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Don't like her on the runway but love her editorials, and she looked gorgeous in the T-Mobile TV ad. recently.
.. good to see she's still around!!
I did a search and it seems this interview hasn't been posted
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Written by Wayne Sterling
It started as a flicker in NY. Louise Pedersen, a quiet girl from Denmark with a cupid bow pout and downcast eyes that gives this kind of...disdainful edge to her classic Nordic beauty is making her round of show castings. This is her first NY season. She's on the mega-wattage board of Women but no one's ever heard of, much less glimpsed this girl before. Louise has never set foot on a major runway before, has very little in her book (one test and a few Polaroids) yet here she is nestling in the package amidst Isabeli and Frankie and Carmen. Every time she leaves a casting however, something funny happens. Yet another client calls up to testify to the totality of Louise's effortless cool. And to confirm her. For Calvin. For Marc. For DKNY. One after the other. It's a respectable start. Then Louise gets to Milan and a bonfire of curiosity explodes when she comes ambling down Prada’s runway as the first girl out. By October when she touches down in Paris, the bonfire is a raging firestorm with the Danish stunner emerging as the must-have girl of the season. When it is all over, should you care to rank the Top 10 new Faces in terms of volume of shows booked, it is Louise who sits on top of the heap. That makes her a bonafide overnight sensation in a business where overnight is code for "working quietly for a year".
This girl who came of nowhere to do everything is indeed the stealth sensation of the Spring/Summer 02 season and with campaigns for Gucci and Hugo set to break in the next two months, it was high time MDC caught up with the girl most likely to go massive.
I apologize for having you up at this indecent time of the morning. Coffee?
I 'd love to but can't eat any foods with color. They bleached my teeth. I just came from the dentist. Can't smoke. No coffee or tea for 2 days. Glamorous, right?
Beauty has its price (lol) Describe the big discovery of Louise Pedersen
I was scouted in Denmark on the train. There was another model on that train and by the time we reached the Central Station, the boss of this agency was there to see me. I started laughing at them. I said "no" to start with actually.
I take it you had no plan to model at that time.
Exactly I was on my way to Norway...on my way to work... I was working as a waitress at my boyfriend's parents' hotel...So when I got back to Copenhagen I went up to see the agency people. Just to say hi.
And they flipped out in bliss...
And me not being used to this world at all and the double kissing and the "Oh honey you're gorgeous". I'm like Oohh...K.. It took me a while to leave my ties behind in Denmark and start traveling.
How do you explain the buzz you generated in your very first season
I don't know. You tell me. (lol) Mario Testino had a lot to do with this I'd say. I saw him here in NY just before I left for Milan so I think he liked me because he was kind of spreading the word. I'd go to castings and people would casually go..."Ohhh you're the girl Mario was talking about.!"
Next thing you know you're opening Prada. Did you know you'd be first exit at the fittings?
I found out, literally, five minutes before the show. In fact it was another model who I had met at a previous show who told me I was opening Prada. It came as a shock. I told her she must have had me mistaken for another Louise (lol)
Any dirty looks from the veterans?...
Any dirty looks from the veterans?
Oh not at all. A lot the established girls are actually quite sweet. Once you're on that level of success and making that much money, I think you've long left the backstabbing behind.
Glancing at your charts I see you're fresh from the set of Mert+Marcus.
Yes. We were just in Cornwall.
Cornwall. Yipes!
It's a beautiful place. It was seven hours from NY to London, then 6 hours from London to Cornwall but it's that willingness to go that extra mile to find unique things that makes them so great as photographers.
How does your family feel about this sudden success?
My family is happy, nervous, a bit concerned. They're saying "Don't let the money get to you. If it gets too overwhelming, come home". Speaking of which I'm going home for Christmas and New Year's. My birthday's a week before Christmas so I'm very much looking forward to that.
You'll be a celebrity in your hometown!
Not in Denmark. It's not like that. Helena Christensen can walk down the street and she'll be noticed but it won't be a mob scene harassing her or anything like that.
What's Louise's secret passion?
I paint. It's how I de-stress. It's figurative pieces of nude women. In the spirit of Gustav Klimt. Of course you really don't make any money doing that. (lol) Animals are another huge passion of mine. If all of this goes incredibly well I'm planning on buying some property and either breeding some dogs or some horses.
What's that one moment in your modeling career thus far that was just like the movies...
It's not like the movies (lol) Like any job you have to be punctual, you have to work hard, you have to be professional. There were so many moments. I can't pick one. Being on the Gucci set was an incredibly big moment...Doing all those shows was an amazing adrenaline rush. A big "moment" was right at the start in New York, when I did the Calvin Klein show because that's a name that you see everywhere in the world...on underwear, jeans, perfumes. My mom knows Calvin Klein, that was what I was thinking when I walked out and there were the lights and the people. I thought, My God. It really all does exist.
www.models.com
Written by Wayne Sterling
It started as a flicker in NY. Louise Pedersen, a quiet girl from Denmark with a cupid bow pout and downcast eyes that gives this kind of...disdainful edge to her classic Nordic beauty is making her round of show castings. This is her first NY season. She's on the mega-wattage board of Women but no one's ever heard of, much less glimpsed this girl before. Louise has never set foot on a major runway before, has very little in her book (one test and a few Polaroids) yet here she is nestling in the package amidst Isabeli and Frankie and Carmen. Every time she leaves a casting however, something funny happens. Yet another client calls up to testify to the totality of Louise's effortless cool. And to confirm her. For Calvin. For Marc. For DKNY. One after the other. It's a respectable start. Then Louise gets to Milan and a bonfire of curiosity explodes when she comes ambling down Prada’s runway as the first girl out. By October when she touches down in Paris, the bonfire is a raging firestorm with the Danish stunner emerging as the must-have girl of the season. When it is all over, should you care to rank the Top 10 new Faces in terms of volume of shows booked, it is Louise who sits on top of the heap. That makes her a bonafide overnight sensation in a business where overnight is code for "working quietly for a year".
This girl who came of nowhere to do everything is indeed the stealth sensation of the Spring/Summer 02 season and with campaigns for Gucci and Hugo set to break in the next two months, it was high time MDC caught up with the girl most likely to go massive.
I apologize for having you up at this indecent time of the morning. Coffee?
I 'd love to but can't eat any foods with color. They bleached my teeth. I just came from the dentist. Can't smoke. No coffee or tea for 2 days. Glamorous, right?
Beauty has its price (lol) Describe the big discovery of Louise Pedersen
I was scouted in Denmark on the train. There was another model on that train and by the time we reached the Central Station, the boss of this agency was there to see me. I started laughing at them. I said "no" to start with actually.
I take it you had no plan to model at that time.
Exactly I was on my way to Norway...on my way to work... I was working as a waitress at my boyfriend's parents' hotel...So when I got back to Copenhagen I went up to see the agency people. Just to say hi.
And they flipped out in bliss...
And me not being used to this world at all and the double kissing and the "Oh honey you're gorgeous". I'm like Oohh...K.. It took me a while to leave my ties behind in Denmark and start traveling.
How do you explain the buzz you generated in your very first season
I don't know. You tell me. (lol) Mario Testino had a lot to do with this I'd say. I saw him here in NY just before I left for Milan so I think he liked me because he was kind of spreading the word. I'd go to castings and people would casually go..."Ohhh you're the girl Mario was talking about.!"
Next thing you know you're opening Prada. Did you know you'd be first exit at the fittings?
I found out, literally, five minutes before the show. In fact it was another model who I had met at a previous show who told me I was opening Prada. It came as a shock. I told her she must have had me mistaken for another Louise (lol)
Any dirty looks from the veterans?...
Any dirty looks from the veterans?
Oh not at all. A lot the established girls are actually quite sweet. Once you're on that level of success and making that much money, I think you've long left the backstabbing behind.
Glancing at your charts I see you're fresh from the set of Mert+Marcus.
Yes. We were just in Cornwall.
Cornwall. Yipes!
It's a beautiful place. It was seven hours from NY to London, then 6 hours from London to Cornwall but it's that willingness to go that extra mile to find unique things that makes them so great as photographers.
How does your family feel about this sudden success?
My family is happy, nervous, a bit concerned. They're saying "Don't let the money get to you. If it gets too overwhelming, come home". Speaking of which I'm going home for Christmas and New Year's. My birthday's a week before Christmas so I'm very much looking forward to that.
You'll be a celebrity in your hometown!
Not in Denmark. It's not like that. Helena Christensen can walk down the street and she'll be noticed but it won't be a mob scene harassing her or anything like that.
What's Louise's secret passion?
I paint. It's how I de-stress. It's figurative pieces of nude women. In the spirit of Gustav Klimt. Of course you really don't make any money doing that. (lol) Animals are another huge passion of mine. If all of this goes incredibly well I'm planning on buying some property and either breeding some dogs or some horses.
What's that one moment in your modeling career thus far that was just like the movies...
It's not like the movies (lol) Like any job you have to be punctual, you have to work hard, you have to be professional. There were so many moments. I can't pick one. Being on the Gucci set was an incredibly big moment...Doing all those shows was an amazing adrenaline rush. A big "moment" was right at the start in New York, when I did the Calvin Klein show because that's a name that you see everywhere in the world...on underwear, jeans, perfumes. My mom knows Calvin Klein, that was what I was thinking when I walked out and there were the lights and the people. I thought, My God. It really all does exist.
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Very exotic eyes...so mysterious and seductive...me likey
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I love the DKNY ads
