Saskia de Brauw Lands the Chanel and MaxMara Spring Campaigns
For a 30-year-old newcomer, Saskia de Brauw’s profession has been an absolute dream. The Dutch model began this year with the cover of Carine Roitfeld’s final French Vogue concern, and subsequently booked Italian Vogue’s March 2011 cover. She’s also become a muse to Riccardo Tisci and shot editorials for top magazines like i-D, Dazed & Confused, and Love. Yet her spring 2012 bookings cement her status as one of this generation’s most memorable faces, with new contracts with Chanel and MaxMara, an appearance in the Mario Sorrenti–shot Pirelli calendar, and Japanese Vogue’s forthcoming February 2012 cover.
See all of Saskia’s campaigns, and the newly released advertisements for Dolce & Gabbana, Nina Ricci, and Ferragamo, in our ever-expanding campaign slideshow.
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When you open a glossy magazine–whether it’s a model in an editorial in Vogue, a CoverGirl, or a celebrity in US Weekly staring back at you–is what you are seeing actual? How altered, airbrushed, Photoshopped and retouched are the individuals we see in advertisements and magazines?
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“For years I have been fascinated by the relationship ladies have with their handbags,” says Debbie Percy, the UK’s only handbag “therapist”. “Why is the handbag off-limits to our husbands and youngsters,” she contineus. “Why we carry the ‘kitchen sink’ about inside them: and can we really leave home with no them?” (image: source)
Few items are as intimate and but as public as a woman’s bag. Regardless of whether it really is a pricey bit of “it” arm candy or a thriftstore “whatever”, it tells the globe what you feel about your image and sense of style. “A sloppy bag shows the globe that you are a disheveled mess, quite likely in need of group therapy,” adds JBD’s Gray Chandler Murray. “A matronly purse says you are uptight, humorless and fairly possibly spending your nights alone, with only your cat for business. But the right bag represents you much better than any other accessory can. The correct bag reveals the very best aspects of your personality, winning you affection and admiration wherever you go.”
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