Showing posts with label models. Show all posts
Showing posts with label models. Show all posts

Monday, February 15, 2010

When models are off duty, they hang around here just like us!

The Post has a fashion spread titled "Model Off Duty" today... "When these beauties are off the clock, their looks still rock (and how!)" .... Apparently when they're off-duty, they're hanging around here... locations include Tompkins Square Park, Max Fish and Schiller's...





In the paper, each photo (shot by Tamara Beckwith), include a caption such as "You wish you could look this good sitting on a pool table." (The Max Fish shot.) My caption would be: "Cher called, she wants her outfit back."

Update: Melanie has a shot of the photo shoot at TSP back in January...and a photo of the model.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Monday, December 7, 2009

Important news about models who may be moving in near you



According to BlockShopper, Serbian-born model Natasa Vojnovic bought a one-bedroom, two-bath condo at 115 Fourth Ave. for $995,000 in the eight-story Petersfield condominiums near 12th Street. She has worked for Chanel, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent ... and Lenny Kravitz, appearing in the laughable "Where Are We Runnin?" video.

And according to her SuperModel page, she was born in 2005.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Updated: Last day for you pervs to ogle XOXO models on Fifth Avenue

As you may have already read ... some XOXO models have been camping out the last few weeks in an empty storefront on Fifth Avenue at 38th Street... and the models seem to be causing a sensation....



I came across the scene earlier in the week...a scene that was both hilarious and horrorfying...First, you put two models in a window who prance about in bra and panties and seductively brush each other's hair...then you hire a security guard to yell "keep moving -- you can't stand here on the sidewalk" over and over. Like we're really going to move.





And all this is on the other side of the street from the decking-the-halls holiday windows at Lord & Taylor. So there are a lot of tourists who are shocked -- shocked! -- at all this. One mom said to her twentysomething daughter, "You'd never see this back in [Elk Snout, Pigsknuckle -- didn't catch the name of the town]. And then you have a bunch of horndogs with cameras. (Uh, yeah, well, I was technically working...)




The show ends Sunday...the model hours are 12:30-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-8:30 p.m.

Anyway, it all seems pretty tame after the shows at The Standard.

And in response to the comments, YES, there is video...via the XOXO site...





For further reading:
Naked City (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A model condo: An angel will try to earn her wings while living at the District



So, per usual, I was reading talkingmakeup.com, you know, the daily makeup and beauty blog, and I came across this item of interest.

For the first time ever, Victoria’s Secret has opened its legendary runway to the public by holding open casting events in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago where the country’s most beautiful women competed for a chance to be the next Victoria’s Secret’s Runway Angel.

A Victoria’s Secret panel of experts have narrowed down the field to 10 finalists, who were flown to New York City to take part in “Angel Boot Camp,” a series of challenges where the contestants will show their photogenic qualities, prove their abilities as a spokesmodel, show off their red carpet star quality and radiate charisma while walking a runway in lingerie.


Yeah, yeah, blah, blah...(Oh, wait: radiate charisma?)

While in New York, the finalists will stay at The District, a luxury condo building in the heart of Manhattan’s financial district boasting spectacular views of downtown Manhattan. Throughout their stay, the aspiring models will also enjoy such amenities as a roof deck with four pools, a lounge/library with fireplace, a billiards room, screening room and such elegant furniture by RentQuest.


That's one way to lure some horndogs to live in the District at 111 Fulton St., where some units are available.

Oh, and the weekly webisodes from Angel Boot Camp started airing last night, pervs. And I can't wait for the webisode where the models have to radiate charisma while walking past the MTA's Fulton Street pit and working a shift in the Nassau Bar...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Something about shopping at Sunny and Annie's makes me feel so .... faint

So many sandwich choices! On Avenue B and Sixth Street yesterday afternoon...in front of Sunny and Annie's...




I walked up to her and said, "Are you a parking ticket? Because you have fine written all over you." And then, "Are you from Tennessee? Because you're the only 10 who I see!"

Then the photographer yelled at me... but seriously, the always-reliable complete stranger standing there said that he thought it was a shoot for a purse -- that thing in her hand. I think it was more about the dress.



Bob Arihood came across another photo shoot yesterday — this one in Tompkins Square Park. (Oops! Same model... just a change in outfits and location...)

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Models Inc.


Crucial article today in the Post on booking models for clubs. Here's Danny Kane, a former promoter who now co-owns The Gates.


Kane lays out the math behind the models.

“If they’re 5-foot-10 or 5-foot-11, that’s one story. If they’re borderline OK, it’s harder.”

He calculates that a promoter who brings 10 or so girls measuring “5-foot-5 or 5-foot-6” to a Manhattan club or restaurant might command $500 for a night. A promoter who brings in the tall girls can get up to $2,500. In both cases, the models drink for free — the idea being that dudes wishing to party near them will book a table, which typically requires a $1,500 drink minimum per foursome.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

In the West Village, "big, fat rats" are terrorizing rich people, models


"There's been a parade of big fat rats every night," complains one local, whose neighbors include Rupert Everett, Michael Cera and NBC News anchor Lester Holt. "You can hear shrieks from fighting rats, and from girls walking by who see the rats," adds the resident. A witness even overheard Gisele Bundchen scream after almost running into one. (Page Six)

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Admiring the fashion sense of "the girls that live in the East Village"



In an interview with the Guardian UK yesterday, model/designer Erin Wasson (pictured, right) was asked whose style she admired:

All the girls who are not in the pages of fashion magazines. The girls that live in the East Village in New York you see walking down St Mark's. They didn't look at a fashion magazine or go to Barneys and put something on their credit card. I like girls who are really eccentric and kooky. I love the rockabilly look -- not a rockabilly look because it's "this season", but the real deal. Believe it or not, there was a lot of that look in Dallas where I grew up.


I, too, get my fashion sense from St. Mark's Place. Hey, has anyone seen my long-sleeve mustard shirt?



[Subway Dude photo via Slum Goddess]

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The ol' model starving stickers are back




Or maybe the stickers never went away? On 14th Street near Fourth Avenue. And what exactly is she doing in those rose bushes?

Sunday, March 9, 2008