June 2, 201113 yr the last picture is a fake. LOL, a well done fake i guess, since it fooled me if any of you want me to remove it, i'll do it
June 2, 201113 yr ^ well, i removed it anyway,there's no point in sharing something that's not genuine... sorry again for the mistake
June 2, 201113 yr ^ well, i removed it anyway,there's no point in sharing something that's not genuine... sorry again for the mistakeActually, it is useful, if you tag it with the word "FAKE" and give the source.
June 3, 201113 yr Cindy Crawfords House of StyleShe is more beautiful in real life. More beautiful than she is in pictures and more beautiful than you’re imagining right now. I am power walking in heels, racing toward Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, on the Friday morning that Cindy Crawford is presenting a check to benefit Austin’s Playroom with her partners from Levin Furniture, the Pittsburgh stores where Cindy Crawford Home will be sold. I take long strides across the lobby toward the statuesque brunette, with bronze cheekbones and high-arching eyebrows, as she greets WHIRL’s publisher Jack Tumpson. Nearly out of breath, I give her my best red lipstick smile and a strong handshake, as my boss introduces us. “Hi, Victoria; I’m Cindy,” she says, with dimples. The three of us turn toward the small swarm of media cameras that have gathered, and like something otherworldly, we sling our arms around one of the world’s most iconic supermodels. She notes my height, towering at 6’4″ in my silver snakeskin platforms, and says, “Well. I guess I’m not the tallest one here today.” We both laugh a little. (I’m no dummy; of course I wore my tallest heels to meet her!) Whenever we think of the original American supermodel, we think of Cindy Crawford. The Illinois-born beauty was discovered by a local photographer at 17 years old. She was signed by Elite modeling agency, and the ’80s and the ’90s idolized her famous face — punctuated by a quintessential mole. She appeared on more than 400 magazine covers and posed, strutted, and smiled for countless beauty and fashion campaigns. Michael Kors may have best described her impact when he said, “Cindy changed the perception of the ‘sexy American girl’ from classic blue-eyed blonde to a more sultry brunette, with brains, charm, and professionalism to spare.”Crawford catapulted her modeling career into a beautiful empire: a skin care line, a jewelry line, and a furniture line. The superstar has a family, and she’s put a gorgeous spin on what “home life” looks like. And she’s bringing that life to Pittsburgh. Cindy Crawford Home is coming to Levin Furniture, with locations in Monroeville, Robinson, and Wexford. (Part of the decision-making process was Levin’s community outreach, like the morning at Children’s Hospital.) The line is full of color and life, with a serene air of sophistication. “It’s different from the fabulous world of fashion, as I call it. And I mean fabulous in quotation marks,” she laughs on the phone with me, just a week before our lobby meeting. “It’s interesting about furniture: It’s a very regional business. Usually the best players are the family retailers. The way that we decided to do it was to partner with the best in each region. Levin fit the profile of a long-standing family businesses. They’re in the top 50 furniture retailers in the country. And they’re really nice people. They’re in it for the long run.”Chris Pelcher, vice president of merchandising for Levin Furniture, says that carrying the line is a process that began years ago. “We started pursuing the line in 2008, but the timing wasn’t ideal,” he says. “This go around, the line is perfect with our overall scheme. We’re showing a wider variety of products, price points, and styles. We feel very honored and fortunate to have gotten everything together.” Pelcher says that Levin was aggressive about putting the process in place to carry the line. Levin will carry mostly upholstery pieces from Crawford’s line. Not surprisingly, they’re some of the star’s favorites. “I love sectionals,” she says. “But it’s also the way that my family lives. Whether we’re watching TV or playing a game or I’m reading and the kids are doing something else. The sectionals and family room living brings people together.” The Meridian sectional is a favorite of Pelcher’s as well. “The fabric is fantastic, and it’s a sage/brown color that’s workable in so many types of homes. And it’s super high quality.” Robert Levin, president of the company, agrees. “It’s a good fit because the pieces are a great combination of style, quality, and value,” he says. “And her sectionals are fabulous!” As popular as the line has become in other markets, Crawford says that designing and developing furniture was never in her plan. “The most surprising thing was even being asked to do it,” Crawford says. She talks about her life as a young model, living in New York. She says she frequented flea markets to pluck odds and ends for her apartment and would revel in finishing-touch purchases, like a new duvet covers. When she met husband Rande, the two bought a house in Los Angeles before moving to Brentwood, Calif. They also upheld a residence in New York, abodes they had decorated together. And they did a pretty bang- up job: Their New York home was photographed for Architectural Digest, and their Brentwood home was featured in Elle Décor.The supermodel worked with famed designer Michael Smith, who notoriously decorated the Obama’s White House. “The main thing I learned from him was to trust my instincts.” Rooms to Go, the nation’s leading furniture retailer and manufacturer, approached Crawford about developing her own line of furniture, and she was taken aback. “When they came to me, I was like, ‘Look, I love doing this for my family and for myself, but do you really think people care about what I have to say in this field?’” Crawford credits Rooms to Go CEO Jeff Seaman for helping her o make the commitment. “He helped me to realize style is style,” she says. “It does translate into everything you do, from what kind of music you play, to what kind of candle scent you want in your home, to what kind of dinner you serve, how you entertain, how you dress, what kind of car you drive. He felt that people really would be interested. I trusted him.”When the project started, six years ago, Crawford took the team of designers through her Malibu home. “I walked them around, just so that we had a common language,” Crawford says. “I showed them fabric and texture and the way that I see things. That really helped us all to get on the same page.” Today, the design team submits drawings to Crawford via e-mail, and she gives them notes. Then there’s sampling of fabrics or finishes. They’ll send Crawford pieces — “not a whole bedroom set, but they’ll send me an end table” — so that the star can give her final approval. Crawford says that she gets most of her inspiration from her own surroundings. “I live in Malibu by the water and the sand. I work in this very stylized world of fashion. I work with incredible designers and photographers. I see trends and fabrics. I respond to that world market vibe.”She calls her decorating style eclectic, with a lot of “found” pieces mixed in. “My own aesthetic is rooted in traditional,” she says, “but kind of an updated look at that: a fresher, lighter approach. I always say, ‘It’s not your grandmother’s traditional.’” But the designer also makes a lot of decisions based on her role as a mom, calling micro fibers and slipcovers “lifesavers.” “My kids are a little older now,” she says of Presley, 11, and Kaia, 9. “They can, most of the time, not spill, but I’ve definitely lived through that.” She’s even developed softer and rounded edges in her line to protect against toppling toddlers. Pelcher praises the quality and craftsmanship, but also says the size is just what people want. “Customers want ‘furniture by the pound.’ They don’t want little skimpy furniture. They want to look at it, sit in it, and get their money’s worth. All of our best-selling pieces are beefy and beautiful and scream value for the price point.” Crawford has similar values. Mostly, though, she just cares how the furniture feels. “It doesn’t matter how great your sofa looks; you want to be comfortable sitting on it,” she says. “I live in jeans. I wanted the denim for the sofa to feel like your favorite pair of jeans. I would say that’s more where I am in my life right now. I’m not 25 doing all of the shows in Paris. But I think you do develop and have more life experience, a definite aesthetic.” Crawford says she’s utilized the denim slipcover in her kids’ playroom.The supermodel has officially graduated from her career of fashion, but with the launch of her furniture line, the photo shoots are far from over.Crawford talks about 10-hour stays in the studio for print work and two- to three-day shoots for commercials. “The hardest part about shooting furniture is that every time you change the room up, there are 50 guys coming in, moving the furniture around and lighting it,” she says. “It’s one of the few times when they’re more concerned about the furniture than they are about me. I’m like a prop.” And she laughs. Still, the designer says she couldn’t be happier with her new day job. “It’s enabled me to continue a career — a career that has evolved and changed, as I’ve evolved and changed and gotten older,” she says. “It’s enabled me to still do what I love. The road has turned off a little bit, but I get to develop other parts of myself: this business side and then this creative side.” She takes a short pause, and I can tell she’s smiling. “I mean, I’m still getting my makeup done once in awhile and doing pictures. I guess some things never change.”http://www.whirlmagazine.com/2011/05/cindy...house-of-style/
June 3, 201113 yr Thanks sexy angel for the lovely articles and clippings. Does anyone have any more (in the 90s).
June 4, 201113 yr Cindy Crawford as the crying Vergin with child, as shown in "Sacrilegio" by Francesco Vezzoli in the Gagosian Museum Gallery
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