Topless teenage model signs up with top labelsThe next Kate Moss? ... Zippora Seven.
Photo: Lee Besford
Rachel Browne
November 23, 2008
THE teen model at the centre of a censorship storm over a semi-nude photographic spread has signed with two of Europe's leading fashion names.
Zippora Seven, who posed topless in a provocative shoot for Russh Australia magazine aged just 16, will appear in campaigns for Stella McCartney's See By Chloe and Swedish clothing brand H&M.
The Auckland-born model, who has been touted as a future Kate Moss, said she had "no regrets" about the Russh shoot, in which she appeared in a bubble bath with 15-year-old model Levi Clarke, raising the ire of child protection authorities.
She has since been to Paris to work on the See By Chloe shoot and Los Angeles to appear in H&M's spring/summer 2009 campaign.
Seven, who began modelling at the suggestion of her casting agent mother Ursula Dixon, is enjoying her rise in the fashion world.
"I only really started modelling properly at the beginning of this year," she said.
"Before, when I was still at school, it was more of a hobby. I am just going along with it at the moment.
"As long as I am still having fun, I'll keep doing it. I just take each day as it comes," she said.
Seven initially resisted the idea of modelling as she was more interested in working in fashion behind the camera. Yet her mother and older brother Jasper, also a model, changed her mind.
"My brother started doing it and I saw him and I thought it could be cool. I love it now."
Just 167.5 centimetres tall - at least five centimetres shorter than the usual minimum for a modelling career - Seven has shoots for French, Italian and Australian Vogue in her portfolio. She finds the comparisons with Kate Moss flattering but hopes to carve out her own identity.
"I just try to be me. I don't try to be anybody else," she said.
Source: The Sun-Herald

maybe this is all old news?I mentioned last week that NZ model-made-good Zippora Seven had scored the latest H&M campaign – quite possibly the biggest modelling job ever undertaken by a New Zealander. I talked to her a couple of days ago and she told me that she's shooting poolside in LA with Canadian Simon Nessman, (famous for his curly hair and, oh yeah, the fact that he's the face of Givenchy), and Bettine McAbe, the African American rising star who has recently appeared in the Tommy and Diesel fragrance campaigns.
This isn't the first time Zippora's and Simon's paths have crossed – they shot a French Vogue editorial together in Paris last year. I did a little sleuthing and found Simon Nessman's Model of the Week interview on models.com, and waddaya know? "Place you'd love to visit: New Zealand."
she has to be in the dolce campaign, but the shooting was during first edition of Rio Summer (you know, where she walked a lot of shows, Natalia and Valentino was there too, very imporant event in her country) and she refused to make it. but she said she is a very close friend of domenico and stefano, so probably she'll appear in another of their campaign soon![]()


Pretty sure it is Jeans but there hasn't been 100% confirmation on that, either...probably soon, though.Yes it's not the mainlinePretty sure it is Jeans but there hasn't been 100% confirmation on that, either...probably soon, though.


OSCAR’S RAW DEAL: Having shot his fall advertising campaign at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., Oscar de la Renta opted for the East Coast for his spring one. This time around, the end result is decidedly grittier. Earlier this month Craig McDean shot Raquel Zimmerman in a partially renovated warehouse in Yonkers, N.Y. De la Renta said, “I was really interested in the idea of contrasting the clothes with the environment. I thought that the raw, industrial elements of the location really provided a striking framework for the looks.” W’s Alex White styled the shoot, which was developed by Lloyd & Co. The spring campaign will debut in next month’s edition of Vogue.
^ Other models (not Raquel) would have been perfect, in my opinion![]()

Raquel has walked 10 ODLR rtw shows already, I would say a campaign is very overdue.
