Chadwick Sydney welcomes the gorgeously Gallic Nicolas Baisin from Paris.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Couture: Here comes the bride!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Paris: Andrej for Gaultier
Andrej Pejic hit the Paris catwalks in grand style. Closing the Jean Paul Gaultier show and stealing a kiss from the designer himself. Andrej recently shot the label's campaign with Karolina Kurkova. Images courtesy Style.com and Dailylife
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Rechelle Lee is back
Friday, January 14, 2011
The Daily Beast Features ANDREJ PEJIC
Not a week goes by at the moment without another 10 stories in international publicatons about our own Andrej Pejic.
THIS WEEKS BEST GOES TO THE DAILY BEAST:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-09/model-andrej-pejic-face-of-marc-jacobs-is-fashions-new-gender-bender/
STORY HERE>>
The new face of Marc Jacobs has Cindy Crawford's bone structure and Kate Moss' body—but Andrej Pejic is a 19-year-old Serbian boy. Isabel Wilkinson on the fashion industry's androgynous new trend.
Damon Baker, a 19-year-old British photographer, went into a dark karaoke bar in Covent Garden last summer. In the back of the smoky club, he saw a woman with high cheekbones, long platinum blond hair, and wide-set blue eyes. She was, as he puts it, “the most beautiful girl you’ve ever seen in your life.” They started flirting. Only a few minutes into their conversation did Baker realize: She was a he.
And that he wasn’t just anybody. He was Andrej Pejic, a 19-year-old male model who has taken the fashion industry by storm. He has Cindy Crawford’s face and Kate Moss’ body—give or take a few parts. He debuted in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Paris show year, and since then has appeared in three consecutive spreads in French Vogue, Italian Vogue, and Turkish Vogue. Last week, he was unveiled as the face of Marc Jacobs’ spring 2011 campaign and will appear in Gaultier’s spring ads alongside his female doppelganger—the supermodel Karolina Kurkova. According to sources, he is on the top of every casting agent’s list for the men’s shows, which begin in Paris next week.
Pejic is part of fashion’s new “femiman” trend, the latest in a new crop of gender-bending models who have risen to prominence in the past few seasons. The most famous is Lea T, Riccardo Tisci’s transsexual assistant at Givenchy, whom he cast as the face of his Fall/Winter campaign. Fashion has embraced the gender-bending model—but Pejic stands for something larger, and is not just the face of a passing trend or a controversial ad campaign. He’s the leader of a new gender fluidity in fashion, in which traditional male and female attitudes are starting to matter less. It’s a message that is being slowly adapted industry-wide—and is resonating with consumers.
Pejic and his family fled Bosnia for Serbia when he was 2 months old. He remembers the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia as a child. At age 8, his family left for Australia, where they settled in Broadmeadows, a rough neighborhood in the suburbs of Melbourne. Pejic says he knew he looked like a girl from the minute he “came out of the womb and looked in a mirror.” His transition to Australia was a difficult one, as he was forced to learn English and integrate with students who weren’t like him. But Pejic insists that for all his physical differences, he was never bullied by his peers—and instead felt only the he was the subject of “curiosity and attention.” “A lot of macho guys did think of me as a girl,” he says of his high school years. “Though I can’t really say that it was ever a bad thing. All I’ll say is…a lot of free drinks!”
In many ways, his career has been just that: capitalizing on curiosity. In 2009, Pejic found his way to Chadwick Models in Melbourne, where he was interviewed and instantly signed. “I knew at the time we had someone potentially very big on our hands,” says Matthew Anderson, manager of Chadwick’s Melbourne office. Even in telling the story of Pejic, Anderson sets it against the backdrop of the global economic crisis—a kid who happened to be in the right place at the right time. He says that Pejic came to the agency in the middle of the meltdown, a time when fashion advertisers wanted “strong men” to convey a message of financial security. “In times of economic prosperity, clients can afford to use people that are using people that a little more interesting,” Anderson says. “We had this really interesting boy on our hands. So we thought let him finish high school first.”
They waited for the economy to recover, and for Pejic to graduate, before sending him to Paris in the middle of 2010. Not long after, Pejic was booked to walk in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Fall show, where he wore a pair of revealing navy blue hot pants. He was spotted by French’s Vogue’s then-editor, Carine Roitfeld, who promptly booked him for a spread in her magazine. Since then, Pejic has appeared in a slew of editorials, from Italian Vogue to the transgender magazine Candy. His slate is filling up quickly for the upcoming season, but according to Arnaud V., his booker at the New Madison agency in Paris, “some designers are a little scared to go for this image of very androgynous. Some people aren’t ready for him yet.
Pejic makes an effort to return to regularly visit his parents in Australia, where his mother is a teacher and his father works in tourism. “I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me,” he says. Pejic says he’d like to study law, medicine, or economics at university one day, and also wants to “do a movie and then retire.”
Pejic declined to answer a question asking whether he identified as LGBTQ—and, when asked if he has a boyfriend or a girlfriend, responded: “I have Paris and I have dessert wine.” When he dresses himself, Pejic occasionally chooses to wear heels and makeup. “I like to dress up but I’m not so concerned with looking very sexy, it’s really more the art of dressing,” he says. He has not had any kind of surgery—but wouldn’t rule it out. “I’ve never had any operations,” he says. “I’m not opposed to any plastic surgery, but until now I haven’t had any.” When asked by a Serbian news station if she has a granddaughter or a grandson, Pejic’s grandmother simply laughs: “I have both!”
If this is Pejic’s moment, it’s certainly well-timed. The fashion industry is warming to gender neutrality, and transsexual models and spreads are finding their way into the mainstream. Last month, The New York Times said that “2010 will be remembered as the year of the transsexual.” For Pejic’s part, this translates to steady work. For one thing, he can be cast in editorials and ads as either a woman or a man. But his treatment in print is often a case of art-without-a-frame. Marc Jacobs’ recent campaign featured him in men’s clothes, but Pejic usually appears in women’s apparel—sometimes, without any evidence that he’s really a guy. Often, he’s fully disguised as a woman, and the statement eludes the reader. So what’s the point?
“We were trying to show the nudity of the sexes, that a man could look like a woman and a woman could look like a man,” says Turkish Vogue’s editor in chief, Seda Dominic, who chose him for a spread. “The line between the sexes is becoming more and more blurred. Fashion is all about providing people with choices. It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman.”
Pejic is being revered by the fashion industry, but it’s clear that something about him is sticking with the general public, as well. He’s developed a large online following, and there are a number of fan sites dedicated to him. A three-month-old blog called Fuck Yeah Andrej Pejic is run by Carla Mendoza, a 17-year-old who follows Pejic’s exploits in Tokyo and Paris from her home in Canada. “Andrej knows people are not quite comfortable in what he does and he still does it,” says Mendoza. “He affects my perspective of how I think of myself, and my self-esteem, by the way he deals with criticisms in his work. I’m a woman. But because of him, he inspires me to be more feminine myself. If a guy can be more beautiful, I can be more beautiful too.”
According to Elias Bailey, who runs a similar blog called Fuck Yeah Men With Long Hair, Pejic’s surge in popularity sends a hopeful message that beauty is moving beyond gender classifications. “I don’t see him as merely a boy who looks kind of like a girl, but as someone whose physical sex is truly of no consequence to his beauty,” he says. “I really do hope that this trend signals a real shift in the way that people think about androgyny. For those of us who are androgynous and ordinary people, not models or rock stars, it’d be nice if people started being more tolerant of us.
Jess to represent Aussie designers in LA
FROM: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/fashion/myer-is-taking-jessica-hart-to-hollywood-for-gday-usa-dinner/story-e6frf8o6-1225986635605
MOVE over Jennifer Hawkins, blonde bombshell Jessica Hart is ready to step up as the face of Myer on the international stage.
Less than a year after signing with Myer, Hart will headline a fashion parade at the A-list G'Day USA dinner in Hollywood on January 22, showing off her figure in a Seafolly bikini.
Hart has replaced Hawkins as the fresh face of Australia at the event after Myer dumped the former Miss Universe owing to drama with her management team.
Hart had her final fittings for the parade in Sydney yesterday.
She will walk the red carpet in a one-off Aurelio Costarella gown, before opening the show in swimwear while flanked by buff Bondi lifeguards. She will also put her best foot forward in a sexy Manning Cartell frock.
Hart, who has been holidaying in Australia with her family, said she was thrilled to be showcasing Australian designers on the international stage.
"It's been amazing to be back in Australia for a few weeks. I love New York but you forget what it's like to wake up to see the sun and hear the birds singing," Hart said.
"I am genuinely excited with the clothes I am wearing at G'Day USA. The new Seafolly stuff is fantastic, and I've got a rocking Manning Cartell dress. Myer is bringing (my sister) Ashley to Los Angeles too, which is just brilliant."
Former Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic, Pia Miller and Kris Smith will also feature in the parade.
(Journalist: Fiona Byrne)
BY: Fiona Byrne on
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Claire Collins for Ink Magazine shot by JO DUCK.
Claire Collins shines in a new editorial for Ink Magazine shot by JO DUCK. See www.inkmagonline.com
Monday, January 10, 2011
2011 STELLA ARTOIS PORTSEA POLO
Chadwick Models in Melbourne were lucky enough to be invited to the 2011 STELLA ARTOIS PORTSEA POLO on the weekend. Here are a few shots from the day. Thank you to John Flower and the team at Hothouse for inviting us.
Phoebe Clarke Swimwear shoot
Phoebe Clarke looks great in this new swimwear shoot. Phoebe has just started up a blog for Health, Fitness and Fashion. Check it out at www.rawpeople.blogspot.com
Amanda sizzles
Amanda Kerlin successfully channels Ursula Andress in this dazzling editorial in Men’s Health’s January issue, shot by Ben Sullivan.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Boys and their Toys
It was hard to know if the crowd gathering near the corner of Elizabeth and Latrobe St in Melbourne were peering at our star blokes, or having a perve at the Maserati they were travelling in!
Kris Smith and Paul Licuria seem to be having a fun boys day out in their hot car, but some of us have offices to get to!
Jealous? Don't ask!
Andrej's airport antics
The increasingly popular Andrej Pejic was the special guest at the launch of ‘The Men and Women of Marc Jacobs’ - a stunning coffee table book profiling 150 of the people who work within the close-knit company of Marc Jacobs.
Andrej flew to Tokyo for this event en-route to Paris, and had a lovely time on the airport shuttle when after the 2-and-a-half-hour transit into the city, he realised he left a bag at Narita Airport. So back he went. Then all the way back into Tokyo again. After the event it was back on the bus, to head back to the airport. 18 hours in Tokyo, 7 of those on a bus. Nice.
Andrej was hoping to spend the day in Tokyo, but instead we are eagerly awaiting Andrej's new Travel book "Seeing Japan by Shuttle Bus".
Andrej is now in Paris casting for shows.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
HEATH MELDRUM FOR SPINNERS
From news.com.au
Heath Meldrum will take Spinners to India within months as Shane Warne looks to increase his undies empire.
The Melbourne model said he was thrilled to help take the jocks range global.
"Shane is incredibly popular in India and there's more than a billion people in the country, so even if we get just 1 or 2 per cent of the market share in India, that's more than the population of Australia," he said.
Meldrum is the face of Spinners and yesterday launched a pink T-shirt created for the McGrath Foundation.
Meldrum's mother had lymphatic cancer a few years ago: "When she told me, it was a huge shock.
"You never think that someone you know and love is going to be affected by cancer.
"She's fine now, but it really drove home how important it is that we all do our bit to support others."
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Daredevil!
From news.com.au
DAREDEVIL Jessica Hart has taken a giant leap on her Byron Bay holiday - from an aeroplane.
The gap-toothed model enjoyed her sky-diving experience so much that she wants her sister Ashley to join her.
"Just jumped out of a plane at 14,000ft - oh my gosh! That was incredible. Going again in a few days for sure! Ashley, I'm dragging you too," she tweeted."
Ashley is about to jump out of an aeroplane as we blog this... GO HARTS!!
Andrej for Marc by Marc Jacobs
Here is a sneak peek of Chadwick's very own Andrej Pejic in the new MARC BY MARC JACOBS campaign.
Andrej has just left Australia for Paris. Happy travels Andrej!
Annaleise Smith for VOGUE
Annaleise Smith for Vogue Australia shot by Nicole Bentley for the February issue.
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