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Derek Blanks Alter Ego Photography – In the beginning The Real Housewives of Atlanta New Cast members have been added following this shoot, Recently met with Atlanta based photographer Derek Blanks to have an “alter ego” photo shoot.
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The World's Top-Earning Models
Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss top Forbes annual list. FF online International staff : In the words of supermodel and "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum: In fashion, one day you're in and the next you're out. One could say the same about Forbes 2011 list of the World's Top-Earning Models. Some beauties moved up, some down, some off, a few on.
Then there's Gisele Bundchen, still entrenched firmly in the No. 1 spot with an estimated $35 million in earnings, more than double the $14 million banked by Klum, who came in second. The 15 models on our list were ranked primarily by estimated earnings over the past 12 months. Where necessary, prestige and relevancy of campaigns, editorials, fashion magazine covers and the opinion of those in the industry such as executive Producer of " Can you be a Model" Fall 2010 Television show were taken into account. Rounding out the top five are usual suspects Klum ($14 million), Kate Moss ($7.5 million), Adriana Lima ($7 million) and surprise addition Doutzen Kroes ($6 million). The 23-year-old honey from Holland made a long-legged leap up the charts from her second-to-last position last year. In 2008, the Calvin Klein and L'Oréal face expanded her deals and also hit the modeling mother lode: a Victoria's Secret contract. "I wish we had snapped her up a long time ago," says Edward Razek, who has been selecting the company's models for a decade. Her agent, David Bonnouvrier, compares Kroes to Christy Turlington, another Calvin Klein muse. "It's that type of beauty," he says. Bundchen may have ended her Victoria's Secret run, but her $5 million a year record-setting contract didn't expire until the end of December 2011, allowing much of it to be included in this year's tally. Even without the lingerie giant, the Brazilian bombshell continues to bag multiyear, multimillion-dollar contracts, most notably as the new face of Pantene and a cosmetics powerhouse that can't be named until July. German übermodel Klum is smiling at No. 2 by virtue of not only her television success as host and executive producer of Bravo's (soon to be Lifetime's) "Project Runway," and as the host of Germany's version of "America's Next Top Model," but also with a slew of campaigns and partnerships including ones with Diet Coke, Jordache and Mouawad jewelry. In her home country, there are new deals with McDonald's, Volkswagen and hair care giant Schwarzkopf. Moss tripped up a bit last year by ending contracts with Burberry, Stella McCartney, Dior and Versace. But her eponymous clothing line with British retailer Topshop is a hit in 29 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia. With a yearly guarantee fee and royalties, Moss's fashion cents bank her an estimated extra $2 million a year. Victoria's Secret made millionaires of two newcomers: Miranda Kerr and Selita Ebanks, striking poses at Nos. 10 and 12, respectively. "Selita has a stunning smile and is a great on-camera spokeswoman," enthuses Razek. "Miranda's got the cheeks of a chipmunk, the smile of an angel and the body of a devil." Fresh to the list is Revlon model Isabeli Fontana, who, at 24, has come out of semi-retirement after having two children. Fontana also poses for H&M, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana. Rounding up the newbies is Russian Valentina Zelyaeva, the exclusive model for Ralph Lauren and the face of two L'Oréal fragrances. A noticeable drop-off is last year's No. 5, Victoria's Secret angel Alessandra Ambrosio, who took a break from bikinis because of her baby bulge. Liya Kebede was edged out of Estée Lauder, pushing her five places down to last place. Last year, Forbes predicted that the supermodel era might make a bit of a comeback with L'Oréal signing up unknown beauty Kroes to appear alongside Hollywood actresses Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington in its ads; homegrown athletic type Hilary Rhoda debuting as the face of Estée Lauder; and Vogue giving Russian stunner Natalia Vodianova its July cover. It hasn't quite happened. While Kroes, Rhoda and Vodianova remain popular on Vogue's inside pages, no model except Bundchen has had a cover this year -- and she had to share her space with basketball phenom LeBron James. Harper's Bazaar had zero model covers. Talk shows still won't book a girl just because she's pretty. Marisa Miller made the rounds as 2008's Sports Illustrated cover girl, and Karolina Kurkova went on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to promote Victoria's Secret's fashion show, but that's about it. But keep an eye out. Those who do make it -- like Tyra Banks and Klum with their model-mogul kingdoms, and Bundchen and Moss with their lucrative licensing deals -- make it bigger than ever. Young models -- the smart, ambitious ones, that is -- are no doubt watching, and learning.
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Why Does this Haircut Cost $1,000?Most of us wouldn’t drop $1000 on haircuts in a year, let alone in an afternoon. So when we heard that beauty maven and Dove stylist Gretchen Monahan was offering a three-hour-plus indulgence at her NYC studio (she’s also got salons in Boston), and that style overachievers from Kelly Ripa to Trish McEvoy were banging down her door, we had to ask: What could possibly cost so much? .
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NEW YORK (AP) -- "Project Runway" may switch from Bravo to the Lifetime cable network this fall, but NBC Universal ensured Monday that the show's creators won't go with it. NBC Universal, whose properties include Bravo, USA and Oxygen, announced a deal that ties it to producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, giving the company first look at their projects. In effect, it forced the duo to choose between staying with "Project Runway" or the promise of more work at NBC. Lifetime last month announced it had agreed on a $150 million deal with the Weinstein Co., owners of "Project Runway," to televise five seasons of the cable hit starting in February. NBC Universal has tried to block that move in court. Cutforth and Lipsitz, who call their production company Magical Elves, acknowledged their tough call. "This was kind of a crossroads," Cutforth said. "It was a difficult decision to leave a show that to a large degree made our name and has been a big part of our company for a long time. But it really did seem like this was the right time to part ways." Lipsitz used to work at VH1 with Jeff Gaspin, who's now president and chief operating officer of the Universal Television Group. The team has also worked NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and Bravo's "Top Chef." The deal gives their company security instead of going on a work-for-hire basis, Lipsitz said. She said a similar arrangement was broached even before the battle over "Project Runway." Lifetime and the Weinstein Co. had no immediate comment on the deal. NBC Universal returned to court on Monday to seek a preliminary injunction against the Weinstein Co., seeking to prevent promotion of "Project Runway" on Lifetime. A fifth season of the series is airing this summer on Bravo before the Lifetime deal kicks in.
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