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Taking a short break from Mercedes Benz Fashion Week to talk about the beautiful fashions at The Oscars. Ruffles were the rage darlings!!!!
Sandra Bullock Arrives on the red Carpet as Best Dressed and Best Actress at the 82nd Academy Awards
Actress Vera Farmiga arrives on the red carpet at the 82nd Academy Awards
Actress Rachel McAdams arrives at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards
Zoe Saldana Arrives at the 82nd Academy Awards
Jennifer Lopez and Demi Moore arrive at the 82nd Academy Awards
Sara Jessica Parker arrives on the red carpet in a 1960’s Chanel Couture column gown at the 82nd Academy Awards
Lots of sexy, feminine gorgeous ruffles at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Feminine ruffles in every gorgeous hue found their place on the red carpet. Zoe Saldana’s Givenchy couture gown was fabulous! Sandra Bullock who received The Best Actress Award was also Best Dressed in a beautifully beaded Marchesa gown that kissed her curves just the right places proceeding into a train at her exterior. Golden Cameron Diaz glittered in her strapless Oscar De La Renta gown and Sara Jessica Parker looked like Old Hollywood wearing a 1960’s Chanel Couture column gown
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DAVIDELFIN FALL 2010
Yves St. Laurent Super Model Shailah Edmonds and TV Host Cognac Wellerlane talk about DAVIDELFIN FALL 2010 - Video by Mauro Botero -Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
There was a mad rush to get to see the DAVIDELFIN FALL 2010 Show. DAVIDELFIN’S Public Relations were turning people away in droves in the tents to see the show. They even gave Stylist/Costume Designer Rosemary Ponzo who sits front row at every show a hard time but luckily at the last minute Rosemary and many others did see the show including 80’s Yves St. Laurent Super Model Shailah Edmonds who now coaches young models on the science of doing the catwalk on today’s competitive runways.
The show opened with a mysterious smokey cloud and Bjork’s “Sod Off.”
Surreal DavidElfin Fall 2010 show was a an exploration of the traditional menswear suit. Bravo’s Realty TV Star David Elfin invented his own new interruptation for Fall. A suit jacket was morped into a maxi-length boyfriend jacket dress for women, while the bottom half of a blazer was sewn onto trouser waists developing a peplum silhouette for the menwear. Elfin created an explosion of color, bright mustards, hot neon pinks, spiked the mostly black and grey collection while graphic black and white prints (both oversized checks and snakeskin) added to the Salvador Dali meets menswear vibe.
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Stylist Rosemary Ponzo and Cognac Wellerlane talk about Dennis Basso Fall 2010 - Video by Lorenzo Esquivel - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
Stylist, Costume Designer Rosemary Ponzo and I chatted about the Dennis Basso Fall/Winter 2010 Collection after the show and discussed the inspiration was all about powerful, statuesque, glamorous elegance like pieces of fine art.
His fall collection was a collaboration of feathers, fur, silk, alligator trim, hand beading mixed with wool metallic fabrics. He combined a few military silhouettes sexy cocktail dresses thrown in as accent pieces for his fabulous furs.
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Cognac Chats backstage with Fashion Designer Amy Smilovic backstage at the Tibi Fall 2010 Show-Video by Lorenzo Esquivel - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2organics.com and Scenterprises.com
Fashion Designer Amy Smilovic proved once again that her brand is fresh, young and very very hip. Backstage I spoke to Amy as she revealed the inspiration was all about Napoleon and Josephine, Masculine meets feminine.
Young fresh face models strutted down the runway with bouncy curls wearing sexy burgundy and grey tights.
Luxury rich of fabrics and impeccable detailing were the highlights of Tibi Fall 2010.
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TV Host Cognac Wellerlane interviews at Haute Hippie Fashion Installation - Video by Mauro Botero - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
Haute Hippie is inspired, designed and created by people who are passionate about the clothes they design and the spirit that Haute Hippie embodies. Their collection is a labor of love. Haute Hippie is a love affair with clothing, inspiration, design and creativity. Their Design Team continues to pour their heart, soul and indeed their life savings into this endeavor, so strong is their belief and so resolute their conviction that their clothes would find an audience. They meticulously design every piece in the Haute Hippie line. There is no huge production line. There is no designing by committee in boardrooms with faceless bureaucrats, or design formula to which their design team conforms. All that is Haute Hippie is in fact theirs.
More info about the brand please visit www.hautehippie.com
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Stylist Patricia Parenti, Socialite Eric Andrew and TV Host Cognac Wellerlane pose for a photo-op at Zoe Twitt’s Fall 2010 Fashion Installation
TV Host Cognac Wellerlane interviews Fashion Designer Zoe Twitt at her fashion installation before attending a party for Models International at Anjar Bar - Video by Mauro Botero. Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
During Mercedes Benz Fashion Week I had the chance to interview Fashion Designer Zoe Twitt before her Fashion Installation Presention.
26-year old fashion designer Zoe Twitt was destined from an early age to create her own fashion and accessory label. By the age of 7, Twitt had traveled the world with her parents, visiting textile factories and learning from their work in the industry. Zoe observed the fashion world grow and change as she did, by traveling and living all over the world; from Australia, England, India, Germany and finally settling in New York City. She studied at University of Melbourne in Australia, and Columbia in New York City, and pursued a career in the arts as an actress. Zoe was inspired at that time to create clothing that made her feel comfortable and confident during auditions, and she soon left acting to devote all of her time to her label, ZOETWITT.
Her first collection consists of 40 pieces made exclusively from Superfine Italian Wool Silk Jersey and fine silk charmeuse. Each item has Zoe’s signature seamless touches and a Madame Gres inspired drapery. Twitt’s playful side inspired unique embellishments: large silver zippers on her jersey pieces as well as on her silk, and bright colors like pink and electric yellow mixed with gray cream and black. Altogether, the collection is a combination of staple pieces that mix beautifully for layering. Her message is versatility, utilitarianism, and autonomy.
Each piece is limited edition and made by hand in New York City.
For more info please visit www.zoetwitt.com
imodels pose for a photo-op during the Models International Party at Ajna Bar during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
Afterwards my entourage and I went to a party for Models International at Ajna Bar.
iMODEL is Los Angeles’ premier boutique modeling agency. Their bookers and agents have over 60 years of combined industry experience in fashion, commercials, celebrity endorsement, film and television. iModels has a selective board of 200 male and female models internationally. I Models’ divisions include iModel-Women, iModel-Men, iFresh (New Faces), iKids, iTalent and iStar. Our main office is located in Beverly Hills, CA. and has recently expanded into the competitive New York market.
Their models are professionals. iMODELS are available for runway, print advertising, editorials, catalogs, look books, showrooms, fit modeling, spokes modeling, television or film, commercials and hosting. In addition, their celebrity division is available for product endorsement and special appearances.
Though their agency focus is fashion, the versatility of their models allows them to work along a wide array of clientele. Their client lists include Vogue, Teen Vogue, Teen Magazine, Allure, Maxim, Stuff Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, Rolls Royce, Abercrombie + Fitch, Ralph Lauren, Ed Hardy, Bebe, Rock & Republic, Pottery Barn, Macy’s, Fox Racing, Sketchers, Wella, Urban Decay, MTV, HBO and many others. The pride themsselves in premium client services with precise attention to details and appreciate your interest in iMODELS and hope to form a long lasting professional relationship.
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Cheng-Huai Chang Fall 2010 - Red Boucle Wool Jacket
TV Host Cognac Wellerlane poses for a photo-op with Socialite Eric Andrew at The Cheng-Huai Chuang Fall 2010 Collection
Cognac chats with Fashion Designer Cheng-Huai before his presentation of Fall 2010 Collection - Video by Mauro Botero - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
Cognac Chat with Chuang after his gorgeous collection - Video by Mauro Botero-Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
At Mercedes Benz Fashion I attended many designers presentations, installations and shows, I was extremely impressed with Parson’s designer, Cheng-Huai Chuang.
He amused his audience by opening the show with a live performance from a flamenco dancer. Inspired by the culture of exotic Spain, his collection showcased, sultry feminine classic timeless garments for street wear transporting and morphing to evening wear.
Cheng-Huai Chuang-Fall 2010 Collection
Hues from the Spanish Bull fights influenced the color pallette of smokey black to vibrant red. Chuang’s collection consisted of luxury textured fabrics of wool, velvet organza and lace. Red carpet gowns, cocktails dresses matador pants and my favorite was the red boucle Wool matador jacket!
Cheng-Huai Chuang got his start in design as a young boy by dressing mannequins at his parents’ clothing store in Taipei, Taiwan. In high school, he designed and starred in his own fashion show, “The Little Boy’s Girl” at the Nan-Hai Art Gallery, part of National Taipei University. This show led to an invitation to design costumes for an experimental theater production, “Yes, but not Only” by the Van Body Theatre (formerly, Chibody Theater Troupe). He was also invited to participate in the Taipei Taiwan Art Festival after graduating high school.
In 2006, at the age of 18, Cheng came to New York City to attend Parsons School of Fashion Design. Cheng is currently a design intern for emerging Philippine designer Marc Rancy and just launched his own womenswear collection, inspired by the powerful Spanish women of Flamenco and Bullfighting. He previously designed costumes for the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and designed gowns for the Miss New York Pageant and National Sweetheart Pageant of Miss Manhattan 2009, Inga Schlingmann. He is also the exclusive designer for drag queen Sherry Vine and is currently producing a t-shirt line featuring Sherry and other drag queens called DragTease.
His current collection for Fall 2010 pulsates the Flamenco Dancers & Fiery-Red ranging Bull Fighters, the collection exudes power, beauty and a woman’s strength of uninterrupted vibrancy.
For more info please visit www.chuang.me
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Cognac chats with Ileana Maria Rojas-Bennett at the Nolcha Fashion Week 2010 - Video by Mauro Botero - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
While at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2010 I decided to stop by and experience Nolcha Fall 2010.
Fashionistas, editors, buyers and visitors experienced style tours led by Creative Director, Lynn Furge. The tours provided quick accurate info into each participating fashion designers collections and how they are involved in the world of fashion. Nolcha dedicates much of the year researching all aspects of the fashion business, from retail and production to talent and trends; by combining the facts with creativity, style tours offers the participant insight into which pieces to pair together, which staple items are a must for Fall 2010, and how to think outside of the box when adding new designers to an existing fashion roster.
“Fall 2010 will bring back the artisan with elements of light (iridescent fabrics, loose weaves), painterly colors and multiple layers of assorted textures,” revealed Furge.
This season the exhibition is the debut of ‘Nolcha Cares’; a 13 piece womenswear collection in collaboration with Care for Kenya.
A notable independent designer participating in this year’s event with a special cause is Haitian Designer Catherine Charlot, owner of Himane (www.himane.com), producers of innovative, one-of-a-kind clothing and accessories made from hand-picked, locally-sourced, recycled materials such as broken umbrellas. As a graduate of Haiti’s Verona Alta Costura School of Fashion and Accessories Design, leveled in last week’s earthquake, Charlot will donate all of the proceeds of her collection to build another design school in Haiti. Additionally, she will lead a group of twelve women in a mission to bring needed supplies and food to underserved parts of her country. Other exhibiting independent designers include: Alberto Parada, Andean Collection, Beata B, Bessi by Carlos Zuniga, Boutique Ethique, Carlotta Gherzi for Sado, Chak Chel, Dora Abodi, Elena Garcia, Jess Rizzuti New York, Joolz, Maleku Jewelry, Sarka Siskova and TaTa Reef. Generous sponsor support provided by Bo Concept, Saaga Vodka and Marcel Hotel.
During my visit I had a chance to chat with several of the designers
Ileana Maria Rojas-Bennett was born in Costa Rica’s capital city of San Jose. She is a descendant of the Maleku Indian tribe. “I was fortunate enough to grow up in the home of an outstanding artist. In fact, my most basic childhood memory is one of my mother’s portraits and sculptures. My early years were filled with bright colors and fantastic shapes and designs. She was and still is my primary influence.”
“After completing a master’s degree in education, I moved to the United States in 1992 and discovered the beauty of stained glass, which led to glass fusing. I quickly realized the colors that were being created in my kilns were reminiscent of the vast kaleidoscope of colors I knew as a little girl in my native country. After learning silversmithing, I combined the two to create the wonderful jewelry offered at Maleku.”
I also added a video in from Istanbul fashion Week where Roberto Cavalli showed a unique collection of pieces from the Fall/Winter 2009 collection and a selection of signature archival gowns from the Florentine House. The show was hed at the striking Dolmabahce Palace.
A dinner party honoring the designer will follow after the show at the exclusive Reina Clubcon with dignitaries and VIPs from Turkey.
“I’m very honored to have been selected and to be part of the first Fashionable Istanbul because I think this invitation is recognition of my personal positive, vibrant and winning vision of fashion. My emotion is even bigger considering Istanbul is a seductive and mysterious city, a geographical bridge between my culture and the East.”
Roberto Cavalli opened his boutique in Istanbul in 2003 and is a well established brand in the Turkish market.
For more info please visit http://malekujewelry.com
Tommy Hilfiger Fall 2010
The last collection in the Tents was Tommy Hilfiger’s Fall/Winter Collection 2010.
This season the collection was inspired by Ivy League looks turned sophisticated
Signature pieces were his Heather gray double face cashmere hooded sweatshirt with a khaki skirt; red mohair jacket with red Bengal-striped shirt and khaki gabardine buckled skirt; midnight sparkle bouclé pea coat with white silk shirt and gray flannel short
The look was preppy mixed with a pop, luxury fabrics created into a leather sequined skirt, a cashmere hoodie and a sleeveless trench coat.
Cognac chats with Catherine Edouard Charlot at Nolcha Fashion Week - Video by Mauro Botero-Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
Another fabulous Designer Catherine Edouard Charlot chatted with me about her brand Himane.com
The designer, pattern-maker and business owner Catherine Edouard Charlot emigrated to the United States in February 1994. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City to complement her degree from Haiti’s Verona Alta Costura School of Fashion and Accessories Design. In 2002, Charlot started a home-based business, producing custom-designed wedding dresses and medical scrubs, in addition to freelancing pattern and sample making services to various designers and boutiques.
The brand HIMANE only works with the best professional contractors in the fashion industry. Many of them have years of experience in different countries, and are well acquainted with a variety of design methods and techniques. Some of our sample makers and tailors have worked for Marc Jacobs, GAP, MACY’S, and many other designers.
We provide the highest quality customer service in English, French and Spanish.
For more info please visit www.himane.com
Cognac chats with Fashion Designer Beata Bohman at Nolcha Fashion Week - Video by Mauro Botero - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
Beata B also showing at Nolcha Fashion Week started designing clothing at the age of 12. “I used my mother lace curtains for my own designs as well as her own clothes wanting to improve them and play with the style. I was using as well all kind of materials that I could found around the house, since at that time I couldn’t find any of them in Poland and couldn’t afford them either.”
Beata worked for many years as a model for Nina Ricci and for Piaget, however I wanted to achieve bigger dreams and all I could think about was designing. This huge passion never stopped me from making my own clothes as it was the biggest pleasure and happiness I could dream.
For the fall/winter 2010 collection Beata B works and is inspired buy beauty of silk, lace and knitted wool.
Everything that is simple and yet timeless we will find in that collection.
Everything what is luxurious and rich we will enjoy on Beata B designs.
They are pieces that are just MUST in every woman wardrobe that has been signature designs in Beata B line appreciated and always wanted buy her old and new clients.
For a more established line of Fur of course there is Dennis Basso.
Dennis Basso Fall 2010
His collection is always amazing, glamorous luxurious sophisticated and feminine.
For more info on Beata Bohman visit www.beatab.com
and for Dennis Basso please visit www.dennisbasso.com
Carlotta Gherzi for SADO
After the completion of a Bachelor degree in Fashion Design & Fashion Marketing at the American University in London based born Italian, Carlotta Gherzi,began test running her designs under her own label during Alternative Fashion Week in 2001.
Cognact chats with Carlotta Gherzi at Nolcha Fashion Week - Video by Mauro Botero -Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2Organics.com and Scenterprises.com
The success of this proved there was a market for her creative talent. Carlotta
decided to enter a growing prosperous market the Russian arena, one that Carlotta
understood very well, having lived her former years in Russia. The instinct proved
correct and SADO sold its collections in the finest silk, wool, cashmere and suede to
some of the best retail stores in Russia.
The abundance of great tailoring that popped up on SADO Catwalk in London
underlined the current demand for time proof pieces and well cut, investment classic buys. Inspiration for this season starts with the tailoring influenced largely eighties inspired, upbeat and sexy. Bright popping colours in shiny, stretch fabrics with the emphasis on high waisted trousers and strong shoulder shapes looked vibrant and chic. At SADO lean cut suits in neon silks were pure rock n roll. The softer side of this trend was preppy and slouchy – here the rolled hem, cropped trouser is centralto the look.
For more info please visit www.sadofashion.com
Cognac interviews the manager of Šárka Šišková - Video by Mauro Botero
Another innovative designer at Nolcha Fashion Week was Šárka Šišková.
The academic painter Šárka Šišková was born on 2nd February 1966 in Zlín,
Czech Republic where she lives and works.
„Clothes means the way I express myself, it symbolizes movement, nostalgia, memories, sensuality, it is my refuge, opera, symphony, poem, humour, sometimes exaggerated.
I could paint, sculpt, write novels or draw till the end of my days but I can not stop designing clothes, even if it is such a challenging discipline.
I sense the thin line between art and business, it feels like being a ropewalker sometimes.
I long to feel poised when walking that rope, observing busy life below which I can not leave maybe just because of that. Mountaineers climb their Mount Everest, I wish to follow my dream step by step too.
To design fashion is fulfilling and rewarding for me and creation is what painting is to a painter – an urgent need…
For more info please visit http://www.siskova.cz
Monique Lhuillier Fall/Winter 2010
Back in the Tents Monique Lhuillier’s made a bold statement-making with her over the top and very glamorous red carpet gowns. The line also showed simplistic neat hair, makeup and nails that emphasized Old Hollywood Glamour.
Cognac chats with Fashion Designer Dora Abodi - Video by Mauro Botero
Dora was born in Kolozsvár Transylvania, in a multicultural artist family, her parents were fine artists and painters and my grandfather is also a famous painter. Her family is multicultural, because of their mixed origins: Hungarian, Rumanian, German, Dutch, Armenian and many others. Dora spent her childhood in the vivid, contradictory and colorful milieu of beautiful Kolozsvár, where a lot of nations and religions live together and form each other. Because of the dictatorial political system of that time her family moved to Hungary.
Dora was a fashion and literature addict in her early childhood, spending days making hundreds and hundreds of new outfits and hairstyles for her Barbie dolls, drawing or reading novels, after finishing the high-school in a hasty moment she decided to start legal and media studies. After graduated parallel as a lawyer and finishing four years journalism, she realized her talents as an avante garde artist and decided to pursue a career in fashion becoming a student of Mod’Art International Budapest fashion school. Her final year at Mod’Art, she decided to start her own brand and began to work on her first collection. In February 2009 she launched her first luxury ready-to-wear women’s collection ‘CLANDESTINE’ for F/W 2009/10 including women apparels, handbags, belts, hats and gifts.
For more info please visit www.doraabodi.com
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Hello darlings, welcome back to Cognac’s Corner Magazine. Sue Phillips and Cognac Wellerlane pose for a photo-op - Photo by Mauro Botero
Cognac chats with Sue Phillips at the World Trump Bar - Video by Mauro Botero. Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by Scenterprises, Ltd. and g2Organics
Fragrance Expert and Guru Sue Phillips called on the fragrance and fashion world to help the Haitian victims at her event on Valentine’s day at the Firebird Restaurant during Mercedes Benz Fashion and on the other side of town Super Model Naomi Campbell participated in her own event.
Naomi Campbell called on the fashion world to do its part for the Haiti relief effort - and the fashion world answered: There will be a charity catwalk show pairing top models and designers at New York Fashion Week.
Campbell organized the first Fashion for Relief event at the Bryant Park tents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and has since taken it to Tanzania and Mumbai, India. The return to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Feb. 12 comes at the right time, Campbell said.
“Everyone else is trying to help Haiti, and we wanted to do our part on the fashion side of things,” Campbell said in a telephone interview from Paris. “The response has been overwhelming. No one has said `no’ - which means a lot because it’s such a busy time with designers preparing their fall collections.”
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Camille McDonald
Cognac chats with “America’s Top Model” Camille McDonald before the Diane Von Furstenberg Show - Video by Mauro Botero - Cognacscorner.tv is sponsored by g2organics and Scenterprises, Ltd.
Celebrities and beautiful models are always a permanent fixture at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. During the week I caught up with ” America’s Top Model” Realty TV Star Camille McDonald.
Camille McDonald born to two loving Jamaican parents was raised in the Bronx (Westchester County, NY) and had a knack for the spotlight and the catwalk from an early age. Currently she wears many hats as a Professional Model, Designer, Fashion Consultant, Spokes Person, Humanitarian, and Cultural & Goodwill Ambassador for her adopted country, Jamaica. She recently completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising at Howard University complimented by a minor in Fashion Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology.
The world became familiar with Camille during her television debut on Cycle 2 of the hit reality television series America’s Next Top Model (ANTM) produced by Super Model and Talk-show Host Tyra Banks. Cycle 2 of ANTM was a huge success and UPN’s highest rated series.
With a captivating, sassy, and spicy attitude, Nielsen’s Rating and polls showed viewers picked Camille as one of the most memorable show participants to date. The girl everyone loved to hate had America’s attention and as a result became a familiar face on red carpets from New York to Los Angeles as well as Viacom’s “up fronts” and “press events” interacting with key advertisers and investors.
This bodes well for Camille’s career as a top tier model and reaffirms her ability to capture an audience as well as sell a product. Due to popular demand, Cycle 2 was televised in over 30 countries worldwide, including prominent U.S networks such as VH1, MTV, and most recently Oxygen in 2009. The increased exposure served as an additional platform elevating her career in the fashion industry. She seized the opportunity to strut her long silky legs down the catwalks from the Americas to Asia and also became a vocal spokes person on social and humanitarian issues.
World renowned run-way coach and author Miss Jay, famous for his ability to teach supermodels how to master the catwalk, could not help noticing Camille’s Signature Walk, quoting “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, black girls always gotta’ give something extra!” and after some fine tuning approved of her walk.
The name “Miss Signature Walk” was then coined by fans because Camille fearlessly and confidently strutted down the catwalk at an ANTM “go-see” proclaiming with confidence her Signature Walk was going to make her famous. Indeed, that bold assertion materialized into reality as Camille instantly became a sought after celebrity model.
Her next big brake came when she was signed by the prominent European modeling agency, Major Model Management (Milan). While living in Europe, Camille was busy shooting editorials and “Signature Walking” down runways for designers such as Escada, Wolfords of London, LBO3 Japan, to name a few.
After a successful tour in Europe, she returned to New York and continued working with Major Model Management (NY), securing runway shows, print ads, billboard campaigns and magazine layouts ranging from Azure Denim to D-Squared as well as been a Fit-Model for Marithe Francois Girbaud.
Camille has shot for publications such as Glamour Magazine, Women Wear Daily (WWD), and W Magazine. As a student, her most memorable internship was working with fashion guru Diane Von Furstenberg(DVF) where she learned a great deal about fashion marketing.
While pursuing her dreams of becoming a world renowned icon in the entertainment industry, Camille followed through on a self made promise and commitment to education. Traveling between New York and Washington, DC she pursued and secured a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising from Howard University and a degree in Fashion Design from the illustrious Fashion Institute of Technology.
Camille enjoyed successes in modeling and beauty pageants as early as 1995 when she won the Stephanie Gibbs Model Search (FL) contest. A year later, she narrowly missed being crowned Miss Teen Florida and in 1997 was the 1st runner up in the Miss Jamaica USA beauty pageant (NY).
In pursuit of her philanthropic aspirations, Camille uses her education, vivacious and charming attitude as a vehicle in the advancement of community and social issues. The commitment to helping others is an instinctive trait passed on by her father, the late Patrick Winston McDonald who often told her:
“We are all interdependent on one another and we must help when we see fit, what comes around goes around, be a humble servant and you will be blessed.”
One of Camille’s first endeavors was to shed light on the fight against HIV/Aids among teenagers and young adults and to-date has helped raise thousands of dollars which has been used for educational and infrastructural projects around the globe. Over the last five years, she has raised and personally funded several other needy causes ranging from children’s education to hurricane relief projects.
Camille’s endless zeal and passion for the business of fashion and entertainment will continue to grow. She is more determined to claim her niche in the world of fashion, beauty, and entertainment.
She is learning and growing in her fabulousity! Continuing with her dreams, inspiring and touching the lives of others through her work as a philanthropist, humanitarian, and good-will ambassador from Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camps fundraising efforts to most recently Wyclef Jean’s YELLE Haiti Foundation.
Camille is currently signed to Kim Thompson Model & Talent Management, a small NY boutique agency, that takes pride in representing this 5′9 1/2″, 34″ Bust, 25″ Waist and 35″ Hip goddess secure her American Dream. She has beauty, brains, compassion and a Signature Walk to match.
To find out more info about this gorgeous gal please visit www.camillemcdonald.com
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