The Week of Multitasking ModelsGemma Ward’s latest movie hits, and Iekeliene Stange is a photographer. There’s more to these mannequins than meets the eye.
Gisele Is the Highest-Paid Model’Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid models is out. Gisele nabbed the number one spot, earning $35 million over the past 12 months.
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Gemma Ward Speaks About Late Beau Heath LedgerAussie supermodel Gemma Ward was one of many pretty faces romantically linked to Heath Ledger after his split from Michelle Williams in 2007. Though the 20-year-old runway star hasn’t confirmed rumors she dated Ledger in the months leading up to his death, she has broken her silence about the late actor.
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Gemma Film Doesn’t Suck; Mactress Curse Lifted?The following information may be hard to swallow — especially if you paid to see Fair Game in theaters — but one of our favorite catwalkers may have made a successful transition into the dicey model-slash-actress category. Gemma Ward appears in the upcoming film Black Balloon, which won Berlin Film Festival’s Crystal Bear prize, a best-feature honor awarded by young panelists.
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The Cheat Sheet: Tell Your Models Apart!Models are supposed to blend into the background and let the clothes grab the attention. But after yesterday’s mini-kerfuffle, in which it was discovered that some glazed-over soul at Style.com had confused photos of Chanel Iman for those of Jourdan Dunn, we were reminded that perhaps mannequins do the job a little too well and fashion insiders can’t tell the girls apart. For shame!
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Scalpers Love the TentsIf you’re dying to see Zac doing his thing, Craigslist might have your golden ticket.
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Gemma Ward Has Done Her Share of Fashion Weeks
Gemma Ward, the most fawnlike of supermodels, is skipping New York’s Fashion Week to film The Black Balloon in Australia. Before she left, Gemma talked to New York’s Jada Yuan at the Cinema Society screening of the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl.
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As the Tents Turn: Isaac’s Back, Marc by Marc’s Gone, Look Out for Agyness Dean
With the collections hitting Bryant Park for the last time (please, Mayor Bloomberg, don’t make us hoof it to the Javits Center), we’re armed and ready for the season’s big changes.
London calling: One of Fashion Week’s hottest invites will be missing this season. Marc by Marc Jacobs is now showing across the pond, coinciding with the opening of the designer’s new flagship store.
Model down! Runway favorite Gemma Ward is skipping the season to shoot The Black Balloon with Toni Collette. We’re not saying Ward was typecast or anything, but she is playing a pretty young thing. Couldn’t she work in a coal mine?
Target hawker Isaac Mizrahi makes his grand comeback with a new collection and show on Monday, February 5, at 475 Tenth Avenue, near 36th Street.
Jeremy Scott is moving his often ridiculous, always outrageous show back to Paris, where he debuted in ‘97. We’ll miss the strip-club after-party.
After first canceling his show (his “goods” didn’t arrive on time), Stephen Burrows is now hosting a fall press preview. Tara Subkoff and Trovata shows, however, aren’t rising from the dead. Trovata split earlier this year citing “creative differences.”
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Model Gemma Ward Leaps Around and Gets Naked
Name: Gemma Ward
Age: 19
Job: Model-actress
Neighborhood: East Village, but on the move …
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Bob Dylan.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
I have had my fair share of four-hour lunches at La Bottega at the Maritime Hotel, but it’s a great hang and the margherita pizza is fantastic.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Drink coffee and read the paper while getting hair, makeup, and nails done, get undressed, get dressed, pose, leap, laugh, get undressed, eat lunch, touch-ups, get dressed, get undressed, get dressed. etc. etc. etc.
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The Raconteurs Rock PradaIt was a battle to get through the door for the Raconteurs’ private concert at the Prada Epicenter in Soho.
