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W Magazine June 2010
Ph: Craig McDean
Styling: Alex White
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W Magazine June 2010
Ph: Craig McDean
Styling: Alex White
imgmodelsblog.wordpress.com via behansu's blog
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Erin Wasson wins fans by mixing runway with Fruit of the Loom
By RAY A. SMITH
When model Erin Wasson realized she needed shelves for the closets in her 2,000-square-foot East Village loft, she grabbed some tools and got to work.
"I did all of the shelving myself," the 5-foot-10, dirty-blonde 28-year-old said on a recent Sunday, just back from Paris runway work for Chanel, Isabel Marant and Stella McCartney. "Why hire somebody to do something so simple? You just have to have big old power tools."
That DIY attitude also applies to the Texas-born model's highly eclectic style, which merges runway pieces with small designer brands, vintage-shop finds and Fruit of the Loom. Though she has been photographed for the covers of Elle and Allure and starred in runway shows for Gucci and Balmain, her off-work style of torn denim, slouchy T-shirts, hoodies, leggings and silk dresses worn with military boots, capped off with lots of funky bangles, bracelets and rings, gets almost as much attention as what she wears when working.
The seemingly devil-may-care style made her a muse for designer Alexander Wang and sparked the currently popular "Model off Duty" look. "She's become a go-to icon for stylish young ladies," says Hillary Kerr, editorial director of fashion site WhoWhatWear.com. "Just look at any important street-style Web site: You'll find the pages are covered with millions of mini Erins."
"She's not going to be dictated how to wear something," says Joe Zee, creative director of Elle magazine. "I'm always surprised when I see her and she tells me she's wearing a designer because she makes the look her own."
Ms. Wasson pulled an example from her cramped closet, a floral print dress by designer Ann Demeulemeester. "This actually had a ton of like these weird ruffle things on it, a crazy amount of rufflage going on the lapel, and I took them off."
Why? "Because it was too girly," she said, as her pet pit bull, Cream, mulled around.
Ms. Wasson grew up in Irving, Texas, the second daughter of a flight attendant mom and a seller of medical equipment dad. She was a 15-year-old student and star basketball player with a part-time job at a barbecue joint when her father entered her into a local modeling contest, which she won.
She eventually moved to New York, where her gritty edge made her stand out and helped her land top fashion magazine covers and runway shows. In 2003, she took a few months off to drive cross country in a battered truck. "I just needed to go where the wind blew me," she said. When she returned, she picked up where she left off, landing campaigns for brands like Giorgio Armani, Michael Kors and Victoria's Secret.
Alexander Wang had Ms. Wasson style his spring 2008 and fall 2008 runway shows in New York. Ms. Wasson launched the Erin Wasson X RVCA clothing line in the spring of 2009, and her costume jewelry line Low Luv debuted in stores last month.
Ms. Wasson has worn some of her vintage finds to events where others were wearing couture. One such example is a dark mauve lace dress reminiscent of 1920s flapper that Ms. Wasson picked up at a vintage store in New York a year ago and wore to a French Vogue party in Paris. "You know how you have things and it is like you are just waiting to wear it?," she asked. She paired it with a sparkly mesh bodysuit by Missoni and brown and tan wedges by Acne.
Ms. Wasson, who also lives in Venice, Calif., has two small closets in her New York apartment, which is decorated with some vintage-store finds, giving it a bohemian-artist vibe. Her main closet, which she admits is not as neat and organized as she would like, contains blazers, vests and short dresses on the left top rack and men's button down shirts, tanks and tees on the bottom rack. In the center are her "fancy" dresses, more than a few of which are "old Victorian-esque dresses," from vintage stores and thrift shops. About a third of the closet is designer goods,
with the other two thirds consisting of vintage finds and mass brands.
She will sometimes splurge, like the time she paid "up there" for a marching-band-style jacket by Alexander McQueen two years ago.
And yet she likes a $10 vintage-store piece almost as much. "When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me."
online.wsj.com
By RAY A. SMITH
When model Erin Wasson realized she needed shelves for the closets in her 2,000-square-foot East Village loft, she grabbed some tools and got to work.
"I did all of the shelving myself," the 5-foot-10, dirty-blonde 28-year-old said on a recent Sunday, just back from Paris runway work for Chanel, Isabel Marant and Stella McCartney. "Why hire somebody to do something so simple? You just have to have big old power tools."
That DIY attitude also applies to the Texas-born model's highly eclectic style, which merges runway pieces with small designer brands, vintage-shop finds and Fruit of the Loom. Though she has been photographed for the covers of Elle and Allure and starred in runway shows for Gucci and Balmain, her off-work style of torn denim, slouchy T-shirts, hoodies, leggings and silk dresses worn with military boots, capped off with lots of funky bangles, bracelets and rings, gets almost as much attention as what she wears when working.
The seemingly devil-may-care style made her a muse for designer Alexander Wang and sparked the currently popular "Model off Duty" look. "She's become a go-to icon for stylish young ladies," says Hillary Kerr, editorial director of fashion site WhoWhatWear.com. "Just look at any important street-style Web site: You'll find the pages are covered with millions of mini Erins."
"She's not going to be dictated how to wear something," says Joe Zee, creative director of Elle magazine. "I'm always surprised when I see her and she tells me she's wearing a designer because she makes the look her own."
Ms. Wasson pulled an example from her cramped closet, a floral print dress by designer Ann Demeulemeester. "This actually had a ton of like these weird ruffle things on it, a crazy amount of rufflage going on the lapel, and I took them off."
Why? "Because it was too girly," she said, as her pet pit bull, Cream, mulled around.
Ms. Wasson grew up in Irving, Texas, the second daughter of a flight attendant mom and a seller of medical equipment dad. She was a 15-year-old student and star basketball player with a part-time job at a barbecue joint when her father entered her into a local modeling contest, which she won.
She eventually moved to New York, where her gritty edge made her stand out and helped her land top fashion magazine covers and runway shows. In 2003, she took a few months off to drive cross country in a battered truck. "I just needed to go where the wind blew me," she said. When she returned, she picked up where she left off, landing campaigns for brands like Giorgio Armani, Michael Kors and Victoria's Secret.
Alexander Wang had Ms. Wasson style his spring 2008 and fall 2008 runway shows in New York. Ms. Wasson launched the Erin Wasson X RVCA clothing line in the spring of 2009, and her costume jewelry line Low Luv debuted in stores last month.
Ms. Wasson has worn some of her vintage finds to events where others were wearing couture. One such example is a dark mauve lace dress reminiscent of 1920s flapper that Ms. Wasson picked up at a vintage store in New York a year ago and wore to a French Vogue party in Paris. "You know how you have things and it is like you are just waiting to wear it?," she asked. She paired it with a sparkly mesh bodysuit by Missoni and brown and tan wedges by Acne.
Ms. Wasson, who also lives in Venice, Calif., has two small closets in her New York apartment, which is decorated with some vintage-store finds, giving it a bohemian-artist vibe. Her main closet, which she admits is not as neat and organized as she would like, contains blazers, vests and short dresses on the left top rack and men's button down shirts, tanks and tees on the bottom rack. In the center are her "fancy" dresses, more than a few of which are "old Victorian-esque dresses," from vintage stores and thrift shops. About a third of the closet is designer goods,
with the other two thirds consisting of vintage finds and mass brands.
She will sometimes splurge, like the time she paid "up there" for a marching-band-style jacket by Alexander McQueen two years ago.
And yet she likes a $10 vintage-store piece almost as much. "When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me."
online.wsj.com
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US Vogue June 2002
"Vera Wang"
Photographer: Arthur Elgort
Fashion Editor: Grace Coodington
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"Vera Wang"
Photographer: Arthur Elgort
Fashion Editor: Grace Coodington
bwgreyscale.com via archive.org
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erin is seriously a stud
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shes has a photo in the new issue of W magazine but i dont have a scanner..
