Celebs who also model

[sosneha]

nicole kidman

 

[Jadee]

It depends.

I remember that Vanessa Paradis did a better job for Chanel than Kate Moss when they were both doing Chanel campaigns at the same moment. Some people even think that she's a model.

Some celebrities can pull it off some can't.

 

[mikas-sushi]

^ I agree but I'd much prefer models rather than celebrities.

PARIS HILTON and GUESS =

 

[fashionkitten7]

Well, I agree with most people in here on that celebrities take away the feel of the product they're trying to sell, substituting it with the feel they, being in some way products themselves, have... I mean it just looks like you can "buy" a Jennifer Lopez by going to her movie or buying her CD or the product she's advertising... And it's not really good because when a woman is buying a new perfume, she wants to see it as a part of her own appearance, not as that of Jennifer Lopez's...
Models, on the other hand, are good at providing that neutral personality wise feel to the product because the general public doesn't know them as personalities and because whoever shoots and styles the campaign will not try to capture them as personalities, but as "the roles". Of course, you can't hide a person's self completely, even a model's, but with them, only the part of it that needs to be shown to emphasise the feel of the product will be shown, while with celebrities, it will be their entire "role" they're playing in society's culture...
I don't know why it works like... Maybe because photographer/shoot directors will not work a famous person as creatively as they will work a model because it's some kind of "an unspoken rule" that you don't "mess up" a celeb, maybe because celebs are not really good models themselves as they're doing it as a promotion for themselves and it shows... Or, maybe, styling a celeb for a compaign the way he/she is means a greater profit, cause in this celebrity-obsessed world, people are much more likely to pay for "a part of Jennifer Lopez's appeal" than they are to pay for a part of sexy-and-feminine-but-unspecified-persona-wise thing...
In other word, advertisers act on a request of the society, which, to be quite frank, often lacks good taste as well as an understanding of what a personal style is, bringing them the proof that the product is, indeed, worthy... Kind of like - I don't know if this would make me feel sexy, but I know that Jennifer Lo is sexy, 'cause all men want her, so this product she advertises most be something that will make me a little bit like her. Ok, I'll buy it...
And as much as the motives of advertisers are perfectly understandable considering that they are a business in the first place and are entitled to minding their profits, it's been getting a lot like "selling out" lately and is putting some people off of it.
As to celebrities promoting easier aproach to one's physique by being not as tall and slim as models are, most of the time, I'm not sure I can agree with this either... I mean, maybe it wasn't even the models who brought all this thing with physical perfection about, in the first place, but the celebrities... Somehow it makes me think that could be the case, 'cause celebrities have always been "closer" to people than models have...
Ironically, I think that the modeling industry would become much more diverse in terms of looks and body types if they didn't have to bother to maintain "the world of fashion" as something separate from "the worlds of celebrities"...

 

[fashionkitten7]

P.S. The only celebrity campaign that I actually like, out of the recent, is Sisley with Asia Argento. Maybe that's because she has enough of her own mystique to balance the fact that her face is pretty well-known...

 

[Flashbang]

After 4 years lol, I bump this thread for an interesting article.

Fashion Magazines Are Tiring of Major Celebrity Covers

Glamour has three models — Alessandra Ambrosio, Brooklyn Decker, and Crystal Renn — on the cover of its June issue. Meanwhile, Vanity Fair has two foreign soccer players with names most Americans don't know on the cover of its June issue. Where are the actresses promoting movies or pop stars promoting albums? Editors are getting tired of them for two reasons, according to the Daily Beast. One, Hollywood doesn't produce megafamous actresses, like Angelina Jolie, anymore. Second, of the biggest major actresses still out there, there's nothing new to know about them.

Or as Samir Husni, the magazine industry pundit, put it, “What else do you really want to know about Angelina Jolie? With a lot of these celebrities, there’s nothing left to show unless they actually take their clothes off. We’ve covered them from every shape, every corner. We’ve shown them with their kids, and with their boyfriends and with their girlfriends, so that’s why you’re starting to see semi-naked soccer players and a semi-naked Tiger Woods. That’s what it takes to survive in a digital age.”​

Oh sure, blame the Internet. But we're not complaining. We can't remember buying a magazine because we were just dying to know what an actress had to say about her latest movie.

Glamour’s editor Cindi Leive agrees:, “I think what you’re seeing in the magazine world is a certain amount of fatigue with the same old, same old faces. One reason we had a nice sale with Taylor Swift was that you hadn’t seen her on a million magazine covers before and there was actually the hope that ‘Oh my God! I might actually learn something new.’ I think taking risks is serving people well right now.”​

The fashion industry as a whole seems to be tiring of celebrities. Not only is Madonna the last one standing in major fashion campaigns, a territory non-model stars used to dominate, but designers don't think they need celebrities around all the time for publicity. It's that other common way of explaining cultural shifts nowadays: the recession.

Robert Burke, a prominent consultant in the fashion business whose clients include Bulgari, Vera Wang, and Dunhill, notes, “There was a time not too long ago when celebrities were paid a lot of money to show up at a party and today people are really looking at the R.O.I and going, ‘Do we really need this person here?’ Paying people to appear at a fashion show is a bit passé.”​

It probably doesn't help that it's getting harder to find celebrities that don't have clothing lines than those that do. It's like Alber Elbaz said, designers aren't trying to insert themselves in other professions. They're not crossing over into acting or singing or dancing. But maybe this is a vicious cycle, and without their covers celebrities feel like they have to launch toxic jewelry lines, or what have you, to get noticed.

nymag.com

And the original article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-18/celebrity-magazine-cover-backlash/2/

 

[tullepen]

Vanessa Paradis is the ONLY celebrity (well before Johnny,she was FAMOUS in France) I want to see modeling. She's got IT!