Josephine Skriver

[Sasha Chikshina]

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[Chaky]

Lanvin S/S 12 backstage

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[Melly5525]

^Such a goddess at Lanvin, love the dress on her one of my fav shows she did this season and there were alot to choose from

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Lanvin S/S 12 backstage
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[Hyperreality]

The Danish magazine COVER brought an interview with Josephine Skriver a few months ago. It was a quite honest and unpretentious piece. I have translated some of it, which I hope you will enjoy.

Her upbringing has not been fully traditional. She is the beautiful result of a personal ad in Panbladet, which is a magazine for homosexuals. ”My mother placed an ad where she wrote that she looked for a man to have children with. My father answered, and that's how I came into the world,” she says. Since then, a younger brother and two other half-siblings have arrived. Along with a life based in Hellerup with her mother and every other week with her father at Vesterbro. ”To me, it's completely natural to have a lesbian mother and a gay father. My parents have been good at talking with me about it,” she says and continues, ”I think it has made me an open person. I grew up being a part of a minority and my gift was the gift of acceptance. However, if it had not been for my aunt, who has always been interested in fashion, then I doubt there would have come a model out of me,” she says and laughs out loud…

Josephine Skriver also reveals how her bureau told her that high heels would be her new slippers at home. She had never worn high heels, and she could not wear them at home because of the parquet floors in the apartment. She had a cleaning job and wore the high heels at work.

 

[Chaky]

^ Wow, weird. I just randomly saw that interview yesterday and came in here to post it. You beat me to it.

And link to the article (in Danish).

cover.dk

 

[Chaky]

And leading on from that, this ed was posted previously in Jojo's old thread but this is in better quality:

Cover Fashion Magazine June/July 2011
Ph: Rasmus Skousen
St: Kathrine Agger

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Pool Daze



cover.dk

 

[karen sofie]

^That's the ed that made me fall for her

 

[Chaky]

Some more backstage HQ pics from S/S 12

McQueen


Valentino


Chloé


Giambattista Valli


Louis Vuitton


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[PrincessLovely]

aaah the 1st photo in #124 ...

 

[charlieandmarie]

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[sockeater]

Her upbringing has not been fully traditional. She is the beautiful result of a personal ad in Panbladet, which is a magazine for homosexuals. ”My mother placed an ad where she wrote that she looked for a man to have children with. My father answered, and that's how I came into the world,” she says. Since then, a younger brother and two other half-siblings have arrived. Along with a life based in Hellerup with her mother and every other week with her father at Vesterbro. ”To me, it's completely natural to have a lesbian mother and a gay father. My parents have been good at talking with me about it,” she says and continues, ”I think it has made me an open person. I grew up being a part of a minority and my gift was the gift of acceptance. However, if it had not been for my aunt, who has always been interested in fashion, then I doubt there would have come a model out of me,” she says and laughs out loud…

Wow, amazing story! I love how well-grounded and well-spoken this girl is, and the fact that she wants to be a doctor? A+.

 

[BleedGold]

I like her even more now that I know she has an interesting story behind her name. She's lucky she fell into such an amazing gene pool!

 

[Karen0193]

The Danish magazine COVER brought an interview with Josephine Skriver a few months ago. It was a quite honest and unpretentious piece. I have translated some of it, which I hope you will enjoy.

Her upbringing has not been fully traditional. She is the beautiful result of a personal ad in Panbladet, which is a magazine for homosexuals. ”My mother placed an ad where she wrote that she looked for a man to have children with. My father answered, and that's how I came into the world,” she says. Since then, a younger brother and two other half-siblings have arrived. Along with a life based in Hellerup with her mother and every other week with her father at Vesterbro. ”To me, it's completely natural to have a lesbian mother and a gay father. My parents have been good at talking with me about it,” she says and continues, ”I think it has made me an open person. I grew up being a part of a minority and my gift was the gift of acceptance. However, if it had not been for my aunt, who has always been interested in fashion, then I doubt there would have come a model out of me,” she says and laughs out loud…

Josephine Skriver also reveals how her bureau told her that high heels would be her new slippers at home. She had never worn high heels, and she could not wear them at home because of the parquet floors in the apartment. She had a cleaning job and wore the high heels at work.

Wow, what and interesting history. I'd like to hear more about her childhood she seems like a very smart girl

 

[HeatherAnne]

Definitely one of the strongest catwalker of the season for me, and not just because of the mass number of shows either. What I loved about her season was her consistency all along and then just absolutely smashing it up at the end with a slew of blue chip bookings, many of which she was the standout girl at.

And like all of you, she has become even more interesting and appealing to me now that I hear her discuss with pride her unique upbringing. Such a cool girl.

 

[BibiRose]

^Agreed. I like to read interviews with her because she always gives intelligent and bright answers. At first she didn't convince me as a model but now she's definitely one of my faves.
Thank you for posting the Cover ed in HQ, Chaky!

 

[Chaky]

I like to read interviews with her because she always gives intelligent and bright answers.

Yes I notice this too. She has such a fascinating background.

I got a rough translation of the start of the Cover article: it talks about her love of playing football. She was on a team at the Oure Sport School which she put on hold to start modelling.

She also talks about her first show season and what Alberta Ferretti said to her when she was about to open.

Perhaps Hyperreality could translate the rest of the article for us?

 

[pellucid]

I translated the rest of it. I hope it's readable

Josephine Skriver has in record time become a name the fashion industry look far for. She has just been to Cannes with Chanel, she has walked all the big international fashion shows and she's also a cool football girl, who can't leave the ball alone.

Only a year ago Josephine Skriver's everyday life was completely different: a pair of football boots, a grass pitch and new friends, that had, just like herself, chosen to take year 10 at Idrætshøjskolen Oures football course. A year, which she describes as "one of the best in my life." Today there are new highlights that have come into her life. Not in football boots but in stiletto heels on the catwalk in New York, Paris and Milan. Because Josephine Skriver has in no time gone from being a promising new face to now one of the most sought after model names. She has just shot a spread for Italian Vogue with star photographer Steven Meisel, walked a Chanel show in Cannes exclusively, and maybe there is also a big campaign on the way before the international fashion weeks.

Football is just like school, on hold, while 18 year old Josephine Skriver travels the world as a full time model. "I am so rarely home in Denmark now, that I can't play football on a regular basis. But if there's a ball and a pitch around, there's a 100 percent chance I'll be there. And I think I'll always be like that," says Josephine Skriver, who also shows up with her own team at this year's Roskilde Festival and to Cover's and Sensational Street Soccers rally. A few of her friends already play football, while the rest are playing for the first time. "I'm not quite sure that they're all good with their legs and a ball, but we all want to win and definitely aim for a the trophy because it is a team consisting entirely of competitive people," says Josephine Skriver, who started playing football at the age of 12.

"It is an amazing sport, it has taught me how to be a team player, you have to cooperate on the field, or else you'll lose the game," she says. In 2009 Josephine was discovered by the model agency Unique Models. They really wanted her to model in Denmark straight away, but Josephine was not ready for that. "I had already planned a year at Oure and I really wanted to do that. So we planned that I would prioritise modeling afterwards so I just had to cross my fingers that my chance hadn't passed." It wasn't and in February she took on the international runways and walked 51 shows in New York, Milan and Paris. "It took me by surprise. At the time I had only tried walking at the Danish fashion week and it is a vacation compared to the international fashion week. The casting for the shows started 14 days ahead and there was hundred of models gathered and it was obvious that everyone knew that not everyone would be chosen. I was happy that my mother was there to support me," she says.

"You really had to wake up early. The experienced models skipped the line while the new models had to stick to the queue culture. It really was a circus." But the rumours about the new Danish model name spread quickly and Josephine ended up on the catwalks for the big names like Chanel, Balenciaga, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent and Chloé. In Milan she had a real breakthrough as she opened the Alberta Ferretti show. "Right before I was about to enter the runway, she came out and said 'All the models that open my shows do really well in the future'. It was crazy, because a couple of days later I closed the Prada show and after that I basically booked all the shows that I went to castings for."

Since that her calendar has been filled with tasks. And Josephine Skriver has decided to become something big. "And I take use of what the football has taught me, in my modeling work. I am a competitive person who wants to win. Now I aim for the top. You never start a football match with the attitude that it will end as a tie. Now it's about getting a specific campaign or open and close specific shows for the coming fashion weeks," she says. Josephine grew up in a family where football with her mother, picnics with her father and lots of space filled her days rather than glossy fashion magazines.

 

[charity]

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Thanks for translating the interview pellucid

 

[Chaky]

Excellent, thanks pellucid!

Valentino S/S 12 backstage

fashionologie.com

Fashionologie posted this pic with their rundown of the top catwalkers of the season. The Telegraph put a highly erroneous list on their website the other day that didn't even include Josephine! Marilyn Agency actually tweeted about the mistake. I think the consensus on tfs is that she walked the 3rd most shows of any model (behind Zuzanna Bijoch 69 and Julia Nobis 72). B)