Hello from Paris!
Last Saturday was the awesome fundraiser put together by my friends at Planet Awesome Kid for the charity Global Action for Children. I spent the day picking up cupcakes, selling children’s clothing, holding kids, cleaning up, and pretending to be an MC.
Some kid unintentionally planted a tree in my face.
I think I’m definitely taller than Doro when I try really hard (nbc.com).
Looking cooler than usual as an MC. (photo Andrea De Domenico)
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Isabel Marant.
Backstage at Louis Vuitton.
Enjoying pistachio cream backstage at LV.
Tiny french elevators.
Backstage at Loewe.
Quick trip to the Pompidou Centre to see Lucian Freud’s paintings.
Broke down and went to BIA (Breakfast in America) because we actually had too many french meals.
Kenzo Bunny!
(That’s all for now folks. The rest of the updates will be from the film camera which we sent out to get processed. Check back soon for more!)
Neon Karl.
Make-up table.
Sitting backstage next to m’ rack!
Huge hair!
Found this gem of an advertisement this morning when we were buying film.
Delightful french breakfast.
Subways in Paris are incredible. We missed our train and another came in less than a minute. How come the metro in NYC isn’t like that?
Make-up time.
Talking to fashion t.v. I may have used the word fabulous, and definitely used the word amazing.
Finally ate lunch around 5pm and it tasted incredible, if you don’t believe me look at this smile—
Made a quick stop into the chocolate shop for some presents and salty dark chocolate caramels for me!
Goodnight Paris.
Air France shows live feed of take-off and landing!
Paris has got to be one of the most beautiful cities ever, check out this sunset on the Seine.
Bright and early in the agency in heels.
Jet-lag.
Waiting for a fitting.
So much behind the scenes work goes into doing these shows. At Giles there was a dress 10 people had been working on for a full week!
Untouched calories.
Incredible hair at Giles—Stepford wife meets Mars Attacks?
Goodnight!
German is funny. One time I was sitting on a bus listening to some German people talk and I understood everything they said. Never having taken a single German class in my life I was convinced that I was some sort of idiot savant when it came to German. Then I realized they were speaking English with a German accent. I blame movies. But you have to admit that sometimes, German, actual German, not just the accent, is like a hilarious interpretation of English. I mean “strippen fur den klimaschutz”???
A big thank you to everyone who helped make the 350 ad and everyone who watched it, re-posted it, and sent it to their friends. Today the view count is at 722,610! We got some great press and some great ‘terrible’ press. See the links below for some of the discussion we inspired!
Here’s a youtube of the ad on Bill O’Reilly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPcx4nwczSo
I love that he trashed us, we are in excellent company!
We got some youtube response videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRO5_MVSV7o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSXLjlr2OU
We were on the homepage of Huffington post for awhile, and here’s a link to the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/350-day-climate-of-action_n_332312.html?slidenumber=h7NgNkNiulk%3D#slide_image
Treehugger wrote us up:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/supermodels-get-nearly-naked-for-climate-change-video.php
And here’s a link to my guest blog post for the Wonk Room:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/11/10/supermodel-cameron-russell/
Finally, some love from Models.com:
http://models.com/feed/?p=5567
Thanks your support,
Cameron Russell
