Every year, everyone looks forward to April. For starters, it's officially the start of the summer season, which means that school is out and it's the perfect time to rock your trendy swimsuits and your trusty denim cut-offs.
Aside from the mark of the summer season, April is also the time when your favorite celebs take the time off of their busy schedules to head to the biggest music and arts festival of all time—Coachella—dressed in their trendiest and hippest outfits to date unblocked games 333. And this year's Coachella was definitely no exception. Need some more summer style inspo? Scroll down and check out all the celeb music festival looks we love and you can totes rock this summer!
Vanessa Hudgens
The Queen of Coachella Vanessa did not disappoint this year. As much as we loved her disco top and shorts combo, this mini dress and boots style equation is just too adorbs on Vanessa!
Kendall Jenner
Taking a break from her busy modeling schedule, Kendall looked so carefree in her sparkly bralette and white pants OOTD! The pile of chokers on her neck easily made her OOTD from cool casual to trendy and fashionable in a snap!
Emma Roberts
Taking a cue from BBV, Emma struck the perfect balance between girly and rugged with her lace dress and ankle boots combo.
Shay Mitchell
Going back to basics, Shay kept her Coachella look easy and casual with a no-fail crop top and cut-offs pairing.
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Camila Mendes
Camila took a break from Veronica Lodge's usually dressy OOTDs and went the casual route at Coachella with a cami top and sling bag combo.
Hailee Steinfeld
Whoever said the fishnets were out haven't seen Hailee's ultra cool Coachella look yet!
Selena Gomez
Taking the road less traveled, Sel opt for a feminine sundress for her Coachella OOTD and capped the look off with a matching neckerchief to seal a fashionable deal without breaking a sweat.
Which of these Coachella looks are you going to cop first? We're so eyeing Sel's sundress and neckerchief combo!
An item?
It’s been rumoured for months that Kendall Jenner is dating basketball star Jordan Clarkson.
And
the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star appeared to confirm the
rumours on Wednesday when she shared a shot of herself wearing a Los
Angeles Lakers jacket.
Kendall, 20, posted a blurry shot of the purple and yellow jacket alongside the caption: “Put me in coach.”
The
star, who previously dated One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles, is
believed to have been seeing Jordan for a while now, with a source
claiming back in April that the pair were “super into each other”.
They
told People magazine: "They have been secretly dating for months and
they are super into each other. He is super sweet and a total gentleman
and Kendall loves that.”
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The pair are rumoured to have been secretly dating for months
The comments came after the model and Jordan, who began
playing as a point guard for the LA Lakers in 2014, were spotted
enjoying a night out at The Nice guy in West Hollywood.
Around the same time, Selena Gomez sent the rumor mill into overdrive when she revealed Kendall wasn’t single.
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Kendall Jenner flashed the jacket in a social media snap
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Kendall and Kylie Jenner at a Los Angeles Lakers game
The singer didn’t go into detail, instead just dropping into conversation that her pal was seeing someone.
Maybe
not for the squad necessarily but boyfriend material is always good…
none of them are single just so you know," Justin Bieber's ex said.
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Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are seen going to lunch in Los Angeles
"Taylor is not single, Gigi is not single, neither is Kendall. I am the only single one!"
Kendall wouldn’t be the first person from her famous family to fall for a basketball star.
Kim
Kardashian's ex-husband Kris Humphries made his name in the sport,
whereas Khloe's exes Lamar Odom and James Harden were both basketball
players.
When it was announced last week that Kendall Jenner would be the new face of Estée Lauder,
a coveted contract that in the past has gone to actresses like Gwyneth
Paltrow and Elizabeth Hurley and supermodels like Joan Smalls, the
company did not promote the news by way of the usual public-relations
machine, with news releases or email blasts.
Instead, after Vogue broke the story on its website, in anticipation of a 13-page spread in the magazine, Ms. Jenner was encouraged to tell the public herself, on her own Instagram account. That post quickly garnered more than a million “likes,” 50,000-plus comments and many, many heart-eyed emoji.
It
was the latest plum appointment for Ms. Jenner, 19, a daughter of Kris
and Bruce Jenner, and a half sister to Kim, Khloé and Kourtney
Kardashian. Her seemingly meteoric rise over the last few years has
taken her from a sulky minor player on the sometimes cringe-inducing but
highly successful reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” to a
tentative career as a teenage model
to the runways of the major fashion shows (Chanel, Marc Jacobs and
Givenchy, among them). Along the way, she has all but redefined what it
takes to become a high-profile model.
Ms.
Jenner is tall, dark-haired, doe-eyed and beautiful. But so are
hundreds of other girls who walk the runways of New York, Milan and
Paris and thousands more who dream of one day doing so. What they don’t
have are Ms. Jenner’s 16 million followers on Instagram, 9.1 million on Twitter and 7.3 million likes on Facebook
(numbers that will surely have grown by the time you read this). Like
many other 19-year-old girls, she uses these accounts to share photos of
herself, her family and friends. Unlike many 19-year-old girls, she
also uses them to plug her many partnerships and commercial projects.
“I
think what’s so exciting about her is that she has this social media
influence along with a fashion credibility in a distinct way that speaks
to millennials,” said Jane Hertzmark Hudis, the global brand president
of Estée Lauder. “There is really no one else like her out there.”
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Kendall Jenner’s Spring 2015 Season Appearances
During the spring 2015 season in September, Kendall Jenner expanded
her show list to add Diane von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce
& Gabbana, shon here, among others.…Here are some of the shows she walked in.
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Like
her older siblings, with their retail stores, fragrance lines, nail
polishes and more, Ms. Jenner juggles multiple brand extensions premised
on her family fame. With her younger sister, Kylie, she is marketing a
collection of clothes and accessories for PacSun, one of shoes for Steve
Madden’s Madden Girl line and a science-fiction young adult novel set
in a dystopian future colony called Indra.
But
the Kardashian affiliation that first brought her to the world’s
attention has put her on a peculiar perch: followed by millions but
navigating aversion in a cloistered industry accustomed to minting its
own stars, and a historically wary — but steadily warming — relationship
with the Kardashian family. (Ms. Jenner’s agent and several of her
clients, including Ms. Hudis, claimed not to watch “Keeping Up With the
Kardashians,” now filming its 10th season.)
“It’s
definitely two different worlds. I feel like Hannah Montana. But it’s
fun,” Ms. Jenner said, referring to Miley Cyrus’s character, who
navigates a double life in and out of the spotlight, on the Disney
sitcom that began her career and pop stardom. (Of course, both of Ms.
Jenner’s worlds are squarely in the public eye.)
For
modeling purposes, and with a touch of wishful thinking, Ms. Jenner
prefers to go by simply “Kendall.” In person, she is charming but terse,
with a daffy sweetness if not necessarily the gift of gab.
When
she presented at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, she famously muffed
her lines, dissolving into giggles and admitting, “Guys, I’m the worst
reader.” At a fitting at Marc Jacobs’s office — during which a crowd of
teenage girls gathered outside of the building, hoping to catch a
glimpse of her — she was taken with a publicist’s striking eye color.
“Are those your real eyes?” she asked.
She
arrived for a recent interview at her agency’s office dressed
model-casual: Céline slip-on sneakers, a black T-shirt and skinny pants
(tag still on) by which designer she wasn’t sure. They had shown up
unbidden at her house, like much else, a perk not every model enjoys.
She
is the first to acknowledge that she was not always interested in
style. “On Season 1 of our show, I would wear, like, neon green jeans
and a white polo shirt, the craziest things,” she said, though in her
defense, when “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” premiered in 2007, Ms.
Jenner was 11 years old.
She
called modeling a lifelong dream. “I would literally sit at home and
have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my
mom gave me for Christmas,” she said. “Obviously, the show was me being
in front of a camera. It’s just something that I’ve kind of always been
around.”
Kim Kardashian, left; a friend, Gigi Hadid, whispering into Ms. Jenner’s ear; and the designer Riccardo Tisci.Credit
Lauren Fleishman for The New York Times
Initial forays into modeling were small in scale. In 2011, Ms. Jenner appeared in the New York Fashion Week show of Sherri Hill, a designer from Austin, Tex., who specializes in event and prom dresses.
Earlier
that year, Ms. Jenner’s appearance at a shoot of Ms. Hill’s dresses had
been a plot point on an episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
But Ms. Jenner’s role on the show had largely been as a sidekick to her
scenery-chewing sisters.
With
a new agency, The Society Management, specializing in high-end fashion
bookings, behind her, Ms. Jenner is now working to rebrand. “We had to
be very strategic and specific,” she said, “to really have people take
me seriously and not mess around.”
The
perceived divide between commercial and high fashion is so wide that,
when asked whether Ms. Jenner’s well-documented Sherri Hill appearance
had been her New York Fashion Week debut, a Society representative
declined to confirm, writing, “we recall her as still being in school
during that period.”
With a name like hers, fairly or not, there have been detractors for as long as there have been supporters.
“It
always comes as a shock when I tell the story of how I casted Kendall,”
Riccardo Tisci wrote in an email about his decision to use Ms. Jenner
in his Givenchy show and ad campaign. “I didn’t do it because of my
links to her sister or to Kanye, as everyone seems to believe. I only
chose Kendall because I thought she was amazing, a striking, dark, edgy
beauty, exactly the way I like them.”
Even
with prominent advocates, Ms. Jenner’s rise was freighted with
uncertainty. “Her agent was very aware that she had one shot at being a
credible model,” said the stylist and Love Magazine editor Katie Grand,
an early champion, who in February orchestrated Ms. Jenner’s return to
New York Fashion Week by placing her in Marc Jacobs’s show.
When
The Society first asked her to consider Ms. Jenner, Ms. Grand was
reluctant. “I didn’t even really know who she was other than someone I
thought went skiing with Harry Styles once,” she said, alluding to Ms.
Jenner’s alleged former beau. (The rumor mill has linked Ms. Jenner to
Mr. Styles, of One Direction, and Justin Bieber, among others.)
Photo
Breaking the news that
Kendall Jenner would be the new face of Estée Lauder on its website,
Vogue dedicated a 13-page magazine feature to her.Credit
Patrick Demarchelier/Vogue
Ms.
Grand said her first reaction was “underwhelmed.” Ms. Jenner’s shyness
can read as standoffish, and she is still developing the presence that
can distinguish a top model. Even today on the runway, she can often
blend into the endless parade of willowy but indeterminable young women,
without the identifiable prowl of a model like Karlie Kloss, or the
seasoned charisma of one like Naomi Campbell.
Ms.
Jenner’s agent begged for one more appointment. On a follow-up visit,
Ms. Grand found her less shy, more spirited and ambitious. “There’s lots
of people that I’ve worked with at a time before they kicked into the
fashion world or fashion consciousness,” she said. “Marc is very aware
of that, because we’ve worked together for so long. He kind of humors me
a bit. It’s always a bit of an eye glaze and ‘Really? Are we really
going to do that?’ ”
They
did. Mr. Jacobs, initially skeptical, came around, largely because, Ms.
Grand said, “she looked really good in the clothes.” The reaction,
thanks in no small part to the look Ms. Jenner wore — which included a
breast-baring, sheer top — was immediate. “I was in a car on the way to
the airport immediately after the show to go to London,” Ms. Grand said.
“I was just looking through Twitter and it was everywhere. I think I
didn’t really realize it would be such a thing.”
But
despite the ensuing cacophony (not only from fashion blogs, but also
The Daily Mail, Fox News and more), Ms. Jenner kept a limited schedule
that season, walking only for Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Tisci, Giles Deacon in
London (another Ms. Grand client) and Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel.
More
followed. She appeared in Chanel’s Couture show in July and on the
cover of Ms. Grand’s Love Magazine. During the Spring 2015 season in
September, she expanded her show list to add Diane von Furstenberg,
Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce & Gabbana, among others. She is one of a
handful of models in the new Karl Lagerfeld spring ad campaign, and is
said to be in spring ads for Marc Jacobs as well. (Michael Ariano, a
representative for Marc Jacobs, said he could neither confirm nor deny
this.)
Although
she said she was happiest to go unrecognized at castings and shows —
even, in one case, being asked by a makeup artist, “Did you know Kendall
Jenner is here?” — the media has noted her every appearance, and stoked
rumors.
In Touch Weekly
reported that other models, threatened by Ms. Jenner’s ascendancy,
taunted her by putting out cigarettes in her drink. (Ms. Jenner’s
representatives dispute this.) OK! Magazine splashed a runway shot and a photo of a weeping Kim across its cover under the headline, “Kendall: ‘I’m the Hot One Now!’ ”
There
are those in the industry who resent the intrusion of celebrity into
the hermetic runway world, though Ms. Jenner’s high profile largely
ensures that they complain privately rather than publicly. Ms. Jenner is
not the only model to make the leap — her friends Gigi Hadid, a
daughter of the “Real Housewife of Beverly Hills” Yolanda Foster, and
Hailey Baldwin, a daughter of Stephen Baldwin, have, too — but she is
the most famous.
Photo
Ms. Jenner.Credit
Bon Duke for The New York Times
Ms. Jenner’s dual citizenship, as it were, in the realms of fashion and celebrity is a decisive factor in her appeal.
After
the announcement of her Estée Lauder campaign, social media responded,
both in favor of Ms. Jenner’s appointment and opposed to it.
“@EsteeLauder Have you lost your mind...” asked one user on Twitter. “Do you really understand your customer base... Where did you pluck Kendall Jenner from”?
But
its executives know both who their customers are — in the United States
and Europe, women as close to Kris Jenner’s age as to Kendall’s — and
who they hope new ones might be. According to data provided by the
company, on the Saturday of the announcement, EstéeLauder
received six times the number of unique visitors as on an average
Saturday. Within 48 hours of the announcement, 90 percent of visitors to
the site were first-timers, 71 percent viewing the site on a mobile
device.
“It
speaks volumes to where we are right now in terms of nontraditional
media,” said Chris Gay, the general manager of The Society, of the Estée
Lauder campaign. “Millennials are not into traditional media. How
they’re getting their media is completely fractured.”
As
models have gone from muses to marketing partners, their social
presences, global reach and audience engagement have become a more
important part of their appeal. “There’s no Q ratings for models,” Mr.
Gay said, referring to Q Scores, a measurement of consumer awareness of
and favorability toward brands, characters and personalities. “That was
never part of the equation. But now you have real analytics.”
(The
Q Scores Company does in fact track a number of models. Ms. Jenner has
an awareness percentage of 33 among the general population, which puts
her in line with actresses like Kerry Washington, and only 2 percentage
points below Gisele Bündchen, the world’s highest-paid model. Her Q
score, measuring the percentage of respondents who called her one of
their favorites, is 10 to Ms. Bündchen’s 13.)
Ms.
Jenner’s friend Olivier Rousteing, the creative director of Balmain,
depended less on analytics than personal experience when he decided,
after spending time with her at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding,
to cast her in his spring show. But he was not insensitive to the pull
she exerts on young women worldwide.
“She’s
really communicating to a lot of girls,” he said. “You know, like those
models in the 90s, Claudia, Naomi — young girls were dreaming of being a
model. I think Kendall is bringing these things. Girls are dreaming
about how to be her.”
Ms. Jenner did not care to parse the various interpretations the world has offered on her rise.
“Some
people are hesitant with me, and they just worry or wonder for a
second,” she said. “But then when the chance gets taken . ...”
Well, Kendall Jenner certainly pissed off a lot of models at NYFW this year …
Dear Kendall,
Take a moment and remove yourself from your current situation, if you
can, to a life that isn’t riddled with excess and only hearing the word
“yes” to your wants and requests. Now, imagine you’re from a small town
and/or Third-World country where your only way to get out of your
current social class, achieve your dreams, get a green card or just gain
better work conditions is to become a high-fashion model. You have to
leave for six months to a year sometimes, signing contracts you can
barely understand, let alone oblige to, almost without choice. You’re
away from your family, your friends and everything you know. You live in
a one-bedroom apartment with six other girls in the same situation in
this Big Apple, New York City.
Did I mention you’re only 17 when all of this goes down? That means
you have to go to tutoring and/or English lessons in between learning
how to “walk” at the agency, attending castings every other day, going
on test shoots to get you experience, trying to learn your new
neighborhood, going to the gym and hoping to maybe make some money all
at once. Oh, and your apartment and test shoots aren’t free, by the way.
They are added to your account with the agency, as are your casting
outfits and cellphone. These are going to leave you in some serious debt
if nobody books you for anything; some girls owe upward of
$30,000 after a year of trying to book gigs, so take that into
perspective as well, Miss Jenner.
So now let’s pretend you actually lived through all of that, and it’s
finally Fashion Week. Exciting, right? This could be your big break!
You could send your family in Belarus or Woodbridge, Va., the money they
need for your little brothers to have new clothes and/or books for
school and/or even afford a plane ticket home for the holidays! Imagine
standing in line after line of girls with your exact height and body
measurements all day, each one hoping for a coveted spot on the New York
Fashion Week runway.
Casting after casting, and you just can’t seem to get your place. But
suddenly after a week full of the word “No,” killing yourself at the
gym, exhausting yourself in classes, cutting your diet in half, not
talking with your family and sleeping in a room with six equally
exhausted girls, you get the call. Your agent texts you with an 8 a.m.
fitting at Marc Jacobs. Oh my god, you’re going to walk for Marc Jacobs!
This is a dream come true, someone finally said yes, and the prestige
is beyond what you could have imagined! So you pack your model bag, a
bottled water, your walking shoes and agency-approved casting outfit.
This could be your big break, assuming they don’t cut your look last
minute, a common practice done to no-name girls, so fingers crossed!
The fitting was perfect, your garment is amazing, and Marc was SO
nice! And cute, too! One last fitting after that one, and it’s show
time; you’re finally going to debut everything you’ve worked so hard
for. You get to prove to your family that you left everything behind for
a great cause, and you can finally pay back all of your agency debt,
not to mention the money your parents lent you to make ends meet.
It’s the morning of the show, and you’re up and ready, grab some
fresh fruit to nibble on, pack your bag, and you’re out the door. The
subway is packed with lots of models, agents, buyers and fashion people
in general, all exhausted, but ready to work. You’ve been bumped/tripped
by both a hairstylist’s travel kit and a makeup guys’ enormous
Caboodles-like suitcase, all before 10 a.m. You walk into Lincoln
Center, and it’s like magic … you can’t believe you’re here! You’ve
finally made it!
Backstage is a commotion circus of clothes, hair, makeup, yelling,
Fashion TV interviews … it’s an Instagram overload! All the big names
are there, your personal heroes including Hanne Gaby Odiele, Karlie
Kloss, Joan Smalls, Jamie Bochert, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs himself —
the list goes on! You’ve really hit the big leagues!
But wait, isn’t that a reality TV star over there in hair and makeup?
Yea, that’s definitely a Kardashian or something. What is she doing
here? Did she take the subway? Was she at the casting? What agency is
she with? I didn’t see her last season … Does she need MORE fame? MORE
money? A green card perhaps? Doesn’t she get enough cash from that show
that all of ignorant America glamorizes? Didn’t her sister have sex with
someone on camera and profit from the video sales to get their family
its new line of limelight? This girl didn’t do and doesn’t owe half
of what you did (remember, you’re NOT “KJ” in this scenario) to get
here today, that much is certain. Her mommy surely called a top agency,
got her in the door and the design houses just chose to milk her fame
like the cash cow that it is. One by one like dominos from Vogue to
Givenchy, fashion is selling out to the ignorant masses for money. What
happened to the art, the cerebral part of fashion? Did it really all die
with Alexander McQueen?
Well, there goes the neighborhood, I guess. Gone is the prestige you
once felt as a “chosen one” by Marc, Anna or Ricardo — this cheapens
your entire experience. You thought you were special, that your hard
work had finally paid off. You didn’t realize that these coveted spots
were for sale. The cost? The soul and dignity of a fashion house. The
clothes will still sell, and the players will still play, but the image
will be forever tarnished by these real life Veruca Salts buying their
way in with sleazy fame rights.
You’re on to walk in five, so you’re smoking to calm your nerves. You need to ash your cigarette, and there’s Kendall Jenner’s drink. You already feel a bit better.
Kendall Jenner reveals diet, workout, beauty and weight loss secrets: 12 cups of tea a day
GQ, Randall Brooke, Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
Kendall
Jenner stays supermodel skinny with a low carb Paleo style diet
featuring high-quality proteins, vegetables, fruit and 12 cups of detox
green tea a day, Celebrity Health & Fitness reported.
For exercise, the willowy 5-foot-10 Kendall prefers cardio workouts,
typically running. "I usually start my day off with a cup of detox tea,"
said Jenner. "I have 12 cups a day."
For snacks, Kendal eats Paleo-approved low-sugar fruits like apples
and strawberries and avoids processed junk food. Jenner said her beauty
secret, in addition to the Paleo diet and regular exercise, is getting
plenty of sleep.
"My beauty secret for Fashion Week is just getting a good
amount of sleep," she said. "I feel like I need at least seven, eight
hours of sleep to function."
Kendall's sister Kim Kardashian lost 56 pounds on a low carb,
high-fat Atkins diet that limited her daily carb intake to less than 60
grams, as Examiner has reported.
Other celebrities who follow a low-carb diet include Megan Fox, who
lost all her baby weight in record time with a low-carb Paleo diet and
Tim McGraw, who credited Paleo and CrossFit for his stunning 40-pound
weight loss.
Kendall's modeling career has really taken off lately, but the lanky
teen was fat-shamed recently after being called "too fat" for the runway
by Australia's Famous magazine. The absurd cover line read: "You're too
fat for runway. Devastated Kendall ordered to lose 8 kg."
The cover even included what appeared to be a Photoshopped image of Jenner with cellulite on her back of her buttocks and legs.
Kendall's friend, fellow model Ireland Baldwin (the daughter of Kim
Basinger and Alec Baldwin), defended Jenner on Twitter, writing, "
'Famous' decided to Photoshop some cottage cheese on the back of
[Kendall's] thighs. Let me tell you. That girl has flawless legs. I've
seen them in person plenty of times."
Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner attend the
Balmain Aftershow Dinner as part of the Paris Fashion Week last month. Photo: Jacopo Raule
There's one thing in every girl's life we continually struggle
with. Something huge, with enormous impact on our day to day. If it
works, it can make us. But if it doesn't we are destined to a day filled
with uncertainty and self-consciousness. We find ourselves making
excuses. "I overslept," or, "It wasn't meant to be like this." But in
the end we want to hide under a rug until it all goes away.
I'm
talking about hair, obviously. What else can so illogically and
irreparably change our mood? If it works, you're flying high, I've been
known to go out just because I have good hair. If it's rubbish – maybe
you didn't have time to wash it, or it's gone all frizzy – you can
guarantee we'll take the nearest thing that comes to hand (I recommend
an elastic over a frying pan) and tie it back.
And now, just to
make us feel better, there's a new hairstyle in town, the name coined at
Fashion Month by those blessed folk who spend way too much time on
their locks: Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner et al (insert
eyeroll here). They've given us something new to strive for. Rich Girl
Hair.
Oh, you'd better believe it.
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Rich Girl Hair is like, well, kinda like, well, like (incoherent
speech with hairstyle optional) it's done, but undone. It's glossy with a
slight kink in it, but by no means is it a Victoria's Secret curl (so
last year). It's not beach hair, it's ultra-conditioned, and is meant to
look like you just woke up like that. When actually, you spent hours in
the stylist's chair to get the bend just right. In short, it's hair
most women will have to practically work a miracle to achieve.
Hence the name: Rich Girl Hair.
And I want it. I want it bad.
Unfortunately,
my hair is not the kind to defer to Rich Girl Hair. It's thick. Unruly.
Has a mind of it's own. My hair isn't having a bar of the
in-between-kink-thing.
"[Rich Girl Hair] is all about how long you
leave the curling tong on for," said hairstylist Anthony Turner at New
York fashion week's Opening Ceremony show, "If you leave it on too long
you'll get that precise curl, leave it on one second."
That's if
you've listened to Lauren Conrad (another expert at Rich Girl Hair) and
even know how to use a curling tong. I'm curling tong illiterate, what
am I supposed I do?
My hairdresser recommends a keratin treatment
so that I can at least achieve the smooth shine that is one of the
features of Rich Girl Hair. And this bit works. My hair is glossy and
compelled to hang with less frizz. But when it comes to styling, my hair
either wants to be straightened or to curl. One or the other. No in
between BS.
In the end I get so frustrated I shove it back in a ponytail (see paragraph two). For hours.
And
wouldn't you know, when I take it out there's a bend in it. Right at
the Rich Girl Hair mark. So there you have it ladies: a miracle, born
out of pure frustration. It's just a pity I was going to bed and had to
start the process all over again the next morning. Ready to give it a
whirl?
FASHION NEWS
Kirrily Johnston is back!
Get
excited people. Because fashion designer, Kirrily Johnston is back.
After closing her label last year, the creative has designed a capsule
collection for high street store, Cooper St. It's good and it's
affordable – two words I love to hear in fashion.
"The line is a
more premium offering from the brand and targeted towards the more
fashion forward girl," says Johnson. "My focus was to design a
collection that had subtle elements of the Kirrily Johnston signature,
combined with a fresh new feel. I named the collection "Aurelia" which
means golden. There are some beautiful, feminine but very strong pieces.
There is a Greek Goddess thing going on, lot's of diaphanous fabrics
and draping but combined with some really sexy modern silhouettes and
some gold of course!"
Johnston says the most exciting thing about
fashion at the moment, is the growth of the middle market: "Making good
product accessible to the masses rather than just cheap product. This
affects everyone and it's exciting for me to be designing in this space.
The other is a return to artisan product, which is a direct result of
the above. I think we are going to see a return of hand-worked,
limited-edition product, that cannot be mass-produced. Customers will
begin to desire something that no one else can get or find." It's making
us excited too.
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When it was announced last week that Kendall Jenner would be the new face of Estée Lauder,
a coveted contract that in the past has gone to actresses like Gwyneth
Paltrow and Elizabeth Hurley and supermodels like Joan Smalls, the
company did not promote the news by way of the usual public-relations
machine, with news releases or email blasts.
Instead, after Vogue broke the story on its website, in anticipation of a 13-page spread in the magazine, Ms. Jenner was encouraged to tell the public herself, on her own Instagram account. That post quickly garnered more than a million “likes,” 50,000-plus comments and many, many heart-eyed emoji.
It
was the latest plum appointment for Ms. Jenner, 19, a daughter of Kris
and Bruce Jenner, and a half sister to Kim, Khloé and Kourtney
Kardashian. Her seemingly meteoric rise over the last few years has
taken her from a sulky minor player on the sometimes cringe-inducing but
highly successful reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” to a
tentative career as a teenage model
to the runways of the major fashion shows (Chanel, Marc Jacobs and
Givenchy, among them). Along the way, she has all but redefined what it
takes to become a high-profile model.
Ms.
Jenner is tall, dark-haired, doe-eyed and beautiful. But so are
hundreds of other girls who walk the runways of New York, Milan and
Paris and thousands more who dream of one day doing so.
What they don’t
have are Ms. Jenner’s 16 million followers on Instagram, 9.1 million on Twitter and 7.3 million likes on Facebook
(numbers that will surely have grown by the time you read this). Like
many other 19-year-old girls, she uses these accounts to share photos of
herself, her family and friends. Unlike many 19-year-old girls, she
also uses them to plug her many partnerships and commercial projects.
“I
think what’s so exciting about her is that she has this social media
influence along with a fashion credibility in a distinct way that speaks
to millennials,” said Jane Hertzmark Hudis, the global brand president
of Estée Lauder. “There is really no one else like her out there.”
Like
her older siblings, with their retail stores, fragrance lines, nail
polishes and more, Ms. Jenner juggles multiple brand extensions premised
on her family fame. With her younger sister, Kylie, she is marketing a
collection of clothes and accessories for PacSun, one of shoes for Steve
Madden’s Madden Girl line and a science-fiction young adult novel set
in a dystopian future colony called Indra.
Kendall Jenner’s Spring 2015 Season Appearances
During the spring 2015 season in September, Kendall Jenner expanded
her show list to add Diane von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce
& Gabbana, shon here, among others.… Here are some of the shows she walked in.
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But
the Kardashian affiliation that first brought her to the world’s
attention has put her on a peculiar perch: followed by millions but
navigating aversion in a cloistered industry accustomed to minting its
own stars, and a historically wary — but steadily warming — relationship
with the Kardashian family. (Ms. Jenner’s agent and several of her
clients, including Ms. Hudis, claimed not to watch “Keeping Up With the
Kardashians,” now filming its 10th season.)
“It’s
definitely two different worlds. I feel like Hannah Montana. But it’s
fun,” Ms. Jenner said, referring to Miley Cyrus’s character, who
navigates a double life in and out of the spotlight, on the Disney
sitcom that began her career and pop stardom. (Of course, both of Ms.
Jenner’s worlds are squarely in the public eye.)
For
modeling purposes, and with a touch of wishful thinking, Ms. Jenner
prefers to go by simply “Kendall.” In person, she is charming but terse,
with a daffy sweetness if not necessarily the gift of gab.
When
she presented at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, she famously muffed
her lines, dissolving into giggles and admitting, “Guys, I’m the worst
reader.” At a fitting at Marc Jacobs’s office — during which a crowd of
teenage girls gathered outside of the building, hoping to catch a
glimpse of her — she was taken with a publicist’s striking eye color.
“Are those your real eyes?” she asked.
She
arrived for a recent interview at her agency’s office dressed
model-casual: Céline slip-on sneakers, a black T-shirt and skinny pants
(tag still on) by which designer she wasn’t sure. They had shown up
unbidden at her house, like much else, a perk not every model enjoys.
She
is the first to acknowledge that she was not always interested in
style. “On Season 1 of our show, I would wear, like, neon green jeans
and a white polo shirt, the craziest things,” she said, though in her
defense, when “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” premiered in 2007, Ms.
Jenner was 11 years old.
She
called modeling a lifelong dream. “I would literally sit at home and
have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my
mom gave me for Christmas,” she said. “Obviously, the show was me being
in front of a camera. It’s just something that I’ve kind of always been
around.”
Initial forays into modeling were small in scale. In 2011, Ms. Jenner appeared in the New York Fashion Week show of Sherri Hill, a designer from Austin, Tex., who specializes in event and prom dresses.
Kim Kardashian, left; a friend, Gigi Hadid, whispering into Ms. Jenner’s ear; and the designer Riccardo Tisci.Credit
Lauren Fleishman for The New York Times
Earlier
that year, Ms. Jenner’s appearance at a shoot of Ms. Hill’s dresses had
been a plot point on an episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
But Ms. Jenner’s role on the show had largely been as a sidekick to her
scenery-chewing sisters.
With
a new agency, The Society Management, specializing in high-end fashion
bookings, behind her, Ms. Jenner is now working to rebrand. “We had to
be very strategic and specific,” she said, “to really have people take
me seriously and not mess around.”
The
perceived divide between commercial and high fashion is so wide that,
when asked whether Ms. Jenner’s well-documented Sherri Hill appearance
had been her New York Fashion Week debut, a Society representative
declined to confirm, writing, “we recall her as still being in school
during that period.”
With a name like hers, fairly or not, there have been detractors for as long as there have been supporters.
“It
always comes as a shock when I tell the story of how I casted Kendall,”
Riccardo Tisci wrote in an email about his decision to use Ms. Jenner
in his Givenchy show and ad campaign. “I didn’t do it because of my
links to her sister or to Kanye, as everyone seems to believe. I only
chose Kendall because I thought she was amazing, a striking, dark, edgy
beauty, exactly the way I like them.”
Even
with prominent advocates, Ms. Jenner’s rise was freighted with
uncertainty. “Her agent was very aware that she had one shot at being a
credible model,” said the stylist and Love Magazine editor Katie Grand,
an early champion, who in February orchestrated Ms. Jenner’s return to
New York Fashion Week by placing her in Marc Jacobs’s show.
When
The Society first asked her to consider Ms. Jenner, Ms. Grand was
reluctant. “I didn’t even really know who she was other than someone I
thought went skiing with Harry Styles once,” she said, alluding to Ms.
Jenner’s alleged former beau. (The rumor mill has linked Ms. Jenner to
Mr. Styles, of One Direction, and Justin Bieber, among others.)
Ms.
Grand said her first reaction was “underwhelmed.” Ms. Jenner’s shyness
can read as standoffish, and she is still developing the presence that
can distinguish a top model. Even today on the runway, she can often
blend into the endless parade of willowy but indeterminable young women,
without the identifiable prowl of a model like Karlie Kloss, or the
seasoned charisma of one like Naomi Campbell.
Breaking the news that
Kendall Jenner would be the new face of Estée Lauder on its website,
Vogue dedicated a 13-page magazine feature to her.Credit
Patrick Demarchelier/Vogue
Ms.
Jenner’s agent begged for one more appointment. On a follow-up visit,
Ms. Grand found her less shy, more spirited and ambitious. “There’s lots
of people that I’ve worked with at a time before they kicked into the
fashion world or fashion consciousness,” she said. “Marc is very aware
of that, because we’ve worked together for so long. He kind of humors me
a bit. It’s always a bit of an eye glaze and ‘Really? Are we really
going to do that?’ ”
They
did. Mr. Jacobs, initially skeptical, came around, largely because, Ms.
Grand said, “she looked really good in the clothes.” The reaction,
thanks in no small part to the look Ms. Jenner wore — which included a
breast-baring, sheer top — was immediate. “I was in a car on the way to
the airport immediately after the show to go to London,” Ms. Grand said.
“I was just looking through Twitter and it was everywhere. I think I
didn’t really realize it would be such a thing.”
But
despite the ensuing cacophony (not only from fashion blogs, but also
The Daily Mail, Fox News and more), Ms. Jenner kept a limited schedule
that season, walking only for Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Tisci, Giles Deacon in
London (another Ms. Grand client) and Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel.
More
followed. She appeared in Chanel’s Couture show in July and on the
cover of Ms. Grand’s Love Magazine. During the Spring 2015 season in
September, she expanded her show list to add Diane von Furstenberg,
Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce & Gabbana, among others. She is one of a
handful of models in the new Karl Lagerfeld spring ad campaign, and is
said to be in spring ads for Marc Jacobs as well. (Michael Ariano, a
representative for Marc Jacobs, said he could neither confirm nor deny
this.)
Although
she said she was happiest to go unrecognized at castings and shows —
even, in one case, being asked by a makeup artist, “Did you know Kendall
Jenner is here?” — the media has noted her every appearance, and stoked
rumors.
In Touch Weekly
reported that other models, threatened by Ms. Jenner’s ascendancy,
taunted her by putting out cigarettes in her drink. (Ms. Jenner’s
representatives dispute this.) OK! Magazine splashed a runway shot and a photo of a weeping Kim across its cover under the headline, “Kendall: ‘I’m the Hot One Now!’ ”
There
are those in the industry who resent the intrusion of celebrity into
the hermetic runway world, though Ms. Jenner’s high profile largely
ensures that they complain privately rather than publicly.
Ms. Jenner is
not the only model to make the leap — her friends Gigi Hadid, a
daughter of the “Real Housewife of Beverly Hills” Yolanda Foster, and
Hailey Baldwin, a daughter of Stephen Baldwin, have, too — but she is
the most famous.
Ms. Jenner’s dual citizenship, as it were, in the realms of fashion and celebrity is a decisive factor in her appeal.
Ms. Jenner.Credit
Bon Duke for The New York Times
After
the announcement of her Estée Lauder campaign, social media responded,
both in favor of Ms. Jenner’s appointment and opposed to it.
“@EsteeLauder Have you lost your mind...” asked one user on Twitter. “Do you really understand your customer base... Where did you pluck Kendall Jenner from”?
But
its executives know both who their customers are — in the United States
and Europe, women as close to Kris Jenner’s age as to Kendall’s — and
who they hope new ones might be. According to data provided by the
company, on the Saturday of the announcement, EstéeLauder.com
received six times the number of unique visitors as on an average
Saturday. Within 48 hours of the announcement, 90 percent of visitors to
the site were first-timers, 71 percent viewing the site on a mobile
device.
“It
speaks volumes to where we are right now in terms of nontraditional
media,” said Chris Gay, the general manager of The Society, of the Estée
Lauder campaign. “Millennials are not into traditional media. How
they’re getting their media is completely fractured.”
As
models have gone from muses to marketing partners, their social
presences, global reach and audience engagement have become a more
important part of their appeal. “There’s no Q ratings for models,” Mr.
Gay said, referring to Q Scores, a measurement of consumer awareness of
and favorability toward brands, characters and personalities. “That was
never part of the equation. But now you have real analytics.”
(The
Q Scores Company does in fact track a number of models. Ms. Jenner has
an awareness percentage of 33 among the general population, which puts
her in line with actresses like Kerry Washington, and only 2 percentage
points below Gisele Bündchen, the world’s highest-paid model. Her Q
score, measuring the percentage of respondents who called her one of
their favorites, is 10 to Ms. Bündchen’s 13.)
Ms.
Jenner’s friend Olivier Rousteing, the creative director of Balmain,
depended less on analytics than personal experience when he decided,
after spending time with her at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding,
to cast her in his spring show. But he was not insensitive to the pull
she exerts on young women worldwide.
“She’s
really communicating to a lot of girls,” he said. “You know, like those
models in the 90s, Claudia, Naomi — young girls were dreaming of being a
model. I think Kendall is bringing these things. Girls are dreaming
about how to be her.”
Ms. Jenner did not care to parse the various interpretations the world has offered on her rise.
“Some
people are hesitant with me, and they just worry or wonder for a
second,” she said. “But then when the chance gets taken . ...”
Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner attend the
Balmain Aftershow Dinner as part of the Paris Fashion Week last month. Photo: Jacopo Raule
