12/30/2012

Model crush: Tyson Ballou


Tyson Brett Ballou (born on November 14, 1976) is a male model. Discovered by the modeling agency Page Parkes, he has become one of the industry's most sought-after male models.



Since his discovery at the tender age of 15, Tyson has been one of male modeling's stars. With stints for brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Armani, Versace and Dolce Tyson is a bonafide campaign icon, but his ongoing editorial work is consistently blue chip as well. Open up an issue of Hercules, VMan or Details and you're sure to see Tyson's handsome face staring back at you.



Born in Garland, Texas, Tyson Ballou played up is southern appeal and became on of the fashion industries most sought after male models. Starting his modeling career at the young age of 15 with modeling agency, Page Parkes. He appeared in campaigns for Fashion! Dallas, J.C. Penney and Foley's.



In 1997 Ford models came knocking on Ballou's door, shipping him off to New York City for modeling. In September 1998, Tyson switched to IMG; since IGM, Ballou has been featured in such campaigns as Jil Sanders, DKNY, Hugo Boss Sport, Byblos, Moschino, Emporio Armani , Exte Acht, Samsonite, Perry Ellis, BCBG, Valentino Roma and Emporio Armani Fragrance. In addition, Tyson has appeared in L'uomo, Vogue, Jalouse, The Face, Harper's Bazaar, Arena Homme Plus, Visionaire, Numero, and W. 



With a never ending list of accomplishments and clients, Ballou continues to stay on top of his game - this southern, family-oriented, basketball loving boy will continue to keep us in awe for quite some time.



He is ranked at number one Top Icons list and The Money Guys on Models.com .




12/16/2012

Fashion inspiration: Victoria Beckham


Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops. Since the Spice Girls split, she has had a solo pop music career, scoring four UK Top 10 singles. Her first single to be released, "Out of Your Mind", reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and is her highest chart entry to date. During her solo career, she has been signed to Virgin Records and Telstar Records.


Beckham has found more success as an internationally recognized and photographed style icon. Her career in fashion includes designing a line of jeans for Rock & Republic and later designing her own denim brand, dVb Style. Beckham has brought out her own range of sunglasses and fragrance, entitled Intimately Beckham, which has been released in the UK and the US. In association with the Japanese store Samantha Thavasa and Shiatzy Chen, she has produced a range of handbags and jewellery. In addition, Beckham has released two best-selling books; one her autobiography, the other a fashion guide.


In her television ventures, Beckham has participated in five official documentaries and reality shows about her, including Being Victoria Beckham, The Real Beckhams, and Victoria Beckham: Coming to America. She has since made a cameo appearance in an episode of American TV series Ugly Betty, and been a guest judge on Project Runway, Germany's Next Topmodel, and American Idol. She is married to David Beckham and they have four children. As of 2009, the couple's joint wealth is estimated at £125 million.


Beckham has achieved a higher level of recognition as an international style icon, rather than as a musician. Beckham made a guest appearance on the catwalk for Maria Grachvogel in 2000, marking her debut as a model at London Fashion Week. Beckham also acted as a British ambassador for Dolce and Gabbana and was briefly the face of Rocawear in 2003. Beckham designed a limited-edition fashion line for Rock & Republic called VB Rocks in 2004, consisting mainly of jeans for the high end of the market, retailing at approximately $300 in the US. She had previously "hit it off instantly" with Rock & Republic designer, Michael Ball, in Los Angeles. He commented "She not only understands fashion and trends but has been a trend-setter and fashion icon for years."


Personal life: Beckham began a relationship with Corey Haim in 1995, which ended on mutual terms.


In 1997, she started dating footballer David Beckham after they met at a charity football match, prompting him to request a meeting with her. Of their initial meeting, she said, "I didn't really know who he was. I was never into football." The couple announced their engagement in 1998 and were dubbed "Posh and Becks" by the media.


Victoria and David Beckham have four children: sons Brooklyn Joseph, Romeo James, Cruz David and daughter Harper Seven. Elton John and David Furnish are reportedly the godparents of Brooklyn and Romeo, and their godmother is Elizabeth Hurley. Prior to Harper's birth, Victoria and David Beckham stated that they had a strong desire for a daughter.


12/04/2012

Model crush: Greg Nawrat


Greg Nawrat born in Warsaw Poland, is an one of the Polish fashion male models. 
Nawrat is on models.com list of the Top 50 male models ranked #26. Appears in 
Fashion For Men, Various, Video, GQ Italia, Fiasco Magazine editorials and in 
Gucci advertising. 




Walked for Simon Spurr, Rag & Bone, Zenga, Roberto Cavalli
Louis Vuitton, Moschino shows. Represented by agencies Next Models NY, Next 
London, Ford Models Europe Paris, View Management Barcelona, 2morrow model 
Milan, IMM Bruxelles, 1st Option Model Mgmt. Copenhagen, nest model management
Berlin.




Gucci favored this young Polish newcomer enough to make him the solo male face of this season's campaign.




Personal Quotes: "I also love to laugh and smile so that's I like comedies.", "It’s amazing how all this things became so quickly. I'm still impressed!", "In general I love to do all kinds of sports, from swimming to playing volleyball 
or football."




11/29/2012

Perfect outfits: night out

So, today I decided to share with you some outfits that for me are almost perfect. I hope you'll like it! Enjoy! :))



 

 

  • Cocktail dress / Party dress - black £39.00 http://www.zalando.co.uk
  • Christian Louboutin High heels 160mm $165 http://www.alexandermcqueenoutlets.com
  • ALDO clutch $40.00 http://www.zappos.com
  • Gouden spikes ketting €12,95 https://www.sacha.nl

 
 



  • Alexander McQueen handbag http://couture.zappos.com
  • Gold cuff http://www.boohoo.com
  • Coco platform pumps nude 39.00 zł http://www.stylowebuty.pl
  • Luciana jewel dress in peach 28.99€ http://www.dresslux.com
 




 














  • High heels http://couture.zappos.com
  • Black and gold ring http://www.topshop.com
  • ASOS XL Spot Triangle Doorknocker Earrings €13.89 http://www.asos.com
  • Gold stud pleated dress EUR 60,95 http://nelly.com
  • Black Alexander McQueen clutch http://couture.zappos.com


11/17/2012

Model crush: Tyra Banks


Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American model and television personality. She first became famous as a model, appearing twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and working for Victoria's Secret as one of their original Angels. Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America's Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and was the host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.


Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.


When Banks was 15 years old, she started modeling while attending school in Los Angeles. She was rejected by six modeling agencies before she was signed by Elite Model Management at age 16. When she got the opportunity to model in Europe, she put college on hold and moved to Milan. In her first runway season, she was booked 25 shows at the 1991 Paris fashion week. She would later appear on the covers of magazines such as Elle Teen Vogue Vogue. She walked the runways for Chanel, Valentino, Fendi and others. She has featured in advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren and Nike. In the mid-1990s, Banks returned to America to do more commercial modeling.



Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1997, she received the VH1 award for, "Supermodel of the Year." That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. In 2010, Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models. Banks is now a contributor of the Vogue Italia website.


Banks has appeared in several music videos, including Michael Jackson's "Black or White", Tina Turner's "Love Thing", Mobb Deep's "Trife Life", George Michael's "Too Funky" (with supermodels Linda Evangelista, Estelle Lefebure, Emma Sjoberg and Nadja Auermann ) and Lionel Richie's "Don't Wanna Lose You". In 2004, she recorded her first single. Banks released a single with NBA player Kobe Bryant, entitled "K.O.B.E.," which was performed on NBA TV. She also has a single on the soundtrack to Disney Channel's Original Movie Life-Size called "Be A Star."




In 2004, she recorded her first single, "Shake Ya Body," which had a music video featuring the final six contestants on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 2. The video world-premiered on UPN.


In March 2011, Banks launched her fashion and beauty website called "typeF.com", which she co-created with Demand Media.




Banks's television career began on the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which she played lead character Will Smith's old friend Jackie Ames. She made seven appearances in the series. Other TV credits include Felicity, All That, MADtv, Nick Cannon's Wild 'n Out (in which she was featured as a special guest host and team captain) and The Price Is Right (guest-starring as a "Barker's Beauty"). She also appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in an episode entitled "Chinatown". Tyra Banks started her own production company, Bankable Productions (previously named, "Ty Ty Baby Productions"; she did not rename it till the second cycle of America's Next Top Model), which produced The Tyra Banks Show, America's Next Top Model and the 2008 movie The Clique. Banks is the hostess, judge and executive producer of The CW Television Network show America's Next Top Model. In addition, she hosted The Tyra Banks Show, a daytime talk show aimed at younger women, which premiered on September 12, 2005, and ran until May 28, 2010. 





In 2008, Banks won the Daytime Emmy Award for her work and production on The Tyra Banks Show, and won for the second time in a row for outstanding, informative talkshow in 2009. In 2010, Oprah Winfrey congratulated Tyra Banks for a good job done on her talk-show for inspiring and mentoring young women. In late-January 2008, Banks got the go-ahead from The CW Television Network to start work on a new reality television series based on fashion magazines called Modelitha. The show premiered on October 22, 2008. Banks's first big screen role came in 1994, when she co-starred in the drama Higher Learning. She then co-starred with Lindsay Lohan in the Disney film Life-Size, playing a doll named Eve who comes to life and has to learn how to live in the real world. Other notable roles include Love Stinks (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Coyote Ugly (2000) and Halloween: Resurrection (2002). She and Miley Cyrus poke fun at the excesses of the Hollywood lifestyle with a battle over a pair of shoes in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). Banks appeared in the fourth episode of the third season of Gossip Girl playing Ursula Nyquist, a larger-than-life actress who works with Serena.





Banks was romantically linked to musician Seal, film director John Singleton and actor Will Smith in the 1990s. She dated basketball player Chris Webber from 2001 to 2004.




She is known for being outspoken on abusive relationships, having been a victim herself. In 2005, when asked about her relationship history, she stated, 'I won't be using a lot of names [on the show], but a specific relationship had not just cheating but emotional abuse. It was really bad, but that made me strong.' In 2009, she opened up about her past abusive relationship when she made a guest appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosting alongside Oprah Winfrey. The episode was dedicated to dating violence in response to the assault of Rihanna.