The always impressive Grey Magazine never fails to delight with its unique selection of haute imagery and the latest issue looks especially promising. With a wide range of cover stars and images filled with drama, the magazine certainly promises to be exciting. With so many cover options it is hard to pick a favorite; we’re especially drawn to the beautifully done images of models and their children, but the compelling chemistry in the couple covers is hard to ignore – which cover stands out to you?
Images courtesy Grey Magazine

Ana Beatriz Barros by Peppe Tortora, styling by Valentina Ilardi Martin, hair by  Conrad Dornan

Actress Tea Falco by Stefania Paparelli, styled by Concetta D’Angelo

Caterina Ravaglia and Adrien Sahores by Erwin Olaf, styled by Moreno Galatà

Actress Hiroe Takei and daughters Maya and Manon by Katsuhinde Morimoto, styled by Moreno Galatà

Emily DiDonato by Sheila Metzner, styled by Valentina Ilardi Martin, makeup by Justine Purdue

Lily Mcmenamy by Ellen von Unwerth, styled by Lotta Volkova Adam

Bianca Balti and daughter Matilde by Martin Parr, styled by Valentina Ilardi Martin

Actress Alba Rohrwacher by Elfie Semotan, styled by Moreno Galatà

Men of the cloth aren’t the first people you think of when it comes to high fashion, but VMan‘s Archetypes issue (out September 1st) might change all that. Taking a series of male standards and re-imagining them in stylish ways, the issue aims to challenge our perceptions. Anthony Maule and Jay Massacret‘s elegant story with Bastiaan Van Gaalen and Adrien Sahores is inspired by the look of priests and pontiffs but the designs featured can be appreciated by everyone. Given the austere direction of the season’s menswear looks, this series seems especially timely.

Bekah Jenkins, Linda Vojtova and Charlotte di Calypso from the POPLipps site.
Take a peek into Scott Lipps’ world with his new blog, POPLipps. He’s one of our favorite “connectors” in the biz and see what happens when the modeling/fashion, Hollywood and music worlds all collide.

The Daily newspaper lands. Not a huge fan of Murdoch’s holdings but it will be interesting to see if it succeeds.

Janet Ozzard gives us 13 safe topics to discuss during fashion week on the Cut.

Alexander Wang is the new cool, but is also spearheading the new wave of building a prestige brand at affordable prices the Imagist reflects on it.

Fashionista gives us their 50 most influential people in New York fashion. Many we agree with, some we are like WTF? What say you?

Modeling news:

The NY Times quizzes you on your model knowledge.. See what they say if you score perfect or close to perfect.

Bridget Foley presents her clear eyed view of the “weight” issue in the modeling industry.

Adrien Sahores is a cutie and you can really see it here in this video on male models.

The secret is out, male models are a lot tougher than you think. Jacob Brown, from The Moment/NY Times writes about their “fight clubs” that are not fight clubs.

The Cut’s Amy O’Dell  gives us a brief history of the plus sized model.

Everyone’s obsessed about Andrej Pejic, Frockwriter talks about his upcoming TV appearance.

Sophie Srej blogs this week for her agency IMG. So many of the younger models don’t have a voice so it’s really sweet to read the thoughts of this young lady and see she’s like your everyday teenager who writes with run on sentences, smiley faces and lots of !!!!.

Adrien Sahores by Tommy Ton. Check out Tommy’s other dramatic pics from the show.

With his highly anticipated first collection as creative director, Nicola Formichetti doesn’t disappoint. Cathy Horyn of the NY Times, (mostly) approves. See the whole collection on Vogue.co.uk.

Charlie France opens Burberry, James Smith at Raf Simons, Philipp Bierbaum at Prada.

After viewing 80+shows/presentations, 100′s of male models and 1000′s of looks, we’ve come up with our list of the top walkers in Milan/Paris for Spring/Summer 2011. It was a close call but for sheer amount and high quality of the designers these were our winners of S/S 11.

Charlie France, James Smith and Philipp Bierbaum were the three that Milan/Paris clamored for the most, with 20+ of the blue chip designers requesting their special brand of masculine beauty.

See below for the rest of the season’s favorite faces.

Adrien Sahores
Bastiaan Ninaber
Benoni Loos
Clement Chabernaud
Jacob Coupe
Jakob Hybholt
Johannes Linder
Johannes Niermann: Deserves a special mention for opening/closing the most shows.
Linus Gustin
Nicolas Ripoll
Oskar Tranum
Robbie Wadge
Simon Nessman
William Eustace

To see our Top Newcomers of the S/S 11 season, click here.

To see all the collections go to Style.com or WWD.com. Images source: Style.com

The S/S 11 Men’s shows started off with an early bang as Jil Sander broadcast live yesterday at Pitti Uomo. A glorious green Tuscan garden provided the perfect backdrop and contrast to the eye-popping collection. Not since June 2009 has Raf Simons made such a statement with bold color like this.  If there’s one brand who can do color right and still keep it pristine, it’s most definitely Raf for Jil. Check out the runway video here on Jil Sander’s site.

Adrien in Raf Simons, Charlie in Hermes, Robbie in YSL. (images from catwalking.com via tFS)

The men’s designers in Paris have spoken and their favorite models are the next generation of top faces. Adrien Sahores (one of the Prada campaign faces), after a small but stellar showing in Milan, exploded in the City of Lights booking more than 10 of the top brands. Following close on his heels are 2 other former newcomers to watch, Charlie France, who was available for the first time on the open market after his 2 seasons of exclusivity, and Robbie Wadge, another Englishman blessed with the elfin boyish beauty favored this season in France.

Our top 10 walkers Fall/Winter 2010 for Milan/Paris (based on number of shows, caliber of shows and number of times opening and closing):

1-Charlie France
2-Bastiaan Ninaber
3-Benoni Loos
4-Jakob Hybholt
5-William Eustace
6-Matvey Lykov
7-Philipp Bierbaum
8-Robbie Wadge
9-Nicolas Ripoll
10-Simon Nessman

Related stories:
Milan’s Top Men January 2009
Paris’ Top Men January 2009
New York’s Top men February 2009
Milan/Paris Top Men’s Newcomers July 2009

In the midst of the frenetic men’s castings for Milan and Paris, come a plethora of top new campaigns and faces to ogle:

Ollie Edwards, the winning Brit continues his hot streak as the campaign face for Giorgio Armani by Josh Olins.

Garrett Neff reaffirms his top model billing with the Trussardi campaign by everyone’s favorite Renaissance man Milan Vukmirovic.

New face Paolo Anchisi emerges in the Mario Testino lensed Versace campaign sharing the spotlight with stars Simon Nessman and Georgia May Jagger.

Though Jacob Coupe‘s Prada image is the only one to appear so far, Love Magazine gives a preview of the main campaign which was filmed and shot by artist and filmmaker, Yang Fudong who has “has created some of the most staggeringly beautiful works of independent cinema to come out of China.”

Paolo Anchisi and Georgia May Jagger. Versace S/S 10 by Testino.

Adrien Sahores and Jacob Coupe. A still from the Prada short movie by Yang Fudong (from Love blog). The film will be unveiled on January 18th on Prada.com and NYTimes.com.

(Ollie and Garrett scans courtesy of d Management, Versace courtesy of VGL, Prada still courtesy of Love blog)