Moss Models Blog

The last leg of our Road trip found us in The Woodlands, Texas where our good friends at First Models and Talent Agency had a model search at The Marriott Hotel. Hundreds of boys and girls came in to meet with us throughout the day. Take a look at some Texas talent:

Pictures of Texas native Julie Henderson surrounded the room

Registration form for the search

Contestants waiting in line

Callbacks from the first group

Erin and I with Gail Barry, owner of First Models and Talent

On our way to Houston, we stopped in Austin to visit with Alan Foreman and his wife Tanni and daughter Kiki. We saw some great local talent from our old friends.

When dressing to impress, Naomi Campbell has her choice of the world’s top designers.
But even the most expensive clothing can’t help when a sudden gust of wind appears.
The supermodel, 40, was left exposed when her skirt blew up as she arrived at her hotel in Venice.
Her lowcut black sundress already left little to the imagination, with cutout panels showing her legs.
But the wind lifted it even higher to expose her underwear, in an unflattering moment as she headed into her exclusive hotel.
Naomi is in the Italian city for the annual film festival.

Last night she hosted the Uomo Vogue Hosts Dinner For Quentin Tarantino.
And in her black mini-dress she appeared to have recovered fully from her earlier malfunction.
The festival opens on Wednesday with a triple-header of Golden Lion-winner Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Hong Kong director Andrew Lau’s The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen, followed by a special midnight screening of Robert Rodriguez’s Machete.
Amongst the 79 films being screened at the festival are Sofia Coppola’s highly anticipated Somewhere and Ben Affleck’s sophomore directorial effort, The Town.
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She married in secret and kept the happy news that she is expecting under wraps for as long as she could.
But now that she and husband Orlando Bloom have confirmed that the Victoria’s Secret model is pregnant, Miranda Kerr has revealed her small bump for the first time.
In a video to promote her new organic skincare range Kora, 27-year-old Miranda’s burgeoning baby bump is obvious while she practices yoga.
And while mere mortals would be quite pleased to have her figure even at four months pregnant, the slightly protruding stomach is an obvious change from her usual diminutive figure.
It appears that the Australian supermodel will be following in the footsteps of her former Victoria’s Secret colleague Gisele Bundchen, and will maintain her enviable figure through her pregnancy.
Miranda speaks on her virtuous lifestyle in the video, Miranda Kerr’s Organic Life with Kora, but manages to avoid the preaching tone that has irritated so many of Gisele’s critics.
‘Kora is about nurturing your core, your inner and outer self – your mind, your body and your spirit. Kora is a choice in how we live our lives,’ she says.
‘We can choose to fill our bodies with nutrients through eating organic foods. We can choose to value our bodies through exercise whether it be yoga, running or whatever appeals to you; By taking the time out to really relax and rejuvenate and reflect.
‘I live in one of the busiest cities in the world and I’m travelling constantly, yes I’ve chosen to create my own organic lifestyle that no matter where I am I can apply this lifestyle.’
Both Miranda and Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle, with Miranda, who hails from country town Gunnedah, dreaming of a quiet life one day.
‘My ideal situation would be to live on a farm in a solar-powered house with a hammock and a vegetable patch,’ Miranda said in past interviews.
‘When this is all over that’s where I’ll be.’
The couple married suddenly and in secret in a romantic, intimate ceremony in Anguilla last month, fuelling speculation that Miranda was pregnant.
Their fans didn’t have to wait long before the announcement came.
Orlando was beaming at a press event for his new movie The Three Musketeers earlier this month. ‘I’m really excited about it, it’s great,’ he said.
But the actor, 33, will be forced to spend much of the pregnancy away from his new wife, as filming will be taking place in France and Germany.
‘I’ll go home as often as possible,’ Bloom says. ‘She’ll come out here too.’

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She may be plus sized, but it appears no one in fashion is marginalising Crystal Renn.
The model, who currently features in a host of campaigns from Chanel to Evans, continues to succeed in challenging stereotypes – using her curves as an asset in an undustry where size zero is often the norm.
Looking every inch the smouldering siren in a photoshoot for Look magazine, it is refreshing to see a supermodel in High Street clothing.

Sporting suspenders and sexy underwear, Crystal, 24, oozes enviable confidence for a model who has battled anorexia.
‘When I was told I need to lose 10in off my hips, I decided to go on a diet and soon lost 35lbs’, she told Look, ‘but then my weight plateaued, so I began exercising for up to eight hours a day, eating only vegetables and drinking large quantities of Diet Coke.’
It wasn’t until Crystal’s weight plummeted – and her hair started falling out – that she began to change her lifestyle.

Now a healthy size 14, the U.S-born brunette stays in shape with yoga and hiking – but eats healthily as often as she wants.
Since her career debut as a plus-size model, Crystal, who has since walked the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier and Chanel and graced the cover of Bazaar and Elle.
Crystal, confused by public fascination with her figure, said: ‘Other people care a lot more about my weight than I do. I just want to live my life.’

She is however keen on dropping industry labels.
Despite finding recent success, Crystal has always rejected the plus-size tag.
And it seemes the divorced campaigner is definitely part of a new trend for curves – as even Hollywood appears to be catching on with curvier stars such as Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and reality TV star Kim Kardashion refusing to submit to the pressure to be stick-thin.
Crystal said: ‘Let’s get rid of straight size and plus size. It’s bulls**t. Just say model. Full stop.’
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Nina Porter may have just been awarded six A* and five A grades in her GCSEs, but the schoolgirl landed an even more impressive coup earlier this summer, as the new face of Burberry.
The 16-year-old, who is the face of the brand’s debut make-up range, follows in the footsteps of Emma Watson and Kate Moss, joining new Transformers star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in the current campaign, which was shot by Mario Testino.
Porter, who returns to school this week to study A-levels in art, photography and textiles, said that she was equally excited about both achievements.
She told the Evening Standard that modelling was ‘a hobby on the side’ and that she was hoping to study fashion design at university.
‘Modelling is really good because it helps me to understand the fashion industry,’ she said.
‘My parents, who have been really supportive, pointed out that modelling would be a good way to meet people who have done what I would like to do.’
She told Vogue.com how she bumped into the top fashion photographer soon after her casting.
She said: ‘I went to the Frieze Art Fair, and [Mario Testino] was there. He recognised me and came over for a chat – that was great as I was to shoot the campaign a few days after.
‘He is always charming and friendly which makes it much easier to relax and enjoy the experience.’
She added that the other models on the shoot, which included Lily Donaldson, who also attended Camden School for Girls, were both ‘really easy to work with’.
Porter was spotted by a scout from Select model agency at the Clothes Show two years ago. Since then, she has appeared in a campaign for Miu Miu as well as both British and US Vogue.
Emma Watson featured in a series of images for Burberry last year along with her brother Alex.
The campaign has been credited revitalised the brand, with sales for that year soaring by 23 per cent.
Watson has since taken a break from her modelling duties to concentrate on other acting projects as well as her degree at Brown University in the U.S. but is expected to work with the label again in the future.
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