Seeing Double

British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley may have skipped this year's Victoria's Secret runway spectacle but more than makes up for her absence with this jaw dropping dual cover and editorial for the January 2012 edition of British Harpers Bazaar. Photographed by Tom Munro, Huntington-Whitely is a vision of loveliness as she swans poolside for the magazine's annual Body Issue. The dual covers feature Huntington-Whiteley luxuriating in a Burberry slip dress and a Michael Kors bathing suit. Huntington-Whiteley is currently the face of the Fall/Winter 2011 Burberry Body Fragrance which was shot by Mario Testino, who most aptly describes her as "an English beauty" with "a Brazilian body". 

Twice as Nice
UK Harpers Bazaar - January 2012
Photographer - Tom Munro

Black Swan
UK Harpers Bazaar - January 2012
Photographer - Tom Munro
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The Graduate

Karlie Kloss completes her transition from top model to fully-fledged supermodel with the December issue of Vogue Italia. Kloss, who turned nineteen this year, appears on the Steven Meisel lensed cover and in an accompanying editorial which features the formerly wholesome model embracing a decidedly more sexual persona. Kloss appears completely nude in the riveting editorial, capping of a year which has seen her posing provocatively alongside bestie Jourdan Dunn for i-D Magazine, shedding her top for Mario Testino in Allure, and stealing the limelight at the Victoria's Secret runway show. Kloss has been working out with a personal trainer over the past six months and the results are clearly evident with Kloss showcasing her toned physique and ripped abdominals before Meisel's lens.

Kloss has steadily buillt her profile as a high fashion runway and editorial model over the past few years and is no doubt looking to extend her commercial reach by upping the ante on the sex appeal stakes. Smart move on the part of her management team at Next who are carefully mapping out Kloss' every move to ensure her longevity in the ever fickle world of modelling. 

Vogue Italia - December 2011
Photographer - Steven Meisel

Vogue Italia - December 2011

Photographer - Steven Meisel

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The Lucky 13

Ok so I'll admit that I am just a tad bit excited about the 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion show. This year, Victoria's Secret are bringing a mega dose of high fashion moxie to the runway amidst all of the over the top pouting, blowing of kisses and runway theatrics. Amongst the thirteen new faces who have been confirmed for the show are several of my favourite catwalkers, Joan Smalls, Karlie Kloss, Anais Mali, Toni Garrn, Sui He, Jessica Clarke, Caroline Brasch Nielsen and Karmen Pedaru. Rounding up the lucky thirteen are Bregje Heinen, Ieva Laguna, Shanina Shaik, Elsa Hosk and Cameron Russell. I'm doubly excited to see Anja Rubik, Constance Jablonski, Liu Wen, Lily Donaldson, Lais Ribeiro, Magdalena Frackowiak and Lily Donaldson, amongst the former Victoria's Secret girls returning this year. With the show due to commence any minute, the following backstage and rehearsal shots should whet your appetite for the spectacle ahead.

Candice Swanepoel & Tom Pecheux

Newcomer Sui He

Newcomer Toni Garrn

Emanuela de Paula

Newcomer Bregje Heinen & Orlando Pita

Newcomer Karlie Kloss

Adriana Lima

Doutzen Kroes

Newcomer Jessica Clarke

Lindsay Ellington, Alessandra Ambrosio, Lily Aldridge
& Miranda Kerr

Rehearsal Time - Anne Vyalitsyna

Newcomer Joan Smalls

Lais Ribeiro

Miranda Kerr

Shanina Shaik

Sui He

Anja Rubik

Candice Swanepoel

Caroline Brasch Nielsen

Izabel Goulart

Karmen Pedaru

Lily Donaldson
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