Lara Stone

[mikel]

She looks gorgeous on the Couture runway.

 

[childkid]

You can see the JPG campaign in the background of these pictures


thecobrasnake

and here are some backstage pictures from Givenchy

catwalking

 

[clocked]

thanks for posting that article, obsvr...it's a great read, i like knowing that she struggled for awhile before becoming this successful...always inspiring

 

[Melly5525]

She looks just so sexy and dark in that black gown at Givenchy, love it

 

[atooomic]

She looks kinda dead, but I love it.

yeah, me too!

 

[wolfy]

You can see the JPG campaign in the background of these pictures

catwalking

i was hoping shed be the one doing the ballet in the campaign
but i really cant wait to see the final product

 

[classicalbang]

And, mostly, I just love her face. You can see it in her eyes just as much as it's written in the lines of her body: this is a woman who's been around, who's cracked a few jokes, broken a few hearts, and had hers broken in turn. This is the face of a woman who knows. Am I projecting? Sure. But that's what the profession invites. The fact remains that she looks like a person, with an identity. No photogenic teenager has her kind of magnetism.

This is why I love her.

 

[.amahlia.]

hmmmm.. laras sparkle is fading a bit to me..

 

[rox_yr_sox]

Great article! They've articulated everything I always though about Lara but never new how to say! I wonder if her public profile will go through the roof this year.

 

[childkid]

so fashionista scanned lara's interviews from vogue paris, unfortunately i do not speak enough french to understand them


fashionista

 

[Lamia]

Arghh,and I tough I will finally read something new from herI wonder what is she talking about there...

 

[slow_hands]

Stella McCartney Paris Store Opening

fashionologie.com

 

[thiago:)]

So a lot of models went to this event... Her skin doesn't look good...

 

[Child_in_time]

At Stella's store opening, wwd

 

[Melly5525]

^She looks really hot there besides the eyebrows that pink looks great on her

 

[rox_yr_sox]

My translation (part 1) of the Lara interview in Vogue Paris. My most humble apologies to the French for my errors!

Opposite Lara


OZ: I read the Wikipedia article that’s devoted to you. It is really dull, so this interview is going to be formidable.
LS: It will be! (laughs). Wikipedia wasn’t even capable of listing my real date of birth.
OZ: So, you were born in 1983, right?
LS: Yes. A month and a half early. I was a tiny premature baby, and yellow, also, because my liver wasn’t functioning correctly. My parents had, without a doubt, a tendency to over-protect me because of that. But that didn’t work. I can not stop myself from taking the wrong route.
OZ: What do you think of the 80’s?
LS: I have the impression that it was a funny era to live in. I would have loved to be the age that I am now in those years, to see the 60’s and the 70’s.
OZ: Are you a bit nostalgic?
LS: Of course. The 90’s, the present times, they’re more or less boring. The other decades had the hippies, rock, punk… What did you have in the 90’s? The Spice Girls! Today, I love Nirvana, but at the time I was a bit to young to understand. I preferred Take That and the Back Street Boys (laughs). Really atrocious!
OZ: You grew up in the Netherlands. It’s not really a country fashionably plugged in, is it?
LS: Non. Dutch people make an attempt…
OZ: But the Dutch are very gifted in design and architecture.
LS: Yes. There are very good schools for that. But the people with talent leave. It’s such a small country! They go looking for success elsewhere! Me as well, I wanted to escape. Not for fashion, however, but because I was very difficult. And I always want to escape!
OZ: What do you want to escape?
LS: Myself, with doubt! (laughs)
OZ: Not love?
LS: No, I love love.
OZ: Would you put an en to your career for love?
LS: Absolutely.
OZ: Having a baby for love…
LS: I believed at one time that I strongly wanted a baby, but I believe that I am still not ready to do it.
OZ: After ten years in the game, you still have the face of a baby. How is that possible? Not having the time to sleep, travelling for work, often eating poorly…You must have good genes.
LS: I believe so. But not good health, in any case!
OZ: You’re smile’s really a part of it. Happy teeth!
OZ: If have this space between my front teeth, because my dentist decided to not give my braces. I don’t see a problem there, it pays the rent!
OZ: What do you see when you look in the mirror. I know a lot of models don’t like what they see.
LS: Because I do it the whole day, each day that God does. You are seated in front of the mirror when you’re in the makeup chair getting your hair and makeup done. After you look at the photos that have been taken of you. You really get tied of looking at yourself.
OZ: When people tell you that you are beautiful, you don’t believe it?
LS: No, I don’t believe that I am believe. I have a bit of a weird look. I have big ears that stick out, funny teeth, my face is way off…
OZ: So, why did you want to become a model?
LS: I never wanted to! That was never my dream. People asked me to do it for them, my mother said yes… It started in the Paris underground.
OZ: No way! I don’t believe it!
LS: It’s true. On line 8, the Madeleine station, 12 years ago. I remember it as if it was yesterday. A female agent from Elite saw me. I was with my whole family. I wasn’t even 12. The woman told me news, but I believe I simply laughed. She talked with my mother, who took her address and sent her some photos of me. Next, I went to see the agency in Amsterdam. I took part in a competition for Elite and I lost. It was in 1999.
OZ: But today, despite your success, you cannot always accept your beauty.
LS: I don’t think that I am “beautiful” in true form.
OZ: That’s no longer funny.
LS: You don’t think that I’m funny? I’ve made you chuckle more than once.
OZ: Yes, but you didn’t respond to my telephone calls. That’s not funny.
LS: Oh so what! (laughs)
OZ: But with your experience in fashion, you must certainly know that the pros wanted to shape your beauty, that you’re a projection of their dreams.
LS: Very certainly. I remember, the first time that I saw you on the catwalk in Italy, a Prada show I believe, having also been attracted to you, curious about knowing you, I sent a sample of my magazine to your hotel with my telephone number… And I thought: this girl isn’t an ordinary model.
LS: And you had put a note with your telephone number, something like: “Lara, I love you. Please call me”.
OZ: But you never called me!
LS: I know. I ignored who you were! Now I know. I would have called you - with a bit of luck.
OZ: But I’m from the 90’s. I liked anti-fashion models. Kristen McMenamy, Milla Jovovich or Guinevere Van Seenus. On the catwalks, they were like “wow!”. They were alive, they didn’t play poor game. They weren’t appealing. I saw the same thing in you and I wanted to meet you, to have a drink with you.
LS: Have a drink with me! That was a really good approach! (laughs)
OZ: Seriously, you are different, and it’s important for me to personally know the people with which I want to work.
LS: I am going to be 25.



...More to follow...

 

[.amahlia.]

OMG! 1983!!! wow, i thought lara was in her early 20's...

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

i just read the whole interview and ahahah thats so obviously, what Zahm is trying to play around with Lara... (i luv ur beauty ur uncommon face, and lets go boire un verre blablabla) and Lara tells him where to get off. Olivier, ure usin` such primitive methods...

 

[atooomic]

So a lot of models went to this event... Her skin doesn't look good...

but stella mccartney's skin looks even worst

 

[rox_yr_sox]

Lara interview, Vogue Paris, Part 2:

LS: I have a life and I do not want to pass it pacing up and down catwalks. In any case, I can’t walk in high heels. I am really scared and there are people watching you… It’s horrible.
OZ: Are you always awkward?
LS: Yes, I’m horrified by it. The horror! I’m scared just thinking about it! It’s like: “Here we go!” And you must go down that thing with all those people looking at you and taking photos or filming you. And you have to walk with shoes that don’t fit you. My only thought with each step is: “ Do not fall! Do not fall!”
OZ: OK, you see things like that: you are a non-conventional beauty. Agreed?
LS: And I am really heavy.
OZ: Yes, it’s very sexy. You have the body of a Playboy model in the 70’s.
LS: Yes, after a good dose of Photoshop.
OZ: Come on! Playboy also uses Photoshop! I think that your type of beauty is very rare. Your face is a little strange, your great teeth, your lively eyes…
OZ: Thanks! Thanks to you, I feel really good!
OZ: No irony! And your skin is so pale…
LS: Thanks, thanks… For telling me something so agreeable!
OZ: How so? I’m unpleasant?
LS: “You have a strange face, a big gap between your teeth, really pale skin…”! Come on! (laughs)
OZ: You have naturally blond hair. You always have an unhappy air about you…
LS: Yes, yes, great!
OZ: Furthermore, you don’t know how to walk in high heels. And it’s that which makes you the top international model that you are today.
LS: Absolutely. (laughs). And that’s enough!
OZ: But photographers love you, they all want to take your photo. What do you feels in front of the lens?
LS: I feel at ease. It’s really entertaining. For this edition of Vogue, for example, there were a heap of photographers with which I had never worked, like Heidi Slimane. I was a little nervous at the idea of meeting him, because I had always loved what he had done for Dior. And his photos are really astonishing! I like the performance photos, you have to be many different people each day.
OZ: You enter into a character’s skin.
LS: Yes, it’s that which entertains. Perhaps because I’m completely schizo, that I have multiple personalities, and it’s good for me.
OZ: Perhaps that’s why you are such a success.
LS: I do not know, my dear. It’s you who can tell. (laughs)
OZ: But how can you explain it, then?
LS: I do not know. I think that I simply have all the luck. There are tonnes of other girls, and everyone works very hard.
OZ: Do you like clothes?
LS: No.
OZ: Do couturiers interest you?
LS: No, sorry! Well, I like them personally, but I will never say things like: “Oh my god, I must have those shoes! Or that bag! Or that look!”. I like the couturiers as long as they are people, they are friends.
OZ: Who, for example? Riccardo Tisci?
LS: Absolutely. I love Riccardo, he is the kindest person in the world. I love Jean Paul Gaultier, Christophe Decarnin at Balmain… But I don’t want to forget anyone, especially the women, Stella McCartney, Miuccia… When I met them, I was absolutely terrified, because it was the celebrated Miss Prada, and you don’t hold her up… But she is a very kind woman.
OZ: So you like the personal contact with the couturiers?
LS: If I don’t like them, I don’t work with them.
OZ: Does posing nude embarrass you?
LS: No, I don’t mind. But I’m not always naked, contrary to what some people say. What’s so bad about it anyway? It’s very human.
OZ: Perhaps part of it is because you’re Dutch. The Dutch are very natural people, aren’t they?
LS: I never did it when I was a teenager. It took a ten year career before I felt comfortable in posing nude. Now, I’m at ease with my body. I don’t mind that everyone can see me. Besides, everyone’s seen it before, so it’s a bit late to want to hide it, no?
OZ: Do you have tattoos?
LS: No.
OZ: But you have piercings?
LS: No. I had one in my boob, but I took it out, it never really healed, it was too tender, and anyway, I no longer liked it.
OZ: So, today after ten years of your career…
LS: Please… It’s so depressing!
OZ: How do you feel after ten years?
LS: Tired.
OZ: Ready for ten more years?
LS: Maybe. I still like my job. I don’t believe in being good at it, and separately having a miserable attitude towards photos.
OZ: You don’t like abou doing something else?
LS: No. But I worked at McDonalds! (laughs). Then, I was kicked out of high school because I made to many problems for them. I finished school, in the end, but when I was kicked out, my parents, the agency in the Netherlands and me decided that I had to go to Paris for my career. So that’s what I did. I was 16 years old. During eight years I just got by, without a cent. I had to duck under the Paris underground barriers, because I didn’t have anything to buy tickets with. My mother used to send me money one week, and the agency the following week. I was scared. At one time, The agency even refused to give me money, by saying that I owed them.
OZ: They counted the money the rent money in your debt?
LS: Yes. They counted everything. Appalling. When you are young also - and even today - it scares you to learn that you owe a lot of money. So they started to book me in almost all the German catalogues, I had to smile, hop about… I repaid my debt in a month, it was great.
OZ: Would you say that your career really took off with the second Parisian show by Givenchy, in autumn 2006?
LS: Yes, and when I took part in the third, in January 2007. Riccardo called Carine Roitfeld and said to her: “I’ve found a girl that you’ll love”.
OZ: You are hereafter also celebrated the precedent that was the generation of supermodels - Linda, Kate, Naomi, Christy, Claudia…
LS: No, no, you cannot compare me to them, absolutely not! They were astonishing! And Kate is still the supermodel of today - we’ve never seen that sort of longevity. Linda, Naomi… they are all stars.
OZ: Why not accept that as well?
LS: I will never accept that, my dear! (laughs)
OZ: You live on another planet!
LS: Yes, Lalaland! No, in today’s era everything is done differently.
OZ: Yes, but in these dull times, we need girls like you, strong, powerful, without fear and sexy… Not like these very thin Russian beauties who are all interchangeable.
LS: It’s very kind of you to say that. Thanks.


It's probably full of translation errors, but you can get the gist of the interview.