Posted April 8, 201213 yr she's at Model Agency, Premier and Success. 25 years old, haft swedish and half american. raised in California, lived in Paris and now in brooklyn. she's also a great photographer click here to watch her work (with nudity) and here her first exhibition height 5'8" size 3 us shoe 8 us hair brown eyes hazel waist 23" bust 32" hips 35" here an interview made in 2010 for vogue italy. watch the video Famous for She has oodles of charisma. Model, photographer, actress and - as she defines herself - paladin of liberty. With an exceptional charm, she has a rocker's soul and an artist's spirit. Her polaroids, with chestnut bob and provocative look, are the proof that you can be sensual even when wearing an anonymous dress and dark pantyhose. You just need to have the appeal. And she has it. Her style A bit pin-up, a bit metropolitan biker. "It was really cool to grow up in the USA with a Swedish mother, because it's like having a double education. Thanks to this I fell in love with contrasts. I'm very close to my mother's family; I speak Swedish." Zoom Born and raised in San Francisco, she decided to study economics and to pay her university fees by working from 9 to 5 at a greengrocer's. Her life changed the day the drummer from Metallica, Lars Ulrich, came into her shop: "to meet someone who always followed his own instincts made me think that ultimately it was up to me to change my life path." So she bought a ticket to New York (one way) and started to go to CBGB's, a very underground rock club on the East Side. In the same period she began to take photos with her polaroid camera. She decided to be a model and went along to the Look Model Agency with some photos she had taken, and immediately started working. Her first job was with Terry Richardson, who she also had the opportunity to work with as an apprentice photographer: "He inspired me hugely; he was already one of my favorite photographers, I couldn't believe it." In Spring 2008 she was on the cover of Indie magazine, photographed by Phillip Mueller, and soon attracted the attention of photographers and brands. But after living for a while in Brooklyn, she moved to Paris, a city that enabled her to express her art to the maximum: "I kept talking to people who had been there, and they talked to me about it all the time. So much so that I repeated 'I must go to Paris, I must go to Paris' like a mantra". She appeared in photo reportages in Vice Magazine, Glamour and Technikart Mademoiselle. She acted in the ad for the campaign for Diesel Fuel for Life For Women Only fragrance, together with colleagues Elisa Sednaoui and Eleonore Woodward. In her leisure time she is very much on demand in Parisian clubs as a DJ. She was among the models selected for a feature to launch the new album by Lenny Kravitz: the New York rocker saw her wandering around the set in a latex bikini and was left literally open mouthed, and also slightly embarrassed when she stripped in front of him to change. She will soon be acting in a remake of the film by Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles: "A film on freedom, on living without boundaries. I can't wait." She has a pet rabbit. Never leaves home without Cigarettes, money, keys. In public "Anything I feel I am on that day. I often change; I have to try to match my face with all the rest." In private "I usually go around naked." Shoes and bags "Azzedine Ala�a for shoes, while all the bags I have are second-hand." Jewellery "Every day I wear a necklace with charms of various origins. Some are gifts that my grandparents gave me when I was a child." Hair "I think about it as little as possible." Style suggestion "Don't follow trends; be yourselves, have your own style, what your instinct tells you. Fashion is liberty." Her icon Punk and metal singer Wendy O. Williams. Favorite dress "One I made myself." Favorite designers Azzedine Ala�a, Pilati, Tisci, Marc Jacobs, Prada, Elbaz, Wang, Raphael Young, April 77, Radioactive flesh. Favorite music "Metal, hardcore, punk, doom, old country, classic rock and, naturally, what I play in the clubs. Among the bands I adore are the Stooges, the Melvins and Black Flag." Favorite food Japanese, Thai and barbecues. "I can't resist spaghetti and ketchup anywhere." Favorite drink Wine and beer. Favorite film Wild at Heart by David Lynch. Favorite book Get in the Van, the memoir of Black Flag singer Henry Rollins. Personal motto "Live free, love and don't bother about all the rest." Good habits "I organise a lot of barbecues for my friends." Bad habits "I'm not exactly well suited to cleaning the house." Loves "Creation and destruction." Hates "Anything and anyone that is not genuine, that lives and is concealed behind a false personality." Website She has her own blog, Weed Dawg, which she fills with photos taken during her numerous trips and when she parties with friends. ADDRESS BOOK Restaurants Mizu Sushi, Fette Sau bbq, Thai Tai, Lodge, Lovin Cup, Taco Truck in Bedford, all in New York. Coffee break "In my yard". Hotels "My friends' houses". Shops "Every inexpensive second-hand store, all inexpensive places generally". Hairstylists "I cut my own hair". Spas India&Spa and Hammam Bastille in Paris. Bookshops "They are all good". Resorts "A hut in Thailand, or Harbin Hot Springs in California". Furnishing shops "What others have left out in the street." vogue italy polaroid with Cole Mohr (nudity)
April 8, 201213 yr Author by Thomas Lohr for the contributing editor. + watch Raquel's work as photographer for the contributing editor (a lot of nudity) interview for the contributiong editor in june 2010 ME: How old are you? RN: 23 ME: Where are you from? RN: Just north of San Francisco. ME: How did you get started modeling? RN: I was discovered by a student photographer at Starbucks. ME: You’re the only girl represented by the Paris male model agency Success. Does that arrangement offer any advantages? Disadvantages? RN: I’m not sure I can find many disadvantages for being the only woman at a mens agency. The agents are really great people who I’ve known for years. They’ve seen me grow up, they get me, no bullshit, no trying to shove you in that cookie cutter mold that so many womens agencies try to do. They care about the individual, that’s what really makes them special. We’re a team and we’re in it together. ME: What is the relationship between modeling and the art that you create? RN: I was inspired to start taking my own pictures because of modeling. When I first started modeling I was used to doing shoots with friends and going through the creative process together.. having creative input. So I got to help create the image and how I’d look in that image. And as a model when you continue into the high fashion world, it doesn’t work that way. You’re being told what to do and everyone else on the shoot gets to have creative input, except for you. So I started getting quite frustrated you know? Like this is no fun, I wanted to do this so I could create! I found my pop’s old polaroid camera and it all started from there. So for me with the photos I’m doing it’s having full power over my image and what is being created within that image – here’s what I want to say, here’s how I want to look, here’s what I want to do. My rebellion to what I’m doing most every other day as a model. ME: What’s your process for creating art? RN: My process.. hmm… It’s all very organic the way I work. I want my work to be primal, raw, free. Without intrusive over-thinking. So my process is following what I feel, being in the moment. At the very least, truly living and being aware in that moment. Capturing what I see and feel then. My other process is just getting drunk and naked. That always seems to work out about right. ME: How do you reconcile the objectification of the modeling industry with the fact that you use your own image in your personal work? RN: It’s me owning the objectification. Half of the self-portraits I do, I wouldn’t do the same image with another photographer. ME: Do you create characters in your art or are you playing yourself? RN: Hmmmm. Interesting question… I can create characters with the way I look, but in the end all of these characters are different sides of myself. ME: What role does sex play in your art? RN: Sex is the ultimate primal drive for our existence isn’t it? Everything we do, in the end, is about sex and carrying on our race, whether we like it or not. And I like it. So sex, yeah, it’s a big part of my work. ME: How does your own life experience inform your art? RN: My life is what I make, so everything captures what I live, what I’m living. It also documents my own journey and evolution into being free, with myself and others. Or at least I hope it does. ME: What are your inspirations and influences? RN: I’m quite obsessed with all the weird ideas and views on sex and nudity we’ve developed as a society because of religion. That’s always one of the biggest influences for me. Constantly questioning societal and personal repression. Other than that, beer, nakedness, laughing, lovers, being free, having fun, American outlaws. ME: You just shot a film – tell me more about that experience. RN: Yeah right now I’m working on a new film based on Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terrible with Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, director of Johnny Mad Dog. I play Liz, the sister, to Boyd Holbrook’s Paul, and Omahyra Mota plays Agathe. Its an amazing experience. Fucking therapy and a half man. But it’s nice to have a reason to actually push yourself and rip up old shit and be raw and 100% honest. The good. The bad. I’ve never really felt safe enough to let myself go all the way there before. You know, into that darkness we do everything to avoid. It feels a lot nicer when you own it. I can’t wait till we have the film done and get to share it. It’s just something really special to all of us. Wonderfully dark and perverted and primal. ME: What actors and directors would you love to work with? RN: Steve Buscemi, Sean Penn, Harvey Keitel, Jeff Bridges, Patricia Arquette, Angelina Jolie, Maggie Gyllenhall, Benicio Del Toro, Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, John Waters…..this list could go on for awhile. How is acting different than modeling or making art? In modeling I give something, but I don’t have to give everything of myself. In my work I’m giving myself, but only what I want to give. In acting I have to give everything. ME: What’s your favorite city? RN: Right now I’m having a love affair with Brooklyn. ME: Where do you like to go out in New York? RN: Shitty dives with a good jukebox and a pool table. : What’s your favorite city for partying? RN: Anywhere I am with good friends and good booze and good music. ME: What type of music and bands inspire you? RN: Metal, Stoner, Hardcore, Outlaw country… Eyehategod, Black Flag, Danzig, Misfits, Hank Williams and III, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Entombed, Dead Moon, Melvins, Cro-Mags, Electric Wizard, Saint Vitus, High on Fire, Mr. Cash. Raquel Nave will be having a show of her work at Mountain Fold Gallery from June 17th through July 17th. http://www.mfoldgallery.com
April 8, 201213 yr Author Barneys Spring 2012 Coop talking about her baby girl, Eagle, she had there is just one year ago.
April 8, 201213 yr Author clip video by Gian Mazcour with her model friend Mollie Gondi with blood, high heels and naked vampire girls and here the pics, also with nudity
April 9, 201213 yr Author Raquel : Live Free In Hell - self portraits all the rest with nudity of course (and pornography, but here that's not my fault. i just hosted my pictures on imagebam like bellazon suggested and now there are porn advertisings everywhere... nice!) 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 interview video for Richarson Magazine : watch here (with nudity)
April 9, 201213 yr Author by Enrique Badulescu http://enriquebadulescu.com/ with a blonde wig nudity/tits : 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
April 12, 201213 yr Author by Adrian Wilson http://sangbleu.com/ “be: new york, a reminder to just be liberate: new york, to liberate yourself live free: san francisco, there you go love: san francisco, all we need is love love, so only love comes out of me in the hand is thai buddhist symbol for good luck, made in thailand, made a trade tattoo for tattoo”
April 12, 201213 yr Author by Andreas for L'Officiel Brazil http://ru-glamour.livejournal.com/2603239.html
November 4, 201212 yr "Vie Privée" ("Private") for Cosmopolitan France December 2012 Photographer: Fred Auffray Stylist: Marie Malissen Hair: Mathieu at Agence Marie France Make-up: Alexandra Schiavi Model: Raquel Nave Source: visualoptimism.blogspot.com
February 6, 201312 yr "L'esprit Rockmantique" for Cosmopolitan France March 2013 Photographer: Bruno Barbazan Stylist: Vanessa Coquet Hair: Matthieu Guignaudeau Make-up: Milky Model: Raquel Nave Source: Visual Optimism (visualoptimism.blogspot.com)
January 12, 201411 yr WARNING: nudityhttp://youtu.be/fvN8HKNRRf0WARNING: nudityhttp://youtu.be/icp90wIeHBo
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