Anusha from MTV India and Me…
Posted on October 14, 2011 - Filed Under NB Videos, Studio NB
How to photograph your children!
Posted on October 11, 2011 - Filed Under NB Videos, Photography
My favorite on the go camera is the Sony NEX5 with an incredible 16 Mega pixel back and interchangeable lens, simple enough to use that Jack my 5 year old knows how to use it and even Jazz my 2 year old is a dab hand! Check them both out in the How to video!!!
Ted Baker’s Win a Stylish Trip to London
Posted on October 1, 2011 - Filed Under Nigel Barker Today
As you all know I am dressed Ted to toe on America’s Next Top Model, you probably also know that I am British so what better than a chance to travel to my home town of London for a lot more than just a cup of tea and a cucumber sandwich!
This Saturday, October 1st will see the launch of Ted Baker’s Win a Stylish Trip to London promotion. Ted Baker has partnered with luxury travel company, Quintessentially Travel, www.quintessentiallytravel.com to offer the following prize package:
- Round Trip Flight for Two to London
- Three Nights at the W London
- Luxury Car Service to and from Airports
- $800 Ted Baker Shopping Spree
- $800 Spending Money
Shoppers can enter to win via the following link, http://www.tedbaker.com/competition, or may enter by scanning a dedicated QR code with their ‘smartphones’ at Ted Baker London stores nationwide via the following ways:
- Fall 2011 window display
- Bespoke hang tags on key pieces of the Fall 2011 collection
- In-store signage
So if you like the way I dress or simply want a little 007 in your lives, I hope to see you in Ted sooner rather than later….
America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 18!
Posted on September 28, 2011 - Filed Under ANTM
Be the first to meet the cast of America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 18!
Join us for a Fierce Parade and Fashion Show
Featuring Designer Oliver Tolentino
Monday, October 3, 2011
At Universal Studios CityWalk
1000 Universal Studios Boulevard
Universal City, CA 91608
Audience Check-in starts at 4PM until 5:50PM
Audience Check-in Location 1: Near Hard Rock Café
Audience Check-in Location 2: Near Tony Roma’s Restaurant
PARADE STARTS AT 6PM
PLEASE RSVP TO:
ANTMEVENTS@GMAIL.COM
Deadline: October 2, 2011 at 10PM
* If you are under the age of 18, you must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. By attending this event, you are agreeing that your image and voice may be recorded and used in all media including advertising and promotion of the program.
* We will enforce that no photos shall be taken during the taping.
The Wall Street Journal
Posted on September 17, 2011 - Filed Under ANTM, Press/Interviews
“America’s Next Top Model” judge and fashion photographer Nigel Barker has become one of America’s most recognizable mainstream personalities in the fashion and modeling industries, but he admits that when the show started, he and his co-stars hardly believed it would become a runaway success.
“We thought, ‘OK, maybe a season. Maybe two seasons.’”
And, in fact, some of his industry colleagues were doubters from the beginning. “There were a lot of people who kind of laughed of us and said, ‘Hey, it’s a TV show. It’ isn’t really fashion,” he said. “When we would do our photo shoots, people would accuse us of being way too extreme. They’d say, ‘Oh c’mon it doesn’t really happen like that.’ But we’re not about doing a TV show about shooting everyone in a white studio. We take the most extreme elements of fashion, put them together, and create these exciting shoots.”
Earlier this week, led by entrepreneurial host Tyra Banks, “America’s Next Top Model” began its seventeenth season. Aired to over 170 countries on the CW Network, the show has scored respectable ratings, but hasn’t escaped criticism, mainly due to the fact that none of its contestants have ever gone on to become a supermodel and some former winners have had a hard time landing many high-profile bookings.
Still, Barker is happy with the results of the show. It has helped make Banks a household name and spurred Barker’s other careers. He’s not just a fashion photographer, but he’s also an author, a documentarian, and a celebrity spokesperson. And, Barker says, the show has provided a powerful platform for aspiring models who might not otherwise get a chance and invigorated the industry’s ongoing conversation about realistic female body images against the industry’s own more rigid standards of beauty.
“Modeling shows pretty much have always been about models. Models in the business, doing their thing. But (Top Model) is about the diamond in the rough, and truly I think that’s really that’s sort of the American dream,” Barker said.
As he prepares to start taping the 18th season in only days, he hopes Banks and the show will continue to challenge the widely accepted fashion industry notion that thinness and youth are the only barometers through which beauty can be defined. “It’s beginning to catch on. These things don’t happen overnight,” Barker said.
By Lee Hawkins
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