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I have a bunch of her La Senza ads that I saw in a Canadian Magazine, Ill scan them when I get home!
found this at fashist-online
Iselin has the cover and a huge article inside of the fashion and design supplement of
Norway's biggest business paper today. Quite a few lovely photograps of Iselin all natural .. The article explains why she left the business. Great stuff .. After her Vogue Italia cover she really felt that she was "done" in the business. A kind of an anti climax, I guess .. Today she attends the Oslo school of Architecture and her agencies turn down jobs for her almost on a daily basis
so i assume she quit???
Iselin has the cover and a huge article inside of the fashion and design supplement of
Norway's biggest business paper today. Quite a few lovely photograps of Iselin all natural .. The article explains why she left the business. Great stuff .. After her Vogue Italia cover she really felt that she was "done" in the business. A kind of an anti climax, I guess .. Today she attends the Oslo school of Architecture and her agencies turn down jobs for her almost on a daily basis
so i assume she quit???
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It's too bad! But I think what she's doing right now is beyond wonderful 
And engaged! 
Best wishes to Iselin
And engaged! Best wishes to Iselin
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No Iselin in fashion 
Well, if she's happy 
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and again posted by Omnis at the fashist:
thank you Omnis
the picture is from dn.no
A few larger photographs and link to the full article ..
[SIZE=-2]Posted on December 10, 2007 at 08:42:45 AM by Omnis
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Here' a link to the rest of the photos and the article ..
http://www.dn.no/d2/mote/article1261432.ece?jgo=c1_re&WT.svl=article_image
thank you Omnis
the picture is from dn.no
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Of course
Rare supermodel
Iselin Vollen Steiro (22) rejects job offers that would’ve given her millions on a daily basis.
In a garden in Oslo west, two people, from two completely different worlds, meet. They face each other with their feet in hoarfrosted(?) grass and gaze at each other. Iselin Steiro, Norway’s biggest model throughout the times, looks slender, cold and expectant.
Tom Sandberg, master of the greys, and leading man in Norwegian photo art, looks as if he doesn’t quite know how to tackle the situation. Her task for today is to be herself, his is to immortalize it.
- I’ll probably bring out one of those sceptical looks, Steiro says
- A look that says “I know you’re looking at me” to the camera. I think they’re nice.
Sandberg looks doubtful. Mumbles something about unnecessary guiding and about the light not being optimal. Waives her over to the veranda and points at a white plastic chair the stands by a little table. Steiro sinks down into the chair, curves her back and pull her long legs up under her and places herself in resting position.
Sandberg grabs his camera and snaps.
- Now you’re yourself! He says triumphing.
And so:
- Aren’t you?
She pulls her bangs and fixes her eyes on the lens.
- Sure. Don’t you believe me?
Quickly to the top. It’s been a few months since the last time Iselin Vollen Steiro did a job in front of the lens. A period that was all she ever did.
From fall 2004 to fall 2006 Iselin was one of the hottest name in the international fashion world. The business is still astonished about how quickly she worked her way up from the status as “New Face” to established supermodel.
The fall of 2006 she was in the position that she could choose to work exclusively with the best fashion photographers, for the biggest labels and for the most important magazines.
On the website www.models.com, she was ranked as the worlds fourth most important top model. For a model at this level, there’s only one road: the one that leads to the top.
But then the lightning struck.
The photographers muse. Steiro didn’t want more. She had no desire to climb to the topmost league of models, she would rather go home and be a fulltime student. A collective(?) gasp in the fashion world. How could she? Steiros agencies and agents in Oslo, Paris and New York despaired. A couple years of working and she would have enough money for the rest of her life, they argued.
But according to Bruno Jamagne, booker for the French department of Women Management, the top photographers in the business were the most disappointed.
- Iselin is special. The photographers she’s worked are the Da Vinci’s of the fashion world. When she retired they lost one of their most important inspirations. One of their most important muse.
But Iselin was firm in her case. She packed her stuff and headed home, applied at NTNU and bought an apartment in Trondheim.
- It was probably a bit of an overdramatic break from my side, she says today.
- But I had felt for a while that I really didn’t want to do this more. And after I had shot the cover for Italian Vogue August 2006, I thought: “Okay, this is it. It’s enough”
Silent and mystical. As one of the worlds greatest models, Steiro has been a much longed for interviewee for both Norwegian and international media. She has chosen to remain silent.
The histories that circulate about her are therefore few and often told. “Everyone” know the she grew up far north, in Harstad, and that she was discovered 14 years old when Christmas shopping in London with her parents. “Everyone” also know that Steiro’s parents insisted that she finished high school before she could give it a shot out in the big world, and that the big fashion business’s meet with the classical beauty consequently was delayed a few years.
But then “everyone” don’t know a whole lot more. About the supermodels private life and ups and downs, there has been little writing.
Steiro is still firm on that she doesn’t want to tell about weight and pressure and the darker side of the business.
- You could talk about how the modelling business is one of the few businesses where the girls are clearly on top? There’s not many world known male models, are there?
“F*** me like a boy” One of the most important traits for a model, is to have a talent for playing characters, Steiro thinks.
The summer of 2003 she got her first instructions from New York’s fashion photographers. It was the summer before her last year of high school, and she had, under doubt, gotten permission from her parents to spend her holiday in the fashion metropolis to try the model life. A lot of the picture from this period shows a 17 year old girl with a wonderingly, almost scared, look on her face. But one film is different. On this one Steiro stares at the camera: spiteful, powerful, aggressive. Exercising a typical successful look.
- That isn’t acting, Steiro says dryly.
The gay photographer had fallen for the young models androgynous look, and really tried to make the model play on her boyish appearance the best way possible.
- He stood behind the camera and shouted “f*** me! f*** me like a boy!” I was furious. Just wanted to go home. That is what you see on the photo.
After a while it didn’t take as much for Steiro to bring out the good expressions. She started to develop a good ability.
- Thee photographers don’t really know what they want, she explains.
- They can give you a starting point, a way to stand or sit. But from there you get freedom to show emotions, to give them something that lives. You have to understand who you are on every job. Find an own identity for every assignment.
The role as a strong and sexy woman is probably the role she’s been told to act the most times.
The weird roles. But Steiro preferred the weirder concepts. Throughout her career she’s been portrayed as a transvestite wh*re in a trailer park. A male glam rocker in a rock band. As a patient at a mental institution. As a part of a religious sect and potential terrorist at an airport security check(?).
Namely Steiros ability to get in character is brought up by the people in the business as a part of what made her so unique. Photographers that worked with her would ask to work with her again. That landed her many of the most prestigious jobs in the business.
- How far were you willing to go to stay on the good side with the photographers?
Steiro’s eyes opens wide.
- Are you asking if I’ve slept with a photographer?!
- You can answer in general, what happens in the business etc.
- It happens more with male models, from what I’ve heard. A lot of the photographers are gay. So no, I don’t think it happens that much on the female side. She pauses and thinks.
- But you feel it straight away when a photographer’s got that look.
- What do you do then?
- It only really happened to me once. And everyone knew the photographer was a pig, so I didn’t really take it that seriously.
From Gucci to Vogue. In the model world it’s not “Suffer for beauty”. It’s “Die for fashion”.
Steiro thinks that all in all she’s taken the easy route. So it was tough the first fall in New York, when she after graduating came to town with a suitcase in her hand, and was stuffed in an apartment with 7 or 8 other maybe-supermodels, and was told that the first thing she had to go was to become drastically better at walking with high heels.
But it didn’t take long before the wind blew Steiro’s way. During the 2004 seasons she did prestigious shows like Calvin Klein and Prada, and rumours buzzed in the business about “the new girl” from Norway.
- The summer of 2005 I though that Okay, now I have to go for it, I’m doing good, I like this. And there were a few economical perks as well, of course.
During the show season of fall 2005, Steiro did up to 6 shows a day, and didn’t sleep more than three to five hours a night.
The effort paid of.
When the season was over she got calls from Gucci who wanted her to front their coming campaign. After that things went smoothly.
Steiro went from Gucci to Chanel to Valentino. From magazines Harpers Bazaar and I-D to French and Italian Vogue.
At one point she was a candidate for a contract with Estée Lauder. A contract that would’ve placed her amongst the worlds best paid models.
But everything modelling didn’t come as easy for the favourite of the fashion biz.
Iselin Vollen Steiro (22) rejects job offers that would’ve given her millions on a daily basis.
In a garden in Oslo west, two people, from two completely different worlds, meet. They face each other with their feet in hoarfrosted(?) grass and gaze at each other. Iselin Steiro, Norway’s biggest model throughout the times, looks slender, cold and expectant.
Tom Sandberg, master of the greys, and leading man in Norwegian photo art, looks as if he doesn’t quite know how to tackle the situation. Her task for today is to be herself, his is to immortalize it.
- I’ll probably bring out one of those sceptical looks, Steiro says
- A look that says “I know you’re looking at me” to the camera. I think they’re nice.
Sandberg looks doubtful. Mumbles something about unnecessary guiding and about the light not being optimal. Waives her over to the veranda and points at a white plastic chair the stands by a little table. Steiro sinks down into the chair, curves her back and pull her long legs up under her and places herself in resting position.
Sandberg grabs his camera and snaps.
- Now you’re yourself! He says triumphing.
And so:
- Aren’t you?
She pulls her bangs and fixes her eyes on the lens.
- Sure. Don’t you believe me?
Quickly to the top. It’s been a few months since the last time Iselin Vollen Steiro did a job in front of the lens. A period that was all she ever did.
From fall 2004 to fall 2006 Iselin was one of the hottest name in the international fashion world. The business is still astonished about how quickly she worked her way up from the status as “New Face” to established supermodel.
The fall of 2006 she was in the position that she could choose to work exclusively with the best fashion photographers, for the biggest labels and for the most important magazines.
On the website www.models.com, she was ranked as the worlds fourth most important top model. For a model at this level, there’s only one road: the one that leads to the top.
But then the lightning struck.
The photographers muse. Steiro didn’t want more. She had no desire to climb to the topmost league of models, she would rather go home and be a fulltime student. A collective(?) gasp in the fashion world. How could she? Steiros agencies and agents in Oslo, Paris and New York despaired. A couple years of working and she would have enough money for the rest of her life, they argued.
But according to Bruno Jamagne, booker for the French department of Women Management, the top photographers in the business were the most disappointed.
- Iselin is special. The photographers she’s worked are the Da Vinci’s of the fashion world. When she retired they lost one of their most important inspirations. One of their most important muse.
But Iselin was firm in her case. She packed her stuff and headed home, applied at NTNU and bought an apartment in Trondheim.
- It was probably a bit of an overdramatic break from my side, she says today.
- But I had felt for a while that I really didn’t want to do this more. And after I had shot the cover for Italian Vogue August 2006, I thought: “Okay, this is it. It’s enough”
Silent and mystical. As one of the worlds greatest models, Steiro has been a much longed for interviewee for both Norwegian and international media. She has chosen to remain silent.
The histories that circulate about her are therefore few and often told. “Everyone” know the she grew up far north, in Harstad, and that she was discovered 14 years old when Christmas shopping in London with her parents. “Everyone” also know that Steiro’s parents insisted that she finished high school before she could give it a shot out in the big world, and that the big fashion business’s meet with the classical beauty consequently was delayed a few years.
But then “everyone” don’t know a whole lot more. About the supermodels private life and ups and downs, there has been little writing.
Steiro is still firm on that she doesn’t want to tell about weight and pressure and the darker side of the business.
- You could talk about how the modelling business is one of the few businesses where the girls are clearly on top? There’s not many world known male models, are there?
“F*** me like a boy” One of the most important traits for a model, is to have a talent for playing characters, Steiro thinks.
The summer of 2003 she got her first instructions from New York’s fashion photographers. It was the summer before her last year of high school, and she had, under doubt, gotten permission from her parents to spend her holiday in the fashion metropolis to try the model life. A lot of the picture from this period shows a 17 year old girl with a wonderingly, almost scared, look on her face. But one film is different. On this one Steiro stares at the camera: spiteful, powerful, aggressive. Exercising a typical successful look.
- That isn’t acting, Steiro says dryly.
The gay photographer had fallen for the young models androgynous look, and really tried to make the model play on her boyish appearance the best way possible.
- He stood behind the camera and shouted “f*** me! f*** me like a boy!” I was furious. Just wanted to go home. That is what you see on the photo.
After a while it didn’t take as much for Steiro to bring out the good expressions. She started to develop a good ability.
- Thee photographers don’t really know what they want, she explains.
- They can give you a starting point, a way to stand or sit. But from there you get freedom to show emotions, to give them something that lives. You have to understand who you are on every job. Find an own identity for every assignment.
The role as a strong and sexy woman is probably the role she’s been told to act the most times.
The weird roles. But Steiro preferred the weirder concepts. Throughout her career she’s been portrayed as a transvestite wh*re in a trailer park. A male glam rocker in a rock band. As a patient at a mental institution. As a part of a religious sect and potential terrorist at an airport security check(?).
Namely Steiros ability to get in character is brought up by the people in the business as a part of what made her so unique. Photographers that worked with her would ask to work with her again. That landed her many of the most prestigious jobs in the business.
- How far were you willing to go to stay on the good side with the photographers?
Steiro’s eyes opens wide.
- Are you asking if I’ve slept with a photographer?!
- You can answer in general, what happens in the business etc.
- It happens more with male models, from what I’ve heard. A lot of the photographers are gay. So no, I don’t think it happens that much on the female side. She pauses and thinks.
- But you feel it straight away when a photographer’s got that look.
- What do you do then?
- It only really happened to me once. And everyone knew the photographer was a pig, so I didn’t really take it that seriously.
From Gucci to Vogue. In the model world it’s not “Suffer for beauty”. It’s “Die for fashion”.
Steiro thinks that all in all she’s taken the easy route. So it was tough the first fall in New York, when she after graduating came to town with a suitcase in her hand, and was stuffed in an apartment with 7 or 8 other maybe-supermodels, and was told that the first thing she had to go was to become drastically better at walking with high heels.
But it didn’t take long before the wind blew Steiro’s way. During the 2004 seasons she did prestigious shows like Calvin Klein and Prada, and rumours buzzed in the business about “the new girl” from Norway.
- The summer of 2005 I though that Okay, now I have to go for it, I’m doing good, I like this. And there were a few economical perks as well, of course.
During the show season of fall 2005, Steiro did up to 6 shows a day, and didn’t sleep more than three to five hours a night.
The effort paid of.
When the season was over she got calls from Gucci who wanted her to front their coming campaign. After that things went smoothly.
Steiro went from Gucci to Chanel to Valentino. From magazines Harpers Bazaar and I-D to French and Italian Vogue.
At one point she was a candidate for a contract with Estée Lauder. A contract that would’ve placed her amongst the worlds best paid models.
But everything modelling didn’t come as easy for the favourite of the fashion biz.
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Bambi on catwalk. When the word “catwalk” is mentioned, Iselin gets giggly and a bit hectic in her facial colour.
- I always hated to go on the catwalk. I still blush when doing it. I don’t feel I have control of the situation.
The worst thing Steiro has done on a catwalk is to choose the wrong exit. Lost a shoe. Showed a breast unintentionally. But she can live with that. What bothers her is that she can’t do the kitten like soft movements that has named the walk.
- My way of walking is best described as marching. But luckily I was long viewed as very androgynous, a hard type. Therefore I did little typically sexy shows. I mostly did the classical ones, where you put one foot in front of the other. Balenciaga for instance. You’re supposed to go crash, crash, crash over the floor. It’s my favourite show. I was good there.
- When I go catwalk I don’t see anything. I hear the music and the rhythm I’m supposed to follow, and the voice inside my head that says: “Oh no, I forgot the turn”. “I’m going to step on my dress” “Remember to stop!”. It’s really not that glamorous.
After thing for long, Iselin remembers one positive thing about catwalking
- Sometimes I hear my name whispered in the darkness as I walk past. If someone there wonders who the model is. Then I’ll hear, very faint, “Iselin”, “Iselin”. That can be a little good.
Model myths. And then we’re back to the big question. When everything was going so well, and the career was so bright, what trigged the dramatic feeling in Steiro that she just couldn’t take it anymore, the fall of 2006?
- When you ask like that I feel I’m a little bit afraid to be portrayed as bitter.
- Why?
- There’s so many stories in the media that’s quitting because they’re burnt-out and broken-down(?). Or pregnant. That’s like the two reasons why people quit. It wasn’t like that for me.
The darkest of the model myths dates back to the 90s.
- The history about champagne and cocaine and models so high they fall of stage comes from that period. But in the end of the 90s they had a big clearing out of all those things, and things are different now. There’s as much drugs in the modelling business as there are in all other businesses. It’s a spare-time activity. There’s nobody dealing drugs backstage like people think. Most models are aware of the fact that they have a job to do, and you can’t do that being high.
Weight pressure. There’s one myth she can’t reject though. You get skinny of it.
- Models sleep little and eat little, that’s just the way it is. Specially during show seasons.
For a long while she lived of the adrenalin she got from travelling the world, doing shows and getting photographed.
- But when all those things starts getting routine, then you notice that’s it’s tearing on your body. Your body begins to struggle.
- Have you kept the weight you had when modelling?
- I don’t want to talk about weight. But okay, I’ve gained. Lots of kilos.
She emphasizes that is wasn’t the weight craze that made her retire.
- I’ve always viewed modelling as an intermediate stage(?). And now I’d reached a point where it didn’t stimulate me any more. I wanted to study. Wanted to hang with friends. I simply wanted an everyday life. Don’t underestimate everyday rituals.
- I always hated to go on the catwalk. I still blush when doing it. I don’t feel I have control of the situation.
The worst thing Steiro has done on a catwalk is to choose the wrong exit. Lost a shoe. Showed a breast unintentionally. But she can live with that. What bothers her is that she can’t do the kitten like soft movements that has named the walk.
- My way of walking is best described as marching. But luckily I was long viewed as very androgynous, a hard type. Therefore I did little typically sexy shows. I mostly did the classical ones, where you put one foot in front of the other. Balenciaga for instance. You’re supposed to go crash, crash, crash over the floor. It’s my favourite show. I was good there.
- When I go catwalk I don’t see anything. I hear the music and the rhythm I’m supposed to follow, and the voice inside my head that says: “Oh no, I forgot the turn”. “I’m going to step on my dress” “Remember to stop!”. It’s really not that glamorous.
After thing for long, Iselin remembers one positive thing about catwalking
- Sometimes I hear my name whispered in the darkness as I walk past. If someone there wonders who the model is. Then I’ll hear, very faint, “Iselin”, “Iselin”. That can be a little good.
Model myths. And then we’re back to the big question. When everything was going so well, and the career was so bright, what trigged the dramatic feeling in Steiro that she just couldn’t take it anymore, the fall of 2006?
- When you ask like that I feel I’m a little bit afraid to be portrayed as bitter.
- Why?
- There’s so many stories in the media that’s quitting because they’re burnt-out and broken-down(?). Or pregnant. That’s like the two reasons why people quit. It wasn’t like that for me.
The darkest of the model myths dates back to the 90s.
- The history about champagne and cocaine and models so high they fall of stage comes from that period. But in the end of the 90s they had a big clearing out of all those things, and things are different now. There’s as much drugs in the modelling business as there are in all other businesses. It’s a spare-time activity. There’s nobody dealing drugs backstage like people think. Most models are aware of the fact that they have a job to do, and you can’t do that being high.
Weight pressure. There’s one myth she can’t reject though. You get skinny of it.
- Models sleep little and eat little, that’s just the way it is. Specially during show seasons.
For a long while she lived of the adrenalin she got from travelling the world, doing shows and getting photographed.
- But when all those things starts getting routine, then you notice that’s it’s tearing on your body. Your body begins to struggle.
- Have you kept the weight you had when modelling?
- I don’t want to talk about weight. But okay, I’ve gained. Lots of kilos.
She emphasizes that is wasn’t the weight craze that made her retire.
- I’ve always viewed modelling as an intermediate stage(?). And now I’d reached a point where it didn’t stimulate me any more. I wanted to study. Wanted to hang with friends. I simply wanted an everyday life. Don’t underestimate everyday rituals.
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Thanks so much!
After reading through that, just one word comes to mind: Respect
After reading through that, just one word comes to mind: Respect
