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Model x Muse: Amber Rose for Complex Magazine

Model x Muse: Amber Rose for Complex Magazine

Amber Rose for Complex Magazine

Complex: Did you always have an eclectic style growing up?

Amber Rose: Yea, I always looked up to Slash from Guns N’ Roses. I had every single poster of Slash in my room. It was crazy because I grew up in an all-black neighborhood and everybody I went to school with was black. I was the only biracial looking girl in my school, and Slash was biracial too, he was just a fucking rock star. I always wanted to play the guitar. I’ve tried, but other things came up.

Complex: What’s the status of your career?

Amber Rose: Definitely more modeling, I want to change the face of modeling. I want young girls growing up to know that they can actually eat something, and be beautiful and be a model, that they can actually have a real women’s body and do modeling. I want to get into acting. I want to pursue all avenues that I can.

Read the rest of the Amber Rose interview and see the rest of the Amber Rose pics from this shoot in the photo gallery @ Complex.com

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Model x Muse: Amber Rose for Complex Magazine

RIP Naomi Sims

RIP Naomi Sims

Naomi Sims Life Magazine cover

Naomi Sims died from breast cancer at the age of 61 on Saturday, August 1, 2009. The Mississippi-born model was dubbed the “first black supermodel” and paved the way for other black models like Pat Cleveland and Naomi Campbell.

In 1968, Sims became the first black model to appear on the cover of Ladies Home Journal and also appeared on the covers on Life Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Essence. She modeled for designers like Halston and Bill Blass and appeared in a national AT&T television commercial.

Sims was beloved by designers and as Halston told The New York Times in 1974: “Naomi was the first. She was the great ambassador for all black people. She broke down all the social barriers.”

After retiring from the runway, Sims started a successful wig-making business specializing in wigs for black women. She also began a cosmetics line and wrote several books and a teen advice column for Right On! magazine.

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RIP Naomi Sims

Grace Jones: Still Fierce After All These Years

Grace Jones: Still Fierce After All These Years

Grace Jones is back…yes!

The iconic model/musician hasn’t done a music video in 19 years, but by the looks of the video for Corporate Cannibal, she still hasn’t lost her ability to be fierce and scare the shit out of people all at the same time.

Corporate Cannibal is her first single off her upcoming album, Hurricane, due out in October.

via Dirty Whorelebrity News

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Grace Jones: Still Fierce After All These Years

Naomi Campbell for Yves Saint Laurent

Naomi Campbell for Yves Saint Laurent

Naomi Campbell and Stefano Pilati for ID Magazine
Naomi Campbell and Stefano Pilati for ID Magazine

Crazy/beautiful supermodel Naomi Campbell is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent and she appears with designer Stefano Pilati on the cover of i-D Magazine (August).

The girl is batshit crazy, but you can’t deny she knows how to serve it in a photo.

Anyone who can make me love those YSL harem pants can hit me with a Blackberry any day.

Photo credit: TFS

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Model Moment: Du Juan

Model Moment: Du Juan

Asian model Du Juan

A lot of focus has been on the lack of ethnic (read: black) models in the fashion biz, but other ethnic models are just as hard to find.

Of the handful of Asian models on the runway, Du Juan is at the pinnacle. She was crowned Miss China in 2003 but broke into the fashion big-time in 2006 when she walked in the Paris haute couture shows. She was the first Asian model to cover French Vogue and last year, closed the Fendi show at the Great Wall of China.

The IMG-repped supermodel has also done ad campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, and appears in the latest GAP campaign for the limited-edition white shirts designed by CFDA winnders.

A lot of people may still call Du Juan an “up and coming” model, but in my opinion, the Shanghai-stunner has already arrived.

Du Juan for Fendi Great Wall of China
Du Juan closes the Fendi show at the Great Wall of China

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