Bruce Weber takes readers on a tour of Miami for W. Using his signature mix of real people, models and of course his beloved golden retrievers, Weber photographs a diverse set of beauties including Sedene, Dree Hemingway, Elaine Irwin, Kirsten Owen, Coco Rocha, Alyssah Ali, Guinevere Van Seenus, Anne Marie Kortwright and fashion legend Iris Apfel. Add in some incredible clothes – Camilla Nickerson‘s colorful styling choices perfectly capture the vibrancy of Miami’s fashion scene – and you have the makings of an incredibly fun filled editorial.

Don’t mess with Brooke Shields and Elaine Irwin, the two modeling legends lead an all star cast in Bruce Weber‘s campy extravaganza for Vogue Paris. Starring as a pair of femme fatale police officers, the duo shoots guns, puts down criminals and looks fierce while doing so. Candice Swanepoel joins Brooke and Elaine for the high drama send up of television’s kitschy soaps and she looks right at home next to her supermodel co-stars. All in all the story is a dash of much needed humor and Joe McKenna‘s styling is pitch perfect, who knew Versace could look so good next to police blues?

Dree Hemingway takes to the pages of LOVE, with a little help from her friends: Bruce Weber shoots Dree alongside her pals Paolo Kester and Cadence Owensby for special editorial. The combination of Dree’s dynamic energy and Weber’s collage style, make for a story that is full of life.

Kirsi P by Anne Constance. Brand Model Management
New face Kirsi is a special brand of beauty from Finland.

Eduardo Calero by Simon Procter for V Man Magazine. (Still from video)

The gorgeous Eduardo Calero, in the current Givenchy campaign, fends off staff wielding masked men. Fierce. Check out the video here and the story in VMan, on the stands today!

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Modeling News:
MTC Casting celebrates diversity on the runway with the new crop of Asian girls. We love it.

If you haven’t seen the new sensual film by Bruce Weber for YSL with Simon Nessman, Paolo Anchisi, Terron Wood and Josh Yajcaji, here it is on VGL. (Definitely NSFW)

Interview Magazine catches up Bronx boy and Marc by Marc model, Yuri Pleskun.

Rodarte hasEthan James Green on their minds (and shirt).

Ralph Lauren helps Haiti with a special shirt worn by Pierre Woods. If there’s every a time, fashion could help, it would be now.

Fans of Belgium model Cesar Casier: he has a blog with a darn witty name.

Eniko Mihalik, our former MOTW, is featured in W’s “This Week’s Model”. We love her.

Man eye candy (mandy?) for the day: Made in Brazil’s Speedo boy on video. Speaking of beautiful Brazilian boys here’s a whole bunch at 40 Graus by Didio.

If you missed the lovely Frida Gustavsson on Ponyryder, read about the Swedish stunner here.

Fashion and Photography News:

Like Interview and Style.com, we are OBSESSED with JPG’s couture collection, this dress and this girl.

Saverio Cardia who did the fabulous special project on 20 of the top male models, is interviewed by the Fucked Up Crew in Milan.

One photographer interviews another. Lope Navo interviews Arnaldo Anaya Lucca, one of Ralph Lauren’s favorite photographers. Fascinating story of how Arnaldo got to where he is now.

We love Armani Exchange‘s share the love campaign.. So inclusive and so HOT.

Miscellaneous:

Yes Marie-Amelie Sauve is genius… Sans Artifice agrees too.

Here’s a link to Golden Globe winner, Mo’Nique who dedicates her award to victims of child abuse. “”The number of victims who never reveal their secret or who wait many years to do so is very high. This is regrettable because the longer they wait to reveal the abuse, the harder and more enduring the consequences will be.”

Stephen Novak with Request Men is the new face in the multi page Bondage Warriors story, garnering quite a number of pages for the unknown Texan. Endorsed by Steven Klein and Nicola Formichetti, Stephen is definitely most wanted for fall. (Photo by Samuel Zakuto)

Myf Shepherd by Imogen Morris-Clarke. We love Imogen’s dreamy beautiful pics of all her model friends. Who has more access to models than the models themselves?

Baptiste Giabiconi and Freja Beha Erichsen in the 30th anniversary of German Vogue by Karl Lagerfeld. A collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld,Peter Lindbergh and Bruce Weber (whose parents came from Germany in the early 20th century), this looks to be wunderbar!

More Baptiste Giabiconi by Karl Lagerfeld.. Get October Wallpaper Magazine and you can get Baptiste nude.

Rosie in September Esquire UK. Ph courtesy of Alisa Connan. Speaking of video, here’s one of former Burberry face and current actress in training, Rosie Huntington Whiteley alive and so beautifully in your face. The future indeed.

The Cut has Fashion Week’s top parties in one place. Check it out.

New designer Jakob Polanka? Think black and statement making.

Cupcakes and Coco? We are so there to catch Miss Coco Rocha dance!!

Diane Pernet of A Shaded View on Fashion has the right idea. Moving pictures is the vision of the future.

Everyone has said it, The September Issue is all about Grace Coddington but we can’t say it any better than this.

Check out the Vogue Italia animation for the “Performance” shoot.Anna Jagodzinska smokes a pipe and Will Lewis gets “broomed”.

Everybody’s favorite “Body”, model Chad White, hosts Video Fashion during Fashion Week. Joining such industry names as Elle’s creative director Joe Zee and designer John Bartlett, Chad is a supermodel who has a riveting magnetism. We know, we’ve interviewed him.

The Italian designer, Francesco Scognamiglio, showcases his new video with the incredible Hannelore Knuts and some beautiful unclothed men. Shot by Giampaolo Sgura and styled by Paola Turina, it’s a wonderful way to see his glamourous line for Fall. Go to Francesco’s site to see backstage with models Kim Noorda, Kendra Spears andIris Strubegger and lots of luxurious items for fall.

The Gap’s Patrick Robinson and Oprah Winfrey to co-chair the next Met Ball Gala. Anna Wintour, Patrick and Oprah is all sorts of power in one room!

If you’re missing MDC’s exclusive previews of Natasha Poly, you must go here now! Check out especially our animation for the amazing S�lve Sundsb� pics.

And for all you female models out there, the Modellounge is offering vehicles next week (14th thru 17th) to the castings and the shows. For all the hungry ones, mac and cheese will also be available everyday for models (14th thru 17th) courtesy of the new restaurant macbar. Check out their blog for all updates or even better, stop by at their Soho location.

What do you get when you mix a supermodel and a rockstar? The beautiful sisters Richards, daughters of Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards and supermodel Patti Hansen. Alexandra Richards and Theodora Richards appear together in the new French Connection campaign by Terry Richardson who has photographed 7 high profile campaigns this season (and still counting).

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When Graydon Carter, EIC of Vanity Fair is in the cafeteria, people get nervous. The golden age of Conde Nast is over.

Mandi Lennard, powerhouse PR of Gareth Pugh and Katie Grand is interviewed by Showstudio.

V Model winner Lea Grosland in THAT Alexander Wang dress in the new V Magazine.

Missed the Angels announcing the Victoria’s Secret 2009 New York location? Here’s the link.

V Man Magazine has just opened up their model search again.

The Sartorialist book came out on Wednesday..

The incomparable male ballet star, Roberto Bolle in a new book by Bruce Weber. Here is the cover and some shots from their collaborations in the past.

Another book about the beauty of the male form.. photographer Lope Navo has a new coffee table book, Stark.

Check out David LaChapelle, the celebrated fashion and art photographer on his 18 acre Hawaiian home.

Suvi Koponen and Hanne Gaby Odiele, leather and a machine. Watch them in action.

Win a Style.com internship!

9 hours for an interview? No, that’s 2 people getting together, celebrating life and the intense world of fashion and modeling.. In this day and age of the 5 line blog posts designed to generate press, how refreshing is an interview like this? We will be seeing the results on MDC very shortly, check back soon!

The mysterious young man in the Just Cavalli ads with Kate Moss is none other than FM Agency‘s Chris Duffy. Though, used mainly here as a foil to Miss Moss’ larger than life presence, we feel this young British lad will be shining on his own in the coming months.

While our Ones2Watch section always has extraordinary new faces, today’s deserves a special mention. The Romanian Raisa and the German Daniel are most definitely ones to watch for the upcoming season.

Erin Wasson for Maybelline.

Quick! Go to VMagazine now and view the exclusive behind the scenes video at the Maybelline 2010 limited edition Calendar shoot as well as a chance to win the calendar and a one year subscription to V Magazine. Watch Erin Wasson, Julia Stegner, Kemp Muhl, Jessica White and new faces Emily DiDonato and Anna Wang vamp for photographer Kenneth Willardt.

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Mario Testino and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ‘nuff said.

We love models that do a little something “extra“.

In other Kate Moss news… if you haven’t already heard… Storm Model Management, her London agency, joins forces with Simon Fuller of American Idol fame.

If you look like Jamie Dornan, a tall drink of water if there ever was one, and live in Europe, you too could possibly be in the next Calvin Klein ads.

Did you know former Paris Vogue editor in chief Joan Juliet Buck was a child actor? We didn’t either.. She returns to the screen with Meryl Streep in Julie and Julia.

Bruce Weber fan? Check out the Sundance website for Bruce’s films and photos.

History Lesson: Ray Petri, one of the most influential stylists EVER, inspired a whole generation.

When artists become photographers, this is what happens… weirdly beautiful Matrix-y like images...

2 new young Americans on our radar. Mitch from DNA Models is only 13 years old. We can’t believe it either!

Charlotte from Photogenics is 16, half Indonesian, half English but from the LA area. Amazing lines!

From foster homes to the cover of Life Magazine, we salute the extraordinary and ground breaking journey of Naomi Sims, called the first black supermodel, who died this past week at the age of 61. Wise as well ( “There is nothing sadder than an old, broke model, and there are many models who have nothing at the end of their career,” Ms. Sims told The Times in 1969), she went on to create a successful line of wigs and cosmetics for black women under her name. Read the Times obituary and take a look at some pictures from her inspiring career.

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See the Dior Homme campaign; it does, of course have a lot of gorgeous Brazilian men.

Also for our friends in Brazil, here’s House of Models’ interview with Bruna Tenorio (in Portugese).

For the making of Zara‘s Fall/Winter campaign with Toni Garrn shot by David Sims, click here.

How do you get into the world of fashion? Teen Vogue‘s new book explains it all. With contributions by the Kaiser: Karl Lagerfeld, Patrick Demarchelier, Mario Testino, Chanel Iman and Caroline Trentini, this is the book that we wished we had when we started out oh so long ago. Out on October 5th.

Vanity Fair‘s best dressed list is out. Who made the cut from the fashion industry? Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Georgina Chapman, Tory Burch, Candy Pratts-Price, Franca Sozzani, Natalia Vodianova, Bruce Weber, Peter Beard and Rachel Roy. Eclectic indeed.

Jenna (the no longer Anonymous ex-Model at Jezebel) has a great post on Anna Wintour‘s early days of editing at NY Magazine. Worth taking a sec to see Anna pre-”Never a hair out of place”, along with the most genuine smile we’ve ever seen on her. (As you click through the gallery, make sure you read Jenna’s comments next to the picture).

If Karl Lagerfeld likes you, you will ALWAYS work. Take a sneak peek at his shoot for Purple Fashion with Baptiste Giabiconi, wearing heels, natch.