Whilst waiting at the bus stop on a cold raining night, minding my own business praying my preferred mode of transport would arrive already, that is when it happened when I spotted the most amazing Afro, atop a
picturesque face mounted on a model figure…little did I know I had just been Julia Sarr Jamois.
Julia Sarr Jamois is the effortlessly cool editor of Wonderland Magazine, the 23 year old is a regular at fashion week, often shot by street style bloggers, Stylist and sometime model.
The London based fashionista rocks a curly fro, that she insists she has worn this way since the age of fourteen, the low maintenance style icon uses very little products in her hair, telling vogue.com: [click to continue…]
Lets go back, way back….well to 1967, when a curly haired, soon-to-be supermodel in the making was spotted by Vogue in New York City. Pat Cleveland went on the reinvent the runway walk with her signature strut, extreme poses and amazing curls. She ruled the roost throughout the 1970′s after making a name for herself in Paris and inspiring mega designers such as Holston & YSL.
One of the First models of colour to gain world wide recoginistion, Cleveland worked with Valentino and Oscar de la Renta and had fans that spanned from the Beatles to Josephine Baker who Cleveland also happens to resemble. [click to continue…]
I’ve had my eye on Herieth Paul for a while now, ever since the 16 year old dazzled on a shoot for Canadian Elle wearing an afro wig. The Tanzanian born model, now relocated to Canada, has been on model1′s books since the tender age of 14. In the last year she has shot for Italian Vogue and snagged major campaigns for Diesel, CK One and Lacoste. Paul has recently been signed to Women Management. [click to continue…]
Firstly, how long have you been modelling?
Since march 2011 actually.
How old are you?
I’m 20 and a half.
Where are you from?
I’m from [click to continue…]
In 2010, a little known Parisian model entered a world wide on-line casting for a big name brand. Created by Benneton, the IT’S MY TIME campaign, was the first of it’s kind. Every season, the brand hosted a model search to head up their new campaign giving lesser known and novice models a chance to appear. Enter stage left, Coraline Jouhie, the kinky-haired, red head with rock star style. When you lay eyes on her, you can’t help but to stare. [click to continue…]
This weeks Kinks on Behind the Catwalk looks closely at the gorgeous curls behind the Catwalk one of our favourites designers, London born, Carly Cushnie. Carley has a head full of blonde curls and her hair is so unique amongst the designers that she calls colleagues that you may have seen her curls more than a few times before because kinky curls are not often seen behind stage so her style and hair certainly stands out. [click to continue…]
