[2XMODELS] Ryan Barrett

He is Versace's it boy and a presence in some of the most important runway shows of every season. This week's model has been in the fashion industry for quite a while and I'll reveal some of his personal preferences. Believe me when I say that it was worth the wait to know a little more about one of the top 50 male models. :)

RYAN BARRETT

Name: Ryan Barrett

Date of birth: 30/12/1985

Nationality: British

How did you start modeling? I got scouted when I moved to London for university when I was 20.

Who is your reference in the fashion industry? I think John Galliano was one of my all time favourites, he had such a creative flare and I loved doing all his shows. He had a huge influence on designers today.

Favorite brand/designer? Well I love Versace of course but for myself I love wearing some All Saints mixed with a bit of Jcrew : )

What do you like the most about you? That I keep busy all the time I never sit still.

How often do you go to the gym? I actually just joined the gym recently and have started getting into it more and more, it's all about frame of mind.

How’s your nutrition? I eat everything! Apart from spicy food and raw food, yes I hate sushi lol

Any superstitions? I never walk under ladders! Never!

Do you believe in zodiac? Of course! Hahaha

What was the last dream you remember? A naughty one ; )

(Walking for Dolce & Gabbana, Frankie Morello and Dirk Bikkembergs)

(Walking for Versace)

If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would that be? Steve McQueen

Favorite movie? That's tricky I have so many. I love films, I recently watched "Lawless" which was amazing I must say!

What's playing on your iPod at the moment? Anthony Hamilton, Lauryn Hill and Jay-Z

Favorite dish? An Irish beef stew, yummmm

What annoys you the most? Being stuck in traffic, it makes my blood boil!

If a genie gave you three wishes what would they be? To be on a boat in the Maldives scuba diving with all my friends and to not have to worry about anything, oh and to give me wings so I could fly too hahaha

The most beautiful place you’ve been? India, it is one of the most amazing places I have ever been to.

Guilty pleasure? Tea, I drink English tea like it's water on a tap. I love tea!

You can’t live without… My laptop and camera I take them both everywhere!

The worst misconception about models? That we don't eat!

Favorite drink? Guinness

Favorite book? I'm dyslexic so I don't read very much

Favorite painting? Mark Rothko room at the Tate modern, I could sit in there for hours.

Tell me something most of the people don’t know about you... I enjoy horse riding and love animals!

What do you want to accomplish as a model? To keep going for along as possible : )

Thank you so much Ryan for answering this interview. I wish you the best of luck! 

You can follow Ryan Barrett on Twitter (here) 

or visit his website and check his work as a photographer (here).

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2012 review

As most of you may know, I'm a HUGE Cara Delevingne stan. I was hyped about this Victoria's Secret Fashion Show since the moment I knew that she was going to be in it. However, when I discovered that she only had 1 look I felt really disappointed but rooted for her to have a glorious moment on the VS runway. Yesterday, I saw the whole show and I'm absolutely devastated since they cut her catwalk and only showed like a nanosecond of her. I'm in shock, how could they???? She's flawless. Oh well... anyway I decided to review the VS fashion show around Cara's majestic presence in the background or in the promo videos they showed between the segments. At least she had a couple of frames. Some screencaps, paint drawings, gifs and funny notes... hope you like it!

I feel so ashamed because of Bruno Mars' height, I mean... I laugh all the time, he should've stayed in his mini stage instead of walking with those tall lean perfect VS angels.

Well, Alessandra Ambrosio is gorgeous and stuff but Cara Delevingne and her "WTF" face in the background totally steal the show. #DealWithIt #AdmitIt #UrFavesCouldNever 

 During this backstage footage, Cara is clearly the queen... for me it was like the "Where's Waldo?" books.

I just wanted to find her!!!!!

Look how adorable Cara Delevingne is in this promo video for the Victoria's Secret Pink line. 

There's so epicness even when she's entering in a photobooth. 

Well, enough said. No one's relevant hereeee... 

I just felt sorry for that poor blonde girl in the back trying her best to be part of the picture.

Cara Delevingne and her minions.

Justin Bieber's moment... he was clearly missing the 'spot'.

Cara Delevigne was about to slay all your faves in her cute little outfit.

We see Cara entering the runway like a queen...

I was expecting to see her killin' it...

Suddenly there's only Cara Delevingne's belly on the screen... 

and I was like "I WANNA SEE HER WALKING RIGHT NOW!" - totally furious.

Instead of showing Cara, they show those old angels dancing to Bieber's song backstage... they totally ignored Cara Delevingne's debut and then showed her on a random screen. This was so unfair. I mean, WTF were they thinking??????????

Finally there was like half a second of Cara easily slaying her competition. 

The climax of the show in my opinion. #Flawless #Stunning

Backstage again... the domination continues.

A random funny moment when Rihanna ignored Adriana Lima... and danced a bit with Behati Prinsloo.

 Adriana Lima is getting old and this was probably her last show... we need new angels tbh!!!

 Well and then the show ended, Cara Delevingne partied and I honestly didn't care about the rest.

Christmas Giveaway: Partyglasses

A parceria com a PARTYGLASSES regressa para um especial de Natal!!!!! Podem ganhar um par de óculos à vossa escolha, até 20€!!! Peço que as sigam todas as regras do giveaway porque só quem o fizer estará em competição. Participações incompletas não são tidas em conta.

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Vou apenas aceitar os comentários válidos que tenham completado todos os passos.

O vencedor será anunciado posteriormente. Boa sorte! ;)

UPDATE:

O vencedor do Christmas Giveaway da Partyglasses é o João B.
Vou entrar em contacto via e-mail, se não obtiver resposta nas próximas 24horas será procedido um novo sorteio.

Amazing Grace

Vogue’s longtime creative director and onetime model, Grace Coddington, is the woman whose sense of style has shaped fashion for decades. As her memoirs are published, the red haired stylist talks about race, weight, her love for cats and how to stand up to Anna Wintour.

“If Wintour is the Pope … Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve times a year.”—Time Magazine

Left: Grace Coddington photographed by Peter Akehurst, 1961

Right: Grace Coddington photographed by Ronald Traeger Vogue Italia, July 1967

The auto-biographic book goes through her modeling years and focus on her career on the american Vogue, where she's been since 1988, how she turned into an icon, her relationship with her pears, how she sees fashion today and so on.

Left: Grace on her first British Vogue cover, August 1962

From what I've read so far, I loved every word. She shares her thoughts in a funny way and this is my favorite excerpt:

«Fashion has changed so much in my lifetime. Today I find myself at the collections, asking: “Who are all these people?” They appear to come from anywhere and everywhere, and 90% seem to be uninvited hangers-on. Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side – which is the part of things I have always had to be dragged to, kicking and screaming. And everyone has an opinion! Before the television interviewers and film cameras came along, people kept themselves to themselves. But now when they turn up to fashion shows, all they want to do is talk and talk. Or be filmed answering inane questions.

Everyone has a mobile phone or camera, including all the models getting ready behind the scenes, so everyone knows exactly what’s happening in real time. There are no secrets any more – everything has been texted, tweeted or emailed all over the world way before the show has even begun. There are probably more pictures taken behind the scenes than of the models on the runway. 

I used to see every show in the New York collections, but these days I’m much more selective, partly because the experience has become so trying. Giveaway gossip papers like The Daily are constantly being pushed in your face, and cheap champagne is handed out at 9am – with the English fashionistas being the first to gulp it down. As you dodge the movie cameras on your way in, there is usually some starlet of the moment surrounded by photographers and planted in the middle of the runway, hindering everyone else from getting to their seats. I can’t stand it, so I usually put the blinders on and rush straight through. Before the show, there is that intensely irritating moment when the photographers yell out: “Uncross your legs!” What I usually think is “Screw you!”, because if my legs were really in the way I would know it.

Each ready-to-wear season I usually fill one sketchbook per city – Paris, Milan, New York – plus one for each season's couture, resort and cruise. So that makes 12 sketchbooks a year, and they can all get pretty full. My system at the shows is to draw, sketch, put down everything – every single outfit – and worry later whether I liked it or not. Occasionally I will put a star next to a favourite. Because I don't write about fashion, I don't take notes. I find it faster and easier to draw a dolman sleeve, for example, than to describe it. It was simpler in the old days, when there weren't so many collections and most people showed a maximum of 30 outfits.

I do become terribly intense when I'm drawing anything complicated or intellectually challenging, such as the Prada or Balenciaga collection, and I get extremely irritated if I'm in the middle of it and people talk to me, disturbing my concentration. Most other people these days don't take notes, because they look at the internet, with its bloggers and instant information, and most freelance stylists don't even bother coming to the shows. But I have to see them. They're easier for me to absorb if I'm there. On a flat screen, things look flat. I don't think I could recognise a great collection if I just saw it on a screen or in a look book.»

Grace Coddington nowadays

OMG, she's so damn funny and sarcastic. Guess what? Some of her drawings also take on a distinctly personal and often humorous tone. From childhood memories to her first day on the job as both a model and fashion editor, even her big loves (including, of course, her cats), there are remarkable, hand-drawn pictures that reveal another dimension to an already fascinating woman. That's why I needed to share these amazing brilliant images drew by Grace Coddington herself. Honestly, I rolled on the floor laughing... and I did this whole post on her Memoirs as an excuse to share these drawings.

 

 

From left to right: 

Manolo Blahnik, Anna Piaggi, Pat Cleveland,

Antonio Lopez, Donna Jordan and Karl Lagerfeld