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Numéro #110 | Frida Gustavsson by Miguel Reveriego

Numéro #110 | Frida Gustavsson by Miguel Reveriego: "

The words sexy and Frida Gustavsson don’t necessarily seem to go together, but the Swedish beauty manages to pull off the impossible in this smoldering editorial from Numéro #110. Captured by Miguel Reveriego, the Danish model turns up the heat in revealing looks styled by Capucine Safyurtlu.

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Anna Dello Russo Treats Her Streetstyle "Like a Job"

Anna Dello Russo Treats Her Streetstyle "Like a Job": "

>> Anna Dello Russo, stylist and fashion director-at-large at Vogue Nippon, credits The Sartorialist's Scott Schuman with giving her 'another career' as a streetstyle star, she tells Swide. 'Us lot were invisible; there was the model, the photographer and a whole team of people. When the camera turned to us it enabled us to start a new career. The styling work was the same, only done to myself. And so when the whole thing happened I was prepared, I knew what to do.'

She says that capturing streetstyle is in many ways like staging a fashion magazine editorial. 'The whole streetstyle thing these days is like a job, it's all planned and thought up in advance; it's not as though you just 'happen' to run into one another. Outfits are prepared in advance . . . I get ready like six months beforehand. I edit the clothes (about 90 outfits for each fashion week). I think of what would look good on camera . . . I just hope it doesn't end up making it lose its spontaneity and make it become fake.'

LOVE IS

LOVE IS: "

Courtney Love is a woman that needs no introduction – rocker, actress, icon and iconoclast. Lover and hater. Saint and sinner. And she and Riccardo Tisci have history. The first landmark in their relationship was a private Love concert hosted at Givenchy’s avenue Georges V headquarters in June 2007. The celebration? To toast Love’s upcoming solo record Nobody’s Daughter. Love took to that intimate, salon stage wearing an haute couture dress from the previous day’s A/W 2007 show. And the rest, as they say, is history. Nearly three years later, Love collaborates with Panos Yiapanis, one of the most influential stylists of our generation as well as key court to the house of Givenchy – Panos and Riccardo’s collaboration at Givenchy menswear in particular has brought the most culuturally relevant men’s clothes since the heady days of Slimane at Dior.

And it is this spring Courtney Love will finally release Nobody’s Daughter under the moniker of Hole, her band that has regrouped under a new line-up. Key of which is guitarist and new creative sparring partner Micko Larkin, a ramshackle-romantic character hailing from London outfit Larrikin Love, a band which shone brightly for one album in 2006 then disbanded in 2007.

Ahead of Hole’s three showcase gigs this February 2010 – 17th at London Shepherd’s Bush Empire; 19th Milan Magazzini Generali and 21st Amsterdam Paradiso – Dazed and Confused magazine ran a cover story with the self-proclaimed dirty blonde, featuring the following tribute from Tisci:

“Courtney is an icon. Lot’s of celebrities in the last ten years have tried to be rock’n’roll, but Courtney is the real rock’n’roll, the goddess of rock’n’roll.

What I love about Courtney is that she is so unpredictable. When I met her she became my muse. I design with Courtney in mind in a way – you really want to design for a woman like that. She’s got soul. She’s super rock’n’roll but at the same time, super intelligent. I love strong women with a lot to say, and she has a lot to say.

She did a private concert for Givenchy at the couture salon, which was amazing. We put her in a dress from The Goddess collection – this white dress, super-couture with embroidery. I loved her in it. Anything you put on her becomes Courtney Love, she’s such a versatile monster! She does movies, she does great… she does music, she does great.

Sometimes when you meet your icons you’re scared you’re going to be disappointed, but when I met Courtney I was even more in love because she can talk about everything, from art to fashion to music. I dressed her around two years ago; the first look was this blue suede couture coat with a muslin dress underneath. The next day she appeared in the press in this leopard-print Givenchy outfit with black degrade from the jacket down. It’s important that you wear what you really feel it’s good for you to wear. Age doesn’t matter, sometimes you see girls who are 20, wearing clothes that could belong to a woman of 50, and sometimes you see a woman of 50 dressing young and they look really good. It depends how they carry the clothes. This is what I love about Courtney – when she puts on clothes, they become Courtney Love.”

A#8 features a collage by Love, a mood of charged feminine energy, flowers, disorder nobility and nothing. THE MOST CAKE, is a recurring metaphor, a lyric culled from Hole’s 1994 release ‘Doll Parts’. It’s here she scribes her preoccupations – ranging from the Book of Kells to greed, sex, money, Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey. Riccardo, Panos and Givenchy are called as well as other creative forces like photographer Steven Klein and taxidermist Polly Morgan…

Interview February | Sasha Pivovarova by Craig McDean

Interview February | Sasha Pivovarova by Craig McDean: "

Craig McDean gets messy for his latest contribution to Interview magazine where the British photographer shoots Sasha Pivovarova in the graffiti-ed My Space. Styled by Karl Templer, Sasha dons several eccentric looks featuring pieces from Balenciaga’s spring collection.

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Valentino Spring 2010 Campaign Preview | Cole Mohr by Mert & Marcus

Valentino Spring 2010 Campaign Preview | Cole Mohr by Mert & Marcus: "

Feeling the Love Times 8

Feeling the Love Times 8: "

There’s nothing we love more than multiple covers, especially when each and every cover is of a model.

Love magazine—a relatively new glossy on the scene, but one that’s loved by fashion insiders already—chose eight models for their third issue. Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy, Lara Stone, Jeneil Williams, Natalia Vodianova, Kristen McMenamy, and Amber Valletta stripped down for the Fashion Icons issue to discuss body image and size. Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott snapped the models in exactly the same position, and minimal cover lines draw your attention to the model and her figure. With the release of the magazine comes the release of their measurements, to show that all figures are different.

“For this issue of Love, we took eight women who are generally acknowledged as the most beautiful in the world, got them to show off their bodies—widely regarded as the most perfect in the world—and photographed them all in exactly the same position for the cover,” said Love’s editor-in-chief Katie Grand. “We did this to show how much they differed physically from one another, which is why we also printed their measurements.”

Over the past few days, new covers have continually been released, but finally we now have all eight issues, right before the magazine appears on newsstands on February 8.

Which issue do you want?