AJAK DENG FOR ANOTHER MAGAZINE FALL 2011PHOTOGRAPHED BY PAOLO ROVERSI

I TOTALLY LOVE THIS EDITORIAL FOR ANOTHER MAGAZINE FALL 2011. FOR ME, IT RECAPTURES THE MOVEMENT IN THE 60s AND 70s "BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL" I ESPECIALLY LOVE THE FIRST PICTURE!!

"THE HAUTE COUTURE": VOGUE ITALIA SEPTEMBER 2011 BY PAOLO ROVERSI

Silk tulle pailleted short dress, silver boules and pearls; brodé flower clipped on the shoulder and feathered hat, all by Chanel Haute Couture.

Magazine: Vogue Italia.
Issue: September 2011
Photographer: Paolo Roversi
Fashion editor: Lori Goldstein
Hair and headpiece by Julien d’Ys. Maquillage Stéphane Marais @ Studio 57.

From the left. Drapée silk mousseline full dress with flounces heads and bronze sculpture belt. Two-tone Two-tone ball gown with gros grain bodice and tulle ruffled skirt. All by Giambattista Valli Haute Couture. Gloves Maison Fabre

Chantilly and marabou striped sweater, full-length belted tutu skirt with feathers. Opposite page. Draped jersey dress featuring hands embroidered with iridescent feathers and metal scales. All by Gaul tier Paris. Vintage lace mask, Boudoir Queen; reptile mittens, Imoni @ L’Eclaireur

Full ball gown with scales on the bodice and multi-layered tulle skirt embroidered with silver sequins: Dior Haute Couture. Jewels Lydia Courteille

Silk tulle ombré dress embroidered with small pearls, with cape sleeves: Valentino Haute Couture. Opposite page, draped silk satin long dress with train embroidered with silver sequins; boater hat with feathers: Chanel Haute Cou ture. Jewels Lydia Courteille

Hand-painted silk long dress with flounces and feathers: Dior Haute Couture. Earrings and rings, Lydia Courteille. Opposite page. Small cape featuring vinyl petals lined with patterned silk  and maxi skirt,  with velvet sash, entirely embroidered with sequins: Giorgio Armani Privé. Gloves Sermoneta

Pencil dress with velvet embroidered bodice and multi-layered tulle full skirt with train; velvet shoes with napa ankle straps: Valentino Haute Couture. Hair and headpieces by Ju­lien D’Ys. Maquillage Stéphane Marais @ Studio 57. Manicure Ma­gali Buisson @ Majeure & e Evénements e Akari @ Artlist. Fashion editor Lori Goldstein. Set design by Jean­hugues De Chatillon

Silk tulle dress with bodice piped with ponyskin and embroidered with chantilly motifs and 3D-effect macramé lace: Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci. Opposite page. Sequin embroidered bodice and velvet skirt with knots on the basque and embroidered floral print panel: Giorgio Armani Privé. Tiara, pendant and ring, Lydia Courteille

Chantilly lace mini-dress embroidered with sequins and flowers: Elie Saab Haute Couture. Opposite page, from left. Silk tulle backless long dress embroidered with ombré chantilly lace drops. Silk tulle dress embroidered with pearls and raw cashmere knots. All by Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci. Earrings and ring, Lydia Courteille

From left. Two-tone ball gown with gros  grain bodice and tulle ruffled skirt. Silk muslin draped evening dress with flouncy shoulders and bronze sculptural belt. All by Giambattista Valli Haute Couture. Gloves Maison Fabre

Silk satin draped skirt over printed and embroidered body: Atelier Versace. Rings Lydia Courteille. Opposite page, from left. Washed faille flouncy long dress with embroidered sleeves and quilted effect tulle bodice embroidered with sequins; pleated and draped taffeta dress with feathers appliqué; hats with veils and boots. All by Chanel Haute Couture

Short dress and double silk cape entirely embroidered with organza lilies of the valley: Giambattista Valli Haute Couture. Opposite page. Long burnout velvet dress with floral motifs, thin twisted belt and pleated tulle cape sleeves: Valentino Haute Couture. Jewels Lydia Courteille

From left. Embroidered muslin dress with crystal and embroidered tulle cape with ostrich feather trimming; burnout velvet shirt dress with feather motifs; panne velvet column dress with cable trimming at the neckline and waist. All by Valentino Haute Couture. Jewels Lydia Courteille

Source: (VOGUE ITALIA)

Kirsi Pyrhönen for VOGUE ITALIA by PAOLO ROVERSI

Left. Jacket, Lanvin; hat Stephen Jones; Leg Covers, Ter et Bantine. Jacket and hood, Yves Saint Laurent; headpiece Donna Karan Collection; earrings Gripoix

Coat, Max Mara; skirt, Limi Feu. Headband, Karl Lagerfeld; cape, Jhon Galliano; belt Yohji Yamamoto; gloves Cornelia James

 Source: Vogue Italia

Jacket, Gianfranco Ferré. Hat angels the costumiers; veil VV Rouleaux; gloves, Ines Gloves

Hood, Viktor & Rolf; jacket and skirt; Trussardi 1911. Socks, Calzedonia; shoes Richard Nicoll. Next page. Coat and hat, Donna Karan Collection. Leg covers, Ter et Bantine. Bijoux Gripoix

Coat, Iceberg; tail­leur, Louis Vuitton. Brooch Gripoix. Next page. Jacket and skirt, Fendi. Headband Karl Lager­feld; micro-gloves Ines Gloves

make-up Sally Branka: @ Julian Watson agency. Manicure Elsa Deslandes @ majeure & événements. Fashion editor Jacob K

Discovered at the age of thirteen, now at seventeen she is one of the new faces of the fashion world. And yet, with that beauty of an "alien Laplander", she considers herself a normal teenager... with a suitcase

Two months have passed since that cover (May's Vogue Italia), but the excitement has still not died down in the fashion world.

With Kirsi Pyrhönen the expression "a star is born" is something more than a convenient cliché. Kirsi is a star born seventeen years ago, and that's that. As for the interplanetary aspect, that air of the alien Laplander who has just fallen to Earth. Finnish, from near Helsinki, an older brother and sister, two working parents - "my father is an engineer; my mother works at a gas company" - her dog Akusti, a Swedish Vallhund, Kirsi is a student with a suitcase. "I'm here at school for just one more week, then the holidays begin: I still have three years to go to finish high school".

Considering she is a teenager catapulted to the top of the profession in just a few weeks and one of the new faces to which the world will soon become accustomed, she displays noteworthy realism. "I'm just a student who sometimes takes a plane and goes to work, and has a great job".

A great job that she'll endeavour to keep doing. "It's what I've always wanted to do. Becoming a model was never a plan, even if I did want to do it when I was a child". She has not found the fashion world to be very different from how she imagined it. "Tougher and more tiring than I expected, that IS true". And it is still too soon to talk about a life "after": "I could remain in this world, but I also like design and furnishing. I'll certainly do something creative. Only time will tell me what".

Otherwise, her world is like that of any other teenager, with the same pastimes - "I don't have a favourite band or DJ: I like certain songs by Lady Gaga, MGMT, Lil Wayne, Kanye West..." - and the same concerns of someone who will inherit an ecologically semi-destroyed planet when she grows up. "We can truly change things for the environment if we all do something, even if it's small. And then I would like to help those who are in desperate need".

These photos by Paolo Roversi place her in a timeless classicity: it is no coincidence that she likes Audrey Hepburn films and has Coco Chanel as a reference. She loves vintage, "above all in summer. Here in the north, in winter you need to cover up in something more modern and effective".

Among today's names, she likes Christopher Kane and Alexander Wang
, designers for whom she has paraded. "They're both young and their collections are amazing. They have a style that's very close to my own tastes". For now, the whirlwind of events that has made her teenage life so crazy allows her little time, and the little there is she devotes entirely "to friends, to family... and to food".

Ending up on that cover designed by Steven Meisel - "there was a splendid atmosphere on the set; it was a very beautiful shoot" - was perhaps predestined, ever since she was discovered one day, at thirteen, shopping at Ikea together with her mother. "I don't remember what we were buying", she says, smiling, "probably nothing important". Perhaps she is right. The "discovery" would have happened anyway, maybe in a lift or at a bar. It is unlikely that such an "alien" beauty would have gone unnoticed for long.

Yet that shopping session offered the opportunity for a career that has a good chance of characterising the decades to come. Who knows, maybe the Swedish colossus will ask her to be the face for an ad campaign, to give her the opportunity to pay them back.


Leonardo Clausi, tratto da Vogue Italia, Luglio 2010 (n. 719), p. 160 - 173