V Magazine Model Search

V Magazine and Ford Models has joined and created the “V A Model” competition in search of one grand prize winner’s model face and sorry guys, this is for ladies only. Although “V A Model” began April 13th it’s still possible to make an entry by the deadline, June 29th. To be elgibile you must be between the ages of 15 and 21 as well as 5′9” to 6” feet tall. Entering “V A Model” consists of submitting the answers to the entry forum at V Magazine’s “V A Model” link, uploading three coloured photos of yourself, and writing a brief statment no more than 100 words as to why you want and/or deserve to win the contest. For more details on voting, criteria, and rules check out the V A Model site. Don’t plan on entering?? Then you can help out anyways by placing your vote for the contestants on the V Magazine website instead!

Photographer Mario Sorrenti lensed Naomi Campbell taking on NYC for a V Magazine piece, titled “The Empire Strikes Back”  and love her, hate her or love-to-hate-her, there’s no denying it—the girl is fierce!

You can find more images from the V Magazine spread HERE!

Mitra Khayyam (above with artist Patrick Jilbert), owner of Blood is the New Black, always wanted to be an artist but unfortunately she never really had the skill, even so much as to draw a straight line. Well aware of her limitations, she chose to delve into the fashion industry, focusing on the business end versus the creative.

After several years of working in “the industry”, she went from being told she’d “never work in this town again” by one of the most prominent fashion photographers to being named one of V Magazine’s “Seventeen Most Industrious” in NYC. In 2004, Mitra finally decided to launch Blood is the New Black based on her thesis written a few years earlier. Her intention is use the company to open up talented artists to wider audiences and to allow their art to become available to many in this wearable form.

More on Mitra & Blood is the New Black after the jump!

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