Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Lady Gaga: Judas






Lady Gaga released Judas, the second single from Born This Way on April 19 and  will release the video for "Judas," which has caused controversy due to its religious iconography, over Easter weekend.


In the ‘Judas’ video, Gaga will portray a goth version of Mary Magdalene. A black-and-white photo has been circulating the Internet of Gaga in full costume, and she is sporting dark makeup, a billowy black cape, her signature horn head adornments, and a sleeked back bun.[PopCrush/Cristin Maher]


Starring in the video alongside Gaga is one half of the ‘The Boondock Saints’ brothers, Norman Reedus, who will be playing the maniacal character of Judas. [PopCrush/Cristin Maher]




''She is trying to rip off Christian idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances," said Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League For Religious And Civil Rights.


Laurieann Gibson, Gaga's creative director and co-director for the "Judas" video told The Hollywood Reporter that the video isn't meant to offend; it's about a "new Jerusalem". “I will tell you now, first off, I’m Christian, and my career is evidence of God in my life, and I think that most people are already thinking that Gaga and the blasphemy and they’re premeditating the approach and I think they’ll be very shocked to find out how huge and really groundbreaking the message is and how freeing the message is for all the right reasons,” video codirector Laurieann Gibson told MTV News. “And it’s really going to shock the world.” [The Advocate]

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Vanessa Paradis: Chet Baker




Vanessa Paradis: The Muse

i.D. Spring 2011
Vanessa Paradis is a dark beauty. She smolders in front of Paolo Roversi’s lens for i.D. in Vanessa Paradis: The Muse.  From her Lolita-esque debut to the very embodiment of Parisian chic, the singer and actress Vanessa Paradis - aka Mrs Johnny Depp - has come a long way. [An audience with Vanessa Paradis/Justine Picardie]

i.D. Spring 2011
To the French she is a national icon in her own right - child star turned chic chanteuse; Chanel model; award-winning actress - but to the English-speaking world, she tends to be more famous as Mrs Johnny Depp. Not that Vanessa Paradis is married; a marriage certificate might detract from her identity. [An audience with Vanessa Paradis/Justine Picardie]
i.D. Spring 2011

At 38, Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a force to be reckoned with, her presence far greater than her breathy little-girl voice might at first suggest.  She's gorgeous-looking, of course - men and women alike in the audience, whatever their sexual orientation, are smitten as Paradis undulates across the stage - but as a performer she is unselfish, introducing each of her band by name, and swift to share the limelight with them. [An audience with Vanessa Paradis/Justine Picardie]
i.D. Spring 2011

Still, despite the apparent intimacy - for she has an uncanny ability to make it seem as if she is singing on a one-to-one basis - Paradis is also deft at maintaining her distance off-stage.  'The key thing about Vanessa is not what she does but how she does it,' says Karl Lagerfeld. 'She could make singing the telephone directory beautiful.' [An audience with Vanessa Paradis/Justine Picardie]
i.D. Spring 2011
Love, she observes, 'is something natural that needs to be worked at a little bit all the same'. As a formula, however reductive, it might very well be applied to Vanessa Paradis herself. [An audience with Vanessa Paradis/Justine Picardie]



Daisy Lowe: Danger Curves Ahead

Daisy Lowe, the daughter of rocker Gavin Rossdale and Pearl Lowe, is featured in the March 2011 issue of ASOS magazine, where she also talks a bit what’s the one thing the fashion industry needs right now. That would be more curvy models, figures that regular women can more easily identify with, the 22-year-old stunner reveals for the mag.


Famous for having a curvier figure than many catwalk models, Lowe is full of praise for the female form: 'Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape. And I'm proud to be part of this renewed appreciation of womanly assets. 'Although, I do think Mad Men has a lot to answer for.' [Daily Mail UK]



Lowe told the Mail 'I'm really proud of being the poster girl for curves, I'm proud of my shape."  "I'm bigger than model size. I've got boobs and an ass."







Daisy Lowe: I kissed a Girl and I Liked It

MODELS: DAISY LOWE, ELIZA CUMMINGS PHOTO CREDITS: W MAGAZINE/STEVEN MEISEL

Since leaping to fame a few years ago, Daisy Lowe has attracted as much attention over her love life as she has her modelling campaigns. But despite several high-profile romances with men - including current boyfriend, Doctor Who actor Matt Smith, the 22-year-old revealed in a GQ interview she also fancies women.  FHM has an interesting take on the GQ interview.[http://www.fhm.com/girls/news/daisy-lowe-admits-shes-a-mild-lesbian-80170]


Kelly Brook
When asked by men's magazine GQ if she liked women, Lowe replied: 'Yes, I think women are really hot... 'I am, pretty much, a mild lesbian.' and her dream woman is fellow model Kelly Brook, who she described as 'such a hotty'.


Daisy was reported snogging Portia Freeman, a model who had a brief fling with Pete Doherty. 



Whether or not as FHM suggests that the press have taken an off the cuff, tongue in cheek comment and taken it seriously in order to make a story more interesting is true, you have to admit that Daisy has interesting taste in women.




High Tech Fetish








High Tech Fetish – was a viral Campaign for Cosmos Austria, an electronics website, showing equipment that Cosmos sells. The campaign was in 2008

Agency:FCB Retail, Vienna
AD: Andreas Gesierich
Copy: Ronald Roniger-Kolaczek
Photographer: Wolfgang Zajc