Why deal with model cat-fights backstage when you can just create you ideal model with the help of a computer? It’s every male cDs employee’s dream: video game characters making their way into the fashion industry. Prada’s Spring/Summer ’12 men’s collection will release in celebration of Final Fantasy’s 25th Anniversary and will feature Final Fantasy characters with an uncanny resemblence [...]
Kate Upton: Unairbrushed & “Rolling” Around
Congratulations Kate Upton for your THIRD feature on our cDs blog in the past two months; you’re quickly becoming a social media mogul turned model success story. Inspiring young people to explore the career benefits of social media, Upton adds another spokeswoman title to her growing resume. The 19-year-old model strips down again to a bikini, [...]
(Insider Interview) Adam Huber — Not Your Average Male Model
Celebrity? No problem. Politician? Piece of cake. Male Model? Cue the sweaty palms and flushed face. Seated across from model Adam Huber your nerves could get the best of you. That is, until he starts doodling and tapping his fingers like a playful child, eager to share his story. Reassured that the young man in [...]
Time’s Top 10 Model Fashion Icons
Monday, Time released their highly anticipated Top 100 Fashion Icons list, 10 of which are iconic models. “From models and muses to designers and photographers, the world of style has no shortage of superstars”; most of which we know and others that were long before our time. While fashion has always played a role in [...]
Model Industry Trend Watch: Animated Gifs
What may seem like a cheesy tech-geek trend is making its way into mainstream fashion: animated gifs. While they may not be a new internet phenomenon, they are quickly rising in the modeling and fashion industries with heavy hitters such as Vogue Italia and Steven Meisel showing a newly found appreciation. Stirring the trend into the fashion melting [...]
{Fresh} Model Face Off
Every Monday we are going to host a model face off where YOU vote on which model you think would win in a model off. Based on their physical stats, modeling career, and personal life, vote on who you would like to see left standing. The following week the winner will be announced and a [...]
Insider Interview: Christophe Chalvet de Recy of Profile Model Management
His booming Profile Model Management career may have began in 1992 during Paris Fashion Week as a love story with now-wife EJ, but Christophe Chalvet de Recy’s career dates much further back. It all started at City Model Management, where Christophe got his first taste of the modeling world. From this experience, he moved to [...]
Jeffrey Fashion Cares 2012
Celebrities, models, and industry professionals gathered on the USS Intrepid on March 26th to celebrate the annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares charity fashion show, “with proceeds going to organizations supporting LGBT causes, including Lambda Legal, the Hetrick Martin Institute, the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, and the Point Foundation.” The show, featuring numerous shirtless male models, drew [...]
Abercrombie and Fitch Homoerotic Ad Campaign
Globally renound for their use of homoerotic imagery in advertising, Abercrombie and Fitch took it to a new level with their recent sports apparel campaign. Images of shirtless man playing sports in close proximity may have raised a brow but two half-dressed male models kissing in a shower leaves no question. Shot by famed photographer Bruce Weber, [...]
Claudia Schiffer for Guess (20 Years Later)
It’s usually easy to spot an aged model by her overly botoxed face and leather-like skin, but Claudia Schiffer is another story! Ellen Von Unwerth shot Claudia Schiffer’s first Guess ad in 1989, which propelled her to super stardom and after 20 years, Guess has re-hired the supermodel as the face of their 30th anniversary [...]
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