So her agent, Jen Ramey, is moving to DNA. I wonder if she will also move. I mean, i think she is good at IMG, considering she is probably doing 90% commercial work at the moment, she even has a contract with MK (Is MK hf?), IMG is the place to be.
who knows, maybe she will eventually move, I think that would be good. DNA rulz. I don't think IMG can offer anything new to her, unless she decides to be an actress. doubt it.
But maybe she quits modeling completely.
Pretty sure Lara is already on her way to DNA, she was pretty quite for a while.
Also, her interview for PORTER (I took it from thefashionspot) . quite interesting stuff, i am sorry she feels she doesn't belong in fashion, because she really does. she can be such a good model. and unfortunately lately it is also quite obvious in her work that she is not passionate about it. same expression, missing all the Fashion week (she obviously has the green card, she is in South America). This is why maybe a change would be good, make things more interesting for her.
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Wearing the standout looks of SS18, supermodel ANDREEA DIACONU explains why sheβs anti social media and how she learned to say no to bullying photographers. By JANE MULKERRINS
Andreea Diaconu is explaining to me, with absolute sincerity, why she canβt wear bras. βI get sick from them. Seriously, they give me acid reflux,β she insists. βI think itβs because I donβt really have boobs.β She grabs at her chest to emphasize the point. βBut it means I canβt do lingerie shoots.β For many models, that might present a problem. Diaconu, however, could not seem less troubled by this impediment. Admittedly, it isnβt as if sheβs short of work: one of the most in-demand models of the moment, the 26-year-old Romanian has walked the runway for everyone from Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci and Lanvin to Tom Ford, Stella McCartney and John Galliano. She is currently the face of Viktor & Rolf, and recently landed a lucrative contract with Michael Kors. Moreover, you get the distinct impression that, while she is grateful for her success, sheβd much rather be on a surfboard, a bike or under canvas in the wilderness than on a catwalk. βI donβt know what Iβm doing in the fashion industry,β she admits with a chuckle.
She doesnβt even seem troubled to be skipping this yearβs London, Paris and Milan fashion weeks; while she awaits the arrival of her US Green Card, she canβt leave the country. βBut I can travel around the US,β she points out, impressively sanguine. βI can go to Hawaii, Idaho, Alaskaβ¦ Alaska is one of my favorite states. I can go camping in Maine and Wyoming. So, I might just take a vacation.β
Weβre in a cavernous studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Diaconu is curled up on a leather sofa beside me, her foal-like legs folded underneath her. She describes her off-duty style as that of βan eight-year old boyβ, albeit a seriously cool eight-year-old boy who owns a Prada sweater with spaceships on it. There is certainly a tomboy vibe to Diaconu, who boasts a black belt in karate, as well as speaking five languages. This is a woman who will try pretty much anything, it seems. βIβm looking at winter wetsuits because I want to go surfing this weekend,β she says now, despite the below-zero temperature outside. So dedicated is she to her hobby that, for a couple of years, as well as her apartment in New Yorkβs West Village, she also rented a place out at Rockaway beach; the long, thin strip of oceanfront beyond JFK Airport where Atlantic rollers crash in. Handily, her boyfriend of several months, restaurateur Evan Bennett, shares her passion. βHeβs been my best friend for a while but I never knew he surfed, then we went surfing and he, like, rips,β she gushes, blushing ever so slightly. βI was like, βOh. Excuse me. Donβt mind if I do.ββ
Diaconu grew up in Bucharest, Romaniaβs capital, just after the fall of Communism, though the effects of a new capitalist economy were slow to become tangible. Her parents split up when she was small, so she shared an apartment on the cityβs outskirts with her mother, uncle and grandmother. βA lovely Communist building, with fabulous linoleum floors,β Diaconu says wryly. Her mother, Aurora, sounds gloriously bohemian. βSheβs vegan, and raw, and really into New Age stuff, and βreading peopleβs frequenciesβ,β reports her only child, with an exaggerated eye-roll. βShe was an IT programmer for most of her life, then she quit that to start a company that sells, like, mushrooms from Malaysia that claim to cure cancer.β
While the family had βno spare moneyβ, they made the most of state-sponsored opportunities. βMy grandmother had these pension tickets, which the government would give you along with 18 days leave, so we would go to the seaside or hot springs or mud baths,β Diaconu recalls. βIt would just be me and my grandma in a single bed, and usually another older lady sharing the room with us. Those vacations were so much fun, but nobody ever got to travel outside [Romania]. I never thought that I would leave my country.β
By the age of 11, Diaconu was already 5ft 7in tall (sheβs 5ft 10.5in now) and, unsurprisingly, began to catch the eye of modeling scouts. She had no interest. βI didnβt understand the concept of scouting,β she laughs. βI just didnβt understand why somebody would seek me out to do something, instead of me seeking them out. I was a total Skeptical Sally.β Eventually, at age 13, she relented, but strictly for the cash. βI needed money for a karate competition I wanted to enter. So I agreed to do a random job and they paid me 50 euros.β By 14, she was being booked for shoots in London, New York, Paris and Tokyo, and traveling alone. But she struggled with the harsh attitudes and treatment she experienced. βI remember being in New York, and a tailor yelling at me that I was too skinny, that she couldnβt tailor the skirt to my body. I thought: f**k this, Iβm going home.β
Her experiences are, sadly, not unique. The fashion world is one of many industries facing up to the reality and legacy of years of unacceptable conduct. βThere have definitely been situations with photographers where Iβve been uncomfortable,β says Diaconu. βWhere photographers are like, βOh, just take your top off, itβs going to make it a better picture.β You think: What? Weβre taking a portrait and you want me to take my underwear off? No. And then you get bullied into it.β She capitulated once, for a prestigious magazine β her topless image made the cover. βI hid my head inside my pillow for 20 months afterwards,β she says, putting her face in her hands, embarrassed even now. βI donβt want to do it again. Thatβs definitely something that people need to respect: no just means no.β
She also recalls an encounter, when she was 14, alone in a car in Japan with a man she didnβt know. Driving her to castings, he began describing his penis to her. βIn that environment, you donβt speak the language, nobody speaks your language, thereβs only this one person that drives you around, and then that person turns out to be a creep,β she says. βI think Iβm quite resilient, but there definitely needs to be regulations to help girls who maybe donβt have the confidence that I had.β
Diaconu did, for a time, quit the modeling industry completely. At 17, she set up a restaurant with friends in Bucharest β Moo Moo, which serves healthy, slow-cooked food β and enrolled in college. But she dropped out after a year and, at 20, moved to New York, where she took up her career again. βI thought, Iβll just take a gap year and see what happensβ¦β she shrugs. βAnd then that turned into six gap years.β
Her social following is relatively small when compared to the likes of Cara Delevingne, Joan Smalls, Karlie Kloss and Edie Campbell, despite US Vogue putting her in their realm, naming her as one of the #InstaGirls. βI donβt know how that happened. I have, like, four followers,β Diaconu says with a laugh. (Itβs actually 148,000.) βThose girls all have millions.β She shrugs. βYou have to post things for work, contractually, but I donβt like the rush you get from it, I donβt like the instant gratification of getting a bunch of likes β I donβt think itβs good for us. And I want to spend less time on my phone.β So she has no desire, then, to become βa brandβ? βKarlie and Cara are superstars and they want to be superstars β they like being famous,β she says. βI have a bad personality for that; I donβt like attention that much.β
She has, however, seen the power of posting about important issues close to her heart, such as the Open Door Foundation, an organization she works with to fight human trafficking in Romania. βIf something just dissolves you because itβs so upsetting, then you should post about it and talk about it, and maybe itβll reach somebody else who has different contacts, and maybe it will create some sort of trickle-down effect, and help in some way or another.β
Still, she really has no idea of her own potential for influence. βMy agentβs always like: βYouβre Andreea Diaconu.β And Iβm like, βYeah, exactly. I donβt think weβre talking about the same Andreea Diaconu.ββ
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