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^ I really love the name of her shop.


A scanned version of Donna Karan Resort 2008, finally..



scanned by sister-d @ bwgreyscale forum from Vanity Fair Nov. 2008
 
great shot thanks for posting. Love the colours.
 
this is interesting
While hundreds of folks gathered for the ASCAP Awards Monday night, rocker Jack White & his supermodel wife Karen Elson were spotted having a bite to eat with friends at Rosario’s Mexican Restaurant.
Steph spies at the restaurant say Karen was hard to recognize at first, because her hair was died black. Could it be true…would Karen die her lovely red locks black…maybe it was wig? I don’t know, but I do know this scoop came from a very reliable source who knows her hair. My Steph spy says Karen was rocking a Bettie Page look with long black hair and super short pin up bangs.
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source:http://stephinthecity.com/2008/10/16/karen-elson-goes-black-seen-in-the-city-with-jack-white/
 
^ Hmmm, her red hair was so charming that I feel kinda sad. Surely she'll look great with any color though.. I wonder what she looks like with it.
 
Maybe her hair was dyed for a photoshoot. If she changed her hair color I'm going to have to go to Nashville to give her a good chiding.
 
^^LOL nickilee. It's probably just a wig, but if not I'm sure she looks wonderful.

I don't think this was posted before:

By ’eck, Karen still in touch with her roots


1/10/2008
IF Chadderton-born Karen Elson ever gets homesick sitting in her Nashville mansion with rock star husband Jack White, she’s found the perfect way to reminisce about her roots in Greater Manchester.
"A friend gave me a DVD of the show, ‘Shameless’, and it made me laugh so much," she says.
"My American friends didn’t get it – but it reminds me of growing up and all the rough things that happen. I love that show, it’s brilliant."
It’s hard to imagine the ethereal supermodel gazing out from a recent cover of ‘Vogue’ magazine splitting her sides at the antics of Frank Gallagher on a Manchester council estate. Famous for her porcelain skin and flame red hair, Karen seems out of the reach of mere mortals.
It’s a look that has seen her rise to the top of the international modelling tree, spending over 10 years as muse to designers including Karl Lagerfeld. Amassing a not-too-small fortune along the way, as she and her hubbie – White Stripes and Raconteurs superstar Jack – made a new entry into the Sunday Times Young Music Millionaires Rich List this year with their £25m fortune. At heart, though, she’s a girl from Oldham who misses her mum and dad.
"I try to get home to visit the family as much as I can," she says. "It makes me feel like a teenager again, with your mum saying ‘that dress looks weird on you’ and stuff. My family absolutely treat me as normal, they are the first ones to put me in my place.
"If you are lucky enough to grow up with a sense of nostalgia about where you are from, that’s great. I definitely wouldn’t be the person I am today if I hadn’t grown up in Oldham. It’s an iconic English town.
"And, I know this is going to sound really ridiculous, but whenever I’m back up north I just fill my suitcase with Jammy Dodgers."
Funny and self-effacing, she reckons life at the White family’s ranch in Tennessee is pretty ordinary.
"Maybe people on the outside would say ‘wow that’s really exciting’," she muses. "But in my private life – I’m not going to say it’s normal – I don’t go round on yachts and private jets. Yeah, if you ask my old school friends (Karen was a pupil at North Chadderton High) they might say it’s glamorous, but it’s just life for me.
"I’ve escaped attention pretty well – me and Jack avoid exposing our relationship and our kids. You won’t see us out all the time, I think there are certain people who go out to attract attention. But I don’t think people care if I go out to the supermarket.
"When I come back home people don’t really bother. In one sense I stand out because I’m tall and pale with bright red hair – but maybe people in Oldham just don’t care."
Normal by nature she may be but there’s a rock n’ roll streak to the former comprehensive school pupil. The kind of devil-may-care attitude that saw her up sticks to make it in the crazy world of modelling. The same streak that saw her get hitched to Jack in a seemingly bizarre wedding ceremony – in a canoe on the Amazon river.
"I can’t tell you how it happened, that would be giving too much away," she laughs. "It just fit with mine and Jack’s personalities. When you meet someone and fall in love, it’s just one of those things. I guess some people plan their weddings and it takes them five years to get round to it. We didn’t, but it was incredibly beautiful."
It’s this kookiness that likens Elson to our other famous modelling export – Failsworth’s finest – Agyness Deyn. Both have made a career out of looking that bit different from the norm. Indeed, her striking looks earned Karen the moniker ‘The Freak’ in her early days.
"I love Aggy," says Karen. "It’s amazing how her career has taken off, I used to hang out with her a lot when we did a Mulberry campaign together. She’s brilliant and she’s so individual. For me being called ‘The Freak’ sounds worse than it is. Karl Lagerfeld wasn’t meaning to be rude or insulting when he said it – he was trying to say here’s this girl who has this bizarre look. I told Jack recently and he thought it was an amazing compliment."
Travelling the world for the likes of Prada, Louis Vuitton and Gucci, Karen has more recently been chosen as the face of John Lewis and will hopefully help them weather the credit crunch following last week’s announcement of a 27 per cent profit slump for the retailer. Turning 30 in January, Karen hopes to maintain a long-lasting career in what is a notoriously fickle industry. So far so good as taking time off for two pregnancies – for Henry Lee, aged one, and Scarlett Teresa, two – has had no effect on her popularity.
"I’m really lucky to still be doing it, I’ve had my ups and downs," she says, candidly. "When you are a teenager in fashion you are bound to have moments – but that just makes you stronger.
"Becoming a parent entirely changed my outlook on modelling, actually. There’s only a certain period of time away from my kids that I feel comfortable with."
Away from the cameras, it’s family life as normal, with Karen’s northern sense of humour providing Jack with endless song-writing material – such as the recent album ‘Icky Thump’.
"He heard me and my dad (Waterhead resident and carpenter Jimmy) saying ‘ecky thump’ and was like, ‘wow, what does that mean?’" she giggles. "He and my dad sat down and had a long conversation about it. At first I thought it was really funny but you know what – now I think it’s brilliant."
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http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1069934_by_eck_karen_still_in_touch_with_her_roots
 
^ It was fun to read. I believe she'll be around us as long as she wants to maintain her career. I'm glad for it.
Thanks palyxa :)
 
Attention, New Yorkers! Karen is going to appear with the Citizens Band on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of this month.

Fellow Citizens

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the beautiful world-traveling Spiegeltent earlier this month. It was a wonderful treat to perform in such ornate and magical surroundings.

We are thrilled to have been invited to perform "The Panic Is On" at the Henry Street Settlement on October 23rd, 24th and 25th. The Henry Street Settlement is a wonderful arts center founded in 1893 by social work pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Delivering a wide range of social service and arts programming to more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year it is distinguished by a strong record of accomplishment, Henry Street challenges the effects of urban poverty by helping families achieve better lives for themselves and their children.

"The Panic Is On" is our most recent show and is directed by acclaimed theatre director Gordon Greenberg ("Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well", "Assisted Loving"). Our melodious Citizens find themselves in a shell-shocked and blitzed-out Never-Never-Land residing somewhere between 1880-1948. In this post-party, post-apocalyptic climate, they are forced to find common ground and hope in a terror-filled world as they ponder such issues as the Wall Street crash, war, immigration, xenophobia, poverty and their own hopes for political change through a spirited mix of classic songs and original compositions spanning over 150 years.

"The Panic Is On" shall be performed at the Abrons Arts Center on Grand Street, between Pitt and Clinton Streets. For more information on The Henry Street Settlement, including a map to the location go here:
http://www.henrystreet.org

This staging of "The Panic Is On" shall feature the delightful talents of such Citizens as Chelsea Bacon, Ian Buchanan, Michael Cavadias, Jorjee Douglass, Karen Elson, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Rachelle Garniez, Mike Jackson, Mark McAdam, Amy Miles, Jon Natchez, Rain Phoenix and Ronin.
In order to maintain an ongoing knowledge of activities and appearances please consider taking a moment to complete our communiques request form:
www.thecitizensband.net/mailing.shtml.

With warm affection and honorable admiration,
The Citizens Band
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www.thecitizensband.net

And according to the mailing list email, there's going to be after-parties, so there might be a chance to hang out with the troupe members. Did I mention I wish I lived in New York?
 
does anyone know when this work was done?
 

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Donna Karan - Resort 2008/2009

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Can someone please post this George cover and editorial? Thanks in advance



Source: E Bay
 
Love the new Donna Karan pic. and the old Absolut pic is good as well.
 
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