Vogue Japan has modern elegance down pat and in their latest issue Daniele Duella and Iango Henzi provide a showcase for the season’s most uniquely glamorous pieces. Karen Elson sports looks from Maison Martin Margiela and Comme des Garcons, with grace and poise, while stylist George Cortina mixes creations from the most cutting edge designers to create styles that are timeless and beautiful. The modern feel of the story is enhanced by the impeccable hair and makeup, by  Luigi Murenu and Virginia Young, dark lips and red curls never looked so good.

American Vogue pays tribute to the late Alexander McQueen with a thrilling retrospective of his work and a preview of the MET’s upcoming Savage Beauty exhibition. Shot by Steven Meisel and styled by Grace Coddington, the story is a fitting tribute to one of fashion’s true masters.

Karen Elson

Coco Rocha

Karlie Kloss

Caroline Trentini

Raquel Zimmermann

Stella Tennant

Magazines roll out the best models and those coveted Spring fashions for their latest offerings. Vogue Brazil gives Emanuela de Paula a beautiful beach chic image for their January edition, which serves as a tribute to Brazil’s stunning black models. Gisele Bundchen wears a look from the popular S/S Prada collection on Vogue China‘s demure cover shot, while Karen Elson wears another look from the same collection on Vogue Nippon. Catherine McNeil unleashes her inner vamp for her fifth cover of Vogue Australia and is featured in a special article about her style. Not a bad showing for February – which cover is your personal favorite?

Emanuela de Paula by Jacques Dequeker

Gisele Bundchen by Patrick Demarchelier | Catherine McNeil by Max Doyle

Karen Elson by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

Natalia Vodianova, Karen Elson and Christy Turlington by Steven Meisel for Louis Vuitton F/W 10

Fall continues its parade of campaigns with some of our favorite faces fronting Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Donna Karan, St. John. “The Lady” is back, groups are still in, Karen Elson is more popular than ever and the dark, moody sets look to be a fall mainstay. What campaign stops you in your tracks?

Nina Porter, Thomas Penfound,Sam Rollinson (Select), Sebastian Brice, Rosie Huntington Whiteley by Mario Testino for Burberry F/W 10 online campaign.

Burberry image 2: Nina,Sam Rollinson, Douglas Booth, Rosie

Tatiana Cotliar by David Sims for Valentino F/W 10

Karlie Kloss by Patrick Demarchelier for Donna Karan F/W 10

Karen Elson by Greg Kadel for St. John F/W 10

Image source for LV, WWD.

Claudia Mason at Elite New York. (Image by Ryan Mikail) Raise your hand if you remember Claudia Mason’s wonderful images in her many campaigns and covers; one of the true 90′s supermodels. She still looks darn amazing.

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Makeup News:

Congrats Francelle! The hard working makeup artist just got named NARS Cosmetics’ national makeup artist, a first for the company.

Beloved makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin‘s makeup line is given new life with a new creative director, Jeanine Lobell. Lobell also runs Stila which she founded in 1994.

Fashion News:

LOVE.LADY.GAGA. She answers questions from fans like Mario Testino, Hedi Slimane, John Galliano, Naomi Campbell, Nick Knight and more on Showstudio. Read transcript here. See her live here.

Check out the new limited edition bag by Lancel created by 4 bloggers.

Fashionista ranks their top fashion schools. Do you agree with their ranking?

Photography News:

Think you have what it takes to be the next Tommy Ton? British Vogue is looking for their next Street Style blogger.

Fashionista has an interesting article about Philippe Halsman, master “jumpologist”, about the art of jumping in photography.

How do photo assistants go to the next level? Here’s how to strike out on your own.

Mario Testino coming out with a book on Kate Moss. Should be gorgeous

Modeling news:

W Magazine features one of our favorites, Karolina Kurkova in their This Week’s Model feature.

If you haven’t seen Karen Elson‘s video for Cruel Summer, go to Style.com now.

Patricia Velasquez, has her annual Wayu Tayaa bash on Thursday where she helps the indigenous people of South America. Support her!

Ponyryder has an interview with rising Chinese model, Kiki Kang (who.

Iman is an icon; we knew that already though.

Lily Cole and Storm Model Management are launching a new model search in Britain.

Miscellaneous:

Casting director Kannon Rajah talks to Frockwriter. We can attest that Kannon is pretty awesome.

If you want to read how young women feel about Terry, click here for Tavi, here for Jenna, here for Rose. 3 young female voices with a definite and powerful POV.

You’ll recognize production designer Andrew Ondrejcak‘s work from his beautiful, dreamy sets for Peter Lindbergh and Phillip Lim‘s runway shows but did you know that Andrew is also a playwright and director? He wrote a new theater piece called Fatherland, an absurdist comedy. Go see it: Friday, June 11 and Saturday, June 12 only. 8pm, starts promptly at Ideal Glass, 22 East 2nd Street, NYC (between 2nd Ave and Bowery St). RSVP to fatherland@statepr.com.

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.

Happy Birthday W Korea! They celebrate with 3 gorgeous covers by David Byun of Anja Rubik, Angela Lindvall and Karlie Kloss (styled by Marcus Teo). Check out David’s website for more beautiful cover girls. (Bonus: Meghan Collison is the 4th lovely cover by David)

Joan Pedrola in Rick Owens for 160 Grams March/April.

Digital magazine 160 grams also has 3 new covers with Spanish runway sensation Joan Pedrola wearing Rick Owens, Laura Schuller (from WM) in DSquared and Diego Kraus in Louis Vuitton. They’ll be highlighting 20 brands to watch as well as the 25 faces to watch so make sure to check out 160g on Saturday March 6th.

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Modeling news:
We talked about, LVMH’s new site, the Nowness. Here’s Guinevere Van Seenus for Rodarte, which premiered yesterday.

One of my personal FAVORITE models of all time: Renee Simonsen. Ford gives us an overview of her career and what she’s up to now!

Russian girls are always stunning. Check out this new young lady with Women Milan.

Jessica Stam and Agyness Deyn to design! 2 more model slashes!

Coco Rocha is engaged! Congrats!! And speaking of Coco, Fashion Week Daily takes to the streets to find out who/what people think a “Coco Rocha” is...

We agree with Jezebel, why are there blondes on these covers?

And yes, more models of color on the runway, please. 16% non-white is still not enough.

How cool are Greg Kessler‘s Model Morphosis for the NY Times?

The fashion industry is filled with people with unhealthy habits. For the young models who are struggling with their weight, please don’t ever let it get to this point (and if it does, get help).

Karen Elson is Fierce with a capital “F”. Gorgeous, funny, and talented? You’ve doing better than 90% of the TV/movie stars out there, Karen!

Another wonderful young lady that we adore, Agyness Deyn shows us another side to her multi faceted life.

Fashion and media:
Another reason we love Grace Coddington and Andre Leon Talley. They are old school with a capital O.

Guy Trebay, of the NY Times talks to WWD about the new media and bloggers. See what he thinks about Tavi and Bryanboy.

Miscellaneous:
Funny, funny post on Olivier Zahm by Frockwriter.

In the wake of Alexander McQueen‘s tragic death by suicide, it is really great to see the work Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe is doing. If only more people in high profile industries would give back to the world like this….

Read photographer David Benjamin Sherry’s open and wonderfully refreshing interview on being gay and how photographer Collier Schorr was his professor!

Steven Meisel has a sense of humor and every so often it emerges on the pages of Vogue Italia : the December issue is a tongue in cheek send up of Twitter, social media and the perils of online exposure. Beginning with a hilarious tweet from the master himself, the editorial is filled with fun little moments : from Abbey Lee Kershaw climbing into her fridge to Kristen McMenamy jumping on a trampoline with her dog, the whole story is priceless.

Agyness Deyn

Christy Turlington & Natasha Poly

Abbey Lee Kershaw

Naomi Campbell & Sasha Pivovarova

Linda Evangelista

Jamie Bochert and Hanne Gaby Odiele

Karlie Kloss

Lara Stone & Kasia Struss

Anna Selezneva

Gisele Bundchen & Natalia Vodianova

Freja Beha Erichsen & Viktoriya Sosonkina

Kristen McMenamy

Karen Elson

Sessilee Lopez

Meisel Pic, Vogue Italia | Scan by Diciasette at tFS