Heather Graham Back for 'Hangover Part III'

Heather Graham is returning to the Hangover franchise.

The actress is reprising her character, the lovable stripper named Jade, in The Hangover Part III, being made by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.

The movie, which shoots this fall, reunites the three stars – Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms - plus brings back Ken Jeong, the scene stealer who appeared in the first two installments.

Graham did not appear in the second, Bangkok-set movie.

The actress most recently wrapped About Cherry, a porn and drug-laced drama that also stars James Franco and Ashley Hinshaw.

Is There Life After Modeling?

Karolina Kurkova, Angela Lindvall, and Coco Rocha plot the future of their relevance.

Karolina Kurkova

(Photo: Ben Hassett; Styling by Ludivine Poiblanc; Hair by Akki; Makeup by Alice Lane for Jed Root Inc.; Manicure by Tracylee for Tim Howard Management. Kurkova wearing Uniqlo turtleneck, available at Uniqlo, 666 Fifth Ave.

High above New York on the 21st-floor balcony of the Cooper Square Hotel, German television is filming Karolina Kurkova teaching ten aspiring models how to walk a runway. “It literally looks like we’re walking on skyscrapers!” the Czech native, 27, says in enthusiastic English that later will be partially dubbed over in German. The girls, plucked from a Deutschland-wide search, at least pretend to understand.

Angela Linvall

Battling stiff winds and language barriers, Kurkova demonstrates three runway walks: high fashion, couture, and “show,” which basically means pretending to wear giant Victoria’s Secret wings—a technique in which Kurkova is quite expert. Then, to the delight of the Teutonic producers, she gets her heel stuck between floor slats. Her fumbling to free herself is a moment that, along with the many times she bursts into tears eliminating girls, will be played on repeat in stridently dramatic European promos.

The show, called Das Perfekte Model (The Perfect Model), is Kurkova’s first step toward building the kind of career that keeps a model in the spotlight after shoots have dried up. The greatest post-modeling successes in the past decade have been Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks. And not surprisingly, Kurkova and her producers are billing Das Perfekte Model as a toned-down, “documentary-style” counterpart to Klum’s second-best-known TV-hosting gig: the megahit Germany’s Next Topmodel (itself derived from Banks’s Top Model juggernaut).

What Becomes of a Legend Most?

Looming in the background of every model’s career, even one as thriving as Kurkova’s, is the inevitable fear: aging out. The thirst for fresh faces in modeling is so intense that the Council of Fashion Designers of America has issued a plea for designers and modeling agencies not to let girls under 16 walk at New York Fashion Week. Not everybody complies.

So what’s a woman shunned from a girl’s world to do? Try acting (Milla Jovovich, Amber Valetta, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz, Tyra Banks), play music (Karen Elson, Irina Lazareanu, Banks again), become a photographer (Helena Christensen, Banks again), start a beauty line (Miranda Kerr), start a yoga line (Christy Turlington), start a clothing line (Kate Moss, Erin Wasson), start a jewelry line (too many to count), start a furniture line (Cindy Crawford), get a bachelor’s in comparative religion and Eastern philosophies (Turlington again), run a charity (where to begin), run for Estonian Parliament (Carmen Kass), marry rich (Stephanie Seymour, Christie Brinkley), or become the First Lady of France (Carla Bruni).

Coco Rocha

In dance, another industry ruthless in spitting out its genetically gifted workers, there’s actually a foundation for “career transition” funded by the Newhouse family. Modeling has no such safety net. “You’d be stupid not to think you have a shelf life,” says Iman, 56, who now runs a $25 million Cosmetics Company. “I knew I had to become a brand. And that brand was me.”

But the trick for Kurkova and two other models who are thinking hard about their futures—Coco Rocha and Angela Lindvall—is how to build a populist brand without screwing up their still-active careers as high-fashion models.

Put another way: Can a QVC line ever coexist with the cover of V?

The youngest of the three is Rocha, age 23, who’s big enough she got a shout-out in a Kanye West song; Tyra Banks has called her “the queen of posing.” Rocha thought “modeling was just going to be a summer thing and then I’d go home,” she says. “Then I went to Asia. Then I worked with Steven [Meisel].” Now she even has friends like Karlie Kloss, 19, arguably the most famous face of her generation, joking that girls in Rocha’s class (“the old-lady crew,” as Rocha calls them) have stuck around too long. Yet Rocha is convinced she’s found modeling’s holy grail for longevity: social media. “Once I started making noise, I thought, I’m not going anywhere.”

Making noise certainly worked for Heidi Klum, 38, who started her career in 1992—too late to be a supermodel and too curvy to be a waif. Clothes “would get stuck on my boobs,” Klum says. She wound up doing catalogues until she “nagged and nagged and nagged” Victoria’s Secret. She got a publicist, who helped her get Sports Illustrated, which led to Leno, which proved she could do TV, which led to Project Runway and her becoming far more influential in fashion than she ever was as a model.

It also worked for Cindy Crawford, 46. Against her agents’ advice, she took an unpaid job as the first host of MTV’s House of Style, which gave her a new, large, male fan base that led to a huge campaign with Pepsi. “I definitely made a choice to go more all-America,” she says. “I felt that was my brand.”

Les Robinson, Men’s Clothing Salesman and Student

“I study American history. That’s what I’m passionate about.” 

(Photo: Danny Kim)

What’s going on?

I’m on my way to work, but can we talk about something exciting? Like, the Catskills? I just got back from hiking in the Catskills.

Sure. We can talk about whatever you want.

I study American history. That’s what I’m passionate about.

What’s your favorite era?

The 70th. That was the last time the working class was growing and getting stronger.

Also, you look like the seventies!

That has occurred to me on occasion.

Aren’t you hot in that suit?

Very. I love suits, but I’m not a small man, so once it get this hot, I shouldn’t wear them. Today, though, I really felt like a white linen suit.

And that hair can’t help.

Yeah, it’s like wearing a winter hat year-round.

Have you always had long hair?

No, I’m a reformed investment banker.

Seriously?

Yeah, I was always trying to get out, so when I finally got the chance to get paid out four years ago, I took the money and ran.

Carine Employs GIFs, Graveyards for CR Fashion Book

The latest from Carine

Dribs and drabs of Carine Roitfeld's new magazine, CR Fashion Book, have been fed to the press over the past few months, including a behind-the-scenes video and several detail shots aired on the publication's website. Today, Roitfeld released the first full image from the debut issue, which features model Juliet Ingleby walking through a graveyard with a sheer purple shroud over her head. Like everything else we've seen from the magazine so far, it's shot by Sebastian Faena and styled by Roitfeld herself. In other news, Roitfeld made a GIF version, which shows the shroud fluttering in the wind! The future has arrived.

But perhaps most exciting of all: WWD confirms that Roitfeld will host a party to celebrate her new publication — which drops September 13 — sometime during New York Fashion Week. And as we all know, Carine never does her fashion parties by halves.

Alessandra Ambrosio’s Dog Wore Pink

Alessandra Ambrosio

Alessandra Ambrosio was spotted out in West Hollywood yesterday wearing a black-and-white striped tank top and cutoff shorts. She accessorized with a Celine bag, red bedazzled boots, an armful of bracelets, and her dog, whose pink dye job seems to be in need of a touch-up.

This is a look that very few people (and dogs) could pull off, but does Alessandra? Or is this an outfit that no one should try?

Street Style: From London’s Graduate Fashion Week

Amina Jones-Roach and Kyle lo Monaco,
students at Barnet College

Prince Kongo, student at Hackney College

Suit From Berwick Street Market

Kyle lo Monaco, student at Barnet college

From Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, and Vivienne Westwood to the more experimental looks of club kids, punks, and mods, Britain consistently produces some of the most interesting fashion in the world. And each year, more than 30 universities and fashion programs from all over the United Kingdom convene in London to present their top graduates' work at a four-day runway-show extravaganza. Students compete for the gold medal (this time, it went to Bath Spa University's Chloe Jones) and in categories like womenswear, textiles, knitwear, and accessories. We sent a photographer to capture some of the street fashions outside of the festivities. Click ahead to see a fair amount of acid wash, tons of unidentifiable vintage, animal bags, spiky baseball hats, and more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID (#Runway Khalifa)

GOD LOVES YOU DAVID!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM CatwalkEXTRA

Kate Moss Going For Gold

Kate Moss has been in the industry for so long that it often seems she is one of the originals. Let’s take her Vogue covers, for example. With the latest one for June 2012 issue of Vogue UK, the British supermodel has 32 of those. Sounds incredible, but it’s true.

Kate Moss, who covers the June 2012 issue of Vogue UK dedicated to the upcoming Olympics, which will be hosted by Great Britain in July, wears a sexy and stylish Versace mini dress. A pair of unusual earrings, red lips and cute blond locks finish her look perfectly.

Inside the June 2012 edition of Vogue UK Kate Moss models clothing by other reputable brands, including Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci. Accessories are huge and statement.

Kate Moss isn’t the only person to pose for colorful pages of Vogue UK June 2012 issue. Arizona Muse, Helena Bonham Carter, Damon Albarn, Edie Campbell, Tom Hardy are just a few of those who were lucky to appear in the glossy.

The Rising Star 'Kingsley Ushie'

Extraordinary but legend in the making that’s all we can say about this young and talented man Kingsley Ushie.

From Cross Rivers State Nigeria, born and raised in Lagos with wonderful talent both on the runway and sketching of designs.

Today our model focus is on Kingsley “The rising star” just 19 but he has carved a niche   for himself after the Arise Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos Nigeria. Who would have thought  this multi-talented  young man  who came to Arise as an observer will get this far in such a short period of time. However, he walked the ramp with the likes of Sebastian Sauve, Dudley and other super models who were present at the event.

@AMFW 2012

Call him 19 but I can bet you that this lil wiz can make the fashion industry in Nigeria vibrant with his sketches.

Kingsley started sketching in 2011 after his elder sister bought a fabric and no ides of what to do with it, young Kinsley came to her rescue only if her sister will pay him N200 to get Noodles, after that sketch, advice started coming from his family and loved ones.

Thanks to his sister for bringing that fabric called “Ankra”. Since then Kingsley has about 500 hundred sketches in his kitty.

Signed with Isis Models this young man is ready to rule his world.  Hopefully we can see him on the ramps of London, New York, Paris, Johannesburg and Cape Town and come in August we hope to see him in London at the Africa Fashion Week London.

Moreover, we say Africa is the world’s next destination.

Happy Birthday to the Rising Star | Imade Ogbewi | Winner of the Nigeria's Next Super Model 2011

Happy Birthday to a young Nigeria who had made not just ISIS models proud but Africa as a continent….HAPPY BIRTHDAY IMADE IGBEWI! We at CatwalkExtra we salute you!

Imade @ Africa Fashion Week Jo'burg and Arise Magazine Fashion Week

The Making Of The Next Super Model “Imade Ogbewi”

Imade

She is surely a combination of beauty we can authoritatively declare that she has potential of becoming a world-class model and one of the best world. Apart from having a great body and a cute classic face, which makes her a gladiator while on the catwalk, she is versatile, sexy, confident, fresh, mature and unique.

She uses her sexy eyes to achieve anything in a picture while her confidence helps her to glow in depiction, Imade has never belittled by any setting, however big and elaborate.

Her body we discovered is delicate and right for her job as a model with her well shaped lags. She has perfect face features, which blends with her beauty and her extraordinary eyes to give her an ideal character.

Her smiles are not fake but, cute and always present a massage of warmth.

One will surely fine her perfect bone structure, good cheekbones and jaw line irresistible. She has a good walk, which is not just a strut but, very versatile.

Her strong personality separates her from most of her peers. She is not just a model, who is bubbly or clueless but, has good sense of humor.

At the Africa Fashion Week Jo’burg in South Africa Imade was amazing and liked by the audience.

This young and aspiring Nigerian is working hard to become one of the greatest that ever lived. She wants to outperform and even over-take the feats achieved by great models such as Naomi Campbell and our own Agbani Darego, who was once rated as the most beautiful woman in the World.

She is hot and also want to surpass the achievements of models such as Gisele, Karoline, Cindy, Tyra Banks, Hana Soukupova, Vlada and Tatiana.

Imade is Nigeria finesse any day any time.

   

Ciara Makes African Print Her Style

Shoes (Asos.com) Clutch (Asos.com) Bracelet (Nordstrom.com)  African print Skirt (Eshe & Dalia)

 This is what I think Miss Ciara should wear the day she decides to step out in print.  the last years Ciara has really worked on her image and tried to move a bit away from her tomboy-ish looks. She has a beautiful body and she's not afraid to show it. We know she loves everything short from skirts to shorts shorts. So this skirt from Eshe and Dalia (only 30 Euros) paired with a white shirt with black lapels would absolutely work on her curvacious body. By the way any of you fashionistas can also rock this look by clicking on the items above

Rapper Nas Rocking Akara Big Time

Nas rocking Akara big time

Rapper Nas aka God SON was the top of the world about his new upcoming collection, tenth studio album "Life Is Good" and his new outlook on life after splitting with singer and wife Kelis. The photo-shoot was styled by stylist to the stars June Ambrose. As soon as I saw this picture I know he was rocking an African print shirt and was praying to God that it was from an actual African designer. After a few minutes of digging I found out that the shirt was actually by designer Woolrich Woolen Mills. I really love the shirt on Nas.

It seems like he has not aged one bit. He looks like the same guy from 10 years ago.

 This shirt sells for a cool $195. What do you think about the look? Yay or next?

Mimi Lee London to Unveil its Showroom in Lagos this Saturday – Exclusive Details & Watch their Summer 2012 Collection TV Ad

Lagos fashionistas get your purses and your sky high stilettos ready for the official showroom launch of UK Based fashion brand – Mimi Lee London in Lekki, Lagos.

The fab event will kick off with a red carpet session at 12 Noon, then guests will head to Auto Lounge, Victoria Island, Lagos for an exclusive VVIP Party, where they will be entertained by raves of the moment – Davido, Chuddy K and Moblow and also sip on personalized Mimi Lee cocktails courtesy of Olmeca Tequila.

The brain behind the fashion house/its creative director - Mimi Hassan, is one designer who can proudly say some of the top Nigerian celebrities and socialites including Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Omowunmi Akinnifesi, Goldie, Tiwa Savage and Eku Edewor. Many more have won her outfit and she promises that the showroom launch will be an exciting event for all.

This event is strictly by invitation, to attend, simply send an E-mail to abayomiusim@london.com. So call, text or ping your friends about all details and be sure to arrive early as there will be lots of camera men present to snap you and your friends in your stylish outfits.

TV Ad for MIMI LEE LONDON LAUNCH:

See you all there!

Date: Saturday 26th May 2012

Time: 12 Noon – 6 PM

Venue: 97, Ladipo Omotosho Cole Street off Mobolaji Johnson (Omorinle Johnson), Lekki Phase 1, Lekki, Lagos

The Rise of A Super Model: Nneka Edozie!

Nneka

Born in Holland both parents from Nigeria, it not every time you come across a female model standing tall and elegant at 6’1” an embodiment of pose, comportment, elegance and an aura of royalty.

Nneka is the picture that jumps to your mind when shopping for that charming face with class to grace your outfit on the runway.

This delectable hanger will give Tyra Banks a run for her money, this raw beauty is a catwalk personified.  

Nneka graceful smiles were best described by her peers “That her smile alone can make a lion smile.” Recently sign with Isis International a modeling agency in Nigeria, South Africa and New York is no doubt a good step for her career as a model.

At this year’s Africa Fashion Week London her name indeed will be in the lips of every fashion devotee. Come 3-4 of August 2012!

(BUFU) BY US FOR US: BLESSED CHILED CALLED 'ALEK WAK'

.Alek Wek

I wrote about models, fashion shows, new trend, designer’s and lot more but I was moved when I was writing this story about “diva’s of all diva’s” Alek Wak!

From Immigrate to Super Model Wak is just a normal girl, who came from Southern Africa Sudan, later left for London at the age of Fourteen rest was history.   

When Elle chose Alek Wek for the cover of their November 1997 issue, they were taking what many magazines considered a risk: a dark-skinned African girl on your cover did not, theoretically, sell issues. The result, however, was monumental reader response with letters-to-the-editor from women and men ecstatic about seeing the standards of beauty in fashion redefined.

.The African goddess: Alek Wek.

As Oprah commented when Alek appeared on her show, "If you'd been on the cover of a magazine when I was growing up, I would have had a different concept of who I was."

Born in Southern Sudan, Alek was raised as a part of the Dinka tribe. At fourteen the civil war forced her to flee to London with her younger sister, where they were later joined by their mother and siblings. It was in London, at a street fair, where Alek was discovered.

She launched a career in modeling that has since named her: "Model of the Decade" by trend-setting i-D magazine; one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in May of 1999 as well as one of the "50 Most Influential Faces in Fashion" according to i-D and Frank magazines.

"I haven't seen anybody that interesting, that black and that beautiful in a long time," said Steven Meisel, who has photographed Alek for Vogue. This is the sentiment that continues to surround Alek. She is not just a black model, and not just a celebrity lending her name to a cause. Alek uses fashion as a vehicle to accomplish what she believes in, which has proven to benefit everyone.

Alek Wek's Career Highlights

NATIONALITY:     Sudanese

BIRTH DATE:        April 16, 1977

LIVES NOW:         New York, NY

STATUS:                Supermodel

KNOWN FOR:      Charity work, Hair, Legs

AGENCIES:           IMG, STORM, MEGA, UNIQUE, RICCARDO GAY MODEL

FRIENDS:             Edmundo Castillo, Natalia Vodianova, Iman, Tyson Beckford, Jade Parfitt, Tasha Tilberg, Michelle Alves, Mimi Roche

MODEL TURNED: Activist (Refugees Advisory Council), Actress (Four Feathers, 2002), Writer(Autobiography “Alek”, August 2007)

INTERESTS:           Music

In an i-D editorial, June 2009. Photographed by Amy Troost.

In a Japanese Vogue editorial, July 2009. Photographed by Josh Olins.

With Liya Kebede, Tyson Beckford, and designer Momo at the Africa Rising Festival in London, England, October 14, 2008.

In an i-D editorial, March 2009. Photographed by Solve Sundsbo.

Quoted:

 “I played the drums, then the piano . . . but now I'm really into my guitar.” —New York magazine

Alek Wek's Career Highlights

16 APR, 1977:        Born in Wau, Sudan

1991:                     Moves to England with her family to escape the civil war between the Sudan’s Muslim north and Christian south

1991:                     Wek’s father is killed, leaving her mother and nine children

1995:                     Discovered by a Model 1 scout Fiona Ellis at a party

1995:                     Appears in the music video for Tina Turner’s GoldenEy

1996:                     Signed to Ford Models

1996:                     Appears in the video for Janet Jackson’s Got ’Til It’s Gone

1997:                     Named Model of the Year by MTV

1997:                     Named Model of the Decade by i-D

FEB 1997:             Debuts on the runways for Alexander McQueen,

Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Ralph Lauren in Paris and New York

FEB 1997:             Walks during fall Fashion Week for names like Chanel, Dries Van Noten, Lagerfeld, and Vivienne Westwood in Paris

NOV 1997:           Appears on the cover of Elle

APR 1998:            Appears on the cover of i-D

1999:                     Featured in the Pirelli calendar

1999:                     Named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People

OCT 1999:            Appears on the cover of German Vogue

FEB 2000:             Closes the Yves Saint Laurent fall show in Paris

JUL 2000:             Appears on the cover of i-D

SEP 2000:             Appears on the cover of Essence

JAN 2001:            Opens the Valentino spring couture show in Paris

JAN 2001:            Opens the Christian Lacroix spring couture show in Paris

JAN 2001:            Opens the Yves Saint Laurent spring couture show in Paris

MAR 2001:          Closes the John Galliano fall show in Paris

SEP 2001:             Closes the Oscar de la Renta spring show in New York

OCT 2001:            Closes the Jean Paul Gaultier spring show in Paris

2002:                     Plays Sudanese princess Aquol in the film The Four Feathers

2002:                     Campaign for the Gap

JAN 2002:            Appears on the cover of British Vogue

JAN 2002:            Opens the Christian Lacroix spring couture show in Paris

JUL 2002:             Opens the Christian Lacroix fall couture show in Paris

JAN 2003:            Opens and closes the Christian Lacroix spring couture show in Paris

JAN 2003:            Opens the Ralph Rucci Chado spring couture show in Paris

JUN 2004:            Appears on the cover of Cosmopolitan

SEP 2004:             Opens the Fendi spring show in Milan

2005:                     Launches wek1933, a line of handbags named for the year of her father’s birth

2006:                     Print ads for Jones New York

FEB 2006:             Feature in Vogue about her choices in denim and her overall style

NOV 2006:           Nominated for Britain’s Model of the Year award alongside Erin O’Connor and Kate Moss (the latter won)

FEB 2007:             Closes the Diane Von Furstenberg show in New York

AUG 2007:           Releases an autobiography, Alek, in which she admits that some of her modeling work has had racist undertones

8 SEP, 2007:        Named Vogue's third best dressed of the week in a short Diane von Fustenburg

SEP 2007:            Appears on the cover of Ebony with Iman, Tyra Banks, and Kimora Lee

JAN 2008:            Walks the spring Christian Dior couture show in Paris

FEB 2008:             Walks the fall Diane von Furstenberg show in New York

MAY 2008:           Walks the resort Christian Dior show in New York

JUL 2008:             Featured in the all-black Italian Vogue issue, photographed by Steven Meisel

SEP 2008:             Closes the spring Aquascutum and Jasper Conran shows in London

FEB 2009:             Closes the fall Aquascutum show in London

JUN 2009:            Appears in i-D editorial, photographed by Amy Troost

JUL 2009:             Appears in Japanese Vogue editorial, photographed by Josh Olins

AUG 2010:           Appears in Dazed & Confused editorial, photographed by Roe Ethridge

2011:                     Appears in the summer issue of i-D , photographed by Matthew Stone

2012:                     Models for the Kenzo spring ad campaign

2012:                     Arise Magazine Fashion Week in Nigeria