Spirit says.....Bring on 2013!!!!

We ended 2012 on a high and we keep on rolling in 2013, with a grand finale of filming work with Nancy Roxx interviewing british Comedy actor Chris O'Dowd for Zoom in Babes TV at the London Lingerie catwalk show, Nina Kate and Harley Hazard starred in a Christmas TV Commercial aired in Scandanavia, Tuesday Sakura played the girlfirend to 'Drop the Lime' in their music video for the latest track 'Star Trooper' which is included on the sountrack for Tom Cruises new film, 'Jack Reacher.' Nancy Roxx also promoted a record companies new releases by visiting offices around London including dropping a pizza off for Kerrang magazine. Beau Rocks modelled for Hell Bunny Clothing and 'Don't Tell the Bride' couple, Terri and Martyn Altilar made a guest appearance in the photobooth at Tattoo Jam. After a well deserved rest we have got straight back into the thick of it with Emz being booked on a top secret clothing and shoe collaboration, Khandie Khisses will be starring in the new 'Hurt's video and four of our models also promoted Tattoo Freeze at the event in our home town of a Telford in Shropshire. (Below) Lots more announcements coming soon!

L-R Tarrie Noir, Helen Taylor and Terri Altilar.

The Bram Stoker Film Festival Fashion Show 2012

Model: Evie Wolfe/Photographer: Rob Taylor

In October, Spirit Models took part in the second annual fashion show at the Bram Stoker Film Festival, on the centenary of the authors death. The festival takes place each year in the location of Whitby, North Yorkshire were Stoker wrote his infamous book.
 The Fashion Show featured many bespoke and couture Goth and Steampunk fashion of all genres for men and women. Georgian Dandys and Gowns, Neo-Victorian, Mediaval, Edwardian, PVC, Latex, Gothic Lolita, Geisha Goth, Pinstripe and Cybergoth were all on the catwalk. Designers included, Whyte Phantom, Catlayst Latex, (who showcased their Tim Burton Inspired Corpse Bride dress) Falcieri designs, Engineers of Desire, Spank plus many many more. Outfits from the catwalk and fashion from other Goth and Steampunk artisans were also available to buy at Bram’s Cornucopia of Curiosities three day market. The show was in support of St Catherine’s Hospice and whick included a charity raffle with unique and one-off prize from one of the catwalk designers.

The Bram Stoker International Film Festival celebrates the life of Bram Stoker and his legacy through four days and nights of Gothic decadence including the highly anticipated  and world famous Bram Stoker European Vampires Ball now in it's fourth year. The festival hosted their first ever Alternative Fashion show, the festival partnered with Spirit Model Management, the UK's largest Alternative Modelling Agency and we supplied many of our top gothic models.

The event will be held annually during the festival and the aim is for the Alternative Fashion show to become the most prestigious and professional show of it's kind in Europe.
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Whitby is famous for holding the annual Gothic weekends and attracts thousands of visitors per year, also infamous as the town where Bram Stoker started writing his novel 'Dracula' it was whilst staying in the small North East coast fishing town that Bram Stoker found the inspiration to begin creating the most famous figure in horror film and literature, DRACULA. The legacy left by Bram Stoker certainly started the Victorian Gothic culture, continuing to this present day in Whitby.

The festival will be returning on the 24th-27th of October, you can find more details on their website http://www.bramstokerfilmfestival.com/

The Manchester Alternative and Burlesque Fair

Coco has been modelling for a year and got signed to Spirit after doing only a couple of shoots with some reputable alternative style photographers. She specialises in 1950s, rockabilly work but has also done general alternative shoots, including steampunk, latex and lolita.

Her modelling career has been a bit of a whirlwind; after losing 6.5 stone she was spotted at a tattoo convention and decided to try her luck at getting signed by an agency. Since being signed by Spirit she has gone from strength to strength. Over the last year, she has been featured in an average of three magazines a month, done promo modellign at Liverpool Tattoo Convention, walked at three high profile catwalks and models for over thirty designers and companies.

She said: “Being signed to such a reputable modelling agency as Spirit has really been a catalyst for me becoming such a high profile model. Sapphira’s invaluable advice and networking with the other models has enabled me to learn so much about the modelling world and has been a massive factor in how successful I have become.”

Now in it’s third year, the Manchester Alternative and Burlesque Fair has become a must-attend event on the alternative calender. Based at Sound Control, next to Oxford Road Station, the quirky venue is chock full of exhibitors and stalls to suit all tastes in the alternative and fetish scene.

The venue is conveniently split into two levels with upstairs being more of a vintage, steampunk and rockabilly vibe but the “Cellar of Sin” caters more for the darker side of alternative culture with latex clothing, fetish wear and sex toys.

Not only is there a dazzling array of goods and quirky items, the fair also promises a fantastic day’s entertainment with regular burlesque shows and fashion shows from latex and alternative designers. September’s fair showcased an amazing collection from Eustrasia latex featuring Spirit’s own Whiplash and Nina Dateschidze. The show was really haunting and had echoes of a summer solstice at a mystical Glastonbury Tor. Downstairs saw an entertaining pole dancing extravaganza from ‘Blush’ which saw many people making their pole dancing debut. Although it must have been nerve-wracking for the performers, it was an amzing show and it really opened the audience’s eyes to what a beautiful art form it can be.

However the main attraction had to be the amazing variety of lovely things there
were to buy. Many stall-holders had been to the fair before, such as Kalandra Wheatcroft who owns ‘Kalandra J Designs.’ Kalandra makes a fantastic range of retro millinery, which I am proud to say I have modelled! She has been to every Manchester fair so far and it is the fantastic atmospeher that keeps bringing her back. “I love the fact that it supports local businesses and offers a really valuable opportunity for designers to network with other creatives.”

Aside from the usual clothes, shoes and accessories designers, there were also several photographers and artists exhibiting. Natasha Aldred is a freelance illustrater and she brought an amazing collection of greetings cards and prints to sell on her stall. Natasha graduated a year go after studying a degree in illustration and specialises in an urban slightly macabre and quirky style with a pale colour pallett. She finds the fair to be a real inspiration to her “I just leave meeting new people and watching some of the performances. It really stimulates my creative processes and imagination.”

After the success of the Face of the Fair competition at the Birmingham show, Spirit also had a big part to play in the Manchester fair. Models Collette Von Tora, Strawberry Venom, Abbie Mac, Frankie Lou and Cat Sleigh strutted their stuff around the venue, wearing fabulous creations by Bbarbarella, including leather skirts and bikinis and dramatic feather boleros. Coco Fierce also greeted guests at the entrance of the venue and interviewed stall holders for this review.

I suppose the most impressive aspect of the fair is the fantastic atmosphere that permeates around the venue. From the really friendly and approachable Heresy and Heelz staff to the guests, everybody just seems to really enjoy it and there is real buzz about the place. Definitely an event in the alternative calendar not to be missed!

The Fair has become so popular there are now added venues throughout the UK in 2013 including Derby and Sheffield. See www.thealternativeandburlesquefair.com for more details

Written by guest blogger and Spirit Model Coco Fierce.

Here comes the Tattooed Bride!

Our model Terri De-lis Altilar is getting her fair share of publicity this year. Kicking off with a photographic feature in Alt Fashion Magazine for our latex fashion shoot in January to then being one of the stars of the catwalk show at Skin Deep's The Great British Tattoo Show for us in April. Terri has also graced the pages of Love it magazine and to top it off came fourth in the Miss Leeds contest in March- the only tattooed model in the contest.

Tonight Terri will be the star of BBC3's popular reality programme 'Don't Tell the Bride'. Will it all be tantrums and tiara's on the day? Tune in at 9pm to find out!

Terri says- “I don’t believe that anyone should have to fall in line and follow suit, I believe that everyone is unique and everyone should be who they want to be and not what others want them to be. I want to represent everybody that is not considered the norm and show that you should be proud to be who you are no matter how you appear to others."

Terri will be walking at the Bram Stoker Film Festival Fashion show.

Peaked Apparel

"Peaked Apparel was founded by Spirit Model's Conor Peek and Dannii B in May of this year and is already going viral! 'Peaked' have a unique way of releasing their products which is proving to be very popular with the younger generation in this new digital age. The deigners create a selection of items digitally firstly to get customers attention and create

hype, once they have feedback from the customer on what they want to purchase, they then release it on a certain date! This technique proved very successful last month with the release of the 'Stay Peaked' Shades which sold out in the first four minutes including the pre-orders of their new PKD Camo tee. Recently Peaked was approached by international dubstep artist, Dubba Jonny in search for a clothing sponsor and since then they've also taken the metal band 'March' on, March which will be filming their new music video next month!

"There's lots in store for Peaked Apparel so keep an eye out for this one!"

www.PeakedApparel.co.uk www.facebook.com/PeakedApparel www.Twitter.com/PeakedAppareluk

Female model in the picture is Spirit Represented: Chrystal Chaos.

Model Competition Winner

Spirit Models recently held a competition in association with The Alternative and Burlesque Fair and Alt Fashion Magazine. The event which takes place, three times a year at the Ballroom venue in Birmingham and is run by the Heresy and Heelz events team from the Midlands were looking for their ‘Face of the Fair’. It was incredibly hard to choose from all the amazing and diverse models that turned up for their test photoshoot with Karl Bright and so many of the girls had a lot of potential to represent Spirit. We are pleased to announce the winner of the competition, Donatella AKA ‘Domina Sin’, we were impressed with her confidence and her poise infront of the camera for an inexperienced model, with lovely, pleasant personality to boot! Donatella conducted herself in a very professional manner on the day of the Fair and we are convinced that she would be a worthwhile asset to the agency.

Hello Domina, tell us about yourself.

Aside from modelling I love my paintbrushes! My artwork is mainly based on fetish and nude pictures of lovely ladies. Eventually I would like to work as a makeup and prosthetics artist for film and performance, I like to be kept busy and have learnt that if i'm doing something creative I'm happy.

Do you have any previous modelling exeperience?

A little, I began modelling in Autumn last year so i'm still relatively new to it all. After getting over the initial nerves during the first couple of shoots I quickly came to realise how much I enjoy being in front of the camera and so it felt natural to start doing it more.

 "It came as such a shock to find out that I had won the competition, I feel so lucky to be working with an agency like SMM so early in my journey into the modeling world. I'm super excited and raring to go!"
 

What are your ambitions for your modelling career?

I hope to have the opportunity to work with lots of like minded creative people and for the style of the shoots to vary and push me. I would also really love to work with some of my favourite latex designers at some point.

How do you feel about winning the competition?

I am so happy and excited to have won, the applicants that I saw on the competition day all looked great so after getting over the intial shock I feel really lucky. I had a really good day out at the Alternative and Burlesque fair so this news was the icing on top! 

Domina Sin's profile will go live on the New Faces page in October.  

Photography: Karl Bright

The Dressing Room

Wirral based photographer Kate Robson approached Spirit Models with an idea for a fashion photo shoot using edgy tattooed models in bespoke evening garments. The photoshoot was held at Delamere Forrest in Cheshire with seven of our North West based models, (Elle J Divine, Ashlie lamb, Terri De Lis Altilar, Bethany Parker, Phexxie Bizarre,Abbie Mac and Cat Sleigh.) three make up and hair stylists and the agencies interns Hannah and Jinelle to help with dressing, set design and props. The images are to be used in the The Dressing Room's Autumn Winter look book, advertising and the Liverpool Fashion week brochure. The pictures will also appear in Vanity Magazine as a fashion feature in issue #17.