The NY Times T Style Women's Fashion Fall 2011 : Esperanza Spalding by Alice O'Malley

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Sally Singer first heard about her new cover girl, jazz singer Esperanza Spalding, at a poetry slam at the White House. “If he [President Barack Obama] had a favorite jazz musician, it would be her,” said Singer. “I knew she was going to be that person, the one we would put on the cover. She’s a celebrity for all the right reasons and at the top of her game, in her artistic medium.” If Spalding’s name doesn’t ring a bell, you might remember her in this context: she beat out Justin Bieber, Florence and the Machine, Drake and Mumford & Sons earlier this year to win the Grammy for Best New Artist.

Inside the new issue of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, which comes out Sunday, Singer calls the story about famed dentist Bernard Touati, “one of my favorite pieces ever.” Touati is the dentist to celebrities and politicians including Vladimir Putin, Diane von Furstenberg and Valentino. “I met him because we go to the same gym in Paris, when I go during the collections,” said Singer. “We’re the only two people in Paris who go at the crack of dawn.”

The magazine also features photography from Hedi Slimane, who went to Los Angeles and shot women willing to chop off most of their hair. There’s also a piece on model coeds, featuring Lily Cole at Cambridge and Cameron Russell at Columbia University.

Singer said the audience for T is not that dissimilar to her old stomping grounds at Vogue. But there is one major difference. “There’s a lot of freedom with the cover, that we put whoever we think is the most interesting person and it doesn’t have to be tested and we don’t have to worry about how it sells,” Singer noted. - WWD

 

[clo]

Esperanza looks great on the cover. She is just so beautiful! And talented!

 

[MissVampire]

She's so underrated. You would think after beating Bieber she would be everywhere. I love this!

 

[Marc10]

She's such a beautiful and talented girl, glad to see her on the cover.

 

[Style Savvy]

Jane Randall (Princeton)


Sonia Dara (Harvard)


Cameron Russell (Columbia)


Lily Cole (Cambridge)


Kinga Rajzak (Goldsmiths)

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[Deleted member 1957]

she looks nice but i believe they would have done better. Meanwhl excited to see Jane!

 

[ForChicSake]

She's so underrated. You would think after beating Bieber she would be everywhere. I love this!

IKR! but she's getting more and more features in mags so that's great

 

[MON]

I love it!

 

[YourMonster]

Perfection! Now all she needs is a vogue cover (wishful thinking) and 2011 shall be complete for me! (magazine-wise anyway)

 

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Chaos Theory

Photograph by Boo George. Styled by David Vandewal. Fashion assistants: Emily Eisen and Charlie Morris. Hair by Duffy at Tim Howard Management. Makeup by Sil Bruinsma at Streeters. Manicure by Roseann Singleton at Art Department.

When Joan Smalls walks down a runway, she sometimes says to herself, “Get outta my way, I’m coming through!” And it’s a mantra that has served her well. Last year, the 22-year-old model became the first Hispanic woman to represent Estée Lauder in its ads for cosmetics and skin care. Aerin Lauder may have touted Smalls as a “global beauty,” but it took a while for anyone to take notice.

Smalls, who grew up in the Puerto Rican countryside, had been floating around the fashion industry since 2007, doing small-time runway shows for the likes of Benjamin Cho or Heatherette, or the occasional department-store catalog shoot, and she once appeared in a Ricky Martin video — but her look hadn’t really caught on.

Current trends notwithstanding, the fashion world is a pretty matchy-matchy place. An Asian model here. A black model there. Rare and often fleeting points of color on the vast, blond landscape. Then, in a break Smalls describes as nothing short of a rebirth, Riccardo Tisci booked her exclusively for his 2010 fall/winter couture collection. A succession of Gucci campaigns followed. And stories in all of the requisite Vogues — British, Italian, French, American. And now she regularly walks for designers like Marc Jacobs, Rodarte and Alexander Wang.

But despite her meteoric rise, she remains very down-to-earth. When the money started to come in, her first splurge was a pickup truck for her dad. “I would love to see ethnic barriers abolished and an equal opportunity available to all,” she says of her ambitions. “On a personal level, I would also like to achieve things professionally that no model has ever done before.” (Top on her list for now: an American Vogue cover.)

All that may sound like an extremely tall order, even for a girl with the stamina of a fighter (she used to box for exercise back home in Puerto Rico) and legs that don’t quit. When asked whom in the industry she most identifies with, she doesn’t toss out the expected Iman or Beverly Johnson, and says, more generally, “models who have worked their way to an admirable career and have taken their time to get there.” Which is perfectly in line with her personal definition of beauty: confidence.

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[gossiping]

joan is soo beautiful

 

[cestmagique]

The models-at-college set is great. Kinga and Lily look stunning.

 

[softgrey]

have to say that i'm not really feeling the hair in the chaos theory story...
sorry...


sally singer sounds really cool though...
very 'real'....that's cool...

 

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Trends

#1 The Novelty Knit photographed by Paul Maffi



#2 The Maxi Coat photographed by Sebastian Kim



#3 The Retro Dress photographed by Emma Summerton



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'Nightie Aphrodites' photographed by Alice O'Malley



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'Baby's Got Bass'
Esperanza Spalding photographed by Alice O'Malley



'Boy Crazy' photographed by Hedi Slimane




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'Bossypants' photographed by Colin Dodgson




'Sexy Beast' photographed by Danko Steiner




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[j'adorekapusta]

this is such a beautiful issue of T. well-done, Ms Singer!

 

[parkaboy]

The Novelty Knit photographed by Paul Maffi
Fashion editor: Vanessa Traina
Model: Charlotte Free

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tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com

indeed, the issue is quite nice. all of the eds are satisfying