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This Year's Models


Daria/IMG. Ph by Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue July 03
Move over Brazil. Take a backseat Belgium. For 2003 the hot model source was America's quiet neighbour, Canada. With Prada icon Daria Werbowy/IMG stomping the Spring/Summer 04 catwalks to smithereens, Jessica Stam/IMG sprinting forward as a new camapign force and Heather Marks/Supreme leaping out as a major breaking face, expect a scouting stampede to those Nothern borders. As one intrepid model hunter put it. "Canada is a $300 plane ticket away. Visas are usually a snap. The girls speak English and occasionally French. They're as clean cut and All-American as the Americans yet they have a bit of that " continental " polish about them. Its all about Canada right now" Which makes MDC think it might want to get to the front of that bandwagon and start its 04 Canadian model-tracking...now!

V-View


Linda Evangelista Ph. by Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin for V Spring 04
2004 kicks off right with the Spring issue of V magazine slated to hit the stands in January. The issue celebrates Louis Vuitton's 150th anniversary with a fold-out cover featuring the alpha-mother of the Canadian advance, Linda Evangelista shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin The interior spreads include a series of Vuitton related pictures, an art collaboration between Mario Sorrenti and filmmaker Shannon Plumb (who will also have the collaboration on display at the Sarah Meltzer Gallery in NYC in Jan), a fashion story by Glen Luchford and Tabitha Simmons with Stam, Marija and Lily. Best of all, check out a special vintage fashion story on Body Map (the legendary 80's designers) shot by Craig McDean with Julia Stegner. That should get you out of the post-holidays doldroms!