Patience, someone older and presumably wiser tells us, is a virtue. Waiting for the right moment though, until you’re good and ready, is not a skill many have mastered. Magdalena Velevska... read more
During a fresh first morning of fashion week while the city readies itself for the pandemonium to come, Ylias Nacer is preparing for what seems like a romantic sojourn of freedom, packing his bag... read more
Growing up in Sin City, she was a sucker for metal (some things never change). High school wasn’t for her so she went to model school and then her world changed – forever – when... read more
She used “to be a nerd” – past tense preferable – and signed herself to a model agency as “a joke”. She goes Dutch, is a mad Scorsese fan and her beauty... read more
Desert. Prison. Romance and friendship. It’s easy to get swept up in the story of 80s Australian fashion label Desert Designs. The story begins with many: first, that of Aboriginal... read more
A large pair of antlers worn on top of a striped mustard, blue-and-white beanie; brown tassel loafers worn with knee-high black socks and a thick knit coat; a model almost fading into the... read more
He is insatiable, unpredictable and has, so says fashion commentators like Sarah Mower, the capacity to “touch a nerve”. On the flipside, those who work closely with Bernhard Willhelm... read more
She chows down on cheese sandwiches and crushes out on men with beards. Her story goes a little something like this: she grew up on a steady diet of clogs, dykes, windmills and pigtails... read more
When Emma Mulholland and I first met about six years ago we instantly didn’t like each other. She was interning at a magazine I was working for, and I thought she had an attitude problem. I... read more
Alexander Wang tried to keep her all to himself, but still Guido Palau got his hands on her to bleach her for Balenciaga: Britt Maren is the Texan who spells cool with a ‘k’, walks... read more
Every now and then you stumble across something completely new and untouched ... Think a new brand minus the media spiel, a brand with no website, one you can’t Google just yet. This is it.... read more
Eliza Cummings is outright hilarious, the quintessential London girl. She laughs through her sentences and gets the giggles whenever she talks about the man she’s seeing. He picked her up... read more
It is very easy to forget that Mary Katrantzou has only been a card carrying ‘fashion designer’ for two-and-a-half years now. Popping up just prior to AW 09/10’s digital print... read more
Aymeline Valade worked for an advertising agency before she was spotted skateboarding on the streets of Paris. A classically trained dancer, she soon found herself showing up to a Balenciaga... read more
For every Karl and Marc – whose faces are as famous as the clothes they create – there’s another type of fashion designer – just as influential – operating beneath... read more
Last time we spotted Yasmin Le Bon she was sitting front row on a frosty day during London Fashion Week, shining like a bright star. Not just because she was wearing fluorescent yellow... read more
Wearing baggy jeans, a structured black top and a jet felt hat, Kym Ellery stands out and looks completely at ease. Around her, there’s an aura. It’s not the kind that keeps people at... read more
She's the always, the forever – 22 this year, five-foot-ten Aline Weber debuted in Spring 2006 at New York Fashion Week and has since walked for Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Salvatore... read more
“In the past, I didn’t really look at who’s going to wear my things. When she started to wear my clothes I began to pay more attention…” Emilio de la Morena on... read more
London-born, Perth-bred, London-based designer Richard Nicoll is back in Australia to debut his first collection for Sportsgirl. RUSSH sat down with Nicoll to talk music, Cerruti and Dion... read more
She’s worked vintage Pucci and dated a Red Hot Chili Pepper: at 5’11”, doll-faced Jessica Stam is leader of The New Crop. Her pin-up boy is Frank Ol’-Blue-Eyes Sinatra,... read more
Frida Giannini has a crush. A make-you-blush-red kind of crush on Roxy Music’s skinny-lapelled front man: Mr. Bryan Ferry. “It’s just that I was immediately taken with his... read more
Keeping Sydney’s Great Gatsby of mansions from Sydney Harbour is a large swimming pool: with a clear view of the bridge, it’s a cool blue stretch against the sky and where, of late,... read more
Delfine Bafort. She’s the Belgium-born beauty with a deep voice and heavy French diction. The Girl in a Chemise for Dazed & Confused, Bafort has tripped the Land of the Fairy for V... read more
“It wasn’t like we banded together and said, ‘Oh let’s make a group of girls who are going to go down in history’. It wasn’t like that at all. It’s easy... read more
Noot Seear is sleepy. The model and actress has been living a peripatetic existence since being inducted into the cast of Twilight, the mega book-turned-movie franchise that is all the world... read more
Eniko Mihalik. Completely unforgettable, an editorial favourite with good reason. Originally on exclusive to Inez and Vinoodh, she’s Mario Sorrenti’s preference; the face of... read more
Gap-toothed bombshell, born in California, raised in Texas – Ashley Smith has been cast as the next Lara Stone, the new Laetitia Casta and is sick of the comparisons. “I got my own... read more
Devon Aoki braved FBI helicopters to sidle up to the Hollywood sign for RUSSH. Born in NYC, Aoki now calls LA home. Discovered at a Rancid concert, she bumped Naomi Campbell as the face of... read more
Tulia Wilson’s debut collection is sexually charged. Although brash angora sweaters, illusory prints in yellow silk and floppy T-shirts aren’t necessarily the definition of... read more
Amy Tamblyn is a young eccentric who counts designing convention-breaking jewellery as well as pulling beer within her unique skill set. A character from around the way, Tamblyn has the type of... read more
Sweet 16 from St. Louis, Missouri, Katie Fogarty already has a Prada exclusive and a Balenciaga campaign under her belt. RUSSH caught up with the natural beauty on set to steal some of her style... read more
Hannah Holman is a Utah native and one of the industry’s freshest face. With eyes that cut through to the core, Holman is the go-to girl for all the big players. With campaigns for the... read more
With her freckles, baby blues and bodacious bod, Erin Heatherton is the bubbly blonde everyone wants to book. The seasoned catwalker and former face of Valentino, Armani and Karl Lagerfeld, was... read more
Alyona Osmanova, how did you begin your career? I was descovered on the subway in Kiev. Who is your favourite photographer to work with? Juergen Teller, David Sims, Max... read more
Flavia de Oliveira, how did you begin your career?I consider my career really beginning the day I opened the YSL show. Who is your favourite photographer to work with?I have many favourites for... read more
Hana Soukupova, how did you begin your career? It was through a contest in the newspaper when I was 14 years old in the Czech Republic. I have a sister and when we were younger I used to play... read more
Valentina, how did you begin your career?I was 16 when a family friend suggested I try modelling. I never really thought about it before, but I thought ‘why not?’ So I went to a... read more
Tasha Tilberg, how did you begin your career?My older sister suggested I try modelling, and so I met with an agency. Who is your favourite photographer to work with? Craig McDean is one of... read more
Since Ieva Laguna was spotted on the street at MTV’s birthday concert last September, it’s been all systems get set and go for this Latvian looker. She’s shot for Chanel.... read more
Tony Ward hit the world stage in his smalls in 1983 for Calvin Klein. Ward – Madonna’s former beau and one of the many between the sheets of her infamous Sex book – has since... read more
Estonian catwalker Karmen Pedaru’s pale green eyes and mile-long legs are in hot demand from V to D&G. I was spotted at...An opera theatre in Estonia. The first thing I do when I... read more
Susan Eldridge was the face (and body) of a generation. The mercurial model personified the listless new millennium in fashion, the hangover of the 90s and the love bites, point-and-shoot snaps... read more
Jacquelyn Jablonski from New Jersey is the new face that took SS 10 by storm. With a body that won’t quit, the self confessed ‘jock’ is looking forward to a summer filled with... read more
RUSSH cover girl Karlie Kloss racked-up a catwalk count of 64 shows for AW 08, cementing her place at the top of the runway ranks. We talk to the Southern belle about her Nina Ricci campaign,... read more
After a day of shooting, a blizzard of Blackberry messages and a bagel break, RUSSH talked to Seear about show jumping, movies and a model’s fitness secrets. What was little Noot Seear... read more
Behati Prinsloo, how did you begin your career? I was scouted in a grocery shop with my granny in Cape Town. Who is your favourite photographer to work with? There is not one I can pick... read more
Anja Rubik, describe yourself...“Hundred desires within me, hundred of thoughts, hundred of wilted leaves,” from Kordian by Juliusz Slowacki. How did you begin your career?My mother... read more
Riley Keough is sweet, a little shy and totally down-to-earth. She arrives on set sans entourage in skinny jeans, Chloé boots and an Alternative Apparel hoodie with nothing underneath.... read more
From Chloé to Calvin Klein, Ali Stephens is the all-American athletic girl in demand. She chatted to RUSSH behind the scenes about being a tomboy, loving Michael Jackson and working... read more
If fashion and art are in bed together, then Louis Vuitton is getting married and setting up house. The luxury giant first dabbled in the art world in the 1980s, when it began working with... read more
Eddie Borgo’s jewellery is a phenomenon, seen on the wrists (and ears and necks and fingers) of many a fashion editor at the shows this season. He is crafting the kind of tactile,... read more
I first met Nicole Colovos of Helmut Lang during New York Fashion Week last season. Eschewing a runway presentation, as they have done since she and husband Michael took over the creative... read more
For more than two decades Dries Van Noten has been king of timeless eclecticism and has remained at the helm of his eponymous brand. Yet for someone with such a long and celebrated career little... read more
London Fashion Week kicked off with a bang this season with emerging French-born, London-based designer Charles Anastase’s dreamy, and brilliantly eccentric debut London show. Leaving the... read more
It takes a proper icon not to admit that they are one. The legendary Jane Birkin isn’t even aware just how much she is adored. “I’ve never considered myself as an icon in... read more
There will always be a special place in our hearts for Lover. Not only do they make the kind of clothes a girl wants keep in her wardrobe for posterity, but Susien Chong and Nic Briand are a... read more
London label Preen is favoured by the beautiful and modern – iconic stars Kate Moss and Chloë Sevigny among them – and has, since its inception, been snapped up by the coolest... read more
A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou doesn’t like brands. In fact there are many things that Jean Touitou does not like. But for now we are talking clothing, more precisely his clothing. Created in... read more
In between racks of clothing, sewing machines, a ceramic oven, a washing machine and boxes filled with buttons, zips and fabrics, a tanned and resplendent Isabel Marant talks to RUSSH about her... read more
I have heard John Macarthur described as The Great Bondi Prophet. Truly. He is the person you hope to bump into along the water’s edge when you need reassurance that people can indeed be... read more
It’s official: Richard Nicoll is taking over the world. “I have all age groups and markets covered,” laughs the 33-year old London-born, Perth-raised designer, who is not so... read more
Sonia Rykiel is the woman who gave birth to Left Bank chic. She is the woman who taught us how to wear knitwear (sexily, with the seams inside-out and preferably covered in sparkling gems) and... read more
At just 26 years-old, Christopher Kane has already had five highly acclaimed shows at London Fashion Week and been described as one of the brightest stars of British fashion. Thea Garland meets... read more
The daughter of a Danish 60s supermodel and a French fashion insider, former model and stylist Vanessa Bruno launched her first collection in 1997. Her mix of urban sophistication and pared-down... read more
With her pale blue eyes and sculpted beauty, cover star Constance is a true chameleon. The French fille catches up with RUSSH in between takes to talk about the model life. I was spotted... read more
For a decade, she’s manned the front for Victoria’s Secret alongside Gisele Bündchen and Adriana Francesca Lima. In 2008, she hit the runway for the lingerie label a mere... read more
Vibrant fluoro skivvies with loose boardshorts; heavily beaded shimmy dresses, perforated leather tank tops and an awesome pair of anorak sleeves to tie around our waists: this season the power... read more
