The new face of Marc Jacobs, and why she's forever relevant.

Cher  - the new face for Marc Jacobs Fall 2015

Cher - singer,actress and style icon is Marc Jacob's latest and obvious muse - He accompanied her in this year's Met Gala and she's now graced his fall 2015 campaign. Katie Grand unveiled the very first image on twitter Wednesday morning - Marc I just want you to know - my faith in you is beginning to restore. 

The 69-year old wears a black floor-length gown from Jacob's interestingly-eerie fall 2015 collection - She throws a sharp look for the image shot by David Sims. I adore that she has some serious witchcraft-ey-ness going on, but I'm not a fan of the photographer chosen or the overall creative direction.The image couldve been more in context with the collection's mood. Hire Tim Walker, Katie - Marc's collection's begging for him.

However, this is the first image, and nobody's sure as to what the others look like, or if they star other Industry icons.

While we live in 2015, that has the #freethenipple campaign making rounds on social media - Cher was the first woman to "expose" her navel on television - and fought censorship during the 70s to bare her belly button. She's the woman who freed the navel. All you crop top people - bow down,bitches. 

Why I genuinely will never fall out of love with Cher is because she did the glitter-gypsy look and the crazy-sheer dresses before everyone else ever did - or ever thought of doing. She had black lustrous hair and unconventional style. I don't think you can ever out-do that. Let's not overlook how she rose to success in a male-dominated entertainment world. She was wild and carefree and comfortable in her own skin before it was okay to be. 

Cher in her iconic sheer dress - shot by Richard Avedon. (Kim Kardashian claimed this look was her inspiration
for this years met Gala)

Ive always found Marc too much of a basic bitch. I wont lie, some of his collections for Louis Vuitton were hideous.On the flip side his own brand seemed forever interesting - and I was pleased to watch him depart Louis Vuitton and pass the baton to Nicolas Ghesquiere.

I'm glad youre finally where you do your best Marc. Brilliance is on your side with the fall collection coupled with this campaign featuring Cher.

amfAR's 22nd Cinema Against AIDS Gala.

I loved :

Karolina Kurkova in Alexis Mabille Couture

Jacquelyn Jablonski in Stella McCartney

Chanel Iman in Zuhair Murad

Irina Shayk in Atelier Versace 

Isabelli Fontana in Redemption

Josephine Skriver 

Kendall Jenner in Calvin Klein 

I loathed :

Paris are you trying to save cash by not hiring a stylist?

Anja Rubik I like you - but your dress looks like a shiny blue plastic bag

You look like a Parrot, Marion 

What Alexa Chung really does in life.

People are always in mass confusion as to what Alexa Chung does - she sits front row for numerous high-end shows at fashion week,appears on the covers of Magazines like Elle and Harpers Bazaar, has photographs in magazines for her sense of style and even hosts shows sometimes(+ she was dating Alex Turner for 4 years).
People thus conveniently come to a conclusion that she has no real job - and she takes what she's given.

Alexa on the cover of Harper's Bazaar UK, May 2009.

I used to think the very same way, well - for a while. Recently, I was compelled to think otherwise.

Alexa Chung got school done with to pursue modelling as a career when she was scouted by Storm Model Management - and she was quite successful - starring in a few music videos,working with companies like Urban Outfitters and Sony Ericsson, and even had a reality TV gig. However, 4 years down the line she quit modelling to begin curation and journalism of a kind. Modelling isn't the most fabulous career to keep - it consists of constant criticism from each end, being under pressure to stick to a number on the weighing machine,eating disorders, then there's the constant insecurity and competition to top it off with. 

In 2006, she ended up becoming a TV personality; presenting and hosting shows and events for various channels - making appearances in the modelling world every now and then. Side by side , around 2007 - she would write a monthly column for Company - a British women's magazine and also wrote a weekly newspaper column for Britain's The Independent from November 2008 to June 2009. 

She also ended up releasing a book called "It" in 2005. In 2009 she became a  contributing editor for British Vogue,

The cover of "It" by Alexa Chung.

So she's been juggling being a Television Presenter, Model, Editor, Journalist and Author for some time now. See, that's where I come to think differently about her - I relate to her instantly because sometimes, there's so much I'd like to do in the world - but it's terrible that I'm supposed to pick just one thing to do. Alexa just, chose to do more with her life instead of sticking to her previous decisions. 

Alexa talking jibberish whilst posing for an editorial

I think to myself what I'd want to do with my life - and it's a complete rubik's cube. There's so much to do - so much. I see my life panning out the same way - I'll be doing different things and my job descriptions will change drastically - it's really not a bad thing to do; to learn and to expereince more.

On the flip-side, I do agree entirely with Barbara Ellen's review on "It" - Alexa's book .I do also agree she can be quite blatantly stupid on occasion and I dislike that she fakes being 'naturally skinny' - I once read an account of someone who worked with her for a day : and all she was seen eating was half an apple and a diet coke. Screw being "naturally skinny" - bottomline is, she's not healthy and it's  very obvious. 

Not "naturally skinny"

The instagram picture that caused controversy for how skinny her legs appeared.

But I genuinely feel like she's living the dream - career wise. She gives zero hoots about having one profession and does what she pleases - when she pleases. She might be the jack of all trades and master of none, but then again - she gets to experience,learn and absorb from all of it *Though it seems that all she's been doing lately is attending fancy parties*.

 I think everyone would kill for a slice of a that life.

If 'overrated' was a person, it would be Cara.

I'm possibly one of the only people you'll ever meet who understood people's obsession with Cara Delevingne- and who knew her before you found her "pretty" on your tumblr dashboard. I'm not a hater, and I dont really flinch at the sight of her - it's just that I don't buy her as a "supermodel" and never will. In fact, anyone who questions themselves frequently as to why they like what they like, wouldn't buy Cara as a "supermodel".

First Off, lets get facts in place. Cara never really had to work too hard to be a model because she already had plenty of top-notch contacts. Enter, Poppy Delevingne - yes, Cara has an elder sister you've almost never heard of. Poppy was scouted by Storm Model Management founder Sarah Doukas in 2008. Well, after that she ended up being the face of brands like Louis Vuitton and worked with people *cough*(idiots) like Terry Richardson and is presently an ambassador for the British Fashion Council. Well - Cara came skipping around and got scouted by *pause of predictability* Sarah Doukas of Storm Model Management.

I kinda forgot to let everyone know that her Godfather's a Conde Nast Executive , and her Godmother's the actress Joan Collins. *cough*remember her minor role in Anna Karenina*cough*

See where I'm getting at?

Let's analyse her as a model - her prime shining career at the moment. Her expressions are the same everywhere to be honest - eyes staring into a camera and her lips parting or together with her cheekbones jutting - she'll eventually look another direction and do the same maybe, but that's her serious modelling,

It's literally the same expression.

Cara's success isn't just about her family, it's her own doings too : she got tumblr-famous in a jiffy with the flood of her whacky faces in backstage pictures. People thought she was a high fashion model with "a personality" - I mean tumblr's the kind of place where a picture of a person holding a shoe in front of their webcam will get 3,000 notes - it's an open community where people influence each other real quick. You'll see a black and white paparazzi picture of Kim Kardashian and people commenting "she's perf" "wow that body" and people get swayed. But then again, tumblr is a community that constantly inspires people and shares perspectives - but it influences strongly. I've witnessed that for myself. Cara literally flooded tumblr before she flooded the fashion industry - Everyone's dashboard had a pictures of her twisted eyeballs and stretchy tongue. everyone.

Her fame grew with the people before if grew with the industry - which isn't a bad thing, it's just interesting to note how labels and designers can get hungry for a slice of that fame. Plus, she's dead skinny so, criteria fulfilled. Actually it was most shocking when a brand like Victoria's Secret - which is known for it's fit and curvaceous supermodels had Cara walk for them in 2012 and 2013 shows . After stuffing her bra - she still looked out-of-place in that show. She's high-fashion material, and  people realized that eventually.

Another fascinating aspect of her fame is the flamboyant people she's come to be associated with - Rihanna,Michelle Rodriguez ,Miley Cyrus, Rita Ora, Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner. You have got to admit, it's hard to not get plenty of attention when you're constantly seen with that crowd.

Her social media following is also tremendous - and models.com ranks her 4th in their 'social' section. 

Think about it, she's skinny,blonde, has blue eyes - possesses perhaps the most cliche face. Her acquisition of fame is plain unique, and the industry's played along perfectly. If she ever walked passed me as an ordinary person, I wouldn't turn to glance - nobody would.

I feel like the 'supermodel' status rests with models that are unique with their features and versatile in every photograph - Cara really is literally none of the above. 

Rihanna for Dior : A Freudian slip by the fashion industry.

There's the media flooding their readers with "Rihanna makes history as first black model to feature in Dior" either in their very headlines or lead paragraphs,nobody seems to notice how strange the sound of that really is. We have a Freudian slip by the fashion industry right here.

Last year Jourdan Dunn made headlines for being the first black model to land a solo Vogue UK cover in 12 years - not many people address it, but racism in the fashion world is an issue taken far to lightly : notice, that there's barely any black designers out there, most runways are dominated by lighter-skin-toned models.While were at this, lets take a second to analyse Beyonce and Nicki's excessive skin bleaching. See what attempting to be a fashion-icon-of-a-sort demands?

Carole White - founder of Premier Model Management who's known to have supported and represented Naomi Campbell through most of her modelling career, stated in an article; 'Clients never wanted to pay Naomi as much as the white girls. It was always a battle.’ - well, that's just disturbing.

I really hope I live in a world someday where a black model landing a cover or being the face of a brand isn't big news at all - I ain't ever heard of "Karlie Kloss - white model lands Vogue cover" in my life, it sounds ridiculous to no end.

So after 69 years, Dior's "secret garden" campaign series, found a non-white personality to grace their campaign - and in all honesty,Rihanna does look quite badgalriri-ful in the teasers below.

KIMYE’s Vogue Cover : about a year later.

I saw a picture on tumblr a while back that had half-hearted graffiti reading “ Kim K’s ass is bigger than fashion week” - I was in denial for about 30 seconds,until I realized how agonizingly true it was.

I barely ever liked Annna Wintour in the first place - but she earned a soft spot in my heart when she said “Kim Kardashian was the worst thing since socks and sandals”.  Then she magically took a U-turn with Kanye’s begging and put her on the cover of Vogue in April 2014. My ocean of respect for her evaporated quicker than nailpolish-remover-liquid.

Then Anna pretty much publicly stated that she did it for the sales - Oh god, that just makes you sound worse to be honest. Then she went on to say she was criticized for putting Madonna on the cover of vogue once upon a time- how’s that even a comparison? Madonna was and is a talented music artist, and Kim’s a reality TV star that acquired fame via a sex tape? 

But let’s look at the other side shall we?Every woman would be quite paranoid and do the same if she had the similar sex-tape situation. I cant help but applaud Kim’s entrepreneurial skills of capitalizing on her fans with clothing and makeup or whatever - She's a smart businesswoman, But that’s pretty much it.

When people look up to Kim and make her an icon, they should know they glorify narcissism and lack of any substance what so ever. As part of an ever-growing fashion industry, all she's really contributed is her tacky clothing line.She enjoys front row privilege because of her marriage to Kanye and her social media following. There’s some exceptional women in the world  -  yet here we live in a world where a woman known for her non-biodegradable organs got to be on the cover just for - you know, selfies.

Shoutout to at all the magazines,designers and labels that need her for her social media presence, that’s pretty much how out-of-ideas you really are currently. You're marketing has hit a new low - and Kim's twitter and instagram followers are your answer to everything.