MAJOR MOMENT MONDAY: Liz Kennedy for Dolce and Gabbana

The other day, our model Liz Kennedy, posted an airport selfie where she mentioned she was Italy bound with "poofy" hair, that I'm assuming is leftover from a photoshoot. The airport coif-caused embarrassment was worth it though, because in Italy she walked in the latest Dolce and Gabbana Haute Couture show in Milan. For those of you keeping track this is the second time Liz has walked a runway for Dolce and Gabbana and we are beside ourselves with excitement! Congrats Liz, this is a huge accomplishment and we couldn't be more proud of you.

video reposted from @martinazuccala

Liz's airport selfie

MAJOR MOMENT MONDAY: Liz and Sophia Living the Dream!

Hopefully you all saw our posts about Liz Kennedy walking the Dolce and Gabbana runway, and Sophia Skloss in the Burberry show?  Not only are these models walking the biggest runways in the world wearing the designers' latest lines, they are also getting gifts from the designers.  Liz Kennedy's Dolce and Gabbana handbag is sure to be the envy of everyone who sees it!  Sophia Skloss was not only cast exclusively for Burberry's London Fashion week show, they gifted her a scarf with her initials embroidered on it.  Keep in mind these are regular teenage girls we scouted in their hometowns, and now they are walking for and wearing the latest designers from around the world! 

"Viva la Mamma"

A lot has been said about the F/W 2015 Dolce and Gabbana show.  We wrote THIS post about it a few days ago.  While Dolce and Gabbana has received some negative press about the show, we are still both appreciative and celebrating the designers ode to motherhood.  Not only did they send models with their children (clad in Dolce and Gabbana, naturally), they also had Italian supermodel Bianca Balti walk the runway while she was six months pregnant.  Bianca looked as beautiful and radiant as ever, and we are so glad that Dolce and Gabbana cast her in the show.

Pulse Management President, Stacey Eastman, said the following about the show:

"Pulse Mgmt applauds this ode to women, for the girls, the female, mommies, and especially my own WIFE Shayna Jones Eastman, for my own mom Sharry Eastman and my precious daughters Lily and Vienna Eastman. Lastly to the many moms and precious daughters whom I call clients. Without all of you the world would cease to exist! In many ways would not be worth living if it were not for women, mothers, the female, lil girls who grow up to be women/mommies are quite literally humanities future. Not to mention the FASHION WORLD. Thank God for "The Woman " Much love, reverence and respect."

We appreciate all of the women that we work with and that are in our families.  It is refreshing to see them celebrated in the fashion world. 

Liz Kennedy and Bianca Balti backstage

Bianca Balti in the show

Liz Kennedy's runway look

MAJOR MOMENT MONDAY: Liz for Dolce and Gabbana

The entire fashion world is talking about Dolce and Gabbana's ode to motherhood at their Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear fashion show in Milan.  The designers were not only inspired by motherhood, in the finale they had some of their models who are mothers walk the runways with their offspring in tow.  It was truly a beautiful and unprecedented moment in fashion history.  Our very own Liz Kennedy walked the Dolce and Gabbana runway, and we are proud of her not only for booking such a major designer's show during Milan Fashion Week, but for being a part of a show that embraced such an amazing part of womanhood. If you could see me writing this, you would also see me giving this show a standing ovation from our living room.

Liz backstage with some of her fellow models

MAJOR MOMENT MONDAY: Hye Rim Park for Dolce and Gabbana

For today's Major Moment Monday we are looking back to when Pulse Management discovery, Hye Park, absolutely amazed us in the above Dolce & Gabbana campaign.  The campaign was shot by famed fashion photographer Steven Klein.  Dolce & Gabbana is one of the most powerful fashion houses in existence, and the fact that Steven Klein shot the advertising campaign was just icing on the cake.  

When we started Hye she was arguably the first major Asian supermodel, and after her major success there has been numerous successful Asian models since.  In fact when Hye was hired to walk in the Prada fashion show in February 2005, many people credit that moment as the rise of the Asian model.  It took a while for us to start getting Hye work, but once we did she emerged on the fashion scene like few others have.  Her modeling career is the kind that dreams are made of, as chronicled in this profile in NY Magazine.

We are so proud to have been the people who introduced Hye Rim Park to the fashion world, and we are even more proud that we helped to change the idea of what a supermodel is supposed to look like.