Black Book | The Fashion Issue September 2007 : Carolyn Murphy

[MissMagAddict]

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Carolyn Murphy is on the cover of the September BlackBook, but the accompanying profile by Vanity Fair's Nancy Jo Sales has been spiked. Look to Steve Garbarino's editor's letter for the reason. He said everything was going quite cordially until the magazine contacted IMG Models, Murphy's agency, for some follow-up reporting. "Suddenly Murphy, according to her IMG rep, was claiming that Sales had quoted her off the record," Garbarino wrote. "Our writer affirmed that the quotes in question were said while on the record." Two days before BlackBlook closed, however, Garbarino got a call from "a senior rep at IMG Models," citing a model release form signed by BlackBook that gave IMG the right to approve (or veto) any story before it went to press.

"This was news to me. I never had, nor ever would, sign away our journalistic freedom and independent judgment," reads the letter. "As it happens, one of our fashion department staffers had unknowingly signed off on this condition."

Declining to submit to the conditions, BlackBook killed the piece.

Rather than use a standard release, modeling agencies will often draft individual forms, in part because a model's existing endorsements and contracts can be threatened by an unguarded quote. The letter hints the disagreement over the piece lay in comments Murphy made about her ex-husband, who was arrested in January 2006 for extortion, and who had been trying to sell a sex tape from the couple's honeymoon. Garbarino declined further comment Thursday, and a spokesman for IMG said, "We regret that we were unable to come to a more agreeable conclusion with BlackBook on this issue, but we have seen the images and think that they are fabulous."

 

[tigerrouge]

I quite like the cover - for once, she looks like she's got some personality. She always looks blankly perfect in her promotional shots for Estee Lauder, that I forget that she's capable of more.

 

[kissmesweet]

Wow, she looks really sexy here. I always love Carolyn. She looks amazing here. I can't wait to see her editorial here!

 

[helligirl]

I really like the cover. Thanks for posting MMA

Live from Lompoc, California, here's a few first looks at the making of our cover shoot of supermodel Carolyn Murphy, shot by aces photographer Steven Lippman. The location was the wilds of Central-ish California, featuring our biker-dude cast of tattooed players, our own sittings editor Maddy Simpson (with the lost member of ZZ Top at the lovely Jaspers bar, and other backs of people's heads). —S.G.

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[Amelia]

yeah, great cover!!!

 

[Nemezide]

i don't know looks nice i think but i bit cheap...

 

[Manuva]

Wow, Carolyn looks great!
I like Black Book magazine, whenever I can find it, it's always a good read.

 

[indie]

I don't like the cover..the make-up and hair is bad.

 

[helligirl]

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[Cybie]

i don't like her make-up only.

 

[Northern Star]

The cover's Ok, but the editorial looks pretty cool.

 

[MicheleIman]

She looks fierce!

 

[Deleted member 1957]

i like it, she looks more interesting when she does something more risque

 

[mikel]

Good cover. Who shot it?

 

[liberty33r1b]

love her!

 

[MissMagAddict]

Good cover. Who shot it?

Photographed by Steven Lippman
Styled by Elizabeth Sulcer

 

[mikel]

^Thank you