Frida Gustavsson

[pellucid]

Part 4



same source

 

[nudeunderwater]

^ Wow that editorial is sooo beautiful.

 

[entropia]

I really like it! Can anybody translate the interview?

 

[2ou3choses]

I really like it! Can anybody translate the interview?

Here you go!

Frida: the Swedish frisson

Fresh and natural … top Scandinavian model Frida Gustavsson, Maybelline muse, "rocks" our special fashion issue.

21 years old and several lives [already lived]

She has skin like porcelain, a sylph-like silhouette; perfect English mixed with a Swedish accent, and is nibbling away at small bites of bread with jam in a Parisian café in the middle of fashion week. It’s obvious: Frida Gustavsson is a model ‘from head to toe’. This is confirmed when she starts to speak about her life. What other young girl, barely 21 and without blinking, says “I bought my first apartment when I was 16 or 17,” or, “at 21 I’m starting a new career”? Frida, having done runway shows and posed for the cameras for many years, has accumulated more miles than the average person does in their lifetime. 2014 marks a turning point: in September she begins theater classes. For many months, a nasty broken foot kept her far away from the runways, which she did not mind. Frida wants a “real life,” to relax and to see friends. “It’s hard to maintain friendships when one travels a lot … it’s nice to be able to take some time for yourself” she confides.

Beautiful People

What luck then, when discussions with the photographer of our special fashion issue began: the idea was to photograph Frida in her element. Right away, everyone agrees to spend several days on an island near Stockholm where she always went on vacation with her family. The cherry on top: she gave her blessing – her boyfriend was in charge of casting and of the production – to bring together her “gang,” a joyful group of creative spirits with ideal bodies. Everybody said yes: Vera, a young artist who, with her blue hair and eccentric features, is fascinating. She is the girlfriend of Martin, a DJ and the best friend of Frida’s fiancé. Helin, who loves to cook and do yoga, works at Acne in Stockholm and studies design. Marcel manages a salesroom during the day and transforms into a DJ at night. Alma is an assistant stylist and sometimes a model … “we wanted to capture different types of Swedish beauty” Frida declares. And it is certainly a joyful panorama that resulted from this affective casting. “My boyfriend also asked his sister and her children to come for the day. There are some photos of me with her son Bertil.”

A Model Scholar

The only other professional model at the shoot is a legend: “The photographer wanted me to bring my mother or grandmother to include other generations in the story,” remembers Frida. “But I don’t really like to mix my family and my profession. So I thought of Ingmari, a top model of the ‘60s and ‘70s. She worked with Bob Richardson, Avedon, was on the covers of Vogue … she lived in Paris for many years before quitting everything to live on a Spanish island where she grew organic vegetables. Her face is magnificent; she has long white hair, a wonderful energy, very serene. There is a strange chemistry between us.” On the other hand, Frida reads a lot (Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, or the plays of Chekov) and expects to resume her favorite activity: to play World of Warcraft. A true ‘woman-child,’ like only the fashion world can create.

translated by me

 

[entropia]

^Thank you so much! The theater thing sounds interesting but I really hope she won't slow down her modelling career too much..

 

[MayaStar]

amazing editorial!

 

[AnnaM94]

H&M

hm

 

[oliveu88]

Ughhhh lose the bangs, Frida.

 

[entropia]

LOFT Fall 2014

 

[entropia]

Frida Gustavsson at Sixty Years - The Show
(Jean Paul Gaultier for Lindex)
Photographer: Dino Soldin



source: elle.se AND about.lindex.com

With Icona Pop

instagram.com/micaelbindefeldab

 

[lady stardust]

Soo Cute!

 

[narcyza]

I miss her high fashion work.

 

[nudeunderwater]

^ Same
At least she's doing really well commercially though.

 

[j.cruz146]

And i'm sure she's making WAAAAY more money now. I'm almost pretty sure this was really all in her plans. Get big high fashion, charge all the commercial clients big money!

 

[entropia]

Plaza Magazine








instagram/robertjnordberg and thomasklementsson

 

[entropia]

New haircut for Frida! Not sure if I like it...


instagram/fridabgustavsson

 

[entropia]

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New haircut for Frida! Not sure if I like it...


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[entropia]

After living as one of the world's biggest models, Frida Gustavsson is now moving from the fashion world to the theater scene. Plaza offers an excerpt from the portrait of a superstar on the lookout for the next dream: to become an actress.

"Oh, my god!", screamed Frida Gustavsson's agent on the other side of the line. "We just received a phonecall from Disney!"

It was October 1 morning last year when Frida got the call from IMG Models in New York. Just returned from Paris fashion week, she got up drowsily out of bed and tried to grasp what her agent told her.

"They want you to cast for the lead in Star Wars!"

Frida Gustavsson had dreamed of an acting career since she was six years old playing up her own plays for her parents at home in Hässelby. But it was only recently that she had begun to think about making serious plans. She had never imagined of suddenly getting a call from the producers of Disney's upcoming follow-up trilogy of Star Wars.

Frida got the script sent home and recorded a short video, where she was reading her lines as she then budade over to casting agents in Hollywood.

- They replied at once: "Perfect! You must come and see us", says Frida.

- So I flew to Los Angeles to read for director JJ Abrams and the casting team. The response I got was very positive, and that was when I thought, ****, maybe I can do this anyway.

I meet Frida Gustavsson an early summer day in her bohemian furnished three-room apartment at Mosebacke Torg in Stockholm. She is dressed casually in worn blue jeans and light denim shirt. Before us on the teak table, she set up strawberries and fresh pressed Presses. On the other side of the room flickers morning news on mute.

- Excuse me, I always leave it on during the mornings, she says, and turns off.

Although Frida Gustavsson is just 21 years old, she exudes an unmistakable world accustomed confidence. It depends, of course, that she is probably Sweden's most urbane 21-year-old. The past six years have been Frida traveling 290 days a year. She is the youngest person ever to be honored with SAS EuroBonus Level Pandion - an exclusive customer club consisting of 1 500 people flying more than the pilots themselves. Then she as 12-year-old was discovered by a model scout in Stockholmsgruppen, she has become one of the world's most sought after fashion models, and the last five years she has harvested some of the industry's heaviest assignments: from editorial jobs for American and Italian Vogue to campaigns for Dior and Valentino. She attended Victoria's Secret prestigious fashion show and last year she became beauty company Maybelline's official spokesperson and public face. A mission that is done: she ended up on Models.com specific list of the world's highest paid models: The Money Girls. Frida Gustavsson has, according to her, fulfilled every dream she had as a model.

- I'm very proud and happy with what I have done, she says. Everything that was once a mirage on a non-existent horizon - getting to shoot with Steven Meisel, ending up on the cover of Italian Vogue, doing a Prada Campaign, I've done that.

That is precisely why we have an appointment to talk about her next career step: to leave the well-paid, roving life model for this fall begin a full-time education at the Boulevard Theatre in Stockholm. It is time for Frida Gustavsson to realize his great life's dream: to become an actress.

The full story can be read in the latest issue of Plaza Magazine, in stores now!

http://www.plazamagazine.se/blog/portratt/2014/09/22/exklusivt-supermodellens-nya-roll/

 

[entropia]

After living as one of the world's biggest models, Frida Gustavsson is now moving from the fashion world to the theater scene. Plaza offers an excerpt from the portrait of a superstar on the lookout for the next dream: to become an actress.

"Oh, my god!", screamed Frida Gustavsson's agent on the other side of the line. "We just received a phonecall from Disney!"

It was October 1 morning last year when Frida got the call from IMG Models in New York. Just returned from Paris fashion week, she got up drowsily out of bed and tried to grasp what her agent told her.

"They want you to cast for the lead in Star Wars!"

Frida Gustavsson had dreamed of an acting career since she was six years old playing up her own plays for her parents at home in Hässelby. But it was only recently that she had begun to think about making serious plans. She had never imagined of suddenly getting a call from the producers of Disney's upcoming follow-up trilogy of Star Wars.

Frida got the script sent home and recorded a short video, where she was reading her lines as she then budade over to casting agents in Hollywood.

- They replied at once: "Perfect! You must come and see us", says Frida.

- So I flew to Los Angeles to read for director JJ Abrams and the casting team. The response I got was very positive, and that was when I thought, ****, maybe I can do this anyway.

I meet Frida Gustavsson an early summer day in her bohemian furnished three-room apartment at Mosebacke Torg in Stockholm. She is dressed casually in worn blue jeans and light denim shirt. Before us on the teak table, she set up strawberries and fresh pressed Presses. On the other side of the room flickers morning news on mute.

- Excuse me, I always leave it on during the mornings, she says, and turns off.

Although Frida Gustavsson is just 21 years old, she exudes an unmistakable world accustomed confidence. It depends, of course, that she is probably Sweden's most urbane 21-year-old. The past six years have been Frida traveling 290 days a year. She is the youngest person ever to be honored with SAS EuroBonus Level Pandion - an exclusive customer club consisting of 1 500 people flying more than the pilots themselves. Then she as 12-year-old was discovered by a model scout in Stockholmsgruppen, she has become one of the world's most sought after fashion models, and the last five years she has harvested some of the industry's heaviest assignments: from editorial jobs for American and Italian Vogue to campaigns for Dior and Valentino. She attended Victoria's Secret prestigious fashion show and last year she became beauty company Maybelline's official spokesperson and public face. A mission that is done: she ended up on Models.com specific list of the world's highest paid models: The Money Girls. Frida Gustavsson has, according to her, fulfilled every dream she had as a model.

- I'm very proud and happy with what I have done, she says. Everything that was once a mirage on a non-existent horizon - getting to shoot with Steven Meisel, ending up on the cover of Italian Vogue, doing a Prada Campaign, I've done that.

That is precisely why we have an appointment to talk about her next career step: to leave the well-paid, roving life model for this fall begin a full-time education at the Boulevard Theatre in Stockholm. It is time for Frida Gustavsson to realize his great life's dream: to become an actress.

The full story can be read in the latest issue of Plaza Magazine, in stores now!

http://www.plazamagazine.se/blog/portratt/2014/09/22/exklusivt-supermodellens-nya-roll/

 

[Nepenthes]

^This needs to sink in. I'm slightly confused.