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the best thing about this is that it's not a celebrity cover anymore. and although i have some qualms about it (natasha poly, hello?), i think it's a pretty good cover.

thanks for posting it.

thank you for the scan.

I don't like the way Sasha looks sitting in that skirt.. they should have made her stand ... some of the positioning is off, in that sense. Obviously, all the girls look gorgeous though - it's just that it's a bland shoot.

Vogue US

DOUTZEN KROES

AGE: 22

HOMETOWN: Eastermar, the Netherlands

THE NATURAL: "To get to work in St. Barth's—I call it a dream job!" says Doutzen. "I would love to say someone discovered me shopping somewhere, but I took it upon myself to send in pictures to an agency in Amsterdam."

FAVORITE CAUSES: The WWF, the global conservation organization; Greenpeace; and Unicef.

awww i luv that doutzen cares about the enviroment, because so do i. i wanna work with animals, but especially, teach brazilian kids to speak english

Vogue US

DOUTZEN KROES

AGE: 22

HOMETOWN: Eastermar, the Netherlands

THE NATURAL: "To get to work in St. Barth's

thanks, i don't really like the second pic but the first one is gorgeous, maybe because she kind of remind me of eugenia in this picture (i know they don't look alike but i have this feeling )

u are welcome

I have an opposite opinion, I don't like the first pic but the second one looks very nice

bottega veneta aftershow

AWWW!!!!! look at those eyes

thanks birkin.

One Wednesday in February, in the middle of what is surely the coldest New York Fashion Week on record, I am sitting in a corner booth having lunch at Balthazar, the bistro in SoHo that crawls with fashion people during the collections. I'm meeting a model named Doutzen. It is pronounced Doubt-zin, not Doot-zen. Practice it a few times. Concentrate. This will only take a second: Doubt-zin…Doubt-zin…Doubt-zin. She is from Holland, and her last name is Kroes, but that's not important right now. What is important, however, is that you learn to say her first name correctly because in about ten minutes she will be everywhere—L'Oréal television ads, billboards, the pages of Vogue—and you are going to want to be able to say her name as if you have known it all along.

She arrives at the restaurant on time, in a great pile of beige and brown knit: a tangle of scarves, a giant floppy hat, a Louis Vuitton tunic sweater. "I love this weather," she says, and I think she is about to launch into a soliloquy about how the cold brings to mind bittersweet memories of her homeland. Not a chance. "It's perfect because it gives all these fashion people something to talk about," she says with just the right amount of sarcasm and affection. "What else would they say to each other?" She laughs and then mimics the endless weather talk: "It's so cold!…Stay warm!"

I first encounter Doutzen two days earlier, just as I am beginning what I come to think of as my week of model speed-dating: schlepping around from one agency to another to meet the ten girls who are on the cover of this magazine—at long last! models!—trying to divine their potential, see if they have what it takes to capture our attention and put an end to this god-awful supermodel drought once and for all. On day one, I find myself in the sleek, bright conference room at the agency DNA. Beyond the glass walls, gorgeous young people slouch about, while not-so-gorgeous agents and schedulers man banks of phones, all of them barking over one another and the New Wave sound track blaring over the speakers. I interview Agyness Deyn—the rangy 21-year-old from Manchester, England, with the peroxide crop who's been causing a stir in the fashion world—and Raquel Zimmermann, the stern-looking veteran from southern Brazil who, at 24, is the oldest of the bunch and has been modeling already for seven years.

Both women are engaging, intelligent, genuinely enthusiastic about their success, and not at all vacant or too young or too skinny. Then, in walks Doutzen. Inside of five minutes I have a hopeless crush.

Putting aside for now the fact of her exquisite beauty—she reminds me of a softer, prettier Angelina Jolie—what strikes me most about Doutzen is how effortlessly she turns our interview into a conversation. She lets me know that she has read the last piece I had written for Vogue and quotes from it. Clever girl! She talks about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch feminist and politician who has been exiled, which she finds deeply troubling. And she makes me laugh. Here, I think, is the whole package. Not just beauty, brains, and ambition, but a little attitude and a healthy sense of irony. We talk for a half an hour, during which her abbreviated life story begins to unspool. She was born in a rural town in northern Holland. Her parents met cute when they were both competing in a speed-skating match (today, he's a shrink and she's a teacher). Doutzen, who has a younger sister, had a "really good childhood being outside," building tree houses, riding horses, and speed skating. "That's where I get these from," she says, grabbing her thighs. "Compared with all the other girls, I have big thighs. But I am very happy with my body, and if they don't like me, too bad. I represent the woman."

"The woman" just turned 22 and wears a crystal around her neck to "protect me from mean guys." She is "ashamed" to admit that, unlike nearly every successful model, she was not discovered; she sent pictures of herself to an agency in Amsterdam when she was eighteen because she "needed money." Within a few months, she had moved to New York and was booked by Steven Meisel to do a shoot for Italian Vogue.

After our first meeting, I called her agent and asked if I could see her again. We made a date to meet at Balthazar the next day. I sat alone at the bar sipping a glass of Chardonnay. As a half hour turned into 45 minutes, I noticed my mood improving. Perfect! I thought. She stood me up. Already mastering the tricks of the supermodel trade! We rescheduled for the next day, and now here we are. "I am so sorry," she says, and doesn't offer an excuse. "I am never late. I'm always the first girl to be in hair and makeup." Doutzen speaks English so well, with the sweet lilt of the Dutch accent, that it's easy to forget it's not her first language. I ask her about her L'Oréal contract. "You're worth it," she says, and laughs. Then, more seriously, "It's a big thing. They want me to go to Cannes, for example. I am already being treated like a supermodel. People look at me and recognize me, but they don't know who I am. But it's good for my name to have that contract. Now I'm more Doutzen instead of a…model. I don't like to say that I'm a model. I work in fashion."

Just then Annelise Peterson, the socialite and former Calvin Klein PR swami, appears in front of us. She looks at me and points at Doutzen. "I love this girl!" she says. They catch up for a moment. "At Calvin, I was all about promoting Doutzen," says Peterson. "I wanted her to be the Calvin girl. She is so poised, so comfortable in her own skin. And she's not a waif, she's not some freakish nymph. She's a woman in every aspect. How she carries herself, the way she communicates, the way she looks. She's going to be a huge star. I just want to be able to say: I discovered her first!"

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thanks dadum awesome.

oh my god! thank you so much dadum!! thank youu!!

i have just fallen deeper in love with doutzy, if thats even possible!

go dout... promote cheese and wooden shoes, yourself and us, victor and rolf!

go dout... promote cheese and wooden shoes, yourself and us, victor and rolf!

Amen

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thanks D omg just one more day!! :woot:

Temporary HQ... I know its bad quality, sorry.

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Is there someone who can transilate the interview?

^^ what magazine is that from?? :woot:

Holy shit that's hot!!!!!!! Thanks D A D UM!

she looks bland and average when they dye her hair that flat brown colour <_<

Scanned by tixola (TFS)

Is there someone who can transilate the interview?

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.