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Comeback kid
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Daria Werbowy sees the big picture when it comes to modeling
[/FONT]Home News Tribune Online 03/10/06
By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It's nice to be wanted — and even better to be missed. That's because you get to have a "comeback."
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Granted, model Daria Werbowy is only 22, but her "comeback" infused the catwalks with energy and sizzle during the most recent New York Fashion Week. She hit the big runways: Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Proenza Schouler and Karl Lagerfeld, among them, often opening and closing the shows.
Last season she was absent from the runways because she was shooting the ads for Lancome's new Hypnose perfume and The Enchantress color collection.
They're the ads that will put Werbowy's face everywhere this spring.
That face is beautiful, felinelike — and approachable. There's no pretense to Werbowy, not when one sees her walking out of a fashion show in jeans and a puffy winter coat, and not when she does a telephone interview.
"I think you should try everything once," Werbowy says. "The great thing about modeling is you get to have experiences you wouldn't normally have the opportunities to have."
Travel is the No. 1 perk, she says. Werbowy was born in Poland and raised in Canada, and she says she would have found a way to see the rest of the world somehow, some way, but "now I'm traveling in luxury."
She's an avid snowboarder and recently returned from an annual retreat with her friends at Whistler, British Columbia. "I have to have something to do in the winter to counteract sailing in the summer," she says with a laugh.
Of course, life can't always be fun and games. Models do indeed work, and one of the hardest parts of the business can be the emotional toll.
Werbowy won a modeling contest at 14, but her parents wanted her to finish high school — one that specialized in art — before she could move to New York or Europe. So she worked locally until 2001, when she moved to Paris and London. She lasted eight months and then quit.
"I was struggling in the sense of being away from home, trying to figure a way of making it in the business, especially a business that's so personal. It is really all about what you look like," she says.
"But I decided to come back a year later. I had a different attitude. I needed to make money to go to art school. I started fresh. When I met (modeling agency) IMG a second time, I laid down the law in those terms, and there was a good understanding between us. And then it just kind of happened."
Actually what happened was Marc Jacobs put her in his runway show — a rite of passage for up-and-comers.
Plus, industry insiders have said her timing was perfect: She had the easygoing look that complemented the bohemian styles that were about to appear, and she was an antidote to the legions of blondes who had been dominating the runways.
She signed the deal to be the face of Lancome a year ago. Beauty modeling is different from fashion gigs, Werbowy says, because a fashion shoot is sort of show up, look great and make a beautiful picture.
Beauty is a more intimate deal.
She's representing an entire brand and to do that properly, she's learning the business, how products are developed, manufactured and marketed.
"It's opening a new chapter to being a model," Werbowy says.
Her personal beauty mantra is "respect individuality."
"No one is perfect. I'm far from it. It's the misconception with the entertainment and cosmetic worlds. I'm here to inspire someone, I don't want any one to look like me. I want to inspire someone to find their true colors." Once her modeling career is over, or at least winds down, Werbowy plans to pursue art again. "I need it in my life — I want to take everything that's happened over the last two years and put it on paper."
Comeback kid
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Daria Werbowy sees the big picture when it comes to modeling
[/FONT]Home News Tribune Online 03/10/06
By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It's nice to be wanted — and even better to be missed. That's because you get to have a "comeback."
OAS_AD('Right3');
Granted, model Daria Werbowy is only 22, but her "comeback" infused the catwalks with energy and sizzle during the most recent New York Fashion Week. She hit the big runways: Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Proenza Schouler and Karl Lagerfeld, among them, often opening and closing the shows.
Last season she was absent from the runways because she was shooting the ads for Lancome's new Hypnose perfume and The Enchantress color collection.
They're the ads that will put Werbowy's face everywhere this spring.
That face is beautiful, felinelike — and approachable. There's no pretense to Werbowy, not when one sees her walking out of a fashion show in jeans and a puffy winter coat, and not when she does a telephone interview.
"I think you should try everything once," Werbowy says. "The great thing about modeling is you get to have experiences you wouldn't normally have the opportunities to have."
Travel is the No. 1 perk, she says. Werbowy was born in Poland and raised in Canada, and she says she would have found a way to see the rest of the world somehow, some way, but "now I'm traveling in luxury."
She's an avid snowboarder and recently returned from an annual retreat with her friends at Whistler, British Columbia. "I have to have something to do in the winter to counteract sailing in the summer," she says with a laugh.
Of course, life can't always be fun and games. Models do indeed work, and one of the hardest parts of the business can be the emotional toll.
Werbowy won a modeling contest at 14, but her parents wanted her to finish high school — one that specialized in art — before she could move to New York or Europe. So she worked locally until 2001, when she moved to Paris and London. She lasted eight months and then quit.
"I was struggling in the sense of being away from home, trying to figure a way of making it in the business, especially a business that's so personal. It is really all about what you look like," she says.
"But I decided to come back a year later. I had a different attitude. I needed to make money to go to art school. I started fresh. When I met (modeling agency) IMG a second time, I laid down the law in those terms, and there was a good understanding between us. And then it just kind of happened."
Actually what happened was Marc Jacobs put her in his runway show — a rite of passage for up-and-comers.
Plus, industry insiders have said her timing was perfect: She had the easygoing look that complemented the bohemian styles that were about to appear, and she was an antidote to the legions of blondes who had been dominating the runways.
She signed the deal to be the face of Lancome a year ago. Beauty modeling is different from fashion gigs, Werbowy says, because a fashion shoot is sort of show up, look great and make a beautiful picture.
Beauty is a more intimate deal.
She's representing an entire brand and to do that properly, she's learning the business, how products are developed, manufactured and marketed.
"It's opening a new chapter to being a model," Werbowy says.
Her personal beauty mantra is "respect individuality."
"No one is perfect. I'm far from it. It's the misconception with the entertainment and cosmetic worlds. I'm here to inspire someone, I don't want any one to look like me. I want to inspire someone to find their true colors." Once her modeling career is over, or at least winds down, Werbowy plans to pursue art again. "I need it in my life — I want to take everything that's happened over the last two years and put it on paper."
merci beaucoup! 
the article says nothing particularl new. interesting that she say that only intelligent girls survive in the business, very typical of her!
the beginning of the article is too celebratrive, then it becomes better.
(i referred to first one, now i'm going to read the second one... actually i read it already. thanks anyway!
)
the article says nothing particularl new. interesting that she say that only intelligent girls survive in the business, very typical of her!
the beginning of the article is too celebratrive, then it becomes better.
(i referred to first one, now i'm going to read the second one... actually i read it already. thanks anyway!
)
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^Hi eword!
Intelligence -- smart enough to play the game and savvy enough to not let the evil side of the business take advantage of you. And, of course, beautiful eyes also help!
Intelligence -- smart enough to play the game and savvy enough to not let the evil side of the business take advantage of you. And, of course, beautiful eyes also help!
well, basically it says the same things as in other interviews. there's nothing new. maybe when it was out it said new things, but after plenty of interviews we've read meanwhile there's nothing surprising.
...lancome said her "stay yourself", she tells about her difficult beginnings, when she shared a small flat in london with 9 girls as motivated as she was, she's often asked if she wants to be the next kate or linda and she wants to be herselrf... stuff like that. <<men are just little boys (immature), i don't have a boyfriend>>... <<i'm not anoxheric, i just lose and gain weight>>...
...lancome said her "stay yourself", she tells about her difficult beginnings, when she shared a small flat in london with 9 girls as motivated as she was, she's often asked if she wants to be the next kate or linda and she wants to be herselrf... stuff like that. <<men are just little boys (immature), i don't have a boyfriend>>... <<i'm not anoxheric, i just lose and gain weight>>...
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pinkylam said:yea! one of those things i love about her is all those funny faces she make
"men are just little boys (immature), i don't have a boyfriend"... what about girls then?? i'm available
Me too
Pick me, I'm closer!
here's the whole ed (i think)
especially LOVE the one of Daria holding a little cat
(dreaming: if only i'm the cat....
) wonder if her own cat looks like that
especially LOVE the one of Daria holding a little cat
(dreaming: if only i'm the cat.... ) wonder if her own cat looks like thatAttachments
aww, there was just that pic i missed.
i love that editorial.
imo it was the first step to her new modeling style. the turn was last year, in 2005, especially from W of may (sorrenti) and through summer V (again by weber), vogue paris (sorrenti again) and the cover on numéro (can't remember the photographer). since then - still in my own view - she's made only 3 mistakes: partially allure (a naked girl in fur... *puck*), vogue america by testino (the very kitsch argentinian thing) and the horrid V41 (by testino again).
not all the eds have been at the same levels, but these 3 are really forgettable.
i love that editorial.
imo it was the first step to her new modeling style. the turn was last year, in 2005, especially from W of may (sorrenti) and through summer V (again by weber), vogue paris (sorrenti again) and the cover on numéro (can't remember the photographer). since then - still in my own view - she's made only 3 mistakes: partially allure (a naked girl in fur... *puck*), vogue america by testino (the very kitsch argentinian thing) and the horrid V41 (by testino again).
not all the eds have been at the same levels, but these 3 are really forgettable.
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eword said:
hahaha... to me, comparing to the V41 (especially the cowgirl look inside, the cover is still acceptable...), the Allure and US Vogue eds are already nothing...
actually, the Bazaar US Mar06 ed is quite forgettable, i mean, it's gd, but not impress
