Francisco Costa, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Philippe and Italo Zucchelli.

Friday night’s Calvin Klein’s special event with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) celebrating Los Angeles Arts month was a mammoth affair with some of the biggest stars in art, Hollywood and of course the fashion industry turning up to support the brand’s designers Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli. Top models past and current outfitted by Calvin Klein included Milla Jovovich, Molly Sims, Kellan Lutz, Michelle Alves, Coco Rocha, Elise Crombez, Jessica White and Tony Ward. Other fashion notables included Arianne Phillips, Honor Fraser, Cordula Reyer, Lorenzo Martone and Joe Zee.

Tony  Ward vamps it up with former model Bijou Phillips.

Milla and Michelle

Jessica and Coco. (All images Patrick McMullen, courtesy of Calvin Klein)

Elise Crombez is back! The former Prada face and perennial Vogue favorite has returned with a vengeance. With new exciting editorials in Vogue Paris and Pop, Crombez proves that she’s still at the top of her game.

Ph: Paola Kudacki for Vogue Paris

Ph: Alasdair McLellan for Pop. Elise (Dominique Brussels, DNA NY, Elite Paris, Why Not Milan, 2pm Copenhagen, Donna Tokyo)

MDC stopped by Elise Crombez‘ intimate gathering this past week welcoming fellow Belgian artist/designer Tim van Steenbergen to New York. Tim’s installations of his sleek, beautiful designs seamlessly merged art with fashion. Elise on Tim:

MDC: So Elise, do you want to tell me why you support him and what you enjoy about his work?
Elise:  Not only because he’s Belgian and I’m proud of Belgian people making it here, but also because his stuff has an edge and a personality. He doesn’t follow that safe play of “I’m going to make clothes but not really take a chance”. I think that that’s the most important thing, because if you stay true to what you really want to create then the first thing you care about is just being creative and the rest follows. I told Tim just have fun with what you do. People are attracted to it because they really want to be a part of that creativeness. They want to see something where they could go like, “Oh my god, could I actually wear this?” And when they wear his clothes, they’re like “It’s comfortable AND it’s something really special”. And he’s so young, and so talented and reserved yet down to earth. I think that’s what people out here love about Belgians and why I think those talented artists deserve to be recognized and be appreciated for their work, because they actually don’t take everything for granted. It’s nice to see that nowadays.”

Photo: Nevena Borrisova with Tim van Steenbergen and Elise Crombez

Model on the wall

Model/Wall part 2

Some of Tim’s designs