Karolina Kurkova

[happycanadian]

and another fascinating read that gives some insight into KK's aspirations:

Is There Life After Modeling?

Karolina Kurkova, Angela Lindvall, and Coco Rocha plot the future of their relevance.

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• By Jada Yuan
• Published Feb 12, 2012

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High above New York on the 21st-floor balcony of the Cooper Square Hotel, German television is filming Karolina Kurkova teaching ten aspiring models how to walk a runway. “It literally looks like we’re walking on skyscrapers!” the Czech native, 27, says in enthusiastic English that later will be partially dubbed over in German. The girls, plucked from a Deutschland-wide search, at least pretend to understand.
Battling stiff winds and language barriers, Kurkova demonstrates three runway walks: high fashion, couture, and “show,” which basically means pretending to wear giant Victoria’s Secret wings—a technique in which Kurkova is quite expert. Then, to the delight of the Teutonic producers, she gets her heel stuck between floor slats. Her fumbling to free herself is a moment that, along with the many times she bursts into tears eliminating girls, will be played on repeat in stridently dramatic European promos.
The show, called Das Perfekte Model (The Perfect Model), is Kurkova’s first step toward building the kind of career that keeps a model in the spotlight after shoots have dried up. The greatest post-modeling successes in the past decade have been Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks. And not surprisingly, Kurkova and her producers are billing Das Perfekte Model as a toned-down, “documentary-style” counterpart to Klum’s second-best-known TV-hosting gig: the megahit Germany’s Next Topmodel (itself derived from Banks’s Top Model juggernaut).

When Jay-Z was seeking a big name to co-host an after-party for his Carnegie Hall benefit concerts last week, he called Karolina Kurkova. Her brand equity is model as entertainer, the person to turn to when you want to spike enthusiasm at some fancy event. It comes from growing up as a five-eleven teenager, she says. “I was never the girl the boys wanted to date. Being funny was my shtick.” The morning of Jay-Z’s party, Kurkova, mother to Tobin, 2, excitedly (and graphically) showed me the breast-feeding techniques she planned to teach the rapper that night for Blue Ivy.

Kurkova became one of the youngest Vogue cover girls ever at age 16, two years after a friend had sent her photo to a modeling agency in Prague. She later beat out Angelina Jolie as E!’s Sexiest Woman in the World. If anyone can improve upon the example of Heidi Klum, it’s probably her. And she’s been trying very hard to reignite her international presence. In the past year, she’s been on the cover of five Vogue magazines around the world. Her Vogue Brazil was the highest-selling cover in the magazine’s history, better even than the one with Gisele.

Except that beyond TV, Kurkova can’t articulate what’s next. Maybe a baby line, maybe a beauty line, maybe singing. “You have to live in the moment,” she says. “Not everything you can plan.” This is not flakiness, says Ivan Bart, who runs Kurkova’s agency, IMG Models: “A lot of models like to talk about what they’re going to do, but then they expect someone else to do it. They’re like, ‘I want to write a book!’ And then three days later they’re like, ‘Where’s my book?’ Karolina knows that if she wants to write a book, she has to write the damn book.”

and the link to the original article so y'all can read it in its entirety:
http://nymag.com/fashion/12/spring/top-models-2012-2/

 

[tarsha]

US VOGUE MARCH 2012

Tisci's Time
Models: Liv Tyler, Riccardo Tisci, Karolina Kurkova, Kanye West, Florence Welch & Liya Kebede
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Stylist: Camilla Nickerson



snapped by bones

 

[tarsha]

US VOGUE MARCH 2012

Vision Quest
Models: Liu Wen, Kasia Struss, Karolina Kurkova, Joan Smalls, Cara Delevigne & Fei Fei Sun
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh
Styled by Tabitha Simmons



snapped by bones

 

[liberty33r1b]

^her face looks so stunning in these pictures! it's really good to see her in us vogue again

 

[michelabella]

omg beautiful! love to see her in US Vogue again.

 

[happycanadian]

she does look TOTALLY stunning in these new pics! it's great to have her back in VOGUE. i hope anna uses her more frequently again.

anyway -- didn't y'all read about KK's vogue brazil cover?! isn't that amazing that she had the best selling issue in the magazine's history?! they'll definitely wanna put her on the cover again, i bet.

 

[avoocadoo]

great pics, especially the 1st!

wow i didn't newn this fact about Brasil cover

 

[avoocadoo]

Iceberg

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[avoocadoo]

Vogue Turkey February 2012

K Kurkova

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[avoocadoo]

many many new pics from Perfekte Model Germany and &

(it's interesting experience for her I think to advise other models )

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[avoocadoo]

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[tarsha]

US VOGUE MARCH 2012

Vision Quest
Models : Liu Wen, Kasia Struss, Karolina Kurkova, Joan Smalls, Cara Delevigne & Fei Fei Sun
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh
Styling by Tabitha Simmons






fashionscansremastered

 

[happycanadian]

thanks for the new pics, avoo!

and YES! to her beign in that gorgeous editorial in US Vogue! brilliant!!

 

[avoocadoo]

yfrog

posted on facebook by KK, I hope she doesn't mind

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[Nefertiti87]

Tobin is so cute OMG

 

[Deleted member 1957]

wow he looks just like her. love the eds too

 

[avoocadoo]

one of my favourite candids shot, here in better Q

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Corbis

 

[liberty33r1b]

^haven't seen that candid shot before, thanks!

 

[happycanadian]

i haven't seen them either. i have to admit - i miss her with a bit of colour in her skin. she had that sunkissed golden skin for so long. so healthy and radiant.

 

[happycanadian]

she's the face of The Limited. i'm not familiar with the brand, but they've apparently made a big push this season to make their brand more known. and so they needed a supermodel like KK.

from WWD:

"UPPING THE ANTE: The Limited is spending big on its spring campaign, which involves a big-name model and supersized media plan. The brand has never been in the race to score a big name, but all indicators show the retailer is now ready to compete by hiring model Karolina Kurkova and tapping Trey Laird of Laird + Partners (who seems to be behind every campaign this season). The Limited declined to comment on its media budget for the season, but an industry source said that “it’s approaching the $10 million level.”







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