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Pastry said:
i find her walk to be really....the definition of nonchalance!
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You know what, I think you captured it!

That sort of a give-a-darn stroll - is precisely what I suppose I see as sassy sultry or sexy -- extremely well communicated Confidence.....

Non-chalance. Yeah.
 
House is on Fox. :flower:

And you guys are spot on about her walk...it's what made me an instant Daria fan.
She's exudes confidence effortlessly and that makes her unbeatable on the runway...

And thanks for the Hypnose perfume ad link..
I was at the mall last weekend and practically sprayed the whole sample bottle on me. Friends thought I was crazy and it made me sick after awhile but I blame her amazingly magnetic (but overly photoshopped) eyes lol..

And much love to Amelia for that great WWD interview and prettyjuice for the MKors backstage pics! :heart:
She looks amazing there...NOT a good couple with Kors though. Hehe..
 
i thot the lancome commercial could've been better =/ daria's soo much prettier than in that ad!

oh and i LOVED daria in the marc by marc show! =P
 
I watched House the other night but didn't see that commercial :blink: Maybe I left the room during it or something ... I definitely agree that it doesn't do Daria's beauty justice though.

Tev, nice avatar ;) Hehe.
 
pinkylam said:
which elle? US? Canada? or UK?
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It was US Elle. Here is the interview:

Thanks to a new gig as the face of Lancome—and an attitude that’s as fresh and all natural as her beauty—Daria Werbowy is sitting pretty at the center of the modeling universe

The only traces of supermodeldom a passerby might recognize in Daria Werbowy are her famous translucent green eyes—which at the moment are squinting at one of the painter Ryan McGinness’s color-drenched fiberglass disks. On this sunny afternoon at Deitch Projects, a New York City gallery—with her hair rumpled and her lean limbs obscured beneath layers of baggy clothes—Werbowy looks more like an exceedingly reedy, weekends-in-Woodstock sort of art student than a woman who just scored the holy grail of modeling: a multiyear contract as the spokeswoman for Lancome.

As it happens, an art student is exactly what this 22-year old (who graduated from an arts-oriented high school in Toronto) would be if she hadn’t, as she puts it, “won the genetic lottery.” Pushed to describe her own art, she protests, “I haven’t really come up with my thing yet,” but she says she aims to combine the abstract sketches and ink drawings she’s been doing for years—many of them to kill time backstage—with oil painting. The way things are going, she may not have time to tackle that for a while.

In three nonstop years, Werbowy has graced 60 magazine covers and fronted ad campaigns for Gucci, Prada, Chanel, David Yurman, and Yves Saint Laurent. She is said to earn up to $20,000 for strutting a single catwalk, and has opened 12 shows in a single season (an industry record, according to insiders). “I’ve done eight countries in two months,” Werbowy says. “Sometimes you just wake up and think, What happened?”

In a profession in which otherworldly looks are a job requirement, what makes one woman a hotter commodity than all the rest? “I have a beauty theory,” says makeup artist Dick Page, who has worked with Werbowy on countless shoots. “If you put a girl in insane colors and terrible hair but she still looks like herself, she still looks beautiful, then she is beautiful. You could put a tree on Daria’s head and war paint on her face, and she’d look like Daria. There’s something bulletproof about that kind of beauty.”

Her looks may be ironclad, but Werbowy’s career was no overnight success. She started out as an elementary-school extra on locally filmed TV shows such as RoboCop: The Series and Ready or Not (a Canadian Double Dare). “Another girl in my class was doing it, and I was jealous,” she says, laughing. “But my family weren’t really TV people, so I had no idea it could be glamorous. I just thought, Other kids play soccer, I do this.” As soon as puberty set in, her mother couldn’t take her tall, striking daughter to the grocery store without being stopped by people who thought she should be in front of a camera. When a friend’s mother opened a modeling agency, Werbowy signed on; at 14, she won a national competition. “That got the ball rolling,” Werbowy says. “But I was a total tomboy, hanging out with my friends and skateboarding. I didn’t know any models or a thing about fashion—I shopped in secondhand stores my whole life!”

A modeling career may have sounded far-fetched, but for a teenager who was aching to get out of Toronto, the promise of travel and adventure was hard to resist. Luckily, Werbowy’s “very liberal, very grounded” Ukrainian parents (fittingly, her surname means “willow tree” in Ukrainian, which she speaks fluently)—who moved the family from Warsaw, Poland, to Toronto when Daria was four—were supportive, if not exactly clear on the details. “My parents came here when they were young; they took a chance,” she says. “So they’ve always been very understanding of life and circumstance and risk-taking.”

After finishing high school (her parents’ only stipulation), Werbowy embarked on a year of ill-fated stints in New York, Paris, and London, landing, oddly enough, in a communal models’ apartment in Greece. Finally, three years ago, she snagged a spot on Marc Jacobs’ A-list-only runway. “Daria is young and fresh and beautiful, but she has a womanly quality, a personality,” says Jacobs, who has since cast her in every show she’s been available for. “She’s not cute, not quirky. She’s not one of those superyoung, superthin girls who just come and go.” Jacobs also points out another secret to success in the $10, 000-plus-to-get-out-of-bed era: the right attitude. “With Daria, there are no complaints, no dramas,” he says. “She’s very laid-back, very cool, and she’s actually nice to be around. She’s still down-to-earth.”

In the Werbowy family, keeping it real is the only option. “My parents are encouraging, but they’re parents,” Werbowy says. “They keep me in check.” She invited the whole clan to her first Lancome undertaking, a shoot in Prague for the company’s latest fragrance, Hypnose (which hit counters—and international billboards—last month). Afterward they piled into a car for a road trip to pick up her grandparents in Poland. “We went back to my grandparents’ hometown, which they hadn’t seen in decades,” she says. “What I do can be so vain, so pretentious. But it also allows me to do things like that for the people I love. That’s a beautiful thing.” –MAGGIE BULLOCK
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Happy Daria at Anna Sui!:D
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Wow. i never knew that she graduated from an arts-oriented high school.
COOL!! .
 
here is the Daria wwd interview, posted yesterday

NEW YORK — Daria Werbowy is a model stranded in a celebrity's fashion world, and she can't help but notice.
Since inking a contract last spring to be the face of Lancôme's new fragrance, Hypnôse, and eventually its color cosmetics, as well, the Ukrainian-born Canadian has crossed the threshold into beauty, a business that recently has become transfixed more with those who saunter down the red carpet than the runway. But Werbowy is hoping to do her part to reclaim models' marketing might from the firm hold of celebrities.
"It's unfortunate if you are a model," said Werbowy with a bit of irony last week as she paused between fittings. "If they can come into our world, why can't we go into theirs?" she mused rhetorically.
And her Hollywood counterparts soon may have to make room for the 5-foot, 10-inch model.
"I'd love to try acting," said Werbowy. "Film is such an amazing form of expression and creativity." Werbowy dabbled in the movie business while growing up in Toronto, working as an extra in films and television programs.
"The modern woman can transform herself from year to year, and re-create herself to be anybody."
Daria Werbowy
Werbowy has appeared in ads for Prada, Gucci and Chanel, but the multiyear Lancôme deal marks her first beauty contract. While Lancôme executives declined to reveal the details, the industry norm for a model as the face of a beauty brand is a three-year agreement worth $1 million annually.
Werbowy admitted she initially worried she would not fit the "superhuman" image a beauty company might require, but that Lancôme executives put her at ease.
"They've been very supportive of who I am as an individual and have let me bring my own sense of style to the project," said Werbowy, noting that, during the shoot, executives listened to her opinions. "It's given me a voice."
Werbowy, who entered modeling at age 14 while finishing her studies at an arts high school in Toronto, gives off more of an independent artist vibe than that of a fashion industry darling. Her smooth, introspective disposition suits her artistic leanings.
She still sketches regularly and decided to skip the runway last season to reclaim her sense of self.
"I wasn't reading or sketching. I was losing the things that make me me," said Werbowy, referring to her five seasons of doing runway shows before taking the break last fall.
And her absence may have only added to her draw. "The key for me is accepting what I do and not being ashamed to be a model," she said. To Werbowy, modeling is the means to new ventures. Off the runway, her look may be understated, but Werbowy's pull to extend herself into beauty is rooted in her take on womanhood.
"The modern woman can transform herself from year to year, and re-create herself to be anybody," she said.
"Beauty is a big word," she declared. "I can't think of something I don't find beautiful. I find beauty in sorrow and events that are unfortunate."
Reflecting on her eight years in the business, Werbowy said: "The industry has become a lot more commercial in a lot of ways. The turnaround of girls is faster, which has created an interesting mentality for models — they treat it more as a business than a career."
In a business that prizes youth, at age 22 Werbowy said she feels old next to the gaggle of 14-year-olds backstage at fashion week. To combat that feeling, her philosophy is to take on as much as she can until the new crop of models emerges on the scene.
So far this New York season, the model has walked the runway for Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs and Luella Bartley.
As for how she handles the push and pull of fashion Week, Werbowy said: "Adrenaline is a beautiful thing."


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Holy mother of god. That is stunning. I feel like there should be heavenly music accompanying that ad!
 
^I totally agree. I love her attitude and the way she speaks - so easy-going and friendly.
 
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