thanks for the pics !
and sorry for my poor english
Spectacular Doutzen
Heiress from the 90’s top models ,this dutch girl presents candidacy to mass star with her impeccable athletic and healthy beauty.
Doutzen Kroes is , at her 21, the most similar to the perfect woman inside the fashion business.Discovered by Steven Meisel (couldn’t be other way) who put her in the italian vogue cover in february of 2005, she has known a meteoric career in a businees not always ready to accept such olimpic and athletic beautys. Since then she has been in the cover of all the major magazines (Elle , Harper’s Bazaar and even Times ) and Assiduous to Victoria’s Secret shows and catalogs. Beside that , she has replaced Cristy Turlington as image of Eternity perfum, from Calvin Klein; she won the first prize of Vogue readers to the best model of 2005, and her customer list includes Gucci, Doce & Gabbana, Valentino, Escada or Versace.Heiress of the DNA that made famous to the 90’s supermodels, she doesn’t give a false step. In april of 2006 she signed a millionaire contract with Loreal Paris that , presumably, will do her name and her face well known not only between the initiated(fans, N of T.). a scandal body and a beauty that defies the conventions and contemporaneous stereotype.
- How did you start into the profession ?
i was 18 and i sent some pics to an agency. I did it because my friends used to tell me that i could earn my life this way. I felt myself a little silly sending the pics, but i spent some time waiting for someone to discover me in a disco or in the street , and like it didn’t happened, i had to do it myself ( she outbursts of laughter ).But i didn’t tell to no one, They called me immediately.
- How did your family take it ?
They were quite sceptic , My mom thought it was going to be hard for me. They were worried about the fact that people would juzdge me only by my aspect and nothing more, they thought it would be hard to take.
- Your aspect is more similar to the 90’s supermodels ( peach skin, long and healthy hair,tall and shaped body) than to the today’s stereotype of girls very young and without curves . have you ever been rejected in your profession because of your “perfection” ?
Do you have any problem to fit on the clothes in the catwalks ?
Yes, i have had this problem, but i try it not to affect me. I feel good with my body, i like as i am, boys like me...but when i am among those skinny girls on the catwalks, i get to feel uncertain. At some point they made me think than i should be as thin as them. But is very important to have a strong support on the part of your agency, that they don’t put pression on you.it is also very important not to forget where you come from, your identity.I am strong and i don’t let myself influence for what i see around me. I have to take care of myself too. I could eat less, but i will never be that thin.And i will never stop eating because of my job. It is a good job , but not to the point of harming yourself due to it. You have to be healthy, even if this healthy aspect makes you lose some photograph session or some show.Some customers have told me that they like me because of my healthy aspect; that is , i have got hopes of things begin to change.I know that my aspect is that of a true woman, and that makes me happy , i like it.
- What do you think about the measures some shows are taking, such as the control of weight and age of the models ?
It is good, although there are some girls that are thin by constitution.It is difficult to change the tendencies in this way, and i don’t know if it will be very efficient. What is necessary to change is the customers mentality, not only the measurements in centimeters.That helps, specially because there are many beginning girls that let themselves go, that become ill.And i think too about the people that is not model. When i see the showcases, sometimes i pay attention and some models(dummys, N of T) are so skinny. It is true that when you are thin the clothes suits you better, but it is not necessary to get that far.
- How is your diet ?
I try to eat many natural food, organic, healthy. If you can not avoid from eating of everything , try to eat smaller rations, it is not necessary for you to eat the whole plate. I try not to eat very late at night, because is not healthy. I am a normal girl that , like everyone else, watches her weight.
- Do you make exercise ?
Yes, i love to go out and make footing,some day i would like to run a marathon.In fact, i have always practised much sport , my body ask me for it.I don’t like gymnastics so much, because i prefer to practice sport outdoors.
- What do you think about when you are on the catwalk ?
If the shoes hurt you, that is quite normal, you think about the way of walking for they to hurt you the less possible. Sometimes i am very happy on the catwalk, the music is nice,the light too, the runway, the clothes.I feel like a star , i love it.
- is your career in your hands or are there any others who guide it ?
When i have an offer of a job the agency talks with me to see what we do.They think it is very important that i feel involved , and for me is very important too to have control over the things i’m going to do and those that no.Although sometimes we may not agree. Maybe i would do a photographic sesion, but they think i shouldn’t because the product or the photographer is not good for me.In those cases , i let myself advise. I don’t know everything about the business yet.
- How do you feel when people treat you like a famous personage ?
It is very weird for me. Not too long ago i came to Spain in order to receive a prize from Marie Claire and people by the street stopped me and asked me: “ Doutzen, can i take a pic of you ?” I couldn’t believe they knew my name ! When i was a teen i knew nothing about the fashion world, but it seems this has changed and all those little girls know everything about fashion, about the designers and about the models.
