Liya Kebede

[la_sonnambula]

Thanks for the pictures Child in time! I love what Liya is wearing. She looks so dapper!

 

[Nemezide]

looks so elegant

 

[la_sonnambula]

Aww, Go Fug Yourself doesn't share my love of Liya's suit. At least she got off pretty lightly.

 

[Child_in_time]

Liya's number 2 on Ten Best Dressed at style.com, wearing Chanel at Chanel's dinner party on April 28.

 

[Deleted member 103203]

Liya was casted in the Lanvin campaign!

 

[Child_in_time]

Oh my, now that's wonderful news! I can safely presume the result will be amazing, I think she fits the collection. I also found a photo from the event that I don't think has been posted so far (although a similar one from the same event was)

Paris 25 février 2008 - YSL opening

Maria Carla Boscono - Liya Kedebe & Audrey Marnay


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[Child_in_time]

vogue.fr

 

[simplylovely]

Liya was casted in the Lanvin campaign!

She better get it!

 

[J'ador-DioR]

^ She already got it & shot the campaign back in March

In March, I met Dangin in Los Angeles, where he had gone to work on the Lanvin ad campaign, to be shot by Steven Meisel. At six in the morning, he picked me up at my hotel—in a red Mini Cooper—and drove to Smashbox Studios, a sprawling complex of soundstages in Culver City.
We arrived to a mostly empty set. Fifteen full-sized wheelie suitcases were waiting for the makeup artist, Pat McGrath. One of them was labelled “Gold-Blonde Wigs.” Dangin went to get a cup of coffee at the craft-services table.
Edward Enninful, the stylist for the shoot, greeted him, and they began to discuss another campaign they were working on, which had been shot earlier. Dangin had just received the raw pictures.
“What was going on with the hair?” Dangin asked.
“I don’t know,” Enninful replied. “It was twenty different ways, doing it, undoing it.”
“It feels compromised,” Dangin said. “This way looks . . . bourgeois. It needs to be a little ****ed up. Maybe I can do something with it.”
“See if you can.”
Dangin approached the middle of the soundstage, where a team of P.A.s, like roadies setting up for a concert, were unloading coils of wire and cable and a huge apparatus that looked like an industrial-sized toaster oven (it turned out to be a printer). Dangin stage-directed as they dragged a couple of long tables to form an L-shaped console, where he would sit as Meisel shot, monitoring the action on two large computer screens, like an assistant director on an action movie.
“Have you seen the new fibre paper that came out?” one of the assistants asked Dangin.
“Yeah, it’s not very good.”
Dangin grabbed a box of printer paper from his console and handed pieces out to each of the assistants, who ogled it, checking every angle for fibre and gloss, in the way of shoppers at the grocery store feeling up the fruit.

There were two models on hand, Liya Kebede and Raquel Zimmerman. Meisel would shoot them separately against a black dropcloth—equivalent to the sort of blue screen a weatherman uses—to set off the movement of the clothes. The idea was for Dangin to take Meisel’s favorite shot of each woman and splice the two onto some sort of artificial urban background of his own creation.

Dangin huddled with Lanvin’s designer, Alber Elbaz, along with McGrath, Enninful, and the creative director for the ad campaign, Ronnie Cooke Newhouse. After some debate about just what sort of glamour the team was going for—“We’re doing our downtown smoky burlesque woman, right?” “So, rich rather than dangerous?”—Meisel arrived, and the shoot began.
We’re doing our downtown smoky burlesque woman, right?” “So, rich rather than dangerous?”—Meisel arrived, and the shoot began.
Later that night, Dangin showed me some prototype images that were the result of the day’s work. One of them featured Kebede, wearing a black strapless gown with ruffles down the front, and Zimmerman, in a plum-colored dress that tied around the neck, in the middle of a dark city street. They looked kinetic, caught in mid-motion, as if they were about to hail a cab. Behind the pair were the blurry lights of New York in the rain. Or so it looked. Dangin had actually assembled the cityscape mostly from hundreds of random images that his staff had culled from the Internet

newyorker.com via lucy92 via harrietcamilla @ Raquel's thread.

 

[Mchunu]

Liya was casted in the Lanvin campaign!

can't wait to see it!

 

[MicheleIman]

Liya at the MET Costume Institute's Party of the Year

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[simplylovely]

^ Was just about to post that MicheleIman. She looks absolutely stunning with that hairstyle and in her dress!

 

[Bahiyya]

Wow. She truly looks glamorous. Totally eclipsing all of the model shots from there I've seen so far . Go Liya!

 

[Tinuviel]

Wow Gorgeousness! Who is she wearing? She's gone straight to the top of the best dressed list.

 

[Aby]

Liya looks so glamorous, like old times movie stars ! Gorgeous!

 

[cosmocat]

^She really does, so stunning. Especially that lip color on her.

 

[Sweet rus]

She looked so stunning at the MET! Alaways so beautiful, sophisticated and elegant.

 

[J'ador-DioR]

This is the best she's looked in awhile


She's wearing Jonathan Saunders I believe, since she was his date for the evening


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[MeMe7]

she looked so good!

 

[J'ador-DioR]

NEW YORK - MAY 01: Model Liya Kebede attends the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival awards night party held at the Target Tribeca Filmmaker Lounge during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival on May 1, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Will Ragozzino/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

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