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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Casting Call blog posts to bring you one of our recent PRODn productions: a gorgeous underwater shot of Polly Mellen shot by Steven Meisel for Interview Magazine. (Ed. Note: Can we talk about that amazing body?!) We’d describe Polly Mellen as a legendary stylist, but don’t think that even hits the tip of the iceberg. Maybe it’s best if we leave it up to the magazine to outline her full biography, a veritable list of fashion legends:
In a career that spanned more than half a century, Polly Mellen helped create some of the most indelible imagery in the history of fashion. Her work as a stylist and editor, first under the legendary Diana Vreeland at Harper’s Bazaar, and later under both Vreeland and Grace Mirabella at Vogue, helped define a new, more modern ethos about clothes and how women wore them. With an almost playful daring, it brimmed with a kind of strong, smart, unabashedly celebratory feminine independence—as well as an artful element of provocation and extravagance—that Mellen herself embodied and drew upon in her collaborations with photographers such as Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and later Steven Meisel (who took the pictures that accompany this story), Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier, and Steven Klein. In Avedon, in particular, she found a lifelong fashion-world partner-in-crime. When the late photographer was first introduced to her, he didn’t want to work with her because he thought she was “too noisy.” But the spectacular and wide-ranging body of images they ended up producing together—including iconic pictures of up-and-coming models such as Penelope Tree, Patti Hansen, and Lauren Hutton, and their now-famous 1981 nude of actress Nastassja Kinski wearing nothing save an ivory Patricia von Musulin bracelet and elegantly wrapped by a boa constrictor—is not only a testament to the kind of creative chemistry they had, but also to their ability to visually and innovatively capture something singular about fashion, people, politics, history, and the white-lightning essence of a moment in their work.
Read the full bio, including an interview by Nicholas Ghesquire at the link below:
Link: Interview Magazine, September 2010
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
In such a competitive business we love to see solidarity between models.
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Spring Summer fashion week is all about legs - and French Canadian Jeanne Bouchard from IMG came in with a great pair of gams.
Although she’s a new face and it’s the first time we’ve met her, Jeanne’s big break was the Celine Resort 2010 collection, Phoebe Philo’s debut for the highly coveted label… and anyone good enough for design demi-Goddess Philo is definitely good enough for us!
Jeanne Bouchard | IMG
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
We try to be as professional and objective as we can, but sometimes casting is a bit about falling in love - and we love falling in love! And with fashion week approaching, I think we’ll be falling in love atleast a few times a day…Maybe they should rename it Fashion weak-in-the-knees!
Take today’s love Daniel McSweeney, brother of Sarah McSweeney - good looks obviously run in the family. A new face on the Red Men’s board, Daniels’s piercing stare made all our knees buckle - intense and brooding, without a hint of Blue Steel irony.
This kid is so right, we’re betting he’ll do well this coming fashion week!
Daniel McSweeney | Red
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
We know that everyone loves looking at all the glossy magazines, but who knew that people actually dream to be the subjects they look at between the pages: According to the Marist poll, 32% of the population wants to be the famous actor/actress on the covers of our magazines. Take a look below at the other desired occupations and see if you agree:
32% say they would like to be an actor or an actress.
29% want to be a professional athlete.
13% want to live in the White House as the President of the United States.
13% say they could see themselves as a rock star
Informally, we did a quick poll here at PRODn and at least two of us want to own a gallery!
William Abranowicz for Martha Stewart Kids 2003
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
We love a girl with a fierce look. If you do as well, take a glimpse at Tali Lennox from Next who captured our eye one of these recent afternoons. And if her last name sounds familiar, its not a coincidence.
Tali | Next
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