BEATRICE DUPIRE

Alternative Thinking

BIOGRAPHY

Béatrice Dupire is an International Consultant based in New York.Founder of the International Festival of Fashion Photography, she is nowthe publisher of “Th(e) Influencer”(distributed by DAP), Director andProducer of commercials as well as Strategist Advisor forinternational groups.Béatrice Dupire’s work is based on anticipation, alternative strategy andunique thinking (“Th(e) Influencer” Methodology & Team).Connected with emerging artists and an extraordinary network of“influencers”, she achieves vision and projects for high profile clients.

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EARTH TALENT

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MARILYN MAGAZINE

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At the moment, Marilyn’s models are cruising. Caught between the world of Robert Mapplethorpe and On the Waterfront, they change poses as fast as British fashion photographer Jason Kibbler can shoot, which is pretty fast. OK, so it’s 2008 and even though we’re on the West Side Highway and the building’s been enormously re-vamped to have that smooth, modernist look, the studio feels like the 70s minus the danger. The music is pumped to the max, so it doesn’t really matter that you can hardly hear a word. Irena Lazareanu is at the center of the line-up. Her cap slips down over her face like she’s hiding from the law and then she tips it back slightly enough as if to say

“Play with me. I’m playing with you.” Kibbler, who shoots for Vogue Nippon and V, downloads images to his on-set computer, giving me a mega-minute to chat with the “girls.” (It’s 2008, and the girls, well, they’re still girls.) Marilyn looks on, smiling, ever observant and happy. She has cultivated a rare group of fashion models in New York and Paris who are in a class by themselves.

The shoot seems to operate by an unabashed pleasure principal. Like Mapplethorpe’s world, the poses touch on that strange combination of the classic and the erotic. The girls look natural, instinctive and very raw. Among the fifteen models in the shoot are Caroline

Trentini, Emmina Cunmulaj and Irina Lazareanu. Trentini moves like a gazelle. She’s so sure of herself that once the Brazil native did a Dior show completely masked. “I just kept walking back and forth, but I couldn’t see a thing.” Where will she be tomorrow? Trentini admits: “I’ve always been organized, but I never know where.”

Emmina Cunmulaj, an Albanian American from Montenegro, reveals: “It’s not easy to get all the girls looking beautiful at the same time, in the same pose and having fun, but we did it today. It’s a combination of a great photographer, makeup, styling, music— Before you get on the set, you don’t know much.”

So what makes all this work? (Marilyn at MARILYN and an incredible team of agents.) As Emmina observes: “Marilyn has a close bond with the girls and she makes sure they feel comfortable before anything happens.”

Irina Lazareanu, the current “it” girl of the fashion world, moves from innocence to nymph in a mega-second. A good trait, considering she often has to fly across the Atlantic four times a week. As she confesses: “Marilyn keeps a calendar for me, they run my life, they tell me which airport to go to next. Luckily, they send a car and directions.” Where will Irina Lazareanu be next? Catch her if you can!

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Erin Heatherton, Megan McNierney, Margaryta Senchylo

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MARILYN GIRLS VIDEOS

SELECTED WORK:

Th(e) Influencer ®

A laboratory decoding and analysing the cultural movements and lifestylethrough a network of international experts in constant relationship withemerging artists and visionaries.A platform for anticipation to develop aspirational strategies and pro-mote inspirational visions.A methodology of alternative thinking where art & business interact.

EarthTalent: An innovative social network for local accomplishmentsBrand Strategy and Visual Identity

Earthtalent Women Network: Bolloré Holdings Group/HavasStrategist and Brand Director

Client: Estée Lauder:DKNY Be Delicious: 3D commercial - Creative Director/Executive Producer

Client: Marilyn Agency - Creative Director, Publisher of Marilyn Magazine and Video Producer Magazine

Spring/Summer 2010 Ad Campaign - Art consultant - artist: Nan Goldin

CATHERINE MALANDRINO

Creative Director - artist: Wendelien Daan