Erin O'Connor

[bluejeans]

Originally Posted by boho_babe

Scanned by me from Hello Magazine
(18th July 2006 Issue)

At the wedding of Jasmine Guinness.

love what shes wearing, she looks amazing in the 2nd pic.

[sethii]

Has she done any television advertisments?

[bluejeans]

erm, she was in the marks and spencers adds. no others spring to mind.

[boho_babe]

Were her moschino ad's televised? I can't remember?

[Galini]

I ADORE her voice and her accent - she`s so beautiful and elegant!

[sethii]

Originally Posted by boho_babe

Just found this on ebay:


With the caption

Does anyone have this?

that was the modigliano (sp sorry) editorial - it was in the Observer or Guardian papers, I had it but I'm not sure if its still around. There were a couple of amazing shots, much better than the one you found.

Maybe search the Observer and Guardian websites for info.

[boho_babe]

^
Thanks for the heads up, I look when I have a bit more time

[cosmocat]

^I'd put the link in my favourites to post and forgot...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...813897,00.html

Beyond the frame

If Modigliani were alive today, model Erin O'Connor would surely be his muse, says Hadley Freeman

Saturday July 8, 2006
The Guardian


Last February, I found myself at what I think I can safely describe as the worst fashion show ever. Let's not dignify it by naming the label it was promoting: suffice to say it involved luminous tracksuits and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Michael Owen looking understandably bemused up on the catwalk. About halfway through, British model Erin O'Connor appeared, clad in a neon tracksuit and topped with a spiralling designer hat. My first thought was, what on earth is O'Connor doing in this public embarrassment? But this was quickly superseded by a sense of what can only be described as awe at how O'Connor managed to make even this tracksuit look good. She stood on the podium and curved her improbably long body into an S and struck what has to be the most elegant pose ever pulled in a tracksuit.
</IMG>Six months later, O'Connor and I are sitting in a town house in central London and, while her outfit has definitely improved, the gestures are just as dramatic. "I'll often catch myself pulling these shapes in the mirror, but it really isn't deliberate," she says, laughing, curled in a chair in wide-legged jeans and a pretty striped jumper, her arms still swimming outwards dramatically.
Since she was discovered by an agent in 1996 near her hometown of Walsall, O'Connor has been repeatedly compared to an artist's model. "I've been Dali, I've been Kandinsky ..." she says. But more than anything else, she looks like a Modigliani painting made flesh and so, to mark the opening of a Modigliani exhibition in London today, O'Connor agreed to recreate some of his most famous works.
Having such strong looks has not always been easy for O'Connor, and she has plenty of the requisite model stories of it-wasn't-easy-being-so-tall-and-thin-at-school (my favourite is how she spent most of her PE lessons in the bushes trying to find the tennis ball that she always hit too hard, underestimating the power her long arms gave her). Even after finding acceptance in the fashion industry, she has still suffered indignities. One make-up artist generously took the time to inform her that the oft-invoked description "striking" was a way of sugar-coating the word "ugly". I suspect this might be part of the reason she is increasingly modelling only in projects that interest her, namely ones that capitalise on her looks and ask her to assume a character, such as Cleopatra in a recent Christian Dior couture show.
Boyfriends, though, are always going to be an issue when you're over six foot. "I actually grew out of my first boyfriend, which I thought was pretty funny," she smiles. She is inevitably drawn to tall men now, and when talk briefly turns to the World Cup, she suddenly unfurls her long limbs with alacrity and cries out delightedly: "Who's that really tall footballer?" Peter Crouch? "Yeah! Isn't he just great? But I always look at him and wonder - why don't you break?" · Modigliani And His Models runs from today until October 15 at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1, 0870 848 8484

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www.vogue.co.uk
ERIN AT HOMEERIN O'CONNOR has returned to her home city of Birmingham to whip up interest in its new fashion campaign. The British supermodel, who was first discovered at The Clothes Show in 1995, launched Marketing Birmingham's search for the rising stars of modelling, photography, jewellery and fashion. "The importance of supporting and recognising local talent has been instrumental to the development of my own career in fashion," she said. "Birmingham, you have not only proved your worth by challenging those already established on the international scene, you have made a local girl extremely proud. Keep up the good work." Seven categories promise to find, with the help of expert judges and impressive prizes, the city's most promising male and female models, photographers, fashion students, fashion entrepreneurs, jewellery entrepreneurs and schools. "When you've got a fashion icon like Erin O'Connor saying that the city has style credentials, we know that our fashion campaign will not only profile the creative talent in Birmingham, it will boost the city's reputation as a stylish shopping destination," said Dave Hodgson, marketing director of Marketing Birmingham. Visit www.visitbirmingham.com/stars for more information. (August 2 2006, AM)

[boho_babe]

Thanks for the articles!
Love the bit about Peter Crouch, they'd make an amusing couple!

[wheneveriwakeup]

i adore erin. she is everything a model should be. graceful, elegant, poised, mysterious, alterable, humble and heart-stoppingly chic.

[GBArt]

She's a somnambulist and a chameleon and extremely talented.

J'aime beaucoup.

GB

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