Karolina Kurkova

[versustito]

Pirelli 2014 Calendar Peter Lindbergh Interview

http://vimeo.com/72289236

 

[happycanadian]

SOO excited to see her in Pirelli!!

I'm not sure these pics count as the official "Pirelli" pics, so I'm sure they're allowed here, non? The calendar isn't being released until November, so these are just the press photos.

She looks amazing. Lindbergh always captures her in the most gorgeous way.

from KK's facebook:














facebook/karolinakurkova

 

[Nefertiti87]

She looks stunning in those calendar shots!

 

[Dea1983]

HARPER'S BAZAAR RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 2013
Karolina Kurkova
Source: glossynewsstand.com

 

[avoocadoo]

HARPER'S BAZAAR RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 2013
Karolina Kurkova
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wow.nice to see her in next cover ..as for Pirelli..this calendar is a valid part of her career.Great to see so many supermodels together again!

 

[versustito]

Mademoiselle C

A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocKy6DItPI

 

[blissfulness]

Her and Alek Wek are the best thing about the new Pirelli Calendar photos.

 

[Dea1983]

 

[CommanderTMugler]

Karolina, Helena, Alessandra, Alek and Isabeli are a dream team!

 

[Dea1983]

Czech model Karolina Kurkova wrapped up warm in Sydney on Tuesday
Source: dailymail.co.uk

 

[Bigmax]

'Harper’s Bazaar' Russia - September 2013, “Light And Dark” by David Roemer




fashionscansremastered.net

 

[Dea1983]

THE EDIT AUGUST 22, 2013
The Karolina Effect
Karolina Kurkova by Mariano Vivanco
Styled by Tracy Taylor
Source: glossynewsstand.com

 

[Bigmax]

THE EDIT AUGUST 22, 2013
The Karolina Effect
Karolina Kurkova by Mariano Vivanco
Styled by Tracy Taylor
Source: glossynewsstand.com

Full video here:

http://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/209/16

net-a-porter.com

 

[Nymphaea]

Interview The Edit

She went from schoolgirl to supermodel overnight, while retaining a down-to-earth attitude throughout her stellar career. Model mother Karolina Kurkova puts off-duty summer style through its paces, and reveals why family values are at the heart of everything she does.

It is the stuff of fairy tales. Growing up in a small town in the Czech Republic, Karolina Kurkova was, in her words, “the tall, skinny nerd”. Whenever someone pointed a camera in her direction, she never wanted to smile. “I thought my teeth were too big,” she remembers.

But after a friend sent her photos to a modeling agency in Prague, the self-conscious 15-year-old landed a runway appearance, before being whisked to Milan and signing a contract with Prada. Then, in September 1999, she was hand-picked by Anna Wintour for an American Vogue photo shoot with Steven Meisel, one of the biggest names in fashion photography.

“He said my smile was beautiful. So I started smiling!” Kurkova recalls. Wintour put one of the shots on the February 2001 issue cover. In the photo, Kurkova is striding along, wearing a white jacket and floral skirt, glancing over her shoulder, beaming.

Twelve years after that career-defining moment, Kurkova is sitting opposite me in the courtyard of the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, NYC. Now 29, she has countless covers, editorials and campaigns to her name. Yet she still has that quality Meisel encouraged – the ability to radiate gorgeousness at 100 paces. (I swear our waiter’s hand wobbles as he pours her water.) “I know I’m lucky to do this work,” she admits, her accent American with Eastern European emphasis. “I get to express myself and work with creative people. So I don’t think of it as work; it’s what I love.”

Kurkova’s down-to-earth attitude is thanks to her modest beginnings in her hometown, Decin. Her father was a well-known basketball player, so she was spared the worst deprivations of Communism. Even so, it was a humble upbringing – her artistic mother would hand-make her clothes. After the Velvet Revolution in 1992, Kurkova’s parents encouraged her to travel. “It is thanks to them and to the values they gave me that I could make the move to New York at 17, and know how to handle myself,” she says.

Kurkova’s personal style is similarly unpretentious. She describes her look as, “simple, classic, chic, but with an edge”. For our interview, she is dressed in a billowy blue American Apparel shirt and tiny Madewell cut-off shorts. Even in her flat, gold Les Tropéziennes sandals, at 5ft 11in, she towers over me (I later learn that her endless legs are toned by Pilates and kick-boxing.) Apart from a swipe of orange lipstick, she is makeup-free. “Even if I don’t have time for anything else, I have to have lipstick,” she explains. “It makes me feel ready for the world.”

Her stylish simplicity extends to her everyday dressing. She is, she says, “an extremely smart shopper” who looks for flexibility. “I love a dress I can wear with flats to play with my son, but then I can add a great pair of pumps, maybe a jacket, a cool piece of jewelry and I’m ready for a meeting.” Céline, Alexander Wang and Christopher Kane are favorites.

For the red carpet, she is more experimental. “It’s emotional,” she reflects. “I’m inspired by where I am, the energy, the people. I don’t have one look. Google me. You’ll see.” Later, I do just that. Three recent appearances saw her step out in a space-age silver Michael Kors shorts suit; a floor-skimming, cobalt silk halter dress by Loft; and a one-shouldered, wildly printed Mary Katrantzou mini-dress. “I’m a multi-dimensional person,” Kurkova says, “so I use different styles to express who I am.”

That multi-dimensional approach extends to work, too. Kurkova has dabbled in acting, and has signed up for a second season of modeling reality show The Face, where, alongside Naomi Campbell and Coco Rocha, she coaches modeling hopefuls. A UK version of the show will launch in September with Naomi, alongside Erin O’Connor and Caroline Winberg.

Meanwhile, Kurkova continues to balance modeling – including for the shoot you see in these pages, set in upstate New York – with family time with her actor husband, Archie Drury, and their three-year-old son, Tobin Jack. “That’s always the first discussion at home,” she explains. “Have we been traveling a lot? How much quality time as a family have we had? As a mother, I’ve started to ask: why am I doing this job or that job? Do I believe in it? It has to be good for the family.”

That desire for balance is one of the reasons the family recently relocated to a small island off the coast of Miami. “We have peacocks walking around our property and manatees in the ocean. It’s where we want to live while our son is small, so he’s able to run and be in nature.”

In the coming year, she will turn 30 and she is clear about her future: “The next phase of my life will be about building my brand,” she says. In an era when so many models are diversifying – Karlie Kloss has a cookie company and hosts MTV’s House Of Style, alongside fellow model Joan Smalls, while Miranda Kerr has a line of beauty products – Kurkova is looking into various business ventures: “I need to find the right idea and the right team. It has to have integrity and I want to be part of the process.”

In the meantime, she stays active on social media, sharing quotes, fashion articles, beauty tips and recipes. “I’m on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest… everything,” she says. “I think it’s a great way to create your own voice. You can be in charge of what you put out there.” In charge, striding ahead, and smiling all the way – sounds like Kurkova to a tee.

net-a-porter.com

 

[vaboosh]

KaDeWe Magazine F/W 2013

"The new look"
ph: Horst Diekgerdes
st: Kathi Kauder
m: Karolina Kurkova



via kadewe.de

 

[happycanadian]

oooohh!!! i love that spread! where's KaDeWe magazine based out of? i've never heard of it.

KK looks gorgeous in those shots, though. i particularly like the cover shot with all the purses.

 

[omicron]

KaDeWe is the biggest department store in continental Europe (in Berlin).

 

[coluchka]

'Mademoiselle C' Premiere at Florence Gould Hall in New York City - September 6, 2013

zimbio.com

 

[Deleted member 1957]

at US open from the kk fb page

 

[Dea1983]

Lindsay Ellingson, Karolina Kurkova, Peter Lindbergh, Doutzen Kroes, and Irina Shayk attend the Peter Lindbergh exhibition at Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld Gallery on September 7, 2013 in New York City.
Source: zimbio.com