Joan Smalls

[Melly5525]

those eyes and cheekbones!! love the candid pic, the red jacket with the studded top is hot!

 

[|BellaDonna|]

last pg H&M holiday magazine.

my scan


and she is reppin Project Sunshine in her Gap holiday Ad.

 

[BeautyisDiverse]

Direction: Nick Knight
Edit: Ruth Hogben
Performance: Ajak Deng, Anais Mali, Flaviana, Jeneil Williams, Joan Smalls, Kinee Diouf, Quack, Rose Cordero, Sedene Blake, Trissan
Music: Bjork
Styling: Edward Enninful
Hair: Martin Cullen
Make-Up: Inge Grognard
Manicure: Marian Newman
Director of Photography: Daniel Landin
Casting: Jess Hallett
Production: Gainsbury and Whiting
Production Design: Joseph Bennett

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[LabelWhore4]

Guess who's the newest face of Estee Lauder?

 

[Yendor]

OMG!! Source?!
I think Joan would be amazing
and she resembles Liya who had the perfect Estee image

 

[BeautyisDiverse]

Estée Lauder Signs Joan Smalls

Estée Lauder has a new face and it belongs to Puerto Rican-born Joan Smalls, who will star in global advertising campaigns for the brand beginning in May 2011.


wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/estee-lauder-signs-joan-smalls-3401191?gnewsid=fdef11d98194cfd867276ae8e69f4133

 

[BeautyisDiverse]

Here is the official photo

wwd.com

 

[Northern Star]

Well this is major, and the pic is stunning.
For her to achieve this kind of recognition this early in her career, just shows how well she is doing. I know she has been slogging away for a while, but it took Liya a lot longer to get her contract with Lauder.
Hats off to Joan and long may her contract last.

 

[DanceFashionista]

I'm so Happy for Joan. Hoping for a Joan and Hilary Estee campagin

 

[Melly5525]

Wow congrats to Joan, she has the perfect face for cosmetics campaign, shes going to be everywhere!

 

[eugenius]

PERFECT for a multi-million dollar cosmetics line! Congrats to Joan!

 

[candlebougie]

lesmads.de

 

[fer19dog]

Wow amazing news, congrats!!

 

[jess93]

OMG so happy for Joan

 

[simplylovely]

#78


Gorgeous!

 

[simplylovely]

#193 Alexander McQueen tribute

 

[|BellaDonna|]

Congrats to her
Lancome.... Estee who is gonna be next to wake up and reward black gorgeousness with a contract?

 

[jeremydante]

joan was just announced as the latest face for estee lauder!! MAAAAAJOR!
here's the full story: http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/breaking-news-joan-smalls-signed-to-estee-lauder/

 

[BeautyisDiverse]

It’s been quite a year for Joan Smalls. In the last twelve months, the five-foot-ten stunner from Hatillo, Puerto Rico, debuted as the exclusive model in Riccardo Tisci’s Givenchy couture presentation, walked the runway of every major designer (a staggering 40 in her first season), has been shot by Steven Meisel and Mario Testino, starred in a Gucci campaign, and, as of this week, has been signed as the latest face of Estée Lauder.

With the ink barely dry on her contract, Smalls filmed a television commercial with Lauder models Constance Jablonski and Liu Wen on Monday and Tuesday in New York, hopped a flight to London Wednesday (for a shoot with Nick Knight), and moments after stepping off the plane, picked up the phone to call Vogue. “Yeah, I’ve had a long day, but it’s super-exciting,” she said with the trademark blend of intelligence, enthusiasm, and charm that has turned so many heads in the fashion world.

“Obviously she’s beautiful,” says Aerin Lauder, senior vice president and creative director for the brand, “but she’s confident, happy, elegant, well-spoken, and grown-up—and it really comes through in her pictures. When we pick someone to represent the brand, it’s about her personality, too. It’s not just the face. You find yourself not being intimidated by her beauty, but drawn in by her warmth.”

When I found out,” says Smalls, “I was in my hotel room in Milan during Fashion Week. I started jumping on the bed like a little girl. The hardest part was keeping it secret—even from my parents.”

Of her fellow Lauder compatriots—France’s Constance Jablonski, China’s Liu Wen, Americans Carolyn Murphy, Hilary Rhoda, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and England’s Elizabeth Hurley—Smalls says, “That’s what I love—it’s a diverse group of women who speak to all women.” What she appreciates most about the newest faces, Constance and Liu Wen (who both signed in April), is that “we’re all bilingual! We’re different in our own ways, but we’re similar, too. When we were shooting this week, I was telling the girls, ‘We’re the new trio!’ Last season, we’d always hang out backstage, so now, being part of Estée Lauder feels like a sisterhood.”

Her earliest impressions of the iconic American brand are “the ads with the beautiful woman playing with puppies”—the Pleasures fragrance ads, which Elizabeth, Gwyneth, Carolyn, and Hilary have starred in over the years—“and of that woman being so comfortable in her own skin. That’s what beauty is to me.” When asked about the possibility that the beautiful woman with the puppies may someday be her, she blanches. “It still hasn’t hit me yet. It feels surreal.”

Her favorite Lauder product is one she’s been using before ever dreaming of representing the company herself: “Advanced Night Repair Eye Recovery Complex,” she says automatically. “The jar is so convenient to travel with. I use it religiously—even when it’s not night.”

vogue.com

 

[Fiercification]

^ That close-up candid is stunning.

Good for her, I just hope she keeps up her HF work because we all know what happens to some of the girls once they start rolling in the cosmetics campaign cash...