Emma Summerton and Patti Wilson tackle the season’s lace trend with an elegant story for Vogue Italia. With Aline Weber sporting some of the season’s key pieces, the story hits all the right  notes. Look closely and you’ll see Ralph Lauren‘s infamous dragon dress (fresh from Rooney Mara‘s November Vogue cover) and Stella McCartney’s popular polka dot number and even a look from Nicola Formichetti‘s Mulgler reboot. Shot in Summerton’s frosty color palette and accented by Shay Ashual & Mathias van Hooff‘s hair and makeup magic, the images are pure fashion fantasy.

High fashion has always had a thing for icy blondes who ooze sex appeal, so it is no surprise to see Aline Weber‘s beautiful face on the cover of Numero. Shot by Camilla Akrans saturated color and moody black and white, Aline looks every inch the blonde bombshell.

Muse Magazine always delights with their content and the chic mag never fails to bring out the best in the models featured inside their pages. Their double covers for fall have epic beauties Toni Garrn and Doutzen Kroes looking like goddesses and within the magazine you’ll find equally alluring images of Missy Rayder, Aline Weber and Valerija Kelava – who can resist such lush images and such stunning ladies.

Doutzen Kroes by Lachlan Bailey

Aline Weber by Tom Munro

Valerija Kelava by Maciek Kobielski

Missy Rayder by Chad Pitman

Toni Garrn by Mariano Vivanco

Aline Weber.
Camilla Akrans .
Vogue Japan.

A colorful and subtly sexy story in the Akrans’ signature style. Sissy Vian mixes the best in lingerie from La Perla with streamlined pieces from Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton, while Odile Gilbert and Fredrik Stambro provide the perfect hair and makeup.

Russh‘s latest issue celebrates all that is fresh in the world of fashion and what better representative of that than buzzed about new face, Meag West. Will Davidson shoots Meag in richly saturated tones, while Stevie Dance styles her in the latest from Dries Van Noten and Mary Katrantzou. Meag’s bright green eyes and pouty lips make her look like a living doll in the vibrantly patterned ensembles.

Russh’s Fresh issue cover by Benny Horne featuring Aline Weber

If you love the work of David Sims, then you’re going to love August’s Vogue Paris; Sims’ sleek style gets 65 pages worth of editorial space within the issue. Carine Roitfeld styles the massive portfolio of fall looks from labels like Stella McCartney, Louis Vuitton and Alexander McQueen and the pictures don’t miss a beat. Sims mixes studio shots, location shots, color and black and white for an editorial that covers a great deal of designer territory; each brand gets an image that is uniquely theirs and each girl looks gorgeous in her pictures.

Crystal Renn

Daria Werbowy
Iselin Steiro
Joan Smalls
Isabeli Fontana

Freja Beha Erichsen

Frida Gustavsson

Aline Weber

Jac Jagaciak

Image Credit | Harumi and AngelLover @ TFS

Superstar hairstylist Luigi Murenu creates a series of sensational coifs for Vogue Germany. Patrick Demarchelier shoots Aline Weber, Cato Van Ee, Irina Kulikova and Joan Smalls wearing voluminous looks custom made by Luigi. Each girl is given a chic style that suits her and the elegant black and white shots really give the girls (and their out of this world hair) a chance to shine.

Image Credit | Scan by Aamscans

Former MOTW Aline Weber (top). Alessandra Ambrosio (bottom).

Just in time as the sizzling spring/summer season arrives in NY is Hercules’ spread of 8 fabulous Brazilian beauties wearing well, not much of anything. Shot by Paola Kudacki and cast by Natalie Joos, see the sneak peek  here.

Elsa Sylvan by Ellen von Unwerth for Target/Zac Posen.
It’s a Zac Posen moment with not only the launch of his Target collaboration, but his first venture into real estate.
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Model News:

Some might have called the 00′s the decade of the Brazilian model invasion but the non Brazilians seem to be popular right now for their campaigns.

We agree with Fashionista about setting some rules in New York (like Paris has) for models under the age of 18.

MDC’s top 10 newcomer Carla Gebhart gets her Ponyryder interview.

For anyone born before 1980, Niki Taylor will always be one of the original supermodels. Here, Production shows she is just as beautiful as ever.

We know male models are always keeping themselves busy since it’s just not as hectic for them as it is for the girls. Here’s 4 that are not only super successful (Vincent LaCrocq, Boyd Holbrook, Jacques Naude and Jamie Strachan), they are creating their own little artists community/gallery called BAG.

We adore this story in the NY Times about Karen Elson and her new album.

TFS does it again, picking out fascinating faces amongst all the thousands of new ones. We love Dan Kling who has an elfin yet ethereal face perfect for Jil Sander, Raf Simons and Prada.

Miscellaneous:

Long before the Sartorialist, there was Bill Cunningham. I remember seeing him first in the early 90′s outside at shows and thinking who IS this guy? At 81 years old, Bill’s the ORIGINAL street style photographer and is still working his NY Times beat to this day. There’s a documentary recently out on him (where they spent 8 years chasing him to get his cooperation… “Why me? There’s no subject here”). Some of these recent street style photographers could take some lessons in humbleness and hard work from this true old school gentlemen. (Check out his video work where his enthusiasm is so infectious).

Prada takes over the world! Well at least our alphabet. Here’s the Pradalphabet created by M&M.

One of our favorite designers, Rad Hourani, writes a NY Times piece on black, his favorite color.

If you haven’t read Cathy Horyn‘s detailed story on Alexander McQueen‘s final hours, read it here now.

One of our favorite agents with a oh so wicked sense of English humor (and amazing stories to go with it), Richard Habberley gets his moment in the spotlight with an interview by Love magazine.