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Balenciaga Fall 2013 Campaign | Pictures
Balenciaga

Back of Kristen McMenamy's Head Stars in Alexander Wang's First Balenciaga Campaign

In an image released Tuesday from Balenciaga's Fall 2013 campaign — the first since Alexander Wang took over as the house's creative director — a black-clad Kristen McMenamy is seen peeking out of an all-black room, with her left hand gripping the doorknob.
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In an image released Tuesday from Balenciaga's Fall 2013 campaign — the first since Alexander Wang took over as the house's creative director — a black-clad Kristen McMenamy is seen peeking out of an all-black room, with her left hand gripping the doorknob.

Wang told WWD that the campaign, shot by Steven Klein, is meant to be a "very cinematic portrayal" of his Fall 2013 debut for the house. He added that there's "lots of emotion, in contrast to the austerity bestowed in the show."

Whether McMenamy's face will appear in other images from the campaign will have to wait until June, when the campaign begins appearing in magazines. A full look at the first shot, here in the gallery.

Photo courtesy of Balenciaga

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Kristen McMenamy and Miles Aldridge Divorce
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Kristen McMenamy Divorcing Fashion Photographer Miles Aldridge

After 16 years, one of the industry's most iconic marriages is breaking up.
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After 16 years, one of the industry's most iconic marriages is breaking up. Model Kristen McMenamy is divorcing her husband, fashion photographer Miles Aldridge.

McMenamy told The Daily Mail that Aldridge had become "intolerable" to live with, and in their divorce petition, Aldridge admitted to infidelity. The court granted them a decree nisi, which will legally end their marriage this Summer.

But McMenamy, who was walked down the aisle by Karl Lagerfeld and had Naomi Campbell as a bridesmaid at her wedding to Aldridge in 1997, said she and her soon-to-be-ex-husband are on good terms. "We have as good a relationship as you can expect after everything that's happened," she said.

Recently, the 46-year-old model has been dating art dealer Ivor Braka, whom she met at a friend's dinner party a few months ago.

"I sent my pal a cheeky message saying, 'Seat me next to an eligible bachelor,'" she said. "It turned out to be Ivor."

i-D Magazine Role Model Issue Fall 2012 Covers
Gisele Bundchen

Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bundchen, and Karen Elson Star on New i-D Covers

Everyone needs someone to look up to, so for the role-models-themed Fall 2012 issue of i-D Magazine, Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi photographed a litany of the industry's boldface names for a series of beautiful covers.
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i-D Magazine Role Model Issue Fall 2012 Covers

Everyone needs someone to look up to, so for the role-models-themed Fall 2012 issue of i-D Magazine, Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi photographed a litany of the industry's boldface names for a series of beautiful covers.

Gisele Bundchen is captured in black and white, surrounded by wavy tendrils of her own hair. Isabeli Fontana, made up like a classic '40s femme fatale, makes a neck brace look like the chicest, easiest-to-wear accessory there is, and Karen Elson's fiery hair is pushed into an extremely experimental shape.

A look at the rest of the models' hair — styled into tonsorial perfection by Luigi Murenu — here in the gallery.

Photos courtesy of i-D Magazine.

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H&M Holiday 2011 Campaign [Pictures]
H&M

Get a Peek at H&M's Holiday Campaign, Featuring Models and Their Families

>> Last year, H&M shot models Liya Kebede, Stella Tennant, Kasia Struss, Mariacarla Boscono, Du Juan, and Fei Fei Sun with their family members and friends for its holiday campaign.
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H&M Holiday 2011 Campaign

>> Last year, H&M shot models Liya Kebede, Stella Tennant, Kasia Struss, Mariacarla Boscono, Du Juan, and Fei Fei Sun with their family members and friends for its holiday campaign. It looks like the retailer is going for the same concept again this holiday season: see Georgia May Jagger and her mom, Jerry Hall; Kristen McMenamy and her sons; and Karen Elson and her fraternal twin sister, Kate Elson, in a preview of this year's set, shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

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LOVE #6 Covers: Hailee Steinfeld, Chloe Moretz, Elle Fanning, Lara Stone
Elle Fanning

See All Eight of LOVE's New Covers, Featuring Lara Stone, Hailee Steinfeld, and More

>> LOVE's sixth edition boasts more covers than ever before: models Kristen McMenamy, Daphne Groeneveld, Nyasha Matonhodze, Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono, plus the young, 14-and-under starlets Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Fanning, and Chloe Moretz, "their faces free of makeup and streaked with tears," as alternatively styled by Grand, Panos Yiapanis, or Arianne Phillips.
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>> LOVE's sixth edition boasts more covers than ever before: models Kristen McMenamy, Daphne Groeneveld, Nyasha Matonhodze, Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono, plus the young, 14-and-under starlets Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Fanning, and Chloe Moretz, "their faces free of makeup and streaked with tears," as alternatively styled by Grand, Panos Yiapanis, or Arianne Phillips. All eight were photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

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Givenchy Fall 2011 Ad Campaign with Naomi Campbell [Video]
Givenchy

Watch Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, and More Snarl for Givenchy's Fall 2011 Campaign

>> In tune with the roaring panther prints of Givenchy's Fall 2011 collection, the accompanying ad campaign sees Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, Kristen McMenamy, and house favorite Mariacarla Boscono each roaring for the lens of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
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>> In tune with the roaring panther prints of Givenchy's Fall 2011 collection, the accompanying ad campaign sees Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, Kristen McMenamy, and house favorite Mariacarla Boscono each roaring for the lens of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Get a look behind-the-scenes at the shoot, for which Riccardo Tisci imagined the four new Givenchy faces as “dark 1950s pinups,” captured individually atop a printed cushion in a corner. [Style File, WWD]

 

 

Carine Roitfeld-Styled Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 Ad Campaign
Jean Paul Gaultier

See the Carine Roitfeld-Styled Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 Campaign

>> A freelance career is agreeing with Carine Roitfeld — very early on in the Fall 2011 ad campaign reveal game, she's already racked up styling duties for two houses.
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>> A freelance career is agreeing with Carine Roitfeld — very early on in the Fall 2011 ad campaign reveal game, she's already racked up styling duties for two houses. First Chanel, and now Jean Paul Gaultier, the first images of which show Kristen McMenamy in a Roitfeld-esque pencil skirt, captured by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

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Chanel Cruise 2012 Show in France 2011-05-10 07:25:27
Rachel Bilson

Chanel's Croiserie Collection Was a Sunset Affair

This was one gorgeous cruise show, not just for the breezy dresses and chic swimsuits, but for the setting: Cap d'Antibes in the south of France at sunset.
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Chanel Cruise 2012 Show in France 2011-05-10 07:25:27

This was one gorgeous cruise show, not just for the breezy dresses and chic swimsuits, but for the setting: Cap d'Antibes in the south of France at sunset. Attendees included Karl Lagerfeld's muses: Rachel Bilson, Blake Lively, Vanessa Paradis, and Alexa Chung, all decked in Chanel, lined the seaside runway outside the Hotel du Cap. The clothes emulated the classic Chanel woman who hits the beach — sleek black swimsuits were paired with pearls and boucle jackets; elegant dresses were styled over breezy pants. File under real beauty knows no age: a 46-year old Kristen McMenamy, a favorite model of Lagerfeld, strolling the runway in a black and white swimsuit and long robe, silver hair glinting. Click our slideshow to see all the looks from Chanel Croiserie.

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Karl Lagerfeld Premieres Series of Magnum Ice Cream Commercials Starring Rachel Bilson and Baptiste Giabiconi
Rachel Bilson

Karl Lagerfeld Premieres Series of Magnum Ice Cream Commercials Starring Rachel Bilson and Baptiste Giabiconi

>> Last night, Karl Lagerfeld hit New York to debut a series of commercials he directed to promote the European ice cream brand Magnum in the United States.
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>> Last night, Karl Lagerfeld hit New York to debut a series of commercials he directed to promote the European ice cream brand Magnum in the United States. The three minute-long spots feature Rachel Bilson — portraying a fashion model, an art student, and a ballet dancer — as well as Baptiste Giabiconi, but Lagerfeld himself makes no appearances.

A waiter carrying a Diet Coke-filled stemmed glass on a tray followed Lagerfeld around the premiere party last night, as did his bodyguard Sebastien Jondeau. So why did Lagerfeld team up with Magnum, even though he admits he doesn't eat sugar? “I like advertising. I love my job in fashion. I love my job as a photographer, but making films was something I hadn’t done. If I was isolated in one job, I would get bored." Besides, he adds: “I would eat ice cream if I could. I made advertisements for Dom Perignon Champagne, and I don’t drink alcohol. After all, I’m a dress designer and I don’t wear dresses."

Bilson, meanwhile, estimated that probably had around 25 Magnum bars during the course of filming, which was done over three days in Paris on a soundstage and at the Folies Bergere. Lagerfeld said that he was given creative freedom, with the advice that the films' content should be “nothing very sexual,” and the budget for a crew of at least 80 people.

When asked whether there was anything he would not lend his name to, Lagerfeld replied: “I hate the idea of the politically correct, because it is very demode, but I would not make advertisements for something related to meat. Meat, no; fur, yes. I don’t think I would do advertising for condoms, even if it has the same name here [Magnum].”

As for the rumor circulating that he is working on a fragrance called "Paper Passion," intending it to smell like books, Lagerfeld said it's not happening. And his next film to debut is a 30-minute movie, "The Tale of a Fairy," starring Freja Beha Erichsen, Anna Mouglalis, Amanda Harlech, and Kristen McMenamy, and to be shown during the Chanel Cruise 2012 presentation in Cap d'Antibes.

Carine Roitfeld Styles Fall 2011 Chanel Ads; Plus, a Few More Campaign Tidbits
Chanel

Carine Roitfeld Styles Fall 2011 Chanel Ads; Plus, a Few More Campaign Tidbits

>> Carine Roitfeld isn't totally letting go of her French roots, despite teaming up with Barneys stateside for a multifaceted Fall 2010 initiative; she also styled Chanel's Fall 2011 campaign, which Karl Lagerfeld just shot in Paris.
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>> Carine Roitfeld isn't totally letting go of her French roots, despite teaming up with Barneys stateside for a multifaceted Fall 2010 initiative; she also styled Chanel's Fall 2011 campaign, which Karl Lagerfeld just shot in Paris. Featured is perennial Chanel face Freja Beha Erichsen — Fall 2011 marks her fifth consecutive campaign for the house but her first solo. “The mix with Freja was genius,” Lagerfeld promises.

Lagerfeld is also repeating a face at Fendi— he's shooting Anja Rubik for her fourth straight campaign next week (“I like to work with the same girls and boys all the time,” he quips.). As is Michael Kors, who tapped Karmen Pedaru for the second time in a row, posting a picture from the Fall 2011 campaign shoot yesterday on his official Facebook. Over at Yves Saint Laurent, meanwhile, the supporting team is the same — Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin behind the lens and Joe McKenna styling — but Raquel Zimmerman is reportedly the Fall 2011 subject, replacing Spring 2011's Arizona Muse.

But back to Lagerfeld: in preparation of the upcoming Chanel Cruise 2012 fashion show in Antibes on May 9, he's gathering Erichsen, Lady Amanda Harlech, Anna Mouglalis, and Kristen McMenamy to star in his annual Chanel Cruise short film. This one, he's shooting in Monaco and the South of France.