Gemma Ward

Fashion Roundup: New Job for Whitney Port; Anna Sui Wants to Save the Garment District; Gemma Ward Isn't Retiring

Whitney Port.
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Whitney Port.

The Hills' Whitney Port will reportedly leave Kelly Cutrone's fashion PR and production company People's Revolution during the current season of The Hills; she may depart for Diane von Furstenberg as the label's in-house PR rep. And the cameras might follow. [The Cut, Fashionista]

Anna Sui has designed a T-shirt that says "Save the Garment District" with e-mails and names of New York officials on the back to raise awareness about the struggle of companies to stay in business in the neighborhood. [Vogue UK]

Patrick Robinson has brought khaki back to The Gap. [NY Times]

Gemma Ward is not retiring to pursue a full-time acting career as was  read more »

Gemma Ward, Lily Donaldson Link Limbs For Fashion Cash-In

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Model-cum-actress Gemma Ward may have doled out a winning performance in her debut feature film, but it looks like she’s in no hurry to get her own star on the Walk of Fame. Instead, the 20-year-old model has been milking her friendship with fellow fashion gal Lily Donaldson, also 20, for all its worth (which is probably a lot).

“They leave shows together; they smoke cigarettes together; they party together; they eat together,” reports Fashionista of the gals. So it’s only natural that ragtrade industry insiders have recognized the sultry sisters’ marketability, “and they’re wielding them like fashion dynamite.”  read more »

Gemma Ward: Hollywood's Next 'It' Girl?

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Model-cum-actress Gemma Ward’s debut feature film, director Elissa Down’s The Black Balloon, will debut at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival in February. Ms. Ward, 20, costars in the film about autism, which was selected as part of the festival’s “Generation 14 Plus” youth competition, with fellow Aussies Toni Collette (who has a role in another film at this year’s festival, Hey, Hey, It’s Esther Blueberger), Rhys Wakefield and Luke Ford.

Ms. Ward’s performance—she plays a “lamplighter” character, helping her boyfriend cope with his brother’s autism—is, according to well-known Australian film critic Lynden Barber, “surprisingly impressive.”  read more »

Vogue’s Youngest Cover Girl Buys East Village Three-Bedroom for $1.52 M.

The 19-year-old’s new co-op stretches 1,600 square feet, with re-sanded hardwood floors and three bathrooms.
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The 19-year-old’s new co-op stretches 1,600 square feet, with re-sanded hardwood floors and three bathrooms.

Way back in a more grubby and innocent era of downtown New York, supermodels didn’t buy many combined-unit East Village apartments. But those days are long gone, so it’s hardly surprising that Gemma Ward, American Vogue’s youngest-ever cover girl, has bought a three-bedroom co-op on East Sixth Street between Second and Third avenues that was originally three units.  read more »

The Higher the Hemline: The Daily Goes Monthly

"I'm a little too short and brunette for this party," shrieked Rachel Felder, a middle-aged writer.

She wasn't wrong.

Hopefully she wasn't hypoglycemic: the drink of choice was sugary champagne, imbibed through straws. "It's awful. Frown!" said a woman before her second sip.

They were crushed into the Garden of Ono the other night--that fine place where apparently Gisele once broke a slender wrist--to celebrate the glisteningly new Daily Mini, a petite monthly spin-off of Fashion Week Daily.  read more »