Showing posts with label Rendez-vous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rendez-vous. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2008

Rendez-vous with Harley Viera Newton

She's 20, lives in NYC, is a full-time Egyptology major at NYU, plays bass for Lissy Trullie and DJ for her main job. Oh and she just signed with Elite. Meet Harley Viera Newton, a busy girl with a great sense of style and beautiful long hair ("No, i'm not cutting my hair anytime soon"). Being called an It-girl, or, even moreso, an Internet It-girl, makes Harley laugh. "I feel like I've made fun of people called It-girls," she says.
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At first, she dismisses it, she finds the label "a little embarrassing," explaining it tends to connote someone whose goals don't extend beyond being photographed, or partying. But like said before: Harley is a hardworking girl. Intresting is that she says she "looked like a whore" at her high school prom. She wore a Balenciaga blue knee-length dress. "It was silk and buttoned down." And then to the after-thing she wore this vintage Alaia dress with six-inch Alexander McQueen heels. "I was like, 'I look good tonight,' and looking back, I'm like, 'You look like a whore!' I had my hair in a slick-back pony or something really embarrassing."

Harley is a recent fan of the crop top. She's been trying to bring that back. "I found this incredible shredded, Union Jack crop top, it's like sooo kitsch and awful and in the same way amazing." Her style icon is Tom Binns. "He could tell me to wear a cardboard box and I would." So it isn't a surprise that Harley wears Tom Binns jewelry everyday. "I'll sleep in this…when you take this off (points under wrist) it's like another color under here!"
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She has usually one pair of shoes a season that she just wears everyday and every night. This season Harley chose Chloé Doc Martens wedges, the low ones. "They're pretty wild, but I love Doc Martens and any reappropriation of that I'm into." Harley is also crazy about her small Chanel purse. "I wear it every single day at all times." And on top of all this Harley collects band t-shirts. But only from bands she likes. Oh and if your intrested: some of Harley's famous friends are Mischa Barton, Cory Kennedy, Alice Dellal and Mark Hunter (the Cobrasnake).
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Rendez-vous with Clémence Poésy

Clémence Poésy is an actress/model born in France. Clémence started acting at the age of 14 and continued schooling until the age of 16, when she got an agent and went on to study acting. She has appeared in several French films and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is only the second English film she has been in. The other was Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004), in which she played the role of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Clémence on acting in an other language: "It’s – strangely – easier. It’s a bit like playing with a mask on. You allow yourself to do more than you do in your own language. You’re not listening to [the words] as much, which is the worst thing you can do when you’re acting. You’re closer to playing the emotions. Well, maybe that’s just me."
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The 25-year-old has a perfectly unstudied style. She favors a street-smart mix peppered with designer names like Balenciaga, Chloé, and Isabel Marant. She has been spotted in the front row at exclusive Paris fashion shows, has a penchant for girlie yet edgy labels, and exudes a serene beauty. "Beauty comes from who you’re with, what you’re doing, what you’re reading, the sport you’re doing,"
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The only thing I can say after this quote is: GO CLÉMENCE!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Rendez-vous with Daisy Lowe

It-girl Daisy Lowe was born to be a star. She is the 19-year-old daughter of fashion scenester Pearl Lowe and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale and she modeled for the first time at age 2, although she admits that modeling “was never something she wanted to do.” But Daisy changed her attitude in 2005, when she was spotted by a talent scout who encouraged her to give modeling a second chance.

In 2004 a DNA test reveals that Lowe is the daughter of Bush front man (and Gwen Stefani’s husband) Gavin Rossdale, who up until now has been Lowe’s godfather. "It was a really weird time in my life. I stopped going out and just sort of hid from it a lot. The press - they were absolutely horrible, just w*nkers". Daisy considers Pearl's husband, Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey, her "dad", adding, "I definitely don't call Gwen 'Stepmum'".

Daisy Lowe has a brilliant career as a fashion model ahead of her. She has already appeared in Italian Vogue, W Magazine, and Jane. She was featured in advertisements for French Connection and she replaced Kate Moss for Agent Provocateur. Daisy will also appear on screen in Class Of 2008. It’s being billed as an “observational documentary series that follows six up-and-coming young talented people in London on their creative journeys”. Famous friends of Daisy are Peaches Geldof, Pixie Geldof, Liv Tyler and Agyness Deyn.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Rendez-vous with Lou Doillon

When she was about 15 years old, she was living an insane and wild life in Paris. She had red hair and piercings all over her body. Taking drugs and not really caring about anything, her papa thought that putting her in one of his movies might help settle her down. And he was right: Lou calmed down. "It made me a new person".


Meet Lou Doillon, she's the daughter of French director Jacques Doillon and actress Jane Birkin. Lou is a stunning 25-year-old actress and model who is currently taking Paris by storm. "I don't really understand it," she says of her newfound fame. "It's quite amusing, actually. Suddenly I hear my name being called out by strangers all over Paris. I hear good rumors and bad rumors. It's funny to be the ‘thing’ everyone's talking about." Her beauty contract for the house of Givenchy is not strictly as a model, but as something more haunting: their muse.

The quirky Parisienne definately has an own, unique style. Her style is a bit tomboy-slouch with a Parisien flare for dramatic. "History is a big inspiration, and then literature, paintings, and films. I like hidden references; I'll be inspired to wear thigh-high green socks by an Egon Schiele painting. For the Lee Cooper collection, my style inspiration is the Artful Dodger—my favorite character ever [from Oliver Twist]." Long admired in the fashion world for her individual style - it's not every day you find someone who claims the Artful Dodger as their fashion inspiration - the Parisien It-girl is friends with Milla Jovovich, and can ensure the attendance of the Olsen twins and Mischa Barton at an event.



Click here to read an interview with Lou and click here to see more pictures.


(Thanks to Refinery29, The Sartorialist and The Vintage Society)