Daria at the Unframed Benefit

Update Looks like Daria wasn't actually supposed to attend this event! She was walking by the benefit, her friends saw her and pulled her in for a short bit. I guess we can forgive her outfit!

Daria made a rare public appearance last night for a fundraiser event. She attended the annual 'Unframed' benefit auction by Acria, hosted by designer Olivier Theyskens.

Daria rarely makes it out to public functions and when she does they are usually art or sports themed benefits, so its not surprise that she showed up to Unframed.

It's always great to see candids of Daria and all, but I just have a big sartorial bone to pick with this one. I think we all know Daria's the last model to aim for the "best dressed list", and that carefree attitude is what we love about her ... but girl, this is bad. Like gold-sneakers-and-green trucker-hat bad. I'm just going to excuse this outfit and laugh it off because really, her indifference is admirable!

source: bfa.co via cold at theFashionSpot

Vogue Espana June 2013 Update

Bad news for Daria fans! Looks like Daria won't be appearing on the cover of the June 2013 issue of Vogue Espana, as was expected. Anja Rubik is the coverstar this month.

Fortunately we do get a candid of Daria promoting a special edition t-shirt for this issue of Vogue Espana, so I'm guessing she is either getting just an editorial in this issue or the sneak peek was for the July cover. A cover would have been nice to see at this time so this is a little disappointing ... but it is only May! Fingers crossed for the July cover.

source : vogue.es

Lancome Aquatic Summer #2

Lancome's newest offering is the "Aquatic Summer" makeup collection and who better to model a beach inspired collection than Daria? The summer 2013 collection is photographed by Mario Testino.

Daria Werbowy for Lancome Aquatic Summer by Mario Testino

This is much better than the last Lancome photo we saw (below) that was much too photo-shopped. I don't think we'll see any more from this collection (Lancome usually releases one or two images) but the second image definitely makes up for the first. Do you have a preference for either? 

source : lancome.fr

Lancome x Never Undressed

Lancome has teamed up with beauty website Never Undressed to highlight their latest product Lancôme Teint Visionnaire Skin Perfecting Make-up Duo. Daria plays the muse in this collaboration "In Her Skin", wearing nothing but a two step foundation and signature leather jacket (this time its red!).

We get a beautiful video out of it of which I've made some screenshots below. This shoot was filmed by Patrick Demarchelier. Enjoy!

 
source : neverundressed.com via congacon at thefashionspot.com

Lancome "Aquatic Summer" Summer 2013 Collection

Daria is the face of Lancome's newest collection "Aquatic Summer" for their summer 2013 season. I'm biased and I think Daria always looks pretty but unfortunately this looks nothing like Daria! Lancome have once again gone overboard with the retouching - why have such a beautiful model to front your brand and then make it look nothing like her! Sigh, just when I thought Lancome was easing up on the photoshop ...

If you remember back to a few months ago - I wasn't blogging unfortunately - there were candids circulating of Daria and her new haircut (thanks Megan for the heads up!). The cut was courtesy of Christiaan and I'm guessing the two worked on the Lancome campaign together. Wonder why Lancome decided not to incorporate the bleached rat-tail?!


If you're a makeup junkie like me you can read more about the collection here, and hopefully Lancome will come out with a more impressive campaign this year.

Also, some news on Vogue Espana and Vogue US. Unfortunately Daria didn't get the May 2013 cover for Vogue Espana but she still may have an editorial in this issue, or in the next one. And no editorial in Vogue US for May either so we'll have to wait a bit more!

source: beautyalmanac.com via lucy92 at tFS, vogue.nl

Stylist UK April 10 2013 : Bringing Sixties Back by Victor Demarchelier

Finally an editorial! This is Daria's latest work in Stylist magazine, in which we saw a preview a few days ago. Daria was photographed for the cover and an editorial by Victor Demarchelier, son of photographer Patrick Demarchelier who Daria has had many chances to work with. Let's hope she continues to work with Victor because these are beautiful photos!

Bringing Sixties Back
Photographer : Victor Demarchelier
Makeup : Alex Babsky for Lancome
Hair : Nicholas Jurnjack


I've mentioned this before but I love what a different direction this is for Daria. We all know she can do the beach bum look very well but it can be quite boring when that's the only work she puts out. It's refreshing to see her channel her earlier predecessors like Twiggy! I think the Woodstock look is my favourite shot ... to live in the Sixties!

If you'd like to read the magazine the entire issue is online, as is the Stylist's archives! Daria has a little blurb inside the article as well:

"The Sixties were a time of great change and liberation and our culture is going through a similar time right now. The fact this inspiring decade is having such a resurgence across fashion, beauty and the arts now forces us to think about why the great ideals of love and peace didn't prevail. Now we're learning from what worked and what didn't to creat a better future." - Daria Werbowy

source: stylist.co.uk via awake-smile.blogspot.com

Vogue Australia's The Model Series

If you've been following Vogue Australia closley this year you'll have noticed that the magazine has used models on the cover three months in a row - unusual in a time when celebrities are usually the ones on cover duty. To date they've had Lara Stone, Miranda Kerr, and now Karlie Kloss on the cover in a five part collector's edition titled "The Model Series".

What hasn't been mentioned is that Vogue Austrialia has an exclusive with IMG Models for this series (controversially so). There are two spots left and Gemma Ward is rumored to be on one of the covers but Daria does have a portfolio on the IMG Models Australia page so her nabbing a cover is a possiblity. To date Daria has been on the cover three times, her last one being in June 2012.

This is all just speculation on my part but it would be interesting to see.

Stylist Magazine | Mod Daria

For Daria's second magazine cover of the year she appears on Stylist, a free weekly magazine in the UK. The cover and editorial are both photographed by Victor Demarchelier, the son of Patrick Demarchelier.

I don't think I've ever seen Daria styled in a sixties theme before so I'm really excited to see how this turns out! From the looks of the cover, and the one preview image below, Daria does quite a good job at capturing the nonchalance of the mod look. I probably won't be able to get my hands on this so if a reader in the UK does get this then let me know what its like! 

This cover and editorial might be the result of Daria's visit to London, but the lag time between candid and work seems too soon ... this may be from a prior visit? Either way its great to see so much work popping up! Also, don't forget to check out the Maiyet Spring 2013 video in the prior post! A preview of the editorial:

  
source: stylist.co.uk, instagram.com/nicolasjurnjack via child_in_time and mm678 (Daria Werbowy Gallery) @ bellazon.com, and mintselection.com

Maiyet Spring 2013 Video

We finally get to see the Maiyet video for Spring 2013! It's Daria and Cass Bird's third collaboration for the label and this time it was shot in beautiful Varanasi, India. My favourite campaign to date is still the first one, Spring 2012, but this one comes a close second. Enjoy!

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Also be sure to check out The Daria Files on youtube! I've just started the channel but subscribe if you'd like as I'll be putting up videos there as well!

source: mapltd.com via child_in_time @ bellazon.com

St Barths to Venice to London

We've been getting so many behind the scenes pictures of Daria lately - great to see because it just means more work in the upcoming months! To recap we've seen behind-the-scenes pictures of an upcoming spread in Vogue Espana with Patrick Demarchelier, and Mert Alas and Daria at work in Venice for an editorial in US Vogue. The pics below are also from Daria's work with Mert, taken by an Italian news site.

The pink coat Daria is wearing is from Bottega Veneta pre-fall 2013 so I expect we should see these images in the July or August issue of Vogue, if I'm getting my collections correct. I love the classic hair and Venice is a beautiful place so I'm more than sure these images will be translated beautifully in print.




London based hair stylist Paul Hanlon also posted a picture of him and Daria in London. They've worked together before, mostly editorial work, so hopefully something will come of their meeting! All in all we've got three editorials to look forward to!

"Beyond Daria !! Such a beauty and such a nice person!! Pleasure to work with always !! April 6, 2013" 

sources: Venice candids magazinespain.com via child_in_time @ bellazon forums, Paul Hanlon instagram instagram.com/paulhanlonhair via bigmax @ bellazon forums

Selfies with Mert Alas

I just did an Instagram check and a few familiar faces popped up on my feed! Both Daria and Mert Alas (of photographic duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot) posted some silly photos. It doesn't take much deduction to know that there will be some new work to come from these selfies!

Update Daria and Mert are shooting for an editorial in US Vogue! 


They're both in Venice but it's not clear as to what they're working on. A poster on tFS guessed that it might be a campaign, and Versace would make a lot of sense but that's already been wrapped up. What do you think?

Either way it's great to see them working together. So far we've just been getting previews of Daria working with photographers so it'll be great to see all of these translated in print.

source: instagram.com/mertalas

Pondering Femininity - Daria by Cass Bird

I can finally make new posts! Hurray for having an update newer than August 2012 haha! The OnSugar people were very quick to help (thank you!) so now posts can resume normally and hopefully we'll get the discussion and comments we had before.

In Daria related news, Cass Bird has uploaded two more pictures to her Instagram account and one of the photos (black and white, below) looks like the setup for a new photoshoot! Hopefully we get to see more work like this because it is quite beautiful!


And another candid below. Happy Thursday everyone!


source: Cass Bird instagram