New Faces: Basia, Imogen and Evan
The sixteen-year-old polka Basya Shkalyuba is one of the typical novice models that appear in dozens from season to season on the runways. Having entered the business about a year ago, she began to build her career under the wing of the Warsaw firm Gaga. Then Basho proposed the collaboration of the largest model agency IMG, which attached the girl to its Paris, London and Milan branches. IMG has not lost: the era of supermodels is coming to an end, and designers that promote minimalism and versatility prefer models with a nondescript appearance. For example, this season the modern fashion icon Lara Stone participated in just one fashion show, but young Teres Alexandersson - immediately at 20. The same happened with Basia Shkalyuba. Prior to that, an unknown model with brown hair, pale skin and watery blue eyes made 30 shows at once. These include 3.1 Phillip Lim, Blugirl, Cacharel, Elie Saab, Haider Ackermann, Jil Sander, Kenzo, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Moschino Cheap & Chic, Peter Pilotto, Proenza Schouler, Rag & Bone, Sportmax and Versus. However, a detailed study of the portfolio of this polka reveals that in July she participated in fashion shows by Stephane Rolland and Valentino. So far, Basya has not been filmed either for magazines or for advertising. If she succeeds in maintaining the status of a successful catwalk model, it will become clear only after six months: Shkalyuba is pinning her hopes on the All About Models blog.
You must have seen the face of this girl on billboards advertising the Topshop autumn-winter collection. And while shooting in this campaign remains the most significant and profitable work of sixteen British women. But according to bloggers, this is not for long, because Imogen has a good potential.
Scouts of model agencies have repeatedly offered Imogen Newton to become a model, but she agreed only a year ago. Representatives of the London Viva noticed the girl at the Royal Theater "Covent Garden", and, as the model is joking now, at that moment she was distracted from watching the performance. Imogen's first serious job is shooting for the men's magazine Arena Homme +, followed by editorials for French Vogue and Italian Amica. Later, the girl was invited to Topshop for his lookbook, and literally in a couple of weeks she appeared in his advertising campaign.
Imogen began her participation in the native, London Fashion Week with Kinder Aggugini. Then she appeared on the five most discussed London shows - Topshop Unique, Mary Katrantzou, Paul Smith, House of Holland and Erdem, the last of which she even closed. After the end of the English week, Newton went to Paris, where she was invited to the only, but still self-explanatory show - Chanel SS 2011.
"Participation in the Chanel show was surreal. It took me about five minutes to walk the runway. It seems my legs were ready to kill me, but it was worth it. The orchestra made the show just magical. And Karl was so smart - the work with him became good experience, "says Imogen.
Now a young British woman is preparing for admission to college. Her latest job was shooting for the December issue of the British Vogue.
Scout Dave from the Red agency met Connecticut-born Evan Santoro at lunch with their mutual acquaintance, while friends ate pizza. In order to participate in the presentations of the Calvin Klein, Missoni, Miharayasuhiro, Neil Barrett and Daniele Alessandrini spring-summer collections, the young man, in whose veins flowed Italian, Hungarian and French blood, had to refuse this dish. After weeks of men's fashion, Santoro was called to film for magazines Visual Tales, Fiasco, and even Vogue Hommes, from which Niche Formichetti styled. Evan Santoro does not plan to work seriously as a fashion model: he is going to connect his life with business.