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Where Beauty Means Business

by Harry Griffin — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:44:30 +0000

DIS sent photographer Harry Griffin to document the International Esthetics, Cosmetics & Spa Conference at the Javits Convention Center in NYC, proving that some of us (the genetically blessed, more specifically) are born with it, others are unforgettable (or die trying to be), and the rest are simply worth it. Or not.

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(.Y.) Breast Dressed

Springtime means one thing: looking busted and loving it. — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:59:14 +0000

Credits

By DIS
Photography Marco Roso
All Clothes Burlington Coat Factory

New Faces Looking for Work: Part 2

DIS — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:50:53 +0000

The shock and awe of being ripped out of study hall and thrust into go-sees and photoshoots. These girls are facing their new lives as models with youth, vigor, and a little cute convo ;)

Iana @ Supreme UKRAINE Preston: What did you want to be before you started modeling? Iana: I was studying to be a filmmaker. I was in a student film in Ukraine and was asked if I wanted to model. Preston: And how is the modeling thing going? Iana: It is ok. I like the travel. Preston: I studied film before. I can’t imagine being on the other side of the camera. Iana: I think it… [read more »]

Credits

Photography Marco Roso
Casting Preston Chaunsumlit
Models Johanna, Kremi, Charlene, and Anni at Ford, Emily at Marilyn, Iana at Supreme, Serena at Women Direct, Varsha, Jlynn, and Anna Z. at Wilhelmina.

DIS met all the guidelines as recommended by the CFDA as issued for the season of Fall/Winter 2011:

models at least 16 years old
limited working hours and frequent and sufficient breaks and time for rest; work not extended to after midnight for those under 18
nutritious snacks and non-alcoholic beverages provided
a non-smoking set/backstage

Celebrity Status

DIS — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:37:25 +0000

Money: mutilated. Luxury logos: defaced. Red carpet: aflame. These status symbol hairstyles prove that celebrity has really gone to our head.

Misfit wears sweater,shorts, and necklace by Patricia Field; bag by Nasir Mazhar. Yaya wears Hood by Air button down, Nasir Mazhar hood. Akeem wears shirt by TELFAR. Trina wears shirt by Telfar. Dot’s dress custom made.

Credits

For more Celebrity Seaborn hairspiration check out: seaborncelebrity.com/minaj-wild/.

Concept and Styling Akeem Smith
Photography Lyndsy Welgos
Hair Celebrity Seaborn
Hair Assistants Yaya and Misfits
Featuring Misfit, Yaya, Akeem, Trina, and Pastor Dot
Special Thanks Jeffrey Loyal, Frank Delessio, and David Toro

Divorced from Reality

DIS — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:08:28 +0000

T, A, and most definitely K were trending at the DIS/MoMAPS1 Kim Kardarshian Kontest last Saturday at the Mondrian Hotel Miami. See the booty-ful sun-soaked photos of the kontestants readying for their showbiz debuts.

Credits

Starring Jennifer Fain, Ana Nekozyreva, Elssie Montero, Leslie Montero, Yvette Candy Candelario, Metisha Larocca, Jennifer Lopez, Dove Alexandria, Julianna, Asia Arias, Alexia Tel, Priscilla Branc, Valerie Urbina, and Paulina Cossio.

Makeup Paola Orlando at Timothy Priano and Daniela at Atomic Assistants Agency.

Special Thanks Ryan Trecartin, Lizzie Fitch, Eliza Ryan, Raul Lopez, Maria Cueva, Ashland Mines, Daniel Fisher, Telfar Clemens, Klaus Bisenbach, and The Mondrian South Beach.

Roxanne Edwards Is Superhuman

DIS — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:24:14 +0000

What made me start working out is I wanted to look good naked. Now I look good naked. What makes you think that I’m gonna put clothes on it so that you can’t tell that I look good naked? Are you insane? How is that possible that everyone thinks I’m great except the people who should think I’m great? So you’re not going to be stronger because you use a steroid. You were already strong… [read more »]

Credits

Photography Jason Nocito
Styling Avena Gallagher

Interview and Audio Production S. Adrian Massey III
Special Thanks to Bidoun, Project No.8, and BOSIDAMJANOVIC Gallery.

Music
Mary J Blige - Just Fine
S. Adrian - Alpha
Noisia - Diplodocus
Ssion - Nothing Happens at Nite
Cliff Richards - Mistletoe and Wine
Alireza Eftekhari - Ghalandarvar
Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
Swans - A Screw
Masters at Work - Ha Dance
Armand Van Helden - Witch Doctor
Bambabounce - All Eyez on Me Ha Vocal
Cheryl Lynn - Got to Be Real
SWV - Anything

Miss Figure

DIS — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:10:12 +0000

DIS Magazine and Paul Greenhouse traveled to Glenpointe, New Jersey to cover the Team Universe National Figure Competition and follow Kelly Keiser during her final hours before the show. After months of preparation, training, and stacking proteins, Kelly’s extensions are clipped, her makeup is set, her tan is impressive, and her physical transformation is complete. In an effort to expand its base and market to the mainstream, bodybuilding has recently evolved to include a larger… [read more »]

Credits

Starring Kelly Keiser
Direction and Editing Paul Greenhouse
Video Paul Greenhouse and Marco Roso
Photography Marco Roso
Production Lauren Boyle

New Faces Looking for Work

DIS — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:54:19 +0000

Of course the girls in our casting are beautiful, but modeling is a cultural mosaic where nothing goes without saying.

“您好！很高兴认识你。我有工作签证.” Wang Xiao @ Wilhelmina CHINA Preston: How old are you? Wang: I come from China. Are you a Japanese? Preston: No, my father is Chinese. [points to the hair and makeup team] They are Japanese. Wang: [smiles enthusiastically and begins speaking Mandarin that no one understands] Preston: … [silence] Wang: Beijing! Preston: Sure. “Hola, encatada de conocerte. Tengo una visa de trabajo.” Magda Laguinge @ Next ARGENTINA Preston: Do you speak English? Magda: …… [read more »]

Credits

Photography Marco Roso
Casting Preston Chaunsumlit
Styling Lauren Boyle
Makeup Chichi Saito at B Agency NY for Dior Beauty
Hair Chelsey Pickthorn and Shinya Fukami
Models Wang Xiao at Wilhelmina, Magda and Flaviana at Next, Marihenny, Vanussa and Cris at New York Models
All clothes Under Armour

DIS met all the guidelines as recommended by the CFDA as issued for the season of Fall/Winter 2011:

models at least 16 years old
limited working hours and frequent and sufficient breaks and time for rest; work not extended to after midnight for those under 18
nutritious snacks and non-alcoholic beverages provided
a non-smoking set/backstage

Broken Doll

DIS — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:57:54 +0000

With the help of endless cycles of next-top-modeling, Haute Couture has reached medium—not in terms of fashion, but with quick and painless posture modification; the way in which we portray our bodies. Often credited, retired runway model-turned-mediapire Tyra Banks did not invent the “broken doll pose,” though she has certainly had a clawing hand in pushing it—hips out, stomach-inward—into America’s living rooms with a self-congratulating smize. Fashion has long pulled the pose out of its bag of tricks for lack of more ingenious body composition, and with sharp reason: who cares about originality when the shoulders are enhanced and the waist is diminished? The pose, which resembles a Barbie toy twisted askew, ejects angles, throws elbows akimbo, sucks in the dreaded abdomen, and pushes the face out, off-center… toward the light!

Whether employed in ANTM-earnestness (often exemplified by the ever-anorexic Glee performer, Leah Michele), total mockery (Nicki Minaj’s self-aware mugging, instantaneously turned on for cameras like a “Barbie bitch” light switch), or somewhere in between (perhaps Lady Gaga is a little insecure and doesn’t know how else to stand sometimes), the pose has hit beyond mainstream. It can be seen everywhere from ads for Lifetime network flicks to personal Facebook profile pics.

Remember when tweens were taught to smile and say cheese? Remember when Lindsay and Miley made it cool to flash “peace”? Of course, Tyra’s smize will survive past her shelf life, and the Olsen Twins’ “prune” gave us a new tune to croon. But can you imagine a world in which all of the above are replaced by the slouching, couture, “broken doll” front? There is no need to, it’s already begun.

Credits

Photography David Toro
Text Patrik Sandberg
Featuring Katana, Hayden, Chelsea, Adriana, Allison Paul, Jessenta, Milo, Player, Daniele, Chase, Denisa, Madison, Omar, Taylor, Meagen, Skyler, Natalia, Ashley, and Justin

Spa Spell

DIS — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:09:32 +0000

Wellness and Beauty, We Invoke Thee.®

Generation Zero is sick with mortality. Our mixed-media existence: beauty brutality. Through waning planes of live-in frames, we’ve been rendered tired, trenchant and tranced. A sorceress sleuthing for everlasting youth, Mary Whitney gets a clue: regenerative fusion and deep-tissue illusion. Free yourself from the bondage of science, for wellness is psychic, and verity’s vague. The allurement of spa ritual is rooted in baptismal grace. Through multiple movements, repetitive and rapt, your aura augments and your… [read more »]

DIS Without Borders

DIS — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:21:27 +0000

Credits

By David Toro and Solomon Chase
Featuring Lee Smith, Sol Suh, Erika Perenic, Frankie Delessio, Shawn Jeffers and Tamia Anaya.

Astor Place Hairstylist

Photography Hee Jin Kang — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:17:41 +0000

The Astor Place Hairstylist has been owned by the same family since it opened in 1945. And everyone knows about it but me. I sat in an unused chair for an hour. A barber let me. He cut three people back to back, including an unexpected guy that he fit in before his 6pm appointment. He spoke Spanish to some, Italian to others. He did bald heads, grey heads and everyone he did had a… [read more »]

The W4W Buzz

DIS — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:46:51 +0000

$25 Get your own limited-edition 24″ x 36″ poster.FREE SHIPPING! A HAIR PIECE by Katerina Llanes When in 1990, Judith Butler published her groundbreaking text, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, she had no idea the impact it would have on the foundation of queer theory—one that analyzed the construction of gender and heteronormative assumptions made about sex, performativity, desire, and identity. Now, 20 years later, the text remains a touchstone as we… [read more »]

Credits

The W4W Buzz Marco Roso and Lauren Boyle
Photography Marco Roso
Essay Katerina Llanes

Special thanks to everyone who participated.

Ryan’s Web 1.0

Ryan Trecartin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:16:26 +0000

Credits

Concept and Collages Ryan Trecartin
Artist Assistant Ryder Ripps
Post-Production Pascal Dangin
Photographs Sebastian Kim
Makeup Pep Gay
Hair Brent Lawler
Fashion Tailoring Lauren Devine
Featuring Lizzie Fitch, Veronica Gelbaum, Telfar, and Ashland Mines

E-Bola

DIS — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:19:29 +0000

In 1995, Wolfgang Petersen's Hollywood disaster movie, Outbreak, focused on the hyperbolic epidemic of an Ebola-like virus named "Motaba." This story explored a "what if" scenario loosely based upon the deadly virus scares of the mid-to-late '90s and incorporated the futuristic style trends of the time. A story in which everyone suffers from a mortal illness but remains unwilling to compromise on clothing is the definition of fantasy. How does one dress in a disease-ridden society? Comfort, hygiene, prevention, and protection are reinterpreted in E-BOLA.

Credits

Art Direction and Styling Khalid al Gharaballi and Fatima Al Qadiri
Photography DIS
Hair and Makeup Brandy McDonald
Models David Toro, Nilda, Shayne Oliver

Thanks to Justin Wolf, NEXT Models, Issey Miyake, and Nouveau PR