friday & Saturday at midnight.


3. Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders at Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Between 6th Ave x Varick Street, ph: (212) 727-8110). This film is the most exciting collaboration between Jean-Luc Godard and his wife Anna Karina. Showing Fri/Sat at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, and 9:30.
4. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing starring Jennifer Jones at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center (West 65th Street, between Broadway & Amsterdam Aves on the upper level), Saturday May 24th at 2:30 pm. This film tells the story of a married but separated American reporter (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society.
5. Orson Welles' Touch of Evil at the Museum of Modern Art. (11 West 53 Street, between Fifth Ave x Sixth Ave, ph: (212) 708-9400). This reconstructed version of the film is based on the legendarily eloquent fifty-eight-page memo that Welles wrote to Universal Studio executives after they barred him from the cutting room during post-production. Gone are the title credits that obscured the exquisitely choreographed opening shot, as Russell Metty'scrane follows newlyweds Charlton Hestonand Janet Leigh along the pulsating, garishly lit streets of a U.S.-Mexican border town, until a car explosion suddenly brings evil and corruption into their lives. Also starring Marlene Dietrich. Playing Saturday, May 24, 2008, 8:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1 and Sunday, May 25, 2008, 5:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1.

Beauty: Veruschka

I might even show you my photograph album. You might even see a face in it which might remind you of your own, of what you once were. You might see faces of others, in shadow, or cheeks of others, turning, or jaws, or backs of necks, or eyes, dark under hats, which might remind you of others, whom you once knew, whom you thought long dead, but from whom you will still receive a sidelong glance.

—Harold Pinter, No Man's Land, 1975

Nan Goldin - Mariacarla & Veruschka

Nan Goldin photographed Mariacarla & Veruschka in Paris on January 24-26, 2008 (stylist: Beat Bolliger) for the New York Times Magazine.

Nan Goldin is an American fine-art and documentary photographer. She is known for her book & performance art piece "The Ballad of Sexual Dependancy" (1986). Her new paperback "The Devil's Playground" is available at Amazon.com

Veruschka is the most iconic of all the models represented by Women Management. She has worked with every major photographer: Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton & Steven Meisel. Today Vera is commited to creating her art.