Balenciaga Fall 2011 Show

Balenciaga Fall 2011 Show
Time: March 3, 2011 at 10:00 am
Designer: Nicolas Ghesquière
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Casting Director: Ashley Brokaw
Models: Kasia Struss, Daria Strokous, Mirte Maas, and Jamie Bochert

Kasia Struss


Daria Strokous


Mirte Maas


Jamie Bochert

Britt Maren on The Imagist

From The Imagist:

Britt Rocks The Balenciagas from the imagist on Vimeo.

Style.com The Top Ten Models of Spring 2011: Britt Maren

Written by Brittany Adams for style.com:

The Top Ten Models of Spring 2011

Britt Maren (Women)

This Texas-raised Swede racked up an impressive tally of bookings, including Marc Jacobs, Balmain, and Chanel, after making her runway debut in the leadoff spot at Alexander Wang. Britt ensured her standout status when Guido Palau chopped her tawny locks into an edgy, peroxide pixie cut backstage at Balenciaga.

Vogue.com: Beauty Moment: Britt Maren's Model Makeover

Written by Christina Han, for vogue.com:

Model Britt Maren’s first taste of her first Fashion Week was as the opener for Alexander Wang’s highly anticipated, celebrity-jammed spring show in New York—not bad for a beginner. A flurry of bookings for the Sweden-born, Texas-bred cat-walker followed—Fendi and Roberto Cavalli in Milan; Balmain, Lanvin, Givenchy, and Chanel in Paris—and this week, she was among a handful of faces chosen for a radical pre-Balenciaga transformation. “I didn’t know what they were going to do entirely; I knew that they were going to cut it short—but then there was the bleach,” Maren said backstage at Balmain, hours after debuting her new look at Balenciaga this morning. “Cut it short” is an understatement, though, with backstage guru Guido Palau chopping off nearly eight inches of Maren’s light brown hair and dying it Debbie Harry–platinum yesterday in the secret confines of the Balenciaga showroom. The finished look: eye-grazing and meant-to-be-mussed in the front, with a shorter-than-short shaved neck in the back. “It’s really different, but I like it!” Maren said. “It’s sexier and cooler, and when I wake up in the morning it’s kind of messy.”

Balenciaga Spring 2011 Show Video

Balenciaga Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 30, 2010 at 10:00 am
Designer: Nicolas Ghesquière
Casting Director: Ashley Brokaw
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Hair: Guido Palau
Models: Eliza Cummings, Britt Maren, Jamie Bochert, Kasia Struss, Daria Strokous,and Mirte Maas

Show Video can also be seen at: Balenciaga.com

Balenciaga Spring 2011 Show

Balenciaga Spring 2011 Show
Time: September 30, 2010 at 10:00 am
Designer: Nicolas Ghesquière
Casting Director: Ashley Brokaw
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Hair: Guido Palau
Models: Eliza Cummings, Britt Maren, Jamie Bochert, Kasia Struss, Daria Strokous,and Mirte Maas

Show Video can be seen at: Balenciaga.com

Eliza Cummings


Britt Maren


Jamie Bochert


Kasia Struss


Daria Strokous


Mirte Maas

Sneeze Magazine #8 Cover - Izabel Goulart, Photo: Robert Nethery, Stylist: James Tinnelly

Robert Nethery photographed Izabel Goulart for the cover of Sneeze Magazine Issue #8, with stylist James Tinnelly in NYC.

Sneeze Magazine Issue #8 Cover
Model: Izabel Goulart
Photographer: Robert Nethery
Stylist: James Tinnelly
Hair: Jordan M
Makeup: Mizu

Balenciaga fall 2010 campaign preview: Eliza Cummings, Photo: Steven Meisel, stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé

Steven Meisel photographed Eliza Cummings for the fall 2010 Balenciaga campaign on April 9, 2010, with stylist Marie-Amélie Sauvé.

Balenciaga Fall 2010 Campaign
Models: Eliza Cummings
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin: Pretty Much Everything

From WWD, by Jessica Iredale:

If you have opened a fashion magazine, or any magazine for that matter, over the last decade or so, you’ve seen the work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, known in the industry simply as Inez and Vinoodh. The Dutch photographers (partners in work and life) are the creative eyes behind such contemporary imagery as the Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Yohji Yamamoto and Chloé ad campaigns, and editorial work that regularly appears in French Vogue, V, The New York Times and W. Starting Friday, a retrospective of 300 of their photographs from 1985 to 2010, titled “Pretty Much Everything,” will be on view at Amsterdam’s Foam Museum through Sept. 15. Next year, Taschen will expand on the exhibition with an epic tome of 666 photographs accompanied by original fiction by A.M. Homes. Here, van Lamsweerde speaks on behalf of the duo about its work — past, present and future.

On being labeled fashion photographers: We love what clothes do to build a character in your picture. There’s something that I find fascinating about the language of clothes. It’s kind of like a set of codes that everyone universally understands. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, I’m not into fashion. I don’t care about what I wear.’ But when they go for a job interview, they wear something different than [what they would wear] just to go work in the garden or pick up the kids from school. You are saying something with what you wear.

On her favorite models: Raquel Zimmermann, Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss and Anja Rubik. They all have this huge range. They’re mature, they’re grown up, they’re women who have had a life and experience. For about five or six years now we haven’t shot anyone under 18 for that reason, but also for the fact that we feel that the modeling business should not promote girls working under 18. They’re not out of school, their bodies aren’t developed yet, they don’t have a sense of self yet, sometimes they haven’t had sex yet. It’s hard to project all these things on someone who hasn’t had that experience.

On shooting celebrities: I actually love it. It’s like a conquest each time. It’s kind of like — I don’t want to say seduction, but it has that part to it. I never really try to talk someone into doing something they don’t want to….We usually have an idea ahead of time what we would like to do, what our fantasy would be on a celebrity, what part we would like to bring out or change. Usually I get quite a good sense in the first five minutes as to how much they want to play with you and how open they are.…The sitting is no longer than 15 to 20 minutes. A lot of people say that they feel hypnotized after they shoot with us because it’s a very, very, very focused, short period of time. Usually within the first five frames I have the picture.

On her dream subject: I would love to shoot Prince. I’m a fan. I think he’s inspiring and I love the way he moves his body and I think he’s a genius. And since there’s no more Michael Jackson, I would say he’d be the one.

Balenciaga Spring 2002 Campaign
Photo: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Model: Isabeli Fontana

Balenciaga fall 2010 show

Balenciaga Fall 2010 Show
Time: March 4th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Designer: Nicolas Ghesquière
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Casting Director: Ashley Brokaw

Mirte Maas (opened)


Kasia Struss


Aline Weber