Model Behavior

July 11, 2014. 12 comments.

Scene: Nancy Donahue and Jon Girodes, at Nancy and Harry King’s reunion party at Café Un Deux Trois. Friends and associates from the fashion and beauty industries gathered with cheer! Models, makeup artists, hair stylists, photographers, fashion stylists, art directors, and more! Champagne, french fries, entrees, cocktails, and a lot of fun at one of my favorite restaurants.

Nancy, a famous and international fashion model from Massachusetts, was discovered by Mademoiselle magazine in the late 70’s. She graced the covers of many magazines, and editorial spreads globally, and also had major cosmetic contracts. Today, she is just as beautiful, an entrepreneur, and still models. In the 80’s she worked alongside other top models. I worked with Nancy, and many of her contemporary model friends for ad campaigns, which appeared in magazines and newspapers, when I was fashion art director at Bloomingdale’s. I still have an ad for Perry Ellis in my portfolio with Nancy — timeless.

Scene: Harry King and Shanti Patty Owen, and that’s Geoffrey Saunders in the back, owner at GSPR/Geoffrey Saunders Public Relations.

Harry, a hair stylist legend, is originally from London. When he first arrived in New York in 1973, he worked at Cinandre on 57th Street. His creations were viewed in magazine images taken by famous photographers. I have always admired his work, whether editorial, fashion shows, ad campaigns, or celebrity styling. A great hair stylist!

Nancy and Harry are both iconic talents. Thanks for hosting a great party! In the pages below you will see other notable and trailblazing talent.

Scene: Edward Tricomi, celebrity hairstylist and one half of Warren Tricomi salons in NYC, Kim Charlton, who has the most beautiful smile, was everywhere in magazines and advertising pages in the 80’s, today she is a mom, realtor, and occasionally models, and Joey Mills, legendary makeup artist. He holds the record of King of the Fashion Magazine covers. MAC Cosmetics, where my wife Beth King is a vice president, honored Joey for his achievements. Kim and I were on a location trip to the island of Nevis when I was at Bloomingdale’s, working on an ad campaign and swim suit commercials. Gordon Munro was the photographer, and Esme was there too!

Scene: Tony Spinelli and Bhavaja Kat. Tony was on the premier cover of Vogue Men photographed by Irving Penn.

Scene: Bhavaja Kat, Joey Hunter, former president of Ford Models, founder of Karin Models NY, and currently vice president of ModelWire, and Coco Mitchell, veteran model who walked the runways for Yves St. Laurent. In the 80′s and early 90′s, she was also a favorite of Thierry Mugler, Armani, and Jean Franco Ferre. She is actively involved in collaborating with magazines and top designers.

Scene: Barbara Tate, art director and interior designer, Hamid Bechiri, notable photographer, and Yasmine Guenancia. When was a model, an image of her was wrapped around a Bloomingdale’s shopping bag, with her only wearing her bloomies. Richard Martino, creative director, and I was the graphic designer. She is a realtor today.

Scene: Hamid and Yasmine — without a camera flash!

Scene: Freddie Leiba, a leading stylist in fashion today. He is holding a post card from Alva Chin for the play Deepest Man, which she was an actor in. I’d love to know who that person with the hat is.

Scene: Alva Chinn, former Halston model and a favorite of Oscar de la Renta. You can see her in a photo with Halston when you get to Dustin Pittman’s link, below in the portfolios iconic style section. Today she is an actor in film, stage, and TV.

Scene: David Spagnolo, beauty, fashion and sports photographer, Laurie Schecter, fashion and life style specialist, and Bill Westmoreland, hair and makeup artist, photographer, and film maker.

Scene: Cynthia Swearingen Klipstein, former international model and still beautiful. It was a pleasure having a conversation with her, and I enjoyed my talk with former model Michael Holder, too!

Scene: The guys.

Scene: Dustin Pittman, renowned photographer, who was part of Warhol’s Factory, and Coco Mitchell.

Scene: Kim Charlton and Joey Hunter.

Scene: James Calderaro, a fine photographer, Margret Avery, makeup artist, and Ezel Mustafa, international editorial director for Sachajuan professional haircare products. Margret and I worked together on my first fashion book for Bergdorf Goodman. As a client, they hired me as creative/art director and producer. The location was Saratoga Springs, very near where I grew up. Charlotte Morgan, Lisa Ryall, and Rebecca Ghiglieri were a few of the great models who worked on this project. I ran into Margret last week when she was returning from seeing Margaret Russell, editor in chief of Architectural Digest, where she had utilized her makeup artistry. She is also an actor, singer, and songwriter.

Scene: James Bosco, fashion editor at Vogue Patterns magazine, and David Katzen, recruiter. James and I met at Bloomingdale’s when he was a stylist. Yes, being at Bloomingdale’s in the mid 70’s and early 80’s was magical! It was an honor working along side legendary Carrie Donovan, senior vice president public relations and style editor, and Kal Ruttenstein, senior vice president for fashion direction. We had some great times together, and challenging ones as well. On assignment with James and Terri May modeling a Gottex bathing suit at the beach in early March with photographer Hank Londoner, it was pretty cold but the results were fantastic. Terri was a trooper! As executive art director at Revlon, I collaborated with James and his styling expertise on my first project, which was for a launch of a new foundation. Anette Stai was the beauty.

Scene: Dawn Gallagher, a beautiful model from the 70/80’s with more than three hundred magazine covers, who is now an author and beauty wellness expert, and Joey Mills. Behind Joey with glasses is Steven Maginnis, reporter and Beautiful Women blogger.

Scene: Linda Morand and son, John Phillips. Linda was one of the top fashion models of the mid ’60s to 1975. She appeared on the fashion scene at the same time as Twiggy. She is currently a fashion archivist and consultant. As a fashion historian, Linda spearheads a lively group of industry insiders.

Scene: Linda Morand and Dawn Gallagher.

Scene: Shanti Patty Owen, former model, in an arm cast sling, known for her androgynous yet voluptuous look, who now is a relationship coach along with her husband, and Linda Mason, makeup and visual artist famous for her creative and exciting use of color. I first experienced Linda’s creativity when I went to a Willi Smith fashion show in the early 80’s. She created the makeup look and I remember how exciting the dayglo colors looked on the models. While I was at Revlon, I asked her to collaborate as a makeup artist for a beauty fashion shoot. After leaving Revlon, we continued to work together on projects for Almay Cosmetics, Bergdorf Goodman, a Cynthia Rowley fashion show and others. Photographers who collaborated on these projects include Gilles Bensimon, Eric Bowman, Michel Comte, Arthur Elgort, William Garret, Pamela Hanson, Marc Hispard, Steven Klein, Jean Pagliuso, Matthew Rolston, and David Siedner. Linda and I always had a good time working with great models. Some that worked on these campaigns were Linda Evangelista, Yasmin Le Bon, Elaine Irwin, Famke Janssen, Stephanie Seymour, Veronica Webb, and Lara Young.

Scene: Paul North Waters, an artist who expresses his creativity as a painter and photographer, with Titou. Adorable.

Scene: Stewart Rahtz, former Ford Model agent, and Giuseppe Luccardi, ‎president at PeriDigital Group.

Scene: Daniel Perry, awarded photographer, and Lesley Feipel, stylist.

Scene: Pam Geiger, premier hair and makeup artist, and her husband Jerry Minkow, back right. Pam and I went to the Bahamas for a shoot for Revlon. We had a great time the last night at a local bar! The next day we left with fantastic results for the summer projects we had worked on! William Garret was the photographer, and his assistant at the time was David Turner.

Scene: Guests.

Scene: Jean Owen, owner and training director at Fix My Dog, former artist representative. Rick Gillette, veteran hair & makeup artist, now with a new concept, and Dan Brennan, artist representative and owner of Independent Artist Management NYC.

Scene: Joey Hunter and Asia Janina Dyrkacz. Asia is a co-founder of the critically acclaimed Chopin Theatre in Chicago. Her modeling work has appeared in Marie Claire, O the Oprah Magazine, More Magazine, and she has worked in many runway shows for Hermes in Paris.