Anna Scholz Blog

We couldn’t resist singing the praises of the navabi online shop again. It is worth the rave! navabi has been stocking Anna’s collections for several seasons now, and we always love the way the models are styled on the site. There is also a cool video feature alongside the still model photos — definitely worth checking out.

Here are just a few of the shots from the navabi web shop which we find inspiring:

Flip through navabi’s stylish online magazine– which includes an interview with Anna– or browse the web shop!

We love these photographs taken of model Lauren Koenig wearing Anna’s double silk leopard print blazer.  The sleek pencil skirt and chunky necklace give it a real sexy, retro vibe.

On this shoot:  Photographer, Oriana Layendecker;  stylist,  Megan Pfiffner; make-up, Rosemarie Bernardo; producer, Erica Lynn Young

Anna’s earth-tone bird of paradise print is big news this season. The great thing about this print is how versatile it is. It can look retro or thoroughly modern. There are as many ways wear this print and preen your plumage as there are birds in the sky.  We particularly love the way these two different publications have styled Anna’s bird print pieces.

PLUS Model magazine created a story with the model Kailee O’Sullivan, who has worked with Anna before.  Kailee’s rocking Anna’s silk bird print wrap dress with some fierce hair and accessories.

The ever slick and stylish SLiNK magazine has included Anna’s silk bird print frill tunic in a spread on 70s style. Don’t step on those blue suede boots!

Flick through PLUS Model magazine or SLiNK magazine online for more style  inspiration.

We’re loving these photographs of tattoos from Katie Ell’s exhibition entitled A Piece of My Mind. Some are humorous; some are haunting; all are meaningful.

The talented Katie Ell is the photographer behind the campaign imagery for Anna’s Black Label collection for Autumn-Winter 2011. The photo shoot for the Black Label took place in Anna’s London home. We had a lot of fun creating a 60s mod vibe with Katie.

Visit Katie Ell’s website to see more of her fabulous work.

You never know when you’re going to see a sign that just begs for a sarcastic retort. This website HappyPlace has numerous examples of people’s “brilliantly sarcastic responses to well-meaning signs”.

See them all here!

The navabi online shop consistently looks slick and stylish. navabi has been stocking Anna’s collections for several seasons now, and we always love the way the models are styled on the site.

This season, navabi has a lovely online magazine full of fashion advice and inspiration for the upcoming months. The website offers up hot looks from the latest trends such as florals, pastels, outdoor looks and  “Boho Chic”. We love how they’ve presented Anna’s latest collection too. They’ve incorporated Anna’s Black Label campaign photography beautifully into their Swinging Sixties trend.

See more of the online magazine and shop the website!

Those of you into your fingernail art will love this ad for the new Kia Picanto as much as we do.

The Korean car manufacturer has created this ad using nail art animation. The clip took 25 days and nights, 900 fake nails and 1,200 bottles of nail polish. Each nail took two hours to paint!

via Meme Machine and CocoPerez

I love reading fiction books, and sometimes stay up all night devouring them in one go. I sometimes find some books too bulky so when I came across this fab new Flipbacks book idea I was very happy. You can get a full-length novel in a book approximately the size of an iPhone

–LIZ

We are loving the latest Italian Vogue cover story, featuring the top rising stars in the plus-size modeling circuit. Among those curvy beauties is the charming Sydney native, Robyn Lawley, who also was featured on the April 2011 cover of French Elle. Lawley recently spoke with New York magazine’s The Cut about her childhood, her passions and her career as a model.

Here are a few highlights:

If you could change one thing about the industry, what would you change?
I would love to change the opinion of plus-size girls. I always feel people are surprised when they work with one of us and find that we can, in fact, model very well. Just because we’re not a size zero doesn’t mean we can’t model effectively. It flabbergasts me. But this isn’t exclusive to us; this can be said about older models and different ethnicities, too. Fashion should be indicative of the world, and we are all different; we’re not all 16-year-old Russian teens. I feel every catwalk and every editorial spread should feature all different types of bodies and faces.

It seems plus-size girls are more sensitive to this issue. Why do you think this is so?
Doing plus-size modeling has helped me a lot, as I was a skinny model before. [Making the switch] opened my world in seeing beauty in different forms. You don’t realize that personality and confidence has so much to do with one’s success. Look at Tara Lynn [another plus-size model on the Vogue Italia cover]. Her body is insane. She’s a bigger girl; it’s beautiful. It’s unfair for the industry to make young girls feel pressured to be incredibly thin, because it does ruin their lives. You have to be obsessed with it, and I haven’t got time to be worrying about it. I’ve got to eat!

What’s your diet like?
Although I am indulgent with my food, cooking is also a passion of mine. I love to make food from scratch and eating well. I’ve always been a very active, sporty girl so I get my workouts in. It sucks when people automatically think plus-size girls are unfit, fat girls.

Lastly, any advice to up-and-coming models?
I feel things are starting to change within the industry. We are looking for individuals now; they want you to be you. If being a model is not working for you, stop trying to obtain it. I’ve seen girls stare at a yogurt container calorie box for hours on end, deliberating whether they should eat it. Look, if it’s not working for you, hell, come to the plus-size world. You’ve also got to keep your hobbies and have a backup plan. A lot of girls are naïve and they come to New York with the idea that they’re going to become some big-name model, but they don’t focus on anything else. I’ve seen girls be chewed up and thrown out. What are you left with? You have to make sure you have yourself covered. I think we all have time, no matter how busy we are, to take a course at a university or learn a language to do something.

You’re about to be stranded on an island, and you can bring one person and one thing, what would you bring?
My boyfriend and, uh, a lighter.

Read more of Robyn’s interview on The Cut and see a video interview with her on Models.com

We’re loving the cover story photo shoot in the June 2011 issue of Vogue Italia, featuring curvy models Tara Lynn, Marquita Pring, Candice Huffine and Robyn Lawley.

Shot in romantic black in white by Steven Meisel at  New York’s Waldorf Astoria, the spread is sexy to the max!

The issue hit the stands in Milan on June 3 and should be available around the rest of the world soon. Just follow the puddles of drool to a newsstand near you!