“You gotta give credit where it’s due. Even though Ondria and Lucky are not your typical Tom Ford model, they both killed it.”
Theoretically, Jimmy Choo’s new Spring 2015 fashion spots come complete with all the right components for a successful campaign.
As Miranda Priestly in A Devil Wears Prada would say, “Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.” But Ondria looks fantastic.
Carine Roitfeld and Karl Lagerfeld team up for “Singular Beauty: An homage to the diversity of women.”
This morning, The Huffington Post reached out to Numero for comment about the controversial editorial called "African Queen" which featured, in the fashion magazine's very own words, "the American [read: white] model Ondria Hardin posing as an 'African queen,' her skin painted in black." Here's the statement Numero sent back, in full: "Some people have […]
Well this is just stupidly racist: Numero cast 16-year-old white model Ondria Hardin in an editorial called "African Queen" and um, "styled" her in blackface for the shoot. (Originally spotted by Foudre.) This, of course, would have been a nice opportunity to hire a black model, as there aren't many jobs available for non-white models […]
So, Stella Tennant may not exactly be young (in model years anyway), but Ondria Hardin and Yumi Lambert certainly are. Hardin’s age is up for debate (she’s either 15 or 16), and Lambert tips the scales at the ripe old age of 16. Despite her tender age, Chanel had no qualms about styling Hardin in […]
If fashion's like high school, Karl Lagerfeld's the creepy vice-principal: terrifying, inaccessible, everywhere. This week, Karl the Kaiser will be in New York to shoot the Chanel Spring 2013 campaign and stink up the city with his noxious odor, a delicate blend of design genius and moral vacuity, with some Diet Coke undernotes. Ugh, keep […]
Even though the CFDA issued a recommendation to designers urging them not to use models younger than 16 in their shows, a fourteen and fifteen-year-old walked the Marc Jacobs Fall 2012 runway last night. Thairine Garcia and Ondria Hardin are both represented by Ford Models, the only agency that reportedly included under-16 models in its […]